Week 69
Monday, 6th October
Conquest mode is now open to overseas players. This is when things finally get serious. We've increased the frequency for updates, too. The Global Smash Power rankings will get interesting with more players involved. Connect online, and keep updating your status. This screenshot is the result from the last Conquest challenge. (image is from the Japanese version)
One round of conquest mode has taken place since this post, between Bowser and Villager. Bowser was the victor, with worldwide result for that being 73% to 27%. On a personal note, I got 1000 gold in the game as a prize for playing Bowser a few times online, so be sure to make contributions.
The current round of conquest mode has teams of certain characters, split into Brawlers, Sword Fighter and Gunners. They are Little Mac, Donkey Kong, Lucario and Captain Falcon as the Brawlers, Meta Knight, Link, Marth and Ike as the Sword Fighters, and Fox, Samus, Zero Suit Samus and Mega Man as the Gunners. The current worldwide progress sits at roughly 50% score for the Brawlers and 25% for each the Sword Fighters and Gunner teams.
Tuesday, 7th October
For the first time ever in the Super Smash Bros. series, you can play with a collection of real-life trophies in the form of amiibo. Simply touch them on this part of the GamePad. This particular screen is dedicated to activating amiibo, but you can also tap your amiibo on the GamePad at the character-selection screen to let that character join the battle.
Once you do, the trophy of your amiibo character transforms into a Figure Player (FP)!! FPs fight and develop on their own.
FP characters are the AI that you train, up to level 50. They are compatible with both the Wii U and 3DS versions. The first wave of 12 amiibos releases in November, and a second wave of another 6 amiibos releases in December.
Wednesday, 8th October
The Flying Men that appear in the Magicant stage will ally with the first fighter that touches them. Watch out for their flying cross-chop attacks! They also accumulate damage, and a grave gets erected every time a Flying Man falls in battle. And of course, only up to five Flying Men can appear at a time.
Ness and the Magicant stage are the first unlockable content shown in a daily pic since worldwide launch of Smash Brothers 3DS. Flying Men are powerful allies that act like an Assist Trophy, but may be KO'd in the traditional manner in addition to having HP. Only five of them can appear over the course of a battle on this stage.
Thursday, 9th October
Here's the Trophy Shop for the Wii U version. It operates identically to the 3DS version, but it sure has a different feel, doesn't it?
The Trophy Shop on Wii U is much more exquisite than that on 3DS, and it has two more trophies for sale at a time. No doubt there won't be an option to purchase trophies with play coins, as they are only a feature on 3DS systems.
Friday, 10th October
Unfortunately, I've been too busy working on developing the Wii U version that I haven't had a chance to play Home-Run Contest with my Global Smash Power turned on. So fighters, with the game now released worldwide, how are you faring with your home-run distance and Global Smash Power? I wonder if Ganondorf gives you some advantage.
A method that quickly became famous for good scores in Home-Run Contest is to choose Ganondorf and spam forward tilts (aka. the Sparta Kick). End with a reverse Warlock Punch and watch a new high score happen before your eyes. Funnily enough, Ganondorf is mentioned in this post despite being a secret character and not revealed on the official website yet.
If you like Sakurai's comments in Famitsu, here's two good ones.
Sakurai on the clone characters in Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS and
Sakurai on how characters are chosen for Smash Bros.. Links are to Nintendo Everything.