Stage 5-6 Cleavage is the last level in the normal mode of Space Invaders Infinity Gene. This marks the end of Stage 5 and the 3D player environment.
Gameplay[]
At the beginning of the level, the player ship is introduced with UFOs flying in varied places horizontally. These can be used to the player's advantage when destroying the UFOs to buff up the strength of the selected ship by collecting the neurons. Because the UFOs flyover is limited to 7, you can maximize the power of your ship. The background shows a distorted grid frame while the growing menace BGM becomes distorted as well suggesting from what lies up ahead is the King of Games. From said point, that would be last ever appearance of the UFOs in Stage 5 and the 3D level environment. Afterwards Shutter spaces will start to appear. There are multiple shutters that appear throughout the stage starting with big space gates, but the minute as the ship lures in to Nameless's sphere, the shutter spaces get tighter making it harder to get through. The last shutter is the difficult entrance where space becomes extremely limited. After a series of tight spaces the camera pans to view up ahead and the distorted background alleviates. A huge sphere that lies up ahead for the player ship, soon the warning message will show on screen, and Nameless will appear.
"WARNING: A FORMIDABLE ENEMY, 'NAMELESS' HAS ENTERED THE BATTLE."
Nameless shows no mercy to the player in the beginning as its spherical body will shoot continuous grid lines from all around infinitely without any end. Since Cleavage is part of the 3D levels, Nameless is not even 3D as its sphere body is considered 2D. The player can shoot the grid lines and harm Nameless by implanting seeds within it, suggesting it means by giving life to something. Upon Nameless' defeat, it will transition the player's ship back into the original Space Invaders tank into an original arcade game level, Stage 0 "Back Mutation."
Trivia[]
- After the tight spaces, for a short time you can see the sphere that appears in the logo of the game and in the background of the Nameless fight, suggesting Cleavage takes place on the surface of said sphere.