With Sora’s addition, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is done. So where does the franchise go from here?
With Sora’s addition to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Masahiro Sakurai, the creative force behind the game, can finally rest. The work is done, the game is finally finished, there’s no more content coming out for it. So, just as any properly adjusted, societally acceptable Smash fan would do, I have to ask one question: “Well, what about the next Smash game?” Except, looking at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I’m not sure how there can even be another Smash game. Not to get too literal with it, but the franchise’s latest entry might be, without exaggeration, the textbook definition of ultimate for Smash. It’s the one to top all others, the grand finale, the be-all and end-all. At this point, I’m not sure when or if Nintendo can put together a Smash game that matches Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ‘s scale. Simply put, iterating upon Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would be an enormous task. The game, with its 89 characters,116 stages, and over 1,000 songs, is simply massive, and for a proper sequel, every bit of that content would have to be included. Assuming that a new Smash game would release on Nintendo’s next console, Nintendo’s developers would have to rework textures and animations for every single playable character in the game.
