Super Smash Bros is a franchise pretty much everyone gets hype over. During the week since it released, it seems like everywhere I go I overhear bits of conversation about the latest in the series, Super Smash Bros Ultimate . It's no big surprise.

Contains almost every character and stage ever included in a Smash game; New Spirit Mode makes for a great single-player experience; and adds light RPG elements to the game; Same great couch co-op experience

AI can be ditzy when it comes to vertical stage changes; Tags

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate takes characters we've played for decades and remasters them into a robust, fantastically enjoyable package

Incredibly tight mechanics for a fighter with more than 70 characters, A complete overload of fantastic single player content, The most amount of polish a Super Smash Bros; game has ever seen

Minor changes to the presentation feel out of place; Could use more variety in content

Anyone you know who enjoys video games is likely to find at least one Smash Ultimate character that appeals to them. It takes everything that made Smash 4 on the Wii U so compelling and expands on it-with the added Switch benefit of handheld mode. All this makes Super Smash Bros.

The biggest roster yet; Loads of content, spanning dozens of video game series; Polished, satisfying gameplay with lots of variety

Lacks proper online ranking tiers; No online tournament mode; Collectible spirits lack context and detail

promised to be the biggest, best and most chaotic Smash instalment to date and it effortlessly delivers on those promises, and then some. With over seventy fighters to experiment with (including a handful of never seen before newcomers) the roster has never been so huge.

From its humble Nintendo 64 beginnings, Super Smash Bros. has been a delightful neutral zone for players looking for top-tier competition as well as friends who just want to kick back and watch Princess Peach knock the stuffing out of Bowser. Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate is a celebration of Nintendo's long history, of the video game medium, and of the people who have poured their own spirits into crafting these characters, worlds and experiences we are all fortunate enough to have enjoyed over the years.

lives up to its name, offering the most comprehensive game in the series to date. It has an absurd amount to play, fight, and unlock – though that can be to its detriment at times. While the World of Light adventure mode isn't reason alone to get Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lets up to eight players square off in action-packed battles that are all about smashing beloved video game characters off the screen.

Conventional logic says that a game as enormous as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate should be collapsing under its own weight like a dying star. It feels like the Mr. Creosote of video games, a title almost disgustingly distended with content.

Sometimes I feel bad for Masahiro Sakurai. As the creator of Super Smash Bros., he has poured his heart and soul into the series for more than 20 years now. And yet, one way or another, Smash Bros. has seemingly struggled to escape the long shadow cast by Smash Bros.