Castle Siege: Difference between revisions

When the match begins, players begin the fight on a small section of the unnamed castle's roof, which is bombarded by heavy fire from catapults. Eventually the floor shatters as the castle defenses waver and players fall into the throne room, which has breakable statues, four platforms and a solid floor with no drop-off points. Two platforms are held in place by destructible statues, just like [[Luigi's Mansion]], which means that this could cause problems for projectile usage. There are also two hanging cloth emblems above serving as platforms. Players later fall again into the underground, which contains one stone platform balancing on a stone spire in the midst of a lava cavern. A part of this area is slightly elevated. After a while the stage will transition back to the top of the castle.

Throughout the entire ''[[Fire Emblem (universe)|Fire Emblem]]'' series the main objective for each chapter was to seize a castle. This is more than likely where the name of this stage came from. In the official artworks of the ''Fire Emblem'' games has depicted castles as being immense with lush environments around it. The castle of Altea is also depicted in the ''Fire Emblem'' anime. This stage in ''Brawl'' has a castle that designed after various castles in the ''Fire Emblem'' series' artworks and the castle also has some resemblance to the one in the anime. The castle is also surrounded by lush environments. Another motif in the throughout the ''Fire Emblem'' series is that most of the villains are made up of dragons. The symbol depicted on the flags in this stage is a dragon. In three ''Fire Emblems'' a weapon called the "Pachyderm" (aka an Elephant) is a weapon which fires fireballs at opponents. In the background of this stage can be seen the fireballs of somebody using a Pachyderm. In ''Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance'' and ''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn'' an event known as the "Serenes Massacre" occurs decades before. The ruler of Begnion, Misaha, was assassinated. Begnion Senate put the blame on the Heron Tribe, which was false because the Herons prefer to live in peace and have no knowledge of fighting skills. The Herons also lived in the Serenes Forest. This accusation convinced the citizens and a large number of citizens got together at the edge of the Serenes Forest and burned the forest down with their torches. The fire lasted for three days and only five Herons survived. This stage in ''Brawl'' shows a forest fire burning in the background, which could be a reference to the Serenes Massacre.

Most of the chapters in the ''Fire Emblem'' series happen indoors where you're trying to seize the throne that is usually guarded by a powerful boss. The Black Knight is one of the main villains, who is in black, heavy armor. In the indoor part of this stage can be seen the Black Knight in front of his throne in the background. Both ''Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'' have soldiers that can change their class to "Halberdier". Those Halberdiers can be seen in the indoor part of this stage in front of the Black Knight in the background. ''Fire Emblem: Genealogy of Holy-War'' was the first ''Fire Emblem'' to feature a background during conversations. One of the backgrounds resembles the entire indoor room of this stage. ''Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade'' was the first ''Fire Emblem'' to have destructible terrain. For example, a wall has a certain amount of HP when the player attacks the wall enough to where the ''HP'' reaches zero the wall crumbles. The statues in this stage could be a reference to the destructible material.