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It happens so often, but I’m always blown away at how the developers manage to make them all feel right at home in a fighting game. Especially as the list of franchises grow, Ultimate adds characters from the Castlevania series, truly fulfilling an old school NES gamer’s wildest dreams.Įveryone on the nearly 70 character roster is just so perfectly realized. Yet the novelty of seeing these crossover match-ups is never lost on me. Smash has had characters from the world beyond Nintendo included since 2008. You can literally play a match consisting of entirely non-Nintendo owned characters. In the N64 years, the roster included entirely top Nintendo mascots, but since then the series has expanded much larger. Not just a specific series or subset of games, it celebrates all games. The importance of including everyone is simple. Instead they brought everyone back and even added a dozen new characters to boot. As the rosters grew and grew from game to game, it would go in line with tradition for Ultimate to leave out a dozen characters that players have grown to love. for the Wii U and 3DS missed out on eight series veterans. Brawl omitted five players that were in 2001’s Super Smash Bros. When Ultimate was first announced, I was worried which characters from the Wii U and 3DS versions would get the ax. The answer begins to unfold when you read a quote directly from the back of the box – “EVERYONE IS HERE.” It’s not hype.įor a series that has added, and dropped, many characters over the course of its lifespan, this is a very meaningful tagline. But this description can be used to talk about any of the six iterations of the game. and what has allowed it to remain consistently relevant over the past two decades. It blends both the fighting and party game genres ever so seamlessly, allowing the series to be played at both high level competitions as well as pre-teen sleepovers.

Yet it’s also way more complex than a traditional party game. In this way, Smash is unlike many fighting games that we’ve come to expect from the genre. Two to eight players load up into a level and duke it out until a winner is crowned. ever made, it is an essential game in every Nintendo Switch owners library.