Great game, lots of fun

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the most content-rich, feature-laden iteration of Smash to date.

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

It’s not all melancholy and sadness. Again, the online play does work in spurts, it’s just not terribly consistent or reliable. Beyond this blemish (and a lack of Trophies), thankfully, there’s not much Ultimate doesn’t do perfectly. This is the best that Smash Bros. has ever been.

A few tiny issues hold it just shy of perfection, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate might just be the best entry in the series.

(In the spirit of the multiplayer crossover, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be evaluated by not just one GT critic, but a triumvirate of Smash enthusiasts. This critique will be split across the game's core pillars, each tackled by a different voice: In order of appearance, Sean Anthony , Elisha...

An enormous roster with diverse movesets and personalities; Returning modes are back and have been fleshed out; World of Light is a fun story mode for single-player content; Wealth of fanservice in the form of spirits; soundtracks; and other references

Some spirit battles may be unfairly difficult; Some minor flaws of with online multiplayer that can be fixed in future updates

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.

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.