Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Difference between revisions

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You've finally made it. You've beaten down countless [[Faceless Goons]], cashed in your [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]], trashed the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] and done away with the [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] (and, if you have enough time on your hands, found the [[Infinity+1 Sword]]). All that's left is the final showdown with the [[Big Bad]].

*** In the first game, the battle against the Behemoth inside Hollow Bastion's Keyhole takes place in a more conventional [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]].

*** The DS game then averted it by having the boss fight move between rooms of different worlds for each round, and then back to the place seen just before the battle for the last one. {{spoiler|The real final boss doesn't shift from Memory's Skyscraper and is much easier to take down after this.}}

* ''[[Dark Cloud]]'s'' final boss Dark Genie teleports you to a kaleidoscopic purple space, in which you walk on air - transforming into a tentacle monster to make the experience that much more surreal.

* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' has quite a few. Lavos's first form (which you get to see early in a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]) takes place on a blueish background with ripples everywhere, as does a late-game boss intimately connected with Lavos. Lavos's "middle" form isn't one of these, but his final form takes place on a field of swirling colors, behind which scenes from the world's history can be seen. Altering the scenes is even one of the boss's abilities "Time warp", and it gains a specific attack spell with each different background. But before all of that, the magician Flea gets a starfield background, even though he's merely a mini-boss.

* The battle against [[Bonus Boss|Culex]] in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]: Legend of the Seven Stars'', as an homage to ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' and its use of this trope. Given Culex is traveling the [[Multiverse]] and the visual similarity, [[Arc Welding|it may be the same location]] as the Interdimensional Rift ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''.

* The final battle in ''[[Xenosaga]] Episode I'' takes place in a multicoloured haze, with no attempt at justification. The battle music also changes from the standard music used in each other battle in the game (including boss battles) to an arguably [[Soundtrack Dissonance|calmer, less tense piece of music]].

* The final battle in ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' takes place in a surreal landscape that changes entirely from time to time as the fight progresses.

** You can invoke these more or less at will by using Dragoon Specials.

* In the PS1 version of ''[[Game Maker|RPG Maker]]'', the final battle of the demo ''Gobli's Adventure'' has Gobli fighting solo against {{spoiler|Neko}} in a void with colorful rays of light radiating from a single point (with {{spoiler|Neko}} placed so that it looks like he's in the center of it in the overworld). This same background can be used in one's own game.

* The final battle of ''[[Freelancer]]'' takes place in a gigantic [[wikipedia:Dyson sphere|Dyson Sphere]]. We're talking way larger than any planet; Dyson spheres have a radius of about 150 million kilometers. The whole inside of this thing is covered in one big city.

* In ''[[.hack GU]]'', the final battle against {{spoiler|Cubia}} is this.

* The final boss in ''[[Dubloon]]'' takes place the darkness of {{spoiler|greed}}, with aura of light emanating from the boss.<ref>Too bad the aura wasn't used to show the boss' [[Hit Point|hit points]]...</ref>