Hopefully Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was able to ensure that one amusing aspect of the series can remain an established tradition. The series has already done plenty to ensure that it is one of Nintendo's most famous names, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate being a landmark title for the company. The series has managed to evolve impressively over five installments. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has offered the most complete experience that the franchise has to offer to date in several ways. Hopefully, one feature that made it into the game can hang on as a recurring element.
Now that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is complete, fans can further appreciate the game's impressive scale. With a roster of 89 characters and over a hundred stages, it's arguably the most content-packed fighting game ever seen on a Nintendo console. In addition to the extensive roster, the game also features World of Light, the biggest single-player mode to grace the series yet, tasking players with fighting their way through a large map and recruiting new fighters along the way. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a love letter to the series as well as Nintendo itself, and its success speaks volumes for its quality.
The Next Super Smash Bros. Game Needs to End an Odd Ongoing Tradition
Super Smash Bros. Has built a huge player base dating back to its days on the N64, but it would do well to drop this one recurring in-game trend.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Should Establish the Stage Builder As a Core Feature
Stage Builder Adds Some Creativity to Super Smash Bros.
An underrated feature of the game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Stage Builder is an excellent tool for more creative fans. The Stage Builder allows players to add to the game's already impressive list of stages with some creations of their own. While players have a select number of tools to work with, they can be used to create some impressive new stages both aesthetically and in terms of gameplay. The ability to share them only gives players more incentive to go all out with their creations. Stage Builder doesn't get a lot of spotlight, but it's a great addition to Super Smash Bros.
Stage Builder Has Not Been a Consistent Series Feature
Stage Builder was not a completely new feature along the lines of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Spirits. Rather, it first appeared in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii, albeit with significantly fewer features. However, the Stage Builder was left out for Super Smash Bros. 4, and it seemed like it may have been a one-off feature before its triumphant return. Thankfully, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's dedication to bringing back almost everything from the series' past extended to the Stage Builder. Not only that, but much like many of the game's returning fighters, Stage Builder ended up coming back better than ever.
Stage Builder doesn't get a lot of spotlight, but it's a great addition to Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. Stage Builder Adds Replay Value
There are several good arguments in favor of Stage Builder returning in the next Super Smash Bros. Game. Adding replay value to Super Smash Bros. Is one compelling reason to make the feature permanent. In addition to mastering characters and completing higher difficulty levels, designing new levels and sharing them with friends is a great way to encourage players to spend more time with the game. This will be especially true if the next game adds even more tools to the Stage Builder. With that aim in mind, Stage Builder could be an important part of the next Super Smash Bros. Title's package.
Stage Builder hasn't been in two consecutive Super Smash Bros. Games yet, but it's deserves to be a regular feature. The next Super Smash Bros. Game could establish the Stage Builder as a vital part of the series going forward. After all, with Super Smash Bros. Being a party game, the ability to make custom stages only adds to the excitement that players can get out of the game. Since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate brought back the Stage Builder after a game of absence, hopefully it will remain in games to come.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Released
- December 7, 2018
WHERE TO PLAY
Gaming icons clash in the ultimate brawl you can play anytime, anywhere! Smash rivals off the stage as new characters Simon Belmont and King K. Rool join Inkling, Ridley, and every fighter in Super Smash Bros. History. Enjoy enhanced speed and combat at new stages based on the Castlevania series, Super Mario Odyssey, and more!
Having trouble choosing a stage? Then select the Stage Morph option to transform one stage into another while battling—a series first! Plus, new echo fighters Dark Samus, Richter Belmont, and Chrom join the battle. Whether you play locally or online, savor the faster combat, new attacks, and new defensive options, like a perfect shield. Jam out to 900 different music compositions and go 1-on-1 with a friend, hold a 4-player free-for-all, kick it up to 8-player battles and more!
- ESRB
- E for Everyone: Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief, Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Super Smash Bros.
- Platform(s)
- Switch
- Genre(s)
- Fighting
