

While he may not serve as director of the Kirby series, it could be exciting to see Sakurai lend his touch to Kirby and the Forgotten Land as the property's creator. Ultimate is coming to an end, but he's more than earned some time off until he wants to jump into a new project.

There really is no telling what Masahiro Sakurai will do now that the DLC for Super Smash Bros. He's been the face of development for three years now, and the work that he did to keep fans updated and provide breakdowns for each new DLC character will be long remembered. Ultimate, and after this last hurdle, he deserves all of the rest he needs. There's no doubt that Sakurai has poured his soul into Super Smash Bros. While the acquisition of Banjo & Kazooie and Minecraft's Steve were certainly no small feat, trying to get the rights for Sora from Disney was a whole other hurdle on its own. Sora's introduction in Ultimate is the biggest indication of Sakurai's dedication to the game. on the Wii U already brought in the likes of Bayonetta and Mega Man, Sakurai never took his foot off the gas when expanding Ultimate. On top of that, Sakurai and his team managed to bring in new fighters like the long-requested Ridley and Simon and Richter from the Castlevania series. Even when the game first launched, the sheer amount of fighters available was leaps and bounds more than many other fighting games could even claim to have. Ultimate, it's clear that it was a labor of love from Masahiro Sakurai from beginning to end. Ultimate Adding Doom Slayer and More Through Mii Costumes and Nintendo as a whole, the praise is more than warranted. Shortly after the reveal, #ThankYouSakurai began trending on Twitter due to an outpouring of support for the longtime developer, and looking at his history with Super Smash Bros. Sakurai has been the face of Ultimate since the beginning, and now that the game's final DLC has been announced, many fans are giving thanks to him online. Ultimate was the effort of dozens of developers over the course of many years, and at the front of all of those efforts was the game's director, Masahiro Sakurai. The game's very last DLC fighter could hardly have been a better choice, and now many are looking to Ultimate's legacy and the man behind it all. After years of rampant requests from fans, Sora from Kingdom Hearts is finally coming to Super Smash Bros. Nintendo's platform fighting game has revolutionized what the genre is capable of with its immense roster of characters from all across the video game industry, and that roster is about to get its last new addition. Few games from the Nintendo Switch era have been as wildly successful as Super Smash Bros.
