Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's New Spirits Have Been Revealed, Out This Week

Wow png images woopy... I miss trophy's they actually felt rewarding that, and i'd read the descriptions for ages.

Hoping we get the whole Ouroboros squad and some of the heroes but I’m not getting my hopes up.

Must fulfill …. collection…. like Tetris 99 … I am slave ….

Gonna stand up for what I believe in:

Oatchi for Smash

New music from the more recent Nintendo games as new content would have been neat, even if they weren't new remixes

@Croctopus agreed. Even if the don’t add any other content to the game they should at least add some new songs from the latest switch games

I still miss trophies, they had more effort put into them than all these png replacements.

I way prefer Spirits over trophies personally. Trophies outside of Melee are basically just recycled models and a quick blurb you can get from Googling someone. The Spirit battles make for way more fun tributes to the source material, actually have a gameplay impact, and can be really neat when you understand the references being made.

@RobTheIII I agree 100%, when ultimate came out I completed the game, got all the spirits and it didn't feel like much. The trophies were one of the best features. I loved reading the descriptions in melee for games that never released in the west. I think Sakurai had some excuse like it took up too much dev time.

Noah and Mio + Deep Cut LET’S GOOO

There were probably 10 more interesting characters than Raru that they could've picked from tears of the kingdom, but happy to see the representation regardless.

Only four spirits and it's only those games? Aw, no Talking Flower.

Still, it's better than getting nothing.

I hate when spirit events are like "The floor kills you, you're weak, you can barely move, the enemy is super powerful, the enemy is super fast, the enemy is your daddy".

Reminder that this is the first of four events. The Japanese Smash Bros. account more clearly makes note of this. Looks like most major releases between the release of Sora and...now will get one Spirit each across the entire run. Depending on how spread out the events are, I can see Princess Peach: Showtime! being the lone 2024 game to get a Spirit.

If we see Horace from Everybody 1-2-Switch, though, someone's gonna need to do some explaining.

Pretty neat, might have to hop back into Smash for this.

My gut says that we'll see Smash Ultimate as a launch title for the 'Switch 2' with all DLC and spirits included.

Well I guess I gotta...

Will certainly make sure I get them just to keep that collection complete. Why not, y'know?

Only care about one of those games. Seriously no Mario Wonder?

The people complaining about Trophies missing have to understand that making 3D models and text blurbs for every single object/character took a lot of work considering they had to be translated into various languages from Japanese such as English, Spanish, French, and so on.

While I get why people don't like Spirits, it was a bit unreasonable to expect them to continue adding more and more Trophies when there's so many franchises represented in this game. They weren't going to stay forever. Spirits are a good compromise.

devils advocate, but spirits are better than trophies for having actual gameplay value serving as mini challenges and character equipment

i miss the charm of 3d models and proper descriptions, but if thats all we could say was better about them, then after 4 games of rewriting the same trophy descriptions spirits are a more than fine substitute

@Markiemania95 Probably getting a Spirit in one of the other three previously announced events

please please PLEASE add more music! that would bring me much joy

@Yoshif3 my thoughts exactly, single player Smash has been collecting dust for a while since I completed that spirit collection😢

XC3 spirits, at long last!

Oh boy I can't wait to forget to get these!

Now you can get anime tiddies with cat ears! Nintendo always looking out for its clientele.

@PikaPhantom Oh nice! Yeah I thought there were some odd omissions here like Mario Wonder and maaybe Bayonetta 3?

Either way, it's great to see more content for Smash and I do agree with comments above that chucking in some music would be so easy but would make a lot of people happy!

For those wanting Wonder spirits-
Spirits- Wonder Flower
Enemy - Piranha Plant x8 horde battle
Conditions- controls flip left to right. Fighter prefers down specials

Spirit- Prince Florian
Enemy- Ivysaur and Mario
Conditions- Main fighter is small, Mario wears bunny hood

Spirit- Popplin
Enemy- Daisy x4
Conditions- Fighter uses Lips Stick, prefers neutral special

For Pokémon SV
Spirit- Great Tusk and Iron Treads
Enemy - Sonic
Conditions- Main fighter is metal, favours side specials, certain Pokémon appear (Gogoat). You can easily be launched

Spirit- Koraidon and Koraidon
Enemy- Charizard and Ridley
Conditions- Fighters favour physical attacks, fighters get attack boost after eating

Spirit- Armarouge and Ceruledge
Enemy- Ken x2
Conditions- Fighters uses items (fire flower and killing edge), fire attacks boosted

Hints of fighters for the next Smash maybe?

Deep Cut!! And Rauru!! Two of my faves! Now if only they’d add some music…

@Desrever 100%

Smash, Smash, Smash, Smash.

Next question.

Dang, no SMRPG spirits... I was really hoping to get Geno & Mallow as spirits in Smash. I'm surprised they aren't adding Super Mario Bros. Wonder spirits.

That actually makes you think about what the next Smash is gonna be. It's gonna be there for sure, it's a system seller, but will they be able to get the licenses for something of that magnitude again? I certainly hope so, but I won't hold my breath.

@Chibi_Manny I have some good news for you about that...

Dang, zero for four here. I don't like a single game these spirits represent. No way I'm booting the game up again just for this. Even after the DLC has already concluded, Smash Ultimate continues to disappoint me. I didn't even think that was possible, but here I am...

@RobTheIII I miss trophies too. Hopefully they’ll return in the next Smash game.

@Eggolor that says more about your taste in game then the quality of the spirts

I like trophies and spirits. May dive back into Smash to check these out. I have a busy month and a half of work though. Hopefully I have some good downtime.

@FawfulsFury Yeah, I was thinking that myself.

@Eggolor

I don't like a single game these spirits represent.

You’re not alone on that sentiment, I don’t like any of the franchises represented in these spirits either, to be honest.

I’ve tried at least one game from all four of them but they just never clicked with me.

If I can remember to do so, I'll probably hop back on and try to get that Rauru spirit at least.

I'm surprised they're still adding spirits at all

A balance update would be nice- kind of like how they finally started working on balance patches for mk8 to some degree… even if it didn’t fix the problem exactly

Shame it’s only one spirit per game in this event. Looking forward to see what’s in store

I’m assuming these were meant to be individual promotional events for each of the associated game’s releases that never happened and just got wrapped together in this one big release.

@martynstuff ironically, I think a full blown DLC pack for a Scarlet and Violet Pokemon as a fighter would be better received then past Pokemon with how popular the designs of Paldea’s cast of creatures have been.

@martynstuff I feel kinda silly that I had completely forgotten that they were already in the game. 😅

Still really strange they didn't add one for Super Mario Bros. Wonder though.

@Markiemania95 If it's not included in additional waves later on as the Japanese Twitter post says, then it's not a game they consider 'important' enough for spirit representation.

@Alckemy They did their final balance patch update a while back though, even made a big deal about it being the final balance patch update. Obviously, things were discovered since then, but they're never going to do another balance patch.

@Chibi_Manny Geno's already in the game as a spirit, he's a Legend class and has been in since launch.

Anyway, to kind of round out this string of replies, Sakurai mentioned on his channel discussing the game that Trophies were taken out primarily to save space and to have something more interactive. As trophies (figurines in Japan) took space on the game and didn't add much once collected. Spirits provide a good substitute being equipable and having some gameplay.

And Music in Smash is always a big deal, as they were always added with characters and stages - And yes, I include Mii Fighter costumes in that description. The Japanese fanbase don't view Mii Fighter Costumes as negatively as the Western world, so the Sans, Cuphead, and Shantae costumes coming with music is a big deal for them.

Hence they wouldn't just add music into the game without a big enough reason.