Umbra Clock Tower

Umbra Clock Tower
Umbra Clock Tower in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (top) and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (bottom).
Universe	Bayonetta
Appears in	SSB4
Availability	Downloadable
Crate type	Normal
Maximum players	8
Tracks available	3DS: Let's Hit The Climax! Theme Of Bayonetta - Mysterious Destiny (Instrumental) (Alternate) Wii U: Let's Hit The Climax! Theme Of Bayonetta - Mysterious Destiny (Instrumental) Tomorrow Is Mine (Bayonetta 2 Theme) (Instrumental) One Of A Kind Riders Of The Light Red & Black After Burner (∞ Climax Mix) Friendship Let's Dance, Boys! The Legend Of Aesir Time For The Climax!
Tournament legality Smash 4 Singles: Counterpick/Banned Doubles: Counterpick/Banned

Affinity redirects here. For the Smasher, see Smasher:Affinity.

Umbra Clock Tower (アンブラの時計塔, Umbra Clock Tower) is the final downloadable content stage in Super Smash Bros. 4 from the Bayonetta series, released on February 3rd, 2016.

Stage layout

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The battle begins and takes place on the face of the clock tower, while in an infinite free fall. The clock face itself is slightly recessed from the surface of the broken tower piece, creating a small incline. Occasionally, falling debris comes close to the main clock face platform, serving as extra platforms; both hard and soft platforms can appear, creating temporary walk-offs and caves of life. There are seven possible layouts that appear in a random but sequential order. Similarly to Town and City, the layouts themselves contain many platforms moving in different directions, then eventually leaving the stage. However, this stage forces characters to fall through soft platforms as they exit.

Players enter and exit the alternate world of Purgatorio throughout the match, which is indicated by a specific sound and a very large rising purple portal that represents Umbra Witch magic. The angels Affinity and Inspired only appear and fly around in the background of Purgatorio, and occasionally the enormous Fortitudo comes close to the playing field and lets out a powerful roar, shaking the screen. However, none of them have an actual effect on the battle, and mostly act as extravagant aesthetics. In 8-Player Smash, it does not enter the world of Purgatorio, hence the angels won't show up in the background.

Star KOs and Screen KOs are disabled, possibly due to the dynamic movement and nature of the stage itself.

Ω Form

The Ω form is mostly identical to the normal form of the stage, but the extra debris platforms will no longer appear, and, as a result, the camera will no longer zoom and shift. The clock face is no longer slightly recessed, flattening it out. The angels still appear, including Fortitudo and its roar.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Tournament legality

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This stage was banned in competitive play. The arguments to ban this stage are the appearance of temporary walk-offs (even if the walk-offs are plaftforms and they can be aproached and escaped from below) and the platform that briefly appears below the stage creates a temporary cave of life, meaning that when the bottom platform leaves, the opponent can be edgeguarded. The Purgatorio background can also be distracting to some players with attention problems, like the backgrounds of Final Destination and Lylat Cruise. Tournaments that have larger stage lists that encompass Delfino Plaza and Castle Siege are more likely to allow this one as a counterpick. Some players think that this stage was banned without even being tested properly, because the stage as a whole, it's less intrusive than Pokémon Stadium (which has always been legal in Melee) and its inclusion gives a new option with big blast zones to the stage list, which currently has stages that heavily benefit characters that K.O at the top.

Origin

The Clock Tower in Bayonetta 2.

The Umbra Clock Tower is a reference to the opening of Bayonetta, where Bayonetta and Jeanne fight angels on top of a falling clock tower face during the Witch Hunts. The stage also appears in Bayonetta 2 when Bayonetta is sent back in time. Forced to re-experience the Witch Hunts all over again, while fighting by the side of her mother Rosa, Bayonetta and Rosa witness the clock tower's destruction first-hand, due to two giant fireball attacks by the angel Fortitudo. The resulting explosion causes Bayonetta and Rosa to fall off a cliff together—a different side to the one Bayonetta's past self and Jeanne fell off.

As it begins crumbling, Rosa calls the tower the "Symbol of the Umbran Way" and begins mourning its destruction, showing that the tower itself had significant meaning to the Umbran culture, and their way of life.

In the Bayonetta series, there are three different dimensions called the Trinity of Reality: the Human World, Paradiso, and Inferno. Purgatorio, an alternate reality to the Human World which Angels and Demons can use to influence the Human World without having to directly enter it, exists between them.

Gallery

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  Affinity, as it appears in Bayonetta.

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  Inspired, as it appears in Bayonetta.

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  Fortitudo, as it appears in Bayonetta.

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  Bayonetta on Umbra Clock Tower in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

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  The normal form of Umbra Clock Tower

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Trivia

• The time shown on the face of the clock matches the respective game system's internal clock in real-time. However, if the game is paused, the clock stops counting, and when un-paused, the clock instead skips ahead and resumes counting from the current time on the system.
• In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the background angels on this stage are rendered as 3D models, while in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS they are sprites due to hardware limitations.
• This is the only downloadable stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS where Star KOs cannot occur.

External links

• Umbra Clock Tower on Bayonetta Wiki