Osman / Cannon Dancer: Stage 6: Slaver's Final Tests & Ending
7At the end of Stage 5, Kirin had finally reached Jack Layzon to exact his revenge for being sent to die in the Cabil Desert. But them. Layzon got killed by the goddess responsible for this entire story, Abdulla the Slaver!
Infatuated with Kirin's ruthless violence, Slaver presents herself as his master, and takes him to a mysterious realm where she will put him through some final trails to temper his fighting skills.
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This final stage is a boss rush of sorts, but you have to reach the bosses first before you can fight them. Slaver uses her godly powers to revive almost every boss character in the game, as well as summoning a new one.
Usually, when you die and use up a life, you respawn right where you die. This stage, however, is less forgiving, as it uses check points, each one per boss defeated. So if you die during a boss fight or event, you'll have to start it over again.
The first boss you'll encounter is Herio, from Stage 2. It feels like he goes down even easier than before. Following that, you have to turn Gamran from Stage 1 to scrap metal, again.
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After that, Kirin reaches a mirror with a statue representing Slaver. She summons a fake copy of Kirin to fight him, simply called Fake.
Fake has Kirin's full power black pants, which means his kicks have more range. He seems to prefer to hop around and attack, so don't be close to him when he lands and then jumps, again.
After defeating Fake, the mirror he came from becomes a deadly rainbow laser that you have to run away from. This feels like the truck chase from Stage 2, as you'll have to run down a huge slope before making a leap of faith.
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After outrunning the mirror laser, you then have to fight all of Kirin's Teki AT THE SAME TIME. Slaver has revived Cannons, Tianon, and Willf to run you through with their moves all at once! This is probably the most annoying part of this whole stage, because so much is going one at once, and you can hear everyone's voices!
If you can manage to kill them all one more time, though, you can then take Kirin / Osman to his true final challenge!
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Within the solar sphere, using her magic swords, Slaver brings Kirin to the core of her lair, where she reveals her true form. This fiery, beautiful goddess of the sun challenges him to a 1 on 1 fight for the world, itself!
You fight Slaver directly, with her being as around the same size as Kirin. At the same time, she also projects herself as a giant in the background, watching your every move. She has three phases in this fight that depend on how close up her giant self's face is to the screen.
The first phase is when you can see the entire upper-half of her giant body. She will fly around while tossing cosmic moons at you.
The second phase has her giant form zoom in so that you can only see her head and the upper part of her chest. This is when the smaller body with shoot rainbow eye beams at you can try to attack you with circling strands of rainbow DNA.
The third and final phase has her giant form zoom in so close to the screen that you can only see her entire face. Her smaller form will continue to shoot eye beams at you, but she will now also try to throw the entire planet Earth at you!
I try not to rush too fast through this fight. Kirin's Fatal Attack, can make every boss, including this one, pretty trivia.
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After Kirin miraculously kills the great goddess Abdulla the Slaver, her smaller self vanishes, Kirin is sent further into space, and Slaver's giant self gets a scar on her cheek, This causes her to cry a single teardrop, which... somehow restores the Earth back to peace.
From there, it was clear as rain... Through his many battles, up to including his victory against Slaver, Kirin / Osman, himself, has now become the god of the world...
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And that ends this game. Things got REALLY weird at the end, and I'm left wondering how it would even be followed up. Even though this game has some both out- and in-universe connections to Strider, it still feels like a one-of-a-kind all on its own.
Because of its connections to Strider, this game even gets referenced in Street Fighter V, through its own proto-Strider character Zeku, who has moves and designs that are not only based on Strider, but Osman, as well.
Thanks for watching! Eventually, I want to continue through the Strider series, starting with Capcom's official Strider 2. Stay tuned for whenever I will do that!