Little T

Half hearted...? Have you seen the amount of detail that was put into each one of them? There is so much detail, the developers made each spirit to have powers that resamble them. 

Spirits cost less and grant us much more representation than trophies could. It's a necessary sacrifice. 

Yeah, I guess I was a bit grouchy when I made this status, especially since my favourite choice for a fighter who I was holding out for DLC is a confirmed Spirit. The actual gameplay mechanic behind the idea of spirits have clearly had a lot of thought put into them, especially with battles centred around more obscure characters.

I still think it's kind of a shame that collectable trophies were ditched entirely as opposed to say, bringing back ones from some past titles and not modelling any new ones.

Do spirits still have little bios about the characters?  Reading those was the most rewarding part of trophy collecting for me so if they're still in I'm happy

They don't, sadly.

Also, I really don't think spirits deconfirm potential characters for DLC.

@Thigolf Got a source on that?

Y'know, I thought it was said/shown somewhere, but I guess not. My bad.

Still, I don't expect them to have 'em, honestly.

Ah dang... that is a little disappointing then.  I guess there's gonna be even more of them than there were Trophies so that'd be a lot of text to localise.  I hope they at least include their game of origin though?  I recall Stickers in Brawl not doing that and it meant the more obscure ones were just total mysteries to me.

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Ah dang... that is a little disappointing then.

@JezMM Nothing's confirmed yet,  remember. 

I really hope there's a rayman spirit because "atleast there will be a rayman trophy again" was what I always thought to myself to be less sad whenever all the reveals happened and rayman wasn't in, and then brawlhalla revealed thay he was in that game, lowering his chances even more, etc.

I believe what they meant is having non fighter trophies be replaced by spirits: It's still likely that just the fighters will still have trophies after clearing their Classic Modes. It'll be incredible baffling to go through each character's final bosses and not be greeted them turning into an immortalized monument for ones efforts. Especially after Sakurai outright confirmed in the Direct that the Smash world is indeed made from toys, and Mario does supposedly appear as a trophy in WOL.

The lack of them killed so much of my interest in the game. I don't care about the glorified stickers. I can barely remember to check the site for updates now. I was thinking of getting Smash and a Switch for Christmas before I heard they were removed. Now I'm just thinking I'll wait for the Switch revision and Metroid Prime 4 and just buy this used.

I feel like removing the trophies removed a special extra level of care of the series that put it above other crossover games.

The glorfied stickes at least have purpose now, they can make way more of them, and each has a thing that makes it special. EACH ONE has some power or reference that makes it so much better than the trophies imo. Yeah sure the trophies were cool and nice to look at, but I don't think it would be worth to have way less references and characters, and cool details like an event which Samus is possesed by Shantae in a pirate ship, or Cut Man and a Cardboard Box making Paper Mario, that is so clever! Is also a shame that the descriptions aren't in, but I understand that they don't serve much purpose anymore, you can search the character on the internet instantly. While the spirits have use in game. To me that's also a equal level of care.

How the lack of trophies can kill the interest of playing the game absolutely baffles me. 

I feel like adding hundreds of custom, unique battle scenarios more than makes up for static statues that you read the description of once and then never look at again. 

@Ferno there is one

*tears of joy*

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TAILS FOR SMASH ULTIMATE DLC!

Guess Eggman finally mashed him into a blue jelly.

And look! Espio's come to help him!

Not blue enough 0/10

That sucks you’re still sick. That was me back in May while on vacation no less. Hope you start feeling better soon!

Goodness me, I hope you get better soon! If your cold gets worse please see a doc if you can.

That sucks. Hope you get some rest and feel better soon. 

tbh I'd be totally fine with the SADX models if they removed that obnoxious glistening effect from all of them

seriously why does everyone look like they're made of plastic

What you want is the BetterSADX mod then, which works fine on Steam. It reimpliments all the Dreamcast textures, environments and lighting, which gets rid of the glossy look.

Go to a game store, or send it to Nintendo (Just hope they don't wipe it's memory)