Adventure Mode: World of Light

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World of Light (灯火の星, The Star of Light) is a single-player mode in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and the successor to the Adventure Modes in Melee and Brawl. The mode is accessed from the Spirits main menu item and revolves around the fighters teaming up with Spirits to defeat an "ultimate enemy" named Galeem.

Elements

• Similar to The Subspace Emissary, the mode features a world map that may be navigated. Map navigation is unlike The Subspace Emissary but somewhat resembles Smash 3DS's Classic Mode, in that the player character (rather than the player) navigates between map locations. Additionally, they appear able to interact with characters and various obstacles on the map.
  • Both spirits and fighters appear on the map, with distinct icons for each. Treasure chests (resembling those found in Crazy Orders) also appear.
  • Bosses appear in the mode, but their mechanics are unknown; Master Hand and Rathalos are shown fully rendered on the map like the player character is, while Galleom is not rendered but appears as a larger version of the icon used for spirits.
  • The player may zoom out to view the full map by pressing L. Galeem appears at the top center of the full map, and areas not yet visited are obscured with dark smoke.
  • At least one sub-map may exist (Galleom's location), as one screen shows the Back and Menu options but no Full Map option. (In every other scene, all three options slide off and on the screen together.)
  • Certain other means of transportation are seemingly available, as one clip shows Pokémon Trainer use Lapras to traverse a body of water, while another clip shows the Great Fox traveling through a part of the world map resembling outer space. The bus belonging to Kapp'n also appears parked in front of what appears to be a bus stop.

Unconfirmed elements

• The status of cutscenes in this mode (compared to Melee and Brawl's Adventure Modes) is unknown. While the trailer for this mode features both Brawl-style cutscenes (more elaborate pre-rendered cinematics) and Melee-style cutscenes (in-engine short snippets), it is unknown whether any of these are actually included in the game, are for the trailer alone, or if any other cutscenes exist at all.
  • Interestingly, in the Nintendo Direct that announced this mode, Sakurai's original Japanese speech and the various language translations occasionally say slightly different things:
    • In the North American version of the Direct, Sakurai mentions that the mode "is more about fun than story". Additionally, when the trailer is introduced, Sakurai specifically states to "leave the rest to your imagination", strongly seemingly implying that no additional cutscenes or story beyond the trailer will exist.
    • In the European version of the Direct, Sakurai mentions that the mode "is nothing like" The Subspace Emissary, though it is ambiguous whether this refers to cutscenes, story, and/or the lack of side-scrolling stages. There is no caveat regarding "imagination".
    • In Sakurai's original Japanese speech, he mentions that "there is no mode that tells a story". There is no caveat regarding "imagination", implying that no story beyond the trailer will exist but leaving the status of cutscenes ambiguous.
  • In a video where Sakurai toured the menus, he briefly went across the option for "Videos" which allegedly has a decription reading "Watch Adventure Mode movies / cutscenes", implying that the adventure mode will have cutscenes in it.[1]
• No side-scrolling stages are present in the trailer, unlike the Adventure Modes in Melee and Brawl. However, it is currently unknown if this means they've been removed entirely.

Trailer

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Trivia

• If World of Light's Japanese name has its characters reversed, it can be read as 星の火灯, which is pronounced very similarly to 星のカービィ (Kirby of the Stars), the Japanese name of the Kirby series.
  • In the trailer, Kirby is the only fighter to survive Galeem's fatal attack (via Warp Star teleport), making him the starting playable character in this mode.
• The cliff appearing at the start of World of Light's reveal trailer is a reference to the opening cutscene from Brawl, and is even used borderline identically, showing all the fighters before changing perspective to look over a sunrise/sunset and an ocean.
  • Also in the reveal trailer, the location where Kirby's Warp Star crash-lands strongly resembles the dark cliffs used in the reveal trailers for Mega Man and Bowser Jr. prior to the release of Super Smash Bros. 4. This cliff area is further shown to overlook the area in the background of Battlefield.

Gallery

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  Galeem

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  Master Hand