True Boss Rush

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True Boss Rush is the last of the Magician's Challenges in Rayman Redemption. It requires to beat the End of the World and to own 40 Magician tokens to unlock, the last of which is only granted upon completion of the penultimate challenge - Boss Rush.

In this challenge, Rayman must defeat all 21 of the main bosses and sub-bosses of the game, as well as a secret boss acting as a second phase to Darker Mr Dark. The challenge must be completed on a single life, without dying, and the player is given only a single Super power and two Big powers, to replenish Rayman's health and power-up his fist between fights. All bosses have been recolored to look different, and have had their attack patterns modified to make them significantly harder. This, together with more than doubling the number of battles, makes True Boss Rush a far more difficult challenge than Boss Rush.

Some battles aren't fought in the same order as throughout the main adventure, such as Bzzit being fought before the first Darktoon or Mr Sax being fought before the mad drummer. A third form of Mr Dark and additional 22th boss, Darkest Mr Dark, must be defeated as well to complete the challenge. Succeeding will reward Rayman with the SNES skin and the True Hero achievement.

True Boss Rush order of enemies

Enemy	Color changes	Behavior changes
Bzzit	Beeskito
Darktoon in Pink Plant Woods	Darktoon (The Dream Forest)	Shoots twice as many magic projectiles.
Tentacle flower	Tentacle Flower	Gains even more speed when hit by Rayman, but the Livingstones are not necessary to defeat.
Moskito	Dark Moskito	Performs the projectile spitting attack in a slow line more similarly to Bzzit.
Mr Sax	Mr Sax	Spits additional Bad Note Bombs of either types when attacking with any projectile.
Mad drummer	Red Boss
Mr Stone	Mr Stone	Generates flames similarly to magma men's when pounding the ground or landing after a jump, including when being hit by Rayman in the final phase.
Darktoon in Tempest Terror	Darktoon (Blue Mountains)
Viking Mama	Viking Mama	Some of her knives don't have a hilt, and thus will hurt Rayman instead of bouncing him in the air. Shoots bombs instead of bouncing knives in one of her later attack patterns, and shoot three homing knives instead of one while on her ship.
Greek Mama	Roman Mama	Gains a green second Hoplite without a shield.
Space Mama	Space Mama	Shoots longer lasers from the beginning, creates more space pots and in different patterns, and generates a few of them while being inside the washing machine.
Darktoon in Molten Depths	Darktoon (The Caves of Skops)
Spider Master
Mr Skops		Shoots more projectiles from his tail and creates energy flames when stinging the ground from the ceiling.
The Chessmaster
The Menace		Throws two bombs instead of one.
Bad Cake	Bad Cake	Shoots three chocolate projectiles at the same time instead of one.
The Dark Chimera		The first amalgamation's pincer creates flames on the ground, the second one creates two diagonal space pots instead of a vertical one, the third shoots longer lasers, the fourth shoots more energy projectiles, the fifth spits additional Bad Note Bombs alongside the wrong notes and the sixth amalgamation generates two energy flames after a jump each going in a different direction.
Mr Dark	Mr Dark	Starts out with four shields during every phase of attack before resorting to the Great Protoon.
Dark Rayman on Dark Moskito
Darker Mr Dark/Darkest Mr Dark		Darker Mr Dark gains a new appearance since version 1.1.0 albeit doesn't change otherwise. Defeating him leads to an additional battle with a secret form, fought while Rayman is riding Bzzit.

Gallery

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  True Boss Rush (start).
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  Bzzit.
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  Darktoon, The Dream Forest.
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  Tentacle flower.
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  Moskito.
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  Mr Sax.
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  Mad drummer.
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  Mr Stone.
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  Darktoon, Blue Mountains.
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  Viking Mama.
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  Greek Mama.
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  Space Mama.
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  Darktoon, The Caves of Skops.
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  Spider Master.
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  Mr Skops.
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  The Chessmaster.
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  The Menace.
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  Bad Cake.
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  The Dark Chimera - Moskito × Mr Skops.
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  The Dark Chimera - Mr Stone × Mr Sax.
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  The Dark Chimera - Mr Stone × Mr Skops (version 1.1.2).
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  Mr Dark.
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  Dark Rayman on Dark Moskito.
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  Darker Mr Dark.
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  Darkest Mr Dark.
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  SNES Rayman skin award at the end of True Boss Rush.

Trivia

• Bzzit takes the appearance of the Beeskito skin.
• Darktoon's appearance is most likely inspired by the red Antitoons from Rayman Designer who also appeared in Rayman ReDesigner, while his purple cape might be a reference to Mr Dark's appearance in the Game Boy Color version of Rayman 1.
• The Tentacle flower's colors are probably a reference to the green skin of the Livingstones, who are spat by the boss. It could also be a nod to the tentacles and Mr Smushy in Rayman: The Dark Magician's Reign of Terror, as the tentacles used repurposed textures from the flower tentacle.
• Moskito takes the same appearance as the Dark Moskito skin and boss featured in the Dark Rayman fight. Dark Moskito doesn't change his appearance in that battle, however.
• Mr Sax and the mad drummer's colors are probably a reference to the wrong notes, which Mr Sax uses to attack. It also resembles some aesthetics from Band Land.
• Mr Stone's appearance is a reference to the Magma Men from The Caves of Skops, even sharing their pound flame attack.
• Space Mama's appearance in her Viking suit seem more similar to a pirate's outfit, which is further reinforced by her file names being "Piratemama".
• Space Mama in her Greek costume is referred to as "Romama" in the files, thus actually implying a Roman inspiration. Curiously, her hand holding the torch is smaller in the True Boss Rush, thus making her one of the few bosses with a unique sprite part in this challenge.
• The extra Hoplite is the only non-boss enemy gaining an altered appearance in the True Boss Rush.
• Space Mama's red and black colors in her space suit is most likely a reference to the hostile Aliens in Rayman: The Dark Magician's Reign of Terror and possibly a tribute to Darth Vader, while her red lasers may reference his lightsaber.
• Mr Skops's colors could be a reference to the Large-mouthed fish.
• The Chessmaster's color is probably a reference to the black pieces in chess, making him resemble more the Chess Piece enemies.
• The Menace's colors alongside the original appearance of the twins match the four main colors of Playtopia and of the Toykeys, being blue, yellow, green and red. Curiously, the red Menace's tongue has the same shape as the original green Menace in the True Boss Rush while it had a smaller shape in the original fight, thus changing more than the boss's colors and abilities.
• The stained glass in the Dark Chimera's battle changes colors accordingly since version 1.1.2.
• Mr Dark and Dark Rayman's colors are a tribute to their appearance in the Game Boy Color version of Rayman 1.
• If Rayman uses the GBC Dark Rayman skin during the fight with Dark Rayman, the boss will return to his normal Dark Rayman appearance.
• Darker Mr Dark's colors might be a reference to his appearance in Rayman Junior. Prior to version 1.1.0, this hard version of Darker Mr Dark didn't have a unique appearance.