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Charizard not having many votes may have been due to its role as a Pokeball Pokemon.
While there's nothing inherently wrong with event matches, the Spirit Battles in Ultimate are very samey compared to event matches in prior games.
I mean, for its time I think 4 compares fine with Ult, and Brawl compares even better. 4 had a wider newcomer selection than Ult, for example, and the singleplayer was at least as good. What does Ult have over 4 besides just a greater number of characters and stages, which you'd expect from most sequels anyway? WoL, better stage builder (which wasn't even there at launch, and that IMO is pretty awful), and decidedly more minor improvements elsewhere. And again, even though there are many more characters and stages, there aren't as many new characters and stages, so it doesn't feel like as big of a step forward from 4 as it could have been.
Nothing is wrong with them as a cute little side mode with minimal effort put into it. But as the single carrier of your whole singleplayer they are vastly underwhelming.
The basic platforming mechanics of SSE are not, like, mega-ingenious on their own; but SSE being a literal whole platformer inside of a fighting game is much more impressive. The platforming, that is, the adventuring from one place to another while facing off against foes, crafted a narrative that was IMO very well-integrated with the cutscenes. It created a reason for all the Nintendo stars to be together in a much more expansive way than had been attempted before; unlike WoL, each character had a role in the plot that was unique to them and their abilities/personalities, which is difficult to do for a massive crossover in game format (i.e. with only a limited number of seconds of nigh voiceless cutscene exposition to explain the plot; the Brawl cutscenes are necessarily but still commendably efficient in terms of action and exposition per second). And the allstar crossover is sold much better since the actual allstars, the PCs, are more front-and-center; WoL I'd argue focuses more on all the characters with only auxiliary representation (and it's good to give those characters some spotlight, but it doesn't sell the idea that the main PC roster is indeed that back-of-the-box "allstar lineup").
But that can't be the only gameplay value the matches have. And as others have pointed out, a large quantity of the matches can be trivialized entirely. Besides, if we're comparing it to Brawl, then I'll point out that Brawl went far beyond cute references by coming up with real scenarios in which Fox and Diddy Kong would have to team up against Rayquaza and Bowser, or explaining how Pikachu could make Samus's fight against Ridley a little more doable.
The descriptions are a tradeoff, though; if they had descriptions then there wouldn't be as many of them in the game. Which makes the total count of them less impressive relative to the collectible counts for Brawl and 4.
Most content+plays the best.
The DKC fanbase indeed was focussed on getting Diddy in first, which does explain why it took so long for K.Rool to make his entry in Smash. Shamefully, the same happened with K.Rool and Dixie during Smash 4 and Ultimate, Dixie was more expected thus deemed "boring" and the K.Rool support was way louder, and most of them rallied behind Banjo afterwards (it also does explain the DKC characters appearing in his reveal trailer, K.Rool really had no good reason to be there).
Imagine if they go full meta and have Funky as a DK echo but with a Flame Runner side special (based on the Wario Bike) instead of the Headbutt lol.
I don't really see that as downside. Gives players the freedom to use the characters they feel best with instead of being forced to be stuck as with any specific character they aren't as good with
Yeah they give variety to wins but nost of those ways were kinda annoying and irritating to complete at times. I prefer to keep it simple in just beating the the oppenent. Also the ways to beat them aren't always simple like with Dr Wily, Ness Father, Wily Capsule. You still need to be smart with it too.
I can't disagree there, Ultimate Roster Picks and Choices are pretty weak compared to Smash 4. Too much focus on advertising and shill picks then actual picking characters that would fit the game. Guess that what happens when Nintendo is the one picking.
When said platforming comes with really bad level design and terrible brawl controls, I couldn't disagree more with that statement. Being a "real exporatory plaftormer" doesn't do anything to change that.
Except it has been done before with Melee and from the looks of it with much better execution.
That's great but like i said before, outside that crafted narrative, SSE falls really short.
Not really, Even with descriptions, Spirits are a lot more easily to implement than Trophies so the collectible counts would be relatively not too different.
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Yes I'm sure people would love to believe there's more Smash only to have the rug pulled out from under them that it's actually a niche FE spinoff.
Possibly but I’m thinking next week is more likely
That would kill me twice over. "Damn, we're really gonna get very SMT adjacent thing except SMT in this game"
Well... I'm personally thinking is gonna be next week considering that otherwise is gonna conflict with Splatoon 3's release window, but I hope it's already this week, I'm so excited to see what is going on.
The leaks said the 12th, right? Maybe not this week, but I'd say that's a good time to have one. Also, for anybody not keeping up with leaks, the possible reveals include:
I made this lol
Probably the 13th, next Tuesday.
Directs never happen early when they can instead happen by the time people start losing hope.
I don't think any leaks said the 12th, that's a Monday.
It's not really a leak but NateDrake said he's expecting the DK game to either be at this Direct or the next one.
5... Yeesh I'm hard pressed to even think of more than 3. Puyo puyo, Tetris and Columns.curious if you had to choose 5 puzzle reps to be playable in smash who would you guys pick? So far we only have
I think Ultimate is the best Smash game in many areas but it falls flat in others. The biggest omission I really miss is a substantial single player or co-op mode akin to Subspace Emissary from Brawl. While SSE wasn’t perfect, I definitely think it was a great idea and still has a ton of potential. My brother and I still had a blast playing it despite its flaws.
It depends on how you define a puzzle game, but I'd go with Dr. Eggman (Mean Bean Machine counts!), Professor Layton, Chell from Portal, Bub and Bob from Bubble Bobble/Bust A Move (either individually or as an Ice Climbers style duo), and Captain Toad.curious if you had to choose 5 puzzle reps to be playable in smash who would you guys pick? So far we only have
I'll see what happens. Having one happen might pep me up a bit, since I've been very tired and out of energy for the past few weeks.
I'd put more stock in next week. Puts it right before TGS which is nice. Will also let them hand wave away from having to cover Spaltoon 3 in depth at all.
Yeah it makes more sense, releasing the Direct this week is gonna stole Splatoon 3 of it's thunder, and in fact, Nintendo of America is probably well aware of the interest for Nintendo Directs, so they get a lot of free advertising in Splatoon 3's release via interactions.
While there are some criticisms to be made in the level design department, I don't think it's anywhere near ruining the experience. Also, Brawl controlled fine for its time; I hardly heard anyone other than more hardcore players complain about Brawl's controls, and I feel the anti-casual criticism of Brawl is overblown.
I said Brawl did it way more expansively and with a lot more context depth in the scenarios. Melee's adventure mode is closer to a tech demo or proof-of-concept when put next to SSE. The Melee levels are more one-dimensional and are more akin to mini-challenges than full exploratory platformer levels. I don't see anyplace where Melee's mode succeeds in execution any more than SSE does.
What else could be asked of the backgrounds and platform textures? They're semi-realistic aesthetics with Wii-level graphical power, in line with the rest of Brawl. It's not like every backdrop and locale is brimming with maximum creativity or filled with tons of cute references (though I might add that Smash as a whole was less keen on throwing the cute references around back then), but they do the job just fine in terms of providing a believable setting in which all these characters could come together.
Yes, the "spirits" would still be easier to implement than the trophies even with descriptions, but adding descriptions for the former would close the gap by a noticeable amount.
I will mention my 5 wanted puzzle rep pickscurious if you had to choose 5 puzzle reps to be playable in smash who would you guys pick? So far we only have
professor layton, phoenix wright, ashley mizuki robins, qbby and mallocurious if you had to choose 5 puzzle reps to be playable in smash who would you guys pick? So far we only have
Yoooooooo! Finally someone who agrees with me that Brawl controls Bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, all the same, I have to commend your picks! Admittedly, this is bias on my part as someone who loves Nintendo characters, but as one of the few folks here who supports Pilotwings getting a character in Smash, it's nice to see Lark (and Ibis!) here! Not to mention folks like Kururin, Hakkun, Ryota and Akari Hayami, and Kensuke Kimachi (among many others).
FTFY. Even if they can only nab Eggman from the Sonic series, a villain as iconic as he is should have a more prominent role.
The only problem is that Eggman's design is kinda cartoony. And i'm not sure if Monolith is brave enough to bringing back his realistic Sonic 06 design.
They kept Tarosuke's cartoony design in PxZ2, so I don't see a problem with doing the same for Eggman.
I actually thought they should give Funky the recovery of Squirtle , and use his surfboard.
I don't think it was a crazy rule, it was just simple art design coherence. When 99% of the cast are made of characters who look like they can reasonably be part of the same universe, there's no reason to throw in scrimblos just because.
