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Counter-Strike: Source (2004)

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Sora is like level 40 and Riku is like level 44, the frogs are both like level 37ish and Cera Terror is the off slot spirit. In the ansem fights I think Riku was a level lower and he didn't have drop bonuses, but the other fights had full drop bonuses.

Anyways, I've never really done these bosses properly even though they are kind of interesting. The ansem and young nort fights multiple bosses in a row, so in my playthroughs where I don't use continues I'm more concerned with just winning them consecutively than getting clean fights. As for Xemnas, I just plain don't like him so I never bothered. But here we are, I finally put in the effort to learn these bosses and not cheese them. The Xemnas fight here is actually cropped right out of my current playthrough, but the other ones I did off recording since I had to use retries to get good fights with each boss in a row, when I upload the actual playthrough the fights against those bosses will be a sloppier, but consecutive, like I tend to prefer for my full playthroughs.

Anti Black Coat Nightmare is kinda dumb, he's mostly pretty okay, but he can sort of just have hyper armor and attack you during most openings so if you want a clean fight you have to be very careful about when you attack and I only found two particularly good openings. Also the attack where he spikes you from the ground and sends HP orbs everywhere has almost no wind up at close range so if he does it when you're close to him you basically just die most the time. He's a decent fight I guess, there's probably more openings I didn't find, but I don't care enough.

Ansem is pretty decent, I finally got a fight where I played against his grounded phase a bit. He's not very hard, but he's decently fun. I don't really have much to say about him, it's just a neat, but tame fight.

Ansem 2 is pretty hard comparatively. I finally learned to actually dodge his DM instead of just walking into the orbs and tanking the hit. He's a surprisingly good and consistent boss. The one bad part is the little shockwave attack before the magic eight ball lookin secondary DM. As far as I know those are just RNG and they kinda ruin the fight a bit, but everything else is pretty fair.

Xemnas is kinda ass cheeks. There's a ton of nonsense in this fight, most of it you can avoid so he's still sort of consistent, but for true consistency you can't rely on counters. So the three big problems I ran into with him where A) his standing lasers, sometimes he just randomly shoots lasers from idle and it's way too fast to react and it comes randomly out of teleports or idle so there isn't much to do about it. The solution is you just always have to be walking sideways to preemptively strafe them, which is annoying, but manageable. B) he teleports behind you to hit around your guard sometimes. The solution is just blocking later than is comfortable to give Sora time to turn around after the teleport, but it's much tighter. Those two things are both relatively fair, but the third final issue is C) sometimes he just hits you after your counter i-frames end. There's nothing to be done about that, sometimes he just goes right into another attack and the hitboxes line up perfectly the window of vulnerability between the counter ending and being able to guard again. To solve this, you'd need to just not rely on guard and counters at all, which is totally doable, but it's way less fun since this fight, imo, works best with counters cuz otherwise you're just running around a ton waiting for the very sparce and short openings he actually has.

I heard a lot of people who did higher end challenges in this game say young nort was actually good, but no one bothers to learn him. They were kinda right honestly. I'd never want to do a longer fight with him, but actually taking the time to learn the gist of his patterns and openings enough to get this relatively short flawless win against him was nice. He's surprisingly consistent and fair when you take the time to learn the whole jumping method to deal with his annoying combos. I don't have much to say other than, yeah he's actually a decent boss with a bad rep and I enjoyed sitting down to actually learn the basics of fighting him enough to get a cleaner and more honest win against him. My damage was really high so I killed him fast, but I did have to learn the basic idea of how you fight him legit to do this and I'm satisfied with it.

Armored Ventus Nightmare is crap and I regret taking the time to get even half decent win against him. Some of his combos are cool, you have to counter and block in certain patterns to deal with his longer combos during the white background which is neat, but otherwise he kinda sucks. I did beat him flawlessly during the fight, but I got hit during the button mashing thing at the end, I don't care about that, but if you wanna count that I didn't no hit him, but I did actually learn his pattern and get clean win against him which is all I really wanted to do.

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