Today’s game is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Usually i’d emulate it, but i got a chance to play it again on Native hardware and got to join friends for multiplayer tonight. I’d never gotten to do Multiplayer to be honest, the most i got was playing on a single system with siblings and that was my experience. Getting to actually play online felt vastly different (or maybe it was nintendo’s shitty netcode).
We originally did 1v1 matches, but for our last match of the night we did a 4 person free for all. One of our friends picked DK, which, we have a in joke that if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s: Fuck that ape. It originates from getting our asses kicked on Mario Party 2 by him. Ever since then he’s been public enemy #1. We all ended up teaming up to defeat DK (In good humor of course).
After the great enemy was defeated, we attempted to sue for momentary peace. The pink two got the left half of the map, and Sephiroth got the right half of the map. The peace didn’t last long though after Kirby invaded the right half of the map. I fought hard, but lost to the other two. They quickly turned on eachother and Kirby won.
Before our free for all though, we also did quite a few 1v1 matches as i mentioned before. One of them was the two pink guys against eachother. Kirby got his ass handed too him but somehow won. There was a brief moment where they cuddled up and napped together.
Once Kirby woke up though the bloodshed resumed.
I also went against the member of our friend group who plays a lot of this game. I’m far more casual when i play, but damn, i wiped the floor with him as Sephiroth. The contrast between the two matches was almost comedic. Kirby Vs. Jigglypuff almost seemed like a light tussle, and then Bowser and Sephiroth were over here fighting like the fate of the universe was in the balance.
After these few matched (along with a few others i didn’t capture screenshots from) we ended up stopping for the night. It was nice being able to play with friends like that and honestly it’s the first day in a bit that i’ve been able to just relax. Hopefully i’ll get to do it again because that multiplayer was fun.
Almost thought the pic was a shitpost before I remembered Smash exists (forgive me I hate fighting games). Lovely that we live in a timeline where Shirtless sephiroth, Kirby’s Pokemon cousin, and a gorilla named after another animal, and crossover fighting game characters can all fight each other.
Fair enough on the fighting games lol. Smash is the only one that i’ve really found stuck to me. It having multiple franchises i think helps (and contributes to how surreal the image is)
Yeah I love watching them and really wanna get into them (P4AU, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter, etc.), plus their soundtracks are banger. But I fucking suck at fighting games and the only one I ever tolerated was the soloplayer Pokken Tournament campaign. I honestly got bored of both 3DS and Wii U smash as a child very quickly, and to this day I feel bad for the money wasted.
“Another fighting game character”, take your pick. Just with non-nintendo IPs at this point it could be Ryu, Ken, Terry Bogard or Kazuya Mishima.
And then you can throw Solid Snake, Pac-Man, Sonic, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, fucking Minecraft Steve and a Mii disguised as Sans from Undertale into the mix.
“another fighting game character” YOU DARE DISRESPECT THE THWOMP
Lol I know what a Thwomp is, I was more so noting the fact that the pic is missing a fourth player, so I just was thinking about fighting game crossovers in general.
Fair, I just found it funny XD
Heh, I just played Smash Ultimate after a long while too. Had a few matches with my kid. I started strong, beating him in first few matches, then he got better and I lost 70-80% of the matches. 😀
It really can be like that. I started strong with my younger brothers and now i’d say they can beat my ass a good 6/10 times if they try hard enough. Granted i don’t play nearly as much as they do
Yeah, same here. I am still much better at more technical fighters, like Street Fighter, but get completely destroyed in Smash.
I’m the opposite boat with technical fighters. I just cannot get the hang of them. The closest I ever got was Tekken 7 because Negan from TWD was in it
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It’s more fun playing with tons of characters, specially for a casual game like this. That’s what I do too.
Oh fuck, Hard DK has found his way to you too then :)
Streamer Alpharad got a “Hard DK” bit running since they got their ass handed over to them by a crazy Mario Party CPU DK that was just gambling like mad and winning everything.
They trained an incredibly good amiibo CPU DK in Smash they called Hard DK in reference to this.
I’ll never forgive DK for Mario Party that faithful evening. Maybe i should look into the DK Amiibo, it’d be fun to contribute to my friend group’s bit like that. Assuming the Amiibo isn’t crazy expensive.
Amiibos are a bit expensive. There are a few DK amiibos, they should all work with Smash because amiibos have a character identifier that’s recognized between games and amiibo series.
The ones from smash bros and super mario series should be around the “normal” price (for me it’s about 13-15 euros). Maybe you can find a second hand one for cheaper.
There’s a new one with DK and Pauline for Bananza, like other new amiibos it costs a bit more (around 18€ for me). It unlocks a costume in Bananza as an extra.
There’s also an old Skylander DK figure that doubles as an amiibo if I remember correctly. It’s kinda ugly and cheap-looking, and probably not easy to find, but who knows.
Damn, Skylanders is a name I haven’t heard in a while. I wonder if I had the DK one growing up. I collected those things like hot cakes so it’s possible. Anything to avoid spending more money. Alternatively I think I bought some NFC tags I can write myself now that I think about it specifically for this purpose
Make your own Donkey Kong figure with papier mâché or something and stick a tag on it. Boom, one of a kind amiibo!
