Final Fantasy VII Northern Cave | |
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Northern Cave as it appears in Smash. | |
Universe | Final Fantasy |
Appears in | Ultimate |
Availability | Downloadable |
Maximum players | 8 |
Northern Cave is a Final Fantasy stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It is bundled with Sephiroth in Challenger Pack 8, which is also part of the Fighters Pass Vol. 2.
Stage Overview
The stage's background cycles through the events at the end of Final Fantasy VII, where Cloud and his party sets off to defeat Sephiroth.
Ω form and Battlefield form
Origin
Northern Cave is the final dungeon of Final Fantasy 7. The crater was created two thousand years ago when Jenova arrived. Cloud and his party arrive here to defeat Sephiroth who had used the Black Materia to summon Meteor. Believing he was block the power of the White Materia's spell holy the party makes it through many dangerous enemies and have one final fight against Jenova. The party then faces Sephiroth, first as Bizzaro Sephiroth and then as Safer Sephiroth. After, Cloud engages Sephiroth in a one on one dual in a scripted battle.
Trivia
- Northern Cave appears as a stage in the 2008 Dissidia Final Fantasy. This makes it one of nine stages in the Super Smash Bros. series to be featured as a stage in other fighting games, with the others being the Pyrosphere, Green Hill Zone, Fountain of Dreams, Suzaku Castle, Midgar, Dracula's Castle, King of Fighters Stadium and Spring Stadium.
- Lady Luck on the side of the Highwind is the first female character from the Final Fantasy universe revealed to be in Smash Bros. due to being revealed in Masahiro Sakurai's Pic of the Day.
- Northern Cave is the first downloadable stage that must also be unlocked, albeit only for early access and not as a permanent feature.
- Because of this, Northern Cave is the first and currently only stage in Ultimate that has had to be actively unlocked.
Final Fantasy universe | |
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Fighters | Cloud (SSB4 · SSBU) · Sephiroth (SSBU) |
Stages | Midgar · Northern Cave |
Other | Aerith Gainsborough · Bahamut ZERO · Barret Wallace · Chocobo · Ifrit · Leviathan · Odin · Ramuh · Tifa Lockhart |
Trophies & Spirits | Trophies · Spirits |
Music | SSB4 · Ultimate |
Related universe | Kingdom Hearts |