Chinese New Year

> *Not to be confused with the Chinese world*
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squeak squeak squeak >:(\*

**Chinese New Year** is the 8th world in the game. This world is themed over the **Year of the Rat** in the Chinese Zodiac, although it does have other hints and themes of Chinese culture in general.

### The Rat

**The Rat** actually appears in two bosses.

#### Variant 1

The Rat will appear on the right side of the screen. It will then "speak", making a large speech bubble appear next to it. This speech bubble has a hitbox, and can end the player. After a few seconds, it will swiftly move down and out of view. Note that you can still get hit by it while it is going away.

#### Variant 2

The rat will appear on the top left side of the screen. Just like variant one, it will say something, making a speech bubble appear. Afterwards, multiple other speech bubbles appear below the rat. They keep appearing until they reach the bottom, but just above the firework cannons. After a few moments, another speech bubble appears at where the firework cannons are to catch the player off guard. (Just to clarify, there is a space between the speech bubble above the cannons, and the one on the cannons.) Afterwards, all of the speech bubbles, including the rat, move out of view to the left.

### The Dragon

**The Dragon** boss is composed of two parts: **the main dragon**, and the "**dragon ball**". The dragon appears on the top, while the dragon ball appears on the bottom and is tilted to the right. After they both pop out, the dragon starts chasing after the dragon ball. The dragon ball moves back down and out of sight, and the dragon follows.

### The Tree Branch

Before the tree branch actually appears, a **leaf** will appear falling from where the tree branch would be. There is an arrow pointing at the leaf, along with the caption: "Harmless". This is because this leaf has **no hitbox**, and just serves as a warning for when the tree branch appears. Anyways, after a few moments, **The Tree Branch** swings into the scene at the left side of the screen. It starts to ***abscise*** its leaves that look similar to the previous leaf with no hitbox, except these leaves **do** have a hitbox. After a while, the tree branch goes up, and leaves stop falling.

### The Hand Fan

**The Hand Fan** appears from the bottom of the screen, but swiftly moves to the top. The fan then **opens**, taking up almost 2/3 of the screen. Afterwards, it falls back down, but also **scrapes** the **left side** whilst falling, so it is recommended to stay at the right when the fan initially appears.

## Special bullets

### Fireworks and Firework Cannons

Like **Bullet Hell**, this world only has special bullets. These special bullets are **fireworks**. They don't spawn around the game area, but get fired from **firework cannons**, which appear at the bottom of the screen, will always stay there, and immediately spawn when the game starts. The firework cannons **move horizontally** randomly to fire their fireworks at different positions, and so that they won't just stand at one spot and aimlessly fire fireworks. Back to the actual fireworks. Once a firework reaches near the top of the screen, or it if gets destroyed, it will explode into **firework sparks**. These sparks can still **hit** the player.