Legend of Zelda, The: The Minish Cap

Game Boy Advance

GoddessBow 19 Oct 2022 17:38

got it! good lord what luck i had XD it's hard af but more doable than Gyorg really!

Ness64 21 Oct 2022 18:22

I actually had a harder time with Majora, but I feel 100 points is fair considering things can go wrong just from bad RNG at a few points and this is a relatively long battle. As for strategies:

Reborn - Blaine's advice is solid, but I'll add that you're always safest attacking from either side of him with sword beams, just don't try to hit Vaati himself with them too much (it's better to hit him directly, but the sword beam can destroy the fire too!). Keep some distance most of the time and you should be fine, you should only go towards Vaati once you can actually damage him. Once you have to use the Gust Jar, start using it from the side before he summons the eyes. Done right, you'll pull the orbs and the eyes will be vulnerable immediately. Seen here:
https://youtu.be/mpKdEtIMtso?t=47
You actually can pull them from a little further away than in the video, and you'll be at almost no risk of getting hit. Use the wind as a reference, if it's on Vaati you'll pull the orbs for sure.
He also only teleports to 5 specific parts of the arena, use this to your advantage and always move away. Sticking to the upper side of the screen is usually safer, it makes the lasers a non-issue and you mostly have to dodge horizontally/diagonally (sometimes if he shows up on the center).

Transfigured - Easiest form. Mashing actually doesn't help here, you can get this done in just 3 turns if you just spin once each time, and the third time you add an extra hit after the spin. Best seen here:
https://youtu.be/Dk0gUqS_kX8 (got hit once, but otherwise proves my point)
The first eye pattern will always be the bottom one, and you never get the same set twice in a row, so you only need to check 3 different sides per turn. It's best to just keep clearing the field, and it's easiest to attack him when his vulnerable side is flying towards you.

Equip Pegasus Boots and Cane of Pacci before the next part. I'll continue on my next comment.

Ness64 21 Oct 2022 18:49

Wrath - Once this fight starts, immediately dash towards either side and get behind Vaati, towards the top of the screen (careful to not fall off!), then book it to the Minish portal. Stand on it but don't use it yet. As long as you're there, Vaati can't damage you at all. Just wait until he buries the hand, then hop out and move away a bit and it should show up close enough that you can make it back to the portal safely.
The eyes inside the hands can be stunned with the Boomerang, and I feel this is the best time to use the Din's Charm (and/or the Great Spin if you have it), but this is possibly the most RNG-heavy part of all 3 phases, so keep them away as much as you can, and good luck.

Once you get both hands destroyed, you're now at the easiest part of all 3 phases and will probably get this achievement. He alternates between the electric orb and the energy ball, so get 3 clones ready but only spawn them after you dodge the electric orb with Link alone (move away from Vaati and the tiles for this). Don't mash your sword to deflect the ball back, the more you mash the less likely you'll land all 4 orbs. Just get in position quickly and time a good hit.

Much like the second form, mashing is useless for damage at this point. You only need 2 slashes to advance to the next cycle, so charge a spin, hit Vaati with it once, then dispel the clones and move back to the tiles to prepare for the next cycle. He'll die on the third cycle.
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Don't be intimidated just because this is a 100-pointer. If you need practice, keep going after getting hit anyway and see how you do against the later phases. You'll need to know how to deal with all 3 anyway, so might as well learn them sooner. Good luck!

Moka 22 Oct 2022 15:57

Can confirm that the comments here make this seem way worse than it is. The most annoying part is to have to run back to the boss every time you get hit. Just use savestates to practice each phase and you'll be good.

Ness64's advice here is pretty solid, I'd just add that the eye part in phase 3 can actually be made quite free by using the Din charm and the great spin attack. Just charge it, move around carefully and unleash it once you're close enough to the eye and it'll die in no time

Triforce 25 Oct 2022 16:18

F*CK the second phase and it's falling blocks!! I'M FREE!

guineu 6 Dec 2022 21:14

The combat itself is fun, but those three rooms that need to be completed before every retry are really annoying. Wish we had some kind of whitelisted savestates for challenges like this.

ATLow 7 Dec 2022 08:44

"How many seconds in eternity?"

NekoSenpai 19 Dec 2022 18:55

YES, I F*CKING DID IT! IT WAS 3 DAYS OF SUFFERING, IM ONLY A EMOTIONLESS EMPTY VESSEL RIGHT NOW, BUT F*CK THAT CUZ I DIT IT!!! PS: thats bullshit, It dosent worth the suffering

Desty 21 Dec 2022 15:03

As for the three rooms that needs to be completed for each try on hardcore, here's my advices :

-1st room : Bait the spiked boulder by standing in front of the enemy, dodge, and just pass on the side without bothering to kill the enemy. You'll get the timing after a few tries.

-2nd room : Duplicate yourself and use the upgraded great spin attack accross the room. It should easily clear the enemies.

-3rd room : Probably the most difficult for most people. I highly suggest you use the remote bombs. Drop one, wait for a knight to step on it, and kaboom, you have a stunned knight to slash with your sword. Best method to kill them IMO.

BlaineSensei 21 Dec 2022 15:31

@Desty Its much easier to just use the roc cape as soon as you enter the first room.

3rd room for me was easier with the great spin attack and also while using the pegasus boots strat that speedrunners use, run into wall and let the knockback put you behind the nuts.

Ness64 24 Dec 2022 19:08

I used the Remote Bomb method for the 3rd room, but they're good on the 1st room as well. Hit that enemy by throwing the bomb at him like you'd throw a pot, the bomb damages him this way too. Then wait until he walks on top of the bomb and detonate it. Not the fastest method, but it's very safe and doesn't take too long to learn. It's been some time so I might be mistaken, but I think he died on the second or third bomb if you do all this correctly.

SpaceChloe 20 Apr 2023 12:03

It's a really hard fight but the Mirror Shield completely trivialize it. It blocks pretty much all of Vaati's attacks so you can take your time and don't even have to dodge most of them. It makes you safe even from the falling rocks.

I highly recommend that you beat Vaati the normal way once, go get the Mirror Shield, and come back with it to get the achievement.

Good luck!

Sachiel 7 May 2023 22:30

This fucking achievement took me longer than any of my other masters, omg. This is how I did it.
Phase 1: use the red picorite, you kill the eyes in one slash and the Boss in 3 cicles, making This very fast and with less chances to get screwed.
Phase 2: nothing special here, you can use the mirror shield to counter the Rng of the fallen rocks.
Phase 3: go to the lower part of the platform where the boss can't harm you and wait for him to sink one of his arms, run to the shrinking stone and hop on it (don't shrink) wait as long as you need to for the boss to not be in your way when dropping one of his arms. Inside the arms you just need to be careful, you can use the boomerang to stun the eyes for a bit. When you kill both arms the rest is easy, you get 3 clones ready and wait for the boss to shoot the 4 balls. When he does the other attack you can dodge it best the further away you are.

Sachiel 7 May 2023 22:30

This fucking achievement took me longer than any of my other masters, omg. This is how I did it.
Phase 1: use the red picorite, you kill the eyes in one slash and the Boss in 3 cicles, making This very fast and with less chances to get screwed.
Phase 2: nothing special here, you can use the mirror shield to counter the Rng of the fallen rocks.
Phase 3: go to the lower part of the platform where the boss can't harm you and wait for him to sink one of his arms, run to the shrinking stone and hop on it (don't shrink) wait as long as you need to for the boss to not be in your way when dropping one of his arms. Inside the arms you just need to be careful, you can use the boomerang to stun the eyes for a bit. When you kill both arms the rest is easy, you get 3 clones ready and wait for the boss to shoot the 4 balls. When he does the other attack you can dodge it best the further away you are.

Lokomelo 27 May 2023 01:36

This really shoud be divided, at least phases 1 & 2 from phase 3

Jonny8567 2 Sep 2023 19:52

Got it! Super satisfying to pull off. Its really difficult, but I definately found bosses like Majora, and Onox and Twinrova from the oracles games to be more difficult personally. Also, I found that sword beams made the final phase way harder than it needed to be, as it was breaking the projectiles that needed to be hit back at him, if spamming the sword button. So maybe don't go into the fight with full hearts if your concerned about that.

ozziepants 14 Sep 2023 02:17

I think this would work much better as two achievements, one for the first two phases and one for the third. It would still be a healthy challenge and it would even make sense in the context of the game since there's a "break" between his second and third phase.

As it is now I would not wish this on anybody.

Jenkys 6 Oct 2023 04:07

https://youtu.be/k8mM9_FlHQ4?si=eyGZ78wI_x7Od85U

Apohis 22 Nov 2023 22:43

Finally. Third phase (eyes): Din's Charm and Great Spin.