Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Reviews
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Super Smash Bros Ultimate is just as the name suggests, the Ultimate Smash experience. All the characters and stages have returned. A better balance across all 74 playable characters. Returning single player game modes as well as a whole new story mode that merges Super Smash with RPG elements. This is a game that you'll want to play with friends on the big screen, or on your own anywhere.
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While World of Light and the online modes do have their issues, there’s no doubt that Super Smash Bros Ultimate is the game that we were hoping it would be. Bigger modes, bigger roster, bigger improvements, this is truly the Ultimate Smash Bros title.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate offers near-endless replayability, and thanks to the sheer amount of content, it's easy to recommend to just about anyone with a Nintendo Switch. Really the only thing holding it back is its lackluster online functionality, but if Nintendo manages to iron out those issues, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate may very well be the best game in the series to date.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate beautifully tows the line of accessibility for casual players and depth for the hardcore fans. One thing I have always loved about Nintendo is its dedication to the art, and to creativity as a whole. Good or bad, I’m always excited to see what comes next from them. As Super Smash Bros. Ultimate grows and the new characters arrive, I’ll be back on the battlefield for another round. When you have something that people want, it’s hard to balance pushing the envelope with maintaining the foundation. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a prime example of how...
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The sum of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s parts is nothing short of excellent. From single-player to local multiplayer, there are very few flaws with the experience. Whether you’re hoarding spirits in World of Light, spiking your friends in a versus match of Smashdown, or running through Classic mode with your favorite fighter, there is no shortage of smart, creative action to be had. That said, in a game so well assembled, its lackluster online portion stands out even more starkly. However, when taking Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a whole, that one blight does little to diminish the overall mastery...
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Just the mention of the Super Smash Bros. series gets most Nintendo fans itching to get a controller into their hands. It’s not hard to see why, either – since the very beginning of the series in 1999, the crossover brawler has been a hit with both the casual and competitive crowd. For this reason, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has got to be the most anticipated Switch title since its official announcement back at this year’s E3. Does it live up to the prestige of its predecessors?
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For nearly 20 years, Nintendo's crossover fighting series has been entertaining fans with frantic multiplayer mayhem. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the most ambitious entry in the series so far with an absurd amount of characters and content so get ready to fight!
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is an easy recommendation based on how easy it is to pick up and play. It's among the simplest platform fighters out there and there's something cathartic about being able to throw down against some of gaming's most iconic characters. It's also easy to recommend based on just how many fighters, stages, music tracks, and easter egg Spirits are out there. There's so much to discover and so many different ways to enjoy this game that casual and hardcore fans can enjoy this for years to come. It truly feels like the pinnacle of a series...
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is, bar none, the best game in the series to date, and somehow manages to satisfy both hardcore and casual players alike.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate epitomizes Nintendo at their very best, and serves as the perfect entry point, and the perfect coda, to the series, and to video games, and all that they have achieved until now, in one neat package.
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When Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was first revealed back in March of this year, a tidal wave of excitement spread across the globe amongst Nintendo fans.
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When I played Super Smash Bros Ultimate at E3 2018, I wrote about how great the gameplay felt, but I wasn’t impressed with the show floor demo on account of the small number of characters as stages available at the time. Little did I know what Masahiro Sakurai was cooking up behind the scenes. After playing this game for more than forty hours, I can safely say Super Smash Bros Ultimate is the best Super Smash Bros. ever made. Yes, even better than the “untouchable” Melee.
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In addition to these two pillars is the game's online suite. Gone are the days of "For Glory" and "For Fun" from Smash 4. They've been replaced with some more straightforward options, including the ability to customize your "preferred rules" for solo and co-op online play, and a place to create custom "Battle Arenas" where you and your friends can join what is essentially a custom game and duke it out with others. The suite is pretty bare-bones, but if the community is strong, we could see ...
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I used to love Super Smash Bros., as a Nintendo fan. On the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube, I adored seeing characters I love fighting one another and acting so faithful to how I always knew they should. I was one of the Brawl detractors, though not because of any competitive leaning, it was just slow, and the Subspace Emissary I was so excited for didn't turn out to be all that. But then I did start getting competitive. I learned how to play and play well, using all of the tools the characters had at their disposal, and comboing to...
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is equal parts greatness and lacking. The sheer wealth of content and great gameplay is commended but there are big holes in what could be a great game.
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From its humble Nintendo 64 beginnings, Super Smash Bros. has been a delightful neutral zone for players looking for top-tier competition as well as friends who just want to kick back and watch Princess Peach knock the stuffing out of Bowser. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the culmination of everything that’s come before, offering a massive roster of classic characters and stages and subtle additions that make the game feel fresh. Whether you haven’t played Smash since your dorm-room days or you breathlessly await each new entry, Ultimate is not to be missed.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to its name, offering the most comprehensive game in the series to date. It has an absurd amount to play, fight, and unlock – though that can be to its detriment at times. While the World of Light adventure mode isn’t reason alone to get Smash Bros., it’s still a consistently amusing and shockingly large campaign, and a worthy compliment to Ultimate’s incredible multiplayer core. The Smash Bros. series has always maintained a wonderful balance of chaotic beat-em-up fun and tense fighting game action, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate refines and improves on both...
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Easily the best Smash Bros. ever made, with a fantastic new story campaign and a near infinite range of characters and options for multiplayer.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate takes characters we’ve played for decades and remasters them into a robust, fantastically enjoyable package
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Smash Bros. has often felt a bit like it was trying to do too much and while it has always been a fun series, the disparity between the fighting game and the party game didn’t always mesh well. Ultimate is the perfect fusion of the two styles. There are countless additions to it as a fighting game to keep the competitive players happy, but the new items and features make the party game the most exciting it could be. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate feels like one of the best written love letters to gaming that there has ever been, the...
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