I hate you, Marie.

[carmilla]

I can beat her on the easiest difficulty, but my god is she such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥ when it comes to normal, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ normal! Why is she so difficult? Specifically with Fortune, you have to completely retrain yourself to not use combos just so you can do damage to her, and it's all chip damage. Damn it! I hate you Marie.

But on a more serious note, can anyone give me some advice on beating Marie with Ms. Fortune on Normal? I can get to her third form no problem, but after that I just can't do it. I've tried using j.HK and her block buster, but I still lose, help :(

[Neon Triangle]

Well, here's what I did for each form of Marie on Normal difficulty:

1st Form - j.HP or j.HK air dash cancelled into another j.HP or j.HK
2nd Form - used super meter on Cat Scratch Fever(QCF+PP) and a few j.HK or j.HP attacks thrown in
3rd Form - j.HP or j.HK air dash cancelled into another j.HP or j.HK

With air dash cancelling I could spam the jumping heavy attacks and keep in close range(so she wouldn't summon the exploding skeletons, which she does if you're too far from her), and Cat Scratch Fever locked her down during her second form which kept her from doing most of her attacks. It wasn't perfect, but I was able to beat Marie with most of my health by the end. The hard part is dodging her projectiles and summons, but on Normal difficulty she doesn't spam as much so it's easier to read the attacks and avoid or block most of them.

[CarThief]

Quite honestly, if you're playing story mode i'd say stick to whatever difficulty Marie is reasonably easy at, because trying to beat her is not worth it, it goes against everything in the game's mechanics and is flat out annoying. So maybe playing the story mode on an easier setting will make it more fluid and enjoyable.

And if you're in Arcade mode you can just quit at the last fight (though beating her might unlock some art gallery stuff, depending on the character(s) played). Assuming you're using Arcade on higher AI settings for practice/fun/killing time anyway.

That said, a common tactic against her is to simply jump and spam heavy attacks, some multi-hit attacks can stun-lock her as well. And if you're playing Cerebella just cheese her on any difficulty with Diamond Reflector. :P

[Doresh]

Marie is actually managable on normal if you find (and then spam) that one attack of your character that is the safest (and most effective) to use against her, always watching out for her telegraphs.

Or maybe it's just because I've already played a couple SNK games and are therefore familiar with insane bosses. Everything looks much easier after facing Demon Gaoh from Samurai Shodown VI.

Sometimes, I can still hear that game's Game Over melody...

[Chell Jasper]

Marie is broken as hell

[LowDownDirtyGamer]

The one thing i really wish fighting games would stop doing is adding in final bosses that have (as far as i can tell) absolutely NOTHING to do with how you play the game normally.

Maybe i'm just not good anough at fighting games to see the lesson here but in my opinion the final boss should require you to use all the skill you have learned in the game to be able to beat them not just what is the best way to cheese them out (which is how i beat them)

And yes i know i havnt beat this game on steam yet (just bought it today) but i have beat it with every char on xbox before.

[Chell Jasper]

yeah i mean double could ahve been the final boss and she would have been funner to fight then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ marie

[Lightning Dust]

"die, die, know your place, die, die." what a ♥♥♥♥, it made so many people quit, that one boss

[Chell Jasper]

yeah i havent bothered with story mode good thing no characters are unlockables

[Dark Assassin]

how about marie 300%

[Chell Jasper]

i learned a easy way to beat marie on story mode with each character just spam jump and HK or HP in air over and over you just have to be ready for the skull snake thing that does alot of damage and in her second form do the same thing but keep alternating sides and most the time the shadow will just punch and miss