New Shadow Boss fight location?

[Turbanik]

So as the title says, I was wondering about the place we are heading to, to fight upcoming new Shadow boss. (Possessed Charlie?). And i want to hear your opinions and suggestions. Personally, I'm a bit afraid that we would fight new boss in the Atrium. Again? Since we saw a lot of it in the last intermission. And I believe that's not the best place for a new Shadow aligned final boss. To be honest I would be happy, if we could somehow see Charlie's lair ingame. Yes, that place with the Shadow throne surrounded by darkness.

[Edible Coal]

would be interesting if is some sort of dream location 

[Sofy Happy]

I think the Stage Play Theater would be the perfect location for players' first battle against Charlie. After completing all the scripts and receiving some materials, the battle could commence there.

[Turbanik]

Just now, Sofy Happy said:

I think the Stage Play Theater would be the perfect location for players' first battle against Charlie. After completing all the scripts and receiving some materials, the battle could commence there.

Ohh! It does sound interesting! I'd love some more interaction with the Stage Play Theater, especially involving Charlie herself.

[Cassielu]

I think the atrium is good enough, but it's also great to go back to the throneroom again. We haven't received anything about the Nightmare Throne for a long time.

Edited August 2, 2025 by Cassielu

[Edible Coal]

1 hour ago, Cassielu said:

I think the atrium is good enough, but it's also great to go back to the throneroom again. We haven't received anything about the Nightmare Throne for a long time.

we better be able to go in the atrium portal

[Wormboi]

7 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

would be interesting if is some sort of dream location 

you get sent to shadow realm 

[Lovens]

3 hours ago, Sofy Happy said:

I think the Stage Play Theater would be the perfect location for players' first battle against Charlie. After completing all the scripts and receiving some materials, the battle could commence there.

Please don't give Klei more ideas on how to destroy another unique game setpiece people have fun interacting with. We already lost one in the previous update. The fight should either happen in a new location, or in the Atrium since it's where one shadow side boss fight is already happening. 

[POOH_LY]

2 hours ago, Lovens said:

Please don't give Klei more ideas on how to destroy another unique game setpiece people have fun interacting with. We already lost one in the previous update.

I don't quite get this part from a lot of people. (But I really want to.) Isn't Pearl's Island just a smaller lunar island with her house and everthing? Now, we can just relocate her anywhere. I thought that fixed the problem. I mean, I don't usually do mega base and stuff, so I might miss out something. 

[-Variant]

I think returning to the Throne Room would be cool.

I could totally see Klei making us terraform the Gateway/FW arena though. Dreadstone/shadow flooring gunk or... whatever. Something weird like that.

I feel like the Atrium or the Archives are likely contenders due to the... portals.

[grem6]

We could go through the gateway and get teleported onto a chess board in the middle of nowhere, probably shadow realm, like the board in the last short (where winona turns shadow on it) and many others before it. Perhaps the board could also have some gimmick, e.g. debuffing the player while they are on black tiles and debuffing the boss while they're on white tiles.

[Hungry French]

9 hours ago, Cassielu said:

Я думаю, что атриум достаточно хорош, но было бы здорово снова вернуться в тронный зал. Мы уже давно ничего не слышали о Троне Кошмара.

He hasn't been heard from in almost 10 years...