Nintendo has held a lot of spirit events in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for its exclusive Switch titles, but one game that missed out around the time of its release was Astral Chain. To make up for this, later this week the all-star brawler will be hosting a special-themed event based on PlatinumGames hit release.
This spirit event starts on Friday (on 17th January) and will run for a prolonged period of five days. It features a total of four spirits. Some of these include the game's protagonist and their Legion, and also the lovable police mascot, Lappy.
Is this the spirit event you've been waiting for? Comment down below.
[source japanesenintendo.com]
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I would love Astral chain to have a fighter in Smash.
@Kalmaro - I am down, since Ray Mk will never be a thing.
I wept all my tears, for now I feel nothing.
The Spirit system truly made the game an ultimate among its kind, and I'm saying it with zero sarcasm. Forget fan dramas about desired fighters - now pretty much everyone (and even everything) from the video game realm can feature in theory, and many hundreds already feature in practice. With effect duplication evidently allowed, there aren't even stark balance concerns per se. And that's before we get started on the whole RPG flavour this brought into the series.
Fun game! Glad to see it being added to Smash... hope that gets it a bit more exposure!
The Legions paired with each of the twins makes me wonder if the devs are tacitly implying which of them is the ‘canon’ protagonist and which is Akira.
@nhSnork I do wish they had done Primary Spirits only with a host of bonuses, but with some more unique features/bonuses in trade. "But then it wouldn't be balanced." It's already imbalanced and practically unused. This might have made it worth its hype/the data space it takes up.
I never really understood the draw to collecting spirits
Huh. Well, this just shot down my theory that Astral Chain could inspire fighter + stage DLC, since those usually come with a bunch of new spirits for the DLC spirit board.
I wonder why this didn't happen at launch?
I'm still missing the Daemon X Machina spirits..... why aren't they appearing in the board?
Wait, does this involve a sale on Astral Chain? Did I miss that sale??
@Bliquid perhaps more hassle than they found it worth dealing with, welcome as the results would have been. If I'm not mistaken, even the fighters themselves don't seem to have much in the way of exposition unless you visit a certain stage or use a certain fighter. But subjectively, I would be all for more detailed profiles, too.
oh damn, I can feel it coming
I hope this doesn't mean that we can't get Akira as a DLC fighter any more....
While I was hoping for a playable fighter in Smash, spirits are better than nothing.
Finally more new spirits, i been waiting for another spirit event, gotta catch 'em all! 😎
Many people are claiming this means Astral Chain is not getting a playable Fighter in Ultimate, but while this is a red flag, Nintendo/Sakurai/Sora/Bandai Namco, never confirmed officially that once a character becomes a Spirit, the same character cannot be a Fighter later with DLC.
The base game had 1297 Spirits, now it has 1379, at the same time we are getting even more DLC after they complete the Fighter Pass.
In my book, base game Spirits don't deconfirm potential DLC fighters, post launch Spirits however...
Whatever the case is, I'm happy Astral Chain is at least getting represented at all, although I definitely would prefer a fighter
well, this rules out astral chain to have any potential fighter as DLC
Eh, I missed a couple events now. Will wait until they do the thing where they put all the event exclusive ones in one weekend event like I did last time.
I only got a Switch last Xmas and only got Smash last week so i've missed out of these events, question do they ever come back and how exactly do you get these Spirits they're giving out?
@InvisiBulbasaur Not sure if I'm just trying to keep my own hopes alive with this, but since they haven't disclosed the exact plans for the future DLC, it really just means Akira won't be the 5th fighter in this batch. The next batch may just be fighters and not include spirit packs.
@WallyWest Sometimes they will bring them back, but these events are the best way to pick them up. During the weekend, they will post the times that you these spirits will be guaranteed to be on the Spirit Board, which you then combat like any other one.
@Eddyson *this time around. And to be fair, it's all been 3rd party anyway.
They haven't said that the future of DLC will include spirit packs, so I wouldn't say it's an impossibility later!
I miss trophies.
Lovely. Astral Chain was amazing so I'm more than happy to have some spirits from it.
well there goes any real chances of an Astral Chain character in Smash
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