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Smash Ultimate 4.0 - Is The Hero OP? - NVC 468

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Video Games, Leisure

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Dragon Quest's The Hero joins the fight in Smash Bros. Ultimate! The NVC crew discusses the chaos this character brings to to the table and contemplates: Is he OP? We also cover the other Smash 4.0 update additions,Game Boy's 30th anniversary, the most popular Switch Lite pre-orders, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, EA's lack of Switch support, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to NVC IGN's Nintendo podcast. I'm your host Kasey DeFritis and today

0:07.2

I am joined by Brian Altano. Hi.

0:09.2

Hey, Schneider. Hello.

0:10.2

And Tom Marx. Hello.

0:11.2

Today we're going to be talking about the very, very huge Smash 4.0 update which comes

0:15.8

with a new character, a switch mini going on sale for pre-order, the Game Boy 30th anniversary,

0:21.7

and a whole bunch of other stuff. So let's start kick it off with the big topic which

0:25.4

is Smash Brothers. Oh and Pear is going to talk about Fire Emblem.

0:28.4

What? So definitely stick around for that. But first, Smash Bros. have you guys gotten

0:33.5

to play the new hero? No, I'm afraid. Just very little.

0:37.3

Yeah. Played with the kids, messed around with the character, impressed by the variety of

0:44.4

obviously the designs for the character and I've played the Dragon Quest game so I do

0:49.4

like that. And with how different the character feels. Because I saw, so I saw dude with

0:56.8

the sword like everybody else at first and thought, okay, this is going to feel like

1:01.0

more worth than everybody and it doesn't. That's good.

1:03.8

That's good. Very different feeling character.

1:06.0

It's kind of ridiculous. So all of his, I call him, but it's the hero from Dragon Quest

1:11.6

and there are multiple models from different Dragon Quest games. But there be special attacks

1:17.5

all take up NP which is a stat exclusive to this character. And so and the longer you hold

1:25.1

the B button, the stronger they become. And like into Dragon Quest, they can become different

1:28.7

versions of like the same element. So if you're familiar with Fire Family, there's like

1:33.4

Fire Agua and like different versions. I can't pronounce that word, but Thendara and

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