holy fuck what a lot to take in from that direct, we got so much more than what i was expecting. we got two brand new characters and three clones, we got simon which we were all expecting from leaks and the smash website fail that happened yesterday, but did we expect richter as an echo of simon??? then we get echoes in dark samus and chrom, which we all speculated from alt skins missing, assist and robins final smash missing respectively, that theyd get in, and my god did they get in. dark samus is obviously samus with phazon, while chrom is more interesting as he echoes roy but has ikes recovery. then oh boy, at the end of the direct we get a trailer like usual, and it shows dk and diddy looking outside to see a silhouette of k rool, but then nope, its just dedede trolling us. my god dedede actually got me, but then he gets slapped by k rool anyways, and well there you fucking go, k rool is in smash. we get two of the biggest titans, ridley and k rool, confirmed, fuck yes. however i did hear sakurai say that theyre gonna show all the new fighters before launch, tho it might be a translation error, but it makes me sad cause no secret characters to unlock. they also showed off assist trophies and shovel knight happened to be one of them, which is actually really cool that he managed to get in the game for what its worth, they seemed to skipped on waluigi, tho thats likely because they showed him off at e3 already.
not only are there newcomers, but we learn that there are going to be about 103 stages in this game, that is nearly double the amount in the wii u version. including hd remakes of fountain of dreams, brinstar depths, and pokemon stadium, tho where tf is poke floats man. theres also an option to decide if the loser of a match picks the stage, so counterpicking is easier. now you can actually switch between stages mid match, as if every stage were in like castle siege, which is really cool. final smashes can also be a meter now, whether thisll be legal we dont know but hey, we fgc now. also u know how brawl mods had a mode where each stock is a character, well thats now added in there too, and theres a mode where after a match is done the characters you played as are no longer able to be selected, seems like a fun party mode. sakurai showed off the menu here and its so much better than the one in smash 4 thank god, but theres also a blurred out menu in the bottom left, which he said he cant show off just yet, story mode perhaps?
lets not forget about the music, with castlevania representation in smash, i was expecting a good chunk of its music in the game, and the franchise alone has 34 songs in the game, i dont even think franchises like fzero and fire emblem have that many songs in smash. then theres the total amount of songs in smash, which is almost up to 900 songs, insane man, sakurai himself said that the total length of all the tracks is around 28 hours total. thinking about the amount of remixes of franchises like fzero, megaman, and especially fire emblem get me rly excited, and we might get actual final fantasy remixes in smash this time.
there is also a smash bros edition switch that comes with a gamecube controller, brb pre ordering the fuck out of that shit.