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Pokémon Rumble Blast - Coverage Day 4

Our good friend Coronis has obtained his copy of the game and as such, our coverage continues. Over the coming days, we'll provide various bits of information about the games and compile pages as and when it's discovered so please bear with us as we make the discoveries and compile them into sections.

• Chapter 4 Full details & Plot. Click to show details:
  
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  Chapter 4: The World Pillar and the Mysterious Screw’s Secret
  North Town
  - Light Springs
  - Toy-watch from Mii aspect
  - Release/exchange toys
  - Collection view
  - Achievement view
  - 2-player mode satellite
  
  - Random move vendor 10150P
  - Surf 300000P
  - Move Swap (swaps moves A and B) 15000P
  Plot:
  After your screw is attacked by Cobalion, it became bent out of shape and now it takes double to triple the time to switch Pokemon. You arrive at the North Town, where the Light Springs is also drying up. You are told by the residents that you may heal your screw at the Screw Temple, where Cobalion used to reside. They also mention that Cobalion used to be a docile Pokemon. You fight your way to the Temple, where you find several Golett as guardians. Beat the battle royale in the Temple and you exchange your broken screw with the Temple Screw, restoring your normal switching time. You then continue to give chase to Cobalion. Golett tells you that to the north of North Town is where the World Pillar is. However, the only path is broken. Fortunately, something known as the Hero’s Path exists, and there are a total of 5 blocks which rise to the ground. The first is unlocked after your victory at the Screw Temple. Beat the four other Screw Shrine battle royale scattered in 4-2 and 4-3 to unlock the other four. For Cobalion’s Fortress 2 in 4-1, you probably need to beat area 4-2 before you are strong enough to deal with it. Anyway, complete all the battle royale and the hero’s path will appear. Reach the Far-edge, and beat Hydreigon in a Charge Battle at the Battlefield, arrive at Cobalion’s Citadel, where you will fight Lucario. Finally, you proceed beyond the Citadel, and arrive in front of the World Pillar.
  There, you see that the Pillar is starting to turn black with purplish gas. Cobalion and his minions, known as the Rust Army, are pouring water from the Light Springs via the opening of the Pillar. However, the army Pokemon fall one by one, turning black and purple just like the Pillar. Cobalion is surprised that the water didn’t work as he planned, and is upset that you are there to thwart him again. You finally fight Cobalion in a 1on3 battle. Win, and an army Pokemon suddenly rise again, but appear like zombies. Cobalion is shocked, and an evil-looking key appears, calling itself the Dark Rust, being the manifestation of destruction. It uses its powers to control the army Pokemon, and lead them into the World Pillar. You finally learn that Cobalion is actually just trying to help the Pillar, which has started to rust for some unknown reason. Now that you both know where the problem is, you enter the Pillar into the fifth chapter: The Last Battle, where you enter the Tower Town within the Pillar.
• Edit @ 08:54; All new areas in Chapter 4 added to Location Page.
• Edit @ 09:57: Updated the Move Vending Machines with more Vending Machines
• Edit @ 15:48: Chapter 5 & After Ending Full details & Plot. Click to show details:
  
  Details Within

   
  Chapter 5: The Last Battle
  Tower Town
  - Light Springs
  - Toy-watch from Mii aspect
  - Release/exchange toys
  - Collection view
  - Achievement view
  - 2-player mode satellite
  
  - Random move vendor 22180P
  - Draco Meteor 5000000P
  - Move Swap (swaps moves A and B) 15000P
  - Move Teacher: Each Pokemon has a list of learnable moves. You need a certain number of other toys who know that move in order to teach your designated toy that move. For example, if Serperior wants to learn Energy Ball, it needs 4 other toys (irrespective of species) to know that move, and you can then teach Serperior the move. This is at no charge, but the Pokemon(s) that teach the move will lose the move themselves. Each attack is different in the number of required toys knowing the move. It seems fixed for each move across different species, like for Giga Impact, 6 toys need to know it, Return requires 5, Strength 4... etc.
  Plot:
  And so you’ve arrived at Tower Town, the town within the World Pillar, the heart of the Toy World. You take lifts to go deeper and deeper into the pillar. Before you reach your first destination, you find Cobalion waiting for you. You work as a team now, and first go through a few floors infiltrated by the Rust Army, which are not recruitable. Cobalion finally explains everything to you. Apparently, it is a guardian of the World Pillar, and one day finds that it has started to show signs of rusting. The rusting seemed to get worse every day, turning many toys into the rusted state, which Cobalion gathers into an army to find a way to revert the rust. Eventually, it found out that the water from the Light Springs can remove rust, and thus set out to collect all the springwater in an attempt to salvage the Pillar. This, however, failed to work, and the rest is already witnessed by you, where Dark Rust appears to claim responsibility for the rusting.
  Cobalion leaves to find ways to defeat Dark Rust, and you challenge both the underground 1F and 2F, where legendary Pokemon start to act as bosses. Grab Charge Flag 3 to beat Reshiram in the Charge Battle, then Cobalion finds you again. Go through the Shaft where another gang of Rust Army awaits, and then arrive at the Bottom of the Pillar, where you will have a final showdown against Dark Rust. There are 5 instead of 4 stages in this Team Battle, and Dark Rust will be fought like any other boss toy Pokemon. However, at first, it often sets up a shield to protect itself, rendering your attacks useless. Once you get him down to 50% HP, Cobalion will use his ways to disable Dark Rust’s shield, and that is to itself and its screw towards Dar Rust. This disables Dark Rust’s power to shield itself, but Cobalion destroys its own screw in the process and ‘dies’, declaring to have sacrificed itself for justice and his calling. You finally defeat Dark Rust, and it crumbles into pieces. All rusting is reverted, and water starts to spill out from every fountain across the land again. This ends Chapter 5 and the credits will start to roll.
  After the credits roll, many new things will be unlocked. Each area will start to appear in various areas, mostly the evolved formes. You can now visit the Upperfloor of the Pillar, where the toughest battles of Team Battle and Team Battles, each labelled EX-1 to 5, unlocked as you go up the ladder of difficulty of course. There is supposed to be EX-6 for both battles as well, but I have not seen their location as of yet. In the center of the upperfloor is a device called the World Rank. By paying large sums of money, you can raise the overall level of Pokemon across the land. There are a total of 10 ranks, but going to rank 2 already requires 1000000P, so you still have a long way to go before getting to rank 10.
• Edit @ 16:26; All new areas in Chapter 5 added to Location Page.
• Edit @ 19:31; Updated the Legendary Pokémon with further clarification on their appearances.