How to beat the first Robodog- Enemy? (Hardmode)

[Doctor Laugh]

Hi I love to play games the hard way but I really need to see a vid of somebody else who beats the first dog that way cuz I really try and I used the charged water attack 2 times. After that I wont survive the next attack. Please gimme a hint ty.

[Manxome]

Are you referring to the very first fight of the game?

Which difficulty level do you mean by "hardmode"? The highest one? (Super-spy) In Zeboyd's previous games, I believe the third difficulty level was called "hard" and the fourth one was something like "insane".

Remember you can switch difficulty level at any time, so if there's just one fight you can't get past you could turn down difficulty just for that fight and turn it back up after.

(I just started playing on Heroine and IIRC I beat the first fight in 2 rounds with Drown + Laser, so I assume you are talking about either a different fight or a different difficulty.)

[Halfshell]

For a hint, you have a Hyper mechanic. The boxes on the left will light up and when they're all full you do double damage. For the strat, below should work. Edit: Second hint is required on hardest. You also have a Desperation mechanic when you fall into negative HP. On hardest you need 100% Style in order to go into negatives. Desperation attacks deal 1.5X damage but you die if you don't heal to positive HP (if the Desperation attack kills you still win).

I haven't done the first fight on hardest but if I had to guess its either going to be Laser, Water, Defend, Laser, Water . Or Laser, Water, Defend, Heal, Water, Defend, Heal, Water. The second strat is just super defensive in case the first strat doesn't kill fast enough.. If that doesn't work I can go and look into the fight and confirm a strat for hardest, but honestly you have so few abilitites that this strat is likely the best.

Edit: Okay just looked into it. This fight is alot tighter than it needs to be on hardest. No mistakes are allowed. Its Laser, Water, Heal, Defend, Heal, (now switch tabs to use "Breather" which heals and defends), Laser, Water. If you want a mechanical explanation this gets in as many Lasers as we can squeeze in and as many Hyper Waters as we can, but even then we'll fall short unless.. we use a Desperation Focus Water.

So we start with a Laser and our first Water is double damage from Hyper. Next we stall to set up the timing for our next Hyper by Healing, Defending and Healing again. We use Breather when we have 1 bar of Hyper so that we can Laser at 2 bars and let him hit us into negatives for a Desperation Hyper Water attack for just barely enough damage to finish him. We also need the Lasers to get enough Style to use the Desperation attack.

Edit: Sorry, wrote Focus instead of Hyper. Fixed now.

[Doctor Laugh]

Thank you guys. Next fight I wasted my precious new Item.

[Moses]

Doctor Laugh, just so you know items aren't really "consumable" in this game. Each one has one use per battle but unlimited uses.

[Doctor Laugh]

Thanks thats great. I thought I used it for nothing.^^

[john.r.moser]

Originally posted by Fishercat:

For the strat, below should work.

It doesn't work if you beat him and die. After closing and reopening the game, the dog's first attack does 20 damage. If you win the battle, die, game over, go to title screen, and start a new game, the dog does 24 and then 26 damage, and you always die. Also, you can walk anywhere—no collisons.

Super, super buggy.