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Jun. 28th, 2010 05:06 pmStill can't beat X-Aletheia, but I'm making some progress, I think.
My previous sticking point was near the end of its second phase (after it summons Tetarti but before it summons Kyriaki.) Every walkthrough and video run and basically every source on this game ever all agree that phase two Kyriaki is pretty much unbeatable, and the answer is to have injected enough serum that you finish off its second phase after Tetarti so Kyriaki just never comes up. My problem before was that I could deal with all of the GUILT it threw at me (except phase two Kyriaki) but I just couldn't get large enough amounts of serum into it quickly enough.
I decided to practice injections for a while. I actually just started a random mission and kept injecting stabilizer before I even opened up the patient, just to get a feel for exactly how long it takes to completely fill an entire syringe and how long it takes to inject the whole thing again, and thus how the timing worked for how quickly I could inject one full serum of something. Interestingly, I thought that my problem was that it was taking too long to fill, but I found out that I was actually filling it just fine, but getting too excited and not holding the injecting phase long enough, panicking and cancelling the injection with about 25% of the serum still in the syringe. Oops.
Confident that I resolved the "I can deal with the GUILT but I can't inject serum fast enough" issue, I tried Aletheia again, and can now regularly (excluding occasional mistakes or bad luck in some of the other attacks) make it to phase three Bythos, where I suddenly have the exact opposite problem.
My previous sticking point was near the end of its second phase (after it summons Tetarti but before it summons Kyriaki.) Every walkthrough and video run and basically every source on this game ever all agree that phase two Kyriaki is pretty much unbeatable, and the answer is to have injected enough serum that you finish off its second phase after Tetarti so Kyriaki just never comes up. My problem before was that I could deal with all of the GUILT it threw at me (except phase two Kyriaki) but I just couldn't get large enough amounts of serum into it quickly enough.
I decided to practice injections for a while. I actually just started a random mission and kept injecting stabilizer before I even opened up the patient, just to get a feel for exactly how long it takes to completely fill an entire syringe and how long it takes to inject the whole thing again, and thus how the timing worked for how quickly I could inject one full serum of something. Interestingly, I thought that my problem was that it was taking too long to fill, but I found out that I was actually filling it just fine, but getting too excited and not holding the injecting phase long enough, panicking and cancelling the injection with about 25% of the serum still in the syringe. Oops.
Confident that I resolved the "I can deal with the GUILT but I can't inject serum fast enough" issue, I tried Aletheia again, and can now regularly (excluding occasional mistakes or bad luck in some of the other attacks) make it to phase three Bythos, where I suddenly have the exact opposite problem.