{"id":25527,"date":"2018-06-14T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/nintendo_confirms_super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_a_brand_new_game_not_a_wii_u_port"},"modified":"2018-06-14T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:15:00","slug":"nintendo-confirms-super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-a-brand-new-game-not-a-wii-u-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/nintendo-confirms-super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-a-brand-new-game-not-a-wii-u-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Confirms Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is A &#8220;Brand New Game&#8221;, Not A Wii U Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/nintendo_confirms_super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_a_brand_new_game_not_a_wii_u_port\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/nintendo_confirms_super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_a_brand_new_game_not_a_wii_u_port\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"smashbros.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/nintendo_confirms_super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_a_brand_new_game_built_from_the_ground_up\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/nintendo_confirms_super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_a_brand_new_game_built_from_the_ground_up\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"smashbros.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ever since <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> was first shown, back when we still had no idea what form it would take, fans have been wondering whether the game will be a brand new experience or an upgraded port based on <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/super_smash_bros_for_wii_u\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. for Wii U<\/strong><\/a>. Nintendo has now officially addressed the issue &#8211; and it&#8217;s very good news indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usgamer.net\/articles\/nintendo-smash-bros-ultimate-interview-brand-new-game-than-wii-u?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">USGamer<\/a>,\u00a0Nintendo Treehouse localisation manager Nate Bihldorff has confirmed that the game is entirely new. The game has received what Bihldorff describes as &#8220;significant upgrades&#8221; to things such as lighting effects and texture details, as well as complete <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/gallery_super_smash_bros_ultimate_full_character_roster\">re-imaginings of certain characters<\/a> like Zelda &#8211; whose new design is\u00a0now based on <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/legend_of_zelda_a_link_between_worlds\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely not an update. It&#8217;s a brand new game built from the ground up. As far as it being a &#8216;sequel,&#8217; I don&#8217;t really think of Smash Bros. games as being sequels, they&#8217;re just new Smash Bros. games. Everything has been built brand new. Of course, you see returning characters and returning movesets, but that&#8217;s sort of the nature of a fighting game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, some elements of what we&#8217;ve seen do seem similar to the Wii U game on the surface, but Bihldorff explains the reasoning behind this, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re bringing back stages, especially when you look at a stage from the Wii U version which was already in HD, at first glance it&#8217;s going to be a little bit similar. That&#8217;s when you need to go to the next level and look at lighting, how the players are interacting. Beyond the changes, I can&#8217;t count the number of small changes. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s hyperbole when Mr. Sakurai said that there were tens of thousands of changes compared to the last game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>We were lucky enough to spend some time with the game at E3, and these comments certainly line-up with our early thoughts. The fresh visuals, different art style, and the way in which each character has been re-worked were all things we mentioned in <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/hands_on_settling_the_score_in_super_smash_bros_ultimate\">our early hands-on preview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you glad that this is a brand new game? Have you been impressed with the changes you&#8217;ve seen so far? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was first shown, back when we still had no idea what form it would take, fans have been wondering whether the game will be a brand new experience or an upgraded port based on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Nintendo has now officially addressed the issue &#8211; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}