How to Play is an instructional movie in Super Smash Bros. 4 that is intended to teach beginners basic techniques on how to play the game. It shows Mario and Bowser fighting on Battlefield Ω.
Basic techniques taught in the video
- Walking and running
- Jumping
- Performing standard attacks (neutral attacks), strong attacks (tilts), and smash attacks with the Attack button
- Recovery
- Using special moves with the "Special" button
- Shielding
- Rolling
- Dodging
- Grabbing
- Activating a Final Smash with the "Special" button
Trivia
- This video uses the music in the "How to Play" video in Super Smash Bros. Melee which had been previously updated in the "How to Play" video in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
- Similar to Brawl's "How to Play" video, specific buttons are not mentioned, with the video naming buttons as "attack", "special", "shield", etc., likely due to customization of controls.
- Though alternate controllers are not present in the 3DS version, the buttons are still named this way.
- This is the second How to Play video that shows the offscreen areas where fighters can be lauched towards any blast line.
Video
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
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