Actraiser (SNES) - Death Heim

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Published on November 12, 2008 1:15:02 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXBTOEqO6Qk

Game:

ActRaiser (1990)

Duration: 9:42

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The final area of this classic SNES game. To make things more interesting, I added a few extra rules. They are as follows:

- Played on the European version's Action mode on Expert difficulty.
- No health-increasing items obtained.
- No spells allowed.

Boss Strategies:

Remember that all the bosses move faster than they did when you originally fought them. This can make them a lot trickier to beat.

Minotaurus:

Believe it or not, the first boss was by far the most annoying and difficult. He jumps around and attacks so fast, he barely leaves himself open for any attacks at all. The most important thing to remember is that he lands where you were standing just as he jumped into the air. The best time to hit him is just when he's coming back down. Don't get greedy and hit him more than once though and jump away from him immediately to avoid both the axe and the projectile axe. Get hit just two times and you'll lose a life and have to start over. It's very tough, I took a hit at one point, but it was worth it to defeat him.

Zeppelin Wolf:

Thankfully, this boss is much easier, though his second form might cause problems. For the first form, he teleports onto the six platforms around the room and fires three projectiles to attack you with. Although these move extremely fast, they are easy enough to avoid, since they are always fired in the same way. They do make it difficult to get close to the boss to hit him, however. The best time to attack is when he teleports onto a lower platform. After he uses the projectile attacks, he will probably use a lightning bolt attack three times. You can get up to five hits on him whilst he does this, but don't get too greedy and be careful that the first bolt doesn't hit you. (It almost did get me during the video) Once he's down to half health or less, he will morph into a wolf. He becomes a lot faster and more agile in this form. Just follow what I do in the video at this point and you should be fine.

Pharaoh:

Probably the easiest boss of all. He'll float around, trying to position himself above you so he can land on you. When he's going to fall down, make sure you move out of the way as fast as possible and try not to get cornered or it'll be difficult to avoid the fireball projectile he fires at you which creates a small pharaoh head enemy on the wall when it hits it. Avoid the arrow this enemy fires by either attacking it or jumping over it. Keep jumping up and attacking Pharao as he's floating in the air, whilst making sure not to land underneath him, and you should win in no time.

Flame Wheel:

Despite taking my second (and final) hit of the video during this boss fight, it's another rather easy battle. The safest place to stand is on the ground, just to the left edge of the lowest platform on the right. When he bounces to the right corner of the room, he'll either bounce up high and down the two platforms to reach the center of the room (Which is when he'll fire five fireballs in an anti-clock wise direction) or he'll quickly move across the ground a random number of times. To avoid this, jump onto the lower platform and jump again when he is about to hit you. He leaves him himself open to attack many times, so keep at it and he should go down.

Kalia:

Boring boss alert. Sorry that I took so long to defeat him; I didn't want to put this fight in double speed, but I had no choice. Kalia is quite an easy boss, but there is the danger of instant-death spikes on the ceiling. (Unless you're playing the US version, they only do damage there) He has three attacks; he'll mostly fire a lightning bolt that'll fire across the floor. This moves very fast, but is rather easy to avoid once you get the hang of it. If you stand underneath him, he'll fall down and try to crush you. He'll fly back into his usual postion, and you'll have a chance to hit him, but as he moves in a zig-zag fashion, it's very likely you'll get hit. I wouldn't reccomend this method of attack at all. Instead, stand in certain parts of the room and Kalia will try to drop the spiked-platforms on you. Make the ones near Kalia drop and stand on one. Face him and attack 2 or 3 times and get off before you get killed by the ceiling. Keep it up and he'll fall eventually. (just don't take as long as I did)

[Not enough room to post the rest, see my video comments]

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