What do we all think about Smash Ultimate?

Melee player perspective.

Movement feels better than smash4 by a fair amount. Dashing around is a lot better since you can do more things out of it. Arials have less landing lag so you can attack more frequently.

The biggest improvement are the changes to recovery and airdodges. Most recoveries have been nerfed and because air dodge has a lot of lag it's way easier to close out kills.

It's not nearly as fun as melee, but it's okay from a casual standpoint and I have fun dunking on my friends.

My boyfriend is obsessed with it. This is the same person who gave up on the last smash game after spending less than an hour with it.

I think my personal favorite thing about the game is that it seems less interested in keeping some of the fighters hidden away than any of the other games. They even go so far as to give you a second chance to fight them if you fail the first time by simply making it a menu option. Overall, it tries to make things easier without infantilizing the player (something I have noticed happens often in some Nintendo games the past few years).

They seem to have also tweaked the game to make it much easier to move around fluidly. It's easier to make the characters do exactly what I want than it has been in the past.

Honestly, there isn't much I don't like about it. The only major thing is that some of the fights in the adventure mode are extremely difficult to the point of being unfair. Some assist trophies are simply overpowered, and those tough fights almost always feature them. Some fight rules are unabashedly unfair, with some punishing you and not your opponent.

I admire the love the dev have for the spirit's original games.

This is a game made by gamer with a lot of esteemed guest, not just a some cross IP promotions. So of course the Street Fighter stage in spirits mode are stamina bases with reduced jump, of course Otacon is a dark Dr Mario with a metal ROB sidekick and of course the classic mode with Simon have him fight a lot of monster type fighters. They know their stuff and it shows.

I like the metagame of guessing why this spirit have this particular character or this particular stage. It's like pretending to play Star Wars when you only have the generic space Lego sets, I find it super charming.

I'm a huge fan. I sped through the World of Light first, and adored it. Now that I'm focusing on the multiplayer (the main thing i care about, of course!), I'm really satisfied with its improvements over Smash 4, which I felt was a little too much of getting one hit, things going back to neutral, getting one hit, etc. which made the few characters who could really combo and break that mold too strong.

I think I'm already pretty close to playing this more than I ever did 4, and I'd like to play competitively if we can get something together in my college's town.

World of Light was disappointing, I preferred the SSBB story, it actually felt like a game, but the progression through the fights is nice.

I like the tweaks, the three Links play different enough for me to want to play them, Sheik still kicks ass, and the story only proves that Kirby is truly the greatest being in the universe.

I'm enjoying it so far, but some of the world of light fights just aren't fair. Particularly anything with a respawning assist trophy.

As someone who put more time into respectively SSBM, SSB64, and SSBB, I’m liking it, but not in love with it like I was with melee. The World of Light campaign feels like it’s on the cusp of being something really great. It reminds me a lot of Soul Calibur 2’s single player campaign. What would really set it apart, I think, is if there were some more mini-game like variation thrown in. Like, maybe if there were some 'Target' stages, or other special stages thrown in. Maybe I have to stick to classic mode to get that sort of thing. It’s also disappointing that the final 'black hole' stage in Classic isn’t character-specific. Basically, it feels like so much effort was spent on filling out the enormous roster and all the battles for World of Light (which I’m not close to unlocking/finishing yet, so maybe I’m premature in my overall judgment) that they didn’t have time to flesh out all the stuff that previous Smash titles were able to tailor to each specific character. I like the spirits and the creative ways they pay homage to so many games, but I also feel like the replay value is entirely funneled into the online multiplayer. Whereas, in previous titles, there has been stuff like the Target stages, or even trying to break your character-specific records in the Sand Bag mode, that you could practice on for a long time. All-in-all, I think too much effort spent on navel-gazing fan-service, and not enough on different game modes. I would have appreciated half as many characters with more interesting per-character variation in the game modes.