Author Topic: Parallel Lunar Shadow. (Read 2548 times)

King (2.0) · « **Reply #15 on:** 26 January 2021, 19:28:40 »

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In each area are Life Capsules, which increase Serenity's HP by 2. Collecting them grants Serenity more HP, useful for surviving long battles.(Not available in 1-HP Mode or Boss Arena).
Various sections of the Lunar Soul Castle are linked together via different areas, they may contain NPCs or enemies.
Both the Left and Right Towers have an optional boss. The Left Tower has you fight both Micren and Irving in a water filled room. The Right Tower's optional boss is Sycor II. The battle takes place in a spike filled room, with Sycor having some new attacks.

Serenity can obtain three secret weapons: Vorpal Sword, Crescent Cutters and Zero's Lament:
The Vorpal Sword is made by fusing Misery's End with the Vorpal Queen (found in the Clock Tower). It's a sword that can fire beams.
The Crescent Cutters are made by fusing the Lunar Sickle with the Sun Filter (found in the Password Room).
Zero's Lament is found in the Sea Zone. It's useless and does nothing though it can 1HKO the Castle Master.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #16 on:** 26 January 2021, 20:53:15 »

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Three bonus dungeons exist:
Sea Zone allows you to recruit Ignis who much like Serenity lost her parents to the Castle Master. It's a water based dungeon where the player fights XYZ (Gun form).
Sanguine Sanctuary is one area connected to the Myst Zone. Here Serenity must venture through a world stained in blood where her Oxygen Aura can't save her and where her Valkyrie Wings are inert. The dungeon lasts 5 rooms and has 2 bosses, one of whom is Shiori, the game's secret boss.
Zone of Confusion is a surreal area with pink water (reverses controls) and puzzles that test Serenity's resolve, Corridors filled with fatal spikes and Illusions spikes (pink). The player fights Confushias who gives Serenity the Ragna-Cannon. *(The original text mentions Kim Tyranto and the Tyranto Staff, the latter only being mentioned here)
The Grim Path opens up once you complete the 3 bonus dungeons. At the end is a door that takes you to Bloodstained Moon where Lunar Shadow is fought.
Boss Arena allows you to fight either the main game's bosses or the game's optional bosses (and Lunar Shadow Soul).

King (2.0) · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 January 2021, 14:25:33 »

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Sea Zone

SEA ZONE
After using a Password to unlock Sea Zone, Serenity ventures into a blue door. This takes her to Sea Zone.
Sea Zone is a water based dungeon, similar to the Reservoir. It also has various lifts, some of which transport Serenity over a bed of spikes.
To find Ignis, Serenity must find a blue house. Once there a scene plays and Serenity can go into her house.
Sea Zone has no miniboss. After you leave Ignis's house, the area will now be populated with strange ghost-like enemies, something that Serenity will take note of.
Serenity must use the lifts to find a door. On the way there, she can obtain Zero's Lament and 2 HP Capsules.

The main boss of Sea Zone is XYZ (Gun). It resents being trapped in that awful shell by that red headed woman (Scarlet) and remembers Serenity mowing him and his twin self down.
As such XYZ (pronounced Zweizuh) assumes the form of a gun, considering it an appropriate metaphor for his revenge.
XYZ has 2 health meters. During it's first phase, it only shoots bullets and fires cutters. Once it reaches Phase 2, it creates a green copy of itself. The XYZs work in tandem and must have both HP bars depleted to end the battle.
Once defeated, XYZ reverts to it's true form: a seabound spirit. It then tells Serenity that it's sorry for being unable to protect Ignis.

Serenity leaves and returns to Ignis. Ignis remembers how her parents were slain by a robotic monster (XYZ) who was Scarlet's pet. Serenity tells her that Scarlet must've taken XYZ and converted it into it's machine form.
Ignis is reluctant to leave her home, scared for her life. Serenity tells her that if she stays here then the Castle Master will ruin the lives of people like her unless she does something.

A voice calls out to her, begging her for forgiveness. Ignis recognizes it as a sea spirit her parents took her to as a child. At this point, Ignis decides to forgive XYZ and gains her awakened power.
After the scene ends, Ignis resolves to help Serenity to defeat the Castle Master and can now assist her as an A.I controlled partner. Her sole weapon Zweizuh can morph into multiple forms and can gain levels instantly.
With Ignis recruited, she can help against the Castle Master, Nexash, Shiori and Lunar Shadow. She'll refuse to go into the Confusion Zone saying it gives her bad vibes.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #18 on:** 27 January 2021, 15:24:17 »

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Sanguine Sanctuary

SANGUINE SANCTUARY
Serenity can access this area via a doorway in the Laboratory Warp Room.
Sanguine Sanctuary has 4 areas: (Area 1) Gate of Bleeding, (Area 2) Streams of Blood, (Area 3) Sands of Nexash and (Area 4) Bloodstained Seal.
Area 1: Gate of Bleeding resembles a shrine and has various NPCS within it. Several of them discourage Serenity from venturing fourth though it's futile.
Area 2: Streams of Blood prevents the use of the Oxygen Aura and the Valkyrie Wings. Serenity must swim through blood and climb across various pieces of architecture.
Area 3: Sands of Nexash has Serenity in an area with blood red walls, a green background and red/green sand. She must do battle with Nexash, a long slain create that Shiori memorialized. (It uses Alpha's A.I and Puu Black's A.I) It has 2 health bars; in Phase 1, it fights Serenity in it's shell-like body. During Phase 2, it leaves it's body as and attacks as it's eye. After that fight, Serenity ventures upward until she reaches the door into Area 4.
Area 4: Bloodstained Seall is a black and red area. The grass is blood red like in Area 2 though most of Area 4 is like a prison. Once Serenity reaches the top, a scene involving Shiori plays out. It introduces her as a character important in Newerth's history before she created Lunar Shadow (as a protector) and was sealed away when it went rogue and after she died.

Shiori has 4 phases much like the Castle Master. Her first form has her teleport, surrounding herself with blood orbs, fire blood projectiles and yellow lasers. (Uses Misery's A.I.)
She then morphs into a black and red tank, resembling Valkyrie X. The difference is that the arena is partially submerged in blood and covered with fatal spikes at the sides. (Uses Monster X's A.I)
Her next form resembles Shinica Horton with Shiori's colours. Her attacks are the same as Shinica's but the battle takes place in a room with moving platforms and fatal spikes. Falling off the platforms spells death.
Her final form resembles T.E.D except with Shiori's palette. The difference is that the arena is covered in dark grey and red bones with fatal spikes and blood water.

Once Shiori!T.E.D is down, Shiori reverts to her default form, warns Serenity that she's powerful without the shapeshifting and that Serenity should deal with Lunar Shadow, her greatest mistake. She then fades away,.
Serenity must then escape through a corridor which then leads her to Bloodstained Sanctuary's Warp Door or outside the Lunar Soul Castle.
If Ignis was recruited, she'll help Serenity. There are also minor dialogue additions if you get to Shiori or Nexash.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 January 2021, 17:37:23 »

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Zone of Confusion

ZONE OF CONFUSION
Serenity can access the Zone of Confusion through Top Floor CZ, unlocked by beating the game. Serenity goes into a pink door which takes her to the actual area.
Zone of Confusion has 4 area: (Area 1) Corridor of Perplexion, (Area 2) Mystifying River, (Area 3) Bewildering Field and (Area 4) Shrine of Uncertainty.
Area 1: Corridors of Perplexion involves several horizonal corridors littered with red fatal spikes and pink fatal spikes. The pink spikes aren't real and won't harm you. As such, you fall through the pink spikes and avoid the red ones.
Area 2: Mystifying River has Serenity avoid enemies on land and navigate through pink water that reverses controls. The enemies cannot be killed and kill Serenity on contact. Serenity will eventually make it to land and move into the next area.
Area 3: Bewildering Field has the enemies from Area 2 but also NPCs who happen to be previous Castle Masters. The area is a field with salmon coloured ground and pink grass with the spikes from Area 1 and the water of Area 2.
Area 4: Shrine of Uncertainty is a short area with a Save Point and a Warp Door. It resembles a shrine of sorts and has a stage boss.

Serenity meets with Collector Confushias who mistakes her for Serenity V. Horton. He remarks that she seems to have lost her Tyranto Staff and Ragna-Cannon and wonders why she hasn't brought back the Castle Master's Soul yet.
Serenity explains her situation to Confushias and so the latter decides to test Serenity's combat prowess in a 3 phase battle.
[Phase 1] Confushias fights you with his Puppetmaster Aura and calls his two puppets Xalmar and Zhagus to assist him. Xalmar prefers projectile attacks while Zhaghus gets up close. Confushias himself attacks with explosive energy (Uses Undead Cores's A.I)
[Phase 2[ Confushias uses his Guardian Aura which can run Serenity over and fire homing orbs. It hits hard in order to make up for it's middling HP. (Uses Monster X's A.I)
[Phase 3] Confushias surrounds himself with a green barrier which is shielded by the souls of the previous Castle Masters. In addition, Serenity must also contend with fallen souls.

After the battle is over, Confushias congratulates Serenity and gives her the Ragna-Cannon, telling her that the Tyranto Staff is far too powerful for someone like her.
Serenity leaves the Confusion Zone with new weapon in tow. If she's completed all 3 bonus dungeons, she must then refight Ashen/T.E.D with Ignis at her side.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 January 2021, 17:41:52 »

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The Final Battle- Revisited

THE FINAL BATTLE- REVISITED
Ashen's dialogue changes completely, noting that Serenity must be that determined to stop him if she's gone as far as to venture into the 3 Forbidden Areas.
The fights are unchanged, though Ignis will now help you by attacking the final boss.
Once the Castle Master's Soul is destroyed, the ending is changed with Shiori's voice telling the duo that the Grim Path now awaits them.
The game sends you back to the title screen (with an additional star) but if you load your save file, you'll now be at the Outer Warp Gate.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 January 2021, 17:53:48 »

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The Grim Path/Bloodstained Moon

THE GRIM PATH
This area is a simple black and white area that is only 3 screens long. At the end is a door seen nowhere else, that if entered takes you to Bloodstained Moon.
BLOODSTAINED MOON
Bloodstained Moon only has 2 rooms. The first one has only the door to the Grim Path and a save point. The other room has Lunar Shadow, the game's true final boss.
A cutscene plays. Serenity V. Horton is determined not to let Lunar Shadow carry out it's goal: to assimilate all life. She's been at this for a thousand years, taking on a younger form in order to stay alive.
Serenity tries to approach the core only to be swarmed with darkness with Ignis unable to help.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 January 2021, 18:05:53 »

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THE TRUE FINAL BATTLE
[Phase 1] Serenity fights 3 statue wheels holding red, blue and yellow orbs. All weapons except the Arcanum have been taken away. Each orb has it's own attack: Red orb fires a ring of energy bullets, Yellow Orb fires 3 orbs in a triangular format and Blue Orb fires several diamonds in a curved line. Destroying the orbs allows you to get your weapons back.
[Phase 2] Serenity returns to light and with Ignis now fight against Lunar Shadow itself. A grotesque fetal beast in a crystalline shell, it stays in the background and uses various attacks such as thorns, energy orbs, spatial slashes and calling upon lasers. However Serenity and Ignis can send the orbs back to Lunar Shadow, damaging it. They can also attack red clones of Shiori which turn into light orbs that damage Lunar Shadow.
[Phase 3] With it's current form destroyed, Lunar Shadow is stopped in it's tracks. Serenity V. Horton, now satisfied, leaves her descendant with the last of her power and tells her to stay sharp. Lunar Shadow takes the form of a nu-de figure, namely Shiori Shauntel. She attacks using vague appropriations of Serenity's weapons and uses her spatial slashes and lasers from Phase 2.

After that, Lunar Shadow screams in agony before warning them of a greater threat, one that goes by the name of Vresun. Serenity and Ignis escape the Bloodstained Moon and return home through the Grim Path. When they return, the door is gone and the moon is reverted to normal. The player now earns the true ending: Lunar Overshadowed.

King (2.0) · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 January 2021, 18:14:55 »

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(Page 9 : Lunar Shadow/Lunar Shadow Soul)

Lunar Shadow itself is a boss having 3 phases and is the game's true final boss. It's first phase is like Chaos from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow in which it takes Serenity's weapons aside from the Arcanum.
It's second form is like Ballo's final form except it firesprojectiles, summons copies of Shiori and has red, damaging water at the bottom of the arena.
It's final form is a feminine humanoid that can call upon lasers, surrounds itself with orbs resembling it's previous form, can summon meteors and can even use Serenity's weapons.

Lunar Shadow Soul is a harder version of Lunar Shadow with the forms visually altered and a new fourth form.
Form 1: The angels are now coloured black and the wheel is darker.
Form 2: The core is now rainbow instead of just red. In addition, the bullet patterns are altered to make them harder and the Shiori copies are replaced with Serenity copies instead.
Form 3: The third form is now rainbow and has Serenity's head design. Her weapon attacks now closely resemble Serenity's weapons.
Final Form: Resembles Valkyrie Horton without her jumpsuit.

Lunar Shadow unlock: Beat the game, complete Sea Zone, Zone of Confusion and Sanguine Sanctuary. After that, refight the final boss and the Grim Path opens up which can be used to reach the Bloodstained Moon where Lunar Shadow awaits.

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