[Maiden & Spell] Perfect True Magnuses
0Great unique indie shmup, these are very tough but short patterns accessible in the extras menu. Getting a "perfect" rating just means not getting hit, but you only have 2HP in this mode anyways so there's not a big difference between clearing and getting a perfect. I didn't do these in this order, but rather did the easiest ones first and saved the ones that gave me trouble for last -- so the last ones for me were Wabbajack, Thorn Bind, and Supernova.
Just some brief notes on some of them:
Fire Magnus: Supernova -- The beams' hitboxes are actually smaller than the model, I marked the exact spot I needed to move above/under using sticky notes and then just focused on dodging the orbs while alternating moving up and down. This pattern is fixed, so you can learn exactly which orb strings you need to go above/below.
Life Magnus: Thorn Bind -- This is the hardest pattern by far, took me at least 6 hours. The butterflies are random, but you can kinda force the boss' movement towards you be getting further away, to guarantee a stun wave hit. Generally you want to get into a rhythm of back and forth, and roll/stun wave as needed when in trouble, ideally hitting the boss with stun waves as well.
Steel Magnus: Orichalcum Mail -- pretty straightforward, just dodge horizontally and move down while in a gap if you need to adjust for the horizontal wave.
Dark Magnus: Wabbajack -- Mostly copied this route from Jaimers, but since green girl has been nerfed you need to last longer. The route you need to take is pretty fixed, and then the poison bullets will just screw you over sometimes.
Lightning Magnus: Ground Shave Roll -- Try not to move too much at a time to avoid the lightning, and just adjust around the balls. Not too tough.
Death Magnus: Redsilk Weave -- Fixed pattern, I can't read the crisscross bullets very well so just memorized a route that worked. I only move up/down so I can keep my spot easily between runs.
Water Magnus: Superball -- Pretty easy pattern, it seems to work to bait her initial shots into corners so they leave your part of the screen faster.
Light Magnus: Imperishable -- I'm really, really bad at reading the curving bullet waves, so this was mostly just managing ability cooldowns and hoping I got lucky when I had to move through a wave.
This was for achievements:
"Finding Truth" - Clear all True Magnuses.
"Understanding Truth" - Perfect all True Magnuses.
Timestamps:
00:00 Fire Magnus: Supernova
00:42 Life Magnus: Thorn Bind
01:27 Steel Magnus: Orichalcum Mail
02:22 Dark Magnus: Wabbajack
03:04 Lightning Magnus: Ground Shave Roll
03:51 Death Magnus: Redsilk Weave
04:31 Water Magnus: Superball
05:00 Light Magnus: Imperishable
05:30 Results Screen