Coalesce Remake (thaun0)

## Collection Information

**Coalesce Remake** is a Advanced difficulty level created by thaun0. A remake of their first boss level Coalesce, it features Coale as a boss and is the start to the Silent Echo storyline. The level takes place within a mysterious void, which is implied to be a dream or vision at its end. It also follows a circle theming, with most of Coale’s attacks being circular in shape.

## Layout

### Opening

A diamond tipped with a small circle rises up to the center of the screen. As it floats, small square pulse attacks appear as bullets that explode into larger circles rain down to hit the bottom of the screen. Coale emerges from the diamond as it disappears, rotating around while releasing numerous large shockwaves from their sides. This attack is avoided by staying on the sides of Coale that are not releasing shockwaves as they rotate and move.

### Checkpoint 1

Coale makes a complete entrance, changing from a simple set of circles to their full form. Trios of lasers appear on the sides of the screen, with a set of bullet explosions occasionally replacing them. Coale creates a pulse after these attacks, and then repeats the pattern. Following the second pulse, they leave offscreen to the bottom.

The next part of this checkpoint has Coale fading in and out of view from the background and clapping their hands together to form a pulse attack. This is followed with them appearing on the top or bottom to attack with circle outlines that gradually appear across the screen. Coale continues this pattern for the rest of the checkpoint, with square-shaped pulses appearing after the first four times.

### Checkpoint 2

As Coale hovers in the center of the screen, the larger bullets from the opening rain down again. They begin to gather together smaller bullets that move towards the center of the screen into a circle. Splitting the circle into three and using a hand to move each outwards, Coale forms a giant circular wall. As the wall rotates, both the camera and the wall zoom in while Coale releases laser attacks. The wall then recedes as Coale floats around in the center, releasing several bullet attacks.

### Checkpoint 3

Coale continues to send out bullets while floating, and circle pulse attacks join in. The screen then zooms out as they attack in this pattern while continuing to attack passively with bullets:

* Grabbing onto a giant circular wall with three hands and pulling it inwards while rotating it (similar to Checkpoint 2)
* Creating three giant circles from their hands, moving two downwards along a circular path while moving the bottom-most one upwards behind their body
* Creating two sets of semicircles from two of their hands, rotating them 180 degrees
* Forming a giant circle from their body that grows in size as the camera zooms in above their body

### Checkpoint 4

Coale continues to repeat attacks from the last checkpoint, this time with the addition of lasers and some differences in directions. They finish after one more attack pulling in a giant circular wall by creating three giant circles that rotate around, and the camera zooms in afterwards.

The level then shows a short ending cutscene, with the player waking up in a different location and thinking about Coale - revealing the level to be a dream or vision of some sort.

## Trivia

* Although the part with the rotating circle wall was already remade in PA Memories (1), it does not appear exactly the same as the collab part in this level and has some changes to its appearance.