Thoughts on the Direct:
The Good....
-DLC characters are coming. 5 final chances for people to hope for their most wanted character to get in unless they've been deconfirmed.
-They added Guile's theme to the game, with the character appearing as an Assist Trophy!
-Ken and Incineroar may not be the best final additions to the base roster, but I'm okay with them (I was expecting Ken to show up because you can't have a game with Ryu and Echo Fighters and not have Ken).
The Bad....
-I was gutted hard by the sight of Isaac being an Assist Trophy again. Losing Bomberman to the same fate back in E3 was bad enough. No, I didn't believe the Grinch leak (I don't believe leaks, because you never know what Nintendo is going to do, especially since anyone can just make up a leak now), but I was sure this was Isaac's chance of finally making it.
-The loss of collectable trophies. I liked collecting trophies just for the descriptions for each one that told you stuff about the character or thing you were looking at and what games they were from. They were also a nice incentive of playing the different modes. With trophies gone now, what's the point of playing through Classic Mode if you're not going to get anything worthwhile like a trophy of the character you just beat Classic Mode with? I hope they have something where you can look at the different spirits you got and read descriptions about the characters and what games they're from.
-Speaking of modes, a lot of modes from previous games are gone now. No Home Run Contest, no Target Test (or even Target Blast), All-Star Mode is now part of Multi-Man Smash, no Stage Builder. The only modes in the Games & More menu is Classic Mode, Training, and Multi-Man Smash.
-And the one character who is probably going to be the most divisive new character in Ultimate (unless somebody worse is revealed as DLC)....Piranha Plant. The biggest problem with this character's reveal is probably going to be the timing, being revealed about 10 minutes after hopes for fan favorites like Isaac, Shadow, the Black Knight, and Skull Kid (who wasn't even revealed in the Direct! You had to go to the game's site to find out that he's still an Assist Trophy) to be playable were crushed. Talk about insult to injury. It reminds me of the reveal of Bad Box Art Mega Man in Street Fighter x Tekken with the character being revealed when Mega Man fans were not happy with how Capcom was treating the Mega Man franchise at the time. The good news is Piranha Plant is a bonus DLC character, which means you don't have to get it if you don't like it.
The Ugly....
-Seeing EVERYONE (except Kirby) getting vaporized by the main villain's light beams of doom in the World of Light cutscene.
So in all, for a final Direct of the game, it seems like it fell short compared to the August 8th Direct, which seemed to be the peak when it came to the reveals and hype they generated.
Edited by KEM64, 06 November 2018 - 12:45 AM.