Every time Esam says some part of Sora's kit is simple My brain: You mean it's simple and clean.

Mario handshaking Sora is honestly beautiful. The first character to the last, and fitting in pieces of music styled from N64, makes me so happy. Couldn't have made a better choice to finish off the roster, and Sakurai deserves to retire, go on vacation, and never work again.

“You could go from middle school to high school during this time” Dude, I played Smash 64 as a kid, grew up with Melee in middle, Braw in high school, and 4 in college. Smash has literally been in my life all my life.

The Smash symbol dying out symbolizes the end of Ultimate. But the one flame dropping is the last character. that's what got out of it at least.

Ive never played KH, but this is a fitting Final character

Kingdom hearts for me and smash is part of my childhood and see this two things finally encounter each other made me to left tears. I am really happy. And of course thank you Sakurai for making so happy game to all of us and finally give a super gift in the end it means a lot. Thank you Sakurai.

Disney becoming lawful good for a split second.

After watching that trailer a few times, I'm honestly shocked more people didn't guess Dark Souls. Sakurai and his team did an amazing job here.

The whole character reveal trailer is styled extremely close to the way KH intros are done. The way the fire slowly glitters out and the trophy stand Mario is on slowly fades away, even the way Mario moves. It is all very well done in the way a KH opening scene would be.

This would make sense because the title of his reveal was called the "The Last Key" and I approve of this.

I love how the reveal trailer captures the Disney magic. It’s so simple but feels extremely grand!

To answer you ESAM, the only time we could be sure is a SPLIT second before everyone else when the Keyblade was shown outlined in fire, right before the keychain haha

I've never played Kingdom Hearts and this reveal still made me cry

“It couldn’t have been Mickey because that’s not his key blade” is what I thought when you were asking if it was Mickey lol

From the emphasis on contrasting light and darkness, I was 50% sure that meant Kingdom Hearts. I saw the sparkle effect after Mario stepped off his platform and thought, "That looks straight ripped out of Kingdom Hearts" and was 90% sure. Then I saw Mario standing in front of that final ember, all other characters bathed in dark. As he reached out for it, I was like 10% thinking "Is it someone out of Dark Souls?"

Right before Mario reached his hand in the fire was similar to the way Sora summons the keybalde some times. This game is truly complete now IMO. They definitely did a awesome job representing so many franchises throughout gaming history.

Fun fact: ultimate means final or last so Sora is Sakurai's ultimate character.

Not a sword user we got them keys boys.

When sora did his side b I instantly had bayo flashbacks lmao don’t take me back to that place

Remember when everyone was moaning after Byleth, "Enough with the anime swordfighters!" Poor Sakurai. Sora is hype.

and finally... after 3 years, Sakurai can take a nap

he's s tier strictly because of his aerial abilities, he's got like basic a tier swordy moves, but can literally live off stage

Kingdom hearts being represented in smash just makes sense smash is the biggest crossover in gaming history while the entire kingdom hearts series is a crossover imo perfect end to a perfect crossover!

The little bonfire at the beggining of the cinematic, make me tought for a second that it would be a Dark Souls character.

Goodbye Pikachu. You were a good main.

Time to learn how to be a keyblade master!

Man, nostalgia I started when I was 10 years old with Smash on the 64, I'm 31 now. I've had smash in my life for 21 years.

Yeah everyone didn’t know who was the fighter till they saw the key blade spinning. Even KH youtubers

"I'm just waiting for Disney music, or Kingdom Hearts music." Well, my friend...

Sora looks simple... and clean

Cloud and Sephiroth in the trailer "Oh shit, not this kid again."

The first few notes of Sora's intro sound like Disney's "When you wish upon a star" and it kinda fits

y'know, with this being sakurai's final project coming to an end, it almost feels right that the final character was a sword character. and the best one yet.

Think of the fiery Smash emblem as the fighters' "lifelight". It may be mostly burnt out, but there was one last ember of light left, which Mario used to call upon Sora. Sora IS that final spark of lifelight. Also: _"Colors weave into a spire of flame; Distant sparks call to a past still unnamed; Bear this torch against the cold of the night; Search your soul and reawaken the undying light/Light will guide you on your way to the ultimate fight"_

I remember filling out that Smash Fighter ballot back in the day lol. I don't remember who I put in, but I wouldn't be surprised if I put in Sora once

everytime Esam or Sakurai says "simple" i can't help but add "and clean" to it

He just called it at the first minute, "I'm looking for disney music"

I'm beyond excited for his inclusion

24:34 "Does it change anything? Not really" It means Pikachu's QA will be interrupted if countered :)))))))

My heart is also full!! I’ve not played the kingdom hearts series but I know he makes a lot of people happy. 🤍

38:20 The only way to guess before the mouse ears was to guess that the fire was "the light in the darkness" which is representative of Sora. I thought it was Dark Souls.

Im glad for all the Sora fans, but im so sad for my man Crash Bandicoot, not even one lil representation in all smash, he is an icon of gaming

The way he moves and the fact that he’s light reminds me of mewtwo

That counter is more useful than people give credit for. It completely stops the enemy leaving them wide open for a guaranteed attack which means characters like Lucina who snap to the ledge while also attacking through the stage will get 2 frame countered AND get hit even if you're countering from the ledge.

Sora to me is literally a sword pika. He has quick attack, thunder, potentially high combo potential, and looks like a better off stage presence than pika. I wouldn’t be surprised if esam picks up sora as a alternative main.

The Sora and Mario shaking hands feels so much like Ryu and Cyclops shaking hands in X-Men vs Street Fighter

I didn't even notice he skipped his dash attack. Hopefully he's thinking about changing it to add the switch like he did to jab, nair,fair and side tilt.

Now guys do your best to offer us the most epic Smash competitive scene we could get, so the game will live on for a long time.

After 13.0 drops the modding scene is going to crack the game wide open.

btw for ppl who dont know septhiroth was in kh1 and 2 as a hidden boss fight with 15 life bars........... still haunts me

You do realize that recoveries that would normally be able to armor through a counter if you didn't pull the counter off at the apex, will get stopped dead in their tracks thanks to this stagger mechanic right? Marcina and Mr. GnW just to name a couple.

Woah sora is in smash!no way! This is going to be a surprise for everyone!

You know why Sora is the last character in Smash? He's got the key to end a long living gamer legacy and the longest story in gamer history. To close the door of Smash history.

I’ve played KH since I was in elementary school, and I’ve graduated college. So nostalgic for me, and I’m so excited to play this character. Regardless of how good or bad he is.

the earliest anyone knew it was kingdom hearts was mario stepping down from the amiibo platform, it vanishes with kingdom hearts sfx

I'm shocked that no one here thought of kindling the first flame from Dark Souls when Mario reached for the fire. For those of us in that sphere, that was a serious bait...

When Mario shook his hand, that shit made me damn near tear up.

This just feels right lol

No matter if your character got in the game or not, everyone is here...In every player's hearts

It's ironic that I literally went from 6th grade to 9th grade when smash ultimate came out until now. From Inkling to Sora, this is the only reveal I almost cried to.

Fortunately I do know the majority of the references, like Sora fighting Sephiroth was a thing in KH2.

Sora counter staggering actually does change stuff. I believe you've seen videos of people landing counters on certain moves and it doesn't actually hit the opponent. Of course the downside is that it doesn't work from behind him like the other counters.

The thumbnail looks like a new soyjack

38:21 i think for me, i had a feeling it was Sora from the moment Mario threw the flame, it reminded me of the ability Strike Raid, which was when the player throws the keyblade like a boomerang, and i believe in later games you could combine it with different magic spells (I.e Fire, blizzard, thunder)

I'm in tears. It's been a long run. Can't wait to see how the meta evolves knowing no more characters will be added and people can learn matchups

I had an inkling it was Sora when Mario's trophy pedestal disappeared. The particle effects were very Kingdom Hearts. I also recognized the Keyblade before the Keychain was distinct lol.

how is kirby going to look with his ability

Sora's cool, sure, but can we please have Hallow Bastion replace Smashville? Better visuals, better music, and changes on the last stock. I'm sick of having intense, crazy tournament sets on calm, chill Animal Crossing stages.

Sakurai made a point to beat Cloud with Sonic blade, because Sora learned that move from Cloud in KH1.

As an Avid fan kingdom hearts I couldn’t tell it was sora until the keyblade was shown. Oh and on rewatch all I could get was no hope darkness was about to take over after sora arrived he saved everyone??? Maybe he sealed the keyhole to no more smash characters???

Lots of people are gonna be mad that it's another anime sword fighter

Why do some people not get that the fire represents the last spark of imagination and magic that the smash ball gives the fighters? The fire in of itself does not represent a particular character, it is a metaphor representing the life breathed into the characters, which are toys being played by a child in canon.

6:26 "He looks cute" FBI: *EEEEEHHHHHHHH!?*

I guess you can say that Sora is "Simple and Clean"🥁🥁

why do i feel at 23:55 my man got to excited then caught himself lol

Sora's "Simple and Clean" to play🤗

Sora kind of IS the Disney character just excluding the non video game characters.

I never played KH and I really don't like Disney period....but fine with this character!! I'm just thrilled its not Pokemon

I was 9 years old when the original Smash Brothers game came out on the N64; the only time I ever got to play it was whenever me and the family went to a local McDonalds Play Place, and there they had these cubicles installed including games like Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Super Smash Brothers. Although Super Smash Bros. Melee came out in 2001, I never had a Game Cube growing up--I would eventually get one as an adult though--so I never even knew of Melee's existence until around 2004-2005 when I first got into competitive Yugioh. By that point in time, I was most definitely in high school. Brawl came out just as I was wrapping up my senior year in high school, though again, I never got around to playing it until a couple years later--at least by then, I already had a paying job and was attending college, so I wound up upgrading my GameCube and got a Nintendo Wii, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl along with it. The Wii was used, but it came with Wii Sports, several pre-purchased Virtual Console titles like Super Mario Bros. 3, A Link to the Past, and Sin & Punishment; it also just so happened to have had enough credits left over that I was able to get Sonic 4 Episode 1 free of charge. Regardless, I trained vigorously in Brawl, competing with my brother and one or two of his friends constantly every weekend, so I could attend a Super Smash Brothers tournament. With Toon Link by my side (my original main was Sonic, but I found myself to be significantly more sufficient with Toon Link), I managed to get 2nd place--went right down to the wire, so close to winning it all and everything. A couple years later--after I returned home from a faraway trip for some job training, I got a much better paying job at full time hours, got a Wii U (already got a 3DS a year prior for Pokemon and Dream Drop Distance), and was left so thoroughly speechless by Cloud's reveal trailer that I decided that I had to get Cloud as a DLC fighter for both my 3DS and Wii U versions (all of this also occurred the same time I went on a warpath to complete my Pokedex in Pokemon Omega Ruby as well). And now we have Sora finally here in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate as our final fighter. Within reason, just about every single video game icon from my childhood is represented here. Sonic, Kazuya, Cloud, Sephiroth, the Pokemon franchise as a whole, and now Sora. The only notable omissions that immediately spring to mind and are within reason are Crash and Spyro. Maybe Master Chief, but if anything, it was my brother who was more into Halo than I ever was. If Crash was in the game, and Spyro was a Mii Costume or Assist Trophy, this roster would have been truly complete in my opinion. But, I'll take what I can get either way. I wouldn't be surprise that the campaign for Crash and Spyro probably weren't super amped up during the Smash Ballot days due to the fact that both franchises were essentially dead by that point, with the latter in particular condemned to Skylander purgatory. The Crash N. Sane trilogy literally sparked so much interest and demand for Crash and Spyro that I'm pretty sure these remakes of the classic games were what propelled them all the way to the stratosphere in terms of Smash requests. Otherwise, nobody really gave a crap about them in 2015, and by the time news of the N. Sane and Reignited Trilogies were announced, it was already too late.

the earliest someone knew was in July… the posted a tweet about how they worked for Disney and Nintendo requesting rights to kingdom hearts music and stuff

i was watching this trailer and as soon as i saw Sora’s Keyblade i was in TEARS

Pikachu with a sword! Sora going to be a beast!

"Why can't they do that for Hero" Because Sora has 3 spells and Hero has 21

That tweet they did just makes all of this even more hilarious. You probably won't know who this is. That's funny.

Mario handled a keyblade and opened a keyhole to let Sora in... Confirmed wielder Nobody is Raxiom

A dream come true!

The thumbnail😂 lmaoo he looks like a kingdom hearts fan

I feel like the counter could have been a shield special that is really underutilized

What i put in the smash character ballot: Which character: "Sans" Which game are they from: "UNDERTALE" Why should they be a character: The memes

Kingdom Hearts and Smash Bros are my childhood. It’s “simple and clean”.🥲🥲👊🏾👊🏾

*As soon as Mario stepped off the podium and it turned into "Glitter" I knew it was Sora* . I've been playing KH for years and basically know the micro-animations. If you look at the key-blade glitter & Sora's glitter it matches Mario's podium glitter animation.

Like Evangelion: Goodbye to all of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!

Nickelodeon vs Disney Think about it

So this means we’re getting an Esam rendition of Simple and Clean???

They couldn't have ended stronger, honestly, only like Master Chief and Crash maybe are big enough to have an impact like that. I'm speechless, I don't know what pact woth a demon Sakurai has, or what dirt he has on every high end employee at these companies to make this happen. Disney doesn't even play nice with Square and they made Kingdom Hearts. I'm more than shocked.

I am so happy.

I believe the fire is meant to signal the final flame of Smash... everyone keeps overthinking it was Dark Souls or something lol

surprised how fun he looks considering how watered down his moveset is. despite wasted potential im still super excited for this

The moment I saw Marios foot moving i was just like its sora

The flame dropping is the last light in the scene which is said as a line in kh1