I'm kind of new in the Super Smash Bros series. The first one I played was the Wii version, but I played only a few times because I got the game after a lot of time thinking that I would not like it because of videos I watched on YouTube that made me thought the game was too confusing. Fortunately I was very, very wrong, and I really liked the game. Anyway, I had never played it too much on the Wii cause it was kind of dead at the time and I sold it with everything I had. When the Smash for WiiU was released, I had the WiiU since the beginning, and jesus.. I loved the game. It was beautiful, the graphics, the music, the controls were better, everything was great about the core gameplay of the game, but I always had the feeling that... when I wanted to play the game alone, but not actually fight with other people online, the game modes available to play were not really good or exciting to me... and even playing with friends, if we wanted to spend some time in other game modes in some cooperative game, the game wasnt really very fun.
See... for a game with such a huge amount of characters of many different games, I don't see how it couldn't have some really good content for singleplayer gameplay or even cooperative.
For example, the Smash Tour board game, I tryed one time alone and one time with my friends, it was super confusing and random and boring to play or even to try to understand, so I gave up and never played it again. And I must say that, with me being very nitpicking, only see the Smash Tour button on the main menu of the game together with the Smash button annoyed me forever until the end of times, it always felt like a mistake put it there on the main menu, cause it should be at least inside Games & More or even in a sub-sub-menu, to really hide it from my vision (with respect to people that like this mode xD).
Talking about buttons for game modes, I never understood why Smash and 8-Player-Smash are two different buttons on the menu. They are the same thing. It could have a single Smash button and well... more controllers connected means more players to join. No need for a 8-Player-Smash button, it always felt like something to give an appearance of more modes when it was actually the same thing.
So, returning to game modes to play alone...
Target Blast, I played one time or two;
Home-Run Contest, I played one time or two, never returned;
These two game modes are on a Stadium area, it's nice to have them, but they are very limited on the ammount of fun they can provide. They kind of feel like a small web browser minigame, so I couldn't care about them after test them.
In the Stadium menu there's also a mode called Multi-Man Smash. That I really liked, and it is the closer I have in this Smash Bros game I have from what I expected for a singleplayer content. You fight an army of Mii fighters and it is super cool. You first fight 10, than 100 and then.. it's over. You can fight forever in a never-ending mode of this gamemode, and that's the problem. It's too fast, it works more like a concept of some battle that could happen in a campaign or adventure mode or a bigger challenge mode that doesnt exist.. and it's a disappointment to me. I always wanted that the game could provide me more moments like this fight against the 100-army, it was super fun to beat them the first time, and after that I tryed with a friend and it was also super fun. But after beat them, the only challenge the game gives to you is beat your own score, and then I lost interest.
In some menu I dont remember there is a mode called Trophy Rush. It also looks like a small minigame that I had no interest in play.
In resume, these three minigames on the game I just couldnt care... Trophy Rush, Target Blast and Home-Run Contest. I want to fight in other game modes, not only play minigames that looks like browser games, I want to use the core gameplay in a mode where I can fight against other fighters or in some plataformer-style gameplay. Until now, from 4 modes, only 1 partially provides this to me, but insufficiently.
So, let's check the other game modes..
Classic and All-Star and Special Orders feels the same to me. They have different rules, but the matches feel similar. They also ends very fast, there's no progress feeling on these modes to me.
The problem with these modes are.. They are not really very different from what I could have if I open a custom match and customize the options of each match to something similar. There are some boss fights here and there, but it is still a fast game mode that ends after some matches. Since they are fast and you just can replay them with different difficulties, it still looks to me like training modes, not some thing to invest time and have a progress feeling.
And then we have the Event mode. I like Event mode, but not as a main mode with again, a sense of progress. Each match is just too fast and sometimes I'm forced to play just some seconds with characters I'm not used to play. I think it is a necessary mode to have in the game, but it works really like a challenge mode, a thing to do after you beat some bigger more focused game mode, but this focused game mode doesnt exist in the game.
So, what you think? Dont you think this Ultimate version of the game should use this word Ultimate to reference more than a character list and add better game modes to the game too? Some thing more deep like a campaign, adventure mode, to play alone or with friends in matches with a sense of progress or huge levels or some mix of that?
To me, I need it, cause the WiiU version has a lot of menus and buttons with a lot of game modes that I feel they are very irrelevant and I have no desire to play just because how they work or because they are very simple, but there is potential in this game to be so much more...
See... for a game with such a huge amount of characters of many different games, I don't see how it couldn't have some really good content for singleplayer gameplay or even cooperative.
For example, the Smash Tour board game, I tryed one time alone and one time with my friends, it was super confusing and random and boring to play or even to try to understand, so I gave up and never played it again. And I must say that, with me being very nitpicking, only see the Smash Tour button on the main menu of the game together with the Smash button annoyed me forever until the end of times, it always felt like a mistake put it there on the main menu, cause it should be at least inside Games & More or even in a sub-sub-menu, to really hide it from my vision (with respect to people that like this mode xD).
Talking about buttons for game modes, I never understood why Smash and 8-Player-Smash are two different buttons on the menu. They are the same thing. It could have a single Smash button and well... more controllers connected means more players to join. No need for a 8-Player-Smash button, it always felt like something to give an appearance of more modes when it was actually the same thing.
So, returning to game modes to play alone...
Target Blast, I played one time or two;
Home-Run Contest, I played one time or two, never returned;
These two game modes are on a Stadium area, it's nice to have them, but they are very limited on the ammount of fun they can provide. They kind of feel like a small web browser minigame, so I couldn't care about them after test them.
In the Stadium menu there's also a mode called Multi-Man Smash. That I really liked, and it is the closer I have in this Smash Bros game I have from what I expected for a singleplayer content. You fight an army of Mii fighters and it is super cool. You first fight 10, than 100 and then.. it's over. You can fight forever in a never-ending mode of this gamemode, and that's the problem. It's too fast, it works more like a concept of some battle that could happen in a campaign or adventure mode or a bigger challenge mode that doesnt exist.. and it's a disappointment to me. I always wanted that the game could provide me more moments like this fight against the 100-army, it was super fun to beat them the first time, and after that I tryed with a friend and it was also super fun. But after beat them, the only challenge the game gives to you is beat your own score, and then I lost interest.
In some menu I dont remember there is a mode called Trophy Rush. It also looks like a small minigame that I had no interest in play.
In resume, these three minigames on the game I just couldnt care... Trophy Rush, Target Blast and Home-Run Contest. I want to fight in other game modes, not only play minigames that looks like browser games, I want to use the core gameplay in a mode where I can fight against other fighters or in some plataformer-style gameplay. Until now, from 4 modes, only 1 partially provides this to me, but insufficiently.
So, let's check the other game modes..
Classic and All-Star and Special Orders feels the same to me. They have different rules, but the matches feel similar. They also ends very fast, there's no progress feeling on these modes to me.
The problem with these modes are.. They are not really very different from what I could have if I open a custom match and customize the options of each match to something similar. There are some boss fights here and there, but it is still a fast game mode that ends after some matches. Since they are fast and you just can replay them with different difficulties, it still looks to me like training modes, not some thing to invest time and have a progress feeling.
And then we have the Event mode. I like Event mode, but not as a main mode with again, a sense of progress. Each match is just too fast and sometimes I'm forced to play just some seconds with characters I'm not used to play. I think it is a necessary mode to have in the game, but it works really like a challenge mode, a thing to do after you beat some bigger more focused game mode, but this focused game mode doesnt exist in the game.
So, what you think? Dont you think this Ultimate version of the game should use this word Ultimate to reference more than a character list and add better game modes to the game too? Some thing more deep like a campaign, adventure mode, to play alone or with friends in matches with a sense of progress or huge levels or some mix of that?
To me, I need it, cause the WiiU version has a lot of menus and buttons with a lot of game modes that I feel they are very irrelevant and I have no desire to play just because how they work or because they are very simple, but there is potential in this game to be so much more...
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