Just remember to run under the junk, fuck blade mode
also, forward-forward launcher is your friend. Does SO much damage, so quickly.
Oh, and dodge. Dodge two times from his charged AoE attack, dodge left or right twice to avoid tackle, dodge left or right from back swipes, etc. Dodge, dodge, DODGE
For general combat there is no real benefit to using manual cutting, it's a lot slower for a start, you can't rack up the combos like you can with the face buttons.
As soon as I realised this I gave up manual slicing except for going for left arms and when as a last ditch attempt when face buttons have missed the spine-squares.
Nope. Try rapidly flicking the slicing stick back and forth, then compare that to hitting the face buttons as fast as you can. Using the stick gives you more slashes per second than face buttons.
Also, when slashing right after going into blade mode, the first slash is always horizontal, even if you hit the vertical button, which can screw up certain cuts. If you use the stick, you can cut in any direction immediately upon entering blade mode.
Just remember to run under the junk, fuck blade mode
also, forward-forward launcher is your friend. Does SO much damage, so quickly.
Oh, and dodge. Dodge two times from his charged AoE attack, dodge left or right twice to avoid tackle, dodge left or right from back swipes, etc. Dodge, dodge, DODGE
Yeah, dodging is a lifesaver. I managed to beat him starting with no nanopastes just be relying on dodging.
But using the stick slice the blocks is what got me through that second phase. Just make sure you upgrade fuel cells so you have as much time in blade mode as possible. A few times I'd slice the blocks, but then run out as he lunges.
Y'know, this game is just all about why I love video games.
You start the game out by maiming a Metal Gear Ray in half. Then you fight Lady Doctor Octopus, sentient magnetized hams who use Raphael's sais, the biggest pair of scissors ever, a robot samurai with a gun-sheath, suplex the giant metal spider from Wild Wild West, and then end the game by beating the crap out of Mike Haggar
VR Mission 18 truly brings out this games flaws. The camera is not fast enough and it freaks out when near a wall. Weapon switching takes far too long. Couldn't Platinum have crafted a sincere challenge for this mission instead of just ramping up the enemy damage, which just comes off as cheap and lazy. Just this and Mission 19 and I'm done with these stupid VR Missions.
Y'know, this game is just all about why I love video games.
You start the game out by maiming a Metal Gear Ray in half. Then you fight Lady Doctor Octopus, sentient magnetized hams who use Raphael's sais, the biggest pair of scissors ever, a robot samurai with a gun-sheath, suplex the giant metal spider from Wild Wild West, and then end the game by beating the crap out of Mike Haggar
That last boss fight was certainly something.
Got his patterns down that far that I could beat his first phase without taking any damage.
But I sucked badly after the debris part so I said "Fuck it" and equipped rations (something I avoided for the entire game
101 continues overall._.
).
So I'd say he's actually pretty easy if you are atleast somewhat competent at dodging.
Do people realize you can aim when you press the buttons? If you need to just chop shit quickly, for me, it's faster to mash [] or Triangle than with the stick. Then if you need to chop precisely, you aim with the stick, then the next button press will cut exactly where you aimed. So, in my experience, the buttons were better both for speed and accuracy... separately. Only time it hurt was when you needed to be Fast AND Accurate during the Final Boss, but I still did it with buttons and couldn't with the stick.
What? That means you need to get S to every single encounter to get an S ranking for the mission? Damn, getting the lightning god achievement will be even harder than expected.
What? That means you need to get S to every single encounter to get an S ranking for the mission? Damn, getting the lightning god achievement will be even harder than expected.
Yeah, I got an S rank for every encounter in R-001 except for one missed encounter, and it bumped me down to an A. Bastards. I have no idea what I missed.
Yeah, I got an S rank for every encounter in R-001 except for one missed encounter, and it bumped me down to an A. Bastards. I have no idea what I missed.
There's the chopper one, and I did that. The only thing I can think of is I fucked up the bit where you have to slice off the soldier's arm for the door.
edit: Oh, thanks JC, they don't mention shit about that.
Y'know, this game is just all about why I love video games.
You start the game out by maiming a Metal Gear Ray in half. Then you fight Lady Doctor Octopus, sentient magnetized hams who use Raphael's sais, the biggest pair of scissors ever, a robot samurai with a gun-sheath, suplex the giant metal spider from Wild Wild West, and then end the game by beating the crap out of Mike Haggar
I'm fighting the final boss right now. I have to say this is the cheesiest piece of shit I've fought in quite some time.. This entire sequence is everything I hate about gaming these days. I'll find a way to beat it though. And then I'm done. :/
I'm fighting the final boss right now. I have to say this is the cheesiest piece of shit I've fought in quite some time.. This entire sequence is everything I hate about gaming these days. I'll find a way to beat it though. And then I'm done. :/
There's the chopper one, and I did that. The only thing I can think of is I fucked up the bit where you have to slice off the soldier's arm for the door.
edit: Oh, thanks JC, they don't mention shit about that.
I totally said in my first post after beating the game that I found the boss to be "pretty good". Exact words! I enjoyed the challenge but have issues with the actual context of the fight- although I can still appreciate its ridiculousness on some level (mainly the stupid one-liners).
Do the rankings stack by this i mean say you do a chapter and get SSSSA and go back to do it again but get AAAAS will it forget the A ranks and add the S rank to the previous ranks
Yeah, there are a couple encounters that are particularly easy to miss, especially since you don't get notified for all of them. Ninja Killing your way through some areas results in the loss of a couple ranked battles, too.
There are also a few sleazy Data Chip locations I never would've figured out on my own (like the ones you have to cut off of a Slider or find in the prologue).
I totally said in my first post after beating the game that I found the boss to be "pretty good". Exact words! I enjoyed the challenge but have issues with the actual context of the fight- although I can still appreciate its ridiculousness on some level (mainly the stupid one-liners).
It's my fault for purchasing this title. I didn't buy Vanquish because the game felt lacking to me after playing the demo. I'm currently toying around with it, and I have to say it's a very overrated and shallow game. While fun, I don't see the hype.
It's funny that you mention Vanquish in your post because its final boss actually has to be killed with an insta-death QTE that comes out of nowhere, lol.
Keep in my I have no rations. I have no intent of re-playing this section. It's now, or get traded in. I don't think a final boss should come down to [spoiler]QTEs. Miss it and game over, really?[/spoiler] I play hard games. I hate to sound like a douche. But I've beaten the Souls games, DMC on the hardest levels etc.. And every boss until this point has been somewhat easy.
It's my fault for purchasing this title. I didn't buy Vanquish because the game felt lacking to me after playing the demo. I'm currently toying around with it, and I have to say it's a very overrated and shallow game. While fun, I don't see the hype.
Maybe it's just rage speaking. But this is pure bull shit.
Yeah, there are a couple encounters that are particularly easy to miss, especially since you don't get notified for all of them. Ninja Killing your way through some areas results in the loss of a couple ranked battles, too.
There are also a few sleazy Data Chip locations I never would've figured out on my own (like the ones you have to cut off of a Slider or find in the prologue).
There are tons of tricky storage units you need to read to find out. There is an arm on R-04 that you need to stealth to get. The Human Gecko in R-05 requires stealth too. Human Geckos are the worst since you have to get them all in one sitting.
Keep in my I have no rations. I have no intent of re-playing this section. It's now, or get traded in. I don't think a final boss should come down to
QTEs. Miss it and game over, really?
I play hard games. I hate to sound like a douche. But I've beaten the Souls games, DMC on the hardest levels etc.. And every boss until this point has been somewhat easy.
It's my fault for purchasing this title. I didn't buy Vanquish because the game felt lacking to me after playing the demo. I'm currently toying around with it, and I have to say it's a very overrated and shallow game. While fun, I don't see the hype.
Maybe it's just rage speaking. But this is pure bull shit.
After you beat the game, replay it again with all of your now gained knowledge and experience. Any parts that gave you even remote amounts of trouble will quickly turn into brutal cyborg slaughters.
The final boss is agitating but honestly he's pretty fair. He just punishes you severely for messing up. Honestly, I like that about the final boss fight. The game I played right before MGR was the (disappointingly) easy DmC - so I welcomed a good kick in the teeth.
Yeah, I actually don't like that you're back to square one for the prologue even in New Game Plus mode. On top of that I don't like that my customizations dont carry over to VR missions.
Finally got my copy in the mail took advantage of that Fry's $10 off online, the bottom of the case is broken in pieces, at least the game works. I know it is only the case, but still that will be the first and last time I order anything from them again, never had a game/dvd/bluray from amazon come like this.
After you beat the game, replay it again with all of your now gained knowledge and experience. Any parts that gave you even remote amounts of trouble will quickly turn into brutal cyborg slaughters.
The final boss is agitating but honestly he's pretty fair. He just punishes you severely for messing up. Honestly, I like that about the final boss fight. The game I played right before MGR was the (disappointingly) easy DmC - so I welcomed a good kick in the teeth.
After you beat the game, replay it again with all of your now gained knowledge and experience. Any parts that gave you even remote amounts of trouble will quickly turn into brutal cyborg slaughters.
The final boss is agitating but honestly he's pretty fair. He just punishes you severely for messing up. Honestly, I like that about the final boss fight. The game I played right before MGR was the (disappointingly) easy DmC - so I welcomed a good kick in the teeth.
The bosses only annoyance is I cant work out the frames for that Area explosion attack or his grab. Sometimes I dodge the running grab easy other times i still get grabbed, still have no idea how dodge that area explosion when im mid combo.
The bosses only annoyance is I cant work out the frames for that Area explosion attack or his grab. Sometimes I dodge the running grab easy other times i still get grabbed, still have no idea how dodge that area explosion when im mid combo.
I did 2 offense defense hops back and still took damage confusing me, I noticed further back you are less damage you take, 20% from 2 hops back 50% on Hard up close
Damn, I lost it! In my first playthrough I fare well getting Zandatsus with manual Blade mode. But I got lazy in my second go and started to use auto (buttons). Now I completely suck at manual Blade mode!
Nope. Try rapidly flicking the slicing stick back and forth, then compare that to hitting the face buttons as fast as you can. Using the stick gives you more slashes per second than face buttons.
Also, when slashing right after going into blade mode, the first slash is always horizontal, even if you hit the vertical button, which can screw up certain cuts. If you use the stick, you can cut in any direction immediately upon entering blade mode.
It takes getting used to, but it's worth it.
Yeah, dodging is a lifesaver. I managed to beat him starting with no nanopastes just be relying on dodging.
But using the stick slice the blocks is what got me through that second phase. Just make sure you upgrade fuel cells so you have as much time in blade mode as possible. A few times I'd slice the blocks, but then run out as he lunges.
