Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Take Your Heart DLC Trailer, My Thoughts

At the 2018 Game Awards, Nintendo made a little announcement. They decided to reveal the first of their DLC fighters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Who was that first DLC fighter? Let's find out!

Ah, dang it! I hate it when the screen cuts out like that! *smacks monitor* Work!

Ah, there we go! ..."Take Your Heart"? Did I get hacked?

I know a certain evil clown that would really dislike this guy using his name. He gets very angry about that.

Cool mask, bro.

So, he's there to steal something, huh?

Buddy, if you're invited to try and steal something, it's a trap.

I have to admit, I like the music in this trailer. Rather groovy.

That's right! Super Smash Bros., meet Joker from the Atlus role-playing game Persona 5! Gotta admit, this is a surprise, as Persona 5 is exclusive to the PlayStations 3 and 4. Who is Joker, you may ask? Well, in his native game, he is part of a group of teenagers known as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, a group of young vigilantes who solve people's problems through supernatural means. Joker himself is the character the player...plays as in the game. He's voiced by Xander Mobus in the US, the same man who voices the announcer in the Smash Bros. games.

Joker's Persona is quite something, huh? Big fire monster. A Persona in the game is the manifestation of a person's psyche. They're used to battle enemies known as Shadows.

The Persona series is rather complicated. The series' general theme is the characters finding their true selves and the exploration of the human psyche. The series has design elements that draw from religion, literature, mythology, Jungian psychology, and archetypes. It's also a spinoff of another video game series called Shin Megami Tensei, which was based on a series of Japanese science fiction novels called Devil Digital Story by Aya Nishitani. Those games are known for their dark themes and heavy religious influences. Yeah, it's a heavy series that is a spin-off of another heavy series.

The Persona series is rather popular internationally (selling over 9 million copies), and also helped garner interest in the Shin Megami Tensei series in North America. So, it does make sense that the series would get some representiation in this game. I've never played any of the games myself, so I am curious to see how this guy plays, and what the heck is Final Smash will be.