I have to say that I'm incredibly disappointed in the final direct. The thing that pissed me off the most was the removal of trophies which was a huge reason I put so much time into previous Smash games. What makes it worse was their half assed, BS explanation why and the immanent announcement of a stupid buff system called spirits. The Spirit system looks very gimmicky and while I do not claim to be some ultra competitive Smash player, I feel like this is Nintendo dumbing their games down more and more to try and appeal to a younger demographic that they seem to believe doesn't know how to play video games.
I also was no a huge fan of the new character announcements. Ken was okay, but of course he is an Echo Fighter, another thing I'm not to fond of about Ultimate. The piranha plant character was pretty cool, however we won't be playing with him at launch. Then there is Incineroar, one stupid Pokemon from many that were part of the worst generation of Pokemon ever. I face palmed when they announced him and am truly disappointed by even his inclusion in the roster. Some of the new assist trophies were cool, especially Akira from Virtua Fighter, which may have been the highlight of the entire direct for me, which is really sad.
Overall I'm still pretty hyped for Smash Ultimate, I just thought that Direct was pretty bad overall. I hope that I'm wrong about the spirit system and despite it being annoying that they'll be DLC, I really hope Nintendo steps their game up with the new characters down the road.
