Really really nice! Definitely leans towards being mainly a fun journey than it is a satisfying destination but even then I still left feeling good about the game as a whole. The characters and settings that make up the vignettes you find yourself in are really colorful in their own rights respectively and carried the game nicely to the end. Plus, as vague as it sounds, the ways you're able to actually get to the next part during the journey make for fun mix-ups that keep playthroughs fresh. I just do wish though that the themes that the game presents were a bit more fleshed out and discussed further but ah well. For a game made by a small dev team practically the size of a classroom, this was genuinely really impressive to me. Overall a good time, very refreshing.

I totally get why people hated this one from a competitive POV but it really didn't bother me much as a kid, or even now really. I really loved the whole aesthetic of the game being obsessed with how HD they are now, good ol' late 2000's, and the amount of newcomers blew my mind as a kid. Getting to unlock them via Subspace Emissary, which also went crazy, and seeing the characters I loved interacting with one another was awesome. Also, the OST was just really neat. Brawl was very special for its time and even though Ultimate surpasses it in terms of cast and gameplay, it's still fantastic.