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Post by Lira on Sept 8, 2020 2:31:32 GMT
As a sort of companion to Gfd's level-ranking thread, this week's question asks you to rank the difficulties of Stinkoman 20X6's currently-nine bosses. Which is the easiest to defeat? Which is the toughest? Do you have any tricks or strategies for fighting any of them? Go on and share!
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Post by Gfdgsgxgzgdrc on Sept 8, 2020 4:48:19 GMT
This seemed like a good question for a poll, so I went ahead and added a poll. Hope you don't mind. Now I'm going to go through Discord and rank the bosses based on how many game overs they gave me on my last playthrough.
No stummy hurtings: Brody 1 stummy hurting, but only 'cause the ground vanished: Tampo 1 stummy hurting: Nebulon, An Ice Machine, Harvax XVII 2 stummy hurtings: The Liekand, Ekersby 3 stummy hurtings: Stlunko, Saargtsson
That's weird, I thought I remembered Ekersby being one of the hardest, and Stlunko not being that bad. This may not be entirely accurate, there may be additional stummy hurtings I forgot about. But I'm voting Saargtsson (even though technically Firey-Hot is the more dangerous one). He rarely plays fair.
And I know this isn't what the question asked, but this question got me thinking about which boss was the most fun, and I'd probably say The Liekand. He was the most challenging, but not in a frustrating or repetitive way. He has a whole bunch of attacks to keep the fight from getting stale, and it's fun to come up with strategies and improve each time. There are numerous ways you could go about fighting him. Honorable mention to Harvax XVII, who is a cakewalk if you use your shields, but impossible otherwise.
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Post by Lira on Sept 14, 2020 4:29:28 GMT
Here go my tentative ranking b/w supporting remarks!
9. Tampo: The easiest. Pew pew. I can't remember the last time I was killed by him. 8. Stlunko: I have the Stlunko fight down to muscle memory, so I rarely if ever die to him. Run jump shoot, run jump shoot, robot a splode. 7. Ekersby: An easy fight, but a slow one, and I sometimes get hit by a Downtant or something if I'm being too cocky. Still, I rarely die to Ekersby. 6. Saargtsson: Getting into slightly more difficult territory. Saargtsson is not too bad, but Firey-Hot can corner me sometimes if I'm not being careful about where I run. 5. The Liekand: Can be tricky, especially if I lose track of when he's going to summon lightning. In recent runs I've tried to stay inside of his firing range instead of outside it, and just spam him with shots constantly. He actually gets easier once his bubbles start going wider. 4. An Ice Machine: This guy should be easy, but the ice physics mess me up more often than I'd like. I frequently get impaled by falling icicles. 3. Brody: For being the level two boss, Brody is quite difficult, mostly because of his random movements. Even when I can avoid his orange feet, he often pecks me at inconvenient times. My strategy is usually to stand still and only move when necessary. 2. Harvax XVII: Easier the more shields I have. I almost inevitably take some damage from flying around recklessly and being unable to predict his bullet movement, but it's so fun to hit him in the mouth as soon as he opens it. Harvax sometimes kills me depending on how stressed I am during the fight, but by that point in the game I usually have enough extra mans to not get game over'd. 1. Nebulon: It seems weird to put Nebulon at number one, but I might hazard a guess that he's killed me more times than any other boss. Nebulon is hard because of the frequency and randomness of his shots. My strategy is to knock out his upper eye first, so that only the easier-to-reach eye is left when he starts shooting more.
Most fun? I dunno. Possibly The Liekand. Possibly Stlunko. Possibly Nebulon, when he's not super frustrating. It can be fun to twirl around on the platforms dodging shots, even if I'm not always successful.
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Post by Gfdgsgxgzgdrc on Sept 16, 2020 3:41:10 GMT
Now I kinda feel guilty about adding a poll. Looking over the original post again, it seems like the lack of a poll was intentional, and this thread was more intended for general boss discussion. The addition of a poll almost narrows it down to a simple McDaniels multiple-choice question.
I haven't played the game nearly as much as you have (as you can probably tell), so I haven't beaten each boss enough times to know for sure which ones are easiest or hardest, which is why I couldn't really post a conclusive, in-depth ranking. But now that I've officially played through the entire game in order, and I know I can beat all the bosses, maybe I'll give it a shot someday.
By the way, I find it kind of interesting how are lists are almost reversed — difficult bosses for me are easier for you, and vice versa. Oh, and I too stay within The Liekand's shooting range. That fat mouse suspects nothing.
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