Focalor is the second boss in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and the Classic II: Dominique's Curse DLC in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. In the latter, Focalor is one of the Four Dukes of Hell, ruling Limbo alongside Bathin, Valefar, Gremory, and their supreme Dark Lord, Bael.
Origins[]
Focalor is a powerful Great Duke of Hell, commanding three or thirty legions of spirits. Focalor is mentioned in the Lesser Key of Solomon as the forty-first of the 72 goetic demons. According to the grimoire: Focalor appears in the form of a man with a griffin's wings, kills men, drowns them, and overthrows warships; but if commanded by the conjurer he will not harm any man or thing. Focalor has power over wind and sea, and had hoped to return to heaven after one thousand years, but he was deceived in his hope. One of the three archdemons, Lucifuge Rofocale, has his second name as an anagram of Focalor, implying an intellectual relationship.
Appearances[]
Dominique's Curse[]
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Curse of the Moon[]
- A demon who can control water at will has made its home in an underground channel.
In a waterway known as the source of all life, Focalor feeds upon everything it finds.
Focalor's body is covered in a shell of water so densely packed, it cannot be pierced by steel blades. Even the Zangetsuto cannot make a dent in its armor!
Your only hope is to force Focalor to use its desperate, final attack, "Death Finale".
—Official description[1]
Found at the end of the frozen cavern in the appropriately named Frigid Hell. Focalor is a flying, merman-like creature with a humanoid, yet monstrous-looking head and torso, and a turtle-like shell and fins from the waist down.
He mainly attacks by shooting streams of fast-traveling bubbles from his hands. He can also conceal his upper body inside his shell and dash at great speed across the room. Another of his attacks consist in him summoning a ring of bubbles that will start spinning around him while he floats about in an undulating manner, in an attempt to inflict physical damage with the player. These bubbles can be destroyed with a single hit from most weapons, leaving Focalor vulnerable until he finishes the attack; otherwise, he will eventually send them out in a spreading manner.
There are three icicles hanging from the ceiling which will fall down and encrust into the ground when Focalor is preparing his rushing attack. These can be used to step onto in order to have a better chance of jumping over him while he is rushing across the floor. Afterward, ice boulders will start falling from the ceiling (two boulders per set normally, three per set on Ultimate Mode), indicating the spot from where he will reemerge. After three sets of these boulders fall off, he will quickly drop from the top in an attempt to crush the player.
Once his health has been depleted, Focalor will perform one final attack in a last ditch effort to harm the player, where he will momentarily exit the screen and then make one final dash across the room while engulfed in what appears to be a giant water wave, crashing onto the wall and obliterating his body in the process. To evade it, either jump to lure his attack to pass above and miss, or hit him as he comes by to misdirect the attack.
Location[]
- Frigid Hell
- Fallen City
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Focalor is the only boss who appears in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon who does not appear in the main storyline of Ritual of the Night. It was later revealed that Focalor had been cut from Ritual of the Night late in development, which had the side effect of causing a major hiccup in the natural flow of progression, as he was meant to hold the Shard for traversing water (speculated to be the Aqua Stream shard).
- Bloodless's victory screen in Boss Revenge Mode features her in a room with a variety of dolls. One of them depicts Focalor, making it the only reference to the boss in Ritual of the Night before the release of Dominique's Curse.
- Depending if the Fallen City is visited before or after acquiring the passive Shard True Sight, the area surrounding it (the Megiddo Wastes, which become the Megiddo Depths), the stage itself, and Focalor's boss fight, will be radically different: without the shard, the stages and the boss fight are filled with sand and quicksand, while with True Sight they are filled with water, making them more hazardous until Focalor himself is dealt with.
References[]
- ↑ Boss at the official Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon website.