In the Blink of an Eye achievement in Resident Evil 2

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Preparation
Take your time after the G boss fight to get all the ammo along the walls before ascending; there's no need to rush at that point. Tyrant is a bit of a sponge and you'll want to make sure you have enough ammo.
To get the most possible time I'd recommend ignoring pickups along the way to the elevator. On Normal I was able to get by with a RGB mix, one first aid spray, and one frag grenade, so you don't need to be overburden your inventory with too many items. There's a typewriter next to the elevator alongside an item box so make sure you save in case you miss your mark.

The Fight
His weak point is not his head, it is his chest.

You'll see an exposed heart right in the center. Smack that sucker with your bullets. As for dodging his attacks, it's pretty straight forward. Don't be stupid and keep your distance. After going to Red health pop your RGB herb and you can be riskier with your time spent shooting as it'll take 6+ hits to take you down as opposed to just 3.

When he roars and crouches he's pretty much begging to have his chest shot, to take your big opportunity there. Get enough shots in and his big attack will get canceled as he recoils from the shots. Be advised that he's charging up a move that will kill you with a lengthy, unskippable cutscene (the horror!) at orange health. I was unable to successfully dodge this move at orange health each time he got it off on me, but (I assume) running to the right might help some.

The rubble that falls will be an indicator of your progress in the fight. First two large pieces will fall, then another group will create a wall making the arena smaller, then you'll get the AT rocket. Blast the fedora tipper right in his smug face before the clock its 5:00:00 and you're gucci.

I was able to pop this without trying for it with 5 seconds to spare after doing quite a bit of fooling around pre-fight to try and nab all the pickupables which were admittedly unneeded. I only used the handgun and found that my ammo supply was perfectly adequate, but that was because I made a surplus of it using two big powders before my fight with G.

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The charge atrack can be avoided by putting rubble between you two. He will uppercut the boulder into oblivion instead of you.

Also, I did this with 24 seconds left using a dozen magnum rounds and 260 flamer fuel.

Posted by Guirec730 on 12 Mar 19 at 08:31

Downvotes are so unnecessary very good guide. I also was very low on ammo and a majority of my shots were handgun (3 magnum, 0 shotgun). I did have 2 knives and went to town until Ada dropped the launcher.

Posted by Wazowskii Time on 07 Oct 21 at 22:18

You'll probably have the nearby save on your profile if you've just finished 1 playthrough ('Continue' will use the autosave which might be too late, so then select to load your last manual save). You need 2 minutes, starting the fight on 7 minutes, but 90s should be ok.
I was on standard, but only had 2 magnums, 3 shotguns, 2 grenades, 1 flashbang, 2 full healths, 1 damage reduction, then just used the (burst fire) pistol. Used 1 grenade straight away and used magnum and shotgun when I couldn't miss. Took a hit or 3 but was ok - finished him with grenade and flashbang, and pistol hits are quite easy when the boulder gets in his way. I actually missed the RPG somehow, so grabbing it after getting hit again wasted some time, so 90s seems an average time, even with junk ammo. The RPG needs 2 hits, but you can do 2 quick shots point blank and you don't get any of the damage. The flamer doesn't seem effective - pistol alone is probably decent as you will have loads of ammo. Also, if you let Tyrant kill you you will probably get the option to switch to Easy and restart nearby - but he's not very hard on Standard, unless you have no ammo.
You can run around everything on the way, but a plant zombie will grab you, so the quicktime LB knife defence is fine to use and probably quickest, rather than the flamer.
NB: I think this is only for Leon's final boss fight vs Tyrant ('Mr.X').

Posted by Goatlips on 28 Jan at 23:25

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