*blocks your path*

>>381212212
If there was any pattern to how the boost guardian accelerated in morph ball mode, this fight would not have been an issue.

This on hard on the GC was a complete roadblock, pretty much impossible to pass.
On the trilogy version it's no big problem since you can shoot it while in puddle form too.

>>381212328
I think the idea was to use the four pillars to get health drops as efficently as possible.

There wouldn't have been anything wrong if it didn't enter that yellow invincible puddle form. Impossible to get morph boms off without taking a ton of damage yourself, and half the time it goes full retard and loops right back into yellow puddle form.

>>381213076
there's 2 variants of puddle form
one form can be stunned by using bombs
the other form, while it cannot be targeted CAN be hurt by weaponry. Light beam is especially efficient against it.

>>381212212
This was the most intense fight in the entire series.

I'm not surprised that nobody from Retro was even able to defeat it. Shitty playtesters are ubiquitous.

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>>381212212
*blocks YOUR path*
*makes you go back to the nearest save station 8 miles away*

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>>381214765
>Actually dying to the Spider Guardian

>>381215130
>not playing the NTSC Hard mode on your first run of the game where if you get hit a few times you die

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*Teleports behind you*

>>381214765
Is it a joke? I never even considered this a boss but more like a puzzle, this was never hard.

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This guy on Trilogy tho. His lasers now hold you in place so you take full damage and free aiming makes it harder to aim around his legs

>>381216398
I'll ask again.

When you played Echoes, did you play it with the NTSC version, on the Gamecube on Hard mode?

If, for example, you played Trilogy, or the PAL Gamecube version, you were fighting a massively gimped boss.

>>381216656
I only experienced the Gamecube version, in both run I don't even remember having issue with that, maybe I am just good with morph ball.

>>381216926
>maybe I am just good with morph ball.

Perhaps. If you fucked up even a little bit due to the AOE of the shockwave attack you were screwed on higher difficulties.

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>>381215251
>>381216656

Wait a minute, the NTSC version of Echoes is harder than the PAL version? You sure?
That's really weird, because I distinctly remember the opposite being true for the original Prime!