right? I love that jumpscare because it was completely from left field for me XD. I also like that you didn't get into her area until like 2 boss fights later. I feel like that is well-designed and makes the game feel less linear which is nice
Started that way for me but this boss took me like 4 hours to beat. Absolutely brutal. Pretty sure I beat malenia in elden ring in fewer tries than this
Literally the only hard part about this fight isn’t the attack patterns, dodging or anything else. It’s not knowing when she’s a clone vs not. Sometimes you can hit her after attacks and sometimes you can’t. It’s whenever the game decides you can hit her. If you guess wrong you’re getting immediately hit by the next attack. At the same time the window to hit her when she pauses is so short you can’t react in time. Just a really poor design unfortunately. Could have been cool, especially thematically but they resorted to artificial difficulty with a guessing game
This is probably one of my favorite fights in all of gaming because how beautiful it was. The build up was perfect only only get to the fight and you are PHYSICALLY going into her brain to stop her. You are in the fight seeing how she sees herself along with the beautiful music matching her screams. Everytime the music starts getting more and more distorted she does too. The background changing opening her brain getting deeper inside her mind when you see more corrupted versions of herself. Try move that PHYSICALLY breaks the floor letting you fall down, going deeper into her identity. How some moves are very orderly where it's just going in a straight direction while others are spiratic flying everywhere. Probably one of the best symbolism for the fights I ever played
I find your analysis very interesting. I think the most incredible thing is that in addition to saying beautiful things, this fight leaves room for a lot of interpretation
I love how this game takes an idea like the Mantis Lords from HollowKnight but expands upon it it in an amazing way. Much like the Mantis Lords, the first phase is only against one target that helps introduce all of the moves to the player. Then, in phase two you have to fight 3 enemies at once but with the twist that only 1 still takes damage and has the same appearance as the clones, making you have to be even more aggressive to find the real one while dodging their attacks (much like the Mantis Lords in their phase two!) Phase three is completely unique as it accelerates but also slows down at the same time. With 7 enemies you now have to be faster than ever, but you no longer have to be as aggressive as you simply have to wait until the real one (which is now clearly visible without having to hit them) opens themselves up. Having to manage at most 3 enemies at once at high speeds makes the moment when you can whale on the real one even more satisfying! Such an amazing bossfight that experiments with how duplicates in a fastpaced parry-attack-and-qiblast interact. Thanks for reading my ramblings, i just love rhis fight and the Mantis Lords are also a fav of mine, so I wanted to compare with how they both worked so well :p
Just defeated her yesterday after try hard for 2 hours. Impressive As a former Hollow Knight player, Lady Ethereal was like a fusion of Mantis Lord and Grim imo and that's fantastic. First time reach phase 3, I said fck this shit how I'm gonna win against that Goku move that cause almost half of my HP....(just don't PANIK, all you need is 1 2 3, jump, parry her first and second clone on the air then dodge) 2 hr. passed, fighting her was like dancing. For those who struggle, trust me, once you got used to her move you don't want this to end. The feeling when you precise parried (almost) all of her move in phase 3 was just a bliss. I really struggle and really pissed off with first boss cause I'm suck with parry plus all I have is this tiny HP bar but Lady Ethereal was fun from the first minute till the last. Also, she became my parry mentor, my parry skill went from 3 to 8 and boss after that are easier to fight. Thanks mama. Now you can rest without having a nightmare.
I made the mistake of assuming I could strong parry her big attack in the third phase. Tried over and over again to parry the two light attacks and hold it on the second one so I could release when she slams the ground and I just kept assuming that's what I was supposed to do. I finally decided to check to make sure I wasn't wasting my time and came here to see you just dodge through it......did not expect that. She was easy after I realized I'm an idiot
Such an amazing boss, can't wait to fight her. Other than the music, I'd like to mention the insect iconography. Namely the fact that the butterfly is the most prevelent. Butterflies in dreams often mean a positive change in ones life. With the shadowy clones, loss of identity, and cocooned test subjects it must represent how she sees herself as a false savior. Instead of guiding those who put their trust in her into a better life, she instead changed their fate into death and madness; becoming a "dark butterfly" you could say. Not to mention her black horns(?) on her head (and background) look like the mandibles of say a spider. A creature that traps insects into an unavoidable death.
I never see anyone use the quick slash jade + attacks heal internal damage jade for these fights. That combo lets you speed up your attacks with no downsides unless you miss a slash attack. Very effective and Highly underrated. This combo got me thru most boss fights including this one
That's what I'm using right now and it's what keeps getting me the furthest. I've switched up my jades a bit to try different styles, but the combination of fast attack and recovery seems to be the key in this fight. After that, it's just getting good. It's a real struggle to get to phase 3 still, and I'm usually out of healing and my health bar is halfway or less. But it's a good pain😘👌🏻
The parry-parry-dash in phase 3 does not work for me, she hits me every time I mid dash (idk, maybe my old controller is lagging). I wonder if they have done some changes to the game, because the lady ALWAYS start with her bubble punch in phase 3
I just played through that boss today, strongly recommend doing the parry-parry in the air, then dash - made it a lot easier for me to time. Air parry doesn't matter what direction you are facing
I really love the music, really adds into her madness. The boss is a little unfair in the third phase, where the copies just spam attacks. They barely give time to heal. The good thing about this boss is that using qi or charged attacks or even unbound counter makes the copies disappear and her staggering, giving you an opportunity to heal or spam thunder arrows. Ironically, the one thing I absolutely hate about this level is not the boss but the part where your mystic nymph flies around and you have to follow it. I've fallen so many times because it kept changing directions.
I just dont get why they make the projectiles so difficult to parry, you have to wait until the projectile is inside your character model before you can parry it, one frame too late and you get stunlocked
Maybe the only thing missing from this fight is a slight change in the music. because during the 3rd phase we discover the change of background with all that that implies. I would have liked the music to become more agitated. but otherwise absolutely wonderful fight
Just managed to beat her. God first Three phase boss, so god damn hard XD. But so beautiful and the ost is literal gold. I was suffering but IT WAS GOOD PAIN
I appreciate that you're play style is just as flawed as mine. I hate when I watch someone execute a fight where they don't get hit once, and it makes me feel like fat wuss that needs to git gud thanks for posting.
I struggled with that too; I thought I had to unbounded counter, but that's impossible due to the 2 quick dash attacks; just do parry, parry, dodge to the side and you're good
@@-.Pal_ unbounded counter might be doable, I never pulled it off but if you time your guiding arrow the right time, you can take out the 2 spawners, then use the unbounded counter.
This fight very much reminds me of the hollow knight sisters of battle fight which is also one of my favorite boss fights in that game. This one has more going on but the one thing I didnt like about it is that the shadow copies dont give damage to the main lady ethereal. As a result, phase 2 and to a lesser extent, phase 3 can get pretty long which feels a bit unnecessary. Its still extremely satisfying to learn her moves and dance all over the screen with her.
Lady Ethereal gotta be one of my favorite boss fights EVER. presentation, music, the madness... all of it is beautiful (this is coming from a blasphemous player)
Yea ,I have beat her before on my PC - now stuck again playing on my ps5 😂 Forgot all about third phase as well🤣 thanx for reminding me that I can bounce on the pink orbs 🙃
I find the fight easier with the jade that shorten charge attack time. The lady will be stunned by a charge attack and the attack is long enough to dispell illusions also.
Jesus Christ! This fight can be change for good to bullshit in just one second! I mean she had the great set moves and lore, but why do they put 3 phases here? Not to mentioned that in the second phase the guessing game when the "real one" will show up is just ridiculous! 3:58 And what is all about this aiming in the perfectly, pixel perfect spot bs? For me it's just the worst boss in the entire game.
The trick I found with phase 2 was simply using a talisman against everything (I use Water Flow, but any of them should be fine). You should have more than plenty talismans to do this with from all the deflecting you'll have to do, and if you get the right one, it'll despawn the fakes. Don't give up. The first two phases are hella easy once you practice enough.
@@xSilentZeroXx Actually I beat her two times in the row, but yeah... first time with her was really frustraiting, and I still don't like second phase. Nethertheless I still love this game ;)
LOL, you make it look easy. I have twice your health and energies and still cannot beat her. I can easily clean up phase 1 and mostly phase 2. Her double claws somehow if I ever get hit from a previous one are near instant death.
Dude, f#@k this boss in particular. I can not reliably block those claw attacks for some reason. I'm pretty good at parrying every other attack she has, but those claw swipes just really mess me up... Honestly, she was hard enough with 2 phases. I almost felt like crying when she broke out a 3rd phase. I'd thought I'd done it, but nope... Still stuck.
aahh me too ! i don't know how to properly parry the claws attacks ! and when i'm focusing to parry this attack, she made her red attack who come from the left or right this is shit
@@drastia2246 you can learn the attacks in the second phase in exactly the same way. This boss takes a lot of tries, and the first phase becomes too easy very quickly. She is not balanced. I still think the first phase should be removed. If you want to babysit the players, you can make the first phase active until the first win, or make the first phase a separate, early boss fight, after which the boss goes to heal his wounds, but comes back "stronger".
@@K41Z3RR nah its just too much for the newbie at this genre. The best thing they could do is just do the first phase 1 time and then when u die u start from second phase. But to be fair this is their first metroidvania genre and as far as i know there is no metroidvania implemented this way yet.
wtih this fight it accede hollow Knight! incredible! i do enjoy this combat more than hollowknight's. also story is better told and characters are flashed out. it does lack in customization. pacing of abilities and jades could be better. Exploration is not as open as i would like it.
@@crypticbull9637 When she starts barraging you with slashes and crimson attacks. You can chew through her whole health bar with internal damage. You have more than enough time to get into stance release it against any of her moves.
Out of her three crimson attacks, one (quick ground slam) is quite fast and hard to predict; other (charge) is counterable with tai-chi; third (red sphere destroying the floor) can't really be unbound countered as it is preceded by two quick normal slashes which you have to parry normally) or dodge - no time to charge UC. So overall, none of her crimson attacks incentivizes UC. It's certainly possible to UC but harder than simply enduring the attacks "normally".
@karthiktadepalli7560 I really didn't struggle all that much. What makes it so tough? Are you just missing your parries or do you not have enough health? Or do you not do enough damage?
@@liamfully4082 I find the attack telegraphs much harder to read than sisters of battle. Plus doing damage is slow in phase 2. And then of course reading attack patterns becomes even harder in phase 3, though dealing damage becomes much easier.
Okay, I'm done with Nine Sols... I'm too old for this... Game is awesome, stylish, but... realy... 3 damn phases! Actually came on RUclips to understand what is the secret of her copies, maybe I'm too stupid to understand which is real, which is not. I'm not. They're equal! The entire gaming experience can be thrown away... Usually the copies are somehow different: red eyes, some glow, different color. Not in Nine Sols. I do not deny that I am a noob, but first this damn platfoeming section (it's not about skill, it's about the ability to predict) and than boss with 3 phases. First - ridiculously simple, second - RELEASE THE KRAKEN! And another one... Sad for me... I'm going to go through the game on RUclips
the real one in phase 2 wont disappear after you damage it, so if your attack lands talisman right away and you’ll stun her. In phase 3 the real one isnt black, but she’ll usually sneak in during an attack sequence. Whenever you attach a talisman to the real one it makes the shadows disappear immediately
@@ghostu9607 my point was about you can't know which is real, which is a clone, before you hit it, waste time and may be HP. For example, in Re4R you can understand which black hood is real by his red eyes (clones don't have them), also clones disappear after successful parry. Another example - Dark souls 3. Clones of Crystal Sage have different color. And player knows exactly who to bit and saves time, HP, nerves.
@@trackback7545 You are only half-right - phase 3 clones are different from the original, do not deny that part. Phase 2 is indeed frustrating in that regard, but there they all attack substantially slower, giving you time to both dodge/parry a hit and retaliate. That's the secret - you simply counterattack until you hit the real one, then damage her as much as you can. and yeah given the easiness of phase 1, you could say the fight has only two phases, 2 and 3 (with 1 existing merely so that you see all the attacks in advance).
I'm completely stucked in this beach too... I'm thinking about switching to story mode. Do anybody know i can switch back to standard after the fight if i set the Game in story mode just for this fight?
I like the story and atmosphere of the previous area, but his boss fight is horrible. It's already annoying having to wait for a random number of fakes to attack before you can hurt her, but half the time I get killed while attacking the real one because another fake spawns in and gets a free attack on me. My only other option is to wait for the next cycle, which drags out a boss fight that already drags quite a bit. It's like the Mantis Lords from Hollow Knight with worse execution. Then again, I think that applies to the game as a whole.
WORST BOSS EVER....Asian gamemakers think we are all martial artists. If there was a checkpoint after phase 2 , it would be tolerable. My gamer ego is hurting 🤕😁
What a shity boss. P2 is dogshit. You can’t beat her half the fight 🤡. I don’t understand why people so much like this game, he is max a 8/10 but the difficulty is is badly balanced
Her entire level was just random bullshit go Luckily i played on storymode and changed it to damage 1000% damage taken 1%, since the parkour pre level was already to long and just to annoying.
Have like 15hs and most enemies go from " thats fair -> ok, kinda unfair but still fair-> ok, were kinda entering asian bullshit levels-> aaaand they gave enemies multiple fast attacks that thro you onto the ground. If you don't perfectly counter them.
@@mylittledarkworldjohn4289 That's sad cause basic combat mechanics is really good and feels really smooth, but encounters design is disregard character capabilities what ruins overall impression of the game. There is exceptions tho, like first boss or Jiequan. But compared to doghist minibosses encounters, main bosses is okay.
@@Keetsoone the first boss, the archive boss and the one that tortured you were fine and fair in combat gameplay. The bird women had you kill to unkillable zombies then attack her, while she's reviving then What annoyed me the most about zhis boss was not only the fight but that overly long and unnecessary tedious jump and run segment. Five normal iterations with annoying checkpoints plus multiple checkpoints with your butterfly that that would constantly slow down or speed up without reason and would just randomly troll you. That what made me give it a "not recommended" on steam. I made a review that says its a good and fun game in the beginning. But then explained why i gave it a don't recommend/dont like it reason
nah this boss absolutely rules, and when it all clicks and allows you to dance through the onslaught of projectiles and strikes it feels incredibly good
![[Nine Sols 九日] OST | 蚨蝶 Lady Ethereal Boss BGM (Extended)](/img/1.gif)
This fight had such insane build up and presentation
I was so glad to get an explanation for that random jumpscare when you first enter that area XD
right? I love that jumpscare because it was completely from left field for me XD. I also like that you didn't get into her area until like 2 boss fights later. I feel like that is well-designed and makes the game feel less linear which is nice
"I can fix her"
_her_ in question:
I REALLY THOUGHT YOU HAD TO DO AN UNBOUD PARRY WHEN SHE DOES THE SPIRIT BOMB ATTACK
BRUH SAME
YOU CAN
@@elmakoko8776 NO FUCKING WAY?
@@acewhotalks4487 you parry de first illusion, dodge the second illusion, with that you can unbound parry
@@acewhotalks4487 you have to unbound parry the first illusion, Dodge the second one, and unbound parry that attack
This game is fucking incredible. No matter how many times I die to one boss I never get frustrated, I just love it every time.
I get only frustrated when I die while exploring lol
That’s nice. I get frustrated as fuck with all of these games but still play em
Started that way for me but this boss took me like 4 hours to beat. Absolutely brutal. Pretty sure I beat malenia in elden ring in fewer tries than this
Same here. This one looks like the mantis in Hollow Knight. Loved this boss !
Sure
Literally the only hard part about this fight isn’t the attack patterns, dodging or anything else. It’s not knowing when she’s a clone vs not. Sometimes you can hit her after attacks and sometimes you can’t. It’s whenever the game decides you can hit her. If you guess wrong you’re getting immediately hit by the next attack. At the same time the window to hit her when she pauses is so short you can’t react in time. Just a really poor design unfortunately. Could have been cool, especially thematically but they resorted to artificial difficulty with a guessing game
I hate that they put such a banger music in this fight because after 1000 tries the only thing you feel hearing it again is wish to throw up.
This is probably one of my favorite fights in all of gaming because how beautiful it was. The build up was perfect only only get to the fight and you are PHYSICALLY going into her brain to stop her. You are in the fight seeing how she sees herself along with the beautiful music matching her screams. Everytime the music starts getting more and more distorted she does too. The background changing opening her brain getting deeper inside her mind when you see more corrupted versions of herself. Try move that PHYSICALLY breaks the floor letting you fall down, going deeper into her identity. How some moves are very orderly where it's just going in a straight direction while others are spiratic flying everywhere. Probably one of the best symbolism for the fights I ever played
I find your analysis very interesting. I think the most incredible thing is that in addition to saying beautiful things, this fight leaves room for a lot of interpretation
I love how this game takes an idea like the Mantis Lords from HollowKnight but expands upon it it in an amazing way. Much like the Mantis Lords, the first phase is only against one target that helps introduce all of the moves to the player. Then, in phase two you have to fight 3 enemies at once but with the twist that only 1 still takes damage and has the same appearance as the clones, making you have to be even more aggressive to find the real one while dodging their attacks (much like the Mantis Lords in their phase two!)
Phase three is completely unique as it accelerates but also slows down at the same time. With 7 enemies you now have to be faster than ever, but you no longer have to be as aggressive as you simply have to wait until the real one (which is now clearly visible without having to hit them) opens themselves up. Having to manage at most 3 enemies at once at high speeds makes the moment when you can whale on the real one even more satisfying! Such an amazing bossfight that experiments with how duplicates in a fastpaced parry-attack-and-qiblast interact.
Thanks for reading my ramblings, i just love rhis fight and the Mantis Lords are also a fav of mine, so I wanted to compare with how they both worked so well :p
It was very interesting
Just defeated her yesterday after try hard for 2 hours.
Impressive
As a former Hollow Knight player, Lady Ethereal was like a fusion of Mantis Lord and Grim imo and that's fantastic.
First time reach phase 3, I said fck this shit how I'm gonna win against that Goku move that cause almost half of my HP....(just don't PANIK, all you need is 1 2 3, jump, parry her first and second clone on the air then dodge)
2 hr. passed, fighting her was like dancing.
For those who struggle, trust me, once you got used to her move you don't want this to end. The feeling when you precise parried (almost) all of her move in phase 3 was just a bliss.
I really struggle and really pissed off with first boss cause I'm suck with parry plus all I have is this tiny HP bar but Lady Ethereal was fun from the first minute till the last. Also, she became my parry mentor, my parry skill went from 3 to 8 and boss after that are easier to fight.
Thanks mama. Now you can rest without having a nightmare.
So thats how you beat her 3 phase. I reach that and i die. This boss is a pain. Second phase is too long.
Awful fight yes
I adore the background for this fight. Reminds me a lot of the witch labyrinths from Madoka Magica
The figure in the background looks like a woman from behind on all fours giving birth. I can’t unsee it
I made the mistake of assuming I could strong parry her big attack in the third phase. Tried over and over again to parry the two light attacks and hold it on the second one so I could release when she slams the ground and I just kept assuming that's what I was supposed to do. I finally decided to check to make sure I wasn't wasting my time and came here to see you just dodge through it......did not expect that. She was easy after I realized I'm an idiot
EXACTLY why i'm here too! I am a bit dissapointed, that it isn't possible. There must me a way...
One of my best Boss experiences ever played, really a 10/10
Shity boss 🤣🤣
Such an amazing boss, can't wait to fight her. Other than the music, I'd like to mention the insect iconography. Namely the fact that the butterfly is the most prevelent. Butterflies in dreams often mean a positive change in ones life. With the shadowy clones, loss of identity, and cocooned test subjects it must represent how she sees herself as a false savior. Instead of guiding those who put their trust in her into a better life, she instead changed their fate into death and madness; becoming a "dark butterfly" you could say. Not to mention her black horns(?) on her head (and background) look like the mandibles of say a spider. A creature that traps insects into an unavoidable death.
Lisa enjoyer let's gooo
Those aren't horns. They are ears. She's a lynx.
Crazy how low you got here by the end!
I never see anyone use the quick slash jade + attacks heal internal damage jade for these fights. That combo lets you speed up your attacks with no downsides unless you miss a slash attack. Very effective and Highly underrated. This combo got me thru most boss fights including this one
That's what I'm using right now and it's what keeps getting me the furthest. I've switched up my jades a bit to try different styles, but the combination of fast attack and recovery seems to be the key in this fight. After that, it's just getting good. It's a real struggle to get to phase 3 still, and I'm usually out of healing and my health bar is halfway or less. But it's a good pain😘👌🏻
One hell of a clutch
The parry-parry-dash in phase 3 does not work for me, she hits me every time I mid dash (idk, maybe my old controller is lagging). I wonder if they have done some changes to the game, because the lady ALWAYS start with her bubble punch in phase 3
I just played through that boss today, strongly recommend doing the parry-parry in the air, then dash - made it a lot easier for me to time. Air parry doesn't matter what direction you are facing
@@adamn2 I’ve done it already but thanks :) turned out perfect parry was required
I really love the music, really adds into her madness. The boss is a little unfair in the third phase, where the copies just spam attacks. They barely give time to heal. The good thing about this boss is that using qi or charged attacks or even unbound counter makes the copies disappear and her staggering, giving you an opportunity to heal or spam thunder arrows.
Ironically, the one thing I absolutely hate about this level is not the boss but the part where your mystic nymph flies around and you have to follow it. I've fallen so many times because it kept changing directions.
I just dont get why they make the projectiles so difficult to parry, you have to wait until the projectile is inside your character model before you can parry it, one frame too late and you get stunlocked
Maybe the only thing missing from this fight is a slight change in the music. because during the 3rd phase we discover the change of background with all that that implies. I would have liked the music to become more agitated. but otherwise absolutely wonderful fight
this boss fight was incredibly well presented, challenging too, but it was so damn fun
Honestly, This entire thing will be giving me *Nightmares*, good thing I'm pulling an all-nighter 🗣️
the background is the back of her head, and a butterfly coming out of her brain, right ?
Day 3 of chipping away at this boss. Knowing unbound isnt essential is helpful. Thanks for sharing!
Just managed to beat her. God first Three phase boss, so god damn hard XD. But so beautiful and the ost is literal gold. I was suffering but IT WAS GOOD PAIN
I appreciate that you're play style is just as flawed as mine. I hate when I watch someone execute a fight where they don't get hit once, and it makes me feel like fat wuss that needs to git gud thanks for posting.
To dodge that explosion in phase three, is it enough to be in the air when it hits?
I struggled with that too; I thought I had to unbounded counter, but that's impossible due to the 2 quick dash attacks; just do parry, parry, dodge to the side and you're good
@@-.Pal_ unbounded counter might be doable, I never pulled it off but if you time your guiding arrow the right time, you can take out the 2 spawners, then use the unbounded counter.
I need to be on adderall to keep with the phase 3 attacks. Pain boss
Can I ask how were you able to parry her swooping Crimson Attack in mid-air without charging up your parry?
In mid air you can party the crimson attacks just like any other attack
Because is Green Red atack
sorry if this is, pretty late but a green glow on a crimson attack means you can parry her, not the attack, so you wanna focus on her head
This fight very much reminds me of the hollow knight sisters of battle fight which is also one of my favorite boss fights in that game. This one has more going on but the one thing I didnt like about it is that the shadow copies dont give damage to the main lady ethereal. As a result, phase 2 and to a lesser extent, phase 3 can get pretty long which feels a bit unnecessary. Its still extremely satisfying to learn her moves and dance all over the screen with her.
Lady Ethereal gotta be one of my favorite boss fights EVER. presentation, music, the madness... all of it is beautiful (this is coming from a blasphemous player)
Tip : using a talisman on the real Lady Ethereal makes the false disappear.
Useful to make damages without worrying about the others harassing you.
Water Flow makes this fight so much more manageable :)
Once you get the hang of phase 3 attack patterns it gets insanely fun to dance all over the screen with her
There's a 3rd phase!?!?
Can anyone tell me why the player has Jie’s sol seal on their inventory? Is there a way to use them somehow?
It is the resurrection jade
@@redandblue1013 ah thank you very much!
Yea ,I have beat her before on my PC - now stuck again playing on my ps5 😂
Forgot all about third phase as well🤣 thanx for reminding me that I can bounce on the pink orbs 🙃
I find the fight easier with the jade that shorten charge attack time.
The lady will be stunned by a charge attack and the attack is long enough to dispell illusions also.
Still the fight drags alot. Not fun though
Still the fight drags alot. Not fun though
Jesus Christ! This fight can be change for good to bullshit in just one second! I mean she had the great set moves and lore, but why do they put 3 phases here? Not to mentioned that in the second phase the guessing game when the "real one" will show up is just ridiculous! 3:58 And what is all about this aiming in the perfectly, pixel perfect spot bs? For me it's just the worst boss in the entire game.
At 3:58 there's no pixel perfection, he's using immortal dash to avoid damage
The trick I found with phase 2 was simply using a talisman against everything (I use Water Flow, but any of them should be fine). You should have more than plenty talismans to do this with from all the deflecting you'll have to do, and if you get the right one, it'll despawn the fakes.
Don't give up. The first two phases are hella easy once you practice enough.
@@xSilentZeroXx Actually I beat her two times in the row, but yeah... first time with her was really frustraiting, and I still don't like second phase. Nethertheless I still love this game ;)
How do you win
anyone else stuck on that phase 3 explosion. this is the best boss so far.
Yeah, I came online because I couldn't figure out what the gameplan for that attack was.
Turns out, it was something super obvious, lol
@@xSilentZeroXx Yeah and I finished the game. You are in for a ride lol, the last boss is too epic and hard, but do not give up.
LOL, you make it look easy. I have twice your health and energies and still cannot beat her. I can easily clean up phase 1 and mostly phase 2. Her double claws somehow if I ever get hit from a previous one are near instant death.
Nice fight mate im just stuggeling whit her now in the last phase wish me luck 😂😅
Good Luck! :)
Dude, f#@k this boss in particular. I can not reliably block those claw attacks for some reason. I'm pretty good at parrying every other attack she has, but those claw swipes just really mess me up...
Honestly, she was hard enough with 2 phases. I almost felt like crying when she broke out a 3rd phase. I'd thought I'd done it, but nope... Still stuck.
aahh me too ! i don't know how to properly parry the claws attacks ! and when i'm focusing to parry this attack, she made her red attack who come from the left or right
this is shit
@@redipiafs yeah, I finally got through it, but she can go to hell...
Don't give up! You can do it!!!
Id pay money to see everyones reaction to 3rd phase happening 😂
I can not doge that spirt bomb
The moment you parry second attack you have to dodge. Parry, parry and then dodge.
There’s a phase 3?! I’m out.
Finally made it. Took about 10 hours. Might be done with the game, for a while at least
This biss would be way more enjoyable if she was had half as much hp. The presentation is amazing but the random ass 3rd phase feels so cheap.
The first phase is very strange. It is mostly a no-damage waste of time)) The boss would have been better without the first phase.
The first phase is to introduce her attack so you can handle her better phase 2. Its actually really good boss design
@@drastia2246 you can learn the attacks in the second phase in exactly the same way. This boss takes a lot of tries, and the first phase becomes too easy very quickly. She is not balanced. I still think the first phase should be removed. If you want to babysit the players, you can make the first phase active until the first win, or make the first phase a separate, early boss fight, after which the boss goes to heal his wounds, but comes back "stronger".
@@K41Z3RR nah its just too much for the newbie at this genre. The best thing they could do is just do the first phase 1 time and then when u die u start from second phase. But to be fair this is their first metroidvania genre and as far as i know there is no metroidvania implemented this way yet.
That 1 hp clutch
wtih this fight it accede hollow Knight! incredible!
i do enjoy this combat more than hollowknight's. also story is better told and characters are flashed out.
it does lack in customization. pacing of abilities and jades could be better. Exploration is not as open as i would like it.
Tip: unbound counter in this fight is really incentivized
At what parts? Boss doesn't give much breathing room to use it. If you're referring to her spirit bomb thing, you can dash through that
@@crypticbull9637 When she starts barraging you with slashes and crimson attacks. You can chew through her whole health bar with internal damage. You have more than enough time to get into stance release it against any of her moves.
Yea, but timing it seems impossible.
Big facts
Out of her three crimson attacks, one (quick ground slam) is quite fast and hard to predict; other (charge) is counterable with tai-chi; third (red sphere destroying the floor) can't really be unbound countered as it is preceded by two quick normal slashes which you have to parry normally) or dodge - no time to charge UC. So overall, none of her crimson attacks incentivizes UC. It's certainly possible to UC but harder than simply enduring the attacks "normally".
They have to nerf the boss health
This boss may be the one that makes me rage quit the game,, she is bs.
Ngl i feel like everyone struggling on this boss has never fought the Mantis Lords from Hollow Knight
If it's just the normal game Mantis Lords, this is much harder. Base game HK isn't that hard compared to this game.
This game's bosses are WAY harder compared to Hollow Knight's.
Sisters of battle is easy for me and I'm still stuck on lady ethereal
@karthiktadepalli7560 I really didn't struggle all that much. What makes it so tough? Are you just missing your parries or do you not have enough health? Or do you not do enough damage?
@@liamfully4082 I find the attack telegraphs much harder to read than sisters of battle. Plus doing damage is slow in phase 2. And then of course reading attack patterns becomes even harder in phase 3, though dealing damage becomes much easier.
good job. gotta say wish I would've returned the game when I had the chance. finding out this boss has a third phase is enough.
Skill issue
Okay, I'm done with Nine Sols... I'm too old for this... Game is awesome, stylish, but... realy... 3 damn phases!
Actually came on RUclips to understand what is the secret of her copies, maybe I'm too stupid to understand which is real, which is not. I'm not. They're equal! The entire gaming experience can be thrown away... Usually the copies are somehow different: red eyes, some glow, different color. Not in Nine Sols.
I do not deny that I am a noob, but first this damn platfoeming section (it's not about skill, it's about the ability to predict) and than boss with 3 phases. First - ridiculously simple, second - RELEASE THE KRAKEN! And another one...
Sad for me... I'm going to go through the game on RUclips
the real one in phase 2 wont disappear after you damage it, so if your attack lands talisman right away and you’ll stun her. In phase 3 the real one isnt black, but she’ll usually sneak in during an attack sequence. Whenever you attach a talisman to the real one it makes the shadows disappear immediately
@@ghostu9607 my point was about you can't know which is real, which is a clone, before you hit it, waste time and may be HP.
For example, in Re4R you can understand which black hood is real by his red eyes (clones don't have them), also clones disappear after successful parry. Another example - Dark souls 3. Clones of Crystal Sage have different color.
And player knows exactly who to bit and saves time, HP, nerves.
@@trackback7545 You are only half-right - phase 3 clones are different from the original, do not deny that part.
Phase 2 is indeed frustrating in that regard, but there they all attack substantially slower, giving you time to both dodge/parry a hit and retaliate. That's the secret - you simply counterattack until you hit the real one, then damage her as much as you can.
and yeah given the easiness of phase 1, you could say the fight has only two phases, 2 and 3 (with 1 existing merely so that you see all the attacks in advance).
I'm completely stucked in this beach too... I'm thinking about switching to story mode.
Do anybody know i can switch back to standard after the fight if i set the Game in story mode just for this fight?
@@CarlosHernandez-hp4lm i'm already play story mode and stuck lol
I like the story and atmosphere of the previous area, but his boss fight is horrible. It's already annoying having to wait for a random number of fakes to attack before you can hurt her, but half the time I get killed while attacking the real one because another fake spawns in and gets a free attack on me. My only other option is to wait for the next cycle, which drags out a boss fight that already drags quite a bit. It's like the Mantis Lords from Hollow Knight with worse execution. Then again, I think that applies to the game as a whole.
WORST BOSS EVER....Asian gamemakers think we are all martial artists.
If there was a checkpoint after phase 2 , it would be tolerable.
My gamer ego is hurting 🤕😁
great ost
bs difficulty curve
parkour should've at most been half as long as it was
Time to rage quit😓
Dislike. Channel is named 100% guide but there is 0 explanation
BISMILLAAAH 🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️🕋🕋🕋
NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
bro
Absolutely trash fight. Whatever intern on the team was in charge of this one butchered it. awful encounter
The most bullshit boss
What a shity boss. P2 is dogshit. You can’t beat her half the fight 🤡. I don’t understand why people so much like this game, he is max a 8/10 but the difficulty is is badly balanced
Her entire level was just random bullshit go
Luckily i played on storymode and changed it to damage 1000% damage taken 1%, since the parkour pre level was already to long and just to annoying.
And her fight was even more unfair towards the end
That why they make story mode for you
@@macjackui ehh, sure why not, still doesn't mean that i will give it high praise without saying whats annoying me
No offense I do agree dont like that part too
skill issue
What a trash boss design.
It kinda is and that design is then turned into some smaller enemies kinda, with the multiple attacks but muxh faster
Have like 15hs and most enemies go from " thats fair -> ok, kinda unfair but still fair-> ok, were kinda entering asian bullshit levels-> aaaand they gave enemies multiple fast attacks that thro you onto the ground. If you don't perfectly counter them.
@@mylittledarkworldjohn4289 That's sad cause basic combat mechanics is really good and feels really smooth, but encounters design is disregard character capabilities what ruins overall impression of the game. There is exceptions tho, like first boss or Jiequan. But compared to doghist minibosses encounters, main bosses is okay.
@@Keetsoone the first boss, the archive boss and the one that tortured you were fine and fair in combat gameplay.
The bird women had you kill to unkillable zombies then attack her, while she's reviving then
What annoyed me the most about zhis boss was not only the fight but that overly long and unnecessary tedious jump and run segment.
Five normal iterations with annoying checkpoints plus multiple checkpoints with your butterfly that that would constantly slow down or speed up without reason and would just randomly troll you.
That what made me give it a "not recommended" on steam.
I made a review that says its a good and fun game in the beginning.
But then explained why i gave it a don't recommend/dont like it reason
nah this boss absolutely rules, and when it all clicks and allows you to dance through the onslaught of projectiles and strikes it feels incredibly good
AAhhaaaAAAaaaAAAAaaaa. Man, that music is garbage.