Re: Fairy Fighting
One thing is for sure about Raper Beast: He's a fucking mess. Even more so than before this update, which is really hard to believe.
Now, he's not a mess because he's "bad", or because he's "uninteresting" or "difficult". He's a mess because he has so many attacks, no pattern and no way to bait any of them.
* There's not a single even relatively failsafe way to bait his counterattack: I managed to get it once or twice in maybe 20 or more fights.
* He spams his new move like it's his last chance to ever use it, which in turn makes his old run-at-you grab pretty much non-existant. Also, it hurts like fuck.
* If he does use his run-and-grab move, you won't get to see the second part: he spams normal hits, especially the fists of fury move so much that your health will be way too low for it to get a chance to appear, even more so when nine out of ten times, he uses this grab after he uses the new move, which, as previously mentioned, hurts like fuck.
* In over 20 fights, I have yet to even see his Sheeva move: He never fucking uses it anymore. Is it still there?
I'm not saying he's difficult. He's still just as easy to beat as all the rest. I'm saying that, compared to any of the other enemies, there is no way, ever, that you'll see all of his moves, or even half of them, in a single fight. Most people who don't check here for his movelist, or can't read japanese, will probably never even KNOW he has a sheeva assrape move. If he still has it that is.
Sure, there are other enemies who spam regular attacks and has a shitload of grabs, such as Fallen Fairy, but she's got things that saves her from having the same problem RB has:
* Low damage grabs
* Bigger arena and bigger windows between attacks, making it easier to heal
* Can't jump at you from the other side of the arena
* Actually has different variables deciding which move she uses (jump or dash for her lay down finisher, stand far away from her for her charge, be at middle range and on the ground or stunned for her corruption finisher).
The only thing that makes her moves irritating is the fact that her normal lay down grab is a pain to bait.
RB needs things like this:
* Lower the damage from his grabs, god damn.
* Make him actually try to counter once in a while, instead of once in a lifetime.
* Give his grabs similar conditions to FF: If you're far away, make him run at you. If you're really close or in the air, make him do the Sheeva. If you're at mid-range and/or in the air, make him do the triforce of rape.
* If he's going to keep jumping from the entire screen, then at least make the arena bigger.
* Lower the damage from regular attacks, or give him pauses in his assault so that we can heal. Seriously. Some people are playing this for the hentai, not for the kicks and dodges. Or at least for both the hentai AND the kicks.
Sorry for my rant, guys. But fo' realz, RB is a mess. It's too bad, since he really has the potential to take Fluid Hunter's number one place for me. It would so easy to fix too. It is possible to have a über aggressive enemy work, just look at Fallen Fairy and Frozen Wolf. Heck, I'll even add Ana Moguri and Fairy Crushers in there!