Super Smash Bros Ultimate Attract Mode: How to Play (2018, Nintendo/Sora Inc/Bandai Namco)
4Fantastic score by Hideki Sakamoto. Upscaled to 4K to preserve some video quality. Play as 4K on a 1080p TV to see better quality than Youtube's 1080p standard. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a 2018 crossover fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. series, succeeding Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The game follows the series' traditional style of gameplay: controlling one of various characters, players must use differing attacks to weaken their opponents and knock them out of an arena. It features a wide variety of game modes, including a campaign for a single-player and multiplayer versus modes. Ultimate includes every playable character from previous Super Smash Bros. games—ranging from Nintendo's mascots to characters from third-party franchises—and several newcomers. The game's pre-production phase began in December 2015, following the development of 3DS/Wii U's downloadable content (DLC). Series creator and director Masahiro Sakurai returned along with Bandai Namco Studios and Sora, the studios that developed the previous game; the studios' return sped up the preparation process. Sakurai's goal with Ultimate was to include every character from previous games despite the various development and licensing problems this would cause. A number of well-known video game music composers contributed to the soundtrack, with Hideki Sakamoto writing the main theme. Nintendo confirmed development of Ultimate in March 2018 and announced it at E3 the following June. It was released worldwide on December 7, 2018, and will be supported after release with DLC adding new characters, stages, and music. Ultimate received universal acclaim, with reviewers applauding its sheer amount of content and fine-tuning of existing Smash gameplay elements. Some critics called it the best game in the series. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as with other games in the Super Smash Bros. series, features a crossover cast of fighters from several different Nintendo franchises, as well as fighters from series by third-party developers such as Sega, Konami, Capcom, Bandai Namco Entertainment and Square Enix. The base game features 74 playable fighters, consisting of all 63 previous fighters from past entries and 11 new fighters; the Inklings from Splatoon, Princess Daisy from the Mario series, Ridley and Dark Samus from the Metroid series, Simon and Richter Belmont from the Castlevania series, Chrom from Fire Emblem: Awakening, King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong series, Isabelle from the Animal Crossing series, Ken Masters from the Street Fighter series, and Incineroar from Pokémon Sun and Moon. When starting the game, players only have access to the eight starter characters of the original N64 game, and unlock the rest by completing various challenges. Certain new and returning characters whose movesets are directly based on another character in the game are classified as "Echo Fighters". These fighters also have largely the same basic attributes, such as damage/knockback output, movement speed, jump height, weight, and gravity. Each echo fighter has a different visual design and different taunts/victory animations, and certain gameplay differences depending on the character (e.g. Daisy is an Echo Fighter based on Peach, with a few differences in the properties of her moves, but Richter is completely identical to Simon in abilities.). On the fighter select screen, these characters can either be listed individually or bundled with the fighters they are based on. Select characters also have alternative skins featuring different genders or sometimes other characters, such as Bowser Jr. who has a selectable appearance to be any of the other Koopalings, but otherwise have identical animations and abilities. Six additional characters are planned to be added to the game via downloadable content following its launch. The first of these characters, Piranha Plant from the Mario series, is planned for release around February 2019 and will be available for free to those who purchase and register the game with a My Nintendo account before January 31, 2019. The other five characters will each come with an additional stage and music tracks and can either be purchased individually or as part of a Fighter's Pass, which will also include a Mii Fighter costume and spirits from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. By November 2018, all of the additional characters had been decided, with Nintendo choosing the characters, unlike with the previous 3DS and Wii U version where players had the ability to request which characters they wished to see in the game. The first fighter announced as part of the Fighter's Pass was Joker from the role-playing game, Persona 5.