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Adenowirus
Since: Jun, 2016
9th Feb, 2022 05:12:10 PM
That's just the regular Bonus Stage.
ergeis
Since: Apr, 2011
9th Feb, 2022 09:12:11 PM
Breather Level / Breather Boss? Final Fantasy X had that too.
Edited by ergeis
So you have the Bonus level from Hell, an ultra hard level that is hard simply for the sake of being hard, "that one level" the possible true final boss etc, but I don't see the inverse. Maybe because it's rare but I came across one in FF 14, the duel after the final boss of the current expansion is basically a bonus level from Heaven. As while it is "hard" you are given unlimited lives and as far as I can tell it exists solely for the sake of being fun after the complete bullet Hell from the last boss fight. If the trope doesn't exist yet I think it should and there must be other examples in other games of a sort of pressure release boss simply meant for shooting the shit.