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Girania (ギラニア Girania) is a second-level Nightmaren and boss in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. It is a large armored warrior piranha.

Character Information[]

Physical Appearance[]

Girania resembles a large piranha with a gladiator's helmet, short catfish whiskers, curved front fins, and spines along its back and tail.

Personality[]

Girania acts like an animal; being very vicious and agressive, it attacks NiGHTS and Helen without thinking twice, even when NiGHTS is slowly defeating it.

Abilities[]

Digging

Girania is shown to be capable of "swimming underground" by digging.

Swallow

Girania's main method of defeating NiGHTS and Helen is swallowing them whole. If it succeeds, it will spit them out after a few seconds.

Colorful Orbs

Girania turns into orbs everytime it is attacked. It depends of these orbs to survive and to be giant. The more orbs NiGHTS pops, the smaller Girania gets. If all of the orbs are popped, Girania will be defeated.

History[]

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams[]

Girania is Aqua Garden's boss and a Helen Nightmaren who will first attack after NiGHTS destroys all of the NiGHTS captures in the level. It later returns to a second and final fight after beating all of the Aqua Garden's missions. Its boss theme is called "Giant Girania".

Battle

Girania swims around in the cobblestone floor of its battle arena and when it comes closer to NiGHTS, it will jump out of it and try to swallow them. If it succeds, Girania will drag NiGHTS along with it underground, making the player lose some time. But Girania will eventually jump out of the ground again and spit NiGHTS out.

To defeat Girania, NiGHTS must drill dash into it (though avoiding flying into its mouth, otherwise they will be swalloed) or make a paraloop in front of it. This will make Girania turn into small colorful orbs for a limited time. NiGHTS must take this opportunity to pop up as many orbs they can with the paraloop, so Girania can shrink down. The player can defeat Girania either by popping up all of the colorful orbs or attacking it with the drill dash after Girania reaches a really small size.

Among the colorful orbs, It's possible to find a Power Panel which will make NiGHTS paraloop bigger for a limited time. The player can use it to defeat Girania faster.

There isn't much different between the first and the second fight, though in the second fight, there are many more orbs to pop up. After the battle, Girania isn't seen again.

Environment

Girania's arena looks primarily like an underwater Colosseum. It has stair-like seats for spectators to sit in, and pillars line up around the top. Giant candles lie around on the floor, and in the center is a giant pit full of collapsed rubble. Girania can burrow into the floor and resurface.

Spin-Off Appearances[]

NiGHTS Dream Wheel[]

Girania makes a small appearance in the NiGHTS-themed slot machine, NiGHTS Dream Wheel, in the game's skill bonus mode.[1]

Descriptions and Profiles[]

English bio (Journey of Dreams)[]

"Girania is the type of creature that old fishermen spin wild yarns about when they lament "The one that got away". This  massive fish swims under the floor of its Aqua Garden lair, popping out underneath NiGHTS in an attempt to make a meal out of him. However, Girania can't stand Paraloops. They cause the scaly devil to go to pieces – literally! Execute a Paraloop close to Girania to break it into a sea of coloured balls, then Paraloop the balls to get rid of Girania, bit by bit."[2]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Girania's name is similar to "Gerania" which in mythology is the mountain that Megarus, a son of Zeus swam to in order to escape a flood.
  • Girania's name is pronounced gur-AHN-ya.
  • Girania is the largest Nightmaren in the NiGHTS series, barring Wizeman.
  • Girania is the only Nightmaren to have glowing eyes.
  • Girania battle is the only one that features a Power Panel.
  • Girania greatly resembles Gulpo, though more in appearance than in strategy.
    • Strategy-wise, Girania's battle is similar to Gillwing's in NiGHTS into Dreams.
      • Both Girania and Gillwing launch themselves into NiGHTS to damage them.
      • They both shrink as they are damaged.
      • NiGHTS can't fly into their mouths, not even while drill dashing.

References[]

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