Great news! The first handheld installment of the excellent Super Smash Bros. series lives up to
incredibly high standards. Like its console siblings, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS elegantly
packages decades of Nintendo’s best video game mascots into a pick-up-and-play portable game. But the real surprise here is the diverse modes of play
that’ve kept me playing feverishly for days
Smash 3DS builds a fast and fun four-player brawler out of prolific video game characters and universes. Each one uses the same inputs to activate their unique moves, so once you’ve learned one, you can play all 48 of them. Winning is about knowing the right time to use Mario’s fireball, which is different from Marth’s Dancing Blade, in effort to knock everyone else out of the ring with a perfectly timed Smash attack.
Characters, stages, items, and assist trophies pull inspiration from a diverse selection of games and showcase lots tiny details that highlight each one’s special qualities.
From the start, the variety of the 36-character rosterimpressed me, and 12 more fighters are unlocked over time. Newcomers like Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening, Rosalina
& Luma from Super Mario Galaxy, Little Mac from Punch Out!!!, and more join the battle alongside mainstays like Mario, Link, Pikachu, and Samus. Even non-Nintendo characters like Pac-Man andMega Man are embraced with genuine reverence to their source material.
Wii Fit Trainer is a great example of the humor: This silly callout to the massively popular Wii Fit series transforms the peaceful art of Yoga into a fun fighting style. I love how she doles out helpful advice in between all the hits. That same attention to detail in all the characters meant I was constantly finding something new and fun for dozens of hours
All of the action in Smash 3DS moves at a solid 60 frames per second. I noticed that characters appear a little chunkier than their console counterparts, but that has the effect of making them easier to see. A helpful red or blue outline communicates which side you’re playing for in Team versus mode, which is a big help in a crazy brawl
However, Nintendo hasn’t managed to solve one significant issue when bringing Smash Bros. to the
3DS: Namely, it’s difficult to keep track of characters whenever the camera zooms out in heated four-player matches. They’re just too tiny! A targeting box activated via the 3DS touch screen helped a little, but it feels like a band-aid solution for a larger problem. Scaling down to three player free-for-alls makes things much easier to follow, but one-on-one play shows off this handheld version in the
best environment possible
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