This is it! The final showdown! The Demon Tide is very similar to the Demon Tower, though it has many new attacks and patterns to learn. Pretty much, the main similarity is that you can see the Demon Tide's attacks coming whenever the eyes change from yellow to red, much like the Demon Tower did.

The Demon Tide will sometimes get a blue aura around it, indicating that it's about to charge across the arena for 3 passes. Each pass can be Block-Countered to land a little bit of damage as it attacks. It will usually follow this maneuver up by launching Shadow after Shadow at you, though these individual enemies fade away immediately afterwards, so you won't need to worry about defeating them too.

If at any point, the Demon Tide goes high up into the sky and forms a ring, it's about to charge back down into the ground. It will then burst out of the ground in another location. Depending on which difficulty you are playing the game in, there are two ways to deal with this attack. If you are on Beginner Mode or Standard Mode, a well timed Block or Cartwheel will suffice to avoid taking damage. If you are playing on Proud Mode or Critical Mode, you will HAVE to rely on a series of PERFECTLY-TIMED Blocks to survive the assault!

Eventually, King Mickey will manage to get on top of the Demon Tide and the Wayfinder prompt will appear. So long as King Mickey is riding on top of the Demon Tide, it will not attack, so land as many hits as you can before initiating the Demon Tide command at the last second. Doing so will trap the Demon Tide in a net of chains and force it to remain still. You can then pummel it with a series of warp-strikes until the Finish prompt appears. Again, wait until the last second to initiate Finish, landing as many hits as you can before the gauge runs out. Then hit the Finish command to deal massive damage!

As the Demon Tide escapes from the chains, this will most likely trigger Phase 2 of the battle, which will either be short and (relatively) painless or drawn-out and miserable depending on which difficulty you're playing on, and how much damage you were able to deal during Phase 1. The Demon Tide comes crashing down into the ground and the entire arena goes dark. The Demon Tide re-emerges in the form of a fiery tornado with its core at the center.

At this point, we recommend targeting the Demon Tide with a full salvo of Shotlock as quickly as you can. Depending on how much damage you were able to deal during Phase 1 of the battle, this could be enough to finish it off right here.

If not, be ready to do a lot of Cartwheels and Blocks, because the Demon Tide is not playing around anymore! It will tear across the arena, dealing massive damage if you get sucked into the vortex, and it will also fire steady streams of Shadows at you.

In its most devastating attack, the Demon Tide will suck you in to the center of the vortex and expand to cover a massive portion of the arena. It will then proceed to launch giant dark orbs up from out of the ground that will damage you if they hit you on the way up, and then come crashing back down on top of you for a second hard hit! It's seriously in your best interest to defeat the Demon Tide before it ever has a chance to unleash this attack, but if you can't, be ready with a series of well-timed Blocks to soak up as much damage as you can!