There will never be another game like Smash Bros. Ultimate. I know that that can sound a little bit cheesy and you could also apply it to the games that preceed it, but I really mean it with this one.
This was the first smash game I followed thoroughly before release, every anauncement, from characters to modes to even Mii customes, it was an event to analyze and celebrate, and it kept being that way until the very last DLC fighter was announced, there were for sure its ups and downs within the community before it released (cough cough Grinch leak) but nevertheless, it was a magical experiece that I was able to share with all of my friends and I will forever treasure that.
Then the game came out and my first thought when I first started playing was: ''wow... this shit is AMAZING''. Before its release me and a friend played Smash 4 non stop during the whole previous summer, and even tho it took a little while to fully process the changes to the new systems and feeling of the game, once it clicked it was just pure gold, and it still is to this day. I know very well that from a competetive view and a general glance Melee's movement is unique and the most free and fun, but for my money, Ultimate is prefectly balanced, incredebly smooth and really, REALLY fun, which it's what every smash game should strive to be, and this one surprasses the rest but a long shot.
The characters feel straight up from their own games, and the personality that each one oozes is inmense, the stages are detailed to the EXTREME and all of the possible rules and options feel limitless. Even do that there are some singleplayer modes that I miss, what there is delivers, especially classic mode (probably the best in the whole series by far) and spirit mode, a perfect union between event mode and a classic story mode, and the result is a experience that gives a chance for non fighters to hace their own matches and feel like such, and also it takes A WHILE to 100%, and while I get that for some people spirit mode was boring, I found it incredibly fun in small dosis.
The game has its short comings for sure, the online may be the best in the series yet, but when your competition is Smash 4 and... ugh.... Brawl's online mode... the bar is very low, and Ultimate is still kinda mediocre, not horrible mind you, lag isn't as prominent as it once was, the input delay is still very much a thing. Also, I really miss some minor modes like break the targets or a boss rush, I understand that with the amount of content here it may sound silly to ask more, but I really think that two or three more modes would have made this a round package.
It really may sound that I'm analazing Ultimate more as a product than a game, but don't get confused, this game has love and respect oozing from every orifice (pixel? voxel? I don't know) its genuely a celebretation of gaming, a milestone of both what games once strived, be fun, and what games can be and are, exciting and unite people together, to talk and compete, even if the circumstances may not be the best. I really love this game, and while it may not be perfect and its problems and its own nature prevent it from being masterpiece of the industry, it's a celebretion, the biggest and greatest that there could ever be.
This was the first smash game I followed thoroughly before release, every anauncement, from characters to modes to even Mii customes, it was an event to analyze and celebrate, and it kept being that way until the very last DLC fighter was announced, there were for sure its ups and downs within the community before it released (cough cough Grinch leak) but nevertheless, it was a magical experiece that I was able to share with all of my friends and I will forever treasure that.
Then the game came out and my first thought when I first started playing was: ''wow... this shit is AMAZING''. Before its release me and a friend played Smash 4 non stop during the whole previous summer, and even tho it took a little while to fully process the changes to the new systems and feeling of the game, once it clicked it was just pure gold, and it still is to this day. I know very well that from a competetive view and a general glance Melee's movement is unique and the most free and fun, but for my money, Ultimate is prefectly balanced, incredebly smooth and really, REALLY fun, which it's what every smash game should strive to be, and this one surprasses the rest but a long shot.
The characters feel straight up from their own games, and the personality that each one oozes is inmense, the stages are detailed to the EXTREME and all of the possible rules and options feel limitless. Even do that there are some singleplayer modes that I miss, what there is delivers, especially classic mode (probably the best in the whole series by far) and spirit mode, a perfect union between event mode and a classic story mode, and the result is a experience that gives a chance for non fighters to hace their own matches and feel like such, and also it takes A WHILE to 100%, and while I get that for some people spirit mode was boring, I found it incredibly fun in small dosis.
The game has its short comings for sure, the online may be the best in the series yet, but when your competition is Smash 4 and... ugh.... Brawl's online mode... the bar is very low, and Ultimate is still kinda mediocre, not horrible mind you, lag isn't as prominent as it once was, the input delay is still very much a thing. Also, I really miss some minor modes like break the targets or a boss rush, I understand that with the amount of content here it may sound silly to ask more, but I really think that two or three more modes would have made this a round package.
It really may sound that I'm analazing Ultimate more as a product than a game, but don't get confused, this game has love and respect oozing from every orifice (pixel? voxel? I don't know) its genuely a celebretation of gaming, a milestone of both what games once strived, be fun, and what games can be and are, exciting and unite people together, to talk and compete, even if the circumstances may not be the best. I really love this game, and while it may not be perfect and its problems and its own nature prevent it from being masterpiece of the industry, it's a celebretion, the biggest and greatest that there could ever be.