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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.jpg
Key game art, showcasing some of the game's large playable roster
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Masahiro Sakurai
Producer(s)
  • Shinya Saito
  • Yoshito Higuchi
Programmer(s)Tetsuya Otaguro
Artist(s)Yusuke Nakano
Composer(s)Hideki Sakamoto
SeriesSuper Smash Bros.
Platform(s)Nintendo Switch
ReleaseDecember 7, 2018
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[a] is a 2018 crossover fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series, succeeding Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The game follows the series' traditional style of gameplay: controlling one of the various characters, players must use differing attacks to weaken their opponents and knock them out of an arena. It features a wide variety of game modes, including a campaign for single-player and multiplayer versus modes. Ultimate features over 80 playable fighters, including everyone from all previous Super Smash Bros. games alongside several newcomers. The roster ranges from Nintendo mascots to characters from third-party franchises, with the game being supported with post-release downloadable content that adds more fighters and other content.

Planning for the game had begun by December 2015, with full development starting after the completion of 3DS/Wii U's downloadable content (DLC). Series creator and director Masahiro Sakurai returned along with Bandai Namco Studios and Sora, the studios that developed 3DS/Wii U, with the return of the studios speeding up the preparation process. Sakurai's goal with Ultimate was to include every character from previous games despite the various development and licensing problems this would cause. Several well-known video game musicians contributed to the soundtrack, with Hideki Sakamoto writing the main theme "Lifelight".

Nintendo teased Ultimate in a Nintendo Direct in March 2018 and fully revealed it at E3 2018 the following June. It later received two additional Directs before it was released on December 7, 2018. The game received universal acclaim, with some critics calling it the best of the series. They praised its amount of content and fine-tuning of existing Smash gameplay elements, although its online mode received criticism. Ultimate is the best-selling fighting game of all time, having nearly sold 25 million copies by June 2021.

Gameplay

Main article: Gameplay of Super Smash Bros.
Pre-release screenshot of a four-player match on the Great Plateau stage (from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) between Ganondorf, Link, Mario and Mega Man

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a fighting game for up to eight players in which characters from Nintendo games and other third-party franchises must try to knock each other out of an arena. Each player has a percentage meter, which raises when they take damage, making them easier to launch in the air and out of the arena.[1] Standard battles use one of three victory conditions: Timed, where players aim to win the most points by defeating opponents within a time limit; Stock, where players have a set number of lives and must aim to be the last player standing; and Stamina, where players must simply reduce their opponent's health down to zero to defeat them. Players can adjust the rules to their liking and save them as presets for future matches.[2]

Players can use various items to attack enemies or grant them power-ups, along with Poké Balls and Assist Trophies, which respectively summon Pokémon and other non-playable characters to assist them in battle. In Timed matches, certain Assist Trophies can be attacked and defeated to earn points.[3][4][5] Each character also possesses a powerful Final Smash attack, which can be performed either by obtaining a Smash Ball or by filling up a special meter, both of which can be toggled on and off.[3][4][5] The game features 103 different stages included in the base game, with additional ones coming packaged with DLC fighters. They can all be played in alternative Battlefield and Omega forms or can be toggled to remove stage hazards. A new feature called Stage Morph allows players to select two stages that the game alternates between at certain intervals during a match.[6][7][8] Other tweaks include new icons and gauges for character-specific abilities, such as Cloud's Limit gauge.[7]

In addition to returning modes such as Classic, Special Smash, and Home-Run Contest, new modes added to the game include Smashdown, where each character can only be played once; Squad Strike, where players battle in teams of multiple characters; and a tournament mode that allows up to 32 players to battle in playoff brackets.[9][10]

Spirits

A typical spirit battle, here players must fight an Incineroar meant to represent Tom Nook from the Animal Crossing series

Another set of modes revolves around a new mechanic known as spirits, which replaces the collectible trophies from previous games. Each of these spirits, based on a crossover character, can be used to power up a fighter with unique abilities, which can be used to fight against human or computer opponents and earn new spirits.[11] Players gain spirits through pre-made challenges known as "Spirit Battles" that capture the theme of the character depicted by the spirit, embodied by one or more of the game's fighters and other specific level effects; for example, the spirit battle of Rayquaza, a flying dragon Pokémon, requires players to defeat a large version of Ridley with added wind effects. A separate Spirit Board mode presents a rotating set of spirit battles for players to gain spirits from. Spirits have a growth and evolution system similar to Pokémon games, leveling the Spirits to gain more powerful effects or means of merging core abilities into a new Spirit.[12] Nintendo offers limited-timed Spirit events in cross-promotion with other games and franchises, where a number of them are only available to collect during the event.[13]

World of Light

The spirit mechanic is prominent in the game's single-player adventure mode, World of Light.[11][14] The mode's narrative begins with an evil entity, Galeem, destroying the Smash Bros. world, vaporizing almost all of the fighter characters and placing them under his imprisonment; only Kirby, due to his Warp Star, evades this attack.[15] Players must explore the ruined world to rescue captured fighters and spirits by completing marked challenges. Players can use regained allies and spirits to overcome certain challenges on the map and eventually defeat Galeem.[11][16] However, after Galeem is defeated, a new enemy, Dharkon, takes over and, after being defeated, wages war against Galeem, and players must destroy both of them. If just Galeem is defeated, Dharkon will engulf the world in darkness, but if just Dharkon is defeated, then Galeem will cover the universe with light. However, there is a path that allows players to defeat both of them at once. When done so, the spirits are freed from the fallen deities' control and return to the real world.

Multiplayer

The game supports local multiplayer, local wireless with other systems, and online play via Wi-Fi or LAN connections. By defeating players online, players can earn tags which can be traded for in-game currency to buy new spirits, music, and Mii Fighter costumes. The game is compatible with Joy-Con controllers, the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, and GameCube controllers via the use of a USB adapter.[17] Like in the previous entry, amiibo figurines can be used to create AI-controlled Figure Players that can be trained to become stronger.[18][19] Sometime after the game's release, a service for the Nintendo Switch Online mobile app, known as "Smash World", was launched, which allows players to check their game statistics in addition to sharing images and videos captured from the game to social media.[20] Ultimate features over 900 music tracks, which can be played through the Switch's handheld mode while in standby mode.[21] Version 3.0 of the game, released in April 2019, adds a Stage Builder allowing players to create their own custom stages, and which they can share or download through the Switch Online service. The update also includes a replay editor that allow players to edit stored replays and share those with others or download to other devices. These will be also available within the Smash World app.[22] An update in May 2019 provided limited support for the virtual reality VR Kit of Nintendo Labo, allowing a player to view computer-only matches in VR or playing in a 1-on-1 mode against the computer.[23] An update in September 2019 added the Home-Run Contest mode from previous Smash games.[24]

Playable characters

See also: Characters in the Super Smash Bros. series

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as with other games in the Super Smash Bros. series, features a crossover cast of fighters from several different Nintendo franchises, as well as fighters from series by third-party developers such as Konami, Sega, Capcom, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Square Enix, PlatinumGames, Atlus, Microsoft, SNK, and Mojang Studios. The base game features 74 playable fighters,[b] consisting of all 63 previous fighters from past entries and 11 new ones: the Inklings from Splatoon; Princess Daisy from the Mario series; Ridley and Dark Samus from the Metroid series; Simon Belmont and Richter Belmont from the Castlevania series; Chrom from Fire Emblem Awakening; King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong series; Isabelle from the Animal Crossing series; Ken Masters from the Street Fighter series; and Incineroar from Pokémon Sun and Moon.[26] When starting the game, players only have access to the eight starter characters of the original 1999 Super Smash Bros. game and must unlock the rest by completing the game's Classic mode, playing through World of Light, or fighting a certain amount of battles.[25]

Certain characters whose movesets are directly based on other characters in the game are now classified as "Echo Fighters", possessing similar movesets and proportions to the fighters they are based on, but with their own unique animations and gameplay differences. On the character selection screen, these characters can either be listed individually or stacked with the fighters they are based on.[27][28] Select characters also have alternative skins featuring different genders or sometimes other characters, such as Bowser Jr. who has a selectable appearance to be any of the other Koopalings but otherwise have identical animations and abilities.[7][29][28] Several returning characters received updates to their outfits, such as Mario having Cappy from Super Mario Odyssey accompanying him and Link wearing his outfit from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.[29]

Additional fighters have been added to the game via post-release downloadable content (DLC). The first of these, Piranha Plant from the Mario series, was released in January 2019 and made available for free to those who purchased and registered the game with a My Nintendo account before the end of that month.[30][31] Additional fighters, each coming with a unique stage and related music, have been released both individually and as part of two Fighters Pass bundles.[32][33] The first Fighters Pass consisted of five characters: Joker from Atlus' Persona 5, released in April 2019;[22] the Hero[c] from Square Enix's Dragon Quest series, released in July 2019;[34] Banjo & Kazooie from Rare's Banjo-Kazooie series, released in September 2019;[35] Terry Bogard from SNK's Fatal Fury series, released in November 2019;[36] and Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, released in January 2020.[37]

While Nintendo had originally planned to limit new fighters to those in the initial Fighters Pass, the company announced plans in September 2019 for Fighters Pass Volume 2, which includes six additional fighters that are scheduled to be released by 2021.[38] Sakurai stated in February 2020 that there are no further plans for any additional Fighters Passes after the second one for Ultimate.[39] The first character in this collection, Min Min from Arms, was released in June 2020.[40] Steve, the player avatar from Mojang Studios' Minecraft, was released in October 2020; the game's Alex, Zombie, and Enderman characters appear as alternate costumes.[41][42] Sephiroth, the antagonist from Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII, was released in December 2020, with players able to unlock the character a few days early by defeating him in a limited time boss battle known as the "Sephiroth Challenge".[43] Pyra and Mythra, a dual character from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, were released in March 2021.[44] Kazuya Mishima from Bandai Namco's Tekken series was released in June 2021.[45]

Development

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd., the same studios that developed Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, for the Nintendo Switch, with series creator Masahiro Sakurai returning as game director.[29] Unlike previous Super Smash Bros. games, the team was not assembled from the ground up, which sped up preparation time.[46] The project plan for the game was in the works by December 2015, when the DLC for 3DS and Wii U was in development,[47] and finished after it was completed.[48] Staff gathering was done soon afterward.[47] The development period was shorter compared to previous entries in the series.[49] Hatena also assisted with the development of some elements.[50]

According to Sakurai, producing a Super Smash Bros. game for the Switch was the last request that former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata had given him before Iwata's death in 2015, leading Sakurai to feel compelled to make the game the best possible product he could to respect him.[51] Sakurai sought to include every character from previous games, as to not disappoint fans.[52] However, he knew this would be a complex problem for both development and licensing;[29] it would also drastically increase the cost of development. The return of Bandai and Sora made it easier for this to happen.[46] Sakurai also wanted to adjust character abilities as to speed up the game,[29] although not to an extent to which it would alienate players unfamiliar with the series.[47] Sakurai knew that Ultimate was a core game for Nintendo and that it had a dedicated player base that he did not want to disappoint, and believed that completing this goal was necessary to satisfy the fan base.[29] Sakurai was also faced with the decision to create a completely new game system or build off of pre-existing ones; he chose to build off pre-existing ones because there would only be about a third of the characters he desired in the final game.[47] All the returning characters' abilities had to be re-balanced so they could work in Ultimate.[49] Originally, gameplay would differ between the Switch's docked and handheld modes, but Sakurai scrapped this because the system's screen in handheld mode was better than he thought.[48] Sakurai believed this would be the only Smash game to have the full roster of returning characters, calling the effort to include the characters, music, stage settings, and other elements as "unprecedented", and cautioned that future series games would likely be smaller in scope. However, Sakurai wants to add as many fighters as possible within Ultimate through DLC.[53]

Voice lines recorded by David Hayter for Snake were re-used for Ultimate, despite Hayter having been replaced in Metal Gear Solid V.[54] Xander Mobus, who provided the voice of Crazy Hand, Master Hand, and the announcer in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U also made a return with new voice clips, in addition to providing the voice of the new downloadable character Joker.[55] The addition of Ridley from Metroid as a playable character has been something that the Super Smash Bros. community had been requesting from the series for some time. In 2008, Sakurai had said that he knew Ridley was a high-demand character but thought that he was "impossible" to add unless they were able to sacrifice the character's size for balancing purposes.[56] So Ridley could be included in the game, Sakurai studied the art of the character and redesigned him so he could stand upright.[49] All characters were chosen at the beginning of development except Incineroar, who had not been created yet;[57] the team instead left a space open for a Sun and Moon Pokémon. The Inklings' ink mechanic proved challenging to implement due to the way it interacts with environments.[48]

The team built Ultimate from scratch with new assets and content. Localization manager Nate Bihldorff stated that the game significantly upgraded lighting effects and texture rendering from the game engine of the Wii U version.[5] The new World of Light mode was inspired by Brawl's (2008) Subspace Emissary, and Sakurai chose to start it with a cataclysmic event because he thought it would leave a greater impact on players.[48] The team conceived the Spirits mechanic because they wanted to create an enjoyable single-player mode but did not have enough resources to create character models. While it did not let them tell stories for individual fighters or create new locations and rules, the Spirits let them use a variety of characters and assets.[52] One part of the team chose Spirits to include in the game and had to thoroughly research them. According to Sakurai, the Spirits mode was essential for using various franchises.[48]

Music

Like previous games in the series, Ultimate features several well-known video game music composers and arrangers providing a mix of original music and rearrangements of various tracks for the represented franchises, with over 1,000 tracks in total.[58][59][60] New to Ultimate is the tying of tracks to franchises instead of individual stages, as well as the ability to create custom playlists to listen to outside of the game when the Switch is in handheld mode.[58] Sakurai stated that he began contacting composers over a year before release, providing them with a database of over a thousand suggested track ideas.[61] In addition, he allowed them to submit their own personal favorites, with those choices being given priority for inclusion.[61] While Sakurai oversaw the process and preferred that the music retain the spirit of the original games, the direction of them was generally handled by the composers themselves.[61] The main theme, "Lifelight", composed by Hideki Sakamoto, is the basis of most of the game's original music.[62][63]

Downloadable content

As with previous entries, Nintendo planned to offer new fighters through DLC; however, unlike with the previous 3DS and Wii U version where players could request which characters they wished to see in the game, Nintendo chose which characters they would add by November 2018.[64] Sakurai believed that despite characters like Joker, the first announced DLC fighter, not necessarily being from games usually associated with Nintendo, they were added due to being "emblematic" of the types of characters they wanted to add to Ultimate, adding that they "bring just a whole different level of fun and enjoyment for players".[65] The Piranha Plant was chosen as a DLC character because Sakurai wanted to add diversity to the roster.[57] Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, stated that negotiating the inclusion of Banjo and Kazooie, a property owned by Microsoft through its acquisition of Rare, was "an easy deal to make" thanks to Microsoft's strong partnership with Nintendo.[66]

The development of Fighters Pass Volume 2 was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to stay-at-home orders in Japan, Sakurai and his development team were required to work on the new content remotely.[40] Like the previous title, additional Mii costumes were released as paid DLC. Certain costumes also added new music tracks to the game.[67]

Release

Attendees at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con playing a demo of Ultimate

Ultimate was teased during a Nintendo Direct presentation on March 8, 2018, under the working title Super Smash Bros., with the release year shown to be 2018. Nintendo formally announced the game at E3 2018, revealing that the full roster of characters from past games would be included, as well as its release date.[28][68] Demo versions were playable at E3 in June and at the San Diego Comic-Con the following month.[69][70] IGN nominated Ultimate for its Best Game of E3 2018 award; the game won Best Nintendo Switch Game from both IGN and Gamescom.[71][72] Two Nintendo Direct presentations in 2018, one on August 8 and another one on November 1, were devoted to the game, revealing new characters, stages, and game modes.[73][74]

Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. Ultimate worldwide on December 7, 2018.[16] In addition to the standard retail version, a special edition containing a Super Smash Bros.-themed Nintendo Switch Pro Controller[75] and a Switch with a download code was also released.[76] An additional special edition contained a pair of Super Smash Bros.-themed Joy-Con as well as a Switch console, a Super Smash Bros.-themed dock, and a download code for the game.[77] A GameCube controller with the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate logo was released on November 2, 2018.[78]

One of the game's new additions had the character Mr. Game & Watch assuming the appearance of a feather- and loincloth-wearing Native American when using one of his attacks—a reference to Fire Attack (1982), in which players controlled a cowboy defending his fort from attacking natives. Some series fans saw this as racist, leading to Nintendo apologizing and removing the animation in an update shortly after release.[79] Two weeks before its release, a leaked copy of the game was distributed across the internet. Nintendo took steps to issue copyright strikes on YouTube videos using data mined content, while fans worked to isolate spoilers, particularly the World of Light story mode, from those that had played the leaked version.[80]

Reception

Ultimate received "universal acclaim" from critics, according to the review aggregator platform Metacritic.[81] The French video game website Jeuxvideo.com called it the best game in the series, praising the improved gameplay, larger cast of characters, stages, options, soundtrack, which "brilliantly mix gargantuan content with nostalgia".[91] Tom Marks of IGN agreed and called it the most complete Super Smash Bros. yet.[16] Critics lauded the huge cast of characters and levels, new game modes, and combining of the best elements from its predecessors.[95] However, the game's online mode received criticism for its technical performance and matchmaking. Many players found significant lag affecting their games, even when using wired connections over wireless, while the game's matchmaking features did not adhere to players' criteria, with players frequently playing matches with rule sets they did not choose. The matchmaking process was further criticized for making it difficult for friends to join matches over random players, and not allowing multiple local players to join in online matches.[96] There had been so many complaints on Ultimate's subreddit that the administrators forwarded all complaints to a separate thread.[97]

Sales

In November 2018, Nintendo announced Ultimate was the most pre-ordered game for the Switch and in the series.[98] The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment reported that Ultimate was the fastest-selling Switch and Super Smash Bros. game in the United Kingdom, with physical launch sales 302% higher than those for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, 233% higher than those for 3DS, and 62.5% higher than those for Brawl.[99] In its first three days on sale in Japan, the game sold 1.2 million copies, outselling Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in the region.[100]

Within 11 days of its release, Ultimate had sold more than three million copies within the United States, making it the fastest-selling Switch game in the country.[101] It was similarly the fastest-selling Switch game as well as the fastest-selling game for any Nintendo console in Europe based on the first 11-day sales.[102] It was estimated that the game sold and shipped over five million copies within its first three days of release.[103] Within three weeks, Ultimate became the fifth best-selling Switch game in the United Kingdom, surpassing the sales of Splatoon 2.[104] In January 2019, Amazon reported that Ultimate was their highest selling video game product of 2018,[105] with Nintendo officially announcing that the game had shipped over 12.08 million copies worldwide.[106] Ultimate was also Nintendo's fastest-selling game of all time until being surpassed by Pokémon Sword and Shield in 2019.[107][108] By September 2020, the game had sold over 21.10 million copies worldwide,[109] making it the best-selling fighting game of all time,[110] surpassing the record of Street Fighter II,[111] and became the third-best-selling Nintendo Switch game, only behind Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. As of June 30, 2021, total sales reached 24.77 million.[112]

Awards

The game won the award for "Best Nintendo Switch Game", "Best Fighting Game", and "Best Multiplayer Game" in IGN's Best of 2018 Awards, whereas its other nominations were for "Game of the Year" and "Best Video Game Music".[113]

List of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate awards
Year Award Category Result Ref
2018 Game Critics Awards Best of Show Nominated [114]
Best Console Game Nominated
Best Fighting Game Won
2018 Golden Joystick Awards Most Wanted Game Nominated [115]
2019 22nd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards Fighting Game of the Year Won [116][117]
SXSW Gaming Awards Video Game of the Year Nominated [118][119]
Excellence in Art Nominated
Excellence in Gameplay Won
Excellence in Multiplayer Nominated
2019 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Video Game Nominated [120]
15th British Academy Games Awards Multiplayer Nominated [121]
Japan Game Awards Grand Prize Won [122]
Best Sales Award Won
Global Award, Japanese Product Won
Excellence Award Won
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Award Won
2019 Golden Joystick Awards Best Multiplayer Game Nominated [123][124]
eSports Game of the Year Nominated
Nintendo Game of the Year Won
The Game Awards 2019 Game of the Year Nominated [125][126]
Best Fighting Game Won
Best Family Game Nominated
2020 2020 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Video Game Nominated [127]

Esports

See also: Super Smash Bros. in esports and List of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments

EVO 2019, held on August 2–4, 2019, featured Ultimate as one of its main events. It was the largest offline Smash Bros. tournament of all time, with 3,534 entrants signed up.[128] It set a new record for EVO concurrent viewership, with over 279,000 viewers during Top 8.[129] On May 8–10, 2020, top Super Smash Bros. Melee player Hungrybox partnered with NFL running back Le'Veon Bell and esports organization Team Liquid to host The Box, an online tournament with a $10,000 prize pool.[130][131] With over 8,000 entrants, it was the largest online Smash Bros. tournament of all time.[132][133]

In February 2020, it was announced that the Smash World Tour would feature both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Smash Bros. Ultimate players for a grand prize pool of $250,000. The tournament would have included international qualifiers, with the grand finals' location to be in the United States.[134][135][136][137][138] However, the COVID-19 pandemic quickly led to several of the qualifiers getting either postponed or canceled.[139]

Notes

  1. ^ Known in Japan as Super Smash Bros. Special (Japanese: 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ SPECIAL (スペシャル), Hepburn: Dai rantō Sumasshu Burazāzu Supesharu)
  2. ^ Pokémon Trainer, who uses three summonable Pokémon, is regarded as a single character; the total number of fighters goes to 76 if one counts each of their Pokémon individually.[25]
  3. ^ Despite the name referring to a single character, the Hero represents four different protagonists from the Dragon Quest series. His default appearance is the Luminary/Eleven from Dragon Quest XI, with Erdrick/Arusu from Dragon Quest III, Solo from Dragon Quest IV, and Eight from Dragon Quest VIII appearing as alternate costumes.

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