The Smash Brothers game I always wanted back when I had a Nintendo DS. I never had a WiiU (Thank god), so this is the only version of the game I ever owned.
It's good. Character roster is great, classic mode and smash run are fun, I miss the old all star mode and I love the idea of Master and Crazy Hand turning into these weird darkness monsters, they were pretty sick to fight, although hard.
Same thing as with Brawl. It's enyojable, but once I played Ultimate, it was impossible for me to come back to this one; it just feels too slow.
It's good. Character roster is great, classic mode and smash run are fun, I miss the old all star mode and I love the idea of Master and Crazy Hand turning into these weird darkness monsters, they were pretty sick to fight, although hard.
Same thing as with Brawl. It's enyojable, but once I played Ultimate, it was impossible for me to come back to this one; it just feels too slow.
The 3DS version of smash bros is fun, but it is the one I would rather play any of the other games in the series over this one. The combat is pretty simple and is more casual than Brawl or Ultimate. Also the fact that in the 3DS version you can't play with eight players kind of defeats the purpose of the upgrade to this version when the Wii U version has all the extra stuff. This game is literally the Wii U version minus a lot of game modes and add-ons which make it fun.
Gonna be honest, as far as single player stuff comes, 3DS is way better than Wii U. Smash Run clears every single one of its modes, its exclusive stages are overall better, you don't really miss out on anything. It's still the inferior version just by virtue of the platform it's on, and Wii U might be better if it just didn't exist, but... yeah it's aight.
You can definitely feel the passion to make this as playable as possible, but the lack of a proper second stick ruins this for me. I have a New 2DS XL for context, and did not want to get the circle pad pro for this. The only other thing I have to say is that Sakurai should have also emphasized on having every stage in Ultimate because Rainbow Road is better compared to every Mario Kart stage in that game.
I put the most hours into this version, and because I was a 13 year old child playing it, the small screen and buttons everyone complains about never bothered me. Playing it now as a man is a little rough but man this game was peak to me, and I still think I prefer it over the Wii U version. The stage selection is almost perfect in my opinion, and Smash Run is so fun that I'm still devastated Smash ultimate didn't bring it back. Loved and love this game, it got shit on way more than it deserved.