Town and City

Town and City
Universe	Animal Crossing
Appears in	SSB4 (Wii U)
Availability	Starter
Maximum players	8
Tracks available	Plaza / Title (Animal Crossing: City Folk / Animal Crossing: Wild World) Tour (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) Kapp'n's Song Outdoors at 7 p.m. (Sunny) / Main Street Bubblegum K.K. K.K. Slider tracks: K.K. Cruisin' K.K. Condor K.K. Western K.K. Gumbo Rockin' K.K. DJ K.K.
Tournament legality Smash 4 Singles: Starter/Counterpick Doubles: Starter/Counterpick
Articles on Nookipedia	Town City

Town and City (村と街, Village and City) is a stage in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The stage is set in the village and the city variants from Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii.

Stage Layout

The stage is similar in layout to Smashville, a previous Animal Crossing stage. There is a single main platform which has different smaller platforms above it depending on its location. The main platform will travel between town and city background areas, hence the stage's name. In the town section, three small platforms appear above the main one, appearing over the left, middle and right of the stage; in the city section, there are only two, appearing over the left and right sides. These platforms all move slightly, and fly away when the stage transitions. The stage stays at each section for about 30 seconds, then takes about 15 seconds to transition to the other.

Like Smashville, the stage's lighting and design change at different times of day, including day, evening, and night versions; this is determined by the system's clock. Sometimes, the Roost can be seen in the background of the stage. Also, like in Smashville, on Saturday nights starting from 8:00pm, K.K. Slider will appear to perform his songs. He only appears in the background for the town section of the stage, though the music continues when the platform is in the city.

Background Characters

Like Smashville, Town and City features several background characters. The following characters appear in the background of Town and City:

• Blathers
• Brewster
• Celeste
• Crazy Redd
• Don Resetti
• Dr. Shrunk
• Frillard
• Gracie
• Gulliver
• Harriet
• Joan
• Katie & Kaitlin
• Katrina
• Kicks
• Labelle
• Lloid
• Lyle
• Mabel
• Mr. Resetti
• Pascal
• Pelly
• Phineas
• Phyllis
• Rover
• Sable
• Saharah
• Serena
• Timmy
• Tommy
• Tom Nook
• Tortimer
• Wendell
• Wisp

Ω Form

The main platform players fight on is still the same but the smaller platforms, balloons, and background characters are gone. The stage still transitions to the town and city however.

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  Ω Mode

In competitive play

This stage is usually a counterpick in Smash 4 rulesets, due to featuring no hazards and being generally considered fair for its platform cycling. Despite the main platform's width suggesting a large ceiling, the top blast line is actually slightly closer to the stage than normal, and the first cycle of soft platforms includes a middle platform that shifts upwards, which makes it a good counterpick for characters with strong vertical finishers, such as Ryu and Meta Knight. The second cycle of soft platforms can also facilitate earlier KOs, since they can move closer to the side blast lines, and both transitions can be used as a last ditch effort for a Sacrificial KO if a grab is landed. Town and City can also be featured as a starter in rulesets where 7-stage striking is used.

Origin

The city in Animal Crossing : City Folk.

This stage originates from Animal Crossing: City Folk (Animal Crossing: Let's go to the city in the PAL-region). One main platform joined with two smaller floating platforms are used as the fighting arena. The stage literally revolves around the Animal Crossing: City Folk village and city. An extra background platform consisting of Animal Crossers hovers behind the main arena whenever it stops. Some of the villagers are city/village exclusive.

In 2001, a Japanese Nintendo 64 game called Animal Forest was released, which is the first game in the Animal Crossing franchise. Animal Forest was translated, and ported to the GameCube as Animal Crossing (also known as Animal Crossing: Population Growing) with some added features, such as the Able Sisters building and the Museum. As Animal Forest is the first Animal Crossing game, the GameCube version is a remake of the same game.

Each Animal Crossing game is mostly set in a small town. A typical town can be seen in the Town variation of this stage. Here are all the buildings that appear in the background in the Town variation:

Building	Origin Game	Purpose
Able Sisters	Animal Crossing	Design patterns for shirts and umbrellas, which the player can then wear or trade.
Animal Villager Houses	Animal Crossing (design from City Folk)	Residence of the non-playable villager characters.
Fountain	Animal Crossing: City Folk	Appears in front of the gate after the second town fund is completed.
Museum	Animal Crossing	Where the player can donate their bugs, fish, paintings, and fossils that they caught for viewing.
Nook's Cranny	Animal Crossing (design from Wild World and City Folk)	The first incarnation of Tom Nook's store where purchases of a small variety of items can be made.
Player's House	Animal Crossing (design from City Folk)	Residence of the player who can buy furniture, wallpaper, and floor designs for the interior.
Town Gate	Animal Crossing: City Folk (Castle style)	Allows the player to visit another player's town.
Town Hall	Animal Crossing: Wild World	Where the player pays off his or her debt to Tom Nook, reports other villagers, send mail etc.

The town itself in SSB4 retains almost everything that can be seen in a town in the Animal Crossing series such as trees, rocks, flowers, a river, bridges, etc. The bus station in the Town can be seen by the Town Gate, and there a bus sign on the same platform as the arena itself.

In City Folk, the player can go to the bus stop in the town and take a bus to the city. The city contains various shops and hosts events. The overall design of the City variation of this stage in SSB4 is retained. The buildings that can be seen in the background include:

Building	Purpose
Auction House	Where items can be displayed and bid on by the player and their friends via Wi-Fi.
GracieGrace	Where expensive furniture, clothes and accessories are sold.
Happy Room Academy	Players can check their score here, and it is also where the model room is.
The Marquee	A theater where the player can learn emotions.

Trophy Description

Town and City trophy in for Wii U.

Get a bird's-eye view of the town and city from Animal Crossing: City Folk as you fight on a platform overhead. Your Wii U console's clock dictates the time of day and which animals and places appear. Don't get too distracted by all that, though, because the platform itself is pretty simple-perfect for a battle of skill!

: Animal Crossing: City Folk (11/2008)

Gallery

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  The city variation.

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  The background of the city variation.

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  The village variation.

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  Villager on the stage.

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  The stage transitioning from the town to the city area.

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  Villager using Lloid Rocket in the city variation.

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  Luigi, Mario and Kirby on the stage.

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  Toon Link on the stage.

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  Greninja and Toon Link on the stage in the evening.

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  Several of the Villager's alternate costumes on the stage at night.

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  Brewster in the background serving coffee at the Roost.

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Trivia

• Town and City is the only stage in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to have all of its music to be new remixes.

Update history

1.0.2

• Added 8-player mode version of the stage and its omega form.