We finally face Visconti! How will this all end?
Scene 16: Hall of Mirrors
Another auto-scroller, this time scrolling right. Some electrified tridents will be tossed at you from the right side of the screen. At the beginning of the scene, they will be easy to avoid, but as you get further into the stage, you will have to look at the mirrored floor on the lower half of the screen to see all of them, as some of the tridents will be invisible on the upper half.
The first mirrored floor is easy. The second one is more difficult, as some of the tridents will be invisible. There will also be some bouncing balls that you will have to tail bounce over, and some of them will be invisible, too.
There is a chest after the second mirrored floor.
The third mirrored floor has what seems like a wall, but you can walk behind it. This makes it impossible to see the upper half of the screen, forcing you to rely on looking on the lower half to dodge everything. Once you're past that wall, however, the scene is over.
Of course, you can hold Up as soon as you hear the electric zap of the tridents and cheese this whole scene. LOL.
Scene 17: Grand Throne Room
You'll finally catch up with Count Visconti as everyone else waits to see what happens. Ardy will then meet up with Nina, but the barrier surrounding her is struck by lightning, killing her. Ardy is then struck by lightnig by Count Visconti, who has the purple Rainbow Crystal.
Visconti will shoot down four lightning bolts. You can avoid those by simply standing next to the first column holding up the platform he is standing on, which you can easily do by standing as far right as you can go.
He will then shoot tridents from both sides of the screen before shooting the four lightning bolts down again. This time, go to the far left and wait there to avoid being zapped. After more tridents, go all the way to the right.
Don Jacoby will show up and take the purple Rainbow Crystal, but the wall crumbles and falls on him as he tries to take it from Visconti. Now the fight really begins.
Jump on the flying platform that Don Jacoby came in on and jump on it four times. On the fourth pump, it will launch forward. When that happens, jump on Visconti's head before he can zap you with lightning. When you see him create a grey ball, he's casted the spell. The grey ball will travel to the center of the screen and split into five smaller ones that travel in different directions.
After a while, he will throw a trident and also bring down lightning that destroys the machine. He will then throw purple lightning balls that bounce up and down after he throws them at you. Tail bounce off the balls and onto his head to hit him. After two hits, he sends the four lightning bolts down again. Stand as far right as you can, then stand as far left as you can, and alternate between those two sides as he throws down the lightning. (Or you can use the mirror. That's easier.) He'll eventually throw down the balls again, then go back to where he left off with the lightning bolts...so remember where the safe spot at the last salvo was! (Or use the mirror.)
When Visconti turns gray, you're nearly done. Tail bounce when he rushes at you, then try to hit him with a tail bounce when he leaps into the air. He doesn't leap very far, but he does leap high. If you don't hit him then, he will teleport somewhere else on the screen. Unfortunately for Visconti, his attacks are a lot easier to read than earlier in the fight. Once you've beaten Visconti, it's over. You've won!
It is not without great cost, though: Nina is still dead. Don Jacoby rises from the rubble and uses the Rainbow Crystals...all of them, including the ones you didn't see in the game, and uses them to summon a fairy who brings Nina back to life.
After beating Visconti, Ardy returns the seven Rainbow Crystals to where he got one. The orange one is returned to Gilson, and the blue one is returned to the island where Ardy fought Beecroft. After getting back on dry land, the green one is placed back in the ancient pyramid. The light green one is brought back to the old woman, and the yellow one is placed back in the well. Ardy and Nina then return home. We never see the red one or the purple one.
After the credits, the game says "To be continued." Sadly, there was never a sequel.
At the password screen, there are three icons: cherries, grapes and lemon. There are five places where you can place one of these icons: the roof of the house, the stump, the balloon platform, the table and the tree platform. Just grab the icon you want and place it where you want, and if you place the icons in the right place, the sign on the right will tell you where you will start the game back up on. Go right from there, and it's back to the adventure.
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