The brand new Super Smash Bros Ultimate is only days away from its release, and a lot
of fans of the franchise are stoked to try out the new improvements, changes and additional
characters that have been added to this massive undertaking of a game!
It’s the culmination of all of the series’ previous games, including each character that
appeared in all of the titles.
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype though, so today, we’re breaking down all the things
you need to know about the new addition to the series before you bust open your wallet
and try it out for yourself.
Here are the top 10 things you need to know before buying Super Smash Bros Ultimate!
Also, be sure to stick around till the end of the video, I’ll be reading off some of
your comments from previous videos!
10 Playable Characters Every.
Single.
One.
Ultimate is the first smash game since Melee to include every single character in its title
that has been in a previous Smash game.
And yes, that even includes Pichu.
But there’s also a bunch of new characters as well.
There are 11 new fighters available, and they are: The Inklings from Splatoon, Ridley and
Dark Samus from Metroid, Princess Daisy from the Mario franchise, Incineroar from Pokemon
Sun and Moon, King K Rool from Donkey Kong, Ken from Street Fighter, Isabelle from Animal
Crossing, Chrom from Fire Emblem: Awakening, and my personal favourites, Simon and Richter
Belmont from Castlevania.
There’s also a bunch of new characters who will be appearing as Assist Trophies, too.
9 Echo Fighters In previous smash games, there was something
called Clones; characters in the game that were almost identical to other characters
but had some sort of differing feature, with that feature often being only aesthetic.
That is now called Echo Fighters in Ultimate.
As the name suggests, echo fighters are echoes of other characters in the game.
They generally have the same move sets as the character they are echoing but with slight
changes, and an aesthetic difference, of course.
For example, Daisy is an echo of Peach.
8 Customizable Rulesets This is one of the cooler features of the
game.
Developers have added in a new mechanic that allows you to tweak and customize the rule
sets of your matches, and in detail, too!
This includes match duration, tourney type select, handicap settings, stage hazards can
be turned off, how frequent items will spawn, the rules around who selects the next stage;
all in all, it’s very comprehensive, and a feature that returning Smash players will
likely appreciate.
What else can you do?
Turn off the smash ball and replace it with the smash gauge.
Plus, best part is, you can save your settings for future matches.
Phew.
7 Stages There are 103 stages available in Ultimate
when the game launches.
96 of them are returning stages upgraded from previous games.
There’s 7 new stages as well, not including the 5 upcoming DLC stages, which are new renditions
of Battlefield and Final Destination, Big Battlefield, Moray Towers from Splatoon, Dracula’s
Castle from Castlevania, New Donk City Hall from Mario Odyssey, and Great Plateau Tower
from Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
You can also play in two different forms of each and every stage.
Those forms are called Omega and Battlefield.
In Omega, the stage is reduced to a singular platform, and in battlefield, each stage has
a three platform design.
There’s also a brand new mechanic called Stage Morph that allows players to further
customize their matches.
You can select two stages at the start of a match, and throughout the match, the first
stage you’re on will morph into the second stage.
This can also be customized via the rulesets if you so choose.
6 Pokemon Trainer While all of the returning characters in Smash
have gotten a bit of an overhaul, there’s one character in particular that’s drawing
some major attention for its adjusted game mechanics.
In previous games, the Pokemon Trainer was known for not being just one character, but
rather, three fighters; Charizard, Ivysaur and Squirtle.
Those three would rotate in a specific order.
But now, with these changes, you can swap out those Pokemon at will, restrained by no
pre set order.
Plus, you can also play as a female pokemon trainer now, too.
5 The DLC Despite being a jam packed game full of content,
there’s a DLC that’s shortly on its way after the release of the game.
And it’ll feature 5 new characters.
The 5 DLCs, which are going to be released in a fragmented fashion, are all included
in the Fighters Pass that goes on sale the day of the game’s launch, costing 24.99
US dollars.
According to rumours, one of the characters is said to be from a Square Enix property.
One popular belief is that Steve from Minecraft will fill one of the remaining character slots.
All of these DLCs will be released by February 2020.
Side note, it was recently leaked that the game has 30 character placeholder slots in
its code, so it looks like Nintendo is covering their bases for the future.
4 Spirits Spirits are a new addition to the series,
and they’re meant to aid your fighter by lending a helping hand in battle.
They’re essentially the replacement for collectible trophies from previous Smash games.
Each spirit is based on a character, and when applied to your fighter, it will allow for
you to use some unique abilities.
The more you fight against other players or AI, you’ll collect more spirits.
They’re also supposed to tie into our next number, which explains their existence-
3 World of Light The single player campaign modes of previous
Smash games have been questionable at best, and often have gotten mixed reviews.
Melee arguably had the best one, and that game was released in 2001, so it’s been
a while.
Ultimate is trying something a little more complex with their single player adventure
mode, called World of Light.
It looks like it has more of a solid narrative, with a threat from the sky featuring a giant
floating army of Master Hands gradually moving towards the roster of characters, waiting
to battle them.
In the full cut scene, we see all of the characters obliterated in giant threads of light, with
light consuming the entirety of the galaxy, with those who had tried to fight back devoured,
and those who didn’t fight back losing their bodies and becoming spirits.
Kirby survives, and the fighters are turned into puppet versions of themselves.
2 Everything is Faster The gameplay in Ultimate is much faster than
previous titles.
This is one of the biggest, new mechanics that devs worked away on for Ultimate, and
we’re not just talking character speeds here.
In order to keep the pacing fast and action packed, several components of the game have
been speed up, like final smashes.
This means that many a character’s final smash has been tweaked or completely revised
in order to better fit in with the pacing.
This also includes higher character speeds, higher deceleration, quicker air dodges, jumps
and hops.
Taunts are performed quicker, too, or can be cancelled entirely if the player chooses
to do so last minute, and shields drop quicker, all of which have created more of a lean towards
offensive attacks rather than defensive moves.
This is perhaps one of the most interesting adjustments, and it’ll be curious to see
how long time fans of the series think of the accelerated pace.
1 Pre-Release Reception And lastly, let’s end off this list with
some thoughts from critics who have actually gotten a chance to play the game.
IGN had nominated it for it’s Best Game of E3 2018 award.
It’s won Best Nintendo Switch Game from both IGN, and Gamescom.
And in a preview review from Easy Allies, the game’s “faithful depictions of characters
and overwhelming amount of content” were praised.
Nintendo has also stated that Ultimate is the best pre-selling game in both the Smash
series and in the history of the Nintendo Switch.
So all in all, the reviews are promising, and everyone who has had the chance to demo
the game, including us here at Top 10 Gaming, have really loved what they’ve seen so far.
Alright, there we have it friends!
Are you all excited for Smash Bros Ultimate?
Let us know in those comments below!
Speaking of comments, we’re gonna read off some from one of our previous videos, Top
10 Dumbest Pokemon Ever Created.
From TheMarioManiac, “Yup, definitely a gen 5 bias here!
Let’s not forget the amazing designs like Grime (sewage), Voltorb (a pokeball) and magneton
(3 magnemites).
This channel is just genwunners.”
You bet your ass we are.
But to be honest, we also love gen 2.
And hey, gotta leave some of the classics in order to do a part two video.
And then you guys can see us rip all of those gen 1 pokemon a new a**hole.
From Pony boi, Lord Dracodenblaze God-ian of Dracodenia, “Bidoof is a god”.
First off, great user name.
Second, bless your soul.
Next up, from Steven George,, “1 it’s hone-edge.
2, its due-blade, 3, its klef-key, 4 is bye-nacle, 5 it’s bar-bare-acle” Appreciate the education
there, friend.
All noted.
From Amanda Morgan, “I love Bidoof how dare you, I will find you, haha!
U better run!”
Well, sh*t, I’m gonna be looking over my shoulder for the next little while.
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