Preston Ward Condra Ranks All 35 Super Smash Bros 64 & Melee Stages

by Preston Ward Condra

A project I initially made back in June 2009. I critiqued, discussed and ranked all of the Super Smash Bros 64 and Melee stages from worst to best. I wrote this down, when I was 15 years old. As with all of my other stories, I wrote over 10 years ago? I won't be fixing any of the spelling mistakes, that may or may not be present here. Enjoy reading this now ladies and gentlemen.

23. 14 - Green Greens

HAL and Nintendo do a great job making fun Kirby stages in the Smash Bros series. I found every single Kirby stage in every Smash Bros game, to be very fun and enjoyable to play on with your friends. One of the most underrated stages in Melee and one of the best in Melee is, Green Greens. This is the part in the countdown where it's harder and harder for me to rank the stages as all 14 of these are very fun with no real faults to talk about for the stages.

The gameplay fighting on Green Greens is much like Dream Land from Smash Bros 64 but, made better. The stage is noticeably larger and more varied then Dream Land from Smash Bros 64. My favorite gameplay concept in the stage I enjoy is, the falling blocks that fall on the sky and form near the right and left platforms. The blocks would also often, drop bomb blocks where if you attack the block and/or of your opponents touch it and you are nearby the area, the explosion from the bomb blocks would do a fair amount of damage to your character and it would mix up the action very well. Whispy Woods also make a reappearance cameo in the stage occasionally trying to blow you off the stage much like what he did in the first Kirby stage in the first Smash Bros game.

I found the music and presentation in the stage, to be very solid. The main theme that plays on the stage is a remix main tune from the Kirby series and it fits the stage very well. Rainbows, Clouds and so on and so forth can be seen in the background of the stage giving the stage a well amount of personality from the Kirby games that also like the music, fit the stage very well.

The only problem I had with Green Greens, is only a nitpicking problem. Whispy Woods does not interact in the stage on the players very much and doesn't play a big factor on the gameplay on the players like what he did in Smash Bros 64 in Dream Land. This problem can be fairly forgettable, thanks of how well enjoyable and cool the blocks make a big change to the gameplay on the stage to the players. Espically, the bomb blocks.

Overall, Green Greens is a very solid stage and is one of the best stages in Melee, which is saying a lot since how crappy most of the Melee stages were. Green Greens is an improvement over Dream Land in Smash Bros 64 and is a stage that can appeal to just about any Smash Bros player and enjoyable to fight and play on with your friends. Fun stage.