The Next Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirit Event Puts The Pedal To The Metal

As many say every single time one of these events occur, what’s the point for those who have already completed the spirits. I haven’t picked up the game in weeks, and this would be insentive to do so.

Yawn. When's the info for Ver. 3.0 dropping?

To answer the article's question: Yes, I have all 1303 Spirits.

I still need over 200 but rarely find these last (not even) few on the spirits board. I will probably have to get them anothet way, like adventure mode, summoning, enhancing etc.

New Spirits would be awesome, like they did with the Mario Party event.

Well, if I hadn't already got this spoiler on Spirit Board itself, this event would have done the job now. Or this post's header would, for that matter. XD

Comes with playing a 2009 JRPG in 2019.

@nhSnork I feel you, I had just started Xeno when Smash came out. Yeah, it probably would have been great not to be spoiled but it’s safe to say that 10 years down the line, most people would have played it already.

How about an event where he spirit board doesn’t give you any repeats and it’s not an event but how it actually works. I’ve thrown dozens of reshuffles and it won’t stop giving me the same handful of spirits I already have , out over a thousand it can randomly choose from and it keeps giving me Boos and nightmare’s core.

@TheFanatic sometimes events can drop exclusive spirits, so it's worth keepin an eye out for any new ones

well... at least chibi-robo is getting some recognition.

Got them all.

Stopped caring.

Miss trophies.

What are these “exclusive” music tracks and mii costumes?

Fiora! <3

Gimmie Xenoblade Chronicles 1 on Switch too please!

@Heavyarms55 I wish monolith soft would port x1 and xcx to the switch

Love this game to death, but these spirit events don’t do it for me.

For the first time, I got the notification right in the middle of a playing session, minutes ahead of this article.

I doubt such a coincidence will ever happen again.

@nhSnork To be fair, the details of that spoiler may be a spoiler, but if you didn't get the gist of it from all the telegraphing they did in the first half hour of Xenoblade, you're doing it wrong. I mean it was obvious that it would happen one way or another. Fortunately they made you think that they were bad ad holding secrets and they spoiled the plot twist by making it obvious in the opening. Fortunately the real shock is that that plot twist isn't the only one by far, and the rest you never see coming.

@Zerocritic The idea of getting both is making my mouth water... YES PLEASE!

I believe they said they were interested, but didn't have the manpower.

@nessisonett at least it says something about the event in question when its emotional impact is delivered regardless. The lack of context still left me completely unsuspecting of the character's more immediate fate - and like I've said before, knowing the truth out of context also ironically cranked up the intrigue. My perception basically went from "huh, is this a thing in Xenoblade? Cool" to "wait, WHAT? Then how... so does it mean... damn, I can't wait to see the story inbetween these points" overnight.

@NEStalgia I'm not sure which part of the opening foreshadows this particular thing (even after rewatching it yesterday), and I'm even less sure what qualifies as "first half hour" when that fateful event in Colony 9 happened roughly 16 hours into the game for me. So I guess I'm doing something wrong indeed. XD But I'm increasingly stoked for what else the game has to offer.

@nhSnork LOL, well, everything about the beginning hinted not at the specific form shown here, but that generally "something" would definitely happen regarding that character. If nothing else the fact that so much effort was put into the character design, UI, gear, stats, etc, it seemed pretty obvious it wasn't done to just waste it. Plus FFVII can't really be redone. But where they succeeded was making you think that was the big surprise and it wasn't much of a surprise only to find out that wasn't one of the myriad of plot twists on the way.... There's plenty of surprises ahead for you!

@NEStalgia ah, you mean that. Well, I admit they still got me there (even the Smash spoiler we discuss didn't help me see this coming - although I admit I played through those events fully expecting it in regards to another character). Partly because it's not just FFVII (the egregiously memetic case where many people can learn of a Final Fantasy character's fate long before they learn what Final Fantasy is) - it's been FF2, FF4, FF5, other classics like Tales of Destiny... XBC's only flag in this regard may have been how early on it happens, but what do I know. Especially since, as you testify, this game is packed with plot twists, trope plays and expectations to subvert.

Like I said above, I'm hardly worse off for knowing this bit in advance at the end of the day (especially with all the sense of intrigue it instilled in me), and I look forward to what other aces the game still has up its sleeve.

@nhSnork haha, yeah, it's really a masterpiece of a game from a story telling perspective... Maybe it works best the first time through, but it's really unique in the number of times it upends the tea table in ways your just can't see coming.... (Yet you never noticed they already told you subtly... But you only see it in hindsight)