The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
SNES/Super Famicom

Bested Mothula
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Beaten Game Credit
Defeat Mothula without being harmed without using the Magic Cape or Cane of Byrna.
Beaten Game Credit
2,428 (1,735) of 33,585 โ 7.23% unlock rate
5.17% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
7.23% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
Recent Unlocks
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Recent comments
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Lvl 4 Sword, Fire Rod, Max Health
Stay in the middle as much as possible and don't chase into corners unless wide open. Focus on survival and attack only when open. Use sword to delay/damage Mothra's attack and Fire Rod when available.
I mostly relied on the sword's beam for most damage. Good Luck!
Those doing a master sword run - do yourself a favour and copy your save and get the level 3 or 4 sword. It's gonna make this SO much easier.
I found mixing the fire rod and sword beams as well as a couple cheeky slashes was the way.
The conveyor belt and spikes are pure rng so keep that in mind. Mothlad only shoots in front of itself and only shoots after it changes it's position.
This one's deffo got that shmup bullet hell lite vibe going on.
If you mess up which you probably will - the walk back provides you with enough hearts and magic to get fully healed and magic'd up if you let Mr Hand grab you as it resets all the items.
Don't mix this with damageless unless you're a complete maniac! (Though you have my respect if you pull it off!)
Good luck! This one is very difficult but man does it feel good to beat.
It's kind of annoying, but using the hammer is only 4 hits.
https://alttp-wiki.foxlisk.com/index.php/Mothula
https://youtu.be/qmR3zO2VQCE
I better come back to this crap with level 3 sword in another run.
Seriously why in between nice skill based boss cheevos you include rng fests like this?
But I said screw it. I can still use the most power full thing to get through this:
INVENTORY PAUSE BUFFERING (!)
So I used the fire rod and shot at Motula prevent him from shot most of its fireballs. Goal here was to keep him at the top. During that I opened the inventory again and again to be able to escape the spikes very precised with the buffer method.
Even then it took me probably like 50 tries in soft core with save states to kill him off even once.
I decided then screw it and started hard core again. I told my self I will do this on the next run with l3 sword.
But then before the boss i was like lets give it one more legit try. And voila it works.
Now lets see if the inventory button gets also forbidden from this battle by the devs.
I see it as a counter measure for an unfair glitchy rng fight.
My honest opinion is I would kill these cheevo completely from the set. It just makes life miserable.