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Guide to Terra's Story in Among the Sleep: Learn how to defeat Master Eraqus in the Land of Departure and master the Dark Impulse command style.
Master Xehanort is calling Terra... What could that mean? Only one way to find out for sure!
Once you go to the Badlands, you will get the DARK IMPULSE COMMAND STYLE, and then it's off to the Land of Departure for a major boss fight.
Walkthrough
- 1Boss Fight: Master Eraqus
Stats / Weaknesses:
- HP: 750
- 2Strength: 25
- 3Defense: 15
- 4Status effect vulnerabilities: None
- 5Elemental weaknesses: None
- 6Elemental resistances: 50% damage from dark
- 7Multi-hit Keyblade combo: Block this, do a counter-attack, and then follow up with a combo of your own. To avoid getting hit by the initial swing, you should always keep some distance between you and Eraqus unless you are actively attacking him. If you do get caught in the combo, keep pushing Square. You may get lucky and get a block off midway through.
- 8Three Keyblade charges (similar to Sonic Blade): This does a ton of damage, occurs with no warning, and travels a long way. The trick to avoiding the first charge is to constantly be circling Eraqus. That way he will miss you even if your reactions are slow. After that, you should have a chance to line up a block, which will stop Eraqus and give you time to do a combo of your own. If you do get hit by a charge, once again mash Square. Hopefully you will get off a Payback Fang and then be able to escape.
- 9Summoned ethereal Keyblades: Eraqus yells "Let the darkness die!" and summons ethereal Keyblades all around him. You really do NOT want to be next to him while this happens. He then sends the Keyblades flying at you. Back off a bunch, and then block at the last second to reflect the Keyblades back at Eraqus. Hold down Square the whole time to make sure you get everything. (If you are still getting hit, the problem is usually: (a) you are not targeting Eraqus with L+R, or (b) you are not far enough back. Either way, a Keyblade is hitting you from above or behind, and so is not stopped by Block.) Instead of blocking, you can also attack right as the Keyblades are sent out. Any quick-hitting move is effective: Sonic Blade, Geo Impact, Thunder Surge, etc.
- 10Three light bolts: Eraqus yells "Prepare yourself!" and shoots three light bolts at you. Get up pretty close and block to reflect the bolts back. Do NOT try to go in for a combo afterwards - Eraqus will follow this immediately with another attack. For the first half of the fight, you can safely do Counter Hammer though. (The reason to go close is because then Eraqus will not have time to defend himself from the bolts you send back.)
- 11Quick jump attack counter: While you are comboing Eraqus, he might counter with a quick jump attack. There is no reliable way of avoiding getting hit by this except to not do combos, but fortunately it does not do THAT much damage.
- 12Blocking: Eraqus has a chance to block almost any attack you send at him.
Strategy:
- If you are high level and are strong enough to play aggressively and win, great. Otherwise, you generally want to circle around Eraqus at medium distance and wait for him to attack.
- If he does attacks #1 or #2, block him and then go in for a combo.
- If he does attacks #3 or #4, block the projectiles back (this alone should do a lot of damage!), but do not try a combo.
- If Eraqus counters you with attack #5, don't worry about it. Heal and keep going.
- The Dark Impulse finish command makes you invincible, so you can use that with relative impunity. Just hope that Eraqus doesn't start attack #3 while you do it!
- After you have reduced him to around 1.5 health bars, Eraqus will start using some new attacks.
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