Rising Garuda too hard

[sigma6666]

But how do you beat Rising Garuda? I don't understand anything about his pattern. Impossible to avoid his attack with the scythe. We don't have enough ammunition to defeat him. Of all the Blaster Master series this is the toughest boss of all.

[Edulcorante]

It's tricky, but he only has 4 attacks, all of them can be dodged if you play well
Just keep trying, you'll get it

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by Edulcorante:

It's tricky, but he only has 4 attacks, all of them can be dodged if you play well
Just keep trying, you'll get it

Yeah, he hits hard and has a LOT of HP, but his patterns are easier to work with than in 2.

If he comes charging, jump the first, wait until he circles you in the second and then jumps, jump the third and go behind where he's ascending.

If he does the background to foreground charge that spawns slow moving projectiles, use the Homing Missiles to get rid of them.

If he uses the homing attacks that does the ground sweeping, fly behind him for the first, stay a little ahead of him for the second and go towards the opposite direction he is facing before the 6 large beams converge in a large blast

If he sets mines, destroy the middle one with any subweapon, aim up and shoot away.

His final attack actually made me google up an answer, only to find none and YET figure a way to finish him off (it's obvious)

I'm surprised you didn't find Kanna/Eir harder

[Raster]

Thanks for the spoiler.

How do you even get to him? I'm stuck on the side view on-foot section where you're going into small dungeons. I've been going in circles for hours.

[Raster]

Nevermind, found it. Multiple exits on some of these random dungeons.

I agree with the OP. This fight is poorly balanced, especially since they take all of your upgrades away because n o s t a l g i a

[buddy]

I died more to garuda than I did to the final boss

[Edulcorante]

Lol I died once to his final attack, when I got there again it took 2 "cycles" for me to realize what I needed to do
I died a lot just to learn his patterns but it was fun boss fight, definitely my favorite from the game

Originally posted by Mike at Arms:

How do you even get to him? I'm stuck on the side view on-foot section where you're going into small dungeons. I've been going in circles for hours.

There really isn't that much secret to this section, just check your map A LOT at dungeons and try to remember what parts you've already been

[Gyger]

As for damaging him, make full use of all your sub-weapons. Set two of them as shortcuts so you have your full arsenal ready.

When he charges, jump over and use the lighting attack. Use a spread missile at point-blank range when he hits the ground.

I don't think he's vulnerable when he does the fly-by attack. Just take out the missiles with your blaster and homing missiles.

During the homing laser attack, stay diagonally underneath and behind him by hovering and alpha strike him with your blaster and both missiles (shortcuts can let you fire both missiles in rapid succession).

Try to destroy has many mines as possible using the lighting attack, they can spawn pickups. He also stationary long enough for a volley of homing missiles to connect. Always keep lightning ammo ready for this phase.

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by buddy:

I died more to garuda than I did to the final boss

I died more to Eir than to anything else. Since Eir does 2 points of damage WAY TOO OFTEN, is much nimbler and harder to read.

Originally posted by Gyger:

As for damaging him, make full use of all your sub-weapons. Set two of them as shortcuts so you have your full arsenal ready.

I didn't use a single Shortcut the entire game. Now I feel stupid.

[buddy]

Originally posted by Mike at Arms:

especially since they take all of your upgrades away because n o s t a l g i a

there's a good reason why you don't have all the upgrades jason collected

[Raster]

Originally posted by buddy:

Originally posted by Mike at Arms:

especially since they take all of your upgrades away because n o s t a l g i a

there's a good reason why you don't have all the upgrades jason collected

Yeah, I managed to finish it. Cute, though I was so pissed from Garuda that it didn't really result in a WOAH moment. I was happy the game was over.

[TouyaShiro]

Rising Garuda... Far more erratic in its tell compared to last time, and more vicious on certain attacks, I argue. That being said, more importantly it's also FAR more of a tank compared to the original (which can be defeated with a slight bit of damage plus a well-placed Full Accel Blast), and the Metal Attacker (Original) doesn't have anything like that.

Though Thunder Breaker works well for dealing damage, especially during certain attacks, Homing Missiles are arguably more important as they deal max damage against Rising Garuda.

[Cross Kaizer]

Funnily enough, the best way to counter the fastest MA is to slow down. Pay attention to his flight in the background like the previous game and see what attack he will use. Thunder breaker works well when he fly near ground so you can save the Homing missiles ammos.

[sigma6666]

Oh thanks for all your tips for beat here :)

[sigma6666]

Thanks to all again .
I have beat Leibniz .
But what the real final is totally free lol

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by Mike at Arms:

Originally posted by buddy:

there's a good reason why you don't have all the upgrades jason collected

Yeah, I managed to finish it. Cute, though I was so pissed from Garuda that it didn't really result in a WOAH moment. I was happy the game was over.

Funny thing is that VERY early in the game Kane pointed out that the old model MA being defeated by a newer model wouldn't be surprising (or something like that) and that the top brass wouldn't have any reason to be suspicious of him letting Jason pass after having battle damage on both of them as proof of their fight.