alas, this game was my breaking point for this series. Like brawl, I got REALLY swept up in the hype cycle, and I was so excited to play this when it was announced. I followed every character announcement and direct all the way to launch, where I proceeded to play the everloving shit out of it. I also wanted to be more competitive so I started like really grinding this game both online and offline, and really all I was doing was just burning myself out at an insane rate. This game series slowly stopped becoming the special highlight of get togethers and started becoming exhausting. I can't look back at this game in a positive light like I can for all the previous smash games before it because of that. Plus, smash games before this were unique enough from one another that there's enough reason to keep all the previous games around, whereas for this game, now that ultimates out, who the hell is still trying to play this? The game is solid, but like I'm still burnt out on this series and I have this game (and myself) to blame.