Castlevania Lament of Innocence
	posted Sunday, October 1, 2006

Joachim bossrush. He has two stances.

His first stance is weak but barely has any delay. The angle of its attack is also good for shielding you from objects coming your way. Good for large and slow moving bosses.

His second stance hard a lot harder but has loads of delay after the attack. Homes in to bosses better than the first stance so it's good for fast moving bosses. You can also stay far from bosses and play keepaway with this stance.

Bosses:

Fire Elemental: I use second stance starting from here to Undead Parasite. Pattern here is also easy. I fire off one sword, if he blocks, I break his defense with Joachim's second stance special (laser). If he doesn't block, I fire off four swords and then use laser (you must at least have one sword with you in order to use his specials). After that will decide if you're going to get a good time or not. If he does three slashes during your laser, he'll end up being near you after you finish your laser. After that he will move likely doing either a two slash or three slash attack (better if it's three). Fire off four swords then do another laser. Repeat until you're finished firing your third laser, then fire off all five swords at him. If done right, he will die. If not, you're going to waste time reloading your swords.

Ice Elemantal: Easy. Just circle around her while shooting her and avoiding her attacks. Laser doesn't tun her so it's useless.

Lightning Elemental: Part of the Fire Elemnatl pattern works here. I try to save at least one laser for the next fight.

Doppelganger1: He always gives you a free combo at the start so I took advantage of it and used a laser. After that it's just circling around him while shooting him.

Doppelganger2: I used the same tactic as I did from Doppelganger1. Only difference is that Doppelganger2 doesn't give you a sure combo at the start.

Undead Parasite: Here's where my laser firing skills come in. If used correctly you can hit two eyes with one laser. I pretty much destroyed all the eyes flawlessly. As for it's 2nd form, it will go underground after you fire a laser so I kept shooting at it instead and used the laser as the last attack to kill it.

Golem: Here's where I finally change to first stance. I didn't do so well since I got hit a couple of times which also causes me to fly backwards wasting some time. Luckily Joachim has a superb dash so I was able to get back into the fight in no time.

Succubus: Back to second stance. It also seems she has a thing for me since she just lets me shoot her to death.

Medusa: I was tempted to fire a laser at the start, but if she does her rock attack before she dies, I couldn't afford to fire off another laser since I would need the MP for the next fight. So I decided to play safe.

Joachim: Back to first stance. Nothing special here other than doing the first stance special when he attacks without his shield up. I also decided to get a potion after the fight even though I had 85% health since the next battle pretty much wears off most of my health.

Forgotten One: His first form is hardest in my opinion, if lucky you won't have to fire a laser to clear out the maggots. Nothing special about second form. Same goes to third form other than using your laser to survive his laser.

Walter: Used second stance. Nothing special, just used the laser to survive his explosion.

Death. Used first stance. Remember how I said Joachim's first stance attacks can shield you from incoming attacks? Here's a good example, by shielding off the skel bombs. Used laser to avoid Death's tempests.

Overall I'm satisfied with this time. Golem, Medusa and a few other parts could've been better if I could read the future but meh. :P As for a faster time, most of it will come down to luck (wanting a boss to do a certain attack).

Enjoy!

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