Ys X Nordics Boss 28: Mag Mell Manannan (End of Chapter 8)

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Published on October 7, 2023 11:02:24 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWnWQ6xdIUU

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Ys X: Nordics (2023)

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Chapter 8 has a lot of big story reveals but it's by far the most linear chapter with only one proper boss fight... time to kill Larg.

Difficulty: 9/10

Not gonna be easy though because this fight has a bit going on.
Phase 1 with some melee swipes, a boomerang blade, and some tornadoes and deadly feathers.
Phase 2 has him start incorporating perilous attacks of both physical and mana variety as well as using his tornado powers to give himself a spinning thrust move.
Phase 3 begins at 2/3rds HP where he summons up some fog and you have to find him and he'll start countering after he's been brough down adding an aerial swipe or a thrust.
Phase 4 begins at 1/3 HP where he gains the ability to use any of his attacks whenever he wants. Also when he gets to around 1% HP he'll throw up the fog one last time and you need to counter his perilous attack to get the final blow. That being said since the trigger for this is at so low HP it's entirely possible to skip this last bit by just nuking him when he health bar is almost gone.

Either way a fun as hell boss fight but way harder than Yolds was.

STORY STUFF:
SIT THE HELL DOWN BOYS AND GIRLS IT IS STORY TIME. So after the destruction of the Naglfar and killing off Yolds we make our escape only for us to start being fired on by King Crimson of all people. Why exactly? Well Karja is the Descendant (or maybe reincarnation I'm not 100% sure) of someone known as Rollo the creator of the Griegers and also a monstrously powerful berserker.
Either way we get saved by Larg (and possibly Odr but he didn't show up in person so not sure) because he sees LoLo and by extension Karja has the lord of the griegers. After getting to safety he guides us to the place where Lira is. He also mentions that if he told Karja everything about Rolloshe would likely go berserk on the spot and instead we should meet with Lira.

So one fun dungeon later, I mean that by the way, we find Lira chained up and sealed. And Larg then says she'll be able to answer our questions but to break her seal we have to kill him, which will mean Karja absorbs his powers increasing her berserk... levels? I guess, and more importantly he wants to go out being the cool villain.
Afterwards Lira is saved and she joins your crew with her own affinity gauge and everything.

Also mild spoiler but it's revealed the natures of the three grieger generals spawned from LoLo.

Odr - Arrogance
Yolds - Lust
Larg - Imagination (I think, not 100% on that one)

Since Karja shares a blood relation to LoLo she could be used as a Vessel for the 3 different forms of the griegers effectively becoming a reincarnation of LoLo. Lira warns us to avoid fighting Odr so she can't become their vessel but Karja remembers that Orochimaru curse mark thing he put on Adol and straight up tells her "no I think we have to kill him or Adol is gonna die"

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