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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DT13 | News, Site Updates, and Speculation | Reawaken the Undying Hype
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I think that these two would definitely be free DLC. I can imagine some new Spirits being added periodically (likely as tie-ins to upcoming Switch releases or the Fighters Pass characters); and Smash 4 got a few post-release modes so I could see Ultimate getting a few too.
It was more a theoretical. I think any spirits would just come with other DLC. It's not like they sent out trophies for upcoming games or anything.
The thing with Smash 4's post-release modes is I'm wiling to bet those were in development but couldn't be finished in time. All of them had unused text, menus, music, voice clips and so on. Miiverse was explicitly on-disc, complete with its own tracks, but the actuall miiverse part of it wasn't ready. That's probably why it was all free.
Now there's plenty of Nintendo games that do produce free post-release content that wasn't either unfinished or held back but I dunno...something tells me if modes come post-release it might be as paid dlc.
ooh thank you, I will hold out for a little while and see if amazon restocks!
Better brush your teeth. If you don't clean that out you're gonna catch smash mouth
I thought Rondo got 3 songs? Granted one of them is a remix from a modern Castlevania game.
But yeah, can't have enough of Castlevania music TBH. I hope Simon sticks around the next game so they can push that "34" number count further!
The hype curve has been really weird for Smash Ultimate.. I wonder if this will end up being the slowest OT. I have been too obsessed with Red Dead to think about Smash!
Personally I'm done discussing the game, I just want it now.
Yeah it's kind of weird that discussion is at its absolute lowest just before release. I guess that's the consequence of revealing all the characters and stages and whatnot weeks before the game releases. Maybe in hindsight that was a bad strategy.
I think the bad strategy was front-loading the hype announcements. The biggest and most crowd pleasing new reveals were all done four full months ahead of release. So the final months were full of frenzied discussion on what else could be in store, and the reality ended up being pretty deflating.
Yeah, I think that's true too.
I wonder why they did it that way. Maybe they put the more exciting announcements earlier in order to decrease chance of them being leaked. Or maybe they thought good first impressions were important.
The first Smash Direct had been trying to manage momentum from E3 one. It was slightly slowed down regardless, despite being way better executed than the second one.
The E3 Direct went overboard with reveals because Nintendo didn't have much else to show.
We have nothing to talk about. We basically know everything already. We're just... waiting...
Mm, I don't know. People were hype but expectations weren't all that crazy after E3 due to Sakurai's comments about there not being that many newcomers this time around. It was after the August Direct revealed five characters in one go that people went "Sakurai wasn't serious!!" and things went nutty. I think it was that first Smash Direct that did it.
Yeah, pretty weird to start the announcements with Ridley, Inkling and Everybody is Here, follow-up with Simon Belmont and King K. Rool, and then close out with Incineroar, Pirahna Plant, and "oh yeah online is gonna be weird and trophies are cut"
By the way, this is the first time I have preloaded a game and it feels amazing. I mean, IT'S ALREADY MINE!
Preloading the game has felt terrible for me. I know it's already sitting there ready to play, but i'm just not allowed to have it for another two and a half weeks or so. It's torture :(
The only thing we can do is keep pressing A until that day.
For me the most hype newcomers were shown in the the last two showings ha ha
But I treat most news equally so for me it wasn't a case of front loading the announcements
We started with every veteran is back
Then we had confirmation of over 100 stages
Followed by Isabelle
And then ending with beefy single player content
It was a nice spread. Of course the most important newcomer had no other Smash news to distract from her announcement.
But I treat most news equally so for me it wasn't a case of front loading the announcements
We started with every veteran is back
Then we had confirmation of over 100 stages
Followed by Isabelle
And then ending with beefy single player content
It was a nice spread. Of course the most important newcomer had no other Smash news to distract from her announcement.
Watch them start uploading multiple posts simultaneously, with order varying depending on language. And then BGBW winning unambigously anyway.
A whole bunch of videos should be going up today with direct footage of Spirits Mode and World of Light. Here's a couple from the site I work for (sadly I didn't get to play it myself!)
Couple things worth noting -
Couple things worth noting -
- XBX's Lin pops up as a Spirit, but there are a bunch of other interesting ones too. Tatsu is also in, but I dunno if he made the cut in this vid.
- Funky's Fugue is a song that plays during a Swanky Kong Spirit match, dunno if that one's popped up yet?
- The first "branch" in World of Light is Marth, Villager and Sheik, each representing the three Spirit types.
- Bomberman's Spirit blows up walls to advance, and you vroom around the Mario Kart track in an F-Zero vehicle
- Excitebike's remix from Mario Kart 8 is in, and Wario is the one with the Excitebike spirit (obviously)
- Mario + Smoky Progg isn't where you fight the real Mario, he's a little later on and it seems like every unlockable character is fought on Final Destination. Also, here's the splash screen when you unlock em.
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Swanky Kong? I can finally use this word in a sentence. "Megaton".
And wow, that's a pretty cool detail with the Urbosa spirit with the electrified floor.
And wow, that's a pretty cool detail with the Urbosa spirit with the electrified floor.
You Call This a Utopia? is back from being cut in Smash 4, and other songs confirmed as well
Oh... and a little ol' song called Studiopolis Zone
Oh... and a little ol' song called Studiopolis Zone
Full game of Classic mode here:
Mario has a themed fight against all the Koopalings and look, sidescrolling!
New Super Mario Bros. 3 final boss remix too, maybe?
Holy shit at the boss!
Giga Bowser is back with a boss health bar and his own intro
I wrote up a full written preview of Super Smash Bros Ultimate's various modes here:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/super-smash-bros-ultimate-hands-on-preview
And got a small interview with Nintendo Product Marketing Manager JC Rodrigo about the game:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/super-smash-bros-ultimate-interview
I will say, all the spirits they crammed in the game is goddamned astounding.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/super-smash-bros-ultimate-hands-on-preview
And got a small interview with Nintendo Product Marketing Manager JC Rodrigo about the game:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/super-smash-bros-ultimate-interview
I will say, all the spirits they crammed in the game is goddamned astounding.
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