Best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC so far!
After my predictions for the "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x ARMS" Challenger Pack, Min Min already felt like the likeliest candidate and not only because she is one of the most popular fighters in ARMS, but because she is the only fighter in ARMS that uses kicks, which feel like a necessary addition for jabs and other close combat attacks to make such a fighter work in Smash Bros. In addition, her dragon arm felt like something that would showcase the dual Arms mechanic rather well.
It might even be that Sakurai's team had planned this from early on and made Spring Man into an Assist Trophy for this very reason, because they knew that need something more than what the basic ARMS fighter would have to offer. (With that in mind, if they are ever going to do a second ARMS fighter in one of the next Super Smash Bros. games, it's probably going to be Twintelle, simply because she can also fight with her normal arms.)
Overall they've done a remarkable job of translating the combat mechanics of ARMS into Smash. You can control both your arms separately and even steer the punches. You can move around while throwing your punches. You can even switch between three different weapons for your right arm. It's all there, but Min Min also offers the necessary extras to make it a fully functioning Smash fighter.
It's pretty well done within the normal Smash Bros. environment, while Min Min feels like the best choice to translate all of it. I'm personally very happy with the fighter and she will definitely become one of my few secondaries, where she seems like a good choice whenever my beloved Zero Suit Samus doesn't do the trick. If she works well enough, Min Min might even become my second main. In any case I can't wait to play as her.
As for the stage, it really is just Spring Stadium, but it looks like a lot of fun. It's yet another very simple stage with some fun new mechanics, in this case the jump pads combined with the pillars above the stage. Like the King of Fighters Stadium, this might another stage where something simple offers a whole new experience.
Speaking of King of Fighters, the whole trailer for Min Min was done in almost the same fashion, but I enjoyed watching it a lot. Of course you knew the outcome from the second where you saw Captain Falcon and Kirby eating Ramen (bowls), but it was still very fun and Min Min's transformation certainly was something new.
However, this makes it also feel like there won't be any more DLC characters from other fighting games. They've already done this thing twice in the DLC and Heihachi now returns as a Mii costume, which they probably would have saved for later, if they were going to do a Tekken DLC for example. But we'll see.
Finally, all important music tracks from ARMS will be added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. I was hoping as much, because the music is really awesome and this will be very nice to have!
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