Lylat Cruise

Lylat Cruise
Lylat Cruise in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Universe	Star Fox
Appears in	Brawl SSB4 (Wii U) Ultimate
Availability	Starter
Crate type	Futuristic
Maximum players	4 (Brawl) 8 (Wii U and Ultimate)
Tracks available	In Brawl: Space Armada Corneria Main Theme (Star Fox) Main Theme (Star Fox 64) Area 6 Area 6 Ver. 2 Star Wolf Space Battleground Star Wolf (Star Fox Assault) Break Through the Ice Tunnel Scene (X) In SSB4: Space Armada Main Theme (Star Fox) Corneria (Brawl) Venom Star Wolf Area 6 Ver. 2 Tunnel Scene (X) Bolded tracks must be unlocked In Ultimate: Star Fox series music
Tournament legality Brawl Singles: Starter/Counter/Banned Doubles: Starter/Counter/Banned Smash 4 Singles: Starter/Counterpick/Banned Doubles: Starter/Counterpick/Banned
Article on Lylat Wiki	Lylat Cruise

“	This stage rests on top of the spacecraft Pleiades. Since the craft tilts from side to side, it can affect the trajectory of ranged attacks, as well your recovery distance.	”
—Super Smash Blog, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site

Lylat Cruise (ライラットクルーズ, Lylat Cruise) is a stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It is situated on an original spacecraft called the Pleiades as it flies around various areas of the Lylat System. The original Great Fox, Arwings, and Wolfens can be seen at various points in the stage. In Brawl and Ultimate, Wolf is fought here when being unlocked, while Falco is fought here in his unlocking battle in Brawl.

Stage overview

The stage itself has few hazards — the ship tilts to-and-fro as it makes turns and avoids shots from other ships, and the ledge is quite thin, so recovering characters may be caught under the ledge (as can happen in Melee's Battlefield). The tilting can affect the way some items (such as Barrels) move around the stage or how effective some attacks (such as Blaster and Green Missile) are due to the slope.

The Pleiades flies through many events:

• An epic space skirmish between the Cornerian army and Andross' army.
• A hazardous Star Fox flight through Meteo the asteroid belt.
• A dogfight between Star Fox and Star Wolf.
• A peaceful flight through the atmosphere of Corneria.
• A cruise through space where the dogfight happens.

Similar to the Corneria and Venom stages in Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Star Fox characters can perform a Star Fox Smash Taunt that allows them to contact their teammates. The conversation that ensues, as well as the characters involved, depends on who initiates the call and where the Pleiades is currently flying. The talk box is slightly updated in graphics compared to the Melee version.

In Super Smash Bros. 4, the game is more focused on showing all five backgrounds in the shortest amount of time as possible; backgrounds yet to appear in a match have a greater chance of appearing than the ones that already did. In addition, it's possible for the first background to be the Star Fox/Star Wolf dogfight or starry space, unlike in Brawl.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Corneria background features a planet while the stage is above the atmosphere.

Ω forms and Battlefield form

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the ship in the Ω form is redesigned that the base platform no longer bends and the smaller platforms are removed. The ship no longer tilts. The background will only feature a dogfight between Star Fox and Star Wolf except in 8-Player Smash which uses a starry space background instead. The space warp no longer exists.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Ω form is identical to SSB4's but the portion battles take place is resized and reshaped to match Final Destination. The Battlefield form has the addition of the soft platforms retained from the normal form but rearranged to match Battlefield.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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  Battlefield form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Origin

The battle between the Cornerian army and Andross' army as originally seen in Star Fox: Assault. This is the setting for the first part of the Lylat Cruise stage.

The stage is based on different events in Star Fox games, most of which are from Star Fox: Assault.

In the beginning of Star Fox: Assault, remnants of Andross' army of Ape Soldiers, lead by Andrew Oikonny, attacked the Lylat System and a space battle between Andross' army and the Cornerian Defense Force began. In order to win, the Star Fox Team are called to help assist the Cornerian army. The first level of Star Fox: Assault takes place in this battle. One of the areas that Pleiades flies through in this stage is the battle between the Cornerian army and the remnants of Andross' army. The design of the ships seen in this stage are somewhat different from the ships seen in Star Fox: Assault and the ships still fire lasers as they did in Star Fox: Assault.

In Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars), the mercenary group Star Wolf made their first appearance. The Star Wolf team would try to stop Star Fox's plans to defeat Andross and the two teams would battle each other until either team retreats. Star Wolf also appear in Star Fox: Assault with the design of the Wolfen being different and a new member. The place that the two teams battle in Star Fox Assault is in the Sargasso Space Zone. In this stage, the Pleiades flies through a battle between the Star Fox team and the Star Wolf team. The design of the ships appear as they do in Star Fox 64, but the area that they are battling looks similar to the Sargasso Space Zone.

In every Star Fox game, there is a level that involves going through an asteroid field. In the original Star Fox (Starwing), the player has to try to get through the level without getting hit by asteroids and not being killed by enemies. The player can also shoot the asteroids to destroy them. The asteroid field in Star Fox 64 is called "Meteos". The goal of this level is the same as the asteroid belt in Star Fox. The player can also shoot to destroy the asteroids like in Star Fox, but now there are larger asteroids that can't be destroyed. In order to get around those asteroids, the player has to maneuver around them. In this stage, the Pleiades flies and maneuvers through an asteroid belt. There are also the larger asteroids seen in Star Fox 64. An Arwing can also be seen, shooting the smaller asteroids and going around the larger asteroids.

Star Fox: Assault has a multiplayer mode where players can battle each other. One of the stages in the multiplayer mode takes place alongside the Great Fox above Corneria's clouds. In the Lylat Cruise stage, the Pleiades goes into Corneria's atmosphere. The area looks very similar to the multiplayer stage in Star Fox: Assault, but the Great Fox is absent.

Pleiades

Pleiades (プレアデス Pleiades) is the name of the ship players ride on on the Lylat Cruise. It is an original creation, and thus has never appeared in a Star Fox game. Its name likely came from the real-life star cluster called the Pleiades.

Tournament legality

In tournaments, this stage is almost always neutral, due to its fair layout and no stage hazards. However, it was banned in the Japanese ruleset since characters can get caught in the thin edges of the stage while recovering, and the tilting can significantly affect the viability of some recoveries, particularly short ones. That being said, however, the tilting of the stage is not random; the event occurring in the background dictates exactly how the stage will tilt. In Smash 4, the stage's edges are rather glitchy, as characters are sometimes able to pass through the ship for no apparent reason.

Notably, the 2017 recommended ruleset for SSB4 initially listed Lylat Cruise as a banned stage in tournaments. This decision was met with mixed reception; one notable example of opposition to this change is from ESAM, who made a video addressing his feelings on the subject. The stage was later unretired and returned to being a neutral stage due to the outcome of a community poll. Despite its return, however, the stage's mixed reception has continued, and it arguably remains the single most contentious point of Smash 4's current competitive ruleset.

Update history

Top: Lylat Cruise on the game's release. Bottom: Lylat Cruise after update 1.0.6.

1.0.2

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

1.0.6

• The stage's underside has been completely redesigned, losing its visual accuracy in exchange for allowing characters to recover up the sides without hitting a ceiling. A similar change was made to its Ω form. Despite this, the walls at the stage's edges are now smaller and therefore still somewhat glitchy, albeit to a lesser extent.

Trivia

• Lylat Cruise is the first, and currently only, Star Fox stage in the Super Smash Bros. series which does not take place on the Great Fox.
  • It is also the only location not based off of a specific location (rather, it is several locations).
• Unlike the other Star Fox stages in the series, the Arwings and Wolfens do not shoot the players, making it the only Star Fox stage in the series to not have any damaging hazards.
  • Along these lines, it is also the first and currently only Star Fox stage in the series that is not banned from tournament play.
• In SSB4, if this stage is played in an Angled Smash, the space warp will have an altered appearance.

Gallery

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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  The Pleiades in the middle of an asteroid field. An Arwing is visible.

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  The ship passing through Corneria's atmosphere.

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  The ship after passing through Corneria's atmosphere.

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  The ship in the middle of a battle between the Cornerian army and Andross's army.

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  Fox and Wolf on Lylat Cruise.

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  The entire Pleiades in Brawl.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

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  Lylat Cruise in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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  Dark Samus's purple alternate costume on the stage.

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  Mewtwo taunting on the stage.

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  Palutena standing idle on the stage.

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  Samus about to fire a Missile at Mother Brain on the stage.

External links

• Stage confirmation
• Music confirmation