A WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR?!!!!! DAAAAANG!!!!!! WOW SAKURAI!!! PLEASE TAKE A VACATION NOW!!!! YOU DESERVE IT!! YOUR GAMES ARE INCREDIBLE!!!

This is one of the coolest stages we've seen so far!

And the effort really shows! This is an expansive stage! Imagine if they'd put that kind of effort into adding Krystal to the roster!

Orbital Gate Assault was one of the first staves I played and the fact that it took a while year makes it even more awesome!

I most certainly was not expecting a Pic of the Day at this hour. Nevertheless, I appreciate all the hard work you have put into this game, Team Sakurai. Thank you, and may you all live safe and happy lives! Until we meet again!

Talks about how the stage took a year to design. Shows the trophy.

A whole year for just this stage!?! That is the definition of Hard worker!

A very cool stage!! Thanks Mr. Sakurai!

impressive.

ok

A whole year!?! Dang, that's just ridiculous... uhm... awesome stage tho!...?

this game is so fun! DLC will make it more fun though! trophy run is addictive!

sakurai you da real mvp

A whole year? Now that's dedication. Sakurai, you need a nice long paid vacation after all of this.

Cannot wait to try out this stage once its out in Australia!

Please add rayman to the game.

So this is why the game feels rushed. One fancy stage was totally the right way to invest resources for a whole year, more important than balance or netcode or online features am I right?

only 3 more days until it is finally released! Feels like forever, yet came so quick!

Fun.

Ok

I bet it did, especially all the details they put in to design the stage.

@Gewr Because obviously, the entirety of the team was working on the stage at once, all year long...

Heh.

1 YEAR?SERIOUSLY, SAKURAI? I LOVE THE EFFORT YOU'VE PUT INTO THE GAME BUT 1 YEAR? FOR 1 STAGE? I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sakurai is king of trolls, based god. #Illuminaughty

The stage is beautiful. There's so much detail. But it's a WiiU. So what would you expect?

And that's why it's one of my favorite stages in the game. I just love playing on this stage a lot!

a whole year for 1 stage?! Im spechless

Too bad the stage's only flaw is the transition to each segment. Not fun getting dumped right under the arwings with no chance of recovery.

Whoh its tuesday already!? Im still awake from smash....

OMG this hype is crazy....I am so pumped to smash on the Wii-U! SAKURAI, look what your incredible game is doing to me! p.s Toad for smash 5! :)

Europe cant wait anymore !!!

Wow, nice job for a very nice looking and fun stage!

A whole year? it is a very detailed stage, but man that's dedication!

Epic trophy just as the mission was in Star Fox Assault! =D

Huh. Glad he put some really nice work into it. :)

Sakurai once said it takes roughly a year to create a unique character. When you think about it, he's been working hard on this game with his team for about two years now.

SAKURAI! THIS GAME IS SACRED! MELEE DAYS HAVE BEEN OVERRUN BY SMASH U! Everyone, trust me! This game is amazing! I rate this 9.6/10! Only problem is Stage Creator. The limitations are disappointing. Please put more things for Stage Creator in future updates!

Cool!

The Amiibos are AWESOME!!! thank you for including them, they were sold out where I went to pick one up, lucky I received it and im loving it!!!

We could've gotten more characters in place of this stage based on a Star Fox game no one liked...

You put a LOT of empathy towards Orbital Gate Assault. AND WHO CAN BLAME YOU?!?! Its one of the best stages! (I don't have the game yet so I can't WAIT to play it!)

One of my least favorite new stages honestly, but still a phenomenal design.

4 more days!

1 Whole Year for the Orbital Gate to be accessed by Smash Bros. WiiU. Thats a lot of time and I say its amazing for fighters to be able to Smash in all the places they made for them. Its well worth the wait as always. No Rushing things.

ONE YEAR FOR ONE STAGE?! Ok maybe that's why there are no character-specific (Fox and Falco) conversations...

Come make lots of DLC we want more characters and we the fans be willing to pay lots of money if need to

it just takes practice.

Wow, that says ALOT about Sakurai, his team and Nintendo. One whole year on a single stage while other companies churn out entire substandard copy/paste games like Call of Duty in a year.

Well, it is quite a beauty.

Wow. That takes dedication. This game is awesome btw.

Sakurai and the team has been working on the game for about 4 years. Not 2.

Wake me up at Christmas please!

IT'S SO PRETTY!!!!!!!

Easily my favorite new stage too! Great work!

Awesome

orbital gate is by far my most favorite stage!

One year for one stage. And that's with the whole team still together. I can understand part of why they don't want to do more DLC for Smash. Just think about how long a stage like this would rose if they only had remnants of the team together for DLC.

It's like it's the same StarFox color like the Arwing and the Great Fox ship.

Its my favorite stage from my favorite Starfox game!! Thanks a bunch Mr. Sakurari and I love the easter egg on the stage also

I'd imagine it took a year to make this stage considering how much detail there is

1 WHOLE YEAR TO MAKE THAT LITTLE TROPHY?!?!?! THAT'S INSANE!

Smell my finger Sakurai!

thats awesome

(^o^)

LOOK WHAT I GOT SAKURAI! YOU TRIED TO MAKE IT CHEAP AND FRUSTRATING BUT I GOT IT!!! IT IS BITTER YET TASTY!!!!!!!

Classic Ridley as roster DLC, please.

Although it's one of the better looking stages...I still don't find it that great to play on. Too much moving around.

A whole year?!

If only it could open a door for new Star Fox and new F-Zero Games.

So much dedication going into one stage and it's from one of the worst star fox games. It's fun to play on though

A whole year to build this stage? Wow. What else took this long?

Wow A year, this looks like it will be one of my favourite stages

Woah, it must be hard to model that. You don't even port it.

i am getting it friday! europe release!

Dang Sakurai! that's why You put the 3DS Version out first, to stall time for the Orbital Gate Assault stage. Clever.

Friday, Friday only got to wait till Friday .... BUT IT'S TAKING TO LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sheesh sakurai!! You really went all out on the details for this one, lol. That's also the best stage I ever played on:) GO SAKURAI!!!

One year to complete a stage. I guest it will be hard to see Wolf in a DLC then... sadly... But I hope that, with the new Star Fox coming, they make Wolf a DLC.

This was based from my favourite Star Fox game. Star Fox Assault!

One year... For a simple stage almost no one will choose? This is why I was Sakurai for halloween...

PLEASE MAKE NEW METROID

Please stop positing what you have done on pic-of-the-day,it's not related to what Sakurai is talking about. Thank you.

WOLF CONFIRMED!!

I wonder how long Sakurai is going to keep posting these "Pic of the days" with the game being out and all.

@Slippy I'd say until the game comes out in every region.

1 year!? AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

give 3ds miiverse stage!

This stage took a whole year to make!

I prefer Final Destination...

All of that amazing detail, I can see why it took a whole year! That's crazy! But awesome!

the amount of work that went into the stage really shows! it's a amazing stage with so much detail.