Thoughts on Sisyphus Prime

[billy]

It's a good boss, but nowhere near as good as Minos Prime. Minos Prime's intro, music and boss fight is still the best in the game. But, Sisyphus Prime is still really good, the only thing I really didn't like about it is the intro. Besides that it's still a good boss. 8/10, could've been better but it's still good.

[chester]

Minos Prime feels slow now.

Both fights are similar mechanically, but they feel totally different. Minos gives you a lot of time to predict and dodge his attacks, but Sisyphus is just a nonstop barrage, especially during the second phase.

Overall my expectations were high, and the fight definitely lived up to them. P ranking P-1 made me a much better player, and I can already tell P-2 is going to do the same.

[billy]

Minos Prime will kick your ass with grace, Sisyphus Prime just kicks your ass, period. Well, that's how I see it at least. I just hope they make the arena a separate level.

[Choco Fitz]

Eh, pretty bullcrap.

[Mumble]

I prefer the creative/artsy side of the game rather than the balls-to-the-wall difficulty of this new sanctum. Minos was way better indeed in terms of overall experience. I kinda hope they don't go down the same route with p-3 but they probably will.

[zab]

why did panopicon die instantly? I don't even know what happened nor have enough time to understand what was going on and he simply died.

[CASCADIAN SUPERSOLDIER]

COMPOSURE [Challenging: Failure] - Oh my God. That's Lenval Brown -- I'm going to have a heart attack.

[Evil Creature]

p-3 is going to be minos reskinned again, but 4x faster and there will be 19 invincible mindflayers in the room

[NerdCuddles]

My main issue with Sisyphus Prime is the voice acting and writing being meh compared to the rest of the voiced characters, I think it should be redone. Its more the performance and actual writing itself than the voice actor themselves.

[billy]

For those wondering why Flesh Prison but square shaped died instantly, when you get it down to half health (i think?), Sisyphus just busts out and kills it instantly. Also yeah, it could definitely be redone, good boss, but didn't really live up to the hype.

[Hook Master]

A worse minos prime

The best part of P-1 was the fact that Minos was just as fast and hard hitting as the player, but telegraphed his attacks so well that it was less of a brawl and more of a choreographed dance of death, with the two of us locked in deadly but beautiful combat

Now, Sisyphus prime feels much more of a “face to face beat down” which is most likely exactly what the devs were going for
A test of mettle and a test of metal, both sides whittling the other to the bone
While this is really cool from a lore and character standpoint
This really sucks in gameplay
Having an enemy that gives no breaks to reasonably analyze or predict a move set is not fun to fight
Minos’s slight pauses between moves allowed players to associate voice lines with attacks and retaliate correspondingly
After over 100 restarts on this boss I never got that feeling of learning, just dumb luck from dashing and pumping out as much damage as I could as quickly as I could, both tactics that are applicable to average levels, but not the grand spectacles of the P bosses

This just, didn’t feel like a real P level overall

Also we got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROBBED with the Flesh panopticon
The “don’t let it see you” was such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and could have been a really fun alternative to the fresh prison
But nooooo
“Here’s a barebones flesh prison that dies after thirty seconds to show how awesome the P-2 boss is”
Maybe if Sisyphus didn’t leave such a sour feeling afterwards I wouldn’t be as bothered over the FP but still, coulda been so cool…

[Cyanide Addict]

Personally I feel like Sisyphus was a little underwhelming in comparison to Minos and I hadn't even figured out what the flesh panopticon's gimmick was before I killed it, but that absolute marathon just to even earn the privilege of getting your shiny metal ass served to you on a silver platter? Great. Every time I thought "Okay I proved myself, can I see the boss now?" Hakita descended down from the heavens to personally spawn eight more sand-covered cerberi. There was no way to make Sisyphus even more intense than the act of just getting to him was.

[one one]

every single part of P-2 was awesome except for sisyphus. he's just minos but a lot harder, a bit unfair, and inexplicably bald.

[pickle]

i donbt like minos reskin i was expecting so mych more. SIGH

[Pastor Shotty McBangJump]

Originally posted by zab:

why did panopicon die instantly? I don't even know what happened nor have enough time to understand what was going on and he simply died.

Sisyphus tears his way out of it partway through. It's a bit hard to notice through all the noise and projectiles, but you can see his arms reaching out of its mouth.

[chester]

Originally posted by StaticSpark:

A worse minos prime

The best part of P-1 was the fact that Minos was just as fast and hard hitting as the player, but telegraphed his attacks so well that it was less of a brawl and more of a choreographed dance of death, with the two of us locked in deadly but beautiful combat

Now, Sisyphus prime feels much more of a “face to face beat down” which is most likely exactly what the devs were going for
A test of mettle and a test of metal, both sides whittling the other to the bone
While this is really cool from a lore and character standpoint
This really sucks in gameplay
Having an enemy that gives no breaks to reasonably analyze or predict a move set is not fun to fight
Minos’s slight pauses between moves allowed players to associate voice lines with attacks and retaliate correspondingly
After over 100 restarts on this boss I never got that feeling of learning, just dumb luck from dashing and pumping out as much damage as I could as quickly as I could, both tactics that are applicable to average levels, but not the grand spectacles of the P bosses

This just, didn’t feel like a real P level overall

Also we got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROBBED with the Flesh panopticon
The “don’t let it see you” was such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and could have been a really fun alternative to the fresh prison
But nooooo
“Here’s a barebones flesh prison that dies after thirty seconds to show how awesome the P-2 boss is”
Maybe if Sisyphus didn’t leave such a sour feeling afterwards I wouldn’t be as bothered over the FP but still, coulda been so cool…

I agree with your synopsis on both fights, but I don't it's a bad thing at all. If we got another prime boss with blatantly choreographed attacks and pauses in between each move, then it barely would have felt like a jump in difficulty. Minos forces you to learn his moveset, but once you do the fight is a breeze. Sisyphus forces you to learn his moveset AND match his aggression. It felt like an appropriate step up in difficulty. Hell, it took me over 261 restarts to clear P-2 for the first time, and I was able to bring that number down to 2 by my third attempt. Give it a few weeks and I wouldn't be surprised if people are p-ranking him as effortlessly as Minos.