Perkilator Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) Ultimate is now 3 years old, and the game's life cycle is now officially over. Here's a quick retrospective of every majore event that happened: March 8, 2018: The game is officially announced, but the name "Ultimate" isn't officially revealed yet June 12, 2018: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is officially revealed, with all of the major reveals: Every veteran returns Echo Fighters are introduced, with Princess Daisy being Peach's Ridley finally hits the big time August 8, 2018: The first Direct dedicated to Ultimate Simon and Richter Belmont are revealed at the start Chrom and Dark Samus are revealed as the Echo Fighters of Roy and Samus, respectively Rathalos is revealed as both a boss and an Assist Trophy King K. Rool comes aboard at the end, complete with a new remix of Gang-Plank Galleon September 13, 2018: Isabelle is revealed in a Nintendo Direct November 1, 2018: The second Direct dedicated to Ultimate Ken and Incineroar are revealed at the start Spirits are revealed and demonstrated The Fighters Pass is shown for the first time; 5 fighters that each come with a stage, multiple songs and multiple Spirits Piranha Plant is revealed as the first DLC character but, interestingly, isn't part of the Pass World of Light is revealed, showing how multiple characters lost their bodies and became Spirits December 6, 2018: The Game Awards reveal the first Challenger Pack character, in a move we never saw coming December 7, 2018: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is released February 13, 2019: Smash Ultimate's Spring update is briefly mentioned in a Nintendo Direct April 16, 2019: Joker from Persona 5 is properly presented April 17, 2019: Joker is released...but not without server problems June 11, 2019: Hero from Dragon Quest and Banjo & Kazooie are revealed at E3 2019 July 30, 2019: Sakurai presents Hero September 4, 2019: Terry Bogard is revealed, more DLC fighters confirmed and Sakurai presents Banjo & Kazooie Novomber 6, 2019: Sakurai presents Terry January 16, 2020: Sakurai presents the last fighter...and throws us for a loop once again. Also, Fighters Pass Vol. 2 is properly announced March 26, 2020: The first fighter of Fighters Pass Vol. 2 is teased...a fighter from ARMS June 22, 2020: The ARMS character turns out to be Min Min! October 1, 2020: A new seed is planted to utterly break Twitter October 3, 2020: Sakurai presents Steve from Minecraft December 10, 2020: One angel slays another at the Game Awards December 17, 2020: Sakurai presents Sephiroth from FINAL FANTASY VII February 17, 2021: Pyra & Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are revealed in the first full Nintendo Direct since 2019 March 4, 2021: Sakurai presents Pyra & Mythra June 15, 2021: Kazuya from Tekken is revealed at E3 2021 June 28, 2021: Sakurai presents Kazuya September 23, 2021: A presentation for the last fighter is announced October 5, 2021: The last door opens...to Sora from Kingdom Hearts October 18, 2021: Sora is properly released It's been a wild 3 and a half years, but now the game is over. Edited December 9, 2021 by Perkilator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulWeaver Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 And Pikachu has BAir-pancaked his way under every major/half-major nerf for three years. That little rat. This game's going to be rather poorly balanced in my opinion. The dev plan seems to have been to base nerfs/buffs off of tournament standings until the final patch, but due to everything going on lockdown the game was pretty badly portrayed from a tournament setting. Pyra/Mythra is basically this game's Sm4sh-Bayo and it's too late to save them, Pichu was utterly robbed early on and never got the compensation buff he deserved, most of the late-patch buffs/nerfs are probably going to prove irrelevant... I dunno, I could be proven wrong, but I doubt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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