The Final Battle

Two players in The Final Battle, from Gunstar Heroes.

The Final Battle is a level that appears in the Gunstar Heroes series. It is the final level of Gunstar Heroes.

This level takes place on the Ark, which has been stationed on the Moon.

## Overview

The level starts out with two red crates, which can be destroyed. A blue wall is in front of them, which must be destroyed. In this stage, there is also a short section consisting of a hallway with many harmful orb-shaped laser beams, and then a staircase-like structure consisting of many laser cannons. After this section, the first boss of the stage is battled.

### Duck Battalion

*Main article: Duck Battalion*

The first boss in the level fires erratically at the player, and is capable of jumping high distances to fire.

Once the boss is defeated, the second phase will initiate: Kain will use one of the guns to fire at the player, and can be defeated easily.

After this section of the stage, there will be a short portion of the stage with no enemies. Not much later, the next boss is encountered.

### Pink Lobster

*Main article: Pink Lobster*

The second boss of the stage has an erratic moves similar to that of the previous boss. However, unlike many other bosses, this boss mainly relies on melee combat.

When it has been damaged enough, it will stay on the left or right side of the screen and fire bubble projectiles, which will damage the player on contact.

The next section is fairly short, and mainly consists of the next boss fight.

### Orange

*Main article: Orange*

Orange, unlike most of the other bosses, is not battled in a machine, and uses both floors of the arena to attack. When on the bottom of the floor, he will use a double helix-based laser beam attack.

If on the top part of the floor, he will swiftly move across the arena. On both parts of the floor, he can use a short-ranged attack which causes a small explosion.

After this section, the player will come across an array of floors lined with small soldiers, which will fire small projectiles at the player. The next boss is battled in an elevator moving downwards.

### Black Fly

*Main article: Black Fly*

The Black Fly boss is battled in an elevator section, and it mainly utilizes its lasers to attack the player. It can also fire a large three-way laser.

The section after this is fairly short.

### Gunstar Green

*Main article: Gunstar Green (Boss)*

The penultimate boss, Green is battled without the Seven Force. He will block many of the player's attacks, and specializes in mainly melee combat.

He is defeated after about 5,000 health points are dealt to him. After this, the final boss battle will commence.

### Golden Silver

*Main article: Golden Silver*

Golden Silver is the final boss of the game, and has 9,999 health points. He uses an array of ranged attacks, but has melee attacks for when one gets close to him.

## Trivia

* The enclosed hallway section's concept was later reused in *Dynamite Headdy*'s 8-1, where the player is in an enclosed hallway with large missiles firing. In this stage, similar to The Final Battle, the player is required to stay on top of the ceiling using one of the game’s power-ups (another option in the stage is using a different power-up to become smaller and evade the missiles, but the first option is required to collect a Secret Bonus Point), and stand in the lower sections of the stage. After this, a small miniboss is encountered which utilizes missiles in a similar fashion to the laser beam corridor after the Final Battle's hallway.
* General Grey’s shoulders are miscolored green in this stage instead of gold, likely due to palette sharing.
* Pink’s standing sprite in this stage is missing feet, making it possible to see her “floating” above the floor.