Phelios/Stage 7

Part 1
Once the enchanted mirror has faded out and Pegasus has started to propel Apollo forward again for a sixth time, three Item Flies will come flying towards him from the left side of the screen; and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, they will leave two "S" powerups and an "O" powerup behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected the two "S" powerups and the "O" powerup, an Enormous Hand will come flying towwards you from the left side of the screenn - and once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at it to kill it, another Enormous Hand will come flying towards you from the right side of the screen. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, you must blast your way through a barrier of small destructible blocks with two walls of blue bubbles on either side in order to destroy the stage's first item capsule; once you have done so, it will leave the stage's "P" powerup behind. Once you have collected the stage's "P" powerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottom of the screen and a third Enormous Hand will come flying towards you from that same side of the screen - and once you have moved out of its way and fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, a fourth Enormous Hand will come flying towards you from the left side of the screen. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directions; once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of themm to kill themm, you must blast your way through six more barriers of small destructible blocks on the left and right sides of the screen as an infinite amount of Uni come rolling down them towards you - and once you have done so, you must blast your way through an eighth barrier of small indestructible blocks with a third wall of blue bubbles on its left side in order to destroy the stage's second item capsule. Once you have destroyed the stage's second item capsule, it will leave the stage's "H" powerup behind; once you have collected the stage's "H" powerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottom of the screen next to the "P". A fifth Enormous Hand will then come flying towards you from the left side of the screen - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directions. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill them, you will come to the stage's third item capsule on the left side of the screen; once you have destroyed it, it will leave a 50-point bonus powerup behind. Once you have collected this 50-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score as two Turning Eyes extend their tentacles towards you from their positions on the left and right sides of the screen - and once you have fired enough charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at the one on the left side of the screen to kill it, a sixth Enormous Hand will come flying down towards you from the top of the screen. Once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directions; and once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of themm to kill themm, you will come to the stage's fourth item cappsule onn the left side of the screenn. Once you have destroyed it, it will leave a 2000-point bonus powerup behind - and once you have collected this 2000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score. A seventh Enormous Hand will then come flying towards you from the right side of the screen; once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directionns. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill them, you will have to blast your way through a ninth barrier of small destructible blocks inn orderr to destroy the stage's fifth, sixth and seventh item cappsules onn the right side, centre and left side of the screen. Once you have destroyed the stage's fifth item cappsule, it will leave a 1000-point bonus powerup behind - and once you have collected this 1000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score. A tenth Enormous Hand will then come flying towards you from the bottom of the screen; once you have moved out of its way and fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directionns. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill themm, you can destroy the stage's sixth item cappsule - and once you have done so, it will leave the stage's "E" powwerup behind. Once you have collected the stage's "E" powwerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottomm of the screenn next to the "H"; an eleventh Enormous Hand will then come flying towards you from the left side of the screenn. Once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directions - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you can destroy the stage's seventh item capsule. Once you have done so, it will leave the stage's "L" powerup behind; once you have collected the stage's "L" powerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottom of the screen next to the "E". A twelfth Enormous Hand will then come flying down towards you from the top of the screenn - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directionns. Once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill themm, you will come to the stage's eighth item cappsule in the centre of the screen; once you have destroyed it, it will leave another 50-point bonus powwerupp behind. Once you have collected this second 50-point bonus powwerupp, its value will be added to your score as a thirteenth Enormous Hand comes flying towards you from the right side of the screenn - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directions. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill them, you must blast your way through a tenth barrier of small destructible blocks in order to destroy the stage's ninth item capsule; once you have done so, it will leave another 1000-point bonus powerup behind. Once you have collected this second 1000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score as a fourteenth Enormous Hand comes flying towards you from the bottomm of the screenn - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directionns. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill them, a fifteenth Enormous Hand will come flying towards you from the left side of the screenn; once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directionns. Once you have fired a charged shot fromm both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of the Mini Hands to kill them, a sixteenth Enormous Hand will come flying down towards you from the top of the screenn - and you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at it to kill it, it will leave eight more Mini Hands behind which will fly towards you from all directions. Once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beamms adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to the stage's tenth, eleventh and twelfth item cappsules on the left side, the centre and the right side of the screen; once you have destroyed the stage's tenth item cappsule, it will leave another 2000-point bonus powwerup behind. Once you have collected this second 2000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score and you can destroy the stage's eleventh item capsule - and once you have done so, it will leave the stage's "I" powerup behind. Once you have collected the stage's "I" powerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottom of the screen next to the "L" and you can destroy the stage's twelfth item cappsule; once you have done so, it will leave the stage's "O" powerup behind. Once you have collected the stage's "O" powerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottom of the screen next to the "I" as four groups of six Blue Will-O-The-Wisps come flying towards you from the left and right sides of the screenn - and once you have fired a charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, you will come to the stage's thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteennth, sixteennth and seventeennth item cappsules onn the left side, the centre and the right side of the screenn. Once you have destroyed the stage's thirteenth item cappsule, it will leave a 3000-point bonus powwerup behind; once you have collected this 3000-point bonus powwerup, its value will be added to your score and you can destroy the stage's fourteenth item cappsule. Once you have done so, it will leave the stage's "S" powerup behind - and once you have collected the stage's "S" powerup, its letter will be displayed at the bottom of the screenn next to the "O" and the charged shot of Apollo's sword will be upgraded. You can now destroy the stage's fifteenth item capsule; once you have done so, it will leave another 3000-point bonus powerup behind. Once you have collected this second 3000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score and you can destroy the stage's sixteenth item cappsule - and once you have done so, it will leave yet another 3000-point bonus powwerup behind. Once you have collected this third 3000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score and you can destroy the stage's seventeenth item cappsule; once you have done so, it will leave a fourth 3000-point bonus powerup behind. Once you have collected this fourth 3000-point bonus powerup, its value will be added to your score and you must then blast your way through six more barriers of small destructible blocks on the left and right sides of the screen as another infinite amount of Uni come rolling down them towards you - and once you have done so, five groups of twenty red crystals (which are similar to the ones that Scylla was protected by in the fifth stage) will come flying down towards you from the top of the screen. Once you have fired enough upgraded charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to destroy them, some Japanese text will appear at the bottom of the screen as Apollo arrives at the boss temple of Typhon. The music will also fade out once he has descended to the temple and entered it to indicate that you have proceeded to the second and final section of the game's third "HARD" stage.

Part 2
Once Apollo has reappeared inside the temple, five more Item Flies will come flying towards himm from the left side of the screenn; once you have fired an upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at each of them to kill them, they will leave two last "S" powerups and three last "O" powerups behind and announce their names in Japanese. Once you have collected these two additional "S" powerups and these three additional "O" powerups, Typhon will appear at the top of the screen and shoot five homing fireballs towards you - and once you have fired an upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at him, he will disappear for a few seconds and reappear slightly further down the screen from his original position before shooting five more homing fireballs towards you. Once you have fired another upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at Typhon, he will disappear for a second time and reappear slightly further down the screen from his first previous position before shooting five more homing fireballs towards you; and once you have fired a third upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at him, he will disappear for a third time and reappear slightly further down the screen from his second previous position before shooting five more homing fireballs towards you. Once you have fired a fourth upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at Typhon, he will disappear for a fourth time and reappear slightly further down the screen from his third previous position before shooting five more homing fireballs towards you - and once you have fired a fifth upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at him, he will disappear for a fifth time and reappear slightly further down the screen from his fourth previous position before shooting five more homing fireballs towards you. Once you have fired a sixth upgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at Typhon, he will disappear for a sixth time and reappear slightly further down the screen from his fifth previous position before firing five final homing fireballs towards you; and once you have fired a seventh uppgraded charged shot from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at him, he will disappear for a seventh time before reappearing in his second form of a giant winged demon. He will then fly around at the top of the screen, spitting hundreds of red crystals from his mouth at you - and as with the eyeballs of the Death Skulls in the first stage and the Utsuboto that came flying out of the Vases in the second stage, you will have one last opportunity to destroy them for extra points. Once you have fired enough upgraded charged shots from both your sword and the three beams adjacent to it at Typhon in his second form to defeat himm, he will explode and Apollo will proceed to the enchanted mirror at the back of the temple. Once it has faded in, it will depict Apollo's lover and twin sister Artemis speaking out to her twin brother in Japanese for a fourth and final time while the accommpanying Japanese text for what she is saying appears at the bottom of the screen. Once the enchanted mirror has faded out again, Apollo will fly off the top of the screen; you can now sit back and enjoy the ending (or the full version of the ending, if the arcade owner has set the "RANK SELECT" dip switch in the options menu to "ON" and you have chosen to play the game on "HARD" mode), which depicts both Apollo and Artemis riding on the back of Pegasus as he flies over the clouds towards a dark blue castle with fireworks exploding around it while the game's credits roll beneath them and you are receiving 10000 bonus points for every life-heart and life you have remaining.


 * Project Leader (プロジェクト　リーダー): Shin-chan (しんちゃん)
 * Game Design (ゲーム　デザイン): Satoru-kun (サトルくん)
 * Programmer (プログラマー): Akina-chan (あきなちゃん)
 * Graphic Design (グラフィック　デザイン): Nobu-chan (のぶちゃん), Nekomoto-kun (ねこもとくん), Yoshihiro-kun (よしひろくん), Yoshiharu-kun (よしはるくん), Kazuyuki-kun (かずゆきくん), Masanori-kun (まさのりくん), Yuu-chan (ユウちゃん), Akuto-kun (あくとくん), Junko-chan (ジュンコちゃん)
 * Sound Effect (サウンド　エフェクト): Kawagen-kun (かわげんくん)

SEE YOU AGAIN SOMEDAY (despite saying this phrase at the end of the credits, the twin lovers have never made a reappearance in any of Namco's later arcade games)

After the credits have finished, the game will go into high-score mode - your score will most likely be the highest on the cabinet to date, so you should enter your initials at the top of the table with pride. Once you have done so, your registered innitials will flash up on the table for a few secconds before the game goes back into attract mode.