Sin & Punishment: Stage 2-1 & 2-2 (Normal)
4The battle in Tokyo was quite a climatic one.
Saki had defeated Kachua, and then did it again, this time as both of them had become Ruffians. Titanic Ruffians...
At this point, Kachua was dead, and her close friend, Commander Brad, did not take this news well. He wanted revenge against Saki for this, as well as against Achi, who gave her blood to Saki to enable his Ruffian powers.
Achi & Airan were able to escape inside one of the Armed Volunteers ship and away from detection.
But this changed when they found out that Brad and his Volunteers were planning to kill Saki, who was still in his massive Ruffian form.
Not standing for this, Airan Jo changed her outfit and led the charge against Brad!
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Airan plays exactly like Saki did throughout all of Stage 1. The main difference is that her voice sounds more energetic whether she's jumping or getting hit. "NOOOOOOO!"
For Stage 2, make your way through the ship and watch out for all of the enemy hazards and traps you find here.
The first boss you fight here is Leda. That little mouse creatre that talks to Brad. She seems to be a Ruffian, herself, but why is Brad associating with Ruffians at all...?
Leda will keep hiding behind the pillars you fight on. You gotta move around them to find an opening to shoot at the little critter from.
But then Brad gets angry and tries to flood the opneings with shockwaves. From this point, Leda will stay on the pillars, so you'll have to instead head close to the one she's own, jump, and sword slash her, instead.
You bring her health down, but she survives and escapes, and then it back to raiding against the robots.
One of these robots is a boss called the Vigilanced System.
After beating it, you keep chasing after Leda, but then run into the Anemone Seemer. Destroy each of its four legs to expose its three weakspots. Destroy that and then you'll have to destroy the legs again to get to another weakspot.
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After that, another Ruffian, the Crawfish Seemer, captures Achi and then you're on a wild goose chase to destroy it and get her back.
Airan had wished that Achi just teleported out from his cage, but this got Achi angry over how dangerous doing that is on a whim.
Brad had suspected that Airan, like Saki, also had Achi's special blood in her, and wanted to take them on, himself.
Luckily, Airan arrived in time to settle that score with him.
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You can't hit Brad, yet, though, he'll just keep dodging you as he prepares his aim at you.
Go after Leda when she's in front, but watch out when she's behind you as she'll lay some bomb traps against you.
Once Leda is killed once and for all Brad will attack more aggressive, using a sword of his own.
CLASH against him, again and again to deflect his strikes. When he goes for a leaping strike...
COUNTERATTACK! Keep sending him to the window until smashes right through it! This will complete Stage 2-1.
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For Stage 2-2...
Turns out that Brad survived the fall, as he also contained Achi's special blood through his veins that gave him special powers. Achi just wasn't expecting Brad to use his powers for experiments, such as how Leda couldn't change back into a human...
To fight back against Brad and what was left of the Armed Volunteers, Achi ripped the floor she and Airan were standing on to give them some leverage and a wild ride.
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Just keep shooting down everything that you can for more Points, more Life, and more Time.
You're not just fighting more Volunteers, here, but also Ruffians that seem to be teaming up with them...!
The bosses you'll fight here include Near Zero Minor, Raptor Seemer, Sentry Machinery, and Mother Crow.
This finishes with one more battle against Brad as he rides right on top of the Malacia. Focus more on deflecting shots back at his ride for faster damage.
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Airan successfully defeats all of the Armed Volunteers, while Achi... is rather disturbingly thrilled by the fireworks...
Achi then goes on to goad Brad into using his own titanic Ruffian form as a last stand...
...but he chose to die with his men, instead.
Achi confirmed to Airan that Brad set this fight against the Ruffians and Saki up just so he could come out looking like a hero. Since this failed, he'd rather instead just die with his remaining dignity.
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Now it was time to try and take down the superweapon built to destroy Ruffian Saki.
First, you must defeat the Earth Eyelid "Rear Crater", and then after another obstacle course, the finale of Stage 2-3.
The superweapon unleashes its Limited Range Heatbomb: The Polestar, meant to kill Ruffian Saki with one shot.
YOU MUST DESTROY THIS SHELL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. If it gets too close, it's instant-death!
If you were comfortable using Auto Aim this far into the game, you're gonna have to switch to Manual Aim, because Auto Aim will never help you do enough damage in time to destroy the Polestar. You'll need to make every hit count, include sword hits when the shell gets really close to you.