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WARNING!! A huge battleship -Risk Storage- is approaching fast.
Darius Gaiden announcer


Risk Storage (Japanese: リスクストレージ, Hepburn: Risukusutorēji?) [Japanese name: Disaster Storage] is one of the final bosses in Darius Gaiden. It is shaped after a pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides).

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In addition to having a large number of mobile weapons built into the body, it also attacks by scattering accumulated debris and liquid metal. Equipped with high-power weapons such as energy balls and laser protection bullets.

Appearance

Risk Storage is a large, mechanical sea creature resembling an pelican eel.

It has a sleek, medium slate blue and metallic body covered in sharp, segmented armor plates. Its head features jagged teeth and red accents, while a long, flexible, spine-like tail extends high into the air, ending in a sharp point, giving it both a serpentine and weaponized appearance.

Gameplay

As soon as it makes its entrance, Risk Storage will begin the fight by shooting bullets and missiles from its mouth, which is also its weak point, and swing its tail, which can be destroyed. The tail will shoot lasers and energy bolts at the player.

After a while, the boss will store energy then regurgitate chunks of junk which detonate into bullets. After the tail is destroyed, it will store energy and spit liquid metal balls which follow the player, all while shooting large energy beams from its mouth. It will spit more junk and energy balls, then spit a row of spinning yellow pieces (much like the ones which compose the body of Neon Light Illusion) that shoot lasers up and down and can be destroyed, as well as centipede-like drones which move around the screen.

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