All right, I've played Skill Summit, and I must say that it's a very cool side mode, and in a few ways a better version of the Clinic Events from previously.
For those of you who don't know what Skill Summit is about, it's basically similar to the regular stage mode where players need to complete the objective(s) before they run out of capsules. There is one huge difference that makes it exciting:
a specific doctor will lend their skill after you introduce enough capsules to the stage. Some doctors don't need a lot, such as Luigi (3), but some require a lot, such as Bowser (7). This is kind of reflected by their skill requirement since Luigi takes less to charge but Bowser has a larger skill gauge. It should be noted that you must use their skill before you can bring another capsule. so you can't always strategically delay its use (you can still use your skill).
The doctor that you can select has a restriction:
you can't use the same doctor as the featured doctor, which means that you can't use Bowser if Bowser's the mentor, which is appropriate. Oh, and it should be pointed out the
variants count as the same character. That means you can't use Baby Peach even though the mentor is Peach.
Stages are separated by difficulty: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Special. Each difficulty has seven stages, each called "summits". Beating the stage will reward the player with "kudos", which are basically medals and act like the stars in the regular stages. Reaching certain benchmarks will reward the player with some goodies, but most important: getting all 84 kudos-es (4 difficulties * 7 stages * 3 kudos) will reward a doctor, which is a very good reward because doctors are not easy to come by.
And if you beat all stages in a difficulty, you can get power-ups for 24 hours and a reward, being Staff Tickets for the first 3 difficulties and 100 Doc tokens for the most difficult one. These power-ups make the stages easier, and is especially helpful in the Special stages since they are all difficult. It only goes up to World 15 currently, which is fine in my opinion, because World 15 is pretty difficult. Since I have already reached World 18, I won't be making much use of it.
It's an exciting new mode, and it's little wonder the Twitter mentioned to check it out ourselves (due to Twitter's 280 character limit): it has a lot going for it.
Sunken Ghost Ship themed. Nice!
BTW, what are the music tracks in the Summit modes? I heard that these are from Dr. Mario 64.
The one after that is Halloween-themed, so I am guessing the doctor would be a ghost to fit with it.
Skill Summit stage select: Cough/Cube
Skill Summit stage: Sneeze/QueQue
I like that Sneeze is the theme for the stages because that is in my opinion the better of the two.
Thank you for reading.
