The Art of the Smash Reveal
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2023
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate recently turned 5 years old, and through its myriad of legendary trailers, the game continues to stay relevant in the minds of those lucky enough to witness their favourite characters be unveiled. But what is it that makes these reveals so iconic? Let’s break it down!
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The Ultimate trailers really were a once-in-a-lifetime event. So much hype and salt... But I’ll always remember it fondly.
Someone actually said this.
I also want to mention the Sans Mii reveal. While he wasn't a fighter, it's crazy that he carried the hype of one, arguably only being beaten by Steve in terms of reaction. Being plopped at the end of a normal Mii fighter reveal, the split second on Megalovania heard before showing him, the zoom in on his face to tell you "Yes this is real", all perfect. It shows the care and effort the team put into almost everything in this game and is by far my favorite reveal.
Smash reveals always feel like such an event, and the way the trailers slowly build up hype before the reveal is (usually) perfect. Super cool breakdown of the pacing and other elements that add to the quality of a new character reveal! Smash Ultimate was such a journey man
God, I loved watching those trailers as they got released. Sora's is my personal fav, and I legit got teary eyed during your breakdown of that trailer ( Simple and Clean gets me every time lol )
There really is no greater agony than knowing a character before the trailer, for me that's why Arms was the worst. Even if the trailer is actually pretty decent. But as someone who has played KH1/2 and low-key doesn't like it, and as someone who hates playing against Sora in smash, I think you actually reversed my perspective on the trailer itself. I knew it was a big deal since dude was #1 requested forever, but it really was a poetic way to close out the game motto'd with "Everyone is here" and bringing the crossover protagonist to the crossover Nintendo series. Cool stuff
Knowing the character before the reveal was my biggest gripe with every single freaking youtuber under the sun. Those trailers always while I was away, so by the time I got the chance to watch it, I was doing my best (and almost always failing) to dodge massive "OH MY GOD ITS________!!!" on every single page of the internet. Like, guys, couldn't you at least wait a day before you put them in the thumbnail?
i haven't been big into smash since brawl but whenever a new character was revealed for ultimate, it was always an amazing experience. i cried and cheered when sora's reveal happened, i still get choked up thinking about it
the last trailer from sora made me cry and i don't know why i never knew it existed
Excellent video.
As a fellow Frisk dreamer, I feel your pain about the last reveal- but I am more than happy to have Sora as my main. XD
God...when I think of the impact of these Smash reveal trailers...I literally would not be a Xenoblade or Persona fan without the Shulk and Joker trailers respectively. The reveal trailers simply were as big as a sports event for so many of us, crazy to think it's been 2 years since then 😢
Great video! Pretty much captures the magic of Smash reveals perfectly... and why Byleth is a mistake lmao.
Seriously though, thoughts on the actual character pick aside. The execution of that trailer really did add fuel to the fire. It just revealed the character in the most BORING way possible.
Even with a reveal like Palutena's, where we also start it by seeing her face and knowing who it is frame 1, its followed up with this cool as heck fight between Pit and Link. Really elevating the crossover energy of Smash.
Or if we want to look at a GOOD FE character reveal... Lucina and Robin. Where that trailer has an awesome fight between Lucina and Captain Falcon.
Byleth's truly does have nothing besides one joke... and that's it lol. Which also goes for Corrin's reveal too. As its basically structured the same way. They're the only truly bad Smash reveals imo.
The others though are nothing but pure heat and fun.
Yeah, agreed. I love Three Houses, I was actually in the minority that was hyped for Byleth, I even enjoy playing them... But the only truly hype moment of that trailer was learning that Byleth got to use the other Heroes’ Relics. I’m glad Byleth got in, but the trailer really was kind of a letdown.
Byleth's trailer also had a problem of annoying smash fans because it is literally just a cutscene from the game. Like, shot for shot. Even fire emblem fans were annoyed by it. The least they could have done was animated the scene from right before the timeskip and implied this is where byleth ran off to during the 5 year gap. But nah. It was just really lazily done compared to every single other trailer.
On a more positive note: man, these reveals were all (except that one) so freaking good. They were definitely one of the best parts about being a smash fan throughout ultimate's life. This game's ability to build up a hype train was IMMACULATE. And even outside of the reveals themselves, the little things around it; all the theories and speculation, the questions about what a character would do and when they'd drop. The memes and the jokes that can (sometimes) still get a laugh today. Sephiroth having his "Beat the boss, unlock the boss" moment is still one of the coolest things smash ever did imo, and my only complaint is I kinda wish it was hard mode locked.
I know smash 6 can't top ultimate, but I really hope it at least puts up a good show.
I get the feeling that Byleth's trailer was the way it was because of them knowing how upset people would be, so why even bother I guess? Might as well rip the band aid off right at the beginning than hype everyone up throughout the trailer only to reveal the character they wanted the least out of anyone
I remember crying kicking and screaming when I saw SORA of all characters. Nintendo might be awful to consumers in some aspects but they were feeding us well back then
I don't even like the game that much, but the reveals... Peak fiction!
All hype, little results. Character reveal trailers are fine, but if these characters were just for Sakurai and not for actual fans of these characters whom otherwise could give Nintendo real money for this game and this system in order to play as their favorite character, what was the point?
Maybe it's my age... but sorry nobody can convince me Steve's trailer wasn't the most boring
Also correct even as a RAREWARE & SNK Megafan... Sephiroth had the best trailer