Air Battle


Flying the Lightning Chariot to Palutena’s Temple is a bit different from your usual flying battles. The camera is situated above the chariot, much like an old-school vertical shooter. The shooting controls are the same as always: Hold down the fire button for rapid shots. If you don’t shoot for a short time, you gather up a charge shot that can pierce through formations of the enemy. Watch out for obstacles you can’t destroy and fly around them.

Note that the unicorns, Phox and Lux, don’t count as part of the Lightning Chariot’s hit box. Even if incoming shots graze them, you do not take any damage, as long as neither Pit nor the chariot cart are hit.

You don’t have access to your screen-clearing special attack during this chariot ride.

The chariot picks up some serious speed when you reach the warp tunnel and the enemy begins throwing groups of Gyrazers to try to fill the whole field with bullets. Try to wipe out clusters of them with a charged shot.

A Fort Oink also tries to seal off the tunnel, spawning various enemies while trying to ram into you. Be especially alert when it spawns a group of Gyrazers. They can scatter across the entire field and before you know it you’ll have shots coming at you from many directions. During this encounter, you find out that Hades’s was right. Pit and Palutena are responsible for the chaos that began three years ago. The destruction of the Lunar Sanctum freed the prisoner it held: the Chaos Kin. Before Viridi can explain what that is, you arrive at Palutena’s Temple.

Forcibly.