The Next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirits Event Is All About Fire Emblem

I’m happy these events are only including already available characters, as I’m not getting Smash until Christmas.

My son is called Eli Wood, when the character Eliwood popped up I told my Mrs 'you do realise that this is who I named our son after?'. She went ballistic, I still haven't told her I'd never heard of him before.

@Scottwood101 That’s hilarious 🤣

@Scottwood101 Amazing. 😂

Yay! I fail at unlocking some of my favorite characters! Because I am total trash at this game!

@Heavyarms55 ditto but at least it's a fun way to fail

@Heavyarms55 ... and than you hit online mode and go "What, I can do that, too?"

These 'events' are so incredibly pointless

@Kai_ yep it would make sense if they were adding new spirits for them. It would be a total wth if they don’t plan on adding more in updates.

@Heavyarms55 what I did is go through spirit mode, and back out every 10 minutes. An new character shows up.

Hope it helps.

@Kai_ They're fine if you enjoy the game.

I don't see the point in these "Events" once you have gone through the World of Light and beat that, you already have these "spirits"

Still miss my trophies

@NintendoFan4Lyf Well then we're both in the minority.

...Geez, more Fire Emblem.... eye roll

Cool. Nice to see Eirika remembered.

@Scottwood101
This is absolute gold.

hooray....more fire emblem... this is coming from a person who really likes fire emblem.

You are the ocean's grey waves.....

Only right, it's thanks to Smash Bros that Fire Emblem games get released westwide.

@NintendoFan4Lyf I hear you while I don't mind the fire emblem series there is a seriously large amount of fire emblem in the game lol.

@Bunkerneath I must admit the lack of descriptive text to go with each of the spirits is a little annoying. I liked reading about the history of video games.

I didn’t even know there was an event last week.

The limited time events in the 3DS/WiiU version would total up the number of wins for everyone who played as certain characters, and award them gold if their team won. It was fun, and had a sort of Splatfest community voting element to it.

As much as I hate to take a game with so much to offer and nitpick about what its lacking, these new events are pretty bland, and the extra gold it earns you is barely noteworthy. As fantastic as this game is, it still feels like there's something missing in the "and more" department. Maybe we'll get features like the Homerun Contest in a future update, but as it stands now, it's still the only Smash title missing a minigame mode that doesn't revolve around a fighting match.
(Unrelated - I also miss custom stage building and being able to bet gold on spectated matches)

@Kai_ Not really. If you're lucky enough to get an event Legend spirit, the game gives you unlimited tries on it.

Part 1? As in, this event will be recurring? I guess it makes sense since like 40% of the spirits in the game are Fire Emblem characters, but

@DayOfLavos I have the game on, and for fun, I looked through my spirit inventory (I have a ton of them and can deduce which series the missing ones belong to). Highest number of Spirits by series:

Pokemon: 156, about 12.0%
Mario: 113, about 8.7%
Zelda: 92, about 7.1%
Fire Emblem: 79, about 6.1%
Kirby: 59, about 4.5%

Although not near 40%, the raw number of FE spirits is still ridiculously high.

@TheLZdragon And what am I supposed to do with yet another spirit? I've 100% world of light and I don't use them in anything else.

@ChameleonBros Dang, still weird that it has more spirits than Kirby.

@Kai_ You should 100% the whole game

@SmileMan64 was she ever forgotten? She’s just gotten her 4th versión in FEH

Ooooooh, Here's hoping for more Shadow Dragon on Switch!

@TheFanatic Same here buddy!

@TheFanatic

Same here; I decided it's the season of giving and receiving, not buying for myself!

@HatosBlack Oh I'm not having that hard of a time. I don't mind the time it's taking. But if you fail once on the spirit board, who knows when you will get another chance with that spirit? I mean there are supposedly like 1200 in the game!

I am still upset I missed out on Fiora from Xenoblade...

@Lemmy_the_Koopa More along the lines of "I didn't know that was possible, and I will probably never be able to do that".