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Super Smash Bros game director Masahiro Sakurai explains some of the changes being made to the 3DS edition

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Super Smash Bros game director Masahiro Sakurai explains some of the changes being made to the 3DS edition

Speaking to Polygon, game director of Super Smash Bros for 3DS and Wii U Masahiro Sakurai has revealed some more details about the forthcoming game-mashing smack-'em-up.

For starters, the pace of the brawling in this future game is going to fall somewhere between the previous two entries in the series, Super Smash Bros Brawl and Super Smash Bros Melee.

Where Brawl was somewhat slow and very accessible, Melee was a blur of battles and moves that put some off.

"Now, with the new Smash Bros, we're thinking the positioning will be really right in the middle," Sakurai explains.

The new Super Smash Bros for 3DS isn't going to feature the tripping mechanic present in the other games in the series, though it might well feature multiple air dodges.

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Unfortunately, there are no cross-play features in this new version of Super Smash Bros, meaning 3DS owners won't be able to battle it out with their Wii U counterparts. This is down to the fact that the two versions of the game have system-specific stages.

There will be some interactivity between the two games, mind, but what that actually consists of has yet to be confirmed. You can read more about the differences between the two versions in our piece here.

Elsewhere, it looks like the single-player campaign of this new version game is going to be different from the one in Super Smash Bros Brawl. Again, though, we're not quite sure how different yet.

We know for a fact, however, that there won't be unlockable movies. That's because all of the movies will be unlocked from the very beginning. Yay.

We've still got a while to wait before Super Smash Bros for 3DS surfaces, for the game isn't scheduled to be released until next year.

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.