Masterpiece. That's all.

This game nails it in every department. Visuals, music, gameplay, multiplayer, replayability... More of everything: characters, maps, tunes, mechanics, modes. While keeping it's competitive side, this was the one Smash Bros title that really cared about single players with so many things to play around with. It will always keep you busy and having fun with it. We even finally get a proper long lengthed adventure mode with the legendary Subspace Emmisary campaign, that plays like an excellent 2D beat'em up/platformer.

It's clear Nintendo put a lot of care and a large budget in this game, and it shows. It's one of the most polished Nintendo games ever.

I don't really rate too many games from my childhood other than a certain few online browser games mainly because I can't remember them well enough to give them any sort of rating but I can say without doubt this was fantastic and I loved this iteration of Smash. As a child you don't tend to 'finish' video games but I'm confident that I finished the story mode, unlocked all of the fighters, and would play by myself vs the AI for hours on hours. Don't care to revisit this anytime soon incase it ruins my view of the game. Good game, good times!