Looking Back at Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U

Sakurai’s reasoning for no story mode is still one of the weirdest, most baffling things about this series.

When I was a kid I wrote a letter to Nintendo asking them to make a Super Smash Bros game for the Gameboy Advance. Therefore I am the sole reason there is a portable Smash Bros.

I barely remember these games but the lead up to release is forever burnt into my memory.

About the Smash Ballot, Sakurai confirmed that Sora was the most requested fighter. He was the true winner of the ballot, but at that time he was not a possibility for Nintendo. So they went with Bayonetta.

For some reason I really love the style "Scott's Stash" videos are done in. Feels more personal

I say this in the most complimentary way possible, but this is my absolute favourite channel to put on when I’m going to sleep. I know I should be off my phone, but these long videos of unedited nostalgia are the best way to wind down imo. So I was stoked to see an hour+ Scott’s Stash video in my feed haha

I may have commented this story before but my husband (then boyfriend) was a play tester for these two games (terrible job tbh but it's a fun experience at least.) A few fun stories from that: 1. I am a Lucina fan girl... She's one of my favorite characters of all time. He leaked one night while drunk that Robin was in it but didn't tell me about Lucina. I saw that trailer when I woke up one morning and lost my damn mind! I'm shocked he was able to hide it 😂 2. After he left we still had friends who worked there so I was able to get popular amiibos (Robin and Lucina) not only no problem, but at a discount because they picked them up at the employee store

I remember walking into school the day that the 3DS version released, and on my way to home room my friend ran up to me, out of breath, to see if I knew that today was the day. He then looked down, awestruck, to see that I was already in the middle of playing it. That's probably my favorite memory with this game.

Sakurai actually told Namco that if they used TGA design, Pac Man would be cut from the game.

I can’t believe Scott didn’t mention Super Smash Bros Smash Controller on 3DS, the best application in Nintendo history. Even though I home brewed my system I still spent money on that

rip the For Fun and For Glory screens we will always miss you

Really excited to watch Scott looking back on Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS again a few years after watching Scott looking back on Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS as well as that one time that Scott was looking back on the trophies in Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS.

The fact that Scott thinks development was going "too heavily towards competitive" when Sakurai has actively expressed his disdain for competitive play on multiple occasions and has built every game since Melee to be less competitive is interesting to me.

I was 12 or 13 when Smash for 3DS came out. My (belligerently) Puerto Rican mom, without knowing what Smash was or why I cared, took me to the midnight release at a GameStop. I got home and put in the game and I just started crying. I was just so overwhelmed and I didn’t know where to start. She saw me crying and got concerned that I’d bought the wrong game or something and it was so hard to explain to her that they were tears of joy. I made a lifelong friend the next Monday when I went on the school bus and another diehard Nintendo fan had already bought the game.

I loved Smash run on the 3Ds version. I really wish Ultimate implemented something similar, or at least a mode where you could fight unique enemies from various franchises, as that was the thing I like most about Smash run.

Man scott this channel is just the gift that just keeps on giving. An hour long video on what was and still is my favorite smash bros game (or games?)!

Because I skipped out on Wii U, the 3ds one was the way I had my Smash Fix. And on a standard 3ds. I’m pretty sure thats considered blasphemous in some circles.

I think it's really interesting how going through Sakurai's career is watching him get hung up on specific ideas over and over again. Smash Run is literally just City Trial from Kirby Air Ride but side-scrolling this time. Brawl also got its Challenges board from that game, Smash 4 got its Classic Mode wagers from Kid Icarus. An interesting fellow, that Sakurai. I like him.

An hour and sixteen minute Scott's Stash episode, let's go boys!!!

Scott can talk about the history of DVD player menus for an hour and sixteen minutes and I would be interested.