There was a Nintendo Direct today centered around new details about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch which is due to release on 7th December and is easily one of the most highly anticipated titles for the console.

Check out the *press release details and a video of the presentation below...

*press release is auto-translated so there may be some slight errors even after editing, though some may have been left in intentionally for your possible amusement, for full accuracy I would advise watching the video.

• Simon Belmont from Castlevania series and King K. Rool from the original Donkey Kong Country -Play as new additions to the squad fighters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Limited Edition Nintendo GameCube controller and Nintendo GameCube controller adapter now available for preorder
• New Echo fighters, new stages, new game modes and more than 900 pieces of music

One a legendary vampire hunter, the other a villain, that countless fans already longed for - the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - fighters team is celebrating their two latest additions! The latest Nintendo Direct presentation around the Nintendo Switch -Exclusively revealed Simon Belmont, superstar of the Castlevania series, and King K. Rool, arch-villain of the original Donkey Kong Country games, as playable fighters. In addition, the presentation showed off new echo fighters, new stages, new game modes, as well as one of the most powerful collections of songs consisting of: more than 900 compositions which comes in at 28 hours of listening pleasure. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is exclusive to Nintendo switch available from 7 December.

In addition: Die-hard fans can now pre-order a special edition of the game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Limited Edition includes the game, a Nintendo GameCube controller in the Super Smash Bros. -Edition and a Nintendo GameCube controller adapter! In addition, the Super Smash Bros. Collection amiibo appear on all five new Smash Icons: Simon Belmont, Richter Belmont, King K. Rool, Chrom and Dark Samus.

The Nintendo Direct presentation itself is in full on the Nintendo Direct page available - here are a selection of special highlights:

• Simon Belmont: The vampire hunter comes with his unmistakable whip, and his special attacks come almost unchanged from the classics of the Castlevania series: axe, cross, holy water and the Grand Cross, which he uses as a devastating Smash. Suitably to go with Simon's appearance, Dracula's Castle is included as a stage - of course complete with destructible candle holders that reveal in the classic manner items. Alucard, the tragic hero of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, aids players as an assist trophy with his enchanted sword by his side. Also Richter Belmont, descendant of Simon and starring another Castlevania classic character, is included as an echo-fighter, making his Super Smash Bros. Ultimate debut!
• King K. Rool: The long-awaited by fans crocodile villain of the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy on the Super Nintendo shows up as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate! Finally his entire arsenal of rogue tricks - such as a blunderbuss that shoots cannonballs, or his crown that can be thrown like a boomerang!
• Echo-fighters: Similar moves, new look! The Echo fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate play like existing fighters, however, they have a unique look and characteristics. In addition to Richter Belmont, Chrom from the Fire Emblem series (as Roy's Echo fighter) and Dark Samus from the Metroid- universe (as Echo fighter of Samus) Echo-fighters can be displayed either separately or combined with the origin fighter in the fighter selection - in this case a touch of a button to switch between two fighters.
• Stages: The majority of the stage selection in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate consists of classics in a new graphic style and have undergone some playful tweaking. But there are also brand new battlefields are about as Dracula's Castle from the Castlevania series and the New Donk City Hall from Super Mario Odyssey. Over 100 stages are available, but this time, all stages can be played as battlefield or omega-version, the Stage selection amounts to more than 300 variations, all of which are immediately playable and without needing to be unlocked! In all stages 8 player battles are possible. Special Stage gimmicks like the Yellow Devil in Wily's Castle can be turned on and off freely. To play certain multiplayer modes an optional accessory may be needed.
• Stage change: Premiere for a very special Super Smash Bros. -Feature! Optionally, this time change in the struggle of the venue in the middle - the setting is activated in the rules, the current Stage transforms fluently during the game to another.
• Music: For fans of musical accompaniment but this time is also the music selection feature is available with a decisive innovation: While previously a fixed selection of pieces per stage was to choose the songs in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are grouped by series - different tracks can be selected for any stage of the Legend of Zelda all titles of the series, including the newest but popular composition the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Main Theme. Along with menu tracks, fanfares and other pieces are about 900 different pieces to choose from - more than 28 hours of video game-listening pleasure! Music can be played in Handheld mode even when the screen is off - so the Nintendo switch console is almost like a portable music player!
• Items: In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate plenty of items from all sorts of different video game franchises are represented, to attack or defend! As a small selection among other Banana Gun, Killing Edge, Bomber, Death's Scythe, Staff, Ramblin' Evil Fungus and Rage Blaster were presented.
• Pokémon: Numerous well-known and new Pokémon can be summoned in battle using the Pokeballs - among other Abra, Solgaleo, Lunala, Mimikyu or the towering Alolan-Exeggutor.
• Assist Trophies: New faces in the practical struggle helpers in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Zero from the Mega Man X series, Knuckles from Sonic The Hedgehog, Krystal from Star Fox Adventures, Rathalos from the Monster Hunter franchise, Shovel Knight from, guess Shovel Knight and the creepy moon from the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask will come together.
• Classic Mode: In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players can again plunge into solo pleasure: The Classic mode offers a customized campaign from opponents and stages for each fighter.
• Endurance Smash: In addition to fighting on time and attempts battles belong in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate now endurance fights to the default modes. Only one thing counts: to reduce the power reserves of the opponent to 0 and to get through the game as the last!
• Ultra-bar: In addition to the usual ultra-smash by smashing the smash ball is now also an optional ultra-smash charging blade available: This fills in the battle progress until, finally, a less strong ultra-smash can be used.
• Squad Smash: In this game mode squads from each 3 or 5 fighters compete against each other - Players take their fighters one after the field until the winner is determined.
• Tournament Mode: Tournament competition with up to 32 participants - the perfect game mode for parties or large events Smash. With Nintendo switch games knows no bounds - Smash tournaments at all imaginable places are inevitable!
• Smash all: Grab, Fight, Win! Here each fighter used falls for the rest of the game gone, and after each round must be re-elected. Who can deal with lots of fighters will be rewarded here - everyone else here the incentive, they want to get to know new characters.
• Training: The all-round improved Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -Training mode offers an exclusive stage in the grid look, indicating distances, attack range and fighters trajectories particularly clear.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is exclusive to from 7 December Nintendo switch available. More information about the game can be found on https://www.smashbros.com/

Here is the original video of the presentation for those who might not have seen it yet or who might want to just watch it again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS5DQg41bGI

What did you think of the presentation? Did it exceed your expectations? Or did it leave you wanting for even more? Personally, I think we at N-Europe were pleased with the direct on the whole although if we had to add just one more thing to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate then it would likely be having Rick the Hamster from the Kirby series as a playable fighter... then it would be perfect.

Well, we can always dream but in the meantime please let us know your thoughts in the comments or join in with the discussion on our forum.