So I finally got to the point where I’m sick of adding these stupid necessary things, so I decided to take a break from all of that and add a kick ass boss.

He’s going to be MUCH tougher than the first boss, in fact he’s going to be the major spike in the difficulty curve of the game.
The concept is, he is an assassin sent to kill you, the main character. I’m still debating with the team whether or not I should bring him back, I’m thinking no, but it’d be sad to just throw away a character, especially this one xD

You’ll meet him in the Mountain hot springs, where solid decides to take a break and wash away his troubles. As if that’s possible. The assassin enters the screen and starts a subtly homosexual conversation with Solid, as you get creeped out and escape. On your way down the mountain, he’ll stop you and tell you that he’s an assassin, sent to kill you. Solid, not being surprised, understands and thus the fight begins.

The A.I., although simple, still proves quite a challenge. Basically he walks towards you, (you can’t hurt him while he’s walking) and once he’s near enough he starts a quick combo. There’s a 3 frame opening where you can attack him to deal some extra damage. Every time you attack in that opening, however, the animation speed increases, so don’t rely on it! Here’s a sprite sheet of his animations

After his second slash, he extends his sword and slides towards you doing quite a lot of damage. Also, that slide breaks your guard (guard breaks don’t do damage), and if he does break your guard he throws three ninja stars at you, dealing around 1/3 the damage the attack would have done. So what you’re supposed to do, is get close to the wall and let him lunge at you, forcing him to get his sword stuck in the wall. Right there, you have an opening to do a combo on him. Once you finish it, he jumps away from his sword, and starts running toward the other side of the screen jumping, every jump he unleashes ninja stars at you. If you’re too far away from him by the time he reaches the other side of the screen, he’ll perform his “special attack” where he produces a shower storm of ninja stars, (of course you can block most of them), and he ends up appearing right next to the sword he lodged in the wall, and restarts the process. If not, you have a chance to deal yet another combo on him, then he’ll jump back to his sword just as he did before. (throwing stars at you)

He’s already in progress, I just finished the part of his A.I. where his sword lodges into the wall, now I gotta make the ninja star throw animation and start figuring out how to make the ninja shower storm.

So that’s the update, I hope to finish this soon, I’m pretty excited about facing this boss myself, heh.