Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the fighting series’ debut on the Nintendo Switch, introducing new characters, play styles, and an excellent single-player campaign to the long-running franchise.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to its name, offering the most comprehensive game in the series to date. It has an absurd amount to play, fight, and unlock – though that can be to its detriment at times. While the World of Light adventure mode isn’t reason alone to get Smash Bros., it’s still a consistently amusing and shockingly large campaign, and a worthy compliment to Ultimate’s incredible multiplayer core. The Smash Bros. series has always maintained a wonderful balance of chaotic beat-em-up fun and tense fighting game action, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate refines and improves on both sides of itself without abandoning either one.

‘Ultimate’ is undoubtedly the word. Just about everything that every Smash game has ever offered is here once again, with more characters, stages, modes, and hidden references than anyone will have the time to fully process. If Smash Bros. Ultimate has a fault, it’s the same as that strength: there’s just so much here that it’s impossible for anyone to take in, and in the early hours especially it’s an overwhelming experience, with little work done to guide new players in. Maybe even Smash needs a little more editorial oversight than this, but at least you can’t ever accuse Nintendo of shortchanging its fans.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the most refined Smash yet. There's a ridiculous amount of content here, local co-op is the best, but the other modes are a mixed bag.