How to Reboot Smash Bros.

Two years have passed now since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate finished its DLC, enough time that fans have started seriously talking about what Nintendo might do for the next title. Opinions are split over exactly what Smash 6 (or whatever its name ends up being) should do to follow up Ultimate. A conventional sequel? A re-release for Nintendo's next system with some new content tacked on?

But one idea is, perhaps, the most interesting: Reboot it! A full refresh of Smash Bros. could allow the next game to create its own identity, free to build alongside Ultimate instead of being expected to surpass it in every way! Not only would it be much more doable for the developers, it'd let the game focus on aspects Smash has de-emphasized for a while: More modes and single-player content, more features returning from past games that have gone missing, and more veterans given full reworks that they've desperately needed!

Let's see just how a Smash reboot could work, how it could legitimately benefit the next game, and what a rebooted roster of (roughly) 50 fighters, with a careful balance of veterans and newcomers from different series and eras, could look like!
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