Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is an absurdly content-rich fighting game experience with a massive roster of fighters and a slew of entertaining match types.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is without question one of the most content-rich video games ever produced. The roster is diverse and massive, there are a ton of items to shake up the action, and there are over 100 stages for players to duke it out on as some of the most iconic video game characters ever created. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate provides countless hours of enjoyment, but there is one area where it stumbles that keeps it from being the perfect Super Smash Bros. experience.
Over a week after its launch, and the online multiplayer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate still leaves a lot to be desired. The online was notoriously laggy on day one, to the point that it was basically unplayable in many cases. While things have improved rather significantly since then, lag is still prevalent enough to make Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s online hugely disappointing. The developers will hopefully iron out the kinks in the coming months, but even so, it’s a shame that Nintendo continues to struggle with online.
Online aside, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate otherwise lives up to its name as the “ultimate” Super Smash Bros. experience. As previously stated, the roster is massive, featuring every previous character from a Super Smash Bros. game, plus some new entries. Some characters that fans have been asking for since Melee have finally made their debut, like King K. Rool from Donkey Kong Country, as well as the menacing space pirate Ridley.
Newer characters are also represented on the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster, as is the case with Incineroar from Pokemon Sun and Moon, whose professional wrestling-style attacks help him feel like one of the more unique new additions to the roster. There’s truly a character for everybody in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and the vast majority of them are genuine joys to play.
