The Great Cave Offensive

The Great Cave Offensive
Universe	Kirby
Appears in	SSB4 (Wii U)
Availability	Starter
Crate type	Presents
Maximum players	8
Tracks available	The Great Cave Offensive Butter Building Ver. 2 King Dedede's Theme Ver. 2 Forest/Nature Area Green Greens Ver. 2 Green Greens (Melee) Squeak Squad Theme Celestial Valley Frozen Hillside The Adventure Begins Through the Forest Floral Fields Bolded tracks must be unlocked
Tournament legality Smash 4 Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned
Article on WiKirby	The Great Cave Offensive

The Great Cave Offensive (洞窟大作戦, Epic Cave Campaign) is a stage that appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. It was revealed, apparently unintentionally, on the official Smash Bros. Facebook page on October 5th, 2014, and then officially confirmed and named during the October 2014 Nintendo Direct.

Stage layout

This stage is very large and complex, its size comparable only to Palutena's Temple, due to having been designed specifically for 8-Player Smash.

All the blast zones are accessible, albeit only in specific spots, and the side ones can be walked off. However, they are not the only way to KO an opponent due to the existence of Danger Zones, pools of lava spread throughout the stage which instantly KO on touch any fighter with over 100% damage, dealing 25% damage with heavy knockback otherwise.

Spikes appear in a few locations, and deal 10% damage and decent knockback on contact.

Mine carts sometimes appear on the top of the brick platform on the middle right and on the lone floating soft platform on the middle left. When entered by a character, or on their own after about 15 seconds from their appearance, they start going forward, dealing 10% damage to any character they hit. The right one can carry characters beyond the left blast line if not dismounted, while the left one crashes in the bottom right corner of the stage (just below the spikes), dealing no damage to its passengers.

The two cannons constantly rotate, not smoothly but covering only the cardinal and intercardinal directions. They work like Barrel Cannons: once entered they hold the character, and then a button is pressed they shoot them in the direction they are pointing at. Care must be taken not to hit a Danger Zone or the bottom blast line.

Only if the item switch is on, treasure chests randomly appear throughout the map. If hit by an attack they release an item, though they will occasionally explode.

Ω Form

The Omega form is a single platform different from all the ones in the normal version, mixing the forest area on the top and the crystal area on the bottom right.

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  Ω form

Update history

1.0.2

• Added 8-Player mode version of the stage's Ω form.

Origin

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Title screen of The Great Cave Offensive in Kirby Super Star Ultra.

This stage originates from the sub-game The Great Cave Offensive from Kirby Super Star. In the game, Kirby falls down a hole whilst taking a walk, and he must venture through an expansive cave to escape.

The cave is split in four different areas: Sub-Tree (in this stage, the upper portion), Crystal (right), Old Tower (lower middle and seen in the background), and Garden (bottom left). Every one of them holds several treasure chests, some in plain sight and some hidden beyond puzzles: they contain treasures and, while all of them are optional, 100% completion requires finding and opening all 60 of them. The four areas are connected to each other by short sections where Kirby can ride a mine cart to proceed.

Spinning cannons like the ones in this stage appear in the Garden area, forming a maze which Kirby must traverse to proceed. Some of them fire automatically in a fixed direction while others rotate and fire upon a button press.

Some zones of the Old Tower area feature lava on the floor and ceiling which acts as a hazard, dealing some damage on touch and (like every other damaging element) being able to KO Kirby if his hit points are completely depleted.

Gallery

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  Kirby and Pikachu riding on a mine cart. This picture from Facebook was the first hint at this stage's existence.

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  Kirby next to a chest on the top right, with a second chest appearing on the bottom left.

Trivia

• If Wario uses his bike at top speed at the top-middle area and jumps off before he collides with the Danger Zone, the bike will go through the platform and become stuck, so he can never use the move again.
• The Kirby Super Star Masterpiece starts in The Great Cave Offensive sub-game.