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Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (1987)

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Boss 3: Vagullion
Nightmare Mode

At the lower depths of Rastin Mine, Adol comes unfortunately comes across another beast guarding the next Book of Ys...

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...And it's easily the toughest boss in the game. First of all, to actually win this battle you basically need to be max level (level 10) and have the Silver Sword. Even then, it requires some fair amount of forethought and a lot of patience in order to actually win.

Vagullion is a demon in bat form that disperses into a cloud of smaller bats in order to ravage its victims, and its what single-handedly took down the town of Rastin which was centered around this silver mine. In this small room, you have to find out the best way to dodge the cloud of bats and wait for it to reform into its true form in order to attack it. Unfortunately, it's true form lasts for a split second and tends to have a residue hitbox of the bats still forming, so you may get damaged even though it seems it's finished transforming if you strike a nanosecond to early.

The only real method of survival is to run in a square-circle around the room, since the bats will demolish your HP quickly if you get caught in them. The best way I always tackled this was to run in a octagon-like motion around the corners of the room instead of a smooth curve. Not running too far ahead also means a higher chance that they will be grouped together better when you try to make an escape to the opposite side of the room. It's hard to do this perfectly even then, since there will always be an outlier that will hit you, and all of the single bats do the same damage so *shrug*. The upper-left corner has always been a problem for me, but without too many mistakes and not letting a few hits deter you its possible.
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After that nightmare of a fight Adol recovers the third Book of Ys, the Book of Dabbie. There's also an extra room beyond the Book that holds some importance a bit down the road, but as for now the third book marks the end of the first half of the game.

Game: Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished Omens / イース -ANCIENT Ys VANISHED OMENS-
Release Date: 21/06/1987 (PC-8801), 22/02/2011 (PSP-North America)
System: PSP
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