When you lastly confront Taro’s spirit in Kena: Bridge of Spirits, you will uncover that the trauma of injuring himself, dropping observe of his youthful siblings, and turning into misplaced within the Forgotten Woods has reworked him into Corrupt Taro, an aggressive werewolf-like beast with a glowing sword. This is Bridge of Spirits’ first important problem spike–prepare your self for a battle that is much more difficult than something you’ve got confronted up up to now.Like most boss fights in Bridge of Spirits, Corrupt Taro has two phases–the battle will go into the second part once you cut back Taro’s well being to roughly half. The boss battle takes place in a reasonably round enviornment, with two of the therapeutic flowers positioned on the outer edges, reverse one another. That means you will solely be capable to heal twice for the whole battle. Ideally, you will need each flowers for Phase 2 (particularly on the tougher problem modes), so attempt to beat the boss’ first part with out getting hit an excessive amount of so you do not have to heal.
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Now Playing: Kena: Bridge of Spirits Hardest Difficulty Gameplay
Abilities You Should Unlock Beforehand: Sprint Attack Heavy, Perfect Charge, Parry Counter, Parry Courage, Focus, Rot Hammer, Enter the FrayPhase 1As the battle begins, Taro will start to maneuver in direction of you. Ideally, you might have Enter the Fray unlocked, permitting you to start out each battle with a Rot motion out there. Focus on Taro and ship the Rot on the corruption on his proper shoulder, beautiful him. This will trigger him to flail about, and alter the colour of his proper shoulder to a shining blue. Pull out your bow and use Focus to decelerate time so you possibly can simply shoot and detonate the power.Following this detonation, Taro will probably be surprised. Sprint in direction of him and use a Sprint Attack (ideally heavy to deal extra harm however the mild variation works too), after which get three extra mild assaults on him. At this level, he’ll start to recuperate and make a transfer as if he’ll push you away–it’s all a present. If you are fast, you may get just a few extra assaults on him whereas he is standing up, and that ought to imply you’ve got now hit him sufficient occasions to cost sufficient Courage to make use of one other Rot motion. Hit him with a Rot Hammer.When Taro regains his composure, he’ll put together to assault you. In Phase 1, he would not have too many alternative assaults however all of them hit fairly laborious and Taro is quick sufficient that it is tough to maintain observe of him when you aren’t locked on. In this part, his commonest assault is a combo of three swings of his sword–the first two will are available fast succession after which he’ll pause to cost up for a tougher swing. This assault may be fairly simply averted by dodging to your left (Taro’s proper) beneath the primary swing and behind him. Just be ready to dodge once more, as he can generally pull a full 180 flip for his third swing. Taro might also do a single swing lunge assault or a leaping assault that ends with him touchdown and swinging at you three (and sometimes, 4) times–you can dodge beneath each strikes.If you are assured in parrying, the ground-based assaults current a super alternative to parry Taro–that will open him up so that you can reply with Parry Counter and when you have Parry Courage unlocked, you will achieve a Rot motion. Assuming that is what you do, hit him with Rot Hammer once more.If that is not what you do, dodging previous Taro’s assaults will open him up, permitting you to hit again. You can often get in two mild assaults earlier than he leaps away, making ready to assault you once more. You must also have sufficient time to get in a single heavy attack–which is nice when you have Perfect Charge unlocked and might deal further harm for a superbly timed heavy assault.There’s one different transfer it’s worthwhile to be cautious of on this part. Taro hardly ever makes use of it (particularly on the decrease problem modes) but it surely’s value calling out. Sometimes, a purple aura will seem round Taro–this is his Phase 1 unblockable assault. It’s an area-of-effect burst of power that can’t be parried or defended towards with Shield. You simply have to acknowledge it and dodge out of the best way. Thankfully, you might have loads of time to take action.At this level, it is time to push Taro into his second part. Take discover of the lantern round his neck. Pull out your bow and use Focus to line up a shot and shoot the lantern–it will trigger the hearth inside to burst out, briefly blinding and beautiful Taro. Run in and get your sprinting assault on him and preserve hitting him till you might have a Rot motion prepared. Use Rot Hammer, and that must be sufficient harm to push Taro into his second part. If it is not, repeat this course of.Phase 2You’ll know Phase 2 has begun when an orangish glow begins showing round Taro. Flee, dodge, no matter you gotta do to get out of there–he’s about to launch a small however hard-hitting fiery area-of-effect assault.After expelling the power, Taro will leap again, cost up and sprint proper at you with a pace he has not displayed earlier than. Go for the dodge after which prepare as a result of he’ll try to swing at you three extra occasions and at last slam his sword down on you for a fourth strike. Taro’s sword will then explode (damaging you when you’re nonetheless within the neighborhood). Without a weapon, Taro will start crawling alongside on all fours–in this part he now not has the vary of his sword however he makes up for it in sooner assaults.In this part, Taro has entry to all of the assaults he had earlier than, albeit they’re sooner. He’ll additionally begin scampering across the outskirts of the world, ready for his likelihood to strike. He’ll both flip and bounce at you with each fists raised, flip and bounce at you together with his proper hand cocked again, or flip and run at you. If each fists are raised, he is on the point of descend on you with a floor pound that reverberates out, dealing area-of-effect harm. If his proper hand is cocked again, he’ll land on you and claw at your face, additionally swinging his tail to hit you when you try to dodge behind him. These assaults hit laborious however they’re pretty straightforward to dodge when you roll away from Taro as he assaults.The final assault is a bit tougher to cope with. If Taro begins operating at you, he is making ready to lunge. If he lunges at you and you don’t dodge to both aspect quick sufficient, he’ll seize you and squeeze you till Kena’s physique makes a terrifying snapping noise, dealing a whole lot of harm. This assault is unblockable–you can’t use Shield or a parry to counter it, nor are you able to hit Taro with an arrow to stun him out of the assault. Once the assault is in movement, you possibly can solely dodge it or (assuming it is lit) shoot the lantern round Taro’s neck to blind him and journey him up.Regardless of what Taro does, your objective stays the identical. Wait till his lantern lights up, shoot it with an arrow to stun him, after which preserve swinging on him till you might have sufficient Courage to make use of Rot Hammer. Rinse and repeat. Eventually, he’ll fall.