{"id":91555,"date":"2019-04-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/super_smash_bros_ultimate_wins_famitsu_game_of_the_year_award"},"modified":"2019-04-06T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:00:00","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-wins-famitsu-game-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/06\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-wins-famitsu-game-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Wins Famitsu Game Of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d65696cff4c7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d65696cff4c7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Alongside Monster Hunter: World<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2019-04-06T05:00:00+00:00\"><span>22 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Super Smash Bros Ultimate IMG 1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d65696cff4c7\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-img-1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d65696cff4c7\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-img-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Smash Bros Ultimate IMG 1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> hasn&#8217;t already received enough praise, it&#8217;s now taken out Famitsu&#8217;s 2018 Game of the Year Award alongside <strong>Monster Hunter: World<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a similar situation to the previous year when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Dragon Quest XI<\/strong> both won. The game&#8217;s creator Masahiro Sakurai received the MVP award and the pink puffball Kirby &#8211; who was tasked with saving the day in Ultimate&#8217;s World of Light mode &#8211; was awarded character of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this award, Smash Bros. Ultimate also picked up an excellence award, as did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>P<\/strong><strong>okemon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragon_quest_builders_2\">Dragon Quest Builders 2<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/octopath_traveler\">Octopath Traveler<\/a><\/strong> received an excellence award as well and scored the best soundtrack and rookie of the year award.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SVM3Q37mzJ0?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Congratulations to Smash, Sakurai and all of the other winners.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: http:\/\/www.japanesenintendo.com\/post\/183960860134\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesenintendo.com\/post\/183960860134\">japanesenintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/198f80cdf9e68e043650cf95a6c303bc @ 2019-04-07T02:55:44+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside Monster Hunter: World by Liam Doolan 22 hours ago If Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hasn&#8217;t already received enough praise, it&#8217;s now taken out Famitsu&#8217;s 2018 Game of the Year Award alongside Monster Hunter: World. It&#8217;s a similar situation to the previous year when The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Dragon Quest [&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-91555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91555","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=91555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}