SOUL SURVIVOR P-Rank Review Form

[clown king]

So after optimizing this fight to a point that I could beat it, (And changing my opinion that it was horrible, cruel, and torturous to dare I say, fun!) I would like to know everyone else's opinions on having ranked it.

[Tyrant]

I'm a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nerd, so i liked it since the beginning. Mostly cuz 1. Flesh Pirson is the most unique fight in the game currently, 2. Minos just has cool dialogue while bad ass music playing, so between those two it didn't feel annoying getting your ass kicked, and it was fun learning his moves while do so.

Edit: Also whats cool about flesh prison is it test each skill in UK, your ability to dodge, your ability to aim, your ability to weapon swap, and your ability to multitask/aware of your surroundings.

[RicktheSmugLord]

Odd to say that I find the Flesh Prison more challenging then Minos.

[clown king]

Originally posted by RickTheSmugLord:

Odd to say that I find the Flesh Prison more challenging then Minos.

Amen.

Flesh Prison's challenge is being a time waster. If you spend too long on that, your'll lose the time trying to beat Minos, but if you try to do it quickly, you have to ignore it's healers.
It becomes trying to balance it out, I guess.

[ani444]

Pretty hard, but not impossible. Flesh Prison is pretty much a complete footnote to the main fight on Standard, but gets upgraded to occasional run-ender on Violent due to just how chaotic it can get. Once you learn a few basic strats for it (shotgun swapping for damage, Malicious Railcannon to destroy eyes right at start, Marksman Revolver to deal with the rest of the eyes, get some blue orb parries in there) it's pretty easy. I usually beat it in around 1:10 - 1:30.

Minos is the real challenge, and with him you just need to learn his moves and get in those parries. I usually stick to Pump Shotgun as my main weapon and stay close but I'll also switch to Marksman Revolver and Electric Railcannon to do some damage from afar. One thing you need to do is make sure not to get hit too much, as you'll eventually get to a point where you'll have lost too much style to get a P. It's hard but if you stick at it you'll eventually get good enough to get those sweet P's.

All in all it took me a few days of off and on play to get P rank on Standard and another few to get it on Violent. Got so hyped after getting my first P-rank that I ran over to my mum to give her a hug.

[clown king]

Originally posted by Animemorelikeanigay:

Pretty hard, but not impossible. Flesh Prison is pretty much a complete footnote to the main fight on Standard, but gets upgraded to occasional run-ender on Violent due to just how chaotic it can get. Once you learn a few basic strats for it (shotgun swapping for damage, Malicious Railcannon to destroy eyes right at start, Marksman Revolver to deal with the rest of the eyes, get some blue orb parries in there) it's pretty easy. I usually beat it in around 1:10 - 1:30.

Minos is the real challenge, and with him you just need to learn his moves and get in those parries. I usually stick to Pump Shotgun as my main weapon and stay close but I'll also switch to Marksman Revolver and Electric Railcannon to do some damage from afar. One thing you need to do is make sure not to get hit too much, as you'll eventually get to a point where you'll have lost too much style to get a P. It's hard but if you stick at it you'll eventually get good enough to get those sweet P's.

All in all it took me a few days of off and on play to get P rank on Standard and another few to get it on Violent. Got so hyped after getting my first P-rank that I ran over to my mum to give her a hug.

Purest thing I've ever heard.

My startegy was much less, clean...
Shotgun and Knucklebuster, just get in and do as much damage while dodging his attacks.
It was exactly the best strategy...but it worked!

[Ω Spriggan Ω]

I'm down to 30 restarts! *tooth falls out*

I've learned that using the malicious face blast is helpful
and parries are extremely needed in the 2nd form.

i hate to say it but it reminds me of the final boss from .......dark souls.
weakness : parry.

[Leoscar]

So, I got good enough to get a P rank on this (violent). It wasn't as hard as I though, it was difficult of course, very difficult even, but I expected it would take a lot longer. I'll post the try that got me a P rank for context and totally not to flex :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtXXZOK-9ek

The more I fought MP trying to P rank this, the more I found him to be quite forgiving. I did so many mistakes, missed a lot of shots, missed most of my parries. It wasn't clean, and I managed it. He has these moments where he walks for a bit, letting you shotgun his face for some damage and heals, and parries aren't all that difficult and get you back to 100 %. I think the fight should be even more punishing, I shouldn't be able to facetank him like I did on occasion.

FP on the other hand I initially found easier than MP, but this changed as I got better at killing MP. The closer I got to P ranking the level the more I realized how random FP can be, it's easy to get chipped by an attack you did not see from the eyes for example. The difficulty comes from managing the boss' health and your own, it's different but there isn't much to it. I'm honestly not sure if I like the fight or not, it's not bad but it not exactly challenging either and it quickly becomes something you want to kill fast to get to the good part.

In short : MP is good but I think he should deal more damage, punish the player more. He has clean paterns for the most part so I don't think it would be cheap. FP could be more interesting to be more than a obstacle between you and the good part.

[Turbot]

flesh prison feels like it was built to intentionally combine as many unfun boss mechanics as possible and is why i have no interest in p-ranking the level