{"id":40273,"date":"2018-08-14T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/did_luigis_death_in_smash_bros_ultimate_secretly_hint_at_a_new_single-player_campaign"},"modified":"2018-08-14T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:15:00","slug":"did-luigis-death-in-smash-bros-ultimate-secretly-hint-at-a-new-single-player-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/did-luigis-death-in-smash-bros-ultimate-secretly-hint-at-a-new-single-player-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Luigi&#8217;s &#8216;Death&#8217; In Smash Bros. Ultimate Secretly Hint At A New Single-Player Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6c806de52911\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6c806de52911\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Luigi's 'death' scene in the recent Direct\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6c806de52911\/luigis-death-scene-in-the-recent-direct.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6c806de52911\/luigis-death-scene-in-the-recent-direct.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Luigi's 'death' scene in the recent Direct\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Luigi&#8217;s &#8216;death&#8217; scene in the recent Direct<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You&#8217;ll very likely recall the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash\u00a0Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> direct, which &#8211; amongst other things &#8211; revealed a plethora of new content in the form of characters, stages, and modes. You might also recall that Luigi seemed to have his soul ripped out during the show, and a large section of the game&#8217;s main menu was blurred out for a future reveal. These two things aren&#8217;t actually related, are they? <em>Or are they?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you missed the news last week, we reported on an excellent effort from Twitter user\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noctulescent\">@noctulescent<\/a>, who used various tricks to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/rumour_has_super_smash_bros_ultimates_blurry_menu_section_been_figured_out\">a deeper look at the blurred section<\/a> of that menu. It appears that the section contains the word &#8216;Spirits&#8217;, signalling the possibility of a brand new mode under that fancy name. We immediately jumped to the conclusion that Luigi&#8217;s spirit being removed in the show&#8217;s opening sequence could be involved, but fans have taken things to another level.<\/p>\n<p>Several threads on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/smashbros\/comments\/95mmig\/the_pixelated_green_thing_in_the_new_smash_direct\/\">Reddit<\/a> are currently full to the brim of speculation from eager and excited fans, with mentions of a new single-player campaign &#8211; or at least a revamp of The\u00a0Subspace Emissary from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/super_smash_bros_brawl\"><strong>Super Smash\u00a0Bros. Brawl<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; popping up all over the place. With Luigi&#8217;s &#8216;death&#8217; in this Nintendo Direct, and Mario and Mega Man seemingly being wiped out during Ridley&#8217;s reveal at E3, the general consensus is pointing towards a story mode where the player must collect the souls of &#8216;murdered&#8217; victims, unlocking them as a playable character in the process. Other theories suggest that you might actually &#8216;kill&#8217; the characters to unlock them, although this seems a little un-Nintendo to us.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"What happened to Mario after Ridley's attack?\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/04e84bf40e7cd\/what-happened-to-mario-after-ridleys-attack.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/04e84bf40e7cd\/what-happened-to-mario-after-ridleys-attack.900x.jpg\" alt=\"What happened to Mario after Ridley's attack?\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What happened to Mario after Ridley&#8217;s attack?<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We have to say that we completely agree that the first theory could be a possibility, however &#8211; two members of team Nintendo Life actually discussed this very idea in a recent YouTube video (at around the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dBHwGwC7gNw?t=12m34s\">12:34 mark<\/a>). It could well produce a much larger, deeper single-player mode than we&#8217;ve ever seen before, once again living up to the game&#8217;s &#8216;Ultimate&#8217; name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Masahiro Sakurai did say to expect more news on the blurred out section in the future, so we&#8217;ll be eagerly waiting for confirmation on what the mode will be exactly. In the meantime, though, let us know what you think about these theories with a comment or two below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luigi&#8217;s &#8216;death&#8217; scene in the recent Direct You&#8217;ll very likely recall the recent Super Smash\u00a0Bros. Ultimate direct, which &#8211; amongst other things &#8211; revealed a plethora of new content in the form of characters, stages, and modes. You might also recall that Luigi seemed to have his soul ripped out during the show, and a [&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-40273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273","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=40273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}