Anomaly is the sixth boss of the Crusade campaign. Instead of exploring a particular new concept, its layered forms use multiple smaller, unusual attacks to impede you.
Appearance
Personality and Traits
Battle
Form 1
Form 2
Nightmare Mode
Statistics
Medal Times
Easy/Normal
Nightmare
Bronze
8:20
8:40
Silver
6:00
7:00
Gold
4:20
5:00
Powerups
Form 1
Orb Line Curse: Convert
2 Bottom Guns: 2 Barrage/Erase
2 Low-Diagonal Guns: 2 Cannon/Shield
Top Gun: Convert/Shield
2 Upper Side Guns: 2 Cannon/3 Slowmo
Double Gate Obstacle: 6 Slowmo
Core: Convert/Shield
Form 2
2 Bottom Guns: 3 Blink/Shield
Low-Diagonal Left Gun: 3 Blink/10 Bumper
Low-Diagonal Right Gun: Turret/5 Slowmo
Grid Curse: 2 Slice
Harder Gate Obstacle: Shield
Top Gun: Drone/2 Freeze
2 Upper Side Guns: 3 Damage/4 Slowmo
Easy Mode
There are no cursed powerups.
Form 1
2 Bottom Guns: 2 Barrage/Erase
2 Low-Diagonal Guns: 2 Cannon/Shield
Top Gun: Convert/Shield
2 Upper Side Guns: 2 Cannon/3 Slowmo
Double Gate Obstacle: 6 Slowmo
Core: Convert/2 Shield
Form 2
2 Bottom Guns: 5 Blink/2 Shield
Low-Diagonal Left Gun: 4 Blink/10 Bumper
Low-Diagonal Right Gun: Turret/5 Slowmo
Harder Gate Obstacle: Shield
Top Gun: Slice/3 Freeze
2 Upper Side Guns: 3 Damage/5 Slowmo
Nightmare Mode
Form 1
Orb Line Curse: Convert
2 Bottom Guns: 2 Barrage/12 Dash
2 Low-Diagonal Guns: 2 Cannon/Shield
Top Gun: Convert/Shield
2 Upper Side Guns: 2 Cannon/3 Slowmo
Double Gate Obstacle: 6 Slowmo
Core: Convert/Shield
Form 2
2 Bottom Guns: 3 Blink/Shield
Low-Diagonal Left Gun: 3 Blink/10 Bumper
Low-Diagonal Right Gun: Turret/4 Slowmo
Grid Curse: 2 Slice
Harder Gate Obstacle: Shield
Top Gun: Drone/2 Freeze
2 Upper Side Guns: 3 Damage/4 Slowmo
Trivia
Anomaly, Guardian, Hermit, Prospector, and Xulgon are the only official bosses with explosive pixels in Normal difficulty.
Anomaly used to spawn another pair of orb lines partway through its second phase. Since the Redux update, this only applies to Nightmare Anomaly.
Anomaly's curses were slightly different prior to the Redux update:
The Orb Line Curse use to be a flat 5 Damage instead of a Convert.
The 2 Slice Grid Curse use to appear during Anomaly's first form rather than its second form.
There was another Orb Line Curse worth 2 shields which would spawn at the start of form 2. This still exists as of the Redux update however, the conditions for spawning it are never met.
