World of Light

[A Black Falcon]

All the games seem to continue that "land of imagination" theme the very first game explicitly set up.

They do? Other than the Master Hand final bosses and the various statues and stuff you can collect, what else are you thinking of here? I haven't played a lot of smash after Melee, after all... some here and there, but not a lot.

I'm a little wary of what this "world of light" subtext is intended to be. Are they saying the fans are too pure and trying to erase Nintendo by asking for change? Is it an anti-sjw screed? Or maybe it's some internal politics instead, Nintendo is making stories blander, and this is a fight against erasing the "character" they used to have (compare Chibi Robo Gamecube to modern Chibi Robos, the charm is lost when you take out the darker themes of a marriage under threat and a child trying to escape from it).

While watching that part, I was thinking about how strange the idea of an actual story in a Smash game is... like, the plot is "kid plays with toys", who needs this JRPG-esque voiced main theme and plot? It's kind of weird really. On the music part it kind of makes me think of the cheesy but amusing English Lunar 2 theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYeivB9FMYQ Now, it's good to have some kind of single player mode in a fighting game so if this mode is good I'll be happy to see it, to be clear. Good off-line single player modes are important things for fighting games to have. But I don't know if this was the way to introduce it -- I mean, what IS it? They show nothing of what this mode will actually be...

As for my favorite intro and song, Brawl's won for me, even though the gameplay has some major issues in retrospect. Both the song and the nature of the intro are just legendary. Smash 4's intro felt like a step down on both counts. Ultimate, that's going to be something Special. If the game's startup cinematic uses the instrumental theme and isn't a collection of in-game captures but a fully rendered intro, it should be good. The cinematic they did give us, that's for the story mode, so I doubt we've seen the "startup" scene yet.

True, we probably haven't seen the actual game intro yet.

An 8-bit version? That's very cool stuff, sounds great.