At 4/12/09 01:12 AM, HeavyTank wrote:
Yeah, and l have to do it on hybrid or higher...any tips for getting my time down?
For the explosive enemies l use helldrive spam, and l can kill the last 3 bosses (the centaur and the, uhhh...thingies) in under 20 seconds, l really can't see how will l beat it faster..maybe l just have to grind my weapon even more...but it's already at lv.11...
You're talking M1? I can't really get anything but A+ on that, heh. But I used it get the blood points for the longest time, so I am well practiced.
L11 dual blades is what I used for it most of the time (never the sword). The Impossible rating takes care of your multiplier score just fine.
Tips for beating it fast? Well, kill dudes in groups. The first few waves have dudes come alone, then in twos. Kill them in twos.
Then you get Explodies and 2 Normals. What you do is get them all together, whack away at them. What is important is to gauge when you're getting close to killing the Explodey guy, then spam hell drive. It will often blow up and knock you down... that's okay. The next wave of 3 will come, do the same. If you kill the six of them in this fashion it prevents more waves coming for some reason, and goes right onto the Sword Arm Freaks and Normals. From there spam the helldrive over the SAFs and dual kill the Normals on the sides. If you ever max out your magic, helldrive kill guys you have crunched into the corners.
Eventually you'll wear this wave down, just do it fast. You don't have to be a speed demon, just don't waste time with guns.
The centaur dude comes next. If you're low on magic take some time to shoot him (with the "new" gun, it's a pain in the as to furiously tap S, so much better to hold it) to build back your helldrive. Eventually, you can jump over him (use the air hike, double-A with the blades equipped) and spam-helldrive him.
Then you get the spinny freaks which can be easily spammed. Another wave of Normals comes soon, and you can group kill them but these ones know how to block, so as soon as they start doing that, you guessed it, helldrive.
Then there's one more wave of 2 spinnies and 1 Normal, IF you kill them all at once. If you kill just one or two, more spawn.
If you're bad at maintaining helldrive, either buy those flasks or invest in the orbs that let you keep it longer.
I guess the main bit of advice is to kill guys in groups, since it lowers the amount of baddies that appear. It's not necessary to do this on the Sword Arm Freak and Normal dudes wave, in my experience, but useful for the first two waves.
Also, not sure if many of you use it, but when those little blue things appear over guys: it's their health. They look like anime sweat drops but are supposed to be flames? Anyway, if you can get one of those to appear on an Exploder it's useful toward gauging when you should stop meleeing them.
Hope this helps, good luck.