Suzaku Castle

Suzaku Castle
File:Ryu's stage.png Suzaku Castle as it appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (top) and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (bottom).
Universe	Street Fighter
Appears in	SSB4
Availability	Downloadable
Crate type	Normal
Maximum players	8
Tracks available	For 3DS: Ryu Stage Type A Ryu Stage (Alternate) For Wii U: Ryu Stage Ken Stage Ryu Stage Type A Ken Stage Type A Ryu Stage Type B Ken Stage Type B
Tournament legality Smash 4 Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned

Suzaku Castle (朱雀城, Suzaku Castle) is a stage in Super Smash Bros. 4, available as downloadable content in a pack with Ryu.

Layout

The stage takes place on the rooftop of the Japanese castle, at sunset. It features two long walk-off platforms on the right side, and two smaller floating platforms on the left side. Only the lower platform on the right is solid. The position of the lower-left platform is a fair distance away from the main platform, and provides a challenge for more than one character to stand on it, allowing for camping. Signposts located on the longest platform will break if a fighter is launched past them. Once all the signs are broken, they will eventually repair.

Ω Form

As the Ω Form of the stage consists of only the main platform centered without the smaller platforms and walk-off areas, it resembles a traditional Street Fighter stage, albeit airborne. The signposts can be broken even on this version of the stage, making it the only Ω Form stage to have interactable parts (albeit background parts that don't affect the match).

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Origin

Suzaku Castle (Japan Stage) as it originally appeared in Super Street Fighter II.

In Street Fighter II, Suzaku Castle (Japan) is Ryu's stage. Like all Street Fighter stages it is a simple flat surface with no hazards. The twilight setting and breakable signs in the Smash stage are inspired by the version of this stage which appears in the SNES version of the game.

Trivia

• On this stage, if the current music playing is Ryu Stage Type A or B or Ken Stage Type A or B and the timer reaches 30 seconds in a timed match, or the last opponent has one stock left in a stock match, or when the last opponent's HP is under 100 in a stamina match, or during Sudden Death, a sped-up version of the respective song will play. This references Street Fighter II, where the stage music speeds up when a fighter loses half of their health.
  • During the video that first revealed Suzaku Castle, Sakurai stated that the music changing was a series first; this is false, as the Mushroom Kingdom stage in SSB, and the Mushroom Kingdom and Mushroom Kingdom II stages in Melee, also had distinct music that would play near the end of a time match. However, the music on Suzaku Castle also changes when one player is down to one stock in a stock battle, which is a first for the series.
• The kanji written on the destructible signs are "風林火山", or "fūrinkazan", a Japanese expression meaning something along the lines of "As fast as the wind, as quiet as a forest, as daring as fire, and as immovable as a mountain", in reference to The Art of War. These same kanji appear on Ryu's obi.
• Suzaku Castle is one of five stages in the Super Smash Bros. series to be featured as a stage in other fighting games, with the others being the Fountain of Dreams, Pyrosphere, Green Hill Zone, and Midgar.