Close To Me

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## Level Information

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Final Boss

"Welcome to Close to Me! Dodge BLUE, and stay alive! If it's too hard, just press 9 :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to play: P1: Arrow keys to move, SPACE or M key to dash."

-Level Description

**Close To Me** Is The 5th Boss Fight in Rockstarfoxy6000's Beatswap AU. It Is An Unfortunate Encounter With Barracuda Who Is Currently Corrupted. It is Another Beatswap Project Created By Rockstarfoxy6000 & ShapeAndBeat.

## Layout

The level starts off with Barracuda slowly starting to flicker and grow into its Cyan, corrupt form, harmful tears start expelling out of Barracuda and falls down after at the middle of the screen. Later, a two-sided beam starts to appear at Barracuda and rotate clockwise. One-by-one, another beam will spawn after the next, up to a maximum of four. Then the beams will get thicker and spin faster, in order of formation (the first one formed is the first one that thickens). Around 45 seconds of the level, after all of the beams are empowered, round spikes start to rise up from the bottom of the screen.

Followed shortly, Barracuda extends two arms with claws as His hands and pulls up a horizontal wall from the bottom along with two saws on each side blocking the topside of the screen, after which they fall off, including the wall. Barracuda now begins to attack the player by his corrupted form.

In between phases, Barracuda chooses one of three attacks. He will not use the same attack twice until Barracuda attacks the player three times, from there, He will attack the player using one attack that is scripted in this level. Barracuda will alternate between an attack phase, using one of the three attacks below, and a shuffle phase, where the face quickly changes before "locking" to the face of the next attack while four rotating two-way lasers are fired from Barracuda.

The first "verse" will start with an attack unlike the other two, which start with shuffles. It will also forcefully choose a modified claw attack, then a gear attack, then either another claw attack or a sawblade attack, then whichever one of the two wasn't used. For the first shuffle of each "verse", the lasers also spin slower.

* Barracuda extends two arms with claws and pulls up a horizontal wall from the bottom while two sawblades from both sides block the topside of the screen, although this attack is slightly different than the one it was used the first time, as in later uses, Barracuda slams down at the bottom of the screen, creating a shockwave and the sequence is initially slightly faster.
* Barracuda rolls to the right of the screen, turning himself to a giant Sawblade which rolls to the opposite side of the screen. The player dodges by dashing into the Sawblade's black spaces and dashing out of them after. After the Sawblade reaches the left side of the screen, the Sawblade morphs back to Barracuda as it returns back to the middle. A large black hole-like circle will "explode" on both transformations to damage players too close or that haven't left the Saw when it crashes.
* Four Gears form on Barracuda; each Gear moving to every relative direction (up, down, left and right), then they move in a rail clockwise pattern as it leaves a trail of small round spikes as well as creating spikes to the direction of Barracuda. They stop attacking once they go off-screen.

After a barrage of attacks and around 1 minute and 36 seconds of the level, Barracuda will stop fighting for a while as He goes tired, dropping down to the middle of the screen. He will then crawl away from Gears that appear from the bottom right side of the screen that move slowly towards Barracuda (leftward).

While all of this is happening, Barracuda loses His hitbox, and beams start to attack, sequencing downward to a certain point, forcing the player to go at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Barracuda waves its hands as the Gears are nearing to it, presumably calling for help. However, Barracuda gets attacked by four beams from each side of Barracuda and the Gears retreat. Barracuda himself continues his wave of attacks. After one barrage of attacks as well as one random attack and about 3 minutes and 1 second in the level, a black hole warning ring appears at the middle shortly before disappearing while a claw, a Gear and a Sawblade of Barracuda attack at the radius of the circle, each three times and one per "wave". Then four more claws appear around Barracuda, before shortly pulling a border that extends until it reaches near Barracuda.

Afterwards, the borders and Barracuda itself grow Gears and the camera starts to rotate clockwise with smaller circles that move to the borders from corrupted Barracuda. After two rotations, the camera starts to rotate counterclockwise for two more rotations. Following that, the borders soon move off-screen as Barracuda unleashes one more barrage of attacks including one random attack.

As the level reaches its end, corrupted Barracuda starts to flicker and shrink back to his normal self, with harmful tears appearing lesser and lesser until it finally stops, with Barracuda to his initial state, signal a slow end to the level.

## Trivia

* this track introduces sabrepulse, who made a bunch of cools songs.
* This is one of the two levels in the game where a corrupted ally attacks the player, the other level being Lycanthropy.
	+ In addition, this level and Lycanthropy are both boss battles that, once finished, will purify a piece of the Tree of Life.
* With 3 minutes and 40 seconds, this level is the longest out of all levels featured in the game, barring levels that progress via player interaction (in which the player can stall the level long enough) which are Corrupted and Till It's Over.
* The level's soundtrack is a wordplay, Close To Me refers to the attacks that Barracuda uses during the level, forcing the player to be at least close to them.
* This level shares similarities with Annihilate (Unoriginal Mix):
	+ Both have a reversed, slowed, and down pitched version of the song playing in the background at their level selection screen.
	+ Both take place directly near an attempted purification of a Triangle.
		- This one succeeds after the level concludes.
	+ Both have A Boss Character visible over the level selection circle, and a Triangle above.
	+ Both have lethal tears shed and something running down The Boss Character's face in the initial phase of the level.
	+ Both involve transformations of the boss.
		- This one frequently transforms Barracuda.
	+ Both have some animated Cyan background for the level select area.
* This level shares similarities with New Game:
	+ The background music at their level selection is a slower track.
	+ Both levels begin with an object without a hitbox (the Friend).
	+ Also, at both levels, that object without hitbox will get corrupted and gain a hitbox.
	+ Both levels are boss battles.
	+ Both have some animated Cyan background for the level select area.
* This level is one of three levels to have the color Pink, the others being New Game and Till It's Over.

## Audio

**Loud Sounds**

This Section Contains Very Loud Audio. If You Have Headphones On, Look Out!

**Reason:** Close To me And Intense Theme Are LOUD

Industry Audio
 Plays In The Level Selection Of Close To Me.
 Plays In The Close To Me Level.
 Plays When You Uncorrupt Barracuda After Close To Me.

## Gallery

### Level Selection

The Scene That Plays Before Barracuda Gets CorruptedThe Level Selection ScreenAn Idle Sprite Of Corrupted Barracuda In The Level Selection
## Boss Fight

### Phases

The Beginning Of The LevelBarracuda Attempting To Escape The GearsThe Final Phase
### Attacks

The Laser Attack That Occurs After An Attack EndsThe Opening To The Claw AttackThe Claw AttackThe Gear AttackThe Sawblade AttackThe Multiple Attack That Occurs Before The Final PhaseAn Animated Gif Of Barracuda Flickering And Getting Corrupted In The Beginning Of The Level