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Kingdom Hearts' Sora Joins Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Game as Final New Character
posted on by Alex Mateo
Nintendo announced during the final presentation for its Super Smash Bros. Ultimate crossover fighting game on Tuesday that Sora from Disney and Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts series will join the game as the last of six new characters in Fighters Pass Vol. 2. Sora will also be the final new character in the game, and he will launch on October 18.
Sora will feature costume color variations from Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, and Kingdom Hearts III. One of the costumes is from the Timeless River world in Kingdom Hearts II. Sora will have both his English and Japanese voices.
The game will also add the stage Hollow Bastion from Kingdom Hearts. When player stock is low, the stage transitions to an area called "Dive to the Heart," which will feature images of characters from the series. Players with save data from Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory will unlock an additional song "Dearly Beloved ~Swing Version~."
Game director Masahiro Sakurai confirmed on the stream that Sora was the top choice in the Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot from 2015.
The stream also revealed that Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix HD 1.5+2.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts III will get a release on Nintendo Switch via the cloud.
There will also be Mii costumes for Octoling and Judd from Splatoon, and Doom Slayer from the Doom series.
ARMS character Min Min launched as the first character in Fighters Pass Vol. 2 in June 2020. Steve and Alex from Minecraft joined the game in October 2020. Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII joined in December 2020. Pyra and Mythra, the heroines of the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 role-playing game, joined the game in March. Kazuya from the Tekken series joined the game in June.
Joker, the protagonist character from Persona 5, joined the game as the first Fighters Pass character in April 2019. Hero, a representation of the main characters from the Dragon Quest series, joined the game as the second character in July 2019. The title characters from Rare's Banjo-Kazooie game series joined the game as the third characters last September. Fatal Fury The King of Fighters character Terry Bogard joined the game as the fourth character in November 2019, and the Fire Emblem: Three Houses game's protagonist Byleth joined the roster in January 2020.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate shipped for the Nintendo Switch in December 2018. The game includes all previous playable characters and supports eight-player battles. New characters include Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Isabelle, Metroid's Ridley, Castlevania's Simon, Donkey Kong's King K. Rool, and Pokémon's Incineroar.
Several other characters joined the game as "Echo Fighters" for other characters. Echo Fighters include Street Fighter's Ken (for Ryu), Castlevania's Richter (for Simon), Fire Emblem's Chrom (for Ike), Metroid's Dark Samus (for Samus), Daisy (for Peach), Lucina (for Marth), and Dark Pit (for Pit). Echo Fighters have moves and properties that closely match another character's.
Source: Nintendo's YouTube channel
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