Reminder [Wed 10th Nov, 2021 02:30 GMT]: This same spirit has been made available to all players via the Smash Bros. Ultimate spirit board and shop. It was previously exclusive to owners of Monster Hunter Stores 2: Wings of Ruin, who had a save file for this particular game on their Switch (via Nintendo Everything).
Original article [Wed 30th Jun, 2021 04:25 BST]: Nintendo has announced a special spirit cross-promotion for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This isn't the first time something like this has happened, and it's probably not going to be the last.
If you happen to play Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin and have a save file of the game on your Nintendo Switch, you'll be able to unlock a special spirit in Smash - the Razewing Rathalos and the game's hero.
While save progress from the Monster Hunter Stories 2 demo will carry across to the full version of the game, it seems this same file currently does not unlock the above spirit in Smash Ultimate. If we hear anything else, we'll update this post.
If you don't intend on picking the new Monster Hunter Stories game up, there's no need to worry - as in the past, Nintendo normally makes spirits like this available at a later date. We last saw something similar to this back in March with Persona 5 Strikers or Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection.
In related news, Kazuya's arrival in Smash Bros. includes the addition of brand new Tekken-themed spirits. You can see what's been included over on the patch notes page.
What do you think of this Monster Hunter cross-promo? Will you be picking up MHS2 on release? Tell us down below.
[source twitter.com]
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Uh, what's he do?
That’s odd. I have a save but didn’t get anything. Do you have to finish the demo maybe?
Does it work with the demo save data or not?
I'm assuming this isn't in the states, or anywhere, yet. It didn't work with my save data either, but usually when there's a promotion like this, like the ghost n goblins and persona 5 strikers one for example, there's a little message saying that that event is happening, and so far that hasn't happened with stories 2, so we'll probably have to wait a bit
@Zach777 @Timptation seems to be full game save data, and not demo data.
God, I love Stories 2 so far.
Nice. Will be sure to grab it.
Oh, come on! Another one?
We just got the Sophia and Arthur spirits available to the rest of the public.
Granted we'll get it later on, but my collection will look incomplete again for a while.
@HammerGalladeBro I had no idea that Arthur and Sophia were available... Are they on the Spirit Board or the Vault?
Thanks
@the4seer they're available on both. They were just released yesterday along with Kazuya.
@Doofenshmirtz it doesn't work because you don't have save data for Monster Hunter Stories 2. I'm pretty sure nobody does since the game releases next Friday. I'm sure the cross-promotion will start working then.
@Wheeeeeeee I have save data from the demo though which can be transferred into the full game so
I've downloaded the demo and created a save. Same thing even though I've progressed a bit in game until i can manually save, the MH spirit was not unlock in SSBU.
I'll try again this Friday when the Rice Sakuna event is launched. If still not unlocked, guess Nintendo has included a special check against demo save data and we gotta wait for another few months to complete the spirit collection
This was available since the Sora update…. But ok
Yeah this has been available for a little while now lol.
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