There’s a deep well of combos and counterplay for those who want to dive into it all, and it feels like Nintendo is more actively aware and supportive of that side of Smash Bros. A fast, tiny character like Pichu feels wildly different from the hard-hitting Bowser, and learning the subtleties of playing both as and against them is vital. Ultimate, it feels like you’ve still got a fighting chance.Īnd while that accessibility is important, those looking for more technical nuance will find plenty of it in dodges, grabs, shield timings, and a veritable ballet of mid-air movement strategy – not to mention how all of this changes with the different abilities, attacks, and even weights of every character. While it’s still scary to be at high percentage, this system avoids that depressive feeling of “any little hit and I’m dead, so this is pointless” that traditional fighting games can sometimes cause when your health drops to a sliver. Instead of wearing an opponent’s life down, you are increasing their percentage – the higher it goes, the easier they are to smash away with a strong attack, and knocking them off the map entirely gets you a KO. a rare accessibility that keeps its high skill cap from feeling intimidating. The fact that fighters don’t have health bars gives Smash Bros. Unlike the Street Fighters, Mortal Kombats, and Tekkens of the world, here there aren’t complicated input-combos beyond pressing A or B along with a single direction, making it simple to learn what a character can do just by playing around instead of having to look up move lists and spend time in a practice mode. It’s also remarkably easy to jump in, choose your favorite character and just start fighting, since it doesn’t take much more than the control stick and two buttons to have access to most of a fighter’s moveset.
It’s a digital action figure toy box overflowing with the childhood memories of countless gamers, but with the beating heart of a competitive fighting game. More so than any previous game in the 19-year Smash Bros history, Ultimate is all about gathering as many iconic characters as possible from all over gaming – stretching far past its Nintendo-only origins – and letting you pit them against each other however you’d like.
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