Masahiro Sakurai’s final video in his knowledgeable and informative Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games is here and it is well worth watching. One of the nuggets of information provided by Sakurai in the final video is that he informs viewers that back in July 2021, when he was busy beavering away on the successful Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s DLC, he says that he “received a request to write a game proposal, which I finished at lightning speed.”
“I’m sorry I can’t share more about this project, but assuming that we’re able to get it made, it should be announced sooner or later.”
Elaborating a little further, Sakurai adds that his commitments to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate were wrapped up in October 2021, at which point he’d “been given the OK to move forward with production” for the mystery game, although “it was going to take some time to assemble the right team.” He reveals that “the target timeframe was April 2022,” but up to that point, he “would have to wait.”
Except brawl. Every other Smash bros to date either had Mega Man, or didn’t have 3rd party characters at all. Hate me all you want (which I assume you already do), but I would be lying if I said Super smash bros brawl isn’t an abomination.
Brawl was peak Smash Bros. So much heart was put into it: A single-player campaign, bosses, final smashes, assist trophies, the amazing soundtrack and My Music system, cool cutscenes, and some QoL improvements to the gameplay.
It’s only weaknesses were really the Wii’s weaknesses. It was slower to accommodate a fully synchronous online mode and to be able to play using a sideways Wiimote. It also would have been great if it could have received balance updates.
After Brawl, Smash games got fewer new ideas and more disproportionate content imo. No, Brawl deserves a lot of respect here.
Your reason for not liking brawl are beyond fucking stupid. “NO THIRD PARTIES IN MY SMASHERINO UNLESS ITS CHARACTERS I LIKE”
No smash can even come close to the singleplayer experience that was brawl
“DURRR IM A BORING ASS MF WITH NO PERSONALITY PLEASE LOOK AT ME IM NOT LIKE YOU PEOPLE, IM NOT A SMASH FAN IM WAY BETTER” get the fuck outta here, nobody gives a fuck if you are not a smash fan in a smash discussion, next time try to stand out from the crowd by being creative instead of being an hateful asshole
I gotta be honest here, I don’t like brawl either. I admit it had a solid single player experience, but the slow float I was and (good god) tripping. I play brawl on the more competitive side and it just messed that up imo. But every other game has been perfection in its time.
Yeah, no I get it, nobody wants to play brawl again for the mechanics, they are beyond dated and pretty unfair, but for me, subspace emissary is way too good for me to call brawl “bad”. fully animated cutscenes of the characters interacting with each others and the maps with all the cool enemies is something only brawl has, it’s beyond great and I hope we can get something similar or even better in the next game.
That’s wonderful :)
It’s just a prediction, but.. I wonder if he’s going to be doing a revival of an older franchise? The way he did with Kid Icarus: Uprising?
Or… even, a brand new Kid Icarus… that would be a godsend… omg…
Big fan of Sakurai, but he made an announcement of something that can’t be announced just yet.
Bit anticlimactic
He spent 90,000,000 yen on this show?! Truly a goated man.
It’s gonna be peak. 100% sure. He never missed.
Except brawl. Every other Smash bros to date either had Mega Man, or didn’t have 3rd party characters at all. Hate me all you want (which I assume you already do), but I would be lying if I said Super smash bros brawl isn’t an abomination.
Brawl was peak Smash Bros. So much heart was put into it: A single-player campaign, bosses, final smashes, assist trophies, the amazing soundtrack and My Music system, cool cutscenes, and some QoL improvements to the gameplay.
It’s only weaknesses were really the Wii’s weaknesses. It was slower to accommodate a fully synchronous online mode and to be able to play using a sideways Wiimote. It also would have been great if it could have received balance updates.
After Brawl, Smash games got fewer new ideas and more disproportionate content imo. No, Brawl deserves a lot of respect here.
Your reason for not liking brawl are beyond fucking stupid. “NO THIRD PARTIES IN MY SMASHERINO UNLESS ITS CHARACTERS I LIKE”
No smash can even come close to the singleplayer experience that was brawl
smash fans like you need to be dropped off a cliff
“DURRR IM A BORING ASS MF WITH NO PERSONALITY PLEASE LOOK AT ME IM NOT LIKE YOU PEOPLE, IM NOT A SMASH FAN IM WAY BETTER” get the fuck outta here, nobody gives a fuck if you are not a smash fan in a smash discussion, next time try to stand out from the crowd by being creative instead of being an hateful asshole
I gotta be honest here, I don’t like brawl either. I admit it had a solid single player experience, but the slow float I was and (good god) tripping. I play brawl on the more competitive side and it just messed that up imo. But every other game has been perfection in its time.
Yeah, no I get it, nobody wants to play brawl again for the mechanics, they are beyond dated and pretty unfair, but for me, subspace emissary is way too good for me to call brawl “bad”. fully animated cutscenes of the characters interacting with each others and the maps with all the cool enemies is something only brawl has, it’s beyond great and I hope we can get something similar or even better in the next game.
My thoughts exactly.
Slow floatiness*
The last part of the video was very touching.
Here’s hoping it’s a new kid Icarus game
Long Live Sakurai!
I bet he’s watching his smash bros direct which is 10 years old today 😁
Plz let it be Ice Climbers!