

The battle style is pretty simple to pick up and a bit friendlier to new players than a health bar system, although Super Smash Bros. Characters have ways to recover from being knocked far away and their attacks can have properties better for launching the foe or dealing damage, the idea being that the more damage a character takes, the further they’ll fly away when hit with a strong attack. Essentially, you’re trying to knock your enemy out of the ring, but the style of battle featured here is much more diverse than a sumo wrestling match. To earn a KO, a player must launch an enemy either so far up, down, or to the left or right that they exit the stage’s borders, the character exploding once they hit these blast zones. Ultimate, players pick a character to try and defeat the other player or a game controlled character, but the means through which they do so is a bit different from many fighting games. might just be the only series where we’re likely to ever see such characters interact, but Ultimate also happens to the most refined version of the fighting game style created by the first game. Ultimate truly an ultimate gaming crossover, but it serves as a wonderful celebration of the history of the entire video game medium. Nearly 20 years after the original game, we now have series like Metal Gear, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Castlevania, and Street Fighter joining Nintendo’s many classic characters in a battle between over 70 recognizable faces from games both old and new. Over the years though, the series continued to grow, and soon characters from outside of Nintendo’s series joined in the brawl. series first began, it already had some of Nintendo’s biggest franchises meeting each other for battle, the likes of Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda coming together to already make for an impressive crossover. Ultimate is perhaps the biggest video game crossover so far.
