Super Smash Bros. Charged/Labyrinth of Ancients

Adventure Mode: Labyrinth of Ancients (古代の迷宮, Labyrinth of Ancients), also shortened to Labyrinth of Ancients or abbreviated to LoA is the Adventure Mode for Super Smash Bros. Charged, following The Subspace Emissary in Brawl and World of Light in Ultimate. Particularly, the mode takes inspiration from The Great Cave Offensive from Kirby Super Star and The Great Maze from The Subspace Emissary.
==Plot==
===Act I: The Labyrinth===
The story opens in a lush jungle, somewhere within the World of Trophies. However, the sky grows dark and the ground begins shaking. It cracks, letting seams of purple and pink energy rise from underground. The hole grows larger, letting several titan-like beings crawl out and begin wrecking havoc. Before they can get far, Master Hand and Crazy Hand appear, leading the entire playable roster of Charged, who from here on out will be referred to as the Smashers, to defeat these titans.
After scenes of each character trying to fend the beasts off, the titans begin merging into each other to create a single, massive monster. In this form, they implode into a black hole that begins sucking in all of the Smashers, as well as the Hands. Dr. Mario, Bowser Jr., Piranha Plant, Donkey Kong, King K. Rool, Ridley, King Dedede, Pichu, Incineroar, Duck Hunt, Simon, and PAC-MAN (who will henceforth be referred collectively as "The Chosen Ones") are trying to escape before they are entrapped in a purple bubble, protected by the force. They watch in horror as their fellow Smashers are sucked into the black hole. Once everything in the vicinity is gone, the black hole dissipates, as a massive structure rises from the ground to take its place.
The Chosen Ones are let out of the bubble, confused and scared about what happened. Then, a small purple spirit appears in front of them. She introduces herself as Denka, and explains that the monsters that were escaped into the World of Trophies were called the Titans of Darkness, failed creations to make advanced life made by the Ancients, the same race that once lived on the Isle of Ancients. The building the stands before them is the Labyrinth of Ancients, which was their previous home. Now that the Titans of Darkness have escaped, they aim to destroy the World of Trophies. Denka says that they must rescue their friends and the Hands, as their combined powers are the only way to stop them.
Deciding to team up, Denka and the Chosen Ones storm into the Labyrinth of Ancients to rescue their friends and stop the Titans.
==Characters==
:Main article: Super Smash Bros. Charged#Characters
All characters playable in Charged can be used in Labyrinth of Ancients. They play identically to how they play in normal matches. As with the game proper, the starting roster consists of The Chosen Ones, while the rest of the characters must be unlocked throughout the mode.
Characters unlocked in Labyrinth of Ancients can be used in the main game afterwards. In the case of unlockable fighters that are in the mode's starting roster, they will be unlocked after the player wins a battle against a possessed fighter with them.
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==Gameplay==
Gameplay of Labyrinth of Ancients can be seen as an in-between of The Subspace Emissary in Brawl and Smash Run in Smash 4. It is reminiscent of a platformer beat-em-up, as there are platforming elements inspired by the Mario and Kirby series, yet still retaining the Super Smash Bros. series' gameplay.
Like The Great Cave Offensive in Kirby Super Star and The Great Maze in The Subspace Emissary, players are tasked with navigating through a large, Metroidvania-style labyrinth consisting of various Nintendo-themed locales to discover new areas, defeat enemies and bosses, and most importantly, rescue characters. To do this, players must engage in battles with the possessed characters and defeat them, which will allow them to join the player's team. Characters can be switched out immediately through the pause menu, and as more characters join the player's party, the more characters the player can use.
Like The Great Maze, recruiting every character and defeating every boss is required to reach the endgame.
==Gallery==
Denka.png|Denka
==Trivia==
*The original draft was to include the Original 12 as the starting roster and the ones who were rescued by Denka, though it was changed to the current cast to make things more interesting and stray farther from World of Light's plot in Ultimate.
**The current cast consists of the director's mains and secondaries in Ultimate.
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