I don't know how to play smash, but somehow I beat the single player in the Wii one and so I'm going through world of light in this and I dunno some of this stuff is rage inducing. Like I'm not particularly good at Smash and part of that is the series has always controlled really fucking weird to me even after 20 years. Feels like a bunch of the time I'm standing next to someone and I punch in the wrong direction and if I try to tap towards them to punch in the right direction I dash to the side. I also have trouble not-dashing when I want to just move around and trouble landing jump attacks. I get how the combat stuff works but the movement has always felt weirdly stiff and easy to input wrong commands.
Anyhow in world of light I'm doing fine most of the time but if it's an HP battle I usually find it fucking hard. Like the first fight against Bayonetta in HP battle where she keeps fucking sliding in your face and even when I block and counter she hits me during my recovery frames from countering wtf. That fight took me like an hour. If it wasn't an HP battle it'd probably be ok because I seem to do a lot better when it's just about knocking the other player out of the arena, but HP battles are brutal. Especially because the cpu always has more HP than you.
The other fight early on that took me like 30-40 mins and was controller throwing bullshit was fighting Lucerina + Shulk with DEF DOWN. Like 2 on 1 is already bullshit, but the DEF DOWN thing just makes it even worse. The CPU actually blocks and both being sword people they keep hitting me from range. I even tried turning it down to easy and it didn't do shit for that fight. Eventually after 30 mins of retries I finally managed to kill one of them and then I played careful and beat the other, but man this mode feels like it has crazy difficulty spikes. I do fights like this for 30 mins of retries and then I do a bunch of fights after and win no problem. Idk.
The game seems pretty nice and content-filled, my only complaint is the load times. Especially when you keep dying for 30-60 mins on the same fight in SP WHY DOES IT HAVE TO LOAD FOR A FEW SECONDS EACH TIME?? Like it makes no sense since it's just resetting it wtf. Otherwise yeah I just kinda hate the controls in Smash, but that's more it just not clicking with me.