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Masahiro Saku🐭rai has revealed assembling and creating the DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate felt 𓂃like making a whole other game.
Sora has of🍨ficially joined t🌟he Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster this week and with that, a significant chapter in the series' history has come to an end. The Kingdom Hearts star is the 11th and final character to be added to the game via Smash Ultimate's DLC. That means the biggest roster in Smash history is now complete.
In a new interview with Famitsu, Smash Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai has revealed some behind-the-scenes details about the game's DLC. Perhaps most notably that putting together the fighters passes required about the same amount of work as creating an entirely new game. Understandable considering the different series and games the 11 fighters came from.
As hinted at previously by Sakurai, Sora was the toughest of the 11 to pin down. So hard, in fact, that Smash Ultimate's DLC was originally capped at ten fighters. The second pass was supposed to include five fighters, just like the first, as it didn't look like Nintendo would be able to land Sora. Talks between Nintendo, Disney, and Square Enix continued, and eventually, things changed and Sora was added to the second pass.
Sakurai also hinted that Disney and Square Enix didn't like Nintendo's first run at Sora's Smash design. The director joked to Famitsu that the first Sora they sent to the collaborating studios was perfect before revealing that was a joke. Nailing what the final fighter would look like in Smash was actually very difficult. It's plain to see Disney had plenty of input, seemingly even dictating Donald and Goofy's likenesses could not be used in the stage Sora brought to Smash with him.
Sakurai and the rest of the team working on Smash's DLC managed to bring Sora aboard eventually, even after it appeared as if all hope was lost at one point. Three years of hard work paying off as Ultimate's roster is finally complete. Well, actually, more than three years. Sora's journey to Smash began when Nintendo polled players on who they would like to see added to the roster before the game even launched. Sora topped that list, hence Sakurai doing all he could to make it happen.
