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Gameplay / Re: Aquaria Boss Strategies

« on: February 22, 2009, 06:48:58 pm »

Well, I may as well post these here, then.

I was originally going to do this for all the bosses, but I've kinda lost interest in Aquaria. Stupid world map killing my interest.

So yeah, here's some of the bosses in super Walkthrough depth:

Boss:       Energy God
Location:    Energy Temple
Required Forms: Energy
Attacks:    Let's Get Physical - When you are within range, it occasionally
      lunges and bites at you.
      Let's Get Physical 2 - More often than not, however, it will
      simply reel back then swipe at you. Dodge backwards to avoid it.
      Energy Blasts - It also fired 3 slow non-homing energy blasts at
      you when you are out of melee range.
Hints:       Flashing yellow doesn't mean he's taking damage, however it does
      make him move back. Maybe he's guarding something?
      Forcefields don't just hurt you.
Guide:       This fight contains two parts. The first part requires you to
      blast the God as much as possible to make him move back. This
      reveals a pearl he was guarding. When the God is far enoug back,
       switch to song form and Bind the pearl. Take it far to the right
       to find a socket for it. Once it is in it's socket, change back to
       energy form. Now comes the second part of the fight.
      Move to wherever the God is, he should still be at the back firing
       energy balls at you. Get close enough to him so that he swipes for
       you, then dart back to the right. After swiping he'll crawl
       towards you. Repeat this all the way up to the pearl, then blast
       the pearl (right-click to charge, move the mouse over the pearl
       then fire). This will activate a forcefield that will shock the
       boss if he is in contact with it. Doing this will move him back
       and damage him, forcing you to lure him into it a second time.
      Once you have done it two times, he wises up and stops just short
       of the forcefield when you try to lure him. To hit him this one
       final time, you need to move close, get him to swipe at you, then
       activate the forcefield while his arm is in range of it. This will
       shock him a 3rd and final time, killing him for good.
Rewards:    A vision, a treasure, and a way out of the temple.

Unfortunately , this strategy (for the last phase) doesn't work. The problems are:

1) You can't charge up the triple-fireball quickly enough before he swipes you out of range
2) You can't cast a song/spell while 'dizzy' (after the paw-swipe attack)
3) his paw is out of the way long before your fireballs activate the forcefield/laser
4) There's no way to guarantee he'll only do a specific type of attack (head-lunge vs. paw swipe) If there were some way of forcing him to always go for a head lunge, it might be possible to hide just under his head while charging up, then release at just the right time.
5) You (and your fireballs) slow down if you're hit.
6) His paw-swipe/head-lunge is just too fast (in real time) to allow you to charge up and drop the forcefield even without him successfully landing an attack!

At least not on the Mac version (maybe there's a hotkey on the PC version that let's you hotkey the tripe-fireball song instantly?)

Instead, I had to follow this strategy (and it's not guaranteed, either, especially if you've taken a lot of damage before you get to this point.) Remember to use the save crystal in the side cave before entering this chamber/hallway.

After using the laser/forcefield the requisite two times, use your fireball attack to make him back off. Now carefully lure him forward. Right before he gets to the position close to the forcefield, use the speed burst and cling to the floor just to the left of where the lower forcefield generator is. Charge up and release right before his paw hits you. You'll probably have to make several attempts to get your positioning and timing just right.