So I wandered over to the World of Light, the single-player adventure that begins with every character in the game save Kirby falling at the hands of an evil force, plunging the world into foggy darkness.

My skill level, at least when I first started the game, was somewhere between desperately trying not to kill myself falling off the stage and “Oh hey, there’s a shield button?” I was winning battles, but it was really tedious. But here’s the thing: I am not good at Smash Bros. Ultimate as I imagine many players did, by going straight for Smash mode to unlock all the characters. Move up the center and you’ll finally be locked into the path to the True Ending.While our review called the side mode “unnecessarily involved,” juggling stats, skill points and power-ups is right up my alley. After that, you’re once again given the option to walk up to Galeem, Dharkon, or the center path. Once Master Hand and Crazy Hand are free, a path to the top center is clear, and the balance of light and dark is even, you can step up to the crack they’ve made for another fight. The easiest way to do that is to clear a path there without worrying about the balance, then go back and fight the weaker spirits toward the start of the map on whichever side you need to defeat more of so that the balance shifts back. You’ll need to make your way up to that crack, but the balance of light and dark has to be even when you get there.

Beat those new ones as well and they’ll both head to the top center of the map and create a crack in the ground. Doing so will make another of each spawn at the bottom corners of the map.

You’ll first need to fight your way to Master Hand and Crazy Hand on the map and beat each of them. Since both sides are bad guys, you’ll need to fight them both equally.Here’s how to do that: Once the light or dark is all the way over to one side, you will be able to fight a harder version of the boss whose forces you have been defeating, but doing so will give you a fake ending.īeating Galeem or Dharkon alone here will result in a cutscene and then send you back to the menu screen without even a credits sequence.

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