I won\u2019t ponder everything that they showed off, but I am going to discuss some of the things that I found the most interesting and\/or hype-generating.<\/p>\n
Castlevania<\/strong> – So the Direct starts off by revealing that Simon Belmont is now a fighter. Okay, cool. That\u2019s literally all I needed. A++ presentation. Thank you and good night.<\/p>\n Then they go on to show off this sweet new Dracula\u2019s Castle stage, and<\/em> that Richter Belmont is also going to be a playable fighter, as an Echo of Simon. Okay! Super! Really, you had me at Simon. Then<\/em> they show off all the cool monsters that will appear in Dracula\u2019s Castle, and that Dracula himself will show up and do the traditional Dracula boss fight from all those Castlevania games that he\u2019s in. Guys really you have done a wonderful job.<\/strong><\/em> THEN<\/em> they show how there are going to be over 30 music tracks from the Castlevania series in the game. Also there\u2019s going to be a Death\u2019s Scythe items that instantly kills fighters with high enough damage, and Alucard is an assist trophy character.<\/p>\n I\u2019m dying now. Dying of happiness. Castlevania is one of my favourite video game franchises and it just invaded Super Smash Bros in a major<\/em> way. Thank you, Mr. Sakurai, for giving me this. Simon is going to be my new main. Sorry Ike, but there\u2019s a new beefcake in town.<\/p>\n But! The cherry on top here is that when they showed off all the monsters that can appear in Dracula\u2019s Castle, there was a shadow that was noted only as ?????.<\/p>\n You know what that is? It\u2019s friggin\u2019 Dracula-Kun! Yes, the main character of the Castlevania parody series Boku Dracula-Kun<\/strong> -also known as Kid Dracula or Baby Alucard- is in Super Smash Bros. I could never have even dreamed of something so wonderful happening. There are only two other things in the world that could make me this happy, and one has absolutely nothing to do with video games. So yes, I\u2019m pretty damn stoked on this new Smash game.<\/p>\n Shovel Knight<\/strong> – Shovel Knight is in Smash too! Oh, happy day! …but he\u2019s just an assist trophy? Oh\u2026 Well that\u2019s a little disappointing. But Shovel Knight is still in Smash! He\u2019s now officially reached the Legendary tier of video game characters. Did you know that Shovel Knight is my favourite anything of everything?<\/p>\n Chrom and Dark Samus<\/strong> – Two popular characters that I don\u2019t really have much of affinity for, being introduced as Echo fighters. Chrom seems to be a faster version of Ike, which is\u2026 I\u2019ve always been fond of Ike the way he is. He\u2019s so immensely powerful that I don\u2019t mind the lack of speed. And Dark Samus\u2026 whatever. She\u2019s cool, but I\u2019ve sadly grown out of Samus. She was my main in Smash 64 and Melee, but those days are behind us.<\/p>\n Stages<\/strong> – New Donk City Hall is the other new stage that they showed off in this Direct, and it looks pretty sweet. What really needs to be mention is that there are 103 stages in Smash Ultimate. One hundred and three<\/em>. That\u2026 that may be too many. I already had a tough time picking a stage from Melee\u2019s 29 options. Probably I\u2019ll just pick Dream Land from Smash 3DS all the time because that\u2019s the best stage ever. Oh! But there\u2019s a stage morph option now that makes the game flip between two stages, which is neat. I would love if it could just morph into anything at any time, but I can see how that might be unfeasible.<\/p>\n Final Smash Meter<\/strong> – This is a feature that needed to be there from the point where Final Smashes were first introduced (Brawl). Instead of breaking a Smash Ball, a meter builds during the fight, and when it fills, you get a Final Smash! It\u2019s less powerful than the Smash Ball version, but that\u2019s okay! This is how every other fighting game with equivalent super moves works, so it\u2019s weird that Smash Bros hadn\u2019t incorporated it until now.<\/p>\n I would like to take a little sidebar here to reiterate how brilliant the Fake Smash Ball is. I love it.<\/p>\n Monster Hunter<\/strong> – Smash 4 had a couple Monster Hunter costumes for the Mii Fighters as DLC, but Smash Ultimate is ramping it up a bit with\u2026 Rathalos? Just Rathalos? Apparently he appears as a boss, and also an assist trophy, but they didn\u2019t really elaborate on anything else. The stage on which he is a boss is clearly based on the Ancestral Steppe map from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate<\/strong>, but they didn\u2019t call it out at all. And does that mean that there will be a Hunter as a playable fighter? Really, the Rathalos clip just left me with more questions than anything. Regardless, I am jazzed that Monster Hunter is now officially a part of Smash.<\/p>\n Other stuff<\/strong> – The menu seems to be\u2026 slightly<\/em> better than Smash Wii U\u2019s awful mess? It still looks like a big mess, but at least it\u2019s laid out a little better. I can still see myself getting lost trying to find anything that isn\u2019t the main Smash mode, so that\u2019s not great. I\u2019m curious about the mystery mode that they censored out for this video, but not so much that I feel the need to speculate. And: It looks like they fixed Classic Mode! It\u2019s just like it used to be in Smash 64 and Melee, but tailored to each character! It remains to be seen if it\u2019ll be fun again or not, but it\u2019s looking good so far! Hopefully that dreadful Master Fortress has been trashed.<\/p>\n King K. Rool<\/strong> – I\u2019m all for adding more villains to Smash (because you can only have heroes beat each other up for so long), but I personally don\u2019t give a single flip about K. Rool. Here\u2019s a third Donkey Kong series character that I\u2019ll never play as. Where the heck is Dixie already? K. Rool\u2019s reveal trailer was absolutely the best thing, however.<\/p>\n Lastly, for your viewing pleasure, an embedded video of the presentation I just typed over one thousand words about:<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/smashkun.jpg\")
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