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Battle Over The White Sands is the first mission ofCygni: All Guns Blazing. You will face off against three bosses in this mission. These giant monstrosities feature a varied bag of tricks, and can be quite tricky to defeat. However, once you understand their attacks, you will find that this trio are quite manageable.
We’ll help you understand these bosses, teach you how to avoid their attacks, and give you everything you need to dismantle them once and for all. Moreover, we’ll do it in a way that will help you defeat this trio without having unlocked any upgrades.
A Quick Note About Energy Allocation
While it can be a little scary, you are going to want to try to keep your attack power meter filled at all times. Only sacrifice a bar of attack if you are down to no shields. Otherwise, you’ll want to hit as hard as possible. Without any upgrades unlocked,you won’t be able to kill the first or second boss if your weapons aren’t at their max power.
Boss 1 - The Spinning Laser Danger
This boss’s big gimmick is boxing you in with two lasers, then firing a giant laser down the center of your already restricted space, and finally rotating 360 degrees, forcing you to move within that limited area. To make matters worse, they’ll be firing rapid volleys of bullets at you as they rotate, which means that you’ll need to maneuver around the bullets as you circle this giant mechanized menace.Thankfully, there is a trick: the boss will match your speed as they rotate.
So, if you move slowly, they will rotate slowly as well, and if you move quickly, they will turn as fast as you.The slower you move, the more their bullets will bunch up and the harder it is to avoid them.Thus, you will want to fly around them as quickly as possible, causing their bullets to space out quite a bit, and making for a clear column to fly through.
After the boss has spun around 360 degrees, the lasers will dissipate, and you will have a chance to fire directly at their core. During this phase, they’ll fire homing missiles at you. Intercept them as best as you can.If you miss any, simply fly in a circular pattern (while laying down a line of fire on the boss), and you will cause the missiles chasing you to run directly into your bullets.
The most challenging part of this encounter is killing the boss the first time you encounter them, as you won’t have any upgrades unlocked.It is possible, but you will need to play pretty sharply, as after a certain amount of time the boss will flee. If you choose to circle them slowly when you are boxed in, that will probably make it impossible for you to deal enough damage to destroy them before they leave.
Boss 2 - The Tentacled Terror
This massive boss has two tentacle-like arms. You’ll begin this battle facing off against these arms. They will perform one of three actions…
Just focus your fire on one tentacle at a time. Keep your distance, so you can evade them if they try to lunge at your ship and grab you.If they fire their lasers, fly around the outskirts of the stage to avoid them.You can also shield yourself behind the other tentacle.
Once you have defeated both tentacles, the boss will confront you directly, revealing its head. The head will fire five columns of lasers, which your bullets will not be able to penetrate. Alongside the head, two more tentacles will show up to the party.The tentacles will have all the same attacks, but now they will fire their lasers from the side. Escape them by flying to the top of the screen, but watch that you do not run into any part of the boss.
You won’t be able to hit this boss’s head when they are firing their lasers, so focus on trying to take out one of the tentacles (it doesn’t matter which).However, once the boss has fired their lasers for a prolonged period of time, they will run out of juice, and you will have an opportunity to fire directly at their face.Once this opportunity presents itself, directallyour fire that way. You will only have a limited number of opportunities, and if you take too long this boss can escape.
If at any point in this battle you are running low on energy, switch to ground fire and take out the baddies on the ground to replenish energy instead of dealing damage to the tentacles.
Boss 3 - The Final Boss
The final boss of this stage is a massive sphere. Their primary means of attacking you will involve tossing massive rocks at your ship or shattering rocks to create debris, but they also have a three-pronged laser that they’ll fire. We’ll break down all their attacks below.
As we already mentioned, they will fire a three-pronged laser. These lasers will start off farther apart from each other before gradually coming closer together.If you end up getting trapped in between them, there will be just enough space to avoid getting hit when the gap is at its most narrow.However, the lasers are harmless for the first few seconds they are out, so just make sure you avoid being wedged between them.
This boss willalsosummon large rocks to appear in front of them before making them shatter, causing the resulting debris to fly in your ship’s direction.You can deal with this attack by staying in one spot, and then, once the rock shatters, flying to the other side of the screen.The debris will be sent flying directly at where you were. The boss will eventually start summoning large rocks which will shatter in a spiraling direction, causing waves of debris to sail in your direction. This attack places a lot of hazards on the screen, but there will be plenty of easy-to-see gaps that you can fly between.Circling the debris in the same spiral pattern that the rocks travel in is a pretty solid way to avoid getting hit.
Once the boss has taken a notable amount of damage, they will summon a ring of rocks to act as a giant barricade.Just focus on the same section of the wall, and eventually, you will punch through.They will also start to summon massive rocks to line both sides of the screen. These don’t do anything, butthey will limit the amount of space you may maneuver in.One of the final attacks you will encounter will see the boss summon two giant boulders and then smash them together in the center of the screen, causing debris to fly in every direction. The boss will only use this attack once you have injured them quite a bit.attempt to get as much distance as possible, and look for the gaps in the field of debris.
Naturally, as you dodge all of the above attacks, you will want to be constantly lighting this boss up with your weapons. Never let go of the firing button. Since the boss issomassive, it won’t be hard to hit them (unless they have their wall of rocks active to shield them). A little persistence will go a long way and eventually, you will dismantle them once and for all.
