Mission 06: Green Eye Returns

Street Fighting

The initial battle against the NEVEC forces in the streets here is going to be fairly tough. Many of the NEVEC soldiers are packing plasma rifles, which are effectively sniper rifles with infinite ammo; they'll do a good amount of damage to you when they hit, so try to pick up one of your own as soon as you can and go to town on the remaining soldiers. Apart from the soldiers, which are easily killed by the plasma rifles, the other threats in the area are turrets and VS's, so try to find a rocket launcher or other powerful weapon and use that on the armored enemies. (You can probably snipe out the turret gunners if you zoom in far enough.)

The plasma gun is even capable of taking out VS's, as you're soon to discover.

After the first corner, the best way to proceed here is to hug the left wall and get underneath the platform that the VS is on while shooting the soldiers along the rightmost wall. When you reach the platform, you can angle grenades up onto it and blow it away; it'll drop a huge amount of T-Eng, and you'll also be able to access the Data Post nearby. You should be able to nab a plasma rifle somewhere around here, and use that to destroy the rocket turret across the way. From there, cross the street at the corner and climb up to where the rocket launcher was located; you can destroy the fuel tanks here for extra fuel, and use the elevation to fire down on the enemies in the street below. When everything's dead, cross back to the Data Post across the way, and nab one of the rocket launchers hidden beneath the explosive barrels. When you reach the end of the street, another VS will appear and pelt you with rockets. Use your own rocket launcher to finish it off, then move through the narrow corridor near the end of the street to reach the transition point for this level.

Boss Fight: Green Eye

You'll fight Green Eye in your father's VS, a tough little machine that will be your only defense against the Akrid threat. You can't switch VS's here, as there are no other machines in the area that you can jump to, and you can't leave the VS, as it's apparently too cold for you to survive outside the machine (although you were in this same area earlier in the game without a VS suit and seemed to do fine).

This fight is difficult, to say the least. You have to keep your VS's health up as high as possible during the opening rounds, as the Green Eye begins to move much more erratically towards the end of the fight and will be dealing much more damage to you then, assuming you learn the patterns of the boss and how to dodge its attacks earlier on.

Green Eye Attacks

The Green Eye has a number of ways of dealing damage to you, but the most predominant method of destruction will be its ability to launch ice shards out of the top of its husk, which will rapidly come your way and attempt to knock the stuffing out of your VS. If you get caught up against a wall when one of these hit you, say goodbye to around a third of your life total, as they'll keep pummeling you without giving you a chance to escape. If you're in a relatively open area, your best bet is to dash by tapping the Y button on your controller. Pick a direction and head that way; if possible, try to scootch around the boxes in the center of the map to avoid the shards altogether.

Apart from that, the bulk of the Green Eye's attacks are physical ones, where it will attempt to run you down or run you over. It's capable of some startlingly quick movements, especially at the end of this fight, and it can dash forward and even backward to quickly bash you against a wall. There isn't much to say here, except that you'll need to play through this fight a few times to learn all the nuances of the Green Eye's movements. You aren't completely safe anywhere on the battlefield; even if you jump onto one of the platforms available to you, it can still crawl up the sides of the walls and pound you that way.

Taking Down The Green Eye

As with other Akrid bosses, you're going to have to find some weak spots on the Green Eye in order to kill it off completely. You have to begin with the two rows of four weak spots on the beast's sides, then punch out the four weak spots on its forehead, then demolish the single large weak spot underneath the carapace that cracks on its forehead.

You'll need to deal with the weak spots on the side of the Green Eye before you can finish it off.

Begin the fight with a pair of gatling guns; they'll be your best bet for taking down the individual weak spots. You may want to keep that rocket launcher you started with, but as is so often the case with other Akrid bosses, you need a bit too much precision with your shots; if you happen not to hit the weak spots dead on, you won't wind up doing any damage to the beast at all. It's best to spray and pray with the gats. Again, placement is a bit of a sticky issue here; it's best to stay near the stacks of boxes in the center of the area, but not so close that you stand a risk of getting trapped if the beast charges, and definitely not on top of the boxes themselves. Try to aim at the weak spots on the side of the beast as it approaches the corner, then backtrack a bit around the corner as it approaches you. It's harder than it sounds, obviously.

Be sure to pick up the T-Eng that drops from the destroyed weak spots whenever possible, as you'll be burning a lot of fuel when you jump, hover, and dash around. There are some fuel tanks atop some of the platforms that will net you a bit of T-Eng if you destroy them, but if you manage to loot the heat from the boss monster, you should stay ahead of the curve.

When the beast rotates in one corner of the room, you should be able to start tagging the spots on its other side. With dual gatling guns, you shouldn't have too hardcore of a time with popping these little suckers out, assuming you can stay alive. Watch our video in the HTML version of this guide if you're having problems.

Finishing It Off

When all eight of the initial weak spots are destroyed, the forehead of the beast will light up with four additional yellow spots. Each of them will fracture fairly quickly if you lay on them with dual gatling guns.

Video Walk-through

The Green-Eye is one of the more difficult foes you're going to face in the game. Don't forget to finish him off with the grenade launcher!
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When you finish off the four spots on the head of the beast, it will go into overtime mode and start moving really rapidly and firing off more and more ice spikes, often while moving. It's at this point that the battle is won or lost, as you won't be able to live too much longer unless you're quite adept at dodging the beast's erratic movements. The new weak spot is a large target on the beasts forehead, but will be somewhat resistant to your gatling gun fire. It's best to switch your guns out for a rocket launcher and a grenade launcher (you can find the latter near the center of the room, on one of the walkways). A single shot from the grenade launcher, if aimed properly, will wipe out most of the beast's remaining health at this point.

This fight is probably one of the most challenging in the game, so don't feel too bad if it takes a few go-rounds before you manage to polish the animal off. Watch our video, learn the patterns, and you'll eventually put it down.

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