Earthwake

"SYNCHRO OPTIMISED... BOOT TRANS-MODE 1... EARTHWAKE SYNCHED! ERADICATOR ONLINE!"

- Earthwake

Earthwake is a giant robot fought by giant Dreamy Luigi in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team that serves to guard the Nightmare Chunk holding Bedsmith. Earthwake is a humanoid robot figure formed out of Dreamy Wakeport's various buildings, with its head being a small tower with glowing windows for eyes. Earthwake is the second major boss fought in Dreamy Wakeport, as well as the third giant Dreamy Luigi boss in the game. Earthwake's name comes from the word earthquake.

History
While exploring Dreamy Wakeport to revive Bedsmith, Mario and Luigi come across the Nightmare Chunk trapping him inside a tower-like building. Shortly after, Pi'illoper shows up and warns them of a "terrible guardian" who attacks anyone who tries to remove the Nightmare Chunk, and has destroyed many who have attempted to do so. Mario and Luigi hit the ! blocks that Pi'illoper told them awakened the guardian, the small tower next to them is revealed to be Earthwake's head and an alarm siren goes off, Earthwake assembling itself and the boss battle commencing soon afterwards.

After the battle, Earthwake is destroyed and Bedsmith is freed. As such, he doesn't appear for the remainder of the main adventure.

Battle
In battle, Earthwake's battle is similar to the Tower of Yikk battle from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, in that Earthwake tries to knock Luigi into the ocean with its attacks. Likewise, Luigi has to do the same using the Hammer Uppercut and counter-attacking. Performing the Jump and Drill Stomp attacks while Earthwake lacks head armour will harm Luigi due to the electrified object on Earthwake's head, while attacking with the Hammer Chop will deal minimal damage.

Earthwake can attack by making the buildings of its body orbit its head. Luigi has to swat the pieces away with his hammer. If successful, this will enrage Earthwake and its head will orbit the spot where it once was, however slightly faster than the buildings. The player must slide leftwards on the Touch Screen as the buildings fly into range of Luigi's hammer swings, otherwise the remaining parts will fly into him and damage him, likewise if Earthwake's head rotates for long enough.

Earthwake can also attack by creating a ball made out of Dreamy Wakeport's buildings, and then rolling it towards Luigi. Luigi must jump on top of the ball when it nears him and use it to roll into Earthwake in order to counter-attack. The player tilts the 3DS to control the ball's backwards and forwards movement. In some cases, Earthwake may attempt to swing its arms forwards in order to knock Luigi off the ball and damage him.

Earthwake will also set up a formation of yellow, red and green blocks that it will use to attack Luigi or heal itself the following turn. Luigi must Hammer Chop, Hammer Uppercut, Jump or Drill Stomp to prevent the most hindering blocks from being used by Earthwake. The Jump and Hammer Uppercut will eradicate a vertical line of five blocks, the Hammer Chop will do the same for a horizontal line of five blocks and the Drill Stomp will eradicate all the blocks on screen, leaving none left and being the best move for Luigi to perform in this situation.

For any green blocks that are left, Earthwake will send them at a low altitude at Luigi, which he must jump over. For any red ones that are left, Earthwake will send them at a high altitude at Luigi, which he must duck under. To jump over the green blocks, the player must slide upwards on the Touch Screen. Getting hit by a red block will result in Mario getting knocked off and rendering the Drill Stomp and Rhythm Mushroom moves unavailable. To duck under the red blocks, the player must slide downwards on the Touch Screen. For any yellow blocks that are left, Earthwake will absorb them to heal itself with.

During the battle, Earthwake may generate armour that will prevent it getting knocked back as much. If the armour is only on its head, the Jump and Drill Stomp attacks can take off the armour in a single turn. If it's on both its head and body, only the Drill Stomp attack can be used to take off the armour in a single turn. If Mario is not ready to perform Bros. Attacks, Luigi can also execute a combination of the Hammer Chop and Jump attacks to remove the armour in two turns if used one after the other. If Earthwake attacks while it still has armour on, the armour will be temporarily taken off and put back on after the attack.

Earthwake also has the ability to transform into a giant hammer and swing itself at Luigi in either an overhead high arc or a horizontal waist-level arc up to seven times. Luigi must counter or these swings by countering the overhead ones with Hammer Uppercuts and countering or evading its horizontal swings with either Hammer Chops or by ducking under them. The final swing will always be an overhead one that has a much longer pause before Earthwake swings itself at Luigi. The methods to avoid getting hit will always be through Hammer Uppercuts and one of the latter two. The player must slide upwards on the Touch Screen to Hammer Uppercut, leftwards to Hammer Chop and downwards to duck.

If Earthwake gets knocked into the ocean, Luigi must smash Earthwake when its head comes out of the water with his hammer consecutively in order to deal damage. As Luigi hits Earthwake more, the ratings gotten from each hit will eventually escalate in value, going from OK! ratings to Good! ratings to Great! ratings. The player must rapidly slide the stylus downwards on the Touch Screen to strike Earthwake. If Luigi hits Earthwake enough, it will sink back into the water, to come back out again dazed. Luigi must then smash Earthwake into the background with a Hammer Chop to deal even more damage and get an Excellent! rating.

If Luigi gets knocked back into the ocean, Earthwake will put its hands above Luigi, and repetitively smash down on Luigi's skull with a metal plate until he escapes or is defeated. Jumping while Earthwake's hands are above Luigi will result in him bumping his head on them and the plate, making him land back into the water. Luigi must jump when Earthwake's hands are not above Luigi in order to leap out of the water and over Earthwake and escape the attack.

Earthwake X
Earthwake also appears in the Battle Ring, as Earthwake X, the third opponent faced in the Giant Luigi arena. There are no major changes to his battle here barring the appearance change involving how the design of the buildings that form Earthwake have black sides while Earthwake has its buildings with white sides.

Hard Mode differences
In the Hard Mode, Earthwake's attack patterns differ slightly. He attacks Luigi in his hammer formation more often, sooner and swings in this form up to ten times per attack. Earthwake also uses larger block formations (that have eleven blocks in it instead of nine) which often forces Luigi to leave more blocks left.

Quotes

 * BAD-DAMAGE! DAMAGE-BAD!  BAD-STACHES!  MUST DEFEAT!
 * EARTH-A-WAKE!
 * SYNCHRO OPTIMISED... BOOT TRANS-MODE 1... EARTHWAKE SYNCHED! ERADICATOR ONLINE!
 * WARNING. UNAUTHORISED. EXIT NOW. !OR ELSE!
 * INTRUDERS.EXPEL.EXPEL.
 * .BAD MOUSTACHES. !ENGAGE WRATH!