Castley Siege
What Mushroomy Kingdom is to Mario, Castley Siege is to FE. It is based on the Blazing Blade and is rendered in a bright, cheery, and somewhat ugly American cartoon art style - a little rubberhose-y - where many things have faces. It is very humourous in tone and has a cel shading effect.
(rubberhose Marth art by Daniel Cortes)
You begin on Castle Ostia at sunset. Every individual tower of the castle has a face and the anthropomorphic sun and moon are fighting for dominance. The layout for this phase is basically PS2 with two extremely angry towers that serve as walls - you can jump over those walls but there is nothing to the side of them. This is where the Omega takes place.
Eventually, cannonballs and tomatoes start getting thrown at the towers, which kills them (Xs in eyes and white surrender flags!) and thus removes the walls, but the base platform starts to crumble - once it is fully broken it goes into a similar moving phase to Castle Siege and you land in the interior throne rook of the castle, fighting atop a very grumpy rug waiting for a paycheck on a walkoff with windmil platforms - one by one the windmill platforms eventually grow faces; hands; and feet, walk off and grab a paycheck from an offscreen hand as they leave, you can still stand on them as they disappear which can lead to SDs. In the background you can see that rats have been painted over. This phase also has cameos from cartoony versions of all the playable FE reps, eating "ye olde popcorn" on wooden chairs - they're quite bored. They don't disappear if their anime-style versions are in play. The throne is empty. This is where the Battlefield form takes place.
Suddenly the ground begins to crumble and things get (a little) serious - a giant fire dragon - based on the final boss of Blazing Blade - breaks through the floor and rises into the night sky! You are now fighting atop the dragon's head with a walkoff to the left but not the right - athough it hangs its tongue out like a dog (which makes for a slippery little platform) and breathes fire through burping (which is somewhat like the laser on Corneria but bigger and more likely to hit), it's causing a lot of destruction as other castles slam into it (which is a bit more like the walls on Pilotwings combined with the wall on Orbital, though the destroyed walls also burst into debris which while not as powerful as getting hit by the walls cam still causing a lot of damage) causing the toon warriors to fight back, most stab into the dragon but one random character will constantly try fruitlessly to cut off the dragon's regrowing horn. (specifically the horn that isn't interactable with.)
Eventually, the dragon is defeated - its eyes turn to Xs, it goes from orange to blue, and it regurgitates a white flag. It falls down onto the now-reconstructed castle where the moon has won the battle, the warriors fall off the wall while the Smash fighters continue their battle
Here's a rough mockup of the layout. The third-technically-second/inside phase has spinning and progressively disappearing platform as said earlier.
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If this somehow wins, I would like to request this background from "Knight-Mare Hare" be used to represent it on the front page
