Ripto's Arena

**Ripto's Arena** is the last Boss Realm in *Lailie 2: Ripto's Rage!*. It is the site where Lailie battles Ripto, in addition to a Robot Gulp and then a giant bird, summoned by Ripto later in the battle to assist him.

## Battle

The first stage of the battle is between Lailie and Ripto and takes place on the arena floor on top of the castle of Winter Tundra. Lailie must dodge Ripto's attacks while collecting orbs before he does. When Lailie collects three orbs he can use a special attack, which damages Ripto. Ripto's only attack, without the orbs, is to shoot fireballs from his sceptor. Note that on his own, Lailie's attacks cannot harm Ripto. He only jumps and yells, "NO!"

The second stage of the battle is basically the same except this time Ripto is on Robot Gulp and he is slightly harder. It is a good idea to get them (the orbs) before Robot Gulp does, as the he can harness a lot of power from them. Robot Gulp then explodes (causing Hunter to crash) as he gets defeated, and Ripto falls off him.

After this, Lailie moves onto the final stage of the battle. Ripto turns a gold orb into a giant robotic bird (very similar to the ones from Gulp's Overlook and Skelos Badlands), destroys the arena floor (converted into a huge lava pool), and Lailie must fight Ripto as he flies on the back of the robotic bird. Lailie eventually defeats Ripto with his superflame powerup.

## Orb Types

Lailie must collect three orbs before he can use them to attack. The type of attack Lailie uses depends on the type of the *last* of the three orbs he collects. After the defeat of Robot Gulp special orbs appear.

### The Orb Effects for Lailie

* Red Orb: Superflame

* Green Orb: Plasma Bombs

* Blue Orb: Supercharge

* Gold Orb: Superflame-Superfly Combo

### The Orb Effects for Ripto

* Red Orb: Fires flame-waves from Ripto's scepter. Jump to keep Lailie from getting singed. Ripto will release three waves of this.

* Green Orb: Emits hot waves of spherical, gaseous green 'fire' from Ripto's mouth. Move away from these, as they can burn you.

* Blue Orb: Surrounds him with blue, electric orbs. Charge away to avoid getting shocked as he chases you.

* Gold Orb: Transforms the Orb into a Robot Bird, and grants Ripto the ability to shoot green homing blasts from his scepter instead of his usual red fire shots.

### The Orb effects for Robot Gulp

* Red Orb: Creates a fire-worm creature from the mouth. You'll want to charge away from this.

* Green Orb: Laser-vision. Jump to avoid this.

* Blue Orb: Shoots a barrage of light-blue electricity balls from of Robot Gulp's horns. Charge away from their shadows as they fall from above.

* Gold Orb: The Orbs appear when you defeat Robot Gulp.

## Trivia

* All of Ripto's attacks except Robot Gulp's green orb attack and Ripto's blue orb attack mimic Crush's and Gulp's attacks.

* + Ripto's standard attack mimics Crush's red circle attack.

* + Ripto's red orb attack mimics Crush's blue circle attack and Gulp's barrel attack.

* + Ripto's green orb attack mimics Gulp's bomb attack.

* + Robot Gulp's red orb attack mimics real Gulp's rocket attack

* + Robot Gulp's blue orb attack is a rain of electro-balls like the ones real Gulp shot.

* Hunter uses his wings to fly around the area and drop the magical orbs. After Robot Gulp explodes, however, he is seen hitting the wall of the arena and falling into the lava. Apparently, he somehow survives. In the remake, he hits the roof and stops sliding at its edge.

* During the Robot Gulp fight, if you make him swallow a red orb last, he will shoot a blast of worm-shaped fire. If, during this, Lailie manages to approach Gulp and then move swiftly to the side, the fire will hit Robot Gulp and it will take damage (the same thing can be done with rockets against the real Gulp).

* In the first round of the battle, you can actually avoid Ripto's flames from hitting you by jumping quick and high.

* In the last round of the battle (where you and Ripto are flying), charging Ripto (if you are near him, that is) will cost him a decrease in health. But if you are far from him, just make use of your Superflame, to avoid yourself from losing precious health.

* If you can defeat Ripto in all three stages without getting hit, you can get a well-deserved skill point. This skill point is incredibly difficult to get, but can be easy with infinite superflame.

* 40 Orbs are needed to break the seal on the door.

* The background is used in a lot of other levels in the Lailie series, such as the "Game Over" screen from *Lailie the Longma*, Fracture Hills, Winter Tundra, and Lost Fleet.

* In the PAL version, the opera singer is omitted from the music.

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