Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

I just watched the Direct after isolating myself from the Internet all day.

That said, IMO it started weak for me as Incineroar, while cool, deconfirmed the Grinch leak which had a lot more characters including Geno. Several were shown later as assist trophies. But it picked up towards the end, seeing characters like Mouser, Wart, Tatanga, and especially Antasma, Geno and Shadow Queen as spirits, well... lifted mine. (I'd agree that spirits probably don't deconfirm a possible DLC character so Geno's still in the running). Though the idea of the Shadow Queen being something your goal is to rescue is hilariously amusing. The mode looks fucking AMAZING though. Piranha Plant... well it was unexpected. I'd have preferred Petey as the full character though tbh. If they can shrink Ridley they can shrink him. I don't think this one gave the effect the first DLC reveal should've though. Still hoping Geno is one of the DLC characters.

As for the leak, all I can say is this: you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
 
Lucario said:
And sadlt, her final smash is also like Peach's but with Daisies.
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Wait, just the screen filter textures, or are freakin' edible flowers spawned? XD
 
Lucario said:
Actually she floats like Peach

Treehouse footage confirms it. And sadlt, her final smash is also like Peach's but with Daisies.
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Oh really? Darn! :(
 
Now that I'm awake; Ken looks good, I didn't like Incineroar before and that hasn't changed, Piranha Plant is nuts and it took until seeing it's final smash before I even realised it wasn't a joke.

I do think this was just the 'we blew most of our load, here's what's left over' direct, sticker mode didn't really need so much time. 20 minutes had passed and I just had it on in the background at that point. I do like the gimmick battles for each sticker though and World of Light looks good.

I'm not bummed about the grinch leak being fake, but I would really like to see how that was created. The power play would be to never reveal how. I do question why piranha plant, were those curves too good to pass up or was he just easy to make in a short time frame. I wonder how that meeting went.

They probably should have swapped the reveals of this direct and the previous one for the most hype but it is what it is, they're all in the game irregardless of what order they were revealed in.

DLC will be interesting to see.
 
Kirby of the Stars said:
Someone tell me...has Nightmare been shown to return yet? I'm getting contradictory results from Smash Wiki.
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It was shown in the Assist Trophy blurb this Direct, so yes. Ironic Assist Trophies are still here, but not regular trophies....
 
Trophies are a lot of work for little gain.
Yeah that direct was something. I think part of it's our own fault cause we threw ourselves into a frenzy over the Grinch leak.
I don't really care about Ken but the Pokemon looks fun to play as.
The changes to onlinevare interesting I think it's better but I'm not sure.
The world of light already looks better then subspace emmisary.
And finally pirahna plant is great and I will take no opposition.
 
Piranha Plant is the fighter I never knew I wanted.

The World of Light is...insane. Although I'm not a fan of music with lyrics in video games.
 
I've been listening to the song on loop for the past 3 hours or so now.

Trophies are about satisfaction, knowledge, potential interest-gaining in other franchises, and just being able to look at characters and other elements from all angles, figuratively and literally.

Case in point, without the trophies in Brawl, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the Zelda and Pokemon games like I did. And I'd consider that to be quite the gain.