A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. So yes, you can do all of these fights without parry, but the parry mechanic was obviously meant to be used on both of the fights and to have to ignore it because its so clunky just isn't good game design.In Cyber Shadow, the world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. Not to mention that he sometimes will double up on the shots so its harder to dodge and in theory easier to parry (especially on his 2nd phase). You can dodge them sure, but then you loose a ton of time to attack him. Part 2, he throws out those orbs that have no real telegraph. The second is the standard enery ball followed by a low to the ground pointy energy shot. Sometimes it's high enough that'll it pass over your head. Don't bother trying to parry that one, just dodge it. One is the standard energy ball followed by a high up pointy energy shot. Thinking about it, did you mean the second phase of Alpha V1? Where he starts shooting twice in a row? There are two different attack styles when he double shoots. I guess unless you're doing it for some personal achievement, which at that point, why get mad at the developer for trying to beat it in a way it wasn't designed to? Just jump attack or airstrike the red eye energy-ball offspring shooter thingy in the middle of his chest. There is no requirement to parry Alpha V2 whatsoever. Alpha V2 you have to do it by starting with no SP. Originally posted by Spooky Electric:What are you talking about you have to attempt to do the same thing? The achievement to parry is only for Alpha V1.

I am fine with all of those old game conventions but damn its frustrating to have to deal with these controls.

Also fine with how slow the character moves and the knock-back (in fact most of these make the game challenging in a fun way). I'm fine with the choice to not let the main character crouch or aim the attacks. It just feels like I am being punished because of the control choice, not because I don't have the game knowledge or hand eye coordination. As a result the difficulty curve of this game just feels really skewed. Been grinding it for a like 4 hours now and still haven't been able to beat him. Then on his 2nd form, you have to attempt the same thing, except this time the projectiles are in mid air.

On Subject Alpha phase 1, you basically have to parry all of his attacks if you want to do damage to him (took me a long time to get that one down). With the way it currently is, I can't seem to find the timing to get the parry to work especially in the air. Feels like a huge oversight to not even let us rebind the equipment button combos. Back in the day that was a thing because we had smaller controllers, now a days some devs still do it but typically its to the game's detriment. Like yes, this is a very nostalgic game but the old control schemes were not always the best especially when they tried to bind 30 actions to one button. I get that the developer was trying to emulate old 8 bit titles but they didn't need to completely translate over the controls too. Playing on a controller and having this move bound to forward is just terrible.

Was really loving this game until I got the parry.

Cyber shadow parry