Rules - FINAL BOSS

After having completed the 7 primary objectives and POTION MOTION, the FINAL BOSS battle begins immediately.

What happens depends on which route you are taking in the game. The SPARE route is when all 7 objectives were completed in SPARE (white) state. The KILL route is when all 7 objectives were completed in KILL (red) state. And in all other cases, you will be in a neutral route.

Cooperative Play

In cooperative play, the following happens:

• When a player runs out of HP, the next player is prompted to come to the table and resume progress on the FINAL BOSS. Or, if every player died, the game ends.
• A player swap also occurs between each stage of the FINAL BOSS.
• A player swap also occurs when a player fails to correctly summon the Archangel of Wallden and finishes the punishment round.

Drain Damage

Regular drain damage is not used in the FINAL BOSS. Instead, the drain damage will be the following depending on game difficulty:

Stage 1 (all routes): Summoning the Archangel

When completing each of the 7 objectives, you are given part of a sequence of buttons you must press in order to summon the Archangel of Wallden in dire times of need.

Now is the time to do so. You discover the King and Queen in the CASTLE. And they're caged in an invincible bubble powered by a spell which was cast by the boss. Only the powers of a Celestial can destroy the cage and free the King and Queen.

You are prompted to perform the summoning ritual correctly. Each time you fail, a multiball starts (the punishment round), and you must shoot all of the lit shots to then enter input mode again to try the ritual again. When in multiball, the boss has opportunities to deal damage at you each time you drain a ball before shooting all necessary shots. The boss will also mess with the table to try making you drain your balls faster.

When going back to try the ritual again, the table will reveal parts of the sequence to you for 3 seconds to help you out (if you activated a power-up prior to the next input, then all parts will be revealed during this time). You will still have to input them in correctly.

Here is how the punishment round and input mode operates:

Once you successfully complete the ritual, the Archangel is summoned, and you move on to the next stage.

Stage 2 (all routes): Free the King and Queen

After summoning the Archangel, you must pray to and believe in the Archangel to give her the power necessary to free the King and Queen.

Spinner is flashing white. And pop bumpers are also flashing. A 5-ball multiball starts. A combined total of 250 spins and pop bumper hits must be achieved to provide enough faith to the Archangel for her to destroy the cage trapping the King and Queen. Then, you must shoot the scoop to complete the prayer. At that point, the Archangel can destroy the cage.

Note that in this process, drained balls will come back into play but will deal damage against the player. And the boss will try launching attacks to make you drain faster. (TODO: Redundant?)

Once the cage is destroyed, the King and Queen is freed. But the journey is not over yet. The boss still lurks and is still attacking.

Stage 3: The Battle

While stages 1 and 2 remain the same regardless of route, stage 3 depends on which route was being taken.

SPARE route

Unknown to the adventurers (players), the cage trapping the King and Queen was enchanted with an anti-love curse. Those who followed a path of righteousness and love would suffer severe backlash from the destruction of the cage. The cage's energy bursts out and causes every player with an HP > 1 to drop to 1 HP. And for every HP lost, that player scores 1,000,000 points. Even the Archangel didn't know about this and is thrown against the walls of the castle in the process and is knocked out. Meanwhile, the BOSS laughs at what just happened and taunts the players.

The battle begins with a 3-ball multiball and armor class seconds of ball shield. The BOSS is revealed to have 500 HP. One shot is lit red to deal damage against the boss. Each time the shot is completed, the BOSS suffers 10 HP damage, although if the boss drops to 100 HP before moving to the final portion of this stage, he casts a shield spell upon himself, resulting in all future shots only dealing 1 HP damage against him (until the final portion of the stage begins).

Each time a player loses their 1 HP, one of the 7 characters they SPAREd arrives in the castle with them and gives the player a revival potion. The potion revives the player with 1 HP. The battle resumes, but another shot is added to deal damage at the boss as the character joins the others in battle against the BOSS.

• For ESCAPE, one of the characters is a citizen they rescued from the building
• For CASTLE, the King and Queen join battle

Once all characters have joined battle, and players again lose all their health, the sequence to the final part of the stage begins. The 8th character, the Archangel, recovers consciousness and sees what happened, everyone knocked out by the BOSS (including now all the other characters). She then executes her most powerful Celestial spell, "Sahasrara", or Crown Chakra. Pulling together the Chakras of all the other characters, she completes a magical rainbow aura which revives everyone and protects them in an invincible shield made up of the Chakra energy, saying, "We're not done until we're done." She maintains this spell for the remainder of the battle.

Now, all shots are lit again, the multiball is transformed to a 5-ball multiball with unlimited shield, and the BOSS's shield is broken. The BOSS can now be defeated. And every time a ball drains, it comes back with someone repeating, "we're not done until we're done", meaning this battle is not done until the BOSS is defeated.

Once the BOSS is defeated, 250,000,000 points are awarded, a bit of lore is given, and the players SPARE the FINAL BOSS, completing the SPARE route. Then, the Archangel offers her JUDGMENT, resulting in the Final Wizard. In this route, there are 3 possible endings/wizards: Heart of Platinum, Heart of Gold, or Heart of Silver.

Neutral Route

The cage holding the King and Queen explodes. Since you were not of a pure heart, you do not suffer damage from the backlash, but the Archangel gets thrown across the castle and knocked unconscious.

In this route, the adventurers face off against the BOSS.

• 5-ball multiball with 2 * Armor Class seconds of ball shield
• BOSS has 500 HP
• Flashing bumper deals 5 HP per hit (the bumper which is flashing changes every 5 seconds)
• A post drop target is raised, dealing 3 HP damage when hit (and a different post drop comes up after each hit)
• Spinner deals 2 HP damage per spin when lit (cycles on and off every 5 seconds)

• All shots are randomly lit red, yellow, or green (shot is randomized after each hit):

  Light Color	Damage Amount
  Red	25 HP
  Yellow	10 HP
  Green	5 HP

• Defeating the FINAL BOSS before he defeats you will award 250,000,000 points. When prompted to SPARE or KILL the FINAL BOSS, the game will decide for you (KILL).
• After defeating or being defeated by the FINAL BOSS, the Archangel re-gains consciousness and gives you your JUDGMENT which leads to a Final Wizard. There are two possible JUDGMENTs for this route: Heart of Bronze or Heart of Mediocrity.

KILL Route

The cage holding the King and Queen explodes. Since you were not of a pure heart, you do not suffer damage from the backlash. The Archangel also avoids the blast because in this route, she is more intuitive as she knows what kind of disgusting things you have been doing.

You, taken over by the thrill of killing, then attempt to KILL the King and Queen (you have no choice in the matter; you already chose to do this from the previous choices you made). However, the Archangel, again sensing what is happening, steps in the middle just as you are attacking. Instead of the King and Queen getting hit, she gets hit. But she survives due to her Celestial nature.

She becomes enraged and goes on a monologue about what you have done and what she knows you are planning to do next.

It is then revealed that the "FINAL BOSS" that you are fighting is not the beast. Instead, it is the Archangel. Normally, she would stay out of natural affairs in the best interest of Free Will. But she knows that if she doesn't do something, you will destroy Wallden. And she needs your living essence to conduct a spell to reverse time and undo the damage that you have caused.

At this point, it is revealed that the Archangel has 999 HP (the highest possible HP in the game).

The FINAL BOSS battle against the Archangel follows a system of levels; you start at level 1 and can progress up to level 5 for maximum potential damage against the Archangel.

For every level:

• You get 2 * armor class seconds of ball shield at the start of any given level (including demotions).
• Flashing white shots deal 10 HP damage to the Archangel each (shots remain lit when hit).

• Flashing red shots deal damage to you depending on the game difficulty level (shot remain lit when hit):

  Game Difficulty	Damage
  Zen and Easy	6 HP
  Normal	9 HP
  Hard and Impossible	12 HP

• When you drain a ball, you get demoted to the previous level. Additionally, one of the white shots turns red. Exceptions:

  • If you lose your only ball in level 1, then you instantly die.
  • If you get demoted from level 5 to level 4, after one white shot turns red, all but three of the other white shots turn off.

  If you have any balls locked when you get demoted, then all locked balls are put back into play.

• When you level up, the following happens:

  When you level up to level 5, all major shots are flashing white to deal damage to the Archangel; you have activated your Ultimate.
  Otherwise, if any shot is flashing red, then one of them will turn white.
  Otherwise, a white shot is added.

If you manage to defeat the Archangel, then the Archangel perishes. However, the Archangel, being a Celestial, releases a lot of energy in the process of her demise. This energy destroys Wallden and sends the village into a post-apocalyptic state.

You will then receive a JUDGMENT for your actions. However, the JUDGMENT doesn't come from the Archangel. It comes from Lucifer. Your JUDGMENT could either be the Heart of Evil or the Black Heart.