game is ok, yeah its pretty and sets out what it wants to do which is be a giant collection of game characters and references and a lot of that detail is really cool. but, from both a casual and competitive standpoint its like the series doesn't know which way it wants to go, the single player content is abysmally worse compared to previous game with the exception of smash wiiu.
trophies have been replaced with pngs with no descriptions and cool event battles are now the main singleplayer, part of the game.
classic mode having a theme for each character is nice even if I do kind of miss the randomness of old classic mode (that's not an actual fault imo just a nitpick) but they barely use any of the bosses they made for this game and end up reusing the master/crazy hand fights, not to sound like a youtuber, but things like that and them introducing the idea of echo fighters only for them to never make any minus a few feels like a missed opportunity.
and while there's a lot of good tracks in the game I feel its barely played I feel like I'm listening to the shitty wrecking crew or balloon fight music 90% of the time versus any cool track.
overall there's just too much shit on the screen and I hate the zoom ins it does all the time, its so cluttered and how pokeballs and assist trophies work now makes it worse.
in previous games they were there and you can see them but this game has a million explosions going on. I enjoy casual smash bros with items on but this game doesn't really care to make it actually fun characters go flying and it really doesn't convey why things happen until you are already dead.
and them trying to do these things in order to make it more competitive WOULD be fine if the competitive was any good, they changed most final smashes I feel to fit competitive only for the scene not to use them because no duh they wouldn't change the rules, so many characters are just outclassed by infinitely better ones, as opposed to all feeling like they have a unique role and playstyle like in good fighting games like Street fighter or guilty gear, or tekken, or blazeblue, or melty blood, or undernight, or ehrgeiz god bless the ring
If i want to play a good fighting game ill do that and if i want to play something kinda goofy for friends I also have my options but right now smash can't pick between either and it actively hinders the game
also 90% of the dlc characters had some meter or revenge shit and it was kinda annoying, even as someone who enjoys those characters
also also world of light trailers made it seem characters were actually going to interact like in subspace and they didn't and that also sucks.
also also also 8 player smash sucks and is the worst thing added to the series but that was wiius issue
trophies have been replaced with pngs with no descriptions and cool event battles are now the main singleplayer, part of the game.
classic mode having a theme for each character is nice even if I do kind of miss the randomness of old classic mode (that's not an actual fault imo just a nitpick) but they barely use any of the bosses they made for this game and end up reusing the master/crazy hand fights, not to sound like a youtuber, but things like that and them introducing the idea of echo fighters only for them to never make any minus a few feels like a missed opportunity.
and while there's a lot of good tracks in the game I feel its barely played I feel like I'm listening to the shitty wrecking crew or balloon fight music 90% of the time versus any cool track.
overall there's just too much shit on the screen and I hate the zoom ins it does all the time, its so cluttered and how pokeballs and assist trophies work now makes it worse.
in previous games they were there and you can see them but this game has a million explosions going on. I enjoy casual smash bros with items on but this game doesn't really care to make it actually fun characters go flying and it really doesn't convey why things happen until you are already dead.
and them trying to do these things in order to make it more competitive WOULD be fine if the competitive was any good, they changed most final smashes I feel to fit competitive only for the scene not to use them because no duh they wouldn't change the rules, so many characters are just outclassed by infinitely better ones, as opposed to all feeling like they have a unique role and playstyle like in good fighting games like Street fighter or guilty gear, or tekken, or blazeblue, or melty blood, or undernight, or ehrgeiz god bless the ring
If i want to play a good fighting game ill do that and if i want to play something kinda goofy for friends I also have my options but right now smash can't pick between either and it actively hinders the game
also 90% of the dlc characters had some meter or revenge shit and it was kinda annoying, even as someone who enjoys those characters
also also world of light trailers made it seem characters were actually going to interact like in subspace and they didn't and that also sucks.
also also also 8 player smash sucks and is the worst thing added to the series but that was wiius issue