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Welcome to the Garden: Lady Thorn & the Oozes

Dandy Ace · published 16 Dec 2020, 18:59 UTC

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Garden

Located just beyond the Courtyard outside of the Palace, the Garden leads to Dandy Ace’s 2nd boss otherwise known as Scissorella, The Royal Gardener! Scissorella's own Garden is an extension of this map full of untidy bushes and a darker/more mischievous tone overall. The Garden features a wide variety of plants, statues, and enemies.

Dandy Ace will not only need to fight off Lady Thorns, Oozes, Poison Turrets and Explosive Totems but also be careful where he fires off his skills as the Garden is home to a plant based environmental hazard that activates when it takes damage! After a short delay the Plant Bomb will burst open dealing damage to anything near it. Ace can kite or knock enemies into the Plant Bomb’s radius to deal significant damage to them when the plants burst. After a short period of time the plants will grow back and can be activated again.

Lady Thorns

Prior to the fight against Scissorella Ace will have to get past a legion of Oozes as well as Lady Thorns, also known as Minirella! Lady Thorns is a humanoid enemy and one of Lele’s Palace Guests that shares visual similarities with Scissorella. Both of the skills Lady Thorns utilizes will be similar to those Ace will encounter in the boss fight but on a smaller scale.

Lady Thorns has two offensive skills and no defensive skills. Once spotted, Lady Thorns will chase after Ace attempting to perform Smash Rebound when in melee range. On activation Lady Thorns will swipe at Ace dealing damage and leaving behind an AOE that explodes after a short delay. At range she has Thorn Barrage at her disposal. When used Lady Thorns will fire a barrage of thorns that sweep across an area in Ace’s general direction dealing damage to anything caught within it.

Oozes

Under the control of Scissorella, the Big Oozes, Ooze Dudes, and Mini-Oozes help Lady Thorns keep watch over the Garden and Courtyard. With the ability to split itself into smaller Oozes things can quickly get overwhelming if Ace isn't equipped to deal with large groups of enemies. On death, Oozes will split into multiple smaller versions of themselves with more limited skill sets the smaller the Ooze gets.

Big Oozes & Ooze Dudes are able to leave behind an Ooze Trail wherever they travel. If Ace attempts to walk over the trail he will take damage. When within range of Ace, the Ooze will attempt to Charge in Ace's direction dealing damage if it hits. Big Oozes will follow up the Charge with an Ooze Burst covering the area around it with ooze for a short period of time. Standing within range of the burst or in the remaining ooze will cause Ace to take damage. The defensive skill only available to Big Oozes is Multiply, allowing it to spawn two Oozes alongside it. Mini-Oozes will continue to chase after Ace but are much less of a threat due to their lack of offensive and defensive skills.

Explosive Totems & Poison Turrets

Poison Turrets will have Ace constantly moving to avoid the giant poison clouds while fighting off enemies. The combination of Oozes and Poison Turrets can make it difficult to find space to fight in tighter parts of the map. Explosive Totems combo well with Oozes, adding onto their ability to multiply and split. The Explosive Totem applies Explosive Buff to enemies within its range. Any enemy with the buff active will explode on death after a brief delay dealing damage to Ace if he remains too close.

Venture into the Garden when Dandy Ace releases on Steam, Xbox, Playstation, and Switch in early 2021! Thank you to everyone that participated in our Second Beta Test. The Mad Mimic team appreciates all of the feedback we’ve received and we look forward to seeing how you all react to the new changes and additions to the game in our next beta early next year. Be sure to add Dandy Ace to your Steam Wishlist and join the Mad Mimic Community Discord to keep up to date on all upcoming announcements!