If this part of the game is frustrating you, do yourself a favour and put your controller down. A lot of these boss encounters are doable if you take a breather and don’t let yourself get worked up. I took a whole day off between my Glove attempts!Welcome to the most challenging level and boss fight in the game; due to the scarce number of check points, dying will come at a steep cost and the boss on this train (The Glove) is by far the hardest boss in the game. However, if you can manage to beat him, the rest of the game is a walk in the park.
Like many of the other bosses, trial and error through repetition will help you learn his attack patterns as he does telegraph his attacks pretty early but it’s the speed with which he executes his attacks that I struggled with. With each passing round of 3 different attacks each, they’ll start coming at you faster and what’s particularly challenging is when he launches the blocks at you.
The battle sequence can be broken down into rounds and each rounds is made up of 3 different attacks:
- 4 waves of block attack
- 2/3/4 fists
- 1/2 focused shot(s)
Normally, I would take my time and milk this battle but with each passing round, the blocks come at you faster, the number of fists and speed with which they attack increase and the number of focused shots and lock on speed also increase. This uptick in tempo got to the point where I could barely see the blocks coming at me, let alone dodge them or successfully land attacks between rounds.
StrategyIf you can manage a near perfect run of your first two rounds, for the rest of the encounter, forget about dodging the 4 waves of blocks and take the hits so that you can focus on attacking the boss/regenerating your health and, hopefully like me, you’ll have him beat by the end of the 4th round!
EditI had a video to accompany this wall of text but between my console and the Xbox network, can’t find the video anywhere anymore?!
