JW!Altertale OST - Turning Tides
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While the CORE doesn't have a particular thematic swap, I imagine it swapping with the unused Hotland puzzle rooms, and thus its replacement having a similar vibe to what was originally planned for "Hotterland" in Bits and Pieces before its cancellation.
Anyway, welcome to the Turning Tides! This is a hydroelectric plant, whose construction was directed by Advisor ASRIEL DREEMURR, before his continued experiments with the nature of SOULs and eventual slip away from reality. The Turning Tides itself is full of some of the hardest challenges in the game, before the Undyne boss fight, the final sequence with the Goners in the Frosty Fortress, and the boss fight with Papyrus and the Fragments.
I also won't pass up this opportunity to talk about the layout of the Starlight Sea itself. The cavern is a massive sea, with three distinct regions connected by disproportionately small gaps, and probably separated horizontally rather than vertically. While Undyne appears in several sequences and fights throughout the zone, she never directly impedes your progress until the final Undyne boss fight.
The bridge where you fight Undyne the Undying swaps with the bridge to the exit of the CORE, except it now leads to a colder region instead of the warmer one. (Now that I think about it, the two areas have remarkably similar structures.)
Note that Hotland's intense technological and industrial nature is reflected in the Starlight Sea more than the Calid Crags.
Swaps:
- Undyne with Mettaton. Undyne doesn't have an "EX form", instead just using her base form for the final battle.
- The CORE is replaced with a new location, the "Turning Tides", to fit with the water-themed location of the Starlight Sea. Anyway I think I've finally established a consistent set of swaps for the encounterables: (in general, Turning Tides encounterables are based on Snowdin and Waterfall NPCs from the original game)
- Knight Knight with Onionsan
- Madjick with Loren
- Astigmatism with the Bear monster type (though the Ugly Fish NPC is also replaced by a Loox/Astigmatism)
- Final Froggit with the Bunny monster type (though Big Mouth is also replaced by a Froggit)
- Whimsalot with the Jester monster type (note that the Scarf Lady and Red Bird are replaced by Whimsalot/Whimsuns as well)
Leitmotifs:
Ruins
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