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'''Shadow Moses Island''' ({{ja|シャドーモセス島|Shadō Mosesu-shima}}, ''Shadow Moses Island'') is a {{uv|Metal Gear}} series stage in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. It was officially recognized in the October 2, 2007 [[Smash Bros. DOJO!!]] update, having appeared before that in many trailers and screenshots. The stage was developed by [[Hideo Kojima]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2006-07-31-kojima-to-design-snakes-smash-bros-brawl-stage.html|title=Kojima to design Snake's Smash Bros. Brawl stage|publisher=Engadget|date=July 31, 2006|author=James Ransom-Wiley|quote=Chris Hoffman recently commented, "If you want to talk about something big, how about the news Hideo Kojima, Snake's creator, is designing Snake's level in Brawl? Snake's inclusion means we're not only getting one of the best characters in gaming, but one of the best developers as well."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dsmeet.com/news/Hideo-Kojima-to-create-Snakes-Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl-stage|title=Hideo Kojima to create Snake's Super Smash Bros. Brawl stage?|date=July 28, 2006|author=ebradford|publisher=DSmeet|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060807030929/http://dsmeet.com/news/Hideo-Kojima-to-create-Snakes-Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl-stage|archivedate=August 6, 2007}}</ref>
 
Playing 15 matches on this stage is one of three ways to [[Unlockable character|unlock]] {{SSBB|Snake}} in ''Brawl''. He is also fought here for his unlocking battle.
 
==Overview==
The stage consists of two floors: the ground floor, which is completely solid, and the upper floor, which is [[Soft platform|soft]]. There are watchtowers on each side, acting as vertical walls which prevent horizontal [[KO]]s. Each watchtower also has a soft platform attached to it, the height of which is halfway between the lower and upper floors, assisting in navigation between the floors.
 
The watchtowers act as attackable walls, and each one has a lower and upper section. The upper section can take up to 54% (''Brawl'') or 80% (''Ultimate'') damage before being destroyed, while the lower section can take up to 66% (''Brawl'') or 100% (''Ultimate'') damage. If the bottom section of a tower is destroyed, the upper section is destroyed along with it. With the destruction of the towers, the sides of the stage are exposed, and horizontal KOs become possible.
 
A completely destroyed watchtower will be rebuilt two minutes after its bottom section's destruction; destroying only the top section does not trigger any rebuilding. When the tower rebuilds, all edge-bound fighters are pushed back into the center. However, though generally unknown, most characters can get over the towers by jumping multiple times as a watchtower is resurrected. The walls can also be bypassed by using a [[Warp Star]] near the sides and tilting past them. The characters will remain trapped (and largely unreachable) until the towers are destroyed again.
 
Occasionally, a spotlight will appear, shining onto the stage from the front, which moves around. If a fighter is spotted by the light, a "!" will appear over their head and the "discovery" sound effect from the ''Metal Gear'' games will play. The light will continue to follow the fighter for a while. The light has no effect on gameplay, being only an aesthetic element.
 
A random Metal Gear will occasionally burst through the roof in the background: [[Metal Gear REX]], [[Metal Gear RAY]], or two [[Gekko]]s. In ''Brawl'', only one of these can appear per match, determined randomly when the stage is loaded. In ''Ultimate'', the roof will repair itself after a while, allowing it to be broken through by another Metal Gear later in the match. The Metal Gears have no effect on gameplay.
 
Snowfall is present as an aesthetic element on this stage. The amount of snowfall is randomly determined for each match, out of four possible levels: medium (40% chance), light (30%), heavy (20%) and none (10%).
 
The exterior of this stage, which is not viewable in-game by normal means in ''Brawl'', but it can be seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zMjV0oK-E&t=1m23s this video] on the Smash Bros. DOJO!! site. In ''Ultimate'', however, the exterior can be seen in the Battlefield and Ω forms.
 
===Smash Taunt===
[[Snake]] can trigger his [[Smash Taunt]] on this stage by pressing the down [[taunt]] input for one frame. The Smash Taunt involves [[Codec Conversations|conversations]] via codec between Snake and one of his teammates ([[Roy Campbell|Colonel Campbell]], [[Otacon]] or [[Mei Ling]]) about a randomly chosen opponent. Additionally, for [[Falco]]'s conversation, [[Slippy]] is Snake's conversation partner instead.
 
Like other Smash Taunts, Snake's Smash Taunt can only be performed once per match, even if it is interrupted. If the Snake player who initiated the Smash Taunt is KO'd during the conversation, the conversation partner will shout "SNAAAAAKE!", referencing Game Overs in the ''Metal Gear'' series, and the conversation will end.
 
In ''Ultimate'', the Smash Taunt can only be triggered for characters that were present in ''Brawl'', as all of the conversations are reused. If Snake's only opponents are characters that were not in ''Brawl'', the Smash Taunt cannot be performed. This leads to some misinformation, such as Mei Ling referring to [[Alph]] as [[Olimar]] or Otacon referring to [[Sonic]] as being “here in ''Brawl''”.
 
===Ω form and Battlefield form===
In ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', the design of the main platform of the [[Ω form]] and [[Battlefield form]] is reminiscent of the tank hangar, such as the floor resembling the driveway in front of the door and the walls resembling the facade of the building. The platform is also the same size and shape as {{SSBU|Final Destination}} and {{SSBU|Battlefield}}, respectively. The tank hangar and the surrounding area are in the background, and the searchlights and Metal Gears still appear occasionally. The design of the three [[soft platform]]s of the Battlefield form resemble the soft platforms of the regular form.
<gallery widths="200px">
File:SSBU-Shadow Moses IslandOmega.png|Ω form in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''.
File:SSBU-Shadow Moses IslandBattlefield.png|Battlefield form in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''.
</gallery>
 
==Origin==
[[File:ShadowMosesHeliportMGS.png|thumb|left|250px|The tank hangar as it originally appeared in ''Metal Gear Solid''.]]
This stage is based on the first area of Shadow Moses Island in ''Metal Gear Solid'': a helipad located outside a tank hangar and connected to a nuclear weapons disposal facility. In the aforementioned game, the facility's searchlights are focused on the helipad itself. If Snake is caught by the light, his cover is blown and guards are called to kill him. The searchlights remain focused on him until he finds somewhere to hide. Ever since ''Metal Gear Solid'', if the player is seen by security, the trademark exclamation point is displayed over the enemy's head, and the corresponding sound effect plays. By ''{{s|wikipedia|Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots}}'', the island is sinking under the Pacific Ocean due to global warming, including the facility now left deserted a decade after the Shadow Moses Incident. Its design in ''Smash'' is slightly different than the original game: the staircases are missing, the truck that was parked in front of the building is gone, and the height of the searchlight towers have been extended. If a player gets caught by the searchlights in ''Smash'', an exclamation point will appear over the player who got caught, and the same sound can be heard. The searchlights will also follow that player for a short time.
 
The island returns throughout the series, from flashbacks, a.k.a. SCENEs, in the Déjà Vu mission of ''{{s|wikipedia|Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes}}'', to a playable stage in the multiplayer game and second iteration of ''{{s|wikipedia|Metal Gear Online}}''. A replica of the tank hangar, including its cavern section, appear in ''{{s|wikipedia|Death Stranding: Director's Cut}}'' along with a mission who references the ''Metal Gear'' series all throughout, such as [https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Sam Sam] using a [[Cardboard box]] the wrong way.
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[[File:MetalGearREXMGS.png|thumb|left|200px|Metal Gear REX as it originally appeared in ''Metal Gear Solid''.]]
In ''Metal Gear Solid'', Snake was first commissioned out of retirement to infiltrate the facility to destroy a nuclear capable mech, Metal Gear REX, before [https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Liquid_Snake Liquid Snake] could launch its nuke. In ''{{s|wikipedia|Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty}}'', the U.S. Marine Corps designed a new Metal Gear called Metal Gear RAY. It was designed as a counter to the immense amount of Metal Gear REX derivatives being constructed around the world. Both REX and RAY have a chance of appearing in the background of this stage; however, RAY never appeared on Shadow Moses Island until ''Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots'', where Snake and Liquid Ocelot fight each other using REX and RAY.
 
In ''Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots'', there is a class of mass-produced mechs called Gekkos. Unlike REX and RAY, Gekkos are not able to launch nukes, therefore they are not considered as true Metal Gears. In the aforementioned game, Gekkos appear on Shadow Moses Island. The design of the Gekkos in ''Smash'' resembles their appearance in ''Guns of the Patriots''; however, ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' was first released on January 31, 2008 in Japan, while ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' was released internationally on June 12, 2008, making ''Brawl'' the first game that Gekkos appear in (even though both games were in development around the same time).
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==Tournament legality==
Shadow Moses Island is [[banned stage|banned]] in tournaments because of aspects considered detrimental to competitive play. The difficulty of KOing horizontally means that players have to resort to vertical KOs, granting an unfair advantage to characters with powerful vertical KO moves. The non-presence of the bottom blast line renders [[edgeguarding]] and similar techniques virtually useless. Finally, in ''Brawl'', the watchtowers allow for abuse of [[chaingrab]]s performed up against them, most notably {{SSBB|King Dedede}}'s chaingrab - against any character with a [[weight]] of more than 87 ({{SSBB|Marth}}'s weight), he can infinitely chaingrab them against the wall and finish with an unavoidable up tilt for a KO.
 
==Gallery==
===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
<gallery>
Shadowmoses.jpg|The inaccessible exterior that can't be seen in the final game without a hacked camera.
Spotlight Yoshi.jpg|The searchlight having found {{SSBB|Yoshi}}.
 
Wolf's Reflector.jpg|{{SSBB|Wolf}} using his Reflector in Shadow Moses Island.
 
Broken search light.jpg|One of the towers being broken apart.
REX.jpg|Metal Gear REX.
RAY.jpg|Metal Gear RAY.
Gekko.jpg|A Gekko.
</gallery>
 
===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
<gallery>
SSBUWebsiteMetalgearSeriesBG.jpg|Panorama of the stage.
SSBU-Shadow Moses Island.png|Metal Gear REX.
SSBU-Shadow Moses Island 3.png|Metal Gear RAY.
SSBU-Shadow Moses Island 4.png|Two Gekko.
SSBUWebsiteR.O.B.1.jpg|{{SSBU|R.O.B.}} [[taunt]]ing.
SSBUWebsiteLittleMac1.jpg|{{SSBU|Little Mac}} using [[Jolt Haymaker]] on the stage.
SSBUWebsiteZeroSuitSamus5.jpg|{{SSBU|Zero Suit Samus}} crawling with Snake on this stage.
</gallery>
 
==Names in other languages==
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|jaM=Shadow Moses Island
|en=Shadow Moses Island
|fr=Île de Shadow Moses
|frM=Shadow Moses Island
|es=Shadow Moses {{gameIcon|brawl|16px}}<br>Isla Shadow Moses {{gameIcon|ultimate|16px}}
|esM=Shadow Moses<br>Shadow Moses Island
|de=Shadow Moses Island
|it=L'isola di Shadow Moses
|itM=Shadow Moses Island
|nl=Shadow Moses Island
|ru={{rollover|Остров Шедоу Мозес|Ostrov Shedou Mozes|?}}
|ruM=Shadow Moses Island
|ko={{rollover|쉐도우 모세스 섬|Swedou Moseseu Seom|?}}
|koM=Shadow Moses Island
|zh=Shadow Moses Island
}}
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'''Shadow Moses Island''' is a stage in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' developed by [[Hideo Kojima]]. It was officially recognized in the October 2, 2007 [[DOJO!!]] update, having appeared before that in many trailers and screenshots. The stage is made to resemble the Helipad in front of the Shadow Moses Island warhead disposal facility in ''Metal Gear Solid''.
==Trivia==
===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
*If {{SSBB|Jigglypuff}} uses all of its midair jumps and uses [[Rest]] where a wall was, once the wall regenerates Jigglypuff will be inside it and able to go offscreen to the side without getting KOed.
*If a character is standing right next to one of the watchtowers and a [[Landmaster]] rams them, they will be forced through. This is possible from both the top platform and below the starting platforms.
*Due to the mountain walls reaching the playable area on the ground level, there are slopes near the side blast zones on the ground level on each side, which are difficult to see during gameplay. The stage's redesign in ''Ultimate'' pushes the mountains further out, and removes the slopes.


It is currently known that the stage features giant watchtowers as destructible walls, as well as a spotlight which generates the infamous "!" over a player's head if it shines on them.  Additionally, it has been revealed that  
===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
[http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music11.html Metal Gear Solid: MGS4 Love Theme (Smash Bros. Brawl Version)] is one of the songs that plays at this stage. The stage will also feature a Metal Gear  that will occasionally jump out from the background: [[Metal Gear REX]], [[Metal Gear RAY]], or two [[Metal Gear GEKKOU|Metal Gear GEKKOUs]].
[[File:Gekko through wall.png|thumb|250px|A Gekko collapsed on the floor. This would not be visible through the wall.]]
*When the Poison Cloud hazard is active during the Liquid Snake Spirit Battle, the back wall is removed. This can be seen during the wall breaking sequence by the fact that flames can be seen through the lower level which normally can only be seen through the hole in the upper level. The entire body of a Gekko can also be seen if it gets close enough, even parts that should be obscured behind the wall. This is likely done so the thick fog effect for the background is not blocked by the wall.
*The shadows on this stage dynamically change; normally, they face toward the camera, but when the spotlight is active, they shift away from the camera to allow for silhouettes to appear on the back wall.
*When playing either on the Battlefield or Ω form of this stage, when navigating the camera to the back mountains, a black void is exposed. This is most noticeable when playing on this stage in an Angled Special Smash.
**Additionally, another black void can be seen when navigating the camera down at the street.
*Only one watchtower is present in this stage's Battlefield and Ω forms.
*The following [[Assist Trophies]] cannot normally appear on this stage: the [[Moon]], [[Andross]] (due to being completely obscured by the background), [[Kapp'n]], [[Devil]], [[Nikki]] (due to the dark background obscuring her drawings). Despite this, the Moon appears on this stage's Battlefield form during the Radiant Gleam spirit battle. The [[Squid Sisters]] can still be summoned on the Battlefield and Omega forms of this stage. Additionally, [[Abra]] and [[Lunala]] can only be summoned on this stage's Battlefield and Omega forms.
*When {{SSBU|Steve}} uses [[Mine / Craft / Create Block|Mine]] on the destroyed watchtowers, he will gain stone. Otherwise, using it will give Steve iron.
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It has been also announced that when Snake plays on this stage, his teammates ([[Otacon]], [[Mei Ling]], and [[Roy Campbell]]) will comunicate to him via codec (Snake's communication device) and give him information about fighters he's playing against, similar to [[Fox (SSBM)#Trivia|Fox]]'s easter egg taunt.
==External links==
*[http://www.smashbros.com/wii/en_us/stages/stage13.html Shadow Moses Island on the Smash Bros. DOJO!!]
*Article on the [https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Moses_Island Metal Gear Wiki].


Strangely enough, Shadow Moses Island is playable from the start, while Snake himself must be unlocked by playing 10 matches on it.
==References==
 
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==External Links==
*[http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/stage13.html Stage Confirmation].
*[http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music11.html Music Confirmation].


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Metal Gear Solid
Shadow Moses Island
SSBU-Shadow Moses Island 2.jpg
MetalGearSymbol.svg
Shadow Moses Island.jpg
MetalGearSymbol(preUltimate).svg

Shadow Moses Island as it appears in Smash.
Universe Metal Gear
Appears in Brawl
Ultimate
Availability Starter
Crate type Futuristic (Brawl)
Normal (Ultimate)
Maximum players 4 (Brawl)
8 (Ultimate)
Music
Bolded tracks must be unlocked
Brawl MGS4 ~Theme of Love~ Smash Bros. Brawl Version (100%)
Encounter (25%)
Theme of Tara (25%)
Battle in The Base (10%)
Yell "Dead Cell" (10%)
Cavern (10%)
Snake Eater (Instrumental) (10%)
Theme of Solid Snake (10%)
Calling to the Night (10%)
Ultimate Metal Gear series music
Main: Encounter
Alternate: Snake Eater
Tournament legality
Brawl Singles: Banned
Doubles: Banned
Ultimate Singles: Banned
Doubles: Banned

Shadow Moses Island (シャドーモセス島, Shadow Moses Island) is a Metal Gear series stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It was officially recognized in the October 2, 2007 Smash Bros. DOJO!! update, having appeared before that in many trailers and screenshots. The stage was developed by Hideo Kojima.[1][2]

Playing 15 matches on this stage is one of three ways to unlock Snake in Brawl. He is also fought here for his unlocking battle.

Overview[edit]

The stage consists of two floors: the ground floor, which is completely solid, and the upper floor, which is soft. There are watchtowers on each side, acting as vertical walls which prevent horizontal KOs. Each watchtower also has a soft platform attached to it, the height of which is halfway between the lower and upper floors, assisting in navigation between the floors.

The watchtowers act as attackable walls, and each one has a lower and upper section. The upper section can take up to 54% (Brawl) or 80% (Ultimate) damage before being destroyed, while the lower section can take up to 66% (Brawl) or 100% (Ultimate) damage. If the bottom section of a tower is destroyed, the upper section is destroyed along with it. With the destruction of the towers, the sides of the stage are exposed, and horizontal KOs become possible.

A completely destroyed watchtower will be rebuilt two minutes after its bottom section's destruction; destroying only the top section does not trigger any rebuilding. When the tower rebuilds, all edge-bound fighters are pushed back into the center. However, though generally unknown, most characters can get over the towers by jumping multiple times as a watchtower is resurrected. The walls can also be bypassed by using a Warp Star near the sides and tilting past them. The characters will remain trapped (and largely unreachable) until the towers are destroyed again.

Occasionally, a spotlight will appear, shining onto the stage from the front, which moves around. If a fighter is spotted by the light, a "!" will appear over their head and the "discovery" sound effect from the Metal Gear games will play. The light will continue to follow the fighter for a while. The light has no effect on gameplay, being only an aesthetic element.

A random Metal Gear will occasionally burst through the roof in the background: Metal Gear REX, Metal Gear RAY, or two Gekkos. In Brawl, only one of these can appear per match, determined randomly when the stage is loaded. In Ultimate, the roof will repair itself after a while, allowing it to be broken through by another Metal Gear later in the match. The Metal Gears have no effect on gameplay.

Snowfall is present as an aesthetic element on this stage. The amount of snowfall is randomly determined for each match, out of four possible levels: medium (40% chance), light (30%), heavy (20%) and none (10%).

The exterior of this stage, which is not viewable in-game by normal means in Brawl, but it can be seen in this video on the Smash Bros. DOJO!! site. In Ultimate, however, the exterior can be seen in the Battlefield and Ω forms.

Smash Taunt[edit]

Snake can trigger his Smash Taunt on this stage by pressing the down taunt input for one frame. The Smash Taunt involves conversations via codec between Snake and one of his teammates (Colonel Campbell, Otacon or Mei Ling) about a randomly chosen opponent. Additionally, for Falco's conversation, Slippy is Snake's conversation partner instead.

Like other Smash Taunts, Snake's Smash Taunt can only be performed once per match, even if it is interrupted. If the Snake player who initiated the Smash Taunt is KO'd during the conversation, the conversation partner will shout "SNAAAAAKE!", referencing Game Overs in the Metal Gear series, and the conversation will end.

In Ultimate, the Smash Taunt can only be triggered for characters that were present in Brawl, as all of the conversations are reused. If Snake's only opponents are characters that were not in Brawl, the Smash Taunt cannot be performed. This leads to some misinformation, such as Mei Ling referring to Alph as Olimar or Otacon referring to Sonic as being “here in Brawl”.

Ω form and Battlefield form[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the design of the main platform of the Ω form and Battlefield form is reminiscent of the tank hangar, such as the floor resembling the driveway in front of the door and the walls resembling the facade of the building. The platform is also the same size and shape as Final Destination and Battlefield, respectively. The tank hangar and the surrounding area are in the background, and the searchlights and Metal Gears still appear occasionally. The design of the three soft platforms of the Battlefield form resemble the soft platforms of the regular form.

  • Ω form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

    Ω form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

  • Battlefield form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

    Battlefield form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Origin[edit]

The tank hangar as it originally appeared in Metal Gear Solid.

This stage is based on the first area of Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear Solid: a helipad located outside a tank hangar and connected to a nuclear weapons disposal facility. In the aforementioned game, the facility's searchlights are focused on the helipad itself. If Snake is caught by the light, his cover is blown and guards are called to kill him. The searchlights remain focused on him until he finds somewhere to hide. Ever since Metal Gear Solid, if the player is seen by security, the trademark exclamation point is displayed over the enemy's head, and the corresponding sound effect plays. By Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the island is sinking under the Pacific Ocean due to global warming, including the facility now left deserted a decade after the Shadow Moses Incident. Its design in Smash is slightly different than the original game: the staircases are missing, the truck that was parked in front of the building is gone, and the height of the searchlight towers have been extended. If a player gets caught by the searchlights in Smash, an exclamation point will appear over the player who got caught, and the same sound can be heard. The searchlights will also follow that player for a short time.

The island returns throughout the series, from flashbacks, a.k.a. SCENEs, in the Déjà Vu mission of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, to a playable stage in the multiplayer game and second iteration of Metal Gear Online. A replica of the tank hangar, including its cavern section, appear in Death Stranding: Director's Cut along with a mission who references the Metal Gear series all throughout, such as Sam using a Cardboard box the wrong way.

Metal Gear REX as it originally appeared in Metal Gear Solid.

In Metal Gear Solid, Snake was first commissioned out of retirement to infiltrate the facility to destroy a nuclear capable mech, Metal Gear REX, before Liquid Snake could launch its nuke. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the U.S. Marine Corps designed a new Metal Gear called Metal Gear RAY. It was designed as a counter to the immense amount of Metal Gear REX derivatives being constructed around the world. Both REX and RAY have a chance of appearing in the background of this stage; however, RAY never appeared on Shadow Moses Island until Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, where Snake and Liquid Ocelot fight each other using REX and RAY.

In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, there is a class of mass-produced mechs called Gekkos. Unlike REX and RAY, Gekkos are not able to launch nukes, therefore they are not considered as true Metal Gears. In the aforementioned game, Gekkos appear on Shadow Moses Island. The design of the Gekkos in Smash resembles their appearance in Guns of the Patriots; however, Super Smash Bros. Brawl was first released on January 31, 2008 in Japan, while Metal Gear Solid 4 was released internationally on June 12, 2008, making Brawl the first game that Gekkos appear in (even though both games were in development around the same time).

Tournament legality[edit]

Shadow Moses Island is banned in tournaments because of aspects considered detrimental to competitive play. The difficulty of KOing horizontally means that players have to resort to vertical KOs, granting an unfair advantage to characters with powerful vertical KO moves. The non-presence of the bottom blast line renders edgeguarding and similar techniques virtually useless. Finally, in Brawl, the watchtowers allow for abuse of chaingrabs performed up against them, most notably King Dedede's chaingrab - against any character with a weight of more than 87 (Marth's weight), he can infinitely chaingrab them against the wall and finish with an unavoidable up tilt for a KO.

Gallery[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

  • The inaccessible exterior that can't be seen in the final game without a hacked camera.

    The inaccessible exterior that can't be seen in the final game without a hacked camera.

  • The searchlight having found Yoshi.

    The searchlight having found Yoshi.

  • Wolf using his Reflector in Shadow Moses Island.

    Wolf using his Reflector in Shadow Moses Island.

  • One of the towers being broken apart.

    One of the towers being broken apart.

  • Metal Gear REX.

    Metal Gear REX.

  • Metal Gear RAY.

    Metal Gear RAY.

  • A Gekko.

    A Gekko.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japan Japanese シャドーモセス島 Shadow Moses Island
UK English Shadow Moses Island —
France French Île de Shadow Moses Shadow Moses Island
Germany German Shadow Moses Island —
Spain Spanish Shadow Moses Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Isla Shadow Moses Super Smash Bros. Ultimate		 Shadow Moses
Shadow Moses Island
Italy Italian L'isola di Shadow Moses Shadow Moses Island
China Chinese Shadow Moses Island —
South Korea Korean 쉐도우 모세스 섬 Shadow Moses Island
Netherlands Dutch Shadow Moses Island —
Russia Russian Остров Шедоу Мозес Shadow Moses Island

Trivia[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

  • If Jigglypuff uses all of its midair jumps and uses Rest where a wall was, once the wall regenerates Jigglypuff will be inside it and able to go offscreen to the side without getting KOed.
  • If a character is standing right next to one of the watchtowers and a Landmaster rams them, they will be forced through. This is possible from both the top platform and below the starting platforms.
  • Due to the mountain walls reaching the playable area on the ground level, there are slopes near the side blast zones on the ground level on each side, which are difficult to see during gameplay. The stage's redesign in Ultimate pushes the mountains further out, and removes the slopes.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

A Gekko collapsed on the floor. This would not be visible through the wall.
  • When the Poison Cloud hazard is active during the Liquid Snake Spirit Battle, the back wall is removed. This can be seen during the wall breaking sequence by the fact that flames can be seen through the lower level which normally can only be seen through the hole in the upper level. The entire body of a Gekko can also be seen if it gets close enough, even parts that should be obscured behind the wall. This is likely done so the thick fog effect for the background is not blocked by the wall.
  • The shadows on this stage dynamically change; normally, they face toward the camera, but when the spotlight is active, they shift away from the camera to allow for silhouettes to appear on the back wall.
  • When playing either on the Battlefield or Ω form of this stage, when navigating the camera to the back mountains, a black void is exposed. This is most noticeable when playing on this stage in an Angled Special Smash.
    • Additionally, another black void can be seen when navigating the camera down at the street.
  • Only one watchtower is present in this stage's Battlefield and Ω forms.
  • The following Assist Trophies cannot normally appear on this stage: the Moon, Andross (due to being completely obscured by the background), Kapp'n, Devil, Nikki (due to the dark background obscuring her drawings). Despite this, the Moon appears on this stage's Battlefield form during the Radiant Gleam spirit battle. The Squid Sisters can still be summoned on the Battlefield and Omega forms of this stage. Additionally, Abra and Lunala can only be summoned on this stage's Battlefield and Omega forms.
  • When Steve uses Mine on the destroyed watchtowers, he will gain stone. Otherwise, using it will give Steve iron.

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ James Ransom-Wiley (July 31, 2006). Kojima to design Snake's Smash Bros. Brawl stage. Engadget. “Chris Hoffman recently commented, "If you want to talk about something big, how about the news Hideo Kojima, Snake's creator, is designing Snake's level in Brawl? Snake's inclusion means we're not only getting one of the best characters in gaming, but one of the best developers as well."”
  2. ^ ebradford (July 28, 2006). Hideo Kojima to create Snake's Super Smash Bros. Brawl stage?. DSmeet. Archived from the original on August 6, 2007.


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