Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 32 minutes ago
They sure don't look dark to me, which is a shame because the CPU similarity would be even more obvious.
Anyways, the rematch version has quite a few differences to the original. The one good news is that Reverse Time's attacks no longer murder face in one hit, so tanking it with your attackers is much easier. However, there are a lot of things that make the fight harder too - Forward Time now has really high defenses (to no one's surprise by this point I'm sure), which is also getting buffed by Canopy. Canopy is no longer guaranteed to buff defense if someone's DEF/MND is below 50%, so keeping the buffs low is no longer a viable way to stop it from healing. Finally, when either Reverse Time or Canopy is the last enemy remaining, it'll use Detonation which will likely one shot everyone, so you need to kill the last two balls at the same time - or so the game would have you think. Since Detonation just deals a lot of damage and doesn't have great accuracy, it just uses the user's accuracy score (144 for Reverse Time, 100 for Canopy) and is liable to miss against evasive characters, and it also sets the user's HP to 1 so you can just kill it with anything afterwards.
Since both Forward Time and Canopy heal and it's so difficult to squeeze damage onto Forward Time, expect to spend a lot of time trying to bring Forward Time down if you're going for Reverse Time first. Honestly I should've tried killing Canopy first this time around, but I wasn't expecting the heal spam to get this bad. Thankfully I realized I could've abused Instant Attack a lot more than I'm used to at the very last second, or this could've gone for like half an hour (would be quite horrible if everyone decides that they don't want to dodge Detonation after that long, wouldn't it? Though Renko has 201 evasion before Suika's boost so Detonation would've only had like a 28% chance to hit on her alone).
Anyways this is the last Shadow fight that I'm going to be taking on while still adhering to hard mode restrictions. The last three shadows get no such mercy, for reasons I'll talk about later.
They sure don't look dark to me, which is a shame because the CPU similarity would be even more obvious.
Anyways, the rematch version has quite a few differences to the original. The one good news is that Reverse Time's attacks no longer murder face in one hit, so tanking it with your attackers is much easier. However, there are a lot of things that make the fight harder too - Forward Time now has really high defenses (to no one's surprise by this point I'm sure), which is also getting buffed by Canopy. Canopy is no longer guaranteed to buff defense if someone's DEF/MND is below 50%, so keeping the buffs low is no longer a viable way to stop it from healing. Finally, when either Reverse Time or Canopy is the last enemy remaining, it'll use Detonation which will likely one shot everyone, so you need to kill the last two balls at the same time - or so the game would have you think. Since Detonation just deals a lot of damage and doesn't have great accuracy, it just uses the user's accuracy score (144 for Reverse Time, 100 for Canopy) and is liable to miss against evasive characters, and it also sets the user's HP to 1 so you can just kill it with anything afterwards.
Since both Forward Time and Canopy heal and it's so difficult to squeeze damage onto Forward Time, expect to spend a lot of time trying to bring Forward Time down if you're going for Reverse Time first. Honestly I should've tried killing Canopy first this time around, but I wasn't expecting the heal spam to get this bad. Thankfully I realized I could've abused Instant Attack a lot more than I'm used to at the very last second, or this could've gone for like half an hour (would be quite horrible if everyone decides that they don't want to dodge Detonation after that long, wouldn't it? Though Renko has 201 evasion before Suika's boost so Detonation would've only had like a 28% chance to hit on her alone).
Anyways this is the last Shadow fight that I'm going to be taking on while still adhering to hard mode restrictions. The last three shadows get no such mercy, for reasons I'll talk about later.
