Featured Content: Smash Ultimate: A CRITICAL Retrospective

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a pretty big deal, yeah? Critically acclaimed, has sold like crazy, widely held up as a pillar of platform fighters in a series that remains at the forefront of its style of fighting game. With so many new and returning characters that the Internet practically obsessed over it for nearly four years of speculating over newcomers! But according to friend of the site Delzethin, it’s also…flawed.

No video game is perfect and this one too has its share of blemishes. Including some that’ve taken until recently to truly stick out. So in the interest of learning from the past, let’s look through the parts of Ultimate that haven’t aged so well. Delzethin’s hope here is to analyze its faults constructively, so fans and future developers alike can learn from where things went wrong in order to make Smash 6 (or whatever its name becomes) even better. Hopefully it comes off that way.