Re: [Act] - RJ138022 - 大デスホモマン村
The approach to the first boss is fairly straightforward, and these are the easiest chests to explore. I'd recommend getting the golden armor before confronting the boss.
I never was able to figure out her patterns since they vary. But if you use the gold armors charge move to get super-lances you can take her out right away with a blitz if you aim carefully.
The next area isn't as hard as it looks at first. Focus on the harpies first, and count your shots. One shot, one kill. Be very methodical. The slime girls are much easier when they're on the platform trying to crawl over to you. (I also don't know if they have any h-scenes, wasn't able to trigger any). When the level opens up to the right just book it. Kill only what you absolutely have to and ignore the rest.
The plant section will be an absolute pain in the ass if you're not yet familiar with the jump section. You've probably noticed that when you jump, you're locked into your jump trajectory. This is actually somewhat of a blessing here. Also, the side scrolling platforms run on clockwork, there's nothing random about them. This whole area is actually fairly short and set-up like clock-work. There are many places where you're about to get pulled into a plant girl and just need to do a simple vertical jump to safetly land on whatever happens to be below. There's only one area where the timing is intentionally off a cycle so you have to jump backwards on some platforms. This also affords you time to get and break the chest which pretty much happens to always have a golden armor.
The plant boss is... well... I used a mix of luck and practice with her. You want to be familiar with how to jump in one direction while attacking in the other. If you jump away, and press towards her, you'll turn and be able to shoot backwards. This is good. If you hit her enough she'll back off. If you accidently switch keys or get hit by one of her projectiles its usually an insta-kill as it will send you flying straight into her.
The monsters in the tree-trunks are easier than you may think. They will fire on your position - assuming you are standing. They won't account for you kneeling and the shots will always graze over the top of your head as long as you keep kneeling.
Spiders are difficult. Don't fall down, don't pick up the hatchet weapon by accident, use the time delay on the collapsing platforms to fully kill the spider on the next "safe" platform before actually jumping across it. You will then have a falling platform sequence dropping down into a huge cavern. Don't spend too much time trying to memorize the pattern. Get as far right as you can. If you jump off of the upper-right platform you'll land safetly past an ambush succubus. If you fall a little but can still recover you can jump from a "safe" platform and make it to safe ground as well... but have to deal with a high-health succubus.
The following boss will roll spiked balls at you, while attacking from below with area-denial tentacles, while moving water pushes you back towards an instant kill pit. Golden armor, charge up, introduce her to immense pain before she has a chance to get her pattern started, and all it will take is a few more hits.
The next areas introduce another type of succubi. They evade your attacks and will dive-bomb you. Interesting note: the dive bombs won't actually hit you (at least they never did me). It's also the only time you can hit them without them dodging. So wait for them to fly above and perforate them.
There will be two plant bosses later on as a gateway but they're more stationary. Good place to practice jumping right before attacks so they fly high rather than at you. Not nearly as hard now. Than you come against the succubus queen herself. Her pattern is counter-intuitive in that you can hit her while she's in batform. You won't do damage but you can sorta deflect her charge. Now for the finesse part. Remember those special jumps for the first plant boss? And the leading of the shots for the pair of them? Yeah, both of those techniques now. Though its not really worth beating her. It really is better to let her seduce you or backtrack to one of the flower bosses (you can climb back down the ladder) and just surrender your heroic struggle into one of their eager bodies... again and again.
