A Fighters Pass? Did it pass though? Did it really? Well shit, I mean, did it? This DLC has nothing to do with whether Ult passes or fails, not really; anyone who has any opinion about this game made up their minds years ago, perhaps before it even released.
When Smash began there were like four characters, and half of them were from JP exclusive titles with names like "Shugesagto," and people were still down to bomb thousands of hours playing against their friends. Now there are a million characters in the game, from a billion different IPs. This reflects the gaming scene as a whole: where once the game only had so many franchises to pull from, there are now so many gaming IPs that the most recent addition to the Super Smash Bros games is himself from a video game mash up series. There may be some horrifying infinity to this, a void you just don't want to stare back at you. Were it still 2014, like it still is in my head, I'd try to shoehorn in a Human Centipede reference here, though it wouldn't be entirely appropriate as I don't hate this game all that much.
I mean at the end of the day, this game is the basic appeal that it has to your boomer brother or basic weirdo classmate: you get to make Sonic and Mario fight! And Pac-man is there! And Cloud too, and Sora! And I guess that isn't a bad thing. I want to say it's childish and fascile, but it's sort of ok. Maybe Ultimate is like corn syrup in America, if you sort of flavor it a little you can just guzzle it down and not feel too bad.
I do wish this game didn't have an end to DLC. We could keep adding classic game characters: dig dug, pong, general custer. The eventual endgame to Smash, I feel, would be to add not only each video game character from every video game franchise but in fact to add every video game itself to smash, such that every video game you play would in some sense be happening within Smash. That kind of smash game I think, deserves a pass. And while Ult may not fail, I think we might at least give it an Incomplete.
When Smash began there were like four characters, and half of them were from JP exclusive titles with names like "Shugesagto," and people were still down to bomb thousands of hours playing against their friends. Now there are a million characters in the game, from a billion different IPs. This reflects the gaming scene as a whole: where once the game only had so many franchises to pull from, there are now so many gaming IPs that the most recent addition to the Super Smash Bros games is himself from a video game mash up series. There may be some horrifying infinity to this, a void you just don't want to stare back at you. Were it still 2014, like it still is in my head, I'd try to shoehorn in a Human Centipede reference here, though it wouldn't be entirely appropriate as I don't hate this game all that much.
I mean at the end of the day, this game is the basic appeal that it has to your boomer brother or basic weirdo classmate: you get to make Sonic and Mario fight! And Pac-man is there! And Cloud too, and Sora! And I guess that isn't a bad thing. I want to say it's childish and fascile, but it's sort of ok. Maybe Ultimate is like corn syrup in America, if you sort of flavor it a little you can just guzzle it down and not feel too bad.
I do wish this game didn't have an end to DLC. We could keep adding classic game characters: dig dug, pong, general custer. The eventual endgame to Smash, I feel, would be to add not only each video game character from every video game franchise but in fact to add every video game itself to smash, such that every video game you play would in some sense be happening within Smash. That kind of smash game I think, deserves a pass. And while Ult may not fail, I think we might at least give it an Incomplete.