Super Smash Bros Ultimate gets its 99th and seemingly final Spirit Board event

20.03.2024 - 14:47 / videogameschronicle.com / Masahiro Sakurai / Chris Scullion / Nintendo

Super Smash Bros Ultimate is getting its 99th Spirit Board event, which appears to be its last.

The event will feature new spirits from Princess Peach Showtime and Super Mario Bros Wonder, which hadn’t previously appeared in the game before.

Spirit Board events are limited-time events that take place in the game’s Spirits mode, where players take part in battles with rule variations to collect ‘spirits’ (artwork) of various Nintendo and third-party characters. There are more than 1500 spirits in the game in total.

Since the game’s launch in December 2018, Nintendo has regularly been running special events on the Spirit Board, featuring spirits that fit a certain theme. Players taking part in these events usually gain extra gold, SP or XP along with their spirits.

Some of these special events also contain new spirits, meaning players trying to collect them all need to make sure they don’t miss them.

A total of 94 Spirit Board events had been held up to January 2022, at which point it appeared they had stopped.

However, on December 8, 2023, Nintendo released a new event to celebrate the game’s fifth anniversary, along with an announcement that four more Spirit Board events would be coming in 2024.

Three of these have already come and gone, adding new spirits from games such as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Splatoon 3, Pikmin 4, Hades, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, WBSC eBaseball: Power Pros and Pokémon Scarlet & Violet.

Now the fourth of these, titled Showtime and Wonder Spirits, will start on March 22 and run until March 27 and will add spirits from Princess Peach Showtime and Super Mario Bros Wonder, including Peach with Stella, Elephant Mario, Swordfighter Peach, a Wonder Flower and a Talking Flower.

Given that Nintendo said only four Spirit Board events were planned for 2024, and that it has reconfirmed on X that this new event is the last of these four, it appears that this 99th event is the game’s final, unless more surprise events are added in the future.