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My primary request for the next Smash game: Make echo fighters more unique. There's so much more they could have done with Ganondorf than make him a heavy Captain Falcon clone. Same thing with revamping Link, bringing Dr. Mario back, etc.

As cool as a Subspace sequel would be (especially with all the other things you recommended in a single player mode), it would be pretty tough to incorporate all of the fighters unless many were cut.

I know it won't be possible but I would love unique endings for each characters in classic mode. Not the endings that we have already from the other games but more like something from playstation all stars where each character had a introduction, meeting a character and ending cutscene, it makes the classic mode more exciting to play.

Smash "fans": "WE WANT MORE CHARACTERS" Also Smash "fans" when getting more characters: "NOOO GAME BAD NOW"

One thing I wish Smash Ultimate had which they should bring in the next Smash is the Spirits having description like trophies had that gives us a paragraph of which game it came from. There's over 1000 spirits in Ultimate from series that are long forgotten and it'll be nice to know information about them

i thought it was weird pokefloats wasnt mentioned in stages but you gave it a full point as it deserves

I truly appreciate the efforts in making the Smash franchise (specifically in its current state of casual play) as alive as possible. In my personal opinion, I feel that Nintendo's most likely next step is to bring Smash 64 to N64 Online. Ik it sounds kinda watersdown compared to everything said in the vid, but Nintendo is Nintendo.

I’d honestly say they can keep some echo fighters but massively Revamp them, like young link for example, he could easily use his masks and be a transformation character

I think the next Smash game should be a reboot with JUST Nintendo characters. It’d remove the legal issues of third party characters, and let the developers use that time and money to revamp older characters, add new ones people have been wanting, and focus on side modes and QOL. We never did get a Boss Rush mode in Ultimate. I know that to many, Smash Bros has become a “celebration of gaming” in general, but I think that if it was announced outright that the game would just be Nintendo-focused, people wouldn’t complain nearly as much.

Great video Aaron! Yeah, if a Deluxe does happen, there's also always that slim chance we get some extra characters who didn't make it this time around.

There're 3 things I want to point out that I believe are important: 1:Ultimate almost didn't exist at all in the first place (or at least almost didn't brought back everyone) cause Snake and Cloud almost got out because of Konami and Square Enix respectively, I don't think a port is even impossible if we take into account some DLC fighters and the legal nightmare that would require bringing them back again. 2:The problem with alternate costumes comes from companies NOT wanting to change the design of their character too drastically, and since Nintendo doesn't own some of those characters, they must follow the guidelines without a question just to be able to have Pacman and Sonic in the game (characters that don't have very interesting alternate costumes). 3:Speaking of guidelines, involving third-party characters into the story will be tricky since the companies will demand full control of what their characters will be doing, and if they don't like an interaction, they will demand a change, there's a reason they exchanged a story mode for the reveal trailers, cause that way, they can focus on just ONE third-party character (sometimes none) as opposed to multiple and thus, following the guidelines becames easier.

5:06 Sonic definitely has some new special moves they could use from Frontiers. Wasn't a whole lot they could've pulled from besides maybe wisp powers I guess?

Personally, I say that an Ultimate Deluxe or a port of Ultimate would be one of the worst things for the franchise, as very little things DO change for the better. Plus, while on paper a roster of over 100 characters is crazy to think about, it'll just make the roster feel overwhelming to many players and to the balancing team. So, I propose, just make a Smash 6. Try to go for an actual story mode campaign, with fully animated and fully voiced cutscenes, and not World of Light. Improve the online ranking system, while also adding rollback netcode. Bring back a bunch of the single player modes that were cut like Break the Targets (the Brawl version), revert Classic Mode to how it was in Brawl. And finally, WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER EVERYONE IS HERE. The best course of action would be to first find out the "quintessential" Smash Bros going forward, like the 40-50 most iconic Nintendo/3rd Parties, add a few newcomers and take it from there. If you do that and offer plenty of replayability I think most players would be on board. Because what would you rather have, a fleshed-out game with less characters than Ultimate, or a barebones port but we have every character?

A Great Maze Stage but instead of Subspace Levels. It switches through every stage in the game.

Make a final destination that cycles through all of the previous smash game’s final destination backgrounds. The ultimate final destination.

7:20 I don't think Skull Kid has enough moveset potential to be upgraded to a full fighter. Bomberman _might_ work if you pulled some weird and generally obscure to the mainstream stuff from his franchise's history though. I'm not well-versed enough in that topic to say for certain and forgot most of what I already knew could work. Probably best to leave B-Daman out of his moveset though.

i think the next smash should be focused on customization. It woud be like Smash 4's custom moves but add in the ability to swap out asthetical peices on the fighters; like say Link's sheids, Samus' different suits, or maybe even differnt hats for Mario

I would love a deluxe version of Smash Ultimate with new fighters, stages, and a freaking boss rush.

I want trophies back

You forgot about rollback netcode lol :C Great points though! I would love to see another adventure mode and having it playable online would be a dream 😍 & loving the new icon btw ^^

How to fix Smash: Get rid of its truly awful fanbase.

I’m on team reboot. Some of my ideas include: mid-air grabs, every character gets 2 final smashes (1 close-range, 1 long-range), flashier effects, series crossover stages (like a Mario x Zelda stage) with dope dual-series remixes, a true story mode (even if shorter), refocus on Nintendo-first, update all characters to reflect modern iterations.

I'd like some more references to the source games in a subspace sequel but I thought the fact it wasn't just Nintendo worlds was awesome! The fact smash has its own universe added a lot to the story in my opinion. It wasn't a story of mario and zelda it truly was just Smash Bros. World (Watch this be the title of the sequel)

>Introduces a new concept with echo fighters pre-release >People are OK because it allows Sakurai to bring in characters easily as long as their moveset can be copypasted from another character >Literally stops after post release and doesn't mention it at all for DLC and even post-DLC It’s funny how Melee had the most robust set of clones while it was rushed but with Ultimate they had a lot of time to sprinkle some differences on certain echoes but only did minor differences or not even any, looking a Daisy and Damus.

It’s truly not a culmination of the last 20 years without my favorite stage! I miss Poké Floats!

Smash Ultimate is a culmination of a lot of things aligning VERY well. It would be hard to create a new Smash with all these characters and more without countless DLC. I also agree that long time veteran characters are pretty stale.

I really don’t see a Ultimate Deluxe tbf. A reboot would arguably make more money, have them focus on characters that actually need reworks(looking at Ganon and Sonic for example), and then whatever else they could do. Nothing against Waluigi I just don’t understand the need for him.

Subspace 2 would ideally, for me, use lock&key progression, wherein exploring the world unlocks characters that you can swap out to that'd help you progress (through the use of moves specific to them).

If we do end up getting the next Smash game, here are some of my things that I want to see: - *Rollback Netcode* - *Squad Strike playable online* - *Play any music on any stage* - *Remove the dodge system limit and make the airdodge a bit more like Melee* - *L-Canceling but make it better than it was in Melee* - *Break the Targets and Board the Platforms* - *More minigames* - *Color Customization mode for the characters*

I feel like the most likely option for the next Smash game is to reboot it so both Smash Ultimate and Smash 6 can still stand on their own and stay relevant where even though it's expected that probably around half or close of the roster in Ultimate is cut so they can give more unique movesets to characters that need them the most such as Samus, Kirby and Ganondorf but also add the most newcomers the series has ever seen so a lot of highly requested characters that didn't get into Smash Ultimate (and was probably on the Fighters Ballot) could finally get their chance in Smash 6 such as Waluigi, Geno, Phoenix Wright, Shantae, Doom Slayer, Crash, Rayman and Master Chief to name a few. Also, it's most likely that Sakurai won't be directing this game as he's repeatedly said that Ultimate will likely be his last game especially with the amount of work put into it and will pass the torch to someone else who Sakurai trusts to continue the series, but I also think Sakurai could still play some part in the next Smash since he also said that he can't think of anyone working on Smash besides him by being a Supervisor to the game giving approval and advice to everyone so it can be the Smash game Sakurai envisioned which is why it wouldn't be any more perfect than to call the next Smash game if it was a reboot: *Super Smash Bros. Genesys*

Probably the only one who'd want this only to see how they'd make him fight i'd want Billy from Billy Hatcher.

If a campaign mode is done, move the Spirit battles from Adventure Mode to an Events Mode. Bring back and add more mini-games (Break the Targets). As for cosmetics, do a similar system to Mortal Kombat 11/1. Default skins and a slot for User Custom.

5:54 I am that someone. ITS MY MAIN!

Before I watch this, I know exactly what you will say. "Add Barry SteakFries to smash."

"There's DK, who's had no significant changes since Smash 64." So his old clunky dash attack being swapped out for his roll attack from DKC1 and being able to use his down special in the air (both of which were changes made in *Smash 4)* were hallucinations I made up?

I would really love for Smash to get a spin-off series, a “Super Smash Adventures,” that focused on single-player platforming, which would allow for a huge number of characters without having to balance them too carefully, and with locations, enemies and bosses taken from all the participating game series. And then the main Smash series can focus on designing and balancing the actual fighter characters and stages more closely.

Quantity all characters and stages can't top it Quality as in gameplay definitely top-able if your going to beat ult you have to do it with gameplay

How do we still not have a victory pose reference video for all the 3DS/Wii U fighters and the Ultimate fighters yet? It's been over a year since he uploaded the Brawl victory pose reference video and we still haven't finished the victory pose reference playlist yet. 🤦‍♂️ Like this comment if you want him to make a video on the a victory pose reference video for all the 3DS/Wii U fighters and all the Ultimate fighters!

6:57 Doesn't Nintendo have to pay ShoPro to use that armor? Nintendo didn't use it first, which means it most likely belongs to ShoPro and knowing ShoPro, there's no chance they'd just let Nintendo use it for free. Just because Creatures Inc paid to put it in the card game and Niantic paid to put it in Go doesn't mean Nintendo's willing to do the same.

If they do make another smash game, it’ll have to be really different from the original mechanic wise and character wise as a whole new trilogy. My main request is that the Mii Fighters get a classic mode because for some reason, that was never a thing in smash ultimate.

i dont have a problem with spirits replacing trophies but please bring back informations for all the spirits. back in the day i read every trophy in melee and brawl and found intererest in more nintendo games just because of the trophy infos and text

Unpopular opinion: Crash Bandicoot is HUGELY overrated. That commercial is what made me want to play it, and when I finally did, my impression was “WTF is this crap?” The TV ad made it sound like it’s better than Mario 64 but Mario stomps Crash in every way and 3D Mario games are still fun to this day.

As long as new fighters still get amiibos I don't care. Because the point of the game is toys coming alive. The toys are the focus. If a fighter does not return we still have the toy.

IIRC, the reason why we never got another full fledged single player mode to the degree of Subspace after Brawl was because people would upload the cutscenes for Subspace on KZfaq. As a result, a lot of people weren't playing Subspace because they didn't have to to see the cutscenes, as well as Nintendo not liking that their content was uploaded without their consent. And that really soured Nintendo on doing anything like Subspace going forward.

One idea i actually had for Smash Bros. Singleplayer would be a "Career mode". You would create your Mii Fighter and basically have a hubworld where you can buy costumes, interact with the rest of the cast and be mentored by them in the goal to become stronger/the best. The spirit/event battles would be training exercises and small melee adventure mode stages would be larger tests with a big tournament capping off the story. And after clearing it once you can do it with every other character with a slightly changed introduction to match. Though it would be propably a bit much....

Bring back Boss Rush and Smash Run

We need Glitch from Metal Arms Glitch In the System!!!

It's not hard to top. Just make it to where we can customize what moves each character has. Make the characters more accurate to their depictions in their games. For example, make Mario pull out and use a fire flower when he wants to shoot fireballs

"donkey kong hasn't had any significant changes since 64" dash attack

Unfortunately Subspace and adventure mode melee won’t work on switch hardware limitation causeing the game crash and lag

If they did a campaign, it would have to be a significant improvement on Subspace Emissary. I was excited for it at the time, but found it to be a joyless slog. I'd like an improved and built up version of the Adventure mode in Melee.

Give Peach a moveset inspired by Showtime (specifically Swordfighter and Kung Fu Peach) and give Daisy a moveset inspired by Tennis and Strikers, and have her wear something more athletic.

I hope they bring back trophies and stickers in the next game

Funnily enough, I had this idea of a single-player campaign called "Spirit Quest," where you play as a Mii saving the spirits of the fighter who have been turned into trophies because their souls were sucked out of them.

In terms of outside of moveset, BotW Link is a new character that replaced an old character, not just a design change. He and Twilight Princess Link are separated by over ten thousand years of continuity, making it impossible for them to be the same person.

Make another Subspace Emissary BUT it doubles as a Smash Run with Boss Rooms. SE: Boss Rooms unlock some characters but mostly gears to improve your character. SR: Boss Rooms unlock some characters if the player who unlocked them wins the challenge at the end. It’s mostly there for bonus points. There can be an online free for all or team aspect where you’re dropped at random locations in a voted map and you and your team have to work together to fight a boss or gain points. If you can cross paths with a person and take their points like a defeat in Smash Run. Going through the story unlocks more maps for team SR or Free for Alls. We could probably add a Battle Royale mechanic that knocks players out if there’s too many for the challenge at the end.

I’m okay with just getting ultimate again + dlc. Even if that dlc is just a new sub space emissary or something. Ultimate was fantastic and honestly I can’t see much topping it until a few generations down the line.

If I was in Sakurai's position and had to take the Smash series forward, I'd do it in one of two ways. (Long comment BTW) 1. I'd just keep adding on to Ultimate. I would personally ditch the fighter pass strategy and just release a fighter pack (character, stage, and music) every 4-6 months and maybe drop a new mode from time to time over the span of a few years. Then the team would take a year break, then continue development again. Then just repeat that whole process for however long Nintendo sees fit. Fans keep getting new content, developers aren't overworked, and Nintendo keeps making money, everybody is happy. If it were ported to a new console, I wouldn't even call it deluxe, and fighters pass 1 & 2 wouldn't be pre-bundled. My reasons for those choices are customer satisfaction and copyright. If a deluxe version were made with all the previous DLC characters already on it, people who bought the original would feel ripped off for buying a product that's now bundled with the game for free. Not having fighters pass 1 & 2 pre-installed in a new port would be more fair to people who bought the original. The other reason is to not have to renegotiate for the rights to characters that are already in the game. I'm not real familiar with copyright laws, but if hypothetically Ultimate and Ultimate Deluxe were legally two different things, third parties (namely square and disney) might try to take their characters out because Nintendo got them into Ultimate, but not Ultimate Deluxe. 2. I'd reboot the series. I'd cut the roster down to 40-50 characters, give older veteran characters entirely reworked movesets to better represent their source material and to better utilize the modern character design philosophy, and the biggest change I would make is making the game 3D to really justify calling it a reboot. TL:DR, Either occasionally add more stuff to Ultimate for years, or make a 3D reboot.

I dont want the characters to be cut but instead I would like to have unique movesets for each character. I hate the fact that we have Three Links with the same moveset.

i feel like a lot of people suggesting smash ultimate deluxe dont realize just how impossible that would be

Sakurai still hasn't, and will not, forgive leakers, and his game design reflects this. The reason WoL was the way it was was to prevent Brawl-level leaked cutscenes. At some point, leakers, and leak culture, need to be policed and punished by the fans of video games. ResetEra is the top priority, with Twitter leakers being second to be Thanos Snapped from the fandom.

Yeah honestly I could not care less what they do to the next smash game as long as Joker stays a playable character I'll gobble it up.

I really hope they bring back custom moves from Smash 4

I heavily disagree with the inclusion of Waluigi. This would be rewarding all the pissers who sent death threats to Sakurai and the devs. And it wouldn`t stop the discourse, because then they would whine about how "this and that isn`t right" etc.

I like you how included the 3 biggest gaming icons-Mario, Sonic, and MC Steve, in the thumbnail.

While I like the idea of the veterans from 64 to Brawl having some tweaks or overhauls of the moveset which is really concerning now. The series has a problem with nostalgia (repeating the same things) on both sides. Sakurai doesn't want to overhaul old characters cause they don't want the fans get alienated, despite the character X is getting stale or too generic right now. And the fans who likes the current moveset of character X is mostly fans who are competitors (and sometimes casuals) that they hate change of the character X's movesets cause they don't want to mess up their flow and esp. performance of the characters they love. This is the major problem. Sakurai and the fans really needs to take that sacrifice to accept change or never bring back at all.

I think a reboot is good, but since not every figther needs a new moveset, maybe the cuts don’t have to be so harsh and there should be a way to allow people to play older versions of characters, a toggle mode similar to Smash Bros. Crusade. So, having around 65 returning characters with most of the characters from melee and older and most of the echo fighters being reworked, and 13 newcomers could be a good base roster and a DLC of about 10 or 12. Maybe end the DLC off with the story mode after the final fighter is revealed to try and include them, but that might be too much.

Its time to go back to the beginning and update all the characters that have a lot of games to pull content from.

Honestly my biggest wishes are Cinderace and Zeraora as fighters

Smash Ultimate Deluxe doesn’t make sense. Its already a “deluxe” version of the Sm4sh. MK8 got a deluxe because it was already a (assuming) good game, but no one played the Wii U. Thats also why theres a high number of games being remastered, because people actually own a switch.

Easy, make a Deluxe version is the best way to continue Smash Ultimate out of respect for Sakurai because so much work was put into it.

All I request for the next game is that the older characters with outdated movesets be given an upgrade

I'll be real, I really don't want more echo fighters or just a deluxe version of the game. Echoes feel so bleh, they're clones with little to no differences besides character models and some animations at their worst. If they're gonna continue doing it then at least make it more like Ken where the echo has different attributes. Lucina and Dark Samus were characters I wanted really bad but I barely play them because they're just boring clones Ultimate also has too much bloat, a little bit of quantity over quality so simply adding more stuff would just exacerbate this issue imo. But overall I agree with most of your suggestions

>Ass Mad that Corrin isn’t playable That got a Kek out of me, love when people throw shade on Fire Emblem when you least expect it!

My only request for a future Smash game is... Give us Phoenix Wright, you cowards! He would be perfect for Smash. An iconic, quirky character with so much potential for a moveset, especially since he was already in fighting games before, and overall, he would be an awesome addition. Like, he was one of my dream characters for Ultimate's DLC. Also, as a last thing, if you people had the chance to change only one Fighter Pass character, what would it be? Despite my rant on me wanting Phoenix Wright, I think I would replace Sephiroth with Dante. The two have the same VA in Japanese, and that is basically the only reason, outside of Aaronitmar mentioning him in his reaction of Sephiroth's trailer.

I would honestly love if the next Smash Bros. game was a well-polished HD revamp of the original Smash 64, but with EVERY CHARACTER getting the DLC treatment. Give us Mario with FLUDD, Cappy, the Spin from Mario Galaxy, the WORKS. Just completely remake every characters movesets from the ground up! (Of course if it was _just_ Smash 64 it wouldn't be as impressive, so they would need to increase the roster size a bit... probably prioritizing the most important ones, like the franchise representatives like Pac-Man, Mega Man, Sonic, Villager, Olimar, etc.).

I don’t think another smash game is gonna happen, at least anytime soon. Sakurai said that smash 4 was gonna be the last smash game shortly after that game came out then gave us ultimate as the final game, hence why every character ever plus insane dlc we’re in the game.

1:46 I mean most of those are Wii U games, it's not really in question why they've been doing that and the odds of them doing it for the next Nintendo console is far lower.

10:43 there was a small KZfaq channel called Gaming All-Stars Gmod who literally did something like this for example you would see sonic in the mushroom kingdom

I would love to see KOS MOS from Xenosaga in the game that will be cool.

I think Smash is fine the way it is.

give us different final smashes as in you can keep 3 different final smashes whenever you unlock them

I would like them to bring back the size difference for the mii fighter. the female Mii fighters to have their own movesets and animation like give them a cutesy, girly animation. And All girl voices, costumes and hats should go to the female Miis. I would rather they gave tge Mii fighters their own original mii costumes like hoodies, high school uniform and a standard mii outfit. or past mii costumes like wii sports, Nintendo land outfit, and Mario kart wii outfit B. NOT deconfirmed character costumes. And for the mii fighters to have a some more special moves and/or battle class

JUST BANK ON THE CROSSOVER ASPECT MAN, IT'S NOT *THAT* HARD-

New icon looks iconic😂😂😂😂

My number 1 pick for a new fighter HAS to be Rayman, it'd be so cool to see him

I would love to have a Smash Ultimate Deluxe. Very more deserving tbh. Especially with the amount of fighters, reworking the game would be too much work. When you mentioned Cappy I personally don't think Mario would need such a changed moveset since Cappy is literally from a one off game. I know it's popular but not enough to make a sequel or grab Nintendo more attention. By now we would've had a Cappy reference in Mario Kart.... But yea Smash Ultimate Deluxe ALL THE WAY. Also Master Chief for Smash too yus

I think that the problem with spirits is the main spirit thing that enhances your stats. I think that you should only have ability spirits with particular abilities usable by each different character, instead of making fights unbalanced. This is also a problem of spirits in multiplayer, like you could make them balanced instead of making some spirits just give you +9000 damage

Regarding single player campaign. I really wish they did something like PlayStation all stars where franchises merge between each other. Like sephiroth possessing Donkey Kong and playing a dk rap version of one wing angel for a boss

So after decades of complaining about clones, Nintendo just needed to call them something different and now everyone is on board and wants more lol

honestly one thing is missing from the Single player content that a Content trimming would help is the lack of non-combat content, Smash 64 had Board the Platforms & each level was tailored to that character's own mobility, or you had silly distractions like the Coin Launcher in Brawl or the Street Smash in 3DS; Smash ultimate only has HomeRun contest, & Spirits in which half the Sipirit modifiers can be just turned off entirely

"You just know someone is going to be unnecessarily furious that Corrin isn't playable." Yes, and that person is me.

it would be really neat if nintedo redid the whole "mii fighter" thing and had like a "nintendo-fied" version of the sorta character creators you get in street fighter 6 and soul calibur, like a more cartoon-ey animated version of that with costumes and fighting styles based on nintendo properties. Maybe im biased i do love a good character creator

I'm gonna say something people don't like. The series needs a reboot. The "Everyone is here!" shit is so dumb and it lead to Sakurai and team phoning it in. All of the new stages are just different flavors of Skyloft. You know the stage. Where its just Battlefield but the background is just a revolving tour of that particular game. Which is nice but that's not really a stage. What you ended up getting is Sakurai and friend scrambling to build characters that were in essence already made. All with lazy move sets like the infamous down B counter instead of something unique and interest. Sora had nearly 20 years with like 6 different games and they gave him the driest move set imaginable. No more clones and definitely no dumb shit like Steve. Nintendo just has so much to pull from from in their library. Easily so much fat can be trimmed off the roster with clones alone. Personally I think they need the OG line up minus Fire Emblem. If they want FE then for the love of god keep Marth and no clones. No Luci. No Roy or Chrom. Robin and Corrin are unique but their time is over. Alear is also eh....I still can't get over how they made a deviant art OC a main character. But each OG should have one UNIQUE rep. Samus and Ridley are perfect example of this. Samus and her archnemesis. No clones COMPLELY different characters. Ultimately a huge chunk of Ultimate roster needs to go on the back burner. Characters are crux of Smash but are people THAT upset if an obscure clone doesn't make it into Smash. Overall the Roster just needs less bloat and more uniqueness. Especially in move diversity - unique new moves were good also but I guess we can't have that.

3:57 I think they'd keep Robin, or at least one of the three Awakening reps. It's too important of a game for Nintendo and IS to ignore a legacy or spot in the roster.

I'm of the opinion that Ultimate is so well done and definitive that if Nintendo literally never made a new Smash Bros. again and instead just kept porting Ultimate over and over again with higher resolution and better performance and some additional DLC each time, I'd be *completely* satisfied with that decision.

Either a subspace sequel would have to be really big, or not at all.

Ultimate is over 4 years old man, a new Smash has got to be in development now

I'm pretty sure the license holder or game creator have final say on characters, there design, and whether they get costumes. Sakurai holds the creators in high regard so if Sega wants Sonic some shade of blue then Sonic is going to be some shade of blue unfortunately.