Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

After the short reign of Super Mario Party, Super Smash Bros Ultimate has now become the de-facto game of choice to play at the office as well as the home. It encapsulates the timeless elements of the long running series and sprinkles a wealth of content unmatched by its contemporary rivals. Simply put, it’s couch gaming bliss.

This is a portable, high-speed party brawler with a massive roster and a host of game modes. Whether you’re into couch co-op or online play, this game comes in hot and heavy. Maybe you, like me, have skipped the last couple entries. Maybe you’re equally unsure about this one. Take it from me: you don’t want to sleep on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Nintendo has knocked it out of the park with this one.

There is no denying it - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to the name and more. With refined fighting mechanics and a plethora of singleplayer and multiplayer content, it's one big happy reunion for the smashing Nintendo universe. Everything has led up to this!

I’ve been playing for hours and still don’t have all the characters, and I still feel like there are menu options I haven’t even touched yet. But at the same time, I feel like I’m deeply satisfied, as what I have chosen to do has scratched gaming itches for me I didn’t even know a Super Smash Bros. game was capable of. This is a massive game in both scale and cultural weight, one that wears its far-reaching subtitles as badges of pride.

An absurd amount of content—seriously, there’s enough here for years; looks great; amazing soundtrack; fantastically well playing; the roster is a dream come true; an insane amount of modes, single and multiplayer. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate epitomizes Nintendo at their very best, and serves as the perfect entry point, and the perfect coda, to the series, and to video games, and all that they have achieved until now, in one neat package.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is equal parts greatness and lacking.  There’s plenty to sink your teeth into on the single player side of things and playing with friends locally has never been better. The core fighting experience is as great as its ever been in a game that only Nintendo could do.  Unfortunately, a lot of what’s surrounding it can make Super Smash Bros. Ultimate frustrating.  From the character unlock system(s) to the horrible online experience there are glaring holes in what could be a great game.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to its name, offering the most comprehensive game in the series to date. It has an absurd amount to play, fight, and unlock – though that can be to its detriment at times. While the World of Light adventure mode isn’t reason alone to get Smash Bros., it’s still a consistently amusing and shockingly large campaign, and a worthy compliment to Ultimate’s incredible multiplayer core.

I know Smash has become sort of the modern day Monopoly as the game you play to lose friends to and it has a serious culture around it as perhaps the greatest fighting game of a generation, but above all, it is supposed to be a living gaming museum and Nintendo toy box that can do anything your imagination desires as long as it wants to have fun. Ultimate does all of that and more, providing one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had and almost certainly setting the bar for Game of the Year 2019.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is definitely the Ultimate rendition of a beloved series. It's still the most accessible and interesting fighting game out there, and it's now better than ever. A little familiar in places, but this is the best Smash has ever been. Another essential Nintendo Switch game.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate takes characters we’ve played for decades and remasters them into a robust, fantastically enjoyable package

I've used phrases that evoke the monumental achievement that is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate a few times in this review and I can assure you it's not hyperbolic. Despite that a lot of the old content isn't as hard-hitting the second, third, fourth, or even fifth time around, the fact that it's all here, and in a manageable file size, is more than enough. After this (and Geno/Waluigi DLC) Sakurai can rest easy.

The online features drag the experience down a bit. If you’re someone hoping for a good online multiplayer experience with Ultimate, you’ll be disappointed. But if you’re looking for a fun fighting games to play with friends on a couch, nothing serves you better than Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Elements of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are messy, with the online being a major issue, but more often than not, the daunting experience wins out with engrossing combat and a wide variety of characters and modes. World of Light maybe overstays its welcome, but it’s an enjoyable ride through an array of matches. The oodles of extra modes are great alternative ways to mess with the characters and history.

All in all, Super Smash Bros Ultimate is a very versatile fighting game, with whole lotta modes and options, rich and diverse content and refined core mechanics. It still prioritizes pure and undiluted fun over the competitive values, but we loved it and played it just because of that.

Situational downers don't stop Super Smash Bros. Ultimate from shining as a flexible multiplayer game that can be as freewheeling or as firm as you want it to be. Its entertaining single-player content helps keep the game rich with interesting things to do, as well as bolstering its spirit of loving homage to the games that have graced Nintendo consoles. Ultimate's diverse content is compelling, its strong mechanics are refined, and the encompassing collection is simply superb.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate takes its name literally, as everything that fans have loved from the series is present and accounted for this time around. It’s the party brawler that lets friends go head-to-head with their favorite game characters, now on Nintendo’s impressive hybrid console. Spirits, featured in the World of Light story mode, introduce an exciting role-playing element for a new level of strategy and creativity. Thankfully, this and other new additions only add to the winning Smash Bros. formula, never taking away from what works.

Smash Bros.Ultimate does a great job bringing together all of the characters from previous titles. It also does well at representing a vast history of gaming. Spirits Mode did a great job of including characters in the game and giving a solid feel like a tribute to gaming history. The ability to adjust and customize a game to one’s liking certainly is a standout feature.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate beautifully tows the line of accessibility for casual players and depth for the hardcore fans. One thing I have always loved about Nintendo is its dedication to the art, and to creativity as a whole. Good or bad, I’m always excited to see what comes next from them. As Super Smash Bros. Ultimate grows and the new characters arrive, I’ll be back on the battlefield for another round.

It feels almost like a sandbox game at times, which is absolutely ridiculous when you remember that this is a fighting game. The level of freedom you have to smash how you want, in addition to the fact that the game itself has a ton of replayability for single-player fans, the party crowd, and the competitive scene means that this game is an instant classic already, and they're going to expand the game more through DLC.

The only things that mar the release of Smash Ultimate are the wholly inadequate network infrastructure Nintendo has provided for the game, which makes playing online an exercise in frustration, and the at times subpar AI. Fortunately, the fundamentals of the game are rock solid, so hopefully, Nintendo will rectify these issues in future patches.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate offers near-endless replayability, and thanks to the sheer amount of content, it’s easy to recommend to just about anyone with a Nintendo Switch. Really the only thing holding it back is its lackluster online functionality, but if Nintendo manages to iron out those issues, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate may very well be the best game in the series to date.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate speaks clearly and directly to each player who comes to it, regardless of whether they came to it for a competitive fighter, an easy good time, or pristine historical curation. “Generality,” said Russian character actor Konstantin Stanislavski, “is the enemy of all art.” In its specificity, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is video games’ champion and ally, a definitive statement for a series’ 20 year labor.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the biggest accomplishment in the series thus far. It leaves a lasting impact and is hard to put down for even a second when the smashing seems to beckon fighters back. Smashing opponents has never felt so fun, fluid and easy to pick up.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate is just as the name suggests, the Ultimate Smash experience. All the characters and stages have returned. A better balance across all 74 playable characters. Returning single player game modes as well as a whole new story mode that merges Super Smash with RPG elements. This is a game that you'll want to play with friends on the big screen, or on your own anywhere.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate feels like a mic drop for the series. It packs in almost every conceivable character and stage, plus a sizable single-player mode. Spirits don't quite land, but the battles feel better than ever. It feels like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be a Switch party staple for a long time to come.

As the culmination of a series that has been seen on nearly every Nintendo console for almost 20 years, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate successfully delivers a comprehensive Nintendo history lesson, one of the largest rosters ever built for a fighting game, a vast amount of content for players to dive into, and of course, the sheer delight of its endlessly playable multiplayer matches. Where the series goes from here is unknown, or if it will even continue given how exhaustively that Ultimate collects everything from Smash Bros.‘s past.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate isn’t dramatically reinventing the franchise, but that’s all right with me; it’s a refinement of what’s come before. Some of my favorite gaming moments have centered on Smash, and it’s great to have a solid new anchor for moments yet to come – even if it means getting knocked into oblivion by a snoozing Jigglypuff every once in a while.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate does well to live up to its name, at least where offline content is concerned. It's with the backward, early-2000's era online experience that I take issue. The inability to easily match up with friends, or even those with similar rule preferences, severely hinders an otherwise fantastic fighting game.

As it stands, I cannot give it a clean slate, but I can insist that absolutely everyone who owns a Switch should play this. Played offline, with a group of friends is more fun than it has ever been, with the biggest and most exciting roster ever, and a whole host of new and returning items to keep the action as chaotic and unpredictable as ever. If you only get one title for the festive season, it should be this.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a well-balanced and endlessly exciting addition to Nintendo's roster.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrived with a promise, embedded in its title. It's now safe to say Masahiro Sakurai and company have crafted the ultimate incarnation of the world's best platform brawler. As much an homage to the video game industry as it is a finely-tuned, polished, hugely replayable fighter, Ultimate is a terrific option for fighting fans, local multiplayer partiers, online braggarts, and students of gaming history.

So how does it all stack up? Vocal concerns about past games have been actively addressed, every single fighter from the series is present (even Pichu), the customisability is overwhelmingly vast and it’s all topped off with super-solid single-player modes to boot. We’re not sure how you could make a more robust or pleasing Smash game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate truly is the ultimate instalment in the series, and it makes you wonder where Sakurai can possibly take this franchise next.

There is more bang for the buck in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate than almost any other game - especially fighting games - since, well, probably the last Smash Bros. When you start lamenting a lack of new stages, hardly any extra music tracks from certain franchises, and a scarce amount of adventure cutscenes, you start to sound overly picky when there are nearly 900 songs, over 100 stages, and the solo quest is over 20 hours long.

Ultimate feels like one of the best written love letters to gaming that there has ever been, the care and attention given to each of the games represented is incredible. This is quite simply a must-play game, one that will keep you going for hundreds of hours with its single player alone, and with multiplayer that will keep you going for thousands.

Easily the best Smash Bros. ever made, with a fantastic new story campaign and a near infinite range of characters and options for multiplayer.

Ultimate lives up to its name - it's the definitive Smash experience. It also helps to solidify what was a fairly limited first-party line-up for Nintendo following the launch of heavy hitters Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild in 2017. It brings together more than 100 stages and all of the fighters as well as introducing an all-new RPG-like spirit system that helps expand customisation tenfold and provides a satisfying fix that we are sure completionists won't be able to get enough of.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a great party game that has a beating heart of a really complex fighter within it. It’s faster, prettier, and jam-packed with content. While the single-player World of Light mode disappointed, every other aspect of the game is showered with tender love and care. Not only is it the best Smash Bros. game of all time, but it makes me ponder on how Nintendo will top this in future iterations. I suspect that this is a game most Switch owners will be keeping on their micro SD card for years to come.

So yes, I believe this is quite easily the best Smash game of all time. It’s got it all, and the Switch only helps compliment what makes Smash Bros. so damn fun. It’s the perfect console for the fighter, and is one of the best value for money propositions I’ve ever had the pleasure of taking on. It’s been an arduous wait, but it’s been well worth it — Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is absolutely brilliant.

With Super Smash. Bros Ultimate, the development team set themselves the lofty goal of bringing together an incredible amount of the franchises back catalogue of characters, stages and other miscellanea. With this much fan service-focused content, there was always the danger that the game would get buried beneath it.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is ultimate in every sense of the word. World of Light is fantastic, Challenge Mode is satisfying and there's so much love and detail in absolutely everything in the game. Whilst having 60+ characters and 100+ stages sounds overwhelming, it's the perfect celebration of everything Nintendo and will be hard to top going forward.

It was probably the last time you bought Smash Bros. With deeper single-player content, an improved online offering and a massive roster of characters and stages, comprising all of those from the previous games and then some, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the complete package. I’m not sure how Nintendo could surpass this, and it probably doesn’t need to, as alongside Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is unrivalled on the local multiplayer stage.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate se siente como la experiencia definitiva de la saga gracias a su robusta oferta single player; su frenético multijugador y su sólido sistema de combate. Además, es un juego ideal para cualquier tipo de jugador, desde el más casual hasta para el más clavado en su escena competitiva.

SSB Ultimate ha cogido el impulso de casi 20 años de trabajo para aunar en un único título la mayor enciclopedia jugable de los videojuegos y de paso juntar estilos, a la par que se atesta todo de modos de juego, luchadores, referencias y configuraciones. Increíble para los novatos, y soñado para los expertos.

Si tienes una Switch, no puedes perdértelo, incluso aunque el género no sea tu fuerte. Es más que un simple juego de luchas.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimates es ese increíble juego multiplayer que todos esperaban y, además, un genial título para jugarse de manera individual gracias al apartado de sus espíritus. Sin importar si gustas de jugar en solitario o con la pandilla, éste es juego que simplemente no debes dejar pasar. Porque sí, hablamos de que éste es ya el mejor Smash que ha habido en la historia. Así de simple.

Obviamente, la mayoría de ellos son héroes y villanos de títulos de Nintendo, aunque también hay espacio para sagas tan míticas como Final Fantasy, Street Fighter, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Metal Gear o Castlevania. Es imposible que te guste este hobby y no te llame la atención un buen porcentaje de los personajes que aquí aparecen, ya que casi todos ellos han ayudado, de un modo u otro, a definir la industria desde sus mismos comienzos.

Quien me conoce sabe que tengo una cruzada personal contra el uso de la palabra «ultimate» en los títulos de videojuegos, quizá el medio en el que, siempre por un motivo distinto, menos definitivas son las cosas. En fin; en adelante, cuando piense en juegos a los que no les queda grande tan grave coletilla, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate estará siempre en el primer puesto.

No es injugable ni descartable si se quiere luchar en línea, pero la experiencia no cumple con lo esperado en un juego de este nivel y valores de producción. En todo caso, Ultimate es con todas las de la ley uno de los imprescindibles de Switch, que completa el póquer de ases de Nintendo junto Zelda, Mario y Mario Kart. Y que eleva al cielo las virtudes jugables y el contenido sin descanso marca de la casa.

Der größte Kritikpunkt ist aber die schlechte Online-Performance mit ihrem meist trägen, verzögerten Spielgefühl, Verbindungsabbrüchen und manchmal sogar mit Bildstottern. Insgesamt also ziemlich peinlich, wenn man bedenkt, dass Nintendo mittlerweile Geld für seinen Online-Dienst verlangt! Von der schwachen Netzanbindung abgesehen ist Super Smash Bros. Ultimate aber eine echte Spaßbombe mit gigantischem Umfang!

Que ce soit seul ou à plusieurs, pour les néophytes ou pour les vétérans, en détente ou en tournoi, ce nouveau Smash Bros est d'une efficacité redoutable, ce qui en fait d'office un incontournable de la Nintendo Switch

C'est peut-être étonnant d'encenser ce qui pouvait s'apparenter à un patch payant chez d'autres, mais Super Smash Bros. Ultimate est bien l'apothéose tant attendue. Un jeu d'une telle richesse et d'un tel degré de finition qu'on frise l'indécence. Une lettre d'amour adressée aux fans de Nintendo et plus globalement de jeux vidéo japonais vu son casting de gourmet quatre étoiles.

Avec ce nouveau jeu sur Switch, tout ce qui fait le succès de la série Smash Bros. depuis presque vingt ans est réuni et sublimé dans le meilleur des écrins, une console qui permet aussi bien d'en profiter en solo dans le train ou jusqu'à huit dans son salon.

On peut désormais vous le certifier : Super Smash Bros Ultimate mérite amplement son statut de GOTY que beaucoup avaient prédit avant même sa sortie. GOTY oui, mais de l'année 2014, date à laquelle le jeu originel est sorti sur Wii U. Car malgré les nombreuses tentatives de la part de Nintendo de donner l'illusion qu'il s'agit d'un nouvel épisode, le jeu ne peut masquer son héritage de la génération précédente.

Se nos aspectos nucleares da série, ou seja, cenários, opções, personagens, música, visuais e jogabilidade essa descrição provavelmente é verdadeira (o que significa que para muitos pouco mais importa), para outros a falta de alguns modos icónicos e a execução menos feliz de um modo aventura cheio de potencial e com aspectos brilhantes faz com que ainda não seja realmente o expoente máximo da série...o que não significa que não seja um jogo obrigatório para qualquer possuidor de uma Switch.

Finalmente, chegou à Switch. Um dos títulos mais acarinhados pelos fãs e pelo cenário competitivo chegou em excelente forma, em força e pronto para 'smash' alguns comandos. Vejam-no como um culminar de 20 anos de trabalho, aliando qualidade a quantidade, acessibilidade a desafio, diversão a competição. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate será, sem dúvida, lembrado durante anos.

Mancano gli Eventi ed alcune feature secondarie che erano presenti nelle precedenti iterazioni, ma a fronte di tutto il resto che Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ha da offrire non ci sembra una negatività così pesante. L’appuntamento con il multiplayer online è rimandato di qualche giorno, invece, perché sarà disponibile solo dal day one.

Ik vraag me echter hoe het spel op lange termijn wordt ervaren. Het balanceren van de vele personages zal niet makkelijk zijn, en er moet nog een hoop aan de online-modi verbeteren om de aanschaf van Nintendo Switch Online te rechtvaardigen. Laten we hopen dat Nintendo deze problemen ditmaal wél serieus neemt. Dit esports-paradepaardje verdient absoluut een kans.

Tuttavia, e non ci saranno mai conferme a riguardo, abbiamo la sensazione che il precedente capitolo Sakurai lo dovesse fare, mentre questo lo volesse creare. È una differenza minima ma essenziale. E supponiamo che la morte dell'amico Iwata, e la conseguente sopravvivenza di Kirby nell'Avventura, abbiano molto a che fare con questo rinnovato approccio alla serie.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate è un picchiaduro immenso e variegato. È il capitolo della saga che si prende maggiormente cura degli appassionati delle modalità a giocatore singolo, con un’avventura immensa (per gli standard del genere) che va ad affiancarsi a graditi ritorni. Il cast gigantesco dà l’opportunità a ogni giocatore di trovare un personaggio adatto alle proprie esigenze, e le diverse impostazioni permettono di differenziare molto l’esperienza di gioco.

И я уверен, что каждый раз, как я буду собирать у себя гостей, мы будем на протяжении еще долгих лет запускать SSBU. Для меня это, бесспорно, одна из главных мультиплеерных игр года. Но если у вас нет знакомых, заинтересованных в подобных играх, и вы планируете полагаться на одиночный режим и рандомов в онлайне, смело отнимайте от оценки балл.

Uzun zamandır beni bu kadar eğlendiren bir oyunla daha karşılaşmamıştım. Eğer Nintendo Switch'iniz varsa, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate kesinlikle edinmeniz gereken oyunlardan birisi. Arkadaşlarınızla veya ailenizle eğlencenin dibine vurabileceğiniz son yıllardaki en oyun kendisi. Neyse ben gidip Kirby ile ofistekileri dövmeye gidiyorum görüşürüz!

Het maakt helaas alleen maar duidelijker dat World of Light de balans mist om in één keer te volgen. Gelukkig kun je het spelen opbreken door onderweg steeds een paar gevechten te doen, want dan is het nog steeds een plezier om te spelen. Met Super Smash Bros Ultimate ben je honderden uren zoet waarbij je van begin tot eind zal genieten en waarvan je alleen maar kunt zeggen dat dit de ultieme Smash is.