#8.8.18

This cringey all on its own

Lmao, is she really out here trying to pretend like Michael’s family is her family? I’ve always gotten the vibe that Michael isn’t even all that close to his family anyway, which would explain why they’re always so buddy-buddy with Crystal, and why they entertain all of her shenanigans. Also, the “I usually keep our family photos private…” bit is especially pathetic.

Simon and Richter Belmont from Castlevania!!!

I’ve never played Castlevania so this isn’t much to me, in fact I’ve never even heard of Richter, but this is still awesome.

Dark Samus and Chrom were both revealed as Echo Fighters. Awesome. Metroid fans are really getting it good between Dark Samus and Ridley being in Smash Ultimate and Prime 4 coming in the future too.

My boy Zero of Mega Man fame was confirmed!

As an assist trophy

And Shovel Knight was finally fucking confirmed too!

Also as an assist trophy

We’re getting over 100 stages and over 800 – yes, over 800 – songs in the game. Not only that, but rather than song choices being limited by stage, it’s by franchise, which is epic. Still speaking about stages, we already know every stage has a Battlefield and FD version, but it was also confirmed that you can turn off stage hazards too, so the list of viable stages will be bigger than ever which is fucking awesome.

Lots of cool gameplay features and modes and other such niceties as well, most notably of which is the option to save your rulesets as presets, so you don’t need to manually put your ruleset in again every time, which is a really neat feature. Nintendo also took a page from PSASBR and there’s now an option to gradually charge your Final Smash by doing shit and then you can unleash a slightly weaker Final Smash, which might be fun to mess around with.

We also got to see the main menu, and noticeably, with Sakurai even drawing attention to it, one very large menu selection was blurred out. Are we seeing the return of Subspace Emissary perhaps? Because I sure as hell hope so. That’d be fucking awesome.

And that was about it for the direct.

But it’s Nintendo, meaning not quite yet. It hypes up King K. Rool, King Dedede does a bait and switch, but then K. Rool pops up anyway. King K. Rool finally confirmed.