Super Smash Bros. - Nintendo 3DS

by Nintendo

• Battle it out as Nintendo's greatest heroes
• Nintendo's greatest heroes are in the palm of your hand
• Take the fight with you, wherever you go

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00DD0B1R0
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.4 x 4.9 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 3, 2014
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (634 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo 3DS

Action/Adventure Game - Nintendo 3DS

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

73 of 81 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars First time Smash Bros player and it is good October 3, 2014

By ThatSoftwareDude

Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS|Verified Purchase

I've spent a few hours with this game as of me writing this, and what can I say but man, this is a fun fun game. I wasn't previously a big fan of the Smash Bros series, mainly because I wasn't good at it and because I never had an N64 or Gamecube. Being a big fan of the 3DS though, this is the perfect chance for me to try it out in full finally. The game looks fantastic, and has tons of ways to play. The classic mode is a fun way to kill time while being introduced to the many characters that started it all. The local multiplayer so far with a few friends is flawless, and I've had a couple of online bouts that may or may not have gone well.

Graphics
The game runs at a very smooth 60 frames per second, even in it's 3D mode. And I normally don't play my games in 3D mode, but with this game the effect is very subtle and comes out looking very crisp. It's very quick action and it doesn't lag once. The cinematic final move scenes are awesome to watch even though they sometimes take a bit of time. I'm using the standard sized 3DS, which at times can be difficult to make out. However, I've tried the demo on the XL version, and it is levels above the tiny screen.

Gameplay
Being new to Smash Bros, this is a total first time impression on my part. The gameplay grows on you, and fast. When I first started playing the CPU was too much for me to handle. A few battles in, and I started to win more consistently. However, in classic mode you can choose how difficult you want the gameplay with higher difficulty giving better rewards, for all those experienced players out there. That is currently a challenge for me. Some reports stated that analog sticks were being broken due to the nature of the gameplay, but so far I haven't found myself overly abusing it. No more than any other game anyhow. The only hiccup I've had so far was the fact that I'm still finding it difficult to pick up items. I might be too close to them or too far, but many a time I've missed it by just a millisecond after trying super hard to grab it. Also, this might just be me, but using x and y to jump felt a bit odd and took some getting used to.

Pros
- Smooth graphics running at 60fps
- Huge character list, plus the hidden set of characters
- Tons upon tons of unlockables, such as trophies and new abilities
- Variety in gameplay modes will keep you entertained for a while
- Massive amount of items to use and unlock during battle
- Some items can be super fun to use (Nintendog)
- The ability to customize your characters move set, which is new to the series.

Cons
- That annoying "GO" image that takes up the entire screen when the match starts. Precious seconds count.
- With a smaller screen, you sometimes lose your character in all the action. This happens even more so with 4 characters at once. This might be more of a problem on the smaller 3DS.
- A little hard to grab items at times.

Overall
This is a solid game. And that's coming from someone that came into the whole Smash Bros thing thinking that he was going to hate it. It's easy to overlook the flaws in this because it's really just a fun game no matter what level of game mode you're looking for. From single player, to local multiplayer, to online multiplayer and street pass it's got you covered. Read more ›

49 of 54 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "Tears" October 3, 2014

By Montmorillonite

Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS

This is truly groundbreaking. The controls? Spot on. The Gameplay? Perfect. If you played the other smash bros. and enjoyed them. You will love this. I've been playing this for two straight hours and man is it perfect. Smash Bros wherever you want to go! Ever since they took down the Wii internet play on brawl I haven't played this game with friends. Until now!

Also I have been a Megaman fan my entire life and to put him in a Smash Bros. game. Beautiful!

They brought back Stadium. So have fun smashing targets! Slamming home runs! Classic, All star, Training, and a new thing called smash run were you have 5 minutes to beat a set of enemies.

You can create a custom Mii to fight as well. So Montmorillonite's Mii has finally been put to work since Wii sports!

I highly recommend this game. It's hard to take time to write the review! I just want to keep playing! Oh and Pacman is freaking unbeatable.

6 stars. If you have a 3ds. BUY IT. If you don't. BUY A 3DS AND THIS!!!!! Sorry for exclamation and caps.

UPDATE: 10/17/14

After a couple of weeks to break it in the game keeps showing me new things. Like unlockable moves for characters. I was slightly off about the Smash run thing it is like a world that you can explore to find stuff and coins. Oh and I am leaving some stuff out... so you'll be surprised when you play through it.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Smashing Fun! October 5, 2014

By "Scotty" Drew Simon

Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

When Nintendo announced that the fourth entry in the Super Smash Bros. series would not only be on Wii U, but also on the Nintendo 3DS, people were hyped. Playing Smash Bros. on the go was like a dream come true! Gamers everywhere counted down the days to Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS. And now, the day has come where we can play Super Smash Bros. anytime, anywhere. But, is Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS just a placeholder until the Wii U version comes out, or will people still be smashing on their 3DS's for years to come?

GAMEPLAY: The Smash Bros. series has a trademark fighting system unique from other fighting games. Rather than deplete health bars, players attack each other trying to raise their percentages and knock their opponents off the arena. This makes it so that combat relies less on combos and more on how well the player is able to maneuver themselves around the many colorful locales Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS has to offer. There are also many items that can be picked up and used on others, such as the Smash Ball, which returns from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. This frantic gameplay transitions well to the 3DS, and although it can sometimes be hard to find yourself in the game's vast locales, you can easily put a reticle around your character to quickly find out where you are. Not only that, but the game runs at a solid 60 frames per second, just like the previous games, so players that prefer to play in 3D will have nothing to worry about.

CHARACTERS: One of the main selling points of Smash Bros. is that it crosses over many of Nintendo's franchises. Naturally, with each new game, people anticipate their favorite Nintendo characters joining the fray. Those people will be satisfied since characters such as Punch-Out's Little Mac, Animal Crossing's Villager, Super Mario Galaxy's Rosalina, and more appear in this game. There are even unexpected characters, such as Xenoblade Chronicles's Shulk, and Pac-Man himself! Add in some equally unexpected unlockable characters, and you have yourself an all-star cast that's bound to satisfy any Nintendo fan's tastes! But, there are some people that would like to see some unexpected people such as real life celebrities and anime characters in the game. This is addressed with the Mii Fighter feature. In this mode, you can take a Mii from your 3DS's Mii Maker and add them into the game with one of three fighting styles: Brawler, Swordfighter, and Gunner. You can also give them four different special moves, attach equipment to change up their stats, and even dress them up in outfits! So, if you ever wanted to see yourself or your friend in Smash Bros., now you have the chance!

MODES: Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS also boasts a variety of modes. There are the series staples, such as Multi-Man Smash, Home Run Contest, and Classic Mode, along with all new modes such as Target Blast and Smash Run. Target Blast has you pummeling a bomb followed by launching it in order to destroy as many targets as possible (Think Angry Birds), while Smash Run has you journeying through a sizable maze collecting power-ups and fighting enemies from various Nintendo games in order to prepare for a challenge with your opponents, which can range from your run-of-the-mill fight, to a race to the finish, or a Multi-Man Smash. Despite Smash Run not being online compatible, it still proves to be a fun, albeit a bit challenging, addition to Smash Bros.. Speaking of online, you can also play online via Nintendo Network with players from around the world. With Brawl, the first game in the series to feature online play, the matches online were often uncomfortable and filled with lag. Fortunately, this has been mostly fixed in Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS. Matches are now smooth, and there's now a variety of modes you can play online. For Fun has players fighting normal matches on nearly every stage, while For Glory has players fighting competitive matches on flat Omega Form variants of the stages. These modes can provide a casual, fun match, or a heated one-on-one for the pleasure of victory.

SOUND: Like I mentioned above, Super Smash Bros. crosses over a variety of video game franchises, so naturally, each stage has music from each game. The music selection featured is well chosen, and each tune fits the stage it plays on. You have the classic Waka-Wakas on Pac-Man's stage, along with the adventurous music on the Zelda stages. Even better, the game features a Sound Test mode where you can listen to each track on its own. You can even insert a pair of headphones into the 3DS and listen to the music while the 3DS is in sleep mode, meaning that Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS also acts a bit like an iPod.

FINAL VERDICT: For years, people have been anticipating Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo 3DS, and I'm very happy to say that it delivers. The gameplay is solid, the modes are fun and addictive, online plays like a breeze, and the music is incredible. Nintendo has knocked (Or, should I say, Smashed) it out of the park once again. I can only hope that the Wii U will be even more of an experience than this. Read more ›

23 of 28 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect but still fantastic October 6, 2014

By Jack Fox, Badgerlord

Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS

Smash brothers to me is an interesting conundrum of a game... on one hand I love it. It's a great combination of skill, random chance (if desired) and silliness. It's one of the most fun games you can play with friends on the couch and you can have a blast even if not super skilled in certain game modes. On the other hand it's a fighter and in general playing a fighter can only be fun alone for so long.

So what happens when you remove one the most important pieces (In my opinion) which is that fun filled couch multiplayer with all the fun happening on the big screen? Unfortunately you get a game that I find difficult to recommend to everyone.

Let me start this now with saying that I am a HUGE smash brothers fan. I am no professional, in fact I'm not even that great at these games but I love them for what they are and what they do. They bring together so many fun and interesting characters together and says "Have fun finding your favorite!" as it laughs evily and slips into the shadows.

The newest game is no exception to this rule, there are so many characters that the first "problem" I encountered was who the hell do I want to use! I haven't unlocked everyone yet and I already have a roster of 42 characters to chose from. A couple are clones (Mario/Dr.Mario, Link/Toon Link, Pit/Dark Pit etc...) but even the clones play and feel different than the originals. Dr.Mario was more or less my main in Melee so I was very happy to see his return in this one. I won't be doing an individual review for each character for a couple of reasons 1. Not enough time, 2. I'm not a professional enough player to know everyone's individual frame speed for attacking, and 3. I haven't even played as even 1/4 of them yet. My Mains are Bowser, Fox, Dr.Mario, and at the moment I'm giving Mega Man a try and this one of the things I love about the game. Every character (Apart from clones) feel so very different it's like playing a different game. By that I mean Mega Man and Fox play vastly differently and mastering one doesn't mean you can even get close to using the other.

The Gameplay:

So let's get into the gameplay! The game is Smash Bros.! If ya have played the others you know what to expect and it does it remarkably well in this iteration as well. The game runs at a constant 60 fps (I believe it's 60) depsite all that's going on on the screen. Explosions and death in every direction in a four player brawl, crazy stages that sometimes kill you more than other players do and overpowered items all over the place! It's just non stop fun and on top of that it allows you to tweak the gameplay style to make matches last longer, shorter, etc... I often do a 5 stock match to have some decent length but 3 stock seems to be the tradition.

The first blip on the radar isn't fully the game itself's fault but the system itself... Now Smash Bros. is a unique case in which this is one of the only games I can think of that not only defined a genre but defined a Controller as well. Talk to ANYONE who played smas bros. in any form of frequency and they will all tell you the same thing and that's that the Gamecube controller is the best (And possibly only) way to play this game at it's fullest. This controller is so popular that nintendo is releasing a Wireless gamecube controller for the Wii U just for this game. And you can bet I will be buying 2 of those for this game for playing with my friend.

So does the 3DS work for the game? Yes and no... Yes it works and you can get used to it eventually (took me many hours) but it's just not... great. The circle pad just doesn't work well for this type of game in my opinion. I find it difficult to get the smash attacks to work 100% of the time. However it's not bad enough that the game is ruined or unplayable, it's just after 7 years+ of a gamecube controller it's hard to just change on a dime. Again this isn't the games fault, it's just a downside of the system it's on.

Speaking of which anyone who owns just a 3DS (Not an XL) you may want to skip this game. Even on an XL I have a bit of difficulty seeing everything that's going on when the action get's crazy and there are 4 brawlers on screen, particularly in the larger levels. I can't imagine this on a normal 3DS. Try the demo first I say!

Game Modes:

Apart from just Brawling you get some returning game modes like Classic mode, All Star Mode and various stadium matches like 10 man melee, 100 man melee, etc... None of these are new and some are even watered down versions. There is a new target smash game that's just... home run mode meets angry birds in a bland throw away mini game. There is also a trophy smash mode which is also a throw away mini game.

Classic Mode:

Classic returns and gets a bit of a change. You can granularly customize difficulty for one thing, instead of 1, 2, 3 etc... to 9. You can now do 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, etc... giving you the ability to tweak it a bit. However if you game over you HAVE to lower the difficulty. So in order to beat the game on the hardest difficulty you can't die. Period. And this is both a challenge... and frustrating as sometimes the stage will kill you more than the computer. Each level you get to choose the path to take and each fork in the road has 3 difficulties. Blue (easy), green (Medium), and red (Hard). Hard gives more gold and trophies or custom parts (more on that later) while the other's are easier. You also don't get to chose your lives, you get 2 stocks per match. So if you die once in one match that stock is restored for the next. The CPU only has 1 stock.

Everything else is more or less the same. It's classic mode, what more do you want!

All-Star Mode:

Fight every fighter from start to finish based on release date... I found this mode to be bland to be honest. You don't get the granular difficulty you only get Easy, Medium and hard and even on hard it wasn't that difficult. Only reason I died the first time is the stage killed me because a hole appeared RIGHT as I was ground pounding with bowser and I died. Again I kind of find this to be a short distraction and I move back to classic or Brawl.

New Modes:

There is only one new mode in the 3DS version and it's something called Smash Run. You get 5 minutes to kill a bunch of CPU monsters from all the game franchises. You pick up stat increasing items like Speed, Jump, attack, Special, etc... that determines how strong you are in the final match. The final match can be one of four things. A Race, a Climb, a FFA Brawl, and a Multi-Man melee challenge. The game is fun enough, you run around like you did in the Subspace Emissary mode in Brawl and kill stuff slowly getting strong as time goes by and eventually face off in the end against the other CPUs. Well... it's MOSTLY fun because the challenges at the end are boring. I would LOVE to be able to set this to only be a brawl at the end with 3 stocks each. I hate the race, I hate the climb and the multi man melee is boring. That said, it could have been much worse.

Customize Characters:

The last new thing is the ability to customize the brawlers. Each one has their 4 specials (up, down, left/right and neutral b) which can be changed in the custom screen to slight variations of each. For Instance Fox's left/right B is the Fox Illusion. You can change that to the one wolf used in Brawl, or another one that I don't have yet. Each character get's 3 different versions per special for a total of 12. Don't like Bowser's up B because it doesn't go high enough? Change it to do less damage but launch you higher to save yourself from death! You can also customize the Atk, Speed and Def by equipping 3 different badges. Each one raises one stat while lowering another. Raising Atk lowers Def. Raising Def lowers Speed and raising Speed lowers Atk. I have slowly been changing Fox's attack and Def to be much higher while lowering his speed to make him more like Wolf from brawl and it's been working wonderfully.

Now this mode can only be used against friends, in the single player modes (Apart from Smash Run) and in the non ranked mode online which more or less makes it less useful because I got so used to the slower version of Fox that i couldn't play him well when he was back to normal online and it... really does mess with your head. So while interesting it's a fleeting use at best and can be forgotten about...unfortunately.

One final new feature is that each stage has something called an Omega Mode. This turns the stage into a Final Destination style map with no stage effects, no random things happening etc... for me this is a great idea as most players only play on final destination for it's focus on JUST the players brawling. Now we can do that with different scenery and music without worrying about the stage killing us.

Multiplayer Modes:

Enough of this silly single player business! This is a fighter darnit! The multiplayer comes in of course 2 flavors. Online and Local. For local everyone will need a 3DS and a copy of the game. Well I can't comment much on this because I don't have any friends who even own a 3DS let alone the game so I went right online! And wouldn't you know it it sucks.

I still can't understand how Nintendo hasn't figured out online yet. I played 5 matches in total, the first 2 were so laggy that a 2 minute match took over 7 minutes (Yeah figure that one out) for it to end. The frame rate was abooout 5-10 at best. Don't even know how attacks were working. The second and third matches were a bit better but every 10 seconds or so there was a short burst of lag that ended up killing me. The 4th match ended before it even started and I finally got to play a 5th match! Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to change the rules, so we were all forced to do a 2 minute brawl. No stock battles, no items and no special stages in the ranked mode. Which I know is what most people want, however a lot of the fun for me is using the items and dealing with the crazy stages. But all that aside I would still much prefer a 3 stock battle than a 2 minute timer. Personal preference though. With Stock battle it becomes a battle for survival, with timed it becomes a battle of kill stealing which some characters can easily do more than others. As i mentioned before you can't use the customized characters in this mode either. It's pure brawl.

If they can fix the internet issue I think most of my dislike of it would go away, but until then it's just unplayable more than 50% of the time I would guess and isn't fun. Their online MP seems to work great in mario Kart 7 and 8, why not here? You also cannot play smash run online which I find a little sad cause it could be fun with non CPUs.

Final Thoughts:

In the end it's still smash bros. But the restricting multiplayer and the 3DS controls just make it feel worse than the console versions in the past. The roster is fantastic, the characters have a life of their own and the stages and music are wonderful. It's not perfect, but I think it's good enough to get a feeling for the characters for the eventual release of the Wii U version.

I give the game 8 Accidental fox illusions off the edge out of 10.

TLDR;

+Soooo many characters!
+Lot's of stuff to unlock and trophies to collect
+Cool stages with wonderful music and challenges, with an Omega version of each stage
+Looks GREAT on the 3DS and runs smoothly when not online
+/- Controls take time to get used to, many may not like the control pad
-Shoddy at best Multiplayer, bad connections and lack of ability to change game modes is annoying (If this is inaccurate PLEASE someone let me know how to change it)
-Can't use custom characters in ranked mode, making customizing more damaging then not
-The single player content is lacking

Good game, but really I feel it's here to hold me over till the Wii U release. Had both come out, I wouldn't even consider getting this one. Read more ›