Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Final Direct Expectations

Well, it's time. In a few hours we should finally know everything there is to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Of course it's possible that there might be one more fighter reveal later during this month, but we should have an almost complete picture after the Direct.

I still expect it to start with a new franchise to Smash. According to Vergeben, Isaac is still an Assist Trophy in the game, so there goes the idea of major Golden Sun representation. But there are still many possible 3rd party entries like Minecraft, Banjo Kazooie, Tekken or even Tales of Symphonia.

 

I personally would be really happy about Minecraft, because this is one of my favorite games ever. Steve seemed like a strong contender here, but it really could be that there will be Minecraft content in the game without a playable character, like a stage ("New World"), an Assist Trophy (Creeper) and a boss (Ender Dragon), similar to Monster Hunter...

 

Now, I was hoping that they would get the obligatory Pokémon newcomer out of the way with some other Pokémon announcements, like they did for Isabelle, but this didn't happen yet... However, they could simply reveal such a character in the middle of the Smash Direct, since another Pokémon is about as special as some more Echo Fighters. It doesn't feel like something that they would use at the beginning or the end of a Direct.

In case of Incineroar it makes sense to feature him in a boxing ring. They could have Little Mac to fight off multiple Pokémon, until Incineroar appears to finally beat him. They could even reveal Ken in the same trailer as a fiery challenger for Incineroar...

 
But as long as it ends with Skull Kid, I'll be happy. This is really the one character I want the most for Smash at the moment, now that we already have Ridley and Dark Samus, while Skull Kid also had the most evidence for him outside of supposed leaks.

Otherwise I'm mostly interested in the remaining stages, as well as a good Stage Builder. Bring the features from Brawl back and let us use all of the game's backgrounds.