Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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  1. belsel
    Dec 23, 2018
    7
    Lets say important things. The game is good, but it isnt as good as people said. This is my first smash bros, so I havent problem because all the content of the game is new for me. The game has a lot, a lot of everything. The most flaws of the game are:

    -Become repetitive, for me, after 30h. Combat isnt as fun as I thought and it is more about timing your attacks rather than complex or    Lets say important things. The game is good, but it isnt as good as people said. This is my first smash bros, so I havent problem because all the content of the game is new for me. The game has a lot, a lot of everything. The most flaws of the game are:

    -Become repetitive, for me, after 30h. Combat isnt as fun as I thought and it is more about timing your attacks rather than complex or hard combinations of attacks.
    -Offline adventure. Grinding, repetitive, boring, the intro video is a HUGE clickbait. There are 1300 spirits, fighthing them is boring after a while, tho spirits are very cool; but you dont unlock descriptions or anything more than register of the spirit. A problem is that the game track the spirits you HAVE at the moment, not the ones you HAVE REGISTERED...this is a big problem, because if you free some spirits to summon or to get some points, then you lose the tracking of those spirits because as well as you dont have them, the game dont mark them so...you dont know what spirits you had or not and you will lose many time repeating fights that you dont need.
    -Online broken. This is the main problem. The healthy in long term of the game is the online, and it doesnt work properly. If you give me this feature working so bad, it is like 50% of the game for me.

    The good things of the game are obvious, what is not obvious is that a lot of many things is not a good as you can think if some mechanics arent perfectly developed and if some core mechanics (like the online) doesnt work properly to many users.

    I enjoyed 30h and sell it back for 50$. If you are new like me, I enjoyed to meet the saga finally, but it may be overvalued. I put it a real 7/10 which is a good mark in any academic work, but I think it is a bad mark seeing the "critic reviews".    … Expand
  2. Rampant
    Dec 13, 2018
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game looks good, the controls are great and there is plenty to do offline.

    Now for the bad:

    I bought the game for the multi-player like most users. Unfortunately, the switch has no concept of a party of friends. So users cannot queue up for a quick match with friends, and users cannot talk to friends through any means provided by Nintendo.

    SSBU comes with the ability to provide online preferences for matches, but this is just a priority check. It does not actually restrict these preferences. That's similar to playing an FPS, joining a queue to play only death match but being put in a capture the flag match.

    Since Nintendo is charging us money to access online play, I expect dedicated servers. There are too many cons related peer hosted matches. Additionally, if a game is unreasonably laggy, users have no way to leave the game other than closing SSBU.

    There is no concept of "elo" in Quick matches...so expert level players will be queued against newbs.

    From a product development perspective there were plenty of lower priority features that were implemented instead. E.g a really long credits scene after every "Classic" mode completed. Or a random appearance of a new character in the form of a challenge.

    The last game I can remember to have this much first week online missteps was Rainbow Six Siege. A few weeks after the release of RSS the game was 50% off. It was near death sentence for that game, and it barely recovered. This is not much better but because it is a Nintendo flagship game it will survive.

    In conclusion, the online play is sub-par for one of the OGs in gaming. I do not think this game should have been released with the current online features/issues.    … Expand
  3. neighborsbear
    Dec 9, 2018
    7
    기존작의서의 편의성을 더 높여 보다 완성도를 높이고 팬들이 원하던 목표를 이런 시간내에 완성 시켰다는 것은 확실히 칭찬해야 마땅한 부분이다. 하지만 게임 시스템적 완성도가 높을지라도 그 외적인 부분에서의 기존의 강점을 많이 잃었다. 사소한 부분 모드 커스텀 ui 레벨등등 기존작에서 크게 후퇴했고 빠른 출시를 위해 대부분의 것들을 버린 느낌이 너무 강했다. 이를 증명하듯이 멀티 대전이 게임이 출시되자마자 바로 업데이트를 실시한 것처럼 게임 당일날 까지도 게임의 완성도에 대한 확신이 없었던 것이다. 그리고 기존 모든 캐릭터의 참전을 말하지만 그 기존에 유저들이 하던 플레이가 대부분 수정되었다는 점에서 이미 캐릭터들이 다른 캐릭터로 나왔다고 밖에 말할 수 없다. 무엇보다 에코시스템 자체가 많이기존작의서의 편의성을 더 높여 보다 완성도를 높이고 팬들이 원하던 목표를 이런 시간내에 완성 시켰다는 것은 확실히 칭찬해야 마땅한 부분이다. 하지만 게임 시스템적 완성도가 높을지라도 그 외적인 부분에서의 기존의 강점을 많이 잃었다. 사소한 부분 모드 커스텀 ui 레벨등등 기존작에서 크게 후퇴했고 빠른 출시를 위해 대부분의 것들을 버린 느낌이 너무 강했다. 이를 증명하듯이 멀티 대전이 게임이 출시되자마자 바로 업데이트를 실시한 것처럼 게임 당일날 까지도 게임의 완성도에 대한 확신이 없었던 것이다. 그리고 기존 모든 캐릭터의 참전을 말하지만 그 기존에 유저들이 하던 플레이가 대부분 수정되었다는 점에서 이미 캐릭터들이 다른 캐릭터로 나왔다고 밖에 말할 수 없다. 무엇보다 에코시스템 자체가 많이 모순되어 있고 캐릭터를 보다 풍성하게 보여주고 싶었다면 기존 기술을 보다 많이 바꿔서 에코시스템으로 통일 시켰어야할 것이다. 완성에 가까워졌지만 결국 완성하지 못한 모습으로 나타났다는 점이 매우 아쉽다 그리고 등불의 빛 경우에는 싱글플레이어에 대한 생각에 매우 없다고 느낄 수 밖에 없었다. 어려운 것을 떠나서 그냥 플레이 자체가 더러운 것을 강요하는 것이 매우 불친절하고 이는 신규 유저의 유입을 배려했다고는 절대 생각할 수 없었다.… Expand
  4. bonkboy
    Dec 10, 2018
    7
    Fun most of the time, but just like wii u smash the online is absolute garbage like wtf how did they make it worse than wii u. i constantly get FFA and lag is a given in a lot of matches. if they let people choose exactly watch match they are getting themselves into when using quick play and delt with the lag issues (not on my end many other players are getting lagged out of existence andFun most of the time, but just like wii u smash the online is absolute garbage like wtf how did they make it worse than wii u. i constantly get FFA and lag is a given in a lot of matches. if they let people choose exactly watch match they are getting themselves into when using quick play and delt with the lag issues (not on my end many other players are getting lagged out of existence and i'm fine on every other game) than this game would be the perfect smash IMO.… Expand
  5. True_Gamers
    Dec 10, 2018
    7
    Desfortunadamente no puedo recomendar este juego. Existen problemas de control que sorprendentemente se obvian en la mayoria de reseñas. El personaje golpea en dirección opuesta a la marcada por el mando, esto sucede muchísimas veces no es algo ocasional (jugado con mando Pro). El ataque especial Smash no puede ser programado fuera del análogo R. Bajar de una plataforma en plena batallaDesfortunadamente no puedo recomendar este juego. Existen problemas de control que sorprendentemente se obvian en la mayoria de reseñas. El personaje golpea en dirección opuesta a la marcada por el mando, esto sucede muchísimas veces no es algo ocasional (jugado con mando Pro). El ataque especial Smash no puede ser programado fuera del análogo R. Bajar de una plataforma en plena batalla resulta confuso y da lugar a movimientos no deseados. Por último el proceso de desbloquear personajes (que supuestamente ya has pagado en el precio) es lentísimo, estos personajes No aparecen en modalidades del juego como online. Una lástima por el empeño y promesas por parte de Nintendo. Un Mario Party camuflado como juego de lucha.… Expand
  6. pootaro
    Dec 14, 2018
    7
    i did not got this game yet but it's superb to me, since many youtuber, twitch streamers and others was hype for this even me but when i get this game i think it going to be great. so without further ado im voting 7/10
  7. hugoboss69x
    Dec 15, 2018
    7
    Esta bastante bien, pero mas bien para jugarlo con amigos, los demas modos de juego estan para pasar el rato mas bien, para aprender los controles y eso, un poco aburrida la historia, lo que llevo por el momento no ha sido nada del otro mundo.
  8. Chiddy
    Jan 2, 2019
    7
    The best part of this game is classic mode. Online is okay if it manages to connect properly. It was fun unlocking all the fighters, although World of Light was a let down. Solid 7.5
  9. Daniel_N
    Feb 8, 2021
    7
    I think Super Smash Bros. is one of those games you could play with your friends after school, or something like that. I do enjoy some of its content, however, some aspects of it feel repetitive. I would like to get back into the game when possible, but, for now, I’ll keep it a 7.
  10. Schwambosii
    Jan 9, 2019
    7
    Perhaps the most anticipated game for the Switch, Super Smash Bros Ultimate is so bittersweet. The game play has seen some modest tweaks to improve on a near flawless mechanic. The character and stage selection is equally impressive. This is undoubtedly the best entry to date for a series that has been nothing short of amazing. Unfortunately, the game's online features leave so much toPerhaps the most anticipated game for the Switch, Super Smash Bros Ultimate is so bittersweet. The game play has seen some modest tweaks to improve on a near flawless mechanic. The character and stage selection is equally impressive. This is undoubtedly the best entry to date for a series that has been nothing short of amazing. Unfortunately, the game's online features leave so much to be desired and would be deemed unacceptable for any other developer. Save for some minor improvements from an early patch, the game suffers from frequent lag due to P2P connection. Having Nintendo Online friends is pointless, more or less. There is no option to view online friends or invite them to play. There are only two matchmaking options: quickplay (where you are randomly paired with opponents and pray that the match adheres to your preferred rules) or battle arenas (where you either join premade arenas of rotating players or create one yourself and pray for people to join). The worst part of it all is that this game could easily be a 10. This is an amazing multiplayer game that doesn't want you to play with friends. Sakurai and Nintendo have been criticized in the past for their lack of support for the competitive Smash community, saying that the game should be enjoyed by everyone. The irony is that they've made it near impossible for players to enjoy the game with their friends that aren't sitting on the couch next to them. Oh, and I nearly forgot, they dare to charge you for their joke of an online system.… Expand
  11. Esspresso
    Jan 10, 2019
    7
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the sixth game of the series and I somewhat still prefer the 64 and Wii U game. Time to put everything I really don't like about Ultimate :

    - Biggest input lag of the series - The buffer system (this is an horrible concept in a fast paced platform fighting game)) - Too many Out Of Shield options. Shielding is nearly unpunishable since a simple jump/grab    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the sixth game of the series and I somewhat still prefer the 64 and Wii U game. Time to put everything I really don't like about Ultimate :

    - Biggest input lag of the series
    - The buffer system (this is an horrible concept in a fast paced platform fighting game))
    - Too many Out Of Shield options. Shielding is nearly unpunishable since a simple jump/grab can cancel all the animation from deactivating it.
    - Shields are taking ages to be broken. 2 smash attacks with Captain Falcon and a shield is still active ?
    - Too many "stun states" (being buried for example, too many characters have the possibility to stop you)
    - Super armor. I hate that thing. Half of K. Rool's moveset got it, the down special of Ryu/Ken too. Really fun to play against.
    - The online is a joke, having preferred rules won't matter since they'll be chosen once in a blue moon.
    - You die at so low percents, even without rage on, it's horrible. Pick K. Rooland do the following : Grab > Down Throw > Down smash at the edge and get your free kill

    . Everything listed here is, in my opinion really annoying. Ultimate isn't the "oh so melee hd", it is slow, makes you more slow if you are aggressive and encourages to play so campy it is just annoying.
    Ultimate is fun if you're trying to party with friends (that don't know that some oves can instakill), that's it.    … Expand
  12. Metacriticmaste
    Jan 23, 2019
    7
    This game is a very flip-flop game for me. On one end, I love playing with my friends and unlocking new characters. I always remember when my friend and I yelled excitedly when a new challenger approached in that classic black-and-red screen. However, the fact that you start from only 8 characters and have to unlock everyone else puts me in the middle from this game, as that requirement ofThis game is a very flip-flop game for me. On one end, I love playing with my friends and unlocking new characters. I always remember when my friend and I yelled excitedly when a new challenger approached in that classic black-and-red screen. However, the fact that you start from only 8 characters and have to unlock everyone else puts me in the middle from this game, as that requirement of time is kind of disconcerting for me. However, on the gameplay side, this game is the best. Its graphics are amazing, it's controls and gameplay feel so smooth, and the only complaint I have in this group is that I play on a pro controller, and for some reason whenever I aim up on the left stick to do an up air, my character just jumps (although that may be because I have weird controls, idk). All in all, this game is fantastic, but some factors put me in the middle for this in the end.… Expand
  13. MythicGero98
    Jan 27, 2019
    7
    Super Smash Bros ultimate is a Okay game. The "story mode" is big enough to invest many hours into however the story mode (World of light) is no successor to Subspace emissary from Brawl as far as cutscenes/story theres up to about 14mins of cutscene and no ingame story to be found, the content within WOL can be enjoyable in places but it becomes horrible repetitive after the first hour orSuper Smash Bros ultimate is a Okay game. The "story mode" is big enough to invest many hours into however the story mode (World of light) is no successor to Subspace emissary from Brawl as far as cutscenes/story theres up to about 14mins of cutscene and no ingame story to be found, the content within WOL can be enjoyable in places but it becomes horrible repetitive after the first hour or two in which it becomes a terrible long grind to get to the end. Super Smash Bros ultimate unlike other games in the series has collectables called "spirits" which tie into the story and to replace the other smash games collectables the "trophies", the spirits are one of the few things added to the series which i can praise as they find way more use then the trophies in the other series games as they have uses in both single player and mulitplayer game modes. In terms of the amount of content in Super Smash Bros Ultimate there is certainly alot however there is just not alot of variety in this game unlike the other games in the series as they have removed quite alot of game types that have been in the series for awhile for example "Home Run contest" and "break the targets" are absent with this being the case there is just no variety in this game as there are a handful of single player modes and online mutiplayer. Super Smash bros ultimate is the 3rd game to have a online multiplayer and overall its made some progress and alot of regression, firstly the connection seems to have improved since Super Smash Bros Wii U however this is only in the case of the games being just 2 player as the connection is noticeble poorer with 3 or more people present. For the first time in the Super Smash Bros series you have to pay for a Nintendo Online subscription to be able to play online with friends and people around the Globe, so does the online service provided worth paying for ?. Simply No it doesnt firstly because of the connection being at a poor quality which in the year 2019 and Nintendo being the provider it can definatly be a whole lot better, Secondaly the online does not keep its matchmaking to player who have the same set rules as you which again for a game in 2019 is some poor desicion making especially when they had a bases for dividing people who wanted to play casual and people who wanted to play competative in their last Smash game "super smash Bros Wii u". As a game overall Super Smash Bros ultimate is a Okay game its certainly no Master piece as it is now and i hope to see more improvements made with new patches and the character DLC… Expand
  14. ReviewerT
    Mar 15, 2019
    7
    I personally want to give this a negative score based on how bad my experiences with the game competitively have been, but I know that isn't fair so I'm going a bit higher. I'm going to get into the pros before I get into what drives me crazy about this game (By the way this is pretty biased, but so is basically every review so hate all you want. I don't care lol).

    The game is very well    I personally want to give this a negative score based on how bad my experiences with the game competitively have been, but I know that isn't fair so I'm going a bit higher. I'm going to get into the pros before I get into what drives me crazy about this game (By the way this is pretty biased, but so is basically every review so hate all you want. I don't care lol).

    The game is very well balanced, most definitely the most balanced smash game so far including Smash 4. The game will be receiving patches at a good rate so I can't see a Melee Fox or a Brawl Meta Knight tier character rising to the top unless a mistake happens, which would probably be fixed later on. Additionally, the roster is HUGE. Newcomers like King K. Rool, Inkling, Ridley, and Simon Belmont were definitely good calls by Nintendo. And the idea of "Everyone is Here!" means almost nobody's past main is left behind and I love it! The soundtrack is nice, the graphics are beautiful and are probably the best in the series, and finally, the amount of content presented within the game is nothing to scoff at.

    Ultimate is a good game objectively. But if I'm being honest, Ultimate has a ton of things that hold it back from being the best smash game in my book. For one, some of the mechanics and how the game flows either don't mix well together or simply aren't good. For example, the majority of moves are safe on shield and a good few are safe on parry, meaning you can get punished for trying to punish things out of shield that really shouldn't be safe (such as dash attacks or smashes on shield). Another example is the fact that you can no longer run through opponents. The addition of parrying over perfect shielding makes sense to me (even if it's worse when you think about projectiles) but there is literally no reason to add this in. It restricts your options and it was never even a problem to begin with, so all it does is mess people up who are transitioning from past smash games and limit options for those who have adapted to Ultimate. It's a really stupid addition that took away from the game for no foreseeable reason.

    Additionally, while some roster additions were good, others weren't really a joy. Like... Piranha Plant? A minor Mario enemy over a notable character such as Toad, Waluigi, or Birdo? Heck, if you want to add Piranha Plant just add Petey Piranha and it'd be the same thing with a lot less visible injustice done to the other Mario characters. And other additions such as Daisy and Richter as echos and not skins (even though they have almost no differences whatsoever), the addition of Incineroar over Decidueye (a Pokemon who actually had a following got trumped by one whose was very small before Ultimate/the leak), and more Fire Emblem fighters we didn't need (at least Pokemon and Mario are top-selling franchises) are debatable.

    Then there are other holes in the game such as the online mode. Nintendo knows that online is flagship game mode for many players; it was put on the main menu screen in Smash 4. But now you must have the online service to play it? It's not as integral to Smash as it is to other games, such as Splatoon, but many competitive players cannot make tournaments or there are no tournaments in their area. And even then, in a casual aspect, playing online with friends is a great experience. Online did not have to be paid for; that felt a bit shoed in. And the online mode itself. Global Smash Power is completely sporadic in what you lose/get rewarded for winning and it's a poor measurement of skill. I'll beat many opponents in a row only to get pounded by opponents way better than me for the next couple of games. Did I hit a skill ceiling for that time? Yeah. But I shouldn't be all the way up there if I suck that bad (lol).

    Finally, World of Light. It is not good. It's pretty overrated in my opinion. It's definitely not a "big Smash Tour 2.0" like some have been comparing it to, but if you want to be brutally honest about what it is, it's literally just a bunch of Special Smash matches with customs on. If you play Special Smash with customs on and give your opponent advantages, that is basically World of Light in a nutshell. I never really found it fun. Others have, and that's okay. But the fact is that it's pretty challenging for newer players (I'm fine with the difficulty but it is really hard on newer players), even on easy, and it's just nothing special like the Subspace Emissary.

    In short, the game has a lot of features that drag it down that really don't have to be there at all. I feel like some things they did with the mechanics, shielding, speed, and other additions do not help the game. World of Light and some of the newer characters were pretty disappointing either due to expectations or what was portrayed.

    There are other complaints, but overall, it's good. It just has a lot of minor issues and dumb things about it that bog it down and make it feel a lot worse than it really is. 7 or 7.5/10.    … Expand
  15. muramoto_chang
    Feb 18, 2019
    7
    This game really needed an extra couple of years of development. While fun, the flaws of this game are glaring to say the least. First off, the single-player modes can get very **** rage inducing. World of Light is honestly one of the most poorly designed single player modes I have ever seen. To begin with, it is a monotonous slog-fest 60 percent of the time when you can just ram throughThis game really needed an extra couple of years of development. While fun, the flaws of this game are glaring to say the least. First off, the single-player modes can get very **** rage inducing. World of Light is honestly one of the most poorly designed single player modes I have ever seen. To begin with, it is a monotonous slog-fest 60 percent of the time when you can just ram through battles in less than 10 seconds, and the other 40 percent it is the most **** design ever. Your skill in this game won't matter in these stages, if you need proof then watch some videos of Nairo playing. One of the top players in competitive Sm4sh regularly gets his ass handed to him and he resorts to cheering. Classic mode isn't much better, half of the time I'm wondering who in TF thought that it was a smart idea to have some characters have allies in classic and others to go 1v4. You are regularly hit with some next level dumbass battles and once again, you're gonna have to cheese. So if the singleplayer has that many flaws, then the multiplayer's gotta be great right? Nah, the online lags like we're playing in the middle of the Amazon Jungle and the matchmaking pits 70k GSP scrubs with ZeRo half the time. Despite the shortcomings, it's still a Smash game and it's fun with your friends. The large roster is great, each fighter has it's own strengths and weaknesses and learning them is fun as hell.… Expand
  16. Averomoe
    Feb 20, 2019
    7
    I gonna write what i dislike:
    - it lags online as hell. I have 250mbits downstream and uner 10ms ping and it lags. And for this garbage, nintendo wants 20 eur a month.
    - If you play the fast online VS, sometimes you cant leave the waiting room. Why that? What if i do not want to play 1 vs 1? nintendo forces you.

    If not noobs programed the online part of this game, i would give 9 of 10 points.
  17. Balrock1230
    Mar 12, 2019
    7
    It's a fighting game, with friends you will have a lot of fun, but the story mode was boring, just one fight after another. I couldn't finish it. It felt like one big grind for me.
    So after I unlocked all characters and did some fights with friends I was done.
    If you are looking for a fun party beat' em up and you don't care for a story then the game with all its modes and fighters and    It's a fighting game, with friends you will have a lot of fun, but the story mode was boring, just one fight after another. I couldn't finish it. It felt like one big grind for me.
    So after I unlocked all characters and did some fights with friends I was done.

    If you are looking for a fun party beat' em up and you don't care for a story then the game with all its modes and fighters and upgrades is a 10/10.    … Expand
  18. pinapelz
    May 15, 2019
    7
    EDIT: Input lag is terrible making the game feel very very different. Honestly kills a lot of the fun for me. Knocked the rating down to a 7.

    Now don't get me wrong this is a great game! Its mechanics amount of spirits and amount of fighters are massive and not to mention the great soundtracks. However, I gave this game an 8 and not a 10 because the story mode is repetitive and spirits    EDIT: Input lag is terrible making the game feel very very different. Honestly kills a lot of the fun for me. Knocked the rating down to a 7.

    Now don't get me wrong this is a great game! Its mechanics amount of spirits and amount of fighters are massive and not to mention the great soundtracks. However, I gave this game an 8 and not a 10 because the story mode is repetitive and spirits are only fun to get if you know the game they are from. The game, in general, is lacking an objective to achieve which overall makes me lose interest in it. However, that said these issues can be overlooked and you can still have a great time playing with friends and playing online!    … Expand
  19. Killme123
    Jun 6, 2019
    7
    This game pretty good tbh but OMFG YOU WILL RAGE.It has alot of pretty good character s but there REALLY broken character!
  20. JeffJeffy
    Oct 8, 2020
    7
    Ultimate could be an amazing game. It has so many characters, modes and beautiful soundtrack but the really failed the gameplay with this one. I've honestly never played anything so unbalanced like smash bros ultimate and i've been there when fortnite season x came out. You can have fun when you play local with some friends but it's impossible to have fun online.
  21. JuiceLeGoose
    Feb 18, 2020
    7
    Combat is very good but the story mode is abysmal. Takes a ridiculously long time and many of the matches are virtually unbeatable. I wish they would take the time to give us an enjoyable one player experience, but this was the worst installment of the franchise.
  22. GregLobstery
    Mar 27, 2020
    7
    The roster is amazing for the most part, but overall it's not the best smash bros game. world of light is extremely boring and everyone wishes it was subspace. while the roster is impressively large yes it is also impressively unbalanced. Every character is either unplayable or broken.
  23. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbb
    Mar 24, 2020
    7
    Great game; I love the smash bros series. Awesome character designs too, they want certain characters are portrayed and implemented into the game. Though I don't think it was intelligent to swap 4 player smash and 1 on 1 smash every 2 days online. There could be better game modes as the adventure mode wasn't very exciting. Brawl executed that well.
  24. Jimk4
    Apr 25, 2020
    7
    The game is actually extremely good, and even better as a party game ,everything is well built etc ,BUT( and it's an extremely big but) the online ,which let me remind you WE ATE PAYING FOR ,is absolutely trash and its a major drawback ,there is rarely any match that there is no lag ,but the funny thing is that I have a very good connection, but only because the other person has trashThe game is actually extremely good, and even better as a party game ,everything is well built etc ,BUT( and it's an extremely big but) the online ,which let me remind you WE ATE PAYING FOR ,is absolutely trash and its a major drawback ,there is rarely any match that there is no lag ,but the funny thing is that I have a very good connection, but only because the other person has trash connection I have to pay the price too ,like it is not my fault that my opponent is lagging I just want to play smash online without lag , either the servers mist be fixed (WHICH WE ARE PAYING FOR) ,or just take out the fact that just because my opponent is lagging I should lag too… Expand
  25. Daisuk
    May 26, 2020
    7
    This is a fantastic multiplayer game - but as a single player offline experience - there really isn't much to it. The "campaign" mode is incredibly weak, and not really something you'll be playing. As a multiplayer game, it's probably as good as it gets though - insanely creative battle arenas and characters - I can only dream of how good this game could've been with a much better campaign mode.
  26. snakeeb2
    Jun 20, 2020
    7
    Good content and gameplay
    But it has one of the worst online experience ever.
  27. torjo
    Jun 30, 2023
    7
    I have player the N64 Super Smash Bros and I it is basically the same game...
    Is it funny? It is. But more of the same.
  28. brunosoaress
    Nov 22, 2020
    7
    The game is super fun and runs smoothly. Also has a lot of content. All things considered it is a amazing game to play locally, if you decided to play online then things get complicated because you will suffer with a lot of lag and the whole experience might become really frustrating really fast
  29. Gontrand00
    Dec 7, 2020
    7
    It's kinda sad that people can be blind and stupid enough to give this game a 10, because if it wasn't called ''Super Smash Bros'' this would received a merely 7 overall by most people. So fanboys can be fanboys anyway.

    I grew up with Smash 64, then Melee and Brawl (skipped the one on Wii U). There was always a possibility to have fun and compete with several lvl 9 CPU without    It's kinda sad that people can be blind and stupid enough to give this game a 10, because if it wasn't called ''Super Smash Bros'' this would received a merely 7 overall by most people. So fanboys can be fanboys anyway.

    I grew up with Smash 64, then Melee and Brawl (skipped the one on Wii U).

    There was always a possibility to have fun and compete with several lvl 9 CPU without looking it unfair. But in Ultimate, it's exactly the opposite.

    Although I had fun in the Classic mode, the Adventure mode is pure trash (not talking about comparing with Subspace or anything). Outside the fact that there is no story, no cinematic or stuff like in Brawl, there is also no fun to just have constant battle against random CPU to save Spirits that most of the time won't give you any bonuses (so why the **** would you save them ?). And the **** loading screens all the time, even if they are 3 seconds ! Surely they could have found a way to make it faster because it just makes everything feels slow.

    I think also it's such a cheap way to add ''challenge'' in fights in Adventure mode to put stuff like ''floor is lava'', ''bombs everywhere that kills you because the 3 others CPUs are constantly throwing them at you'' or ''Sonic giving you 25HP hits in stamina mode where you deal only 4HP damages with smash attacks''. Like, what the **** happened with the devs ? Where in their mind did they actually thought this could be a fun challenge ? It is not. It's lame because it's not like we had an AI system that was not working in the previous game, so why changing it to make it frustratingly hard ?

    I played for 2h of the World of Garbage Light and decided to quit because I had enough. It is purely sad since I played hundreds of hours with the previous games, and here I think I'll just go with the classic and solo fights. I could do the Adventure mode in Melee 25 times without being bored, doing the Subspace many times either, but **** World of Light, seriously. But I am happy for you if you have fun with it, since I don't.

    The controls and hitboxes are honestly not that good, and someone in the reviews (IFeelScammed) pointed something really important : you seem to miss your opponent a lot when you fight, whereas they seem to always hit you perfectly, even on LVL5. That's what I call unfair challenge. I don't see the point of playing a fighting game where the only thing you have to do is purely to ''smash'' your controller until you beat your opponent. Even if it's an arcade-like game, it doesn't mean it has to be clunky and superficial. You also don't have a lot of flow-opportunity when you fight, since some fighters are clearly slow and not fluid in their attacks/combos possibilities.

    I am also not really found of playing with items and Ultimate seems to constantly play on that (World of Light).

    So this game can be quite fun for sure, but the adventure mode is a lazy way to add content to the game, I don't give a **** about spirits and assist stuff, they are there to just balance the fact that the challenges are unfair. That's cheap.

    I didn't talk about the online mode because I haven't (and won't) try it because I know Nintendo don't care about making a good online mode for any of their games (except, strangely, MK Wii lol).

    So there you go, **** the critics that gives Nintendo games 9-10/10 because they don't deserve it, they are lazy. What's the point of making a fighting game if you don't have fun fighting ?    … Expand
  30. Uniscion
    Dec 18, 2020
    7
    Ive been playing smash since 64, all the way up to now, and I was frankly quite good, by the time Wii U came around I had no one around who could compete, and while the online wasnt perfect, it was still responsive enough

    But this game? This game breaks my heart. I just want to play smash at a high level, but this horrid input delay and methods makes the game basically unplayable online.    Ive been playing smash since 64, all the way up to now, and I was frankly quite good, by the time Wii U came around I had no one around who could compete, and while the online wasnt perfect, it was still responsive enough

    But this game? This game breaks my heart. I just want to play smash at a high level, but this horrid input delay and methods makes the game basically unplayable online. No longer is it about quick response time, no longer is it about out maneuvering your opponent. There is only one true tactic to this online dumpsterfire of a game: predicting the future. Its the only way. You have to hard read EVERYTHING, and even if you do,, theres a 90% chance you'll get a missed input because of a lag spike that failed to register your command. Ive never played a smash game this frustrating,,if youre gonna make it be online, make it playable, or else youll end off with former fans who just want to stop playing entirely because it simply doesn't feel good to play. The amount of free hits my opponent got because the shield doesn't pop up when I press the button is absurd. Fix your game, learn from these mistakes, please.

    The game offline is alright. I'm not here for stories though, I'm here for precise gameplay, which I didn't get.get    … Expand
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#2 Best Switch Game of 2018
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#1 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2018
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#23 Most Shared Switch Game of 2018

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93

Universal acclaim - based on 99 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 99
  3. Negative: 0 out of 99
  1. CD-Action
    Mar 25, 2019
    95
    It’s not just a great fighting game and a perfect party title, uncommonly enjoyable and absurdly rich in content that should suffice for literally years of fun. It’s also an amazing homage to the history of video games. [02/2019, p.60]
  2. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 5, 2019
    95
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate escalates everything the series was known for, and delivers it flawlessly. Biggest fighter rooster ever, more dynamic gameplay, loads and loads of gameplay modes, stages, weapons, music, stuff! If there is a smash that deserves your cash, this is the one!
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  3. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Feb 26, 2019
    100
    This is the ultimate Smash Bros. How will they ever top it? [Issue #37 – January/February 2019, p. 65]
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