Topic: Push Square Game Club Spooktacular: Resident Evil 4

@nessisonett Electric eel colossus is primarily just a lot of positioning and waiting. Time it so that you crawl up and disable the spines on its back AFTER they're done discharging electricity.

@Ralizah I got that bit down, the problem was that the electricity’s area of effect is a lot larger than it looks on screen. Does a lot of damage too.

@nessisonett I get what you mean, it's taken a while for me for the game to click. I'm starting to dig it a bit more and beat the 8th colossus this morning, which might have been my favourite colossus so far.

I've just beat the 10th colossus, safe to say I won't be popping the trophy for beating the game without dying. It was such a weird fight, like tremors (the kevin bacon classic movie) meets the camera from nameless King boss fight with a horse that's hard AF to control. Not going to lie, I'm nor sure I'm finishing this before elden ring comes out

@R1spam just best the 10th Colossus this morning too. Picked it back up again for the first time in a week or so. The bosses that rely on your horse can be annoying. Controls weirdly and stops out of nowhere!

I do wish the controls had been updated with the game too, because the bosses themselves and the mechanics are really good. Clunky controls just let it down at times!

Edit; forgot to add, I found the 9th Colossus very easy, did anybody else?

@NedStarksGhost I think its that the direction of the left stick doesn't change for your direction when the camera perspective changes, brutal! Yeah, I was lucky with that one too. Took more damage from falling than any poison cloud

@R1spam yep, that doesn't help. I use the claw grip so that alleviates that aspect a fair bit for me.

I do enjoy the Colossus fights though, think it's a great mix of puzzle and action

Just beat 11, did not enjoy that. Was quite frustrating getting the timing right.

@NedStarksGhost @R1spam I’m on the 9th colossus and gave up for now. Just did not want to register the fact it was sitting on top of the geyser. Even when I shot an arrow into its foot, the bloody thing didn’t tip over. Annoying.

@nessisonett that sucks. Which foot did you try? Because nothing happened for me at first either.

@NedStarksGhost I noticed one of the feet had a glowing green thing so I shot that. It did a bit of damage but the colossus didn’t tip over like I thought it would.

@nessisonett I tried the front foot first and nothing happened. I then ended up trying the rear foot and it toppled over. Might be you need to shoot both for it to work or only the rear foot works?

@NedStarksGhost Could well be that I need to hit both as I think I hit the front foot. I’ll give it a go before I play Horizon tonight!

@nessisonett If you hit the green spot on the feet that are on the ground once it gets hit by a geyser, it should tip over. I've never had an issue triggering that.

@Ralizah Just to double check, an arrow should do the trick? I hit it with an arrow and the colossus definitely made a pained noise but it just did not tip over at all.

@nessisonett Yep. Shoot the green spots on its feet with arrows. Both feet. The exposed ones that are on the ground (NOT in the air) when it's destabilized by the geyser. This causes it to lose balance and flip over. That'll allow you to reach its underside and climb on.

@Ralizah Both feet is the problem, I had only shot one of them!

@Ralizah @nessisonett that explains it then. I did the same, only shot one. Happened to be stood differently the second attempt and shot the other

@nessisonett aye you need to shoot two feet.

So I beat Colossus 13 and 14 last night. I have to say I do love how varied fights are. Makes the game interesting. As I've progressed I feel I've gotten a better understanding of how to approach them so I'm solving it quicker.