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Compare [[Fight Woosh]] and [[Eldritch Location]]. May be the result of [[Trippy Finale Syndrome]]; [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Final Boss, New Dimension]].

 

 

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* The final boss in ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi]]'' has this.

* The last battle in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]''. At first Link is transported to a rather serene meadow, but then after talking to the lone boy by the tree wearing Majora's Mask, he suddenly ends up in an altered dimension with a vortex of colors.

* ''[[Solatorobo]]'''s final boss fight is {{spoiler|inside Tartarus}}, which is full of floating squares in various shades of pink and purple.

 

* In ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', before battling Mundus, he and Dante end up in space, <s> for some reason</s> because Mundus ''[[Reality Warper|creates]] a [[Physical God|universe]] for the two to fight in'', where you proceed to shoot fireballs at him.

** [[Rule of Cool|Space with lots of lightning. You then fall into a pit of lava]] and [[Sequential Boss|continue the battle.]]

* In [[Otogi: Myth of Demons]] you fight the [[Big Bad]] Michizane in a pocket universe where he has been burning/bathing his body in the light and flames of eight million stars, growing ever more powerful and becoming a [[Physical God]]. And in the [[Sequel]] you fight the Nine-tailed Fox in the upper atmosphere of the planet, with snow and ice covered chunks of ground floating around.

 

* The final battle of ''[[Castle Crashers]]'' starts on a flying platform with a glowing red crystal encased in a wall of rock in the background, as the fight goes on, the wall of rock slowly gets destroyed until the platform you are on starts FALLING mid-battle. The boss himself gets pretty wacky as well.

* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' has {{spoiler|The Event Horizon stage against the [[True Final Boss]], Chakravartin}}.

 

* Played in the ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games, as well as ''[[F-Zero]] GX'', where the last raceway is a rainbow-colored hologram track high in the night sky.

* ''[[Sonic R]]'', despite not having a boss, has something like this. The final level you unlock is a glowing racetrack apparently made of a rainbow or something.

* The final race in ''[[Sonic Riders]]: Zero Gravity'' takes place inside a black hole on a mobius strip track with a dark stormy psychedelic backdrop.

 

* The final boss battles in all of the games in the ''[[Soul Series]]''

** Prominent in ''Soul Edge''. The second to last battle: at a quiet port in Spain. The final battle: the same port (or chunks of it) drifting through trippy vortex-y space. The name of this arena: "World Atlas Collapsed".

* The stage "The Portal" in ''[[Mortal Kombat]] II'' has the combatants (sorry, kombatants) fighting on a stony ledge in front of a swirling red void.

 

* Any fight against any of Anubis' incarnations in ''[[Battle Clash]]'' or ''Metal Combat''.

 

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a couple of these. The battle against Malygos, the Dragon Aspect of Magic, takes place in the Eye of Eternity, on a big floating rock platform surrounded by stars. During the fight, Malygos uses his breath to destroy the platform, which coincides with the entire background going into brilliant swirly colors. There is a bug where the colors occasionally don't go away once the final combat phase starts, causing severe problems for sensitive players. And Malygos isn't even the [[Final Boss]] of the game.

** The [[Bonus Boss]], Algalon the <s>Observer</s> Raid Destroyer, in Ulduar, is initially encountered in an observatory which turns into a starry outer space background once the fight is engaged. It makes sense, since Algalon is sent by the Titans themselves and looks like a humanoid constellation.

* The "Cathedral of Pain" trial in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' ended in a battle in a void against three separate mobs with bosses.

 

* The final battle against Dracula (and in a lot of cases Death as well), in a number of ''[[Castlevania]]'' games, most notably ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'' and ''[[Curse of Darkness]]'' takes place in a dimension that resembles a swirling vortex of colors.

* ''[[Mega Man 2]]'s'' final boss is an alien thing against a black starry background... {{spoiler|but it's all smoke and mirrors.}} The Sigma stages in ''[[Mega Man X]] 5'' are probably the trippiest, though.

* The arena of {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel|Giga-Snail]]}} in ''[[Snailiad]]'' is very colorful.

 

* The final level in ''[[Mighty Flip Champs]]'' takes place in what appears to be outer space. The background scrolls quickly.

* [[Night Sky]] features a bonus world called {{spoiler|Slightly Nonsense}} that is not mentioned until you beat the game. Once you complete the requirements to unlock it, you find yourself going through levels with bright checkerboard terrain and unnatural suns, Photoshop-filtered photos in the background, and even a level that's entirely composed of {{spoiler|ASCII art}}! The puzzles here are more quirky (and difficult) than the rest of the game.

 

* Last level of ''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' where you're fighting in subspace.

 

* Most ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games after that have their climactic battles on Amazing Technicolor Battlefields.

** Averted in I - III, but only because there was next to no background. Played completely straight in the remakes though.

* The final boss in ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'' is fought as you fly through one of these. In the second phase, he shifts the scenery between this and a beautiful blue sky when he uses certain attacks.

 

* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' had this for its classic trippy final boss fight against Andross, with a swirl of colors. ''Star Fox 64'' continues the tradition with a similar eery background, which actually gets weirder when it becomes ''less'' trippy as Andross [[One-Winged Angel|shows his true form]].

** There was also a secret path in the asteroid belt that sent you throguh a trippy alternate dimension asteroid belt that nobody in game notices.

* In the battle with the [[True Final Boss]] in [[Hellsinker]] practicly goes from somewhat confusing to downright [[Mind Screw]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24fU9MbKcS8 Must be seen to be belived].

 

* Manages to even show up in ''[[Pokémon Snap]]'', the ''photo-safari'' game. After getting photos of all the other Pokémon, Professor Oak sends you after Mew by launching you on a rather trippy voyage through a strange cosmic realm out of a mid-80s Heart Video.

* You get {{spoiler|sucked into another reality (with creepy music to add)}} in the final mission of ''[[Ace Combat]] 3: Electrosphere''. Though if {{spoiler|you manage to get straight B's, or better, on all of the other missions, including that one, you get [[Bonus Stage|yet another mission]]}}.

 

* The Rectum in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''. Having fought your way through the corridors of a high-tech but vaguely naval-looking {{spoiler|submarine}}, you arrive in a gigantic void with a platform made of what appears to be data. There are no visible walls, the floor is covered in shadows and there's mist above you, and it's difficult to tell whether you're inside the thing or on top of it. This is lampshaded in ''Substance'', where one of the non-canon Snake Tales uses the setting to represent {{spoiler|the void between dimensions}}.

 

* Last part of the last level of ''[[Tactics Ogre]]: The Knight of Lodis''.

* The battle against {{spoiler|Mewtwo}} in ''[[Pokémon Stadium]]'' has you fighting him in a void filled with various shades of blue/green and purple with a white Poké Ball design in the center of the battlefield.

 

 

* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'' Khrima constructs an elaborate hollow sphere with displays on the inside surface so that the climactic [[Boss Fight]] can be fought seemingly suspended in swirling purple stuff.

{{quote|'''Khrima''': [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20040629.html Because... you can't have a final boss fight... without the psychadelic twirling coloured background!]}}

** The background gets progressively destroyed during the battle until the entire sphere has been demolished.

{{quote|Radd: Far out! This system rocks!

Itty Bitty: Dig it.

G.I. Guy: Is this a battle screen or a disco? }}

 

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