By Smash Bros. DLC fighter four, Terry Bogard, has finally arrived! In a 48 minute video, Masahiro Sakurai went over everything from arcade, NEO-GEO history, to Terry’s origins and moveset inspiration. It’s definitely worth a watch, as it clearly shows Sakurai’s passion for games, and you’ll learn some important pieces of gaming history.
If nothing else, we also got this gem of a quote from Sakurai explaining why Fatal Fury mainstay, Mai Shiranui, didn’t make a guest appearance.
Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is for good boys and girls of many different ages, so we decided not to feature her.
Masahiro Sakurai
I’ll just leave this right here for those of you curious as to what that means. As a journalist, I must enlighten the people.
Anyways! Terry drops along with a new stage, and 50 new songs to duke it out with! Sakurai clearly went all out to bring Terry Bogard justice.
Patch Update 6.0.0
Smash Bros. version 6.0.0 brings buffs to a few characters who desperately needed them, but leaves the rest of the cast untouched. Here are the complete character patch notes.
| Fighter | Move | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Donkey Kong | Side Tilt Attack | Extended launch distance. |
| Donkey Kong | Neutral Air Attack | Increased power. Increased attack range. |
| Donkey Kong | Neutral Special | Extended fully charged launch distance. Shortened the charge time until reaching max charge. |
| Donkey Kong | Up Special | Increased the speed that super armor activates when using the move on the ground. Made it easier to hit multiple times when hitting an airborne opponent when using the move on the ground, and extended the last attack’s launch distance. |
| Donkey Kong | Down Special | Increased attack speed when using the move on the ground. Reduced vulnerability when using the move on the ground. |
| Kirby | Neutral Attack 1 | Increased attack speed. |
| Kirby | Up Smash Attack | Extended launch distance when hit in the low-damage range. |
| Kirby | Neutral Air Attack | Increased attack speed. Extended launch distance when hit in the high-damage range. |
| Kirby | Up Air Attack | Increased attack speed. Increased power. Extended launch distance. |
| Kirby | Neutral Special | Reduced start time for Inhale. Made it harder to disrupt Kirby’s Copy Ability. |
| Jigglypuff | Air Dodge | Reduced vulnerability. |
| Jigglypuff | Moving Air Dodge | Reduced vulnerability. |
| Jigglypuff | Down Air Attack | Shortened the landing time after using the move. Reduced vulnerability when landing after using the move. |
| Jigglypuff | Forward Throw | Adjusted launch angle. |
| Jigglypuff | Neutral Special | Shortened the charge time until reaching max charge. |
| Jigglypuff | Side Special | Increased the duration of the damage animation when the move hits. Increased the opponent’s downtime when shielded. |
| Robin | Side Tilt Attack | Extended launch distance. |
| Robin | Neutral Air Attack | Increased attack speed. |
| Robin | Neutral Special | Shortened the time it takes to change to a more powerful spell. |
| Robin | Side Special | Extended the duration of the fireball. The duration of the pillar of fire is not affected. |
| Robin | Other | Increased the recharging effect smash attacks have on the Levin Sword. |
| King K. Rool | Neutral Air Attack | Reduced vulnerability when landing after using the move. |
| King K. Rool | Forward Air Attack | Increased power of the high-damage range. Increased attack range of the high-damage-range attack and increased the duration. |
| King K. Rool | Up Air Attack | Increased the amount of time hit detection lasts. Extended launch distance for the high-damage range. |
| King K. Rool | Neutral Special | Increased attack speed. Made it easier to vacuum up the Kannonball. Shortened the time needed to shoot out the vacuumed Kannonball. Extended launch distance when hit with the Kannonball. |
| King K. Rool | Down Special | Reduced vulnerability when the counter succeeds. Increased the range the counter counts as a success. Increased the high-damage range. |
| Incineroar | Neutral Attack 3 | Increased power. Extended launch distance. |
| Incineroar | Forward Air Attack | Increased the amount of time hit detection lasts. Decreased power for the latter half of the time hit detection lasts. |
| Incineroar | Down Air Attack | Made it easier to trigger a meteor effect when you hit with the high-damage range. |
| Incineroar | Neutral Special | Increased the power at the beginning of the move. Increased the range at the beginning of the move and increased the duration of the move. |
| Incineroar | Down Special | Increased the amount of time the damage-reducing pose is effective. Extended launch distance of the flames after receiving an opponent’s attack. Reduced vulnerability when receiving or not receiving an opponent’s attack. |
| Hero | Neutral Special | After Kafrizz hits a fighter or the stage and explodes, Gravitational Pull or Pocket will have no effect on the explosion. |
Finally, Arena mode got a few updates too. The arena host can now change the ruleset without having to close the arena. They’ve also added an “Elite Only” arena mode, for all the professionals out there. And most importantly, we can now send pre-set messages in the arena, because we’re good boys and girls.
That pretty much covers it. There’s no word on who or when the next fighter will be revealed, but until then, I have to go do more research on Mai Shiranui.
