The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian (PS2) - The Sphinx quick kill
20Just a random observation that makes this boss fight much faster.
This boss is inaccessible until you hit one of the glyphs in front of it. After hitting a glyph, a temporary bridge appears, but at the same time a large sandstorm will whisk you away to the far end of the area, and you have a limited amount of time to run back up to the boss while dodging projectiles to damage it.
You can skip getting whisked away by the sandstorm if, after hitting the glyph, you manage to run far enough on the temporary bridge and do a strong attack. For some reason the sandstorm only stuns you for a second instead of pulling you away, thus leaving you near the boss and allowing you to deal far more damage to it before the bridge vanishes and the process has to be started over again. This trick lets you two-cycle the boss instead of the normal four- or five-cycle completion.
You only have enough time to do this if you get either the yellow or the green glyph, since those are closer to the bridge.