Why no one likes World of Light 

Not only did Subspace have unique cut scenes, but IT ALSO had levels in it that were SPECIFIC TO THAT MODE, you couldn't play "Mid-Air Stadium" in the main game!

I just wished *World of Light* had more character interactions It doesn't even have to be on the level of *Subspace* but if we at least had text dialog between different characters that would have been enough for me

The most memorable part of World of Light for me wasn't the the bosses, or the opening cutscene. It was the battles agaist Ho-oh and Dr. Wily. Ho-oh took around 45 minutes for me to beat but that's nothing compared to the *2 and a half hours* it took me to take down this stupid crazy balding eyebrow wiggling demon. 8 Metal Megamen in a stamina battle with (for me) no stamina boosting spirits. Absolute hell. I even had to make a strategy for it. "But Castorm, both of those fights are optional". I know, but when you lose a fight enough times it becomes about your pride. I haven't played a Megaman game but when I do, I cannot wait to watch Wily beg for mercy when I defeat him. Stangely enough, I beat both fights with Lucas which lead to me playing him more which I guess counts for something.

The only reason I played World of Light was to unlock more music for the menus. That’s it. I think they didn’t have too many cutscenes in WoL because they wanted to leave it to the players’ imagination. Still would’ve been cool if we got some additional cutscenes, especially to hear the characters converse more.

Smash Bros brawl is a game that meant so much to me, it’s was my first introduction to smash brothers after all. So looking at the trailers for world of light got me really hyped because it made me think that we would finally be getting the modern subspace emissary I have dreamed of since I was a kid but instead we got a boring repetitive messy downright lacklustre “story mode” that was super dissatisfying, annoyingly tedious and very much overdoing is welcome another thing that I’m very disappointed about not having is the coin mini game from brawl got so disappointed not seen it however the one thing I’m not disappointed about is seeing K rool smash, Begged for this character since I was 12 and when it finally was revealed I screamed like a girl in the school cafeteria and everyone saw and I do not regret it one bit . Absolutely love this video this is the first time Im seeing you and you have earned my sub I will be sticking around and looking forward to your future videos with much anticipation much love ❤️

The cutaways were so good in this video, i don't know how anyone plays through this experience more than once and says "im gonna do it again!" ladder wisp will always hold a place in my heart, great video as always bro!

I am very happy with my experience playing World of Light and I get a slight nostalgic kick looking back at how my first Smash game had so much to offer that a "story" mode was just something I could hop into from time to time. I honestly don't know if I would've taken trophies over this since I found the same appeal in collection spirits while seeing the cheeky references they put into each and every battle. Sometimes I found it being a slog, but then I would just hop out and play normal matches, classic mode, stage builder, etc.. I took so many breaks that I have just beaten it this year (this is coming from someone who got it when it came out for Christmas), PLUS the Lightlocke that I tried out this year after I felt happy with the mode (the Lightlocke itself was so much fun, and I could honestly see myself redoing it. I had a few characters left, but that was because my lazy-ass switched from normal to max difficulty sometimes, so giving it more challenge would be exciting). It is not perfect, FAR from it. It can really drag sometimes, but it is not a bad mode. Young me even knew when it was first revealed back in late 2018 that it was either World of Light or no World of Light due to the ammount of content already precent in this game. I can just think back at how amazing it was seeing that ammount of content in my first Smash game, truly mindblowing. The painful thing, however, is how true the criticism is and I can not debate with it whatsoever, it was just fun for me personally as a casual player becoming better over time while taking breaks from World of Light, only playing it once in a while, and I am so happy that this game even exists with a mode jam packed with video game love. (Also, like, why does every Smash game have some sort of VERY small Sonic promotion? Like, first it were the funny genies as trophies in Brawl to advertise Sonic and the Secret Rings, then they got removed and were replaced with Windy Hill Zone as a stage with The Deadly Six and the funny animals as trophies in Super Smash Bros. for WiiU (not the 3DS version) to promote Sonic Lost World, then they were removed when trophies were taken away. It's unfortionate, but Infinite was chosen as a spirit to promote Sonic Forces (all were bad games lol). I mean, I know that Sonic is, like, not popular at all in Japan which is most likely why his representation in Smash is kinda poor, (like, the best selling Sonic game in Japan, Sonic Adventure, was outsold by Seaman) but that's kinda sad. At least we have Hero Chao as a spirit) Yes, I wrote all that because of your amazing Sonic in Smash video I saw a while ago.

I would have preferred if they didn't have world of light and just had a short 1 hour Melee-like adventure mode where you play through like 10 or so platforming levels based on the series represented in Smash and then fight Tabuu from Brawl at the end of it all.

As someone who 100% completed world of light, it can be fun. Still sucks if ur starting from scratch tho

What makes me MAD is the fact that you HAVE to beat it in order to unlock THE MENU MUSIC PLAYER!

Melee's adventure mode still owns. Looking back, I think I would have enjoyed Subspace Emissary better in Brawl if the locations looked more like classic Nintendo worlds/levels. But yeah, World of Light is a step down from both. Great vid!

the final part of WoL is awesome, but i really wish there was more of the stuff it offered like, more platforming sections and being able to play as master hand maybe in a dedicated mode (man i have to play through the whole thing to play as him if i feel like it, REALLY!?!?!), thatd be welcome

I liked it 😎 Though I agree that it should've had more shit

5:10 Fighting against Kazuya be like

Oh yeah I remember WoL... The unintuitive Spirit Board, which that I only completed during the pandemic, because remote learning sucks & I SERIOUSLY needed a time sink. Looking back, I wish I'd spent my time more favourably.

1. I can 100% agree that the Sacred Realm stumped me to the point that I needed to look up a guide (i.e. recruiting Mii Brawler and Chrom). 2. While the level structure of the true final boss is questionable, can you appreciate the music? I personally can't get enough of it. Dare I say it, it's in my top 3 in terms of best final boss themes. 3. As soon as you recruited your main, did you actually use Sonic for the rest of your playthrough? I wouldn't be surprised if you did? 4. I won't deny World of Light's many faults, but I can at least give the dev team props in filling in the void of Smash 4 lacking a story mode. The lack of cutscenes still sting though. Nice work on the video, sir.

I played World of Light all the way through in Ultimate's first year and felt very indifferent to the mode. I wouldn't say my time was wasted but I also wouldn't say it was well spent either. The world of dark had a lot of cool areas but after like 5-6 hours doing whatever the world of light was I just didn't care enough anymore. What I mostly wanted from a new Adventure mode was taking the cutscenes and platforming from Subspace and mixing in actual worlds from the Smash roster like Adventure. World of Light I feel sprinkles a tiny bit of salt of both into the mode and focuses mostly on modified event matches for PNGs. I wouldn't even need all the characters to be in a new Subspace. I could take a Brawl size cast +10. I'll even take no voice acting. I understand and respect that Sakurai wants the first experiences of games and cutscenes to be within the games but that meaning we'll never get a mode like Subspace will always be a bummer to me. Also we never got an actual boss rush mode. Sephiroth has one but I was expecting to get a dedicated mode for it. The other bosses introduced this game are used disgustingly little compared to the Hands and I would've liked to have Kirby fight Dracula without having to go into a 2 player Classic mode with Cloud's stalker.

Subspace also encouraged the player to choose characters they wouldn't play as by restricting the choice in levels on the initial playthrough which did help in making the game feel much less repetitive at least for me. Lucas is my main and if you go the Marth route near the start you unlock him pretty soon and I'm fairly sure I just used him for the rest of the game on my first playthrough. It doesn't really encourage playing as anyone else.

Call it wishful thinking, but I hope that one day, there would be a *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Definitive Edition* that comes with a second adventure mode that is more like Subspace Emissary.

“No one like World of Light”? Nonsense. It’s no Subspace Emissary and is very flawed, but I still liked it. Personally, I wish it incorporated the spirit/world concept with Subspace Emissary’s gameplay.

I see you still rocking the Judy Hopps tag hahaha

I'm unsure how Subspace was repetitive, cuz in my opinion, it was fun as hell. And although the platforming seems generic, i say it's pretty fitting for the theme Brawl was going for.

Hey, that rhymes. No one likes World of Light.

Once I found out you could only change the menu music after beating WoL, I was dumbfounded, like, Why couldn't we do that from the beginning, You know, like in Brawl and Wii U? Doesn't matter, I'm getting back into it, and once I beat World of Light, and unlock the rest of the menu themes, I'm never battling another spirit.

And dont forget sakurai team sacrifice trophys, all stsr mode, boss battle mode for the boring and terrible world of light

I completed it one time. I can't say it was a complete waste of time since I got to use a few characters I'm not totally famliar with. Still, having all those characters and no real way to see how they crossover or form teams like in SSE was disappointing.

It was definitely something to do during remote learning. Only completed it to change menu music.

I'm glad I've deleted my world of light save file and I'm never playing it again screw world of light

I remember Alpharad giving the hot take (he even acknowledged it’s an hot take) that he prefers WOL over SSE because it’s just like event mode, which he like very much (well he’s also the one that popularized lightlock)

Truth is that the opening cutscene did more harm then good in the long run, it gave people false hopes and expectations for what the game mode actually was.

Ah am, i like it

I love World of Light. Sure, it may not be as good as Subspace Emissary, but that doesn't mean I hate it, far from it. I mean, the final battle is quite good, so there's that.

I loved world of light and I know a lot of people who did too

I quite like world of light and although I see why most people don’t, I think it shouldn’t be compared to The Subspace Emissary as much as it is. They may both be the main single player campaigns of their respective games but they set out to accomplish completely different goals and it’s unrealistic to expect another mode like subspace in a game with 70+ characters. I honestly never liked subspace all that much. The levels are generic and samey, and the bosses aren’t fun to fight at all. It feels like when it comes to subspace, the cutscenes are all anyone ever talks about. So if they were really the only memorable part of the mode, then why shouldn’t I do what Sakurai didn’t want me to do and watch all the cutscenes online? And if you really want more smash cinematics, Smash 4 and Ultimate still have you covered with character reveal trailers. They’ll never be the same as cutscenes in an overarching story mode, but they still feature characters interacting with each other and greatly enhance the hype and speculation side of smash bros. There’s even over an hour’s worth of content with them, exceeding the amount of content in subspace cutscenes there are. Reveal trailers were basically conceived as a trade-off to story mode cutscenes and I think that’s how they should be treated. But Sora’s reveal trailer was such a great way of capping off Ultimate that I wouldn’t trade it for any kind of story mode.

opinion that I respect ❤

With the limited time and resources they add I'm not really sure how they could've made World of Light any better. World of Light honestly, was just Sakurai's way of giving the Spirits more of a purpose, while also adding more content to the game. It wasn't meant to be Subspace 2, because Subspace was always meant to be a big epic story but WoL

I completed it multiple times,itsucks,i only did it a 3rd time for $100 n i felt like i lost my senses

I like World of Light. Flagrant false advertising.

I swear I’m the only person who actually likes it (I understand the dislike of it)

In b4 contrarian hoard arrives