Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This mission ends up being a bit of a pain in the ass. R-02 introduces an enemy type that becomes a slight nuisance with this run's restrictions, and then there's the prolonged double GRAD fuckhouse battle. That shit has never been worse, if evf02d's strategy did not exist I'd likely never get through it.
Raptors are sort of annoying with these restrictions. Since you don't have Ripper mode yet, your only real tool of damaging these guys is parrying. Raptors and Gekkos share a property in which they jump/step away after getting parried, however what makes Raptors worse is that they just kinda refuse to get hit most of the time, even if against a wall. Due to that you usually end up using other enemies and having a parry on them also collide with a Raptor; since they're not trying to dodge it'll almost always hit if you get it lined up correctly.
The GRAD fight is easily the hardest part of the chapter. There's so much that can go wrong with it, there's probably not enough space here to describe all of it. For a tl;dr, basically it's an enemy type that I don't think works in groups(especially with another GRAD), and with how much shit it constantly fires it's horrible for the room it's placed in. Things are always exploding and whatnot, and it just ends up being a total nightmare for not getting hit. Awful boss, and in my opinion the worst one in the game.
This mission ends up being a bit of a pain in the ass. R-02 introduces an enemy type that becomes a slight nuisance with this run's restrictions, and then there's the prolonged double GRAD fuckhouse battle. That shit has never been worse, if evf02d's strategy did not exist I'd likely never get through it.
Raptors are sort of annoying with these restrictions. Since you don't have Ripper mode yet, your only real tool of damaging these guys is parrying. Raptors and Gekkos share a property in which they jump/step away after getting parried, however what makes Raptors worse is that they just kinda refuse to get hit most of the time, even if against a wall. Due to that you usually end up using other enemies and having a parry on them also collide with a Raptor; since they're not trying to dodge it'll almost always hit if you get it lined up correctly.
The GRAD fight is easily the hardest part of the chapter. There's so much that can go wrong with it, there's probably not enough space here to describe all of it. For a tl;dr, basically it's an enemy type that I don't think works in groups(especially with another GRAD), and with how much shit it constantly fires it's horrible for the room it's placed in. Things are always exploding and whatnot, and it just ends up being a total nightmare for not getting hit. Awful boss, and in my opinion the worst one in the game.
