Home Village

**Current Stage: Home Village**

*Previous Stage: None | Next Stage: Glass Caverns*

3. Find the Hideout

4. Take Down the Escape Ship

5. Defeat Commander Hurgh

The **Home Village** is the first world of Grapple Force Rena. It consists of a grassy region littered with the occasional bridges and constructions, and it contains Rena's home town. It is also possibly on a floating island, as the clouds can be seen at lower parts of the background along with other floating islands.

In the story of Grapple Force Rena, Commander Hurgh launches an attack on Rena's village with an army of hollows. Jarvis, one of Rena's friends, alerts Rena of this, and she goes out to liberate her village from Hurgh's occupation. Hurgh and the remainder of his army flee the town, but are pursued by Rena and Jette. Jette is struck down by Hurgh's Arm Cannon and incapacitated, so Rena goes to fight him on her own. Despite her initial fear of fighting Hurgh directly, Rena emerges victorious, and a now recovered Jette takes Hurgh to the Capital for questioning.

## Course 1-1

The first level of the world starts some distance away from the village. It is a very grassy area with many trees and bushes sprouting up. There are also many human constructs that were likely put up to make navigating the area much more convenient. The constructs have presumably been up for a while, considering that they have grass and moss growing on them. As Rena progresses through the stage, she will see her friends (Jarvis, Xander, Zeph, Sarah, and Rafael) and be able to interact with them should the player want to. Most of the early part of the level serves to get the player acclimated to Rena moveset, such as a pit that Rena must swing over to cross, a puzzle where Rena must pick up an eggplant statue and put it on a button to make a door open, and two walls that Rena must jump off of in order to reach a higher platform. The biggest obstacle for the player then on is just defeating the Hollow Soldiers that are scattered around the latter half of the level, though the player can just run past them if they do not desire to fight them.

## Course 1-2

Unlike the previous level, which had Rena travel down a linear pathway in order to reach an endpoint, this level drops Rena on the left side of her town and allows her to move around the entire village freely with the goal of killing all the hollows. There are several small buildings with the various residents of the village standing outside next to them, however, Rena can only enter one of them: Bosley's warehouse, which has a bunch of eggplant statues. Rena must enter his house because a Hollow Soldier is in there that needs to be taken care of. Other interesting things in Rena village are the water wheel, which is constantly in motion and which Rena can grab onto, and the turnips, which Rena and pick out of the ground and throw at the enemies.

### Miniboss

There is also a miniboss at the center of the town with a Miniboss in it. It throws rocks at Rena and then walks toward her, but it can be defeated easily by picking its rocks back up and throwing them back at it. The player can also bring in other objects and enemies into the arena to throw at the Miniboss for damage, and in fact, throwing turnips at it awards the player the "EAT YOUR TURNIPS" achievements. During the level, there will be a counter showing the player's progress and an arrow to point them towards the nearest enemy.

## Course 1-3

In a very similar manner to the last stage, the third level drops Rena into an open area outside the village and gives the player the goal of finding Hurgh's secret hideout by pulling down statues of Hurgh's head. In actuality, the hideout's location is just the last statue that is pulled down, meaning that the real goal of the level is just to tear down all eight the statues in the area. Rena starts the stage right next to a Hurgh statue, but if the player makes that statue to be torn down, then they are awarded the "Right Under Your Nose" achievement. Through the entire level, Rena is followed by Captain Jette and can use their abilities whenever the player desires. When Rena grapples onto Jette, the player can fly around the level at a very quick speed. Jette can also be thrown at enemies like a projectile. Jette is not necessary to beat the level though, as Rena is mobile enough so that she can get around the entire stage anyway, albeit slower than if she uses Jette's help. One last thing of note is that the sky turned from blue in the last level to yellow in this and the next one.

## Course 1-4

The following level is a chase down of Commander Hurgh's escape ship. The goal of the level is to chase after the ship and take it down by throwing enemies at it. It takes seventeen hits to the ship to get it to go down. There is also a time limit of sorts to this level, as if Hurgh makes it to the end of the level, he is able to escape and Rena can no longer pursue him. If the player moves Rena past the ship and puts a fair amount of distance between her and Hurgh with Rena in the lead, then the player is given the "So long, sucker!" achievement. This is a rather unique level in the game; no other level has a similar goal to this one.

## Course 1-5

The final course in this world is a boss fight against Hurgh in a giant tank. The sky has now turned a purplish hue, indicating that night has fallen. Hurgh has a few moves he can perform during the fight. His most powerful attack early on is his tank's charge charge, during which the tank rams into one of the walls of the boss arena using a spikey shield. At first, it will only do this attack once and stop, but after enough damage is done to it, it will begin to chain together charges back-to-back. The other attack Hurgh will do is throwing Hollow Soldiers at Rena to clutter up the arena. In order to do damage to the tank, the player must grab the Hollow Soldiers and repeatedly throw them back the Hurgh's tank until it explodes. Once the tank is blown up, the second phase of the fight begins, where Hurgh fights Rena directly. Hurgh will jump around the arena to crush Rena, but his strongest attack is when he launches a ball of energy from his Arm Cannon. When he does this, the player must grab the ball of energy and throw it back at him, instantly ending the fight as Hurgh is caught up in the large explosion. If Rena is too close to Hurgh when she throws the energy ball, then the explosion will hurt her too. If the player beats Hurgh without taking damage, the they are given the "Hurgh Smashed" achievement.

## Enemies

### Regular Enemies

* **Cool Bomb**: Cool Bombs stroll up to the player and explode, killing themselves in the process.
* **Guard Knifejaw**: Guard Knifejaws hide in water sources and jump out at unsuspecting players.
* **Hollow Soldier**: Hollow Soldiers are the default enemy in Grapple Force Rena. They walk up to the player and damage them by punching them.
* **Hollow Vanguard**: Hollow Vanguards are like the Hollow Soldiers, but they carry a shield with them that blocks objects from being thrown at them. When they are stripped of their shields, they behave just like Hollow Soldiers.
* **Mace Face**: Mace Faces are bulky enemies that jump around and strike the player with their mace hands. The hands can be stripped away and throw back at them.
* **Propella Fella**: Propella Fellas fly around the screen and home in on players in their vicinity. When held by Rena, they allow her to jump up higher than normal and fall down slowly.

### Minibosses

* **Miniboss**: The Miniboss digs into the ground and throws rocks at the player. It will also walk towards the player to strike them.