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Dante -
Geryon (M12)
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Preferred style:
Trickster
- On the bridge:
- If you prefer playing safe, stand to the left near the door behind you and
keep shooting at the horse. If you've stood at the right 'spot',
Geryon will not touch you even as he leaps through the door.
If for some reason it's not working, just double jump over or Sky
Star over it with Trickster.
After running past you for about 4
times, Geryon will stop in the middle
of the bridge doing nothing. There won't be enough time to get close for melee
attacks so I recommend shoot-switching with Spiral and E&I.
Repeat this a few times and the
bridge will collapse after Geryon loses
10-20% of his life, or when the bridge is destroyed by Geryon's arrows.
- If you prefer playing aggressively,
like me, try Helm Breaking
right at the horse as he charges towards
you. Timing has to be
very accurate, but if you succeed, Geryon
will fall over immediately and you can then attack freely until he gets up.
When Geryon gets up, you'll see a huge red bubble appear. Double jump (+ Sky Star) away
and let the horse run past below.
What happens if you touch the bubble is that time
will slow down and you'll have a higher probability of getting run over.
Do this 2 times and the bridge battle will
end.
- Now here's the 2nd stage of
the battle. Geryon will charge at you
before he starts circling the arena
shooting arrows. You have 2 options:
- 1st option - As he charges
at you, jump ONTO Geyron's
carriage, not the horse.
This is not the easiest thing to do
but timing and luck will help. If
you manage to get on it, good. Lock on to the carriage and
attack as much as you can without
falling off.
However, Geryon doesn't run in circles
forever. The moment he runs back to the center
of the arena, jump off the carriage
as you watch blue flames engulf it.
Amost immediately after, Geryon will
proceed to shoot arrows so
run away from them.
- 2nd option - If you prefer
not to jump onto the carriage or that you missed
it, this will be the time
for you to shoot madly. Jump away
whenever Geryon charges at you
and keep shooting. All this time, be careful of his arrows.
As you can see, shooting does LITTLE damage, but it helps refill your
DT.
After a while, Geryon will run in your direction and that means DOUBLE
JUMP (Air Hike is a must),
and shoot to stay in mid-air for a bit until the horse passes
below you. (Be careful of the trailing
flames) Then immediately fall back down and run away from the arrows
he'll shoot at you again.
- After the arrows are over, he'll stomp
the ground and flames will rise. Double jump to avoid;
the timing isn't hard. He'll do that twice
and then stand there doing nothing. So quickly get close
and attack until it falls over. (If it doesn't, it
means you didn't hit it enough.)
I recommend using Helm Breaker (or Killer Bee if you have acquired Beowulf)
to make him fall. Also, use DT if you have it.
(Note that if you can do a Helm Breaker
at Geryon before he stomps and
summons flames a second time, he will fall over
immediately.)
- After it falls, continue attacking
until he disappears and time will slow down.
Geryon will reappear charging
at you from a distance, but don't worry. Even
with slow motion, you should still
be able to jump away from the horse in
time.
- When Geryon's has 30~40% life left, red bubbles will start to appear
in the arena. Get away from them to avoid slow motion. If you touch them,
arrows will appear close by. They can be dodged by double
jumping over them in time, or letting
yourself fall to the ground depending
on how high up above you the arrows are.
(This part of the video demonstration
is included only under Dante Must Die
mode.)
- Geryon's last form of attack is written
in step 5 under Dante
Must Die mode below. I did not
include it in this section because
it rarely occurs in Normal mode. For more information,
please read below.
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[Dante
Must Die mode]
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- Geryon shows no mercy in DMD mode. On
the bridge, he charges at you while shooting
arrows. Shoot all you can while he's still
far away, and when he comes close, double jump
over him. Be careful of the arrows Geryon
may shoot backwards from the carriage.
- Both aggressive and play safe strategies
written above under Normal mode still apply, but I won't recommend playing aggressive.
In DMD mode, making even a single
miss is life threatening. My advice would
be to play safe and just keep shooting on the bridge.
- Also, unlike Normal mode, after running
past you a few times, Geryon won't just
stop and do nothing in the middle of the
bridge. He will stop running, but he will continue
to shoot arrows at you.
- In the arena as in
Normal mode, Geryon will run
in circles shooting arrows. This time,
occasionally, he will run around not only
in one circular direction. After running
a few laps in, say, anti-clockwise direction,
he may charge at you and then change to clockwise direction as he continues running
and shooting arrows. Just one thing –
be careful not to get run over.
- Like in Normal
mode, Geryon will soon stop running, shoot arrows and stomp flames.
The difference is that, sometimes, after giving him a few hits after he falls
over, he'll get up quickly and a HUGE red
bubble will appear,
so JUMP AWAY from its range. Then, DOUBLE
JUMP and shoot in mid-air as you watch him swing
his carriage 360 degrees around the arena.
Getting hit once by this ridiculous move
would meaning losing more than 1 full bar
of life, so be prepared.
- When Geryon's life goes down to about
40%, red bubbles will start appearing and
they move pretty fast following you around.
RUN, JUMP and GET AWAY from them. It priorities
over shooting Geryon at this point. Unlike
Normal mode, it
can be hard to dodge the arrows that appear
once you touch the bubbles and they damage
about 2 segments of life each. Time slows
down even more and Geryon tends to
charge at you at the same time. That alone will cost at least half your
entire life.
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Difficulty
ratings
First timer: ****
DMD mode: ****
Camera angle: *
Recommended Weapons
Guns: Ebony & Ivory + Spiral
Arms: Cerberus + Rebellion (or Beowulf in Swordmaster style) |
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