Mario Galaxy
| Mario Galaxy | |
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| Universe | Mario |
| Appears in | SSB4 (Wii U) |
| Availability | Starter |
| Crate type | Normal |
| Maximum players | 8 |
| Tracks available | Egg Planet Rosalina in the Observatory / Luma's Theme Super Mario Galaxy Egg Planet Gusty Garden Galaxy Theme of SMG2 Sky Station Bowser's Galaxy Generator Fated Battle The Great Tower Showdown 2 Champion Road The Grand Finale Jergingha - Planet Destruction Form Bolded tracks must be unlocked |
| Article on Super Mario Wiki | Mario Galaxy (stage) |
Mario Galaxy (マリオギャラクシー, Mario Galaxy) is a stage that appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. It was officially confirmed on November 15, 2013, though one of the daily pics on the site teased it as much as two months prior. This stage is available as one of the stages in 8-Player Smash.
Stage layout
The characters fight on a small, grassy planet in deep space. The background features a few trees and a house on the ground and, except in 8-Player mode, several spaceships in the sky.
Due to the planet's small size, the stage has a noticeable curvature to it: the center of gravity is the center of the planet, so jumping or getting launched upwards from the edge will cause the character to move diagonally. Most projectiles are also affected by gravity and move according to the planet's curvature, with a few exceptions, notably Fox's Blaster and Robin's Thoron.
Two static soft platforms are present, one on the right and one, higher, at the left. The stage also features walk-off blast lines. Star bits may occasionally rain down on the stage, though this has no effect on the fight.
Tournament Legality
Mario Galaxy is banned from tournaments due to the stage having walk-off blast zones and unusual gravity which interferes with projectiles and movement.
Ω Form
The stage no longer curves, walk-off blast lines are removed and gravity works like in most other stages.
Origin
This stage is based on both Super Mario Galaxy games. In the games, Mario would navigate through galaxies by going from planet to planet, with each planet having its own gravitational pull, to reach the Power Stars and Grand Stars. The planet on which characters fight in this stage is based on the starting planet of Gateway Galaxy, the first galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy, albeit with some differences such as the addition of the pine trees in the background, the presence of only one house instead of two (the house is also designed differently), and the much larger size of the planet itself.
Worthy of note is that at the end of Super Mario Galaxy the universe is reborn so that elements from many galaxies visited during the game end up closer to one another (with Mario welcoming this new galaxy), so the stage may have also gotten some influence from that, given that in Super Mario Galaxy there is no place called "Mario Galaxy".
The ships in the background are:
- Bowser's Airships, whose design is based on their appearance in Super Mario Galaxy.
- Starship Mario along its pilot Lubba and some Lumas. They debuted in Super Mario Galaxy 2, where Lubba would pilot Starship Mario to the different galaxies in the game.
- The Starshroom, the starship of the Toad Brigade which appears in both Super Mario Galaxy games.
Gallery
The first screenshot of the stage.
Due to the gravity, jumping from this position would move the characters diagonally.
A close-up of Starship Mario.
Mario and two Ray Guns in the stage.
Update history
1.0.2
- Ω form supports eight players, instead of six.
Trivia
- In some circumstances, with careful camera positioning it is possible to see the inside of the Starshroom, which is fully textured.
- Characters can be Star and Screen KO'd diagonally on both this stage and Windy Hill Zone.
