Princess Marey (ナイトメアプリンセス Naitomea Purinsesu?, "Nightmare Princess") is a boss in Chapter 9 of Balan Wonderworld created by Lance to prevent Emma Cole and Leo Craig from progressing. She is the corruption of Attilio's heart.
Boss Information[]
Princess Marey lurks in the depths of the world born from Attilio’s heart, embodying his warped emotions. She attacks by shooting cannons from her platform, or manipulating the horses from the merry-go-round.
The boss fight provides keys and costume shards for Pounding Robot and Slow Tortoise.
Abilities[]
(Main Summary TBA)
Fighting Styles[]
- Trophy 1 - Pound the section of the stage she is on when she is done doing her poison attacks to daze her and hit her in the lower nose.
- Trophy 2 - Slow down Marey's spears during her rage attack and hit the ball nose under her dress with Slow Tortoise, making sure to avoid the carousel horses during this.
- Trophy 3 - Jump onto/attack one of Marey's rockets and hit her mark.
Appearance[]
Princess Marey is a humanoid princess, with a spherical bottom. She has a princess's outfit, with a dress bottom, a queen's ruff, ragged sleeves, a roulette patterned corset, and a silver crown, along with a jester hat resembling Slow Tortoise's. She also has a roulette wheel on top of her sphere body, with a cannon, and two holes. Throughout her body, she is patterned, along with her color scheme being of red, purple, and blue. She is also lined with gold on her roulette wheel, ruff, and corset.
The sphere has a clown-like face, covered by her dress.
Costume Concept[]
Princess Marey is composed of the following combination of costumes: Happy Blaster, Slow Tortoise, Iron Panda, Pounding Robot, and Merry Ghost.
- Slow Tortoise: The jester hat on top of her crown.
- Iron Panda: Her spherical bottom.
- Happy Blaster: Her circus appearance, fitting the theme of the chapter.
- Pounding Robot: The stripes on her spherical bottom, as well as it going into a roulette wheel at the top.
- Merry Ghost: Her ghost-like face and ragged sleeves/dress.
Names in Other Languages[]
- English: Princess Marey
- Japanese: ナイトメアプリンセス - Naitomea Purinsesu - (Nightmare Princess)
- Simplified Chinese: 噩梦公主 - Èmèng gōngzhǔ - (Nightmare Princess)
- Traditional Chinese: 惡夢公主 - È mèng gōngzhǔ - (Nightmare Princess)
- Korean: 악몽 공주 - Agmong Gongju - (Nightmare Princess)
- German: Prinzessin Karni (Princess Karni, likely taken from "carnival," in German)
- Spanish (Spain): Princesa Pesadilla (Nightmare Princess)
- Portuguese: Princesa Zedume (Princess Zedume)
- French: Prinzessin Karni (Princess Karni, likely taken from "carnival," in French)
- Italian: Principessandra (Name that combines the word "Principessa" with the ending "ndra" or "sandra," a name.)
Theme[]
Marey's boss theme, Princess Marey (ナイトメアプリンセス), plays during her boss fight. It is a waltz-like song with theatrical elements. A trumpet (and/or other brass instruments), violin, and a choir are mainly heard, along with other instruments such as the tambourine.
It is Track 24 on CD 2 in BALAN WONDERWORLD Original Soundtrack.
Trivia[]
- She bears a resemblance to Puffy from NiGHTS into Dreams and Donbalon from NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. All being spherical humanoids.
- Her royal appearance may also be a nod to Queen Bella from NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.
- Despite Attilio being male, his Nega Boss corruption is female.
- Her appearance represents Attilo Caccini's fear of confessing his love to his crush.
- Her name is in reference to the princess in whom Attlio struggles with confessing his feelings to, "Princess Merry" (as her name is revealed to be in the novel). As well as a play of the word "nightmare."
- Marey's German and French name contain the word "Karni," possibly referencing the word "carnival," in each language, "Karneval," and "Carnaval," respectively.
- She resembles the character Walpurgisnacht from the Madoka Magica anime, both having elegant dresses, while having no legs, which are replaced by a large object.
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