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Super Smash Bros.
None of them are particularly awful in my opinion, but Sector Z is far too huge and Dreamland is a bit on the boring side.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
I don't particularly hate any of these either when playing with my settings, though in other cases, Jungle Japes, Big Blue, and Green Greens might get my vote here.
Jungle Japes has annoying, hard to see pits, too many small platforms with small gaps, with the fast flowing water and overpowered klaptraps.
Green Greens's bomb blocks are stupid.
Big Blue is incredibly difficult to fight on, with all standable platforms that are constantly moving.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Bros., I hate nearly everything about this stage. I hate the fixed camera. I hate the over abundance of collisions. I hate the walk-offs. I hate the enemies. The only thing I probably don't hate is the music choices, they're pretty decent as far as I'm concerned.
Spear Pillar is horrendous in its stage design, with the egregious cave of life on the bottom that may as well not be there and overpowered and disruptive legendary Pokemon.
Green Hill Zone has a too high blastzone, annoying destructible floors, and that stupid checkpoint that has too high knockback.
New Pork City is a stupidly huge stage with a horrendous design where your characters are microscopic and there's gigantic empty space.
75m is pretty gross, too stupidly huge with overpowered stage hazards and a nonsoft floor that makes it irritating to navigate.
Rumble Falls has overpowered spikes. I don't really mind autoscrollers though.
Mushroomy Kingdom's stage layout doesn't bother me as much, it's mostly how they chose to portray Mario. They did it in one of the worst ways Nintendo could do it: instead of making 1-1 look like, you know, 1-1, it has to be post-apocalyptic, gritty, dead, and edgy. I have stated before that wildlife doesn't deteriorate on its own over time, it actually becomes more wild, lush, and less desolate, so unless a nuclear bomb was dropped on here or global warming drastically occurred, it doesn't even make sense from a "realism" viewpoint either. Also, with Nintendo being Nintendo recently, 1-1 is one of the most regurgitated level designs ever, so there's literally no possible way it could be "abandoned".
I don't like hating on Brawl's stages, as there are some stages I really like in Brawl, but oh man does the weakest Smash Bros. entry imo have some of the worst stages in Smash Bros. series.
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Paper Mario is blah. The fan in the first segment is annoying while the third segment is mostly giant void with empty space, difficult to fight seriously. It's amusing to see CPUs commit suicide here but otherwise, this stage is meh. How it's based off the worst Paper Mario is the least of my worries: if the stage is Sticker Star-based and fun to fight in, I'll like it. This is not the case here.
Dream Land has puke green graphics all the way through. I know it's supposed to be representing Kirby's retro time periods, but since when Kirby was ever a retro game series? I don't think this stage does the Kirby series any justice at all. It's still not a good stage, even disregarding its ugly visuals.
Living Room, the stage is far too big and the falling blocks fall unexpectedly fast and it doesn't help that their knockback is high. It's lame, boring, and annoying when it could be.
Tortimer's Island's stratospheric upper blast line is what killed the stage for me.
Gaur Plain's stage layout is unwieldly, awkward, and just not fun to fight in.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Palutena's Temple is too huge, even for 8 player Smash. You can barely see your fighter and it's incredibly difficult to score KOs on this stage due to its size. The developers thing 8 players is an excuse to make a stage as huge as they can when it makes a stage an unfocused mess. If you want an 8 player Smash stage done right, look at Big Battlefield, Norfair, Mario Galaxy, Luigi's Mansion, where they're not too big, but not too cramped either (though I do personally enjoy cramped stages myself).
Gaur Plain is even worse in the Wii U version, where its larger size exemplify its problems even in 8 player Smash.
Pac-Land is the worst stage in this game. It has eye-searing visuals stemming from awful contrast, abnormal pits so you'll fall off in the weirdest of places, no grabable ledges to speak of, annoying fire hydrants and logs, tiny blast lines, and horrendous music to do to your ears what this stage does to your eyes. Yeah, I know, it's supposed to be "retro", but these graphics aren't "retro", they're outdated and they look like they've been drawn in MS Paint by first time users of it. Retro stages would be Balloon Fight, Mario Bros., 75m, they still look nice and the contrast is decent. Here, they used the clown color palette so the overly bright colors burns away your cones.
Miiverse is a stupid stage, mostly thanks to, you know, Miiverse.
Otherwise, I think this game has my favorite stages, especially Pilotwings and Mario Kart 8's Mario Circuit.
So out of these, here's how I'll rank them, from the worst being 1. with the least worst being lower:
So what are my unpopular opinions? I'll list stages that a lot of other people hate but I don't hate.
Super Smash Bros.
Planet Zebes: I dunno, the acid is kinda funny. It's not really funny when you're on the receiving end, but it's amusing to knock people down and watch the acid make them fly all the way up and turn into a star.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Icicle Mountain: People tend to hate autoscrollers. I don't belong in that category of people. I quite enjoy them, even. The only one I hate is Rumble Falls, and it's mostly to due its awful thorns.
Kongo Jungle: The klaptraps and barrel could get annoying, but I'm ok with those really.
Yoshi's Island: I love its cramped nature. The Wii U version of it is one of my favorite stages, even.
Brinstar: I like this stage.
Flat Zone: It's amazing in 4 player Giant Melee.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Port Town Aero Dive: I agree the cars suck but I still like the rest of the stage.
Hanenbow: It's not a good stage but I don't find it particularly horrible either, despite its somewhat wonky stage layout.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
Mute City: The stage is amusing for me.
Balloon Fight: I like it, even, despite the overpowered lightning bolts.
Wily Castle: I like the Yellow Devil, actually. It's great to see him explode and see Wario and Pac-Man caught up in his explosion. Same deal with the Wii U version.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
The Great Cave Offensive: The danger zones are too amusing for me to hate it, despite its sheer size and cramped nature.
Orbital Gate Assault: I really love the design of this stage, I think it's great, despite that it's essentially littered with stage hazards.
Gamer: I find this stage pretty fun to Smash in.
None of them are particularly awful in my opinion, but Sector Z is far too huge and Dreamland is a bit on the boring side.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
I don't particularly hate any of these either when playing with my settings, though in other cases, Jungle Japes, Big Blue, and Green Greens might get my vote here.
Jungle Japes has annoying, hard to see pits, too many small platforms with small gaps, with the fast flowing water and overpowered klaptraps.
Green Greens's bomb blocks are stupid.
Big Blue is incredibly difficult to fight on, with all standable platforms that are constantly moving.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Bros., I hate nearly everything about this stage. I hate the fixed camera. I hate the over abundance of collisions. I hate the walk-offs. I hate the enemies. The only thing I probably don't hate is the music choices, they're pretty decent as far as I'm concerned.
Spear Pillar is horrendous in its stage design, with the egregious cave of life on the bottom that may as well not be there and overpowered and disruptive legendary Pokemon.
Green Hill Zone has a too high blastzone, annoying destructible floors, and that stupid checkpoint that has too high knockback.
New Pork City is a stupidly huge stage with a horrendous design where your characters are microscopic and there's gigantic empty space.
75m is pretty gross, too stupidly huge with overpowered stage hazards and a nonsoft floor that makes it irritating to navigate.
Rumble Falls has overpowered spikes. I don't really mind autoscrollers though.
Mushroomy Kingdom's stage layout doesn't bother me as much, it's mostly how they chose to portray Mario. They did it in one of the worst ways Nintendo could do it: instead of making 1-1 look like, you know, 1-1, it has to be post-apocalyptic, gritty, dead, and edgy. I have stated before that wildlife doesn't deteriorate on its own over time, it actually becomes more wild, lush, and less desolate, so unless a nuclear bomb was dropped on here or global warming drastically occurred, it doesn't even make sense from a "realism" viewpoint either. Also, with Nintendo being Nintendo recently, 1-1 is one of the most regurgitated level designs ever, so there's literally no possible way it could be "abandoned".
I don't like hating on Brawl's stages, as there are some stages I really like in Brawl, but oh man does the weakest Smash Bros. entry imo have some of the worst stages in Smash Bros. series.
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
Paper Mario is blah. The fan in the first segment is annoying while the third segment is mostly giant void with empty space, difficult to fight seriously. It's amusing to see CPUs commit suicide here but otherwise, this stage is meh. How it's based off the worst Paper Mario is the least of my worries: if the stage is Sticker Star-based and fun to fight in, I'll like it. This is not the case here.
Dream Land has puke green graphics all the way through. I know it's supposed to be representing Kirby's retro time periods, but since when Kirby was ever a retro game series? I don't think this stage does the Kirby series any justice at all. It's still not a good stage, even disregarding its ugly visuals.
Living Room, the stage is far too big and the falling blocks fall unexpectedly fast and it doesn't help that their knockback is high. It's lame, boring, and annoying when it could be.
Tortimer's Island's stratospheric upper blast line is what killed the stage for me.
Gaur Plain's stage layout is unwieldly, awkward, and just not fun to fight in.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Palutena's Temple is too huge, even for 8 player Smash. You can barely see your fighter and it's incredibly difficult to score KOs on this stage due to its size. The developers thing 8 players is an excuse to make a stage as huge as they can when it makes a stage an unfocused mess. If you want an 8 player Smash stage done right, look at Big Battlefield, Norfair, Mario Galaxy, Luigi's Mansion, where they're not too big, but not too cramped either (though I do personally enjoy cramped stages myself).
Gaur Plain is even worse in the Wii U version, where its larger size exemplify its problems even in 8 player Smash.
Pac-Land is the worst stage in this game. It has eye-searing visuals stemming from awful contrast, abnormal pits so you'll fall off in the weirdest of places, no grabable ledges to speak of, annoying fire hydrants and logs, tiny blast lines, and horrendous music to do to your ears what this stage does to your eyes. Yeah, I know, it's supposed to be "retro", but these graphics aren't "retro", they're outdated and they look like they've been drawn in MS Paint by first time users of it. Retro stages would be Balloon Fight, Mario Bros., 75m, they still look nice and the contrast is decent. Here, they used the clown color palette so the overly bright colors burns away your cones.
Miiverse is a stupid stage, mostly thanks to, you know, Miiverse.
Otherwise, I think this game has my favorite stages, especially Pilotwings and Mario Kart 8's Mario Circuit.
So out of these, here's how I'll rank them, from the worst being 1. with the least worst being lower:
- Mario Bros.
- Pac-Land
- Spear Pillar (it gets points over Pac-Land for having decent music and nice visuals)
- New Pork City (its stage hazard isn't as bad as Spear Pillar's and it's less infuriating)
- Palutena's Temple
- Miiverse
- Rumble Falls
- Green Hill Zone
- 75m (it's not higher because the Wii U version of it is far more playable than the Wii version, thanks to its dropthrough platform and 8 player smash)
- Gaur Plain
- Living Room
- Dream Land (3DS)
- Tortimer's Island
- Mushroomy Kingdom (it's low on the list because at least it's pretty fun to play in despite its miserable aesthetics, and the music is great)
- Paper Mario
- Jungle Japes
- Green Greens
- Big Blue
- Sector Z
- Dreamland (N64)
So what are my unpopular opinions? I'll list stages that a lot of other people hate but I don't hate.
Super Smash Bros.
Planet Zebes: I dunno, the acid is kinda funny. It's not really funny when you're on the receiving end, but it's amusing to knock people down and watch the acid make them fly all the way up and turn into a star.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Icicle Mountain: People tend to hate autoscrollers. I don't belong in that category of people. I quite enjoy them, even. The only one I hate is Rumble Falls, and it's mostly to due its awful thorns.
Kongo Jungle: The klaptraps and barrel could get annoying, but I'm ok with those really.
Yoshi's Island: I love its cramped nature. The Wii U version of it is one of my favorite stages, even.
Brinstar: I like this stage.
Flat Zone: It's amazing in 4 player Giant Melee.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Port Town Aero Dive: I agree the cars suck but I still like the rest of the stage.
Hanenbow: It's not a good stage but I don't find it particularly horrible either, despite its somewhat wonky stage layout.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
Mute City: The stage is amusing for me.
Balloon Fight: I like it, even, despite the overpowered lightning bolts.
Wily Castle: I like the Yellow Devil, actually. It's great to see him explode and see Wario and Pac-Man caught up in his explosion. Same deal with the Wii U version.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
The Great Cave Offensive: The danger zones are too amusing for me to hate it, despite its sheer size and cramped nature.
Orbital Gate Assault: I really love the design of this stage, I think it's great, despite that it's essentially littered with stage hazards.
Gamer: I find this stage pretty fun to Smash in.
