Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: Pirate Ship Returns

screenshot of the Pirate Ship stage with multiple characters fighting

Today another update for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS & Wii U gets released to support the newest DLC, which comes with a Super Mario Maker stages, as well as the Pirate Ship from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The latter will only be available in the Wii U version, however, and costs 1.99€.

Well, just like Hyrule Castle, I would have liked this stage to be part of the base game or at least a free update. The DLC for Smash 4 seems rather overpriced, especially when compared to Hyrule Warriors and Mario Kart 8. These games also got DLC bundles at a discount, but Smash 4 only sells its downloadable contents individually and most of it is made out of returning fighters and stages, where it's just not very attractive.

In the very least they could have based this on The Wind Waker HD visually, instead of just copying the stage from Brawl. However, the Omega version of the stage offers something new and is quite ingenious:

Pirate Ship Omega variant as a lookout platform.

It's one of the lookout platforms! I really like this. It looks like a whole other stage.

Source: Nintendo of America

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