So, what’s everyone’s thoughts on Ultimate?
Honestly, character unlocks are fast and fun, it feels like your constantly getting new characters, and I love spirits as well. The graphics are amazing too! Honestly, I don’t regret a single penny.
It's absolutely fantastic, the overall gameplay changes are an enormous improvement, especially the change to airdodges, it's the first time since Melee where it feels like they're in a good spot. A lot of characters also feel a lot tighter, just small adjustments that help make them feel less disjointed (this is especially the case for many of the Smash 4 newcomers), and I also like how they've seriously toned down throw and tilt-spam combos in favor of having to work more and know your character better in order to get solid damage in. As an aside, I'm really grateful that Ridley feels so right to play as, I'm not going to claim he's a fantastic competitive character, but he's already the one I'm most comfortable with, and him being enjoyable to play as was always the biggest priority for me.
The new modes are also a blast, Squad Strike has already brought a lot of fun between my brothers and I, as has the return of Tourney, these are modes I feel like I'll be able to enjoy for the game's entire lifespan, unlike the Smash 4 ones which were neat enough once or twice at best. I've also liked what I've played of World of Light a lot, in terms of gameplay it's so much more interesting than SSE imo, and I've come to enjoy the whole Spirits concept a lot more than I thought I would, their initial presentation of it was actually really poor as it didn't bring the appeal of the mode across properly. Coming across Spirits that I love in their own games is a lot of fun, I had a bit of arms in the air moment when I found Dungeon Man from Earthbound lol.
The only disappointment for me so far is Online, which has somehow taken a huge step back from Smash 4, which was already mediocre to begin with. I've never seen a Quickplay mode be as big a mess as it is in Ultimate, I've only gotten in with my preferred rules 1/6 times and had to give up after that (and my rules were pretty standard too, just a regular 1v1 3 stock Battefield setup), practically the only way to play this game Online is to make your own Battle Arena. It's so frustrating how Nintendo just don't get how Online should work, when my one week's trial period is over I'm not going to bother actually subscribing to it until they sort Ultimate's Online out.
Smash will always be a local fighting game primarily for me though, I have my brothers who enjoy playing as much as I do, so luckily that's not a dealbreaker for me, it's just a shame. Of course we're still early days, I expect more issues will pop up over time, but as of right now I'm having an absolute blast with the game.
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