Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Returning Stage Packs Idea

Battlefield in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

This is a follow-up idea to the Wii U Battlefield sighted in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (see here), where we're having a little bit of fun here. It's likely confirmed that the Wii U Battlefield screenshot came from an early build (Update: see here) or it could simply be a small addition in the next free update, so it's best to not expect much here...

However, let's go crazy for a moment and imagine an entire Stages Pass, where Super Smash Bros. Ultimate crosses over with all five previous Smash games to fill some gaps. Each pack would come with four new old stages, where all the variants of Battlefield and Final Destination are included.


Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Super Smash Bros.


  • Battlefield (64)
  • Final Destination (64)
  • Meta Crystal
  • Planet Zebes

There aren't many options here and the only stage left is Sector Z, where both this and Planet Zebes probably got cut because of their very similar counterparts from Melee. Between those Sector Z has arguably the bigger visual differences, but Planet Zebes offers a different layout and therefore gets in.

Meta Crystal is the place where you fight Metal Mario in singleplayer and fans have been asking for this stage to return for years. It would certainly offer some unique aesthetics.


Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Super Smash Bros. Melee


  • Battlefield (Melee)
  • Final Destination (Melee)
  • Mute City (Melee)
  • Poké Floats

Other possibilities here would be Mushroom Kingdom and Icicle Mountain, but Mute City and Poké Floats are arguably the bigger fan favorites. Icicle Mountain could still be considered as more unique than Mute City, though... So, feel free to swap things.

Meanwhile Mushroom Kingdom looks quite similar to the Nintendo 64 version, but it offers a different layout and maybe this stage can be added as well as part of an update. In any case all four remaining Melee stages would be viable for DLC.


Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Super Smash Bros. Brawl


  • Battlefield (Brawl)
  • Final Destination (Brawl)
  • Mushroomy Underground
  • Rumble Falls

Super Smash Bros. Brawl really only has these stages left, with the exception of PictoChat, which would look identical to the 3DS version and really should have been part of a "PictoChat X" stage instead, much like Flat Zone.

"Mushroomy Underground" on the other hand is basically the B-side of Mushroomy Kingdom, based on World 1-2, which did not return in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, nor Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, but they could offer this here as a separate stage.

Rumble Falls also adds the first and only vertically scrolling stage to Ultimate, unless we're going with Icicle Mountain in the Melee Pack, but keep in mind that all of the returning stages also come with Battlefield and Omega versions. So, even if you didn't like this stage back in Brawl, it might still be nice to have with its variants.


Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS


  • Battlefield (3DS)
  • Final Destination (3DS/Wii U)
  • Rainbow Road
  • Pac-Maze

Similar to Brawl, there are only these four stages left to complete the collection. Battlefield on the Nintendo 3DS looks actually different from the Wii U version, so this gets its own slot. However, Final Destination looks quite similar for both 3DS and Wii U, where only the background was different between versions, so this gets merged into one.

It would also be interesting to see how they handle Pac-Maze on the Switch, but some of its special 3DS features could be preserved for local wireless play.


Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Super Smash Bros. for Wii U


  • Battlefield (Wii U)
  • Big Battlefield (Wii U)
  • Woolly World
  • Orbital Gate Assault

Since Final Destination was already covered by the 3DS pack, we're getting Big Battlefield here instead. Similar to Melee, there are also four candidates remaining here, where in this example Jungle Hijinx and Pyrosphere still didn't make the cut.

Jungle Hijinx could be problematic for stage morphing and complicate things for this feature, while Pyrosphere probably didn't make it back because of the Ridley boss, but of course those are really just excuses and not reasons. It's a different Ridley after all and they could simply exclude Jungle Hijinx from stage morphs. But if we're going with only four stages per pack, then Woolly World and Orbital Gate Assault are the less questionable picks.

Also, both Metroid and Donkey Kong already got new old stages in Packs 1 and 3. Overall the additions cover all different franchises: Metroid, F-Zero, Pokémon, Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Pac-Man, Yoshi and Star Fox, so this would be a great mix.

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