There’s also a decent wedge of content here. This isn’t Street Fighter, or my beloved Injustice 2, but it also isn’t trying to be – it’s better to just embrace the sheer chaos Smash Bros Ultimate hands out. There’s a mode that gives everyone life bars if you feel the urge to play it like a traditional fighter, but it’s better to play it as a platform fighter, trying to nudge your opponents into holes or off the screen with every hit. The only way to lose here is getting knocked from the stage and, with each hit, characters bounce around in a slightly floaty, ethereal way, until eventually they’re hit so hard they fly off the map or into a hole. Even the machinations of the stages themselves get involved, as they pivot and whirl as combat swirls across them.
ever?Īs a fighting game, it’s largely the same as the previous entries in the series: several characters jump around the map trying to leather each other with their abilities, and scores of different items. What’s more, it does so while feeling like a celebration of gaming history in a way that ‘classic’ console releases and an endless parade of remasters have never quite managed.ĭaisy, Daisy, give us your answer do. Ultimate probably shouldn’t exist, but it does. Ryu for example feels comfortable, almost familiar, as you sling Hadoukens around the place, while Mario’s cape-counter move, which turns enemies around on contact or reflects incoming projectiles, feels cheeky in a way that’s distinctly like everyone’s favourite platforming plumber. Circumnavigating the mess that is licensing issues to bring a fighter where not only can those four characters – and the rest of the game’s 71-strong roster – feel fun to play, but they’re all handled in a deeply respectful way to the character’s original properties. Ultimate finally arriving on the Switch, it’s an argument I can settle once and for all. A question that caused arguments that rippled through classrooms and, years later, turned into steaming rows around pub tables. Who’d win in a fight between Solid Snake, Pikachu, Pac-Man and Wario? That’s the sort of question that would keep me awake at night as a teenager.
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