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Northern Cave (北の大空洞, Great Northern Cavity) is a Final Fantasy stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It is bundled with Sephiroth in Challenger Pack 8, released as part of the Fighters Pass Vol. 2 on December 17th, 2020. Stage overviewThe stage has a singular main platform with two smaller platforms at the very ends, similar to Kalos Pokémon League. The background depicts the events at the end of Final Fantasy VII, where Cloud Strife and his party set off to defeat Sephiroth. The platforms stay frozen in place regardless of the background events, making it similar to Final Destination in this regard. The main platform is congruent to the main platform of Battlefield and Final Destination. The small platforms are exactly as high and almost exactly as long as Battlefield's small platforms, and the blast lines are close to Final Destination's. Ω form and Battlefield formThe main platform of the Ω form and Battlefield form is identical to how it appears in the normal form, due to matching the shape and size of that of Final Destination and Battlefield. The three soft platforms of the Battlefield form also resemble the floating soft platforms of the normal form.
Hazards offSince Northern Cave lacks any hazards to begin with, no changes are made when hazards are turned off. OriginNorthern Cave is the final dungeon of Final Fantasy VII, located in a crater at the northern reaches of the world. The party descends deep within the cave toward the planet's core, where Sephiroth dwells for their final confrontation. Its appearance in Smash depicts the stage and its events during the climactic visit from the game's ending sequence. During the party's first visit to the Northern Cave, Sephiroth summons a massive comet known as Meteor in order to rid the planet of all life, and seals the cave with a protective barrier. His will is holding back the effects of Holy, a spell Aerith Gainsborough had managed to cast before her death at his hands, and the only thing that can stop Meteor. When the party revisits the Northern Cave at the end of the game, having destroyed its protective barrier, Holy activates upon Sephiroth's final defeat to the party, who scramble to escape in their airship Highwind. Just as it seems all is lost and that it's too late for Holy to stop Meteor, the planet's Lifestream rises to aid Holy. Though the original game ended with an ambiguous flash forward depicting a ruined Midgar, later entries in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII confirmed that Meteor was stopped in time to rescue humanity, albeit with damage and consequences to the Planet. The Super Smash Bros. stage depicts the Highwind entering Northern Cave, the activation of Meteor, and the intervention of both Holy and the Lifestream, the latter two events having pragmatic alterations from the original ending, as Meteor was originally shown on a collision course with Midgar versus appearing outside the Northern Cave. Northern Cave had previously appeared as a stage in the Dissidia Final Fantasy series of arena-based fighting games, under the name "Planet's Core". That section of Northern Cave was the area where Cloud and his party fought Jenova∙SYNTHESIS, the last boss before their confrontation with Sephiroth, and it likewise appears in Ultimate as the section after descending into the crater and before the scene of Holy's activation. The planet's Lifestream circulates the stage during this section, and its Smash layout and design surrounded by floating rocks particularly resembles its depiction in Dissidia. The area immediately afterward, at the very heart of the planet, likewise depicts the battle arena where Bizarro Sephiroth, Sephiroth's penultimate form, is fought. Tournament legalityDue to the stage lacking stage hazards and possessing a layout similar to Kalos Pokémon League, several players have suggested legalizing the stage. Compared to Kalos Pokémon League, the blastzones are smaller, while the platforms are lower and stick less out from the edges, and the stage doesn't have vertical walls; overall, these changes might make the stage less favorable for camping than Kalos Pokémon League. However, there have been some concerns that the background is too visually busy and distracting, especially during the meteor section. There are also occasional concerns with music licensing issues when it comes to playing Final Fantasy music on the tournament livestreams, due to Square Enix's tighter copyright, which some tournaments, such as Low Tide City 2022, outright replacing it with Kalos Pokémon League because of this, along with the aforementioned background problems[1]. Due to releasing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a lack of showing even at offline tourneys, the legal status of the stage was unclear until after the return of offline tourneys, in which this stage is picked as a counterpick in many tourneys. Gallery
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