Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Development staff
Developer(s)	Bandai Namco Studios Sora Ltd.
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Masahiro Sakurai
Video game overview
Series	Super Smash Bros.
Release date(s)	INT 7 December 2018
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	E10+
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Game order
Preceded by	Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ SPECIAL, Dai rantō Sumasshu Burazāzu Supesharu^?) is the fifth installment in the Super Smash Bros. fighting series. It is a 3D on a 2D plane fighting game for the Nintendo Switch developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo. It was released on 7 December 2018.

Sonic the Hedgehog, along with every other character from the previous installments, returned along with a batch of new characters. This game also supports amiibo, including the Sonic amiibo.

Development

The first teaser for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate appeared during a Nintendo Direct on 8 March 2018. Back then, it was only known by the title Super Smash Bros.. It was formally announced during Nintendo's Nintendo Direct presentation at E3 2018.

Responsible for the development of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd., who were behind the development of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, with Masahiro Sakurai serving as the director. The intention of Sakurai's for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was to include every possible character from previous Super Smash Bros. games, which he knew would be both a complex problem for both development and licensing. He also intended to speed up the game by adjusting the characters' abilities. Sakurai knew that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was both a core title for Nintendo, and that it has a dedicated playerbase that he did not want to disappoint, and believed that he needed to complete these goals to satisfy both groups. Nintendo announced that David Hayter reprises his Solid Snake voice-over for Ultimate.

Inclusion of Sonic the Hedgehog

On 12 June 2018, it was announced on the E3 Nintendo Direct that every single playable character from the past four games would return. Among them is Sonic the Hedgehog, marking his third appearance as a fighter in the series. Like in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Sonic must first be unlocked in order to play as him. To unlock Sonic, the player must complete Classic Mode as Mario, before defeating Sonic in a one stock battle.

In addition to Sonic's inclusion as a fighter, Green Hill Zone from Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Windy Hill from Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U make a return. Shadow the Hedgehog returns as an Assist Trophy, slowing players down using Chaos Control with the green Chaos Emerald. Knuckles the Echidna will also make an appearance as an Assist Trophy and will attack opponents by punching them, using the Homing Attack, or dig underground and use a powerful uppercut when summoned.

Spirits

Various other Sonic characters also make an appearance in the form of Spirits. Spirits are power up characters that can give fighters a boost in battle. They are either a Primary Spirit or a Support Spirit, can be one of five types, (Grab, Shield, Attack, Balanced or Neutral) and can come in one of four classes. In order from weakest to strongest class: Novice (★), Advanced (★★), Ace (★★★), and Legend (★★★★). All currently known Sonic Spirits include:

Primary Spirits

Image	Name	Type	Class	Support slots	Ability	Fighter(s)	Condition(s)	Stage	Rules	Can be summoned?
	Chao	Shield	Novice	2		Squirtle Team	The enemy becomes more powerful after eating The enemy is easily distracted by items	Windy Hill Zone
	Chaotix	Grab	Novice	3		Sonic, Pichu, and King K. Rool	The enemy occasionally turns invisible.	Windy Hill Zone
	E-102 Gamma	Grab	Novice
	Big the Cat	Neutral	Novice			Incineroar	The floor is sleep inducing. The enemy is giant.
	Omega	Grab	Novice	1		R.O.B.
	Infinite	Attack	Advanced	2		Metal Sonic	The enemy is metal. Controls are occasionally reversed.	Big Blue	Hazard: Screen Flip
	Metal Sonic	Shield	Advanced	1	Increased Speed	Metal Sonic	Timed Stamina battle The enemy is metal. The enemy starts the battle with a Rocket Belt.	Windy Hill Zone
	Chaos	Grab	Advanced	1	Increased Water Attack	Metal Inkling	The enemy is giant after the enemy's at high damage The enemy is metal	Fourside
	Shadow the Hedgehog	Attack	Ace	2
	Knuckles the Echidna	Grab	Ace	2
	Super Shadow	Attack	Legend	2	Increased Undamaged Attack & speed	None (enhanced Shadow spirit)	None	None	None	No
	Dr. Eggman	Grab	Legend	3						Yes
	Super Sonic	Grab	Legend			Gold Sonic	The enemy is golden. The enemy will occasionally instantly gain a Final Smash.	Windy Hill Zone

Support Spirits

Image	Name	Type	Class	Ability	Fighter(s)	Condition(s)	Stage	Rules
	Silver the Hedgehog	Attack	Advanced	Slightly increases the power of grabbing and throwing attacks.	Sonic	The enemy starts with a Black Hole The enemy is easily distracted by items	Green Hill Zone	Item Battle
	Blaze the Cat	Shield	Advanced	Start battles with Superspicy Curry breath.	Robin	The floor is lava. The enemy's explosion and fire attacks have increased power. The enemy starts the battle with a fire flower.	Green Hill Zone	Hazard: Lava Floor
	Cream & Cheese	Grab	Advanced	Increased jump height	Isabelle	Gravity is reduced The enemy takes less damage while in the air	Green Hill Zone
	Rouge the Bat	Grab	Advanced
File:Sonic.the.Hedgehog.full.1392010.jpg	Sonic the Werehog	Neutral	Advanced
	Amy Rose	Attack	Ace		Inkling	The enemy starts with a Hammer The enemy can swing the Hammer for a long time The enemy has increased move speed
	Miles "Tails" Prower	Neutral	Ace

Fighter Spirit

Image	Name
	Sonic the Hedgehog

Unknown

Image	Name	Type	Class
	Jet the Hawk		Advanced
	Hero Chao		Ace

Music

The following is a list of music from the Sonic series included in the game. There are 20 in total:

• "Green Hill Zone"
• "Scrap Brain Zone"
• "Emerald Hill Zone"
• "Angel Island Zone"
• "Sonic Boom"
• "Super Sonic Racing"
• "Open Your Heart"
• "Live and Learn"
• "Sonic Heroes"
• "His World" (instrumental)
• "Seven Rings In Hand"
• "Escape from the City"
• "Knight of the Wind"
• "Reach for the Stars"
• "Rooftop Run"
• "Wonder World"
• "Windy Hill - Zone 1"
• "Lights, Camera, Action!"
• "Fist Bump"
• "Sunset Heights"

Trivia

• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game since the original Super Smash Bros. to not be announced alongside new hardware.
  • Moreover, this is the first time since Super Smash Bros. Melee that a Super Smash Bros. game has not been announced years in advance.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game to not feature the involvement of Satoru Iwata as he passed away in July 2015.
• The release date of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate falls one day after the late Satoru Iwata's birthday, 6 December, which was also the release date of Super Smash Bros. Wii U in Japan.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game since Super Smash Bros. Melee, the second installment of the series, where no veteran characters were cut.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game where the English voice for the Announcer has not been changed from the previous game.</nowiki>
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game since the original Super Smash Bros. to feature 2D illustrations on the box art.
• With Sonic's inclusion in this game, he is the only third-party character to appear in three Super Smash Bros. titles.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game to have none of its newcomers as starter characters.
• Sonic's default head icon in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate bears a striking resemblance to several logos and icons in the Sonic series, namely the logo for Sonic Team.
• Sonic and Knuckles were both featured on the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate blog on 2 July 2018.
• So far, Sonic is the only third party character with more than one stage representing his series.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game in which two characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series appear as Assist Trophies.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game to have a vocal theme song in both English and Japanese.

Sonic's artwork for the #SmashBrosCountdown

• Unlike other installments in the Super Smash Bros. series, Sonic actually takes a bit of damage if he falls in any body of water, which is a nod to his inability to swim.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. game to not feature Trophies since the original Super Smash Bros.
• Part of the #SmashBrosCountdown collaboration on Twitter, with six days left before the game's release the official Japanese Sega Twitter posted a Tweet representing Sonic's inclusion in the game.
• Though likely unintentional, it is possible for a fighter to summon Knuckles as an Assist Trophy in the Green Hill Zone stage, even if he is already running through the loop in the background, resulting in two different versions of Knuckles on-screen.
• This is the first Super Smash Bros. title in which there are three playable representatives from Sega: Sonic, Bayonetta and Joker.
  • Rodin from the Bayonetta series and Akira from the Virtua Fighter series also make appearances as Assist Trophies.
• One of Incineroar's alternate costumes resembles Big the Cat.

Videos

Sonic – Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

External links

• Official website

Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off games

Sega Master System	Sonic Spinball (1994) · Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1994)
Sega Mega Drive	Sonic Eraser (1991) · Sonic Spinball (1993) · Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (1993) · Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio (1994) · Knuckles' Chaotix (1995, 32X) · Sonic 3D Blast (1996)
Sega Saturn	Sonic 3D Blast (1996) · Sonic R (1997)
Sega All-Stars	Sega Superstars (2004, PS2) · Sega Superstars Tennis (2008, multi-platform) · Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010, multi-platform) · Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012, multi-platform)
Sonic Riders	Sonic Riders (2006, multi-platform) · Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008, multi-platform) · Sonic Free Riders (2010, Xbox 360)
Sonic Storybook Series	Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007, Wii) · Sonic and the Black Knight (2009, Wii)
Mario & Sonic	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007, multi-platform) · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2009, multi-platform) · Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011, Wii) · Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2012, 3DS) · Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013, Wii U) · Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016, multi-platform) · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2019, Switch)
Super Smash Bros.	Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Wii) · Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (2014, 3DS) · Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014, Wii U) · Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Switch)
Sonic Boom	Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (2014, Wii U) · Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (2014, 3DS) · Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom (2015, mobile) · Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (2016, 3DS)
Arcade and redemption machines	Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car (1991) · UFO SegaSonic (1992) · Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) · SegaSonic Popcorn Shop (1993) · SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter (1993) · SegaSonic the Hedgehog (1993) · Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1993) · Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) · Air Circus (1994) · Curling Holiday (1994) · Sonic's Space Tours (1994/1999) · Sonic the Fighters (1996) · Sonic the Hedgehog (1997) · Sonic & Tails Spinner (2002) · CR Sonic (2003) · Sonic Spinner (2007) · Sonic Live! (2008) · Sonic Sports Basketball (2010) · Sonic Sports Air Hockey (2010) · Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Arcade (2011) · Sonic Athletics (2013) · Sonic Ghost Shooting (2013) · Sonic Brain Ranking (2013) · Sonic Dash Extreme (2015) · Sonic Blast Ball (2015) · Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition (2016) · Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - Arcade Edition (2020)
Other	Puzzle Construction (1991, TeraDrive) · Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld (1994, Pico) · Tails and the Music Maker (1994, Pico) · Sonic's Schoolhouse (1996, PC) · Sonic Shuffle (2000, Dreamcast) · Shadow the Hedgehog (2005, multi-platform) · Sega Splash! Golf (2008, PC) · Sonic the Hedgehog (2008, Didj) · Team Sonic Racing (2019, multi-platform) · Sega Streaming Theater Sonic Edition (2021, PC) · Sonic Speed Simulator (2022, multi-platform) · The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (2023, PC)
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