Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Difficulty: Level-8. No cheats used.
It suddenly struck me to do a boss battle video of these two bosses, since I cheesed the fight in my original MS5 run. Man, I never realised how cheap the Elephant Towers were in my original run.
The maggots have way too much HP on Level-8 in my opinion. That, coupled with the fact that they are so many of them that their sprites overlay each other makes attacking ones hard to see when behind idle ones. Not only that, but the animation for their attacks is identical to them just turning over, oftentimes leading to scenarios where you don't know if they're attacking or just turning around until you find out the hard (burning) way. Add to that the fact that they can just suddenly decide to kill themselves without you triggering them to, and it just leads to situations where you genuinely have nowhere to land from a jump, hence dying. It's cheap and I don't like this boss fight at all.
That said, Scyther (or whatever its real name is...) is always a fun and epic boss fight, with the most kickass music in the series to fight it to. I just wish it either had less HP or had weapon drops, because I almost died of time over in that fight, and I wasn't exactly willing to farm for 2H in the Elephant Towers fight, either.
Difficulty: Level-8. No cheats used.
It suddenly struck me to do a boss battle video of these two bosses, since I cheesed the fight in my original MS5 run. Man, I never realised how cheap the Elephant Towers were in my original run.
The maggots have way too much HP on Level-8 in my opinion. That, coupled with the fact that they are so many of them that their sprites overlay each other makes attacking ones hard to see when behind idle ones. Not only that, but the animation for their attacks is identical to them just turning over, oftentimes leading to scenarios where you don't know if they're attacking or just turning around until you find out the hard (burning) way. Add to that the fact that they can just suddenly decide to kill themselves without you triggering them to, and it just leads to situations where you genuinely have nowhere to land from a jump, hence dying. It's cheap and I don't like this boss fight at all.
That said, Scyther (or whatever its real name is...) is always a fun and epic boss fight, with the most kickass music in the series to fight it to. I just wish it either had less HP or had weapon drops, because I almost died of time over in that fight, and I wasn't exactly willing to farm for 2H in the Elephant Towers fight, either.
