3DS owners across Japan — as well as those international Nintendo fans dedicated enough to import Japanese hardware — are currently abandoning their friends, family, and careers while they get busy with the Super Smash Bros. demo that has just been released on the Japanese eShop.
Of course being a demo, many of the full game's features are greyed out, but even so this playable teaser still has more than enough to tide fans over until the official Japanese release on Saturday. There are five playable characters to master, with newcomers Mega Man and Animal Crossing's Villager standing alongside Smash veterans Mario, Link and Pikachu in this temporary roster.
Demo matches are fixed at two minutes in length on just a single stage, so it's a testament to the game's impeccable design that even with these restrictions in place the Super Smash Bros. 3DS teaser is a lot of fun, and we're sure many Japanese 3DS owners will be playing nothing else for the rest of the week.
Would you like to see this demo work its way onto the US and EU eShops? Were you hoping for a different demo character line up? Let us know in the comments section below.
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While the rest of us watch on in envy
"The winner is... Murabito!" Madara-obito who?
Does the demo have multiplayer?
That aside, every demo is welcome! And due to many newcomers not being available in it, people on the fence are less likely to jump the ship - it's entirely possible that one of the other characters will be more fun to play, after all.
I cannot accurately communicate the amount of want I have for this.
I know you hid the touch screen to hide the shame of playing level 3 cpus and try to look like some monster at the game.
Edit: ^ I'm not being serious only joking as I can see this may be miss understood.
@Kaze_Memaryu Yes it does.
@PvtOttobot Moto Murabito would be a japanese independent manga-style artist with very unique designs. ^_^
@Jazzer94 Nice! That'll make it more interesting!
It's already confirmed that we would get the demo as soon as NoA or NoE announce it.
That was awesome . Heard performance levels are top notch
ugh it's not fair that Japan is getting to play and practice before everyone else. They are already better at it, how can we can we get better if we have to wai an entire month to play after them?
Is it just me or Pikachu's voice is a bit different from the anime?
Whats with that long pause after the time up bit, reminds me of street fighter alpha 2 on snes where it would pause after it said round 1, that's gonna irritate me hope it's just a demo thing
I'm jealous.
Immediately it comes here I'm downloading it. Is Kirby playable?
@Theober555: In the demo you can only use circle pad while d-pad is used for taunts but it will probably have custom control options in the full game like in Brawl.
@VolcanoFlamesNL
Mario, Link, Pikachu, Mega Man and Villager are playable. The rest are greyed out.
Art imitates life.
The Japanese get advance practice of their smash attacks - just like with Pearl Habour.
When the Western release comes, it will be the Battle of Midway all over again.
Does want.
So jelly! It looks fun.
I want this game so badly now, aswell as the Wii U version. Well atleast i will get Hyrule warriors november 19th ^_^
My prediction ; NOA gets it on Monday. NOA gets it a month after the game is released.
So that might be the line up then, nice. Looking forward to this.
It's confirmed in the pic of the day on miiverse that there is local multiplayer and the demo will be released outside of Japan because there is a second picture from the demo of a mode left open called Tips in English instead of Japanese and Sakurai suggested to check it out.
@Theober555 - Its the 12th that we will get the 8 hour twitch, so in two days.
oh come on guys you basically pulled the same move that sakurai did while everyone outside of japan just wishes to at least be able to try the demo =/
i hate how they kinda do this though they should try to release more stuff around the world at the same time least for this demo i fear that this wont even show up for the rest of us till a month later....wonder if they will have a wii u verson of this demo as well? prob japan only again
I wonder if those coins awards will carry over to the full game
Seeing it in action really hypes me.
Wooo we are getting the demo too, hopefully a Wii U version too.
http://www.gonintendo.com/s/236980-smash-bros-wii-u-3ds-sept-10th-2014-screen-demo-release-outside-of-japan-teased
@PvtOttobot Murabito is how you say villager in Japanese.
@Psyclone First! Kudos on link though XD.
@KodyDawg The Battlefields Final Destination form which I LOVE that feature knowing some levels have it.
Aw, I'd love to try the SSB4 demo too! Oh well.
@yokokazuo thanks, I had guessed as much
These are some very painful weeks, first the direct of bayonetta, now NL and all japan playing smash and let's not forget Hyrule warriors release getting closer.
So many awesome games impossible to ignore, but none of them that I can actually play for now >.<;;;
id love a smash bors 4 demo!
has the full character roster been reveald yet?
Oh whyy doesn't Nintendo usually release demos of their upcoming games?
The hyper would be so much more real if we got a taste early.
How many times are you allowed to play the demo?
@Jazzer94 Yeah, because playing on a difficulty of personal choice when trying out a demo for nearly the first time is so terribly wrong!
Three missing character slots for a perfect grid. We know who two are. Who will be the third? Jigglypuff? Ness?
Having to pick up the Tanooki leaf instead of walking into it seems a bit counter-intuitive to me...
@lckulczak 30. Quite frankly I'll be leaving my 3ds on till the release of the game. lol. I will say I wasn't convinced about Rock/Megaman until now. I may play him some when the game launches. I doubt he will be my main but I'll have fun playing as him. I love that he has the hadoken shot or whatever its official name is. You can toggle the final destination version of the stage in the demo.
Also I am so tired. Stayed up till 4am playing this. I have failed as an adult.
Come on NA version, I want to play SSB!
So is there a word on the demo coming in other regions?
@ThomasBW84 I was joking, I just noticed that the cpus don't really grab items at low levels from the footage and now from trying the actual demo.
@DarkNinja9 Sakurai said stay tuned. That pretty much sounds like the demo is going westward to me.
I'm downloading it now!
Amazed to hear there is a demo. I wonder if it will make it to the West and when.
Great to see Menu (Super Smash Bros. Melee) from Brawl is an option for music on Battlefield!
how many times can you launch the demo?
I'm so glad that I stuck with Link as my main.
Him being one of the playable character in the demo is going to mean I'll be able to practice for real, instead of settling for practicing using a character I don't plan on maining while I wait for the full game.
i think nintendos being awful generous with this demo. Anyone remember when old fighting games had only 2 playable characters available for demos..If wiiu does get a demo I see a maximun of 5 uses before expiring,Like lost world..
I'm delighted by the main theme, to me it's even better than Brawl's... so epic. I want this demo now, but I'm almost sure it'll come out after the treehouse event.
Man, Japan is only days away from getting this, they better hurry up with thinking of a retail name. "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS" just won't cut it.
http://smashboards.com/threads/us-ea-smash-4-eshop-demo-september-19th.366977/
pls make it to US and Europe.
pls make the Wii U version make it as well.
pls
Bummer that the demo is only 30 tries...
Im never going to exit the game :>
No... The spiny shell, has made it's way to smash bros'!!
The character icons and placement in this demo build completely confirm the validity of the leak, if anyone was still questioning it.
@bro2dragons
Yes!! Jiggly and Ness confirmed ahaha!!
Saaaaaaayyyy Nintendooooo... The NA eShop updates on Thursday... And I'd be verrrryyy happy to play this demo.. That'd be a nice surprise for us after the 8 hour stream too! Hmm. I just want the demo haha.
@bro2dragons Blows my mind that people doubted it, even with videos. Now we just have to see if that's the final roster or if there are a few more secrets.
We will know for sure in a couple days!!
Please, please, please, please, please, please, please please please pleasepleasepleaspleasplesplesplzplzplzplzplzplzplzplzPUUUUHLEEEEEEEZ
This game has been my life for three years now. It has to happen. Sakurai, I'm begging you, don't be a total troll for once and bring this to EU and US!
Smash 4 on the 3ds keeps looking legit every time I look at it. Sakurai is going practically all out with this one.
I'm still not quite sold on this game. The roster seems small-- way to small for the wait. I still don't like the whole "lose a character gain a character' mentality that fighting game makers have. Its disgusting. At this point, with technology, we should have the entire cast of melee and brawl with a butt load of newcomers.
I should be looking at a screen with about 75 characters, not 48.
I still wish they would have just made the Wii-u game a solid entity on its own and released it next year holiday season, with about ten-fifteen more characters and a real story mode. But I have a feeling that the amiibo thing is going to introduce new characters anyway.
INB4: BUT NOW CHARACTURZ ARE CUSTUMIZABUU.
Don't care. I'd rather have more DIFFERENT characters than ONE character I can alter slightly.
An no, Miis that look like people don't count as characters.
@DreamyViridi Oh. OK... thanks.
The demo is so limited, but I still found it to be a lot of fun. Will be downloading full game on Friday.
@Neferupitou THEY'VE BEEN IN EVERY SINGLE- you know what? Forget it! Forget it. Ugh....
@AugustusOxy...75? Dude, your expectations are WAY too high. The highest I could honestly see them going is 55.
@AugustusOxy That is a balancing nightmare. As much as I love Smash I feel the roster is too bloated for this reason. Part of the reason that many fighting games have small rosters is balancing and play-testing. otherwise they have to release a million revisions. That works for some companies like capcom, they revise their most popular games but the downside is the ones they leave as is are broken....many are fun... but still very broken. Even if you don't play competitively, unbalanced games are bad for all play styles.
That being said I think that Smash tends to be one of the best one and done fighting games as far as balance.
@TeeJay
Calm the hell down yo! people everywhere were begging for Jiggly to be kicked out of the game, i,m just glad to see the opposite.
I notice a lot of people around the internet think the roster in the demo is the full roster, but they fail to notice the lack of Lucina lol.
Demo would be great and would persuade me to get this version aswell as the Wii U.
This is something that should get released on the American eShop, but that's never going to happen considering NOA just flat-out hates us lately for some reason.
@Ryu_Niiyama granted those that rely heavily on tier lists, which are always evolving as Jigglypuff can attest to that, tend to see lower tier characters like Ness as a wash. But it really depends how you play. Ness is a beast of an ally in team matches with his neutral B. Others like Sonic are killer in 4 player matches, for me at least. What will be interesting is to see how this Smash handles individual characters since the competitive scene was a point of discussion from the get go. No other Smash game ever considered that particular play style before and any tier lists that are created within the first 6 months are bound to change for years to come.
@kenzo LOL WTF
YOU GUYS THE US DEMO IS PROBABLY GONNA BE RELEASED THIS FRIDAY DURING THE NINTENDO TREEHOUSE LIVE BROADCAST. OMG
YAY I don't have to go to work because the trains aren't running so I'm playing this right now! And just like any other time I've played Smash Brothers, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
Everyone says the demo will be coming to NA in two to three days. I hope they're right but honestly, seeing how Nintendo said a while back "SSB4 coming to 3ds summer 2014" I have my doubts with how quickly they will release this to NA.
@kurtasbestos There is one train running. The HYPE TRAIN!!!!
Not fair Nintendo Life!!!! NOT FAIR! I want to play so bad hehe. A little over 3 weeks left until the launch in Canada.
Wow like 10 of those stages are from past games.
Man, would I love to get that demo! I was surprised to see some complaints about it, though.
I just... I want this so bad. Today has been so long, I really hope we do get this demo soon, it's hard enough to wait three weeks for release, plus my friend keeps saying he's unsure about the 3DS version because he's worried the controls won't feel right so hopefully this demo will change his mind!!!
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