Expecting Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to be a good party game goes without saying: it’s essentially the same Smash Bros. that fans have loved for years, just taken to the natural limit. But when I recently had the chance to play a few hours of Nintendo’s character fighter, it was Ultimate’s single-player offering that stood out to me the most. The recently announced Spirits mode is much more important than it first seems.
After the Wii U version of Smash skipped out on a single-player adventure, Spirits mode returns to fill that gap. It’s not quite a linear story mode in the same way as Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s Subspace Emissary mode was — although there are cutscenes and an overarching storyline — but it fills a similar role.
In Spirits…
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/19/18096276/super-smash-bros-ultimate-single-player-mode-switch-hands-on
