Smashville

Smashville
File:AnimalCrossingSymbol.png
Universe	Animal Crossing
Appears in	SSBB
Availability	Starter
Crate type	Presents
Tournament legality Brawl Singles: Starter/Counter Doubles: Starter/Counter

Smashville is a stage for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, based on the Animal Crossing franchise. Players battle on a platform with a moving horizontal jump-through platform suspended above an Animal Crossing town while spectators watch on. The stage's scenery changes from night to day depending on the Wii's internal clock. If the stage is selected during the day, if either Blathers or Celeste (both owls) are present in the background, they will be asleep and not pay attention to the match. It also appears that some of the residents watching the match may react to the fighters, such as the person they are smiling at is KO'd, they will occasionally stare maliciously at the player who caused the KO. The most notable of these villagers though, is certainly Dr. Shrunk.

The stage goes along with Wii built-in clock. At night, it gets darker save for a few lights. Also, on Saturdays 8.00 PM-12.00 AM, K.K. Slider will perform one of six different songs.

Also, small, red balloons sometimes float overhead, usually holding food, however, the balloons can be popped with one hit.

Songs in My Music

• Title (Animal Crossing)
• Go K.K. Rider!
• 2:00 a.m.
• Town Hall and Tom Nook's Store
• The Roost

Song in bold must be unlocked

In addition to these songs from the stages My Music, the following songs play on the stage only during Saturday night's concert from K.K. Slider:

• K.K. Cruisin'
• K.K. Condor
• K.K. Western
• K.K. Gumbo
• Rockin' K.K.
• DJ K.K.

Background Characters

The following characters appear in the background of Smashville:

• Blathers
• Booker
• Brewster
• Celeste
• Copper
• Cornimer
• Crazy Redd
• Dr. Shrunk
• Gracie
• Gulliver (in the crowd and flying in his UFO)
• Harriet
• Human Boy
• Human Girl
• Kapp'n (in the crowd and driving his taxi to the town hall)
• Katie & Kaitlin
• Lyle
• K.K. Slider (on Saturdays at 8 PM)
• Mabel
• Pascal
• Pelly
• Pete (Flying in the background)
• Phyllis
• Rover
• Sable
• Saharah
• Sow Joan
• Timmy
• Tommy
• Tom Nook
• Tortimer
• Wendell

Origins

In 2001, a Japanese Nintendo 64 game called Animal Forest was released, which is the first Animal Crossing game. Animal Forest was translated and ported to the Gamecube as Animal Crossing with some added features (Such as the Able Sisters building and the museum). So while Animal Forest is the first Animal Crossing game, remember that the Gamecube version is a port of it.

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Two players in front of the museum in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

In each Animal Crossing game the entire game is set in a town. The town can be seen in the background of this stage. The museum first appeared in the Gamecube game Animal Crossing where the player can take their bugs, fish, paintings, and fossils that they caught and donate it to the museum. The museum, in this stage, can be seen in the background. The Able Sisters building also first appeared in Animal Crossing and is where players can design patterns for shirts and umbrellas. This building can be in the right of this stage. The town hall first appeared in Animal Crossing: Wild World. It is where the player pays of his or her debt to Tom Nook. This building can be seen towards the front left. The building in the middle with the green roof is the player's house. The house first appeared in Animal Crossing, but looks more similar to the one in Wild World. The rest of the buildings are the other townsfolk's houses and are also designed to look like the houses seen in Wild World. Ironically, despite Tom Nook's stores being one of the most important buildings in the Animal Crossing universe, not one version can be seen in this stage. In the beginning of Wild World a turtle named Kapp'n drives you to your town in a taxi. This taxi can be seen driving across town to the town hall. The town itself in Brawl retains almost everything that can be seen in a town in the Animal Crossing series such as trees, rocks, flowers, a river, bridges, a waterfall (can only be seen with the use of hacking), etc. In Wild World, in the museum there is an observatory. A player can go in the observatory and talk to an owl named Celeste who lets the player either stargaze or make constellations. The player could make a constellation however he or she wants it to look like. The constellations can also be seen outside for everybody to see. In this stage in Brawl, the night sky features some constellations.

In Animal Crossing there would be balloons that float over town carrying a present. The player would have to wait and see if the balloon would get caught in a tree. If the balloon does get caught in a tree, the player can shake the tree which makes the present fall down. In Animal Crossing: Wild World there are still balloons that float over the town, but now the player has a chance to buy a slingshot to pop the balloons and have the present fall. It seems the balloons that carry food in this stage is more of a reference to the balloons in Wild World due to the player being able to pop the balloon. In Wild World an astronaut, who is a seagull, named Gulliver flies through your town in a flying saucer. He can also be shot down with the use of the slingshot. In the background of this stage Gulliver can occasionally be seen flying his ship across the town. In both Animal Crossing and Wild World there is a Pelican named Pete who delivers the mail across town. Pete can be seen flying across the town in the background of this stage.

There are numerous characters seen in the background of the main platform. All which have appeared in Wild World (while some originate in Animal Crossing) In Animal Crossing there is a dog named Totakeke (aka K.K. Slider). Totakeke is a musician who appears at the train station every Saturday at 8:00 PM. If the player talks to Totakeke the player could either request a song or play a random song. He also appears as a musician for The Roost in Wild World. In Brawl, if the player plays on this stage at 8:00 PM on a Saturday, Totakeke can be seen and heard playing one of his songs. The songs that he plays on this stage are real songs that he plays in the Animal Crossing games. In Wild World a pigeon named Brewster owns a café named The Roost. Both Brewster and The Roost can occasionally be seen. In Animal Crossing there is a giraffe named Gracie, who is a celebrity fashion designer who appears occasionally in a town. She also owns a red convertible car. In Wild World she owns a yellow car that has a roof. In this stage Gracie can be seen with her yellow car.

Trivia

• Other than Battlefield and Final Destination, Smashville is the only stage to have an original name. The name "Smashville" takes advantage of the fact that in the Animal Crossing series you can name your own town, so it is named after the name of the game.
• If the player watches Kapp'n's taxi, after stopping at the town hall it mysteriously drives into a tree. It stays there for a few seconds before restarting the cycle.
• Smashville is one of only three stages to have no corresponding characters. The others are Pictochat and Hanenbow.
• Incidentally, it is impossible to name a town "Smashville" in any Animal Crossing game, as "Smashville" is ten letters long, and the maximum number of characters allowed is eight.

Gallery

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  Evening.

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  Night.

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  The Roost Cafe.

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  K.K. Slider giving a concert.

External links

• Dojo page