World of Light

[A Black Falcon]

So I've been playing Smash Ultimate... and yeah, it's great! This is definitely the best Smash game since Melee. The graphics, gameplay, and controls are all very good. The main issue I have so far is with the unlocking system; starting with so few characters and having to unlock the others may keep you playing, but it's kind of annoying, and the way you unlock them is clumsy. I mean, it's all just totally random! You can't do a specific thing to unlock a specific character, as it probably should work; instead you just randomly get characters as you play the game until finally you eventually get them all, though I'm far from that point so far. You've just got to hope that you randomly get the ones you want to play as sooner. I have gotten some characters I like playing as, but still, this should have been better thought through.

It's an even bigger contrast when you compare characters to stages. You start with eight characters unlocked, and like seventy stages! If there are too few characters at the start, there are maybe too many stages... well, maybe not too many, but it's odd how you get almost all the stages minute one but almost no characters. I'd think the two things would go together more.

But other than that, yeah, it's great. Smash Ultimate still isn't quite as fast-playing as Melee, but it is the best feeling the series has been since then and is definitely a bit faster and more fun to play than Brawl or Smash 4.