Alright, I'm playing the last (and most ridiculous in my opinion) Snake Tales mission. I am at the last part where you have to defeat Solidus. Does anyone have any hints or gameplay methods for this part? He is fucking hard. I can't beat him no matter what I try.

Defeating him with a sword is one thing, but when he has two swords and multiple attacks and I only have my bare hands, that is tough. I just need some advice. I managed to drain his stamina to lower than half once, but I can never beat him.

Try getting close to him so he trys to attack then either run round to the side or back of him, or simply try rolling into him. The key thing is learning how best to respond to the different attacks. The end part can be tricky because you can get set on fire rather easily. I find a good strategy is to wait till solidus comes rushing towards you then roll into him, it usually works pretty well.

Okay, you sick bastard that storyline is one of the best I've seen so far and all that does is just continue to put Hideo one step ahead of all the other guys out there who think they're King shit.

But anyway. When Solidus comes at you with speed bursts just get out of the way. Whenever he's about to strike he always takes the time to lift up his blades before doing so which like it or not takes up a considerable amount of time for him to do. You have to use that one second window of opportunity to roll his ass out.

Continue with dodging everything else and getting in little hits and what not and he'll go down.

My advice:

Stay just out of reach, and counter attack. If he blocks one of your attacks, he will roundhouse. Roll out of the way to avoid this.

If he shoots missiles at you, use Hanging, that usually dodges them (just run off the edge. Be careful, unlike the Harriet fight you are not invincible when you climb up).

When he starts elbowing you, just roll into him, and similarly, if you catch on fire just roll.

Remember you can crouch to regain some lost health... very very useful.

it took me three hours to beat him. But here's my strategy:

run around dodging his attacks and try to make him do the attack where he raises both swords over his head and slams them to the ground. then punch away. After he looses his tentacles/snake arms he gets tricky because he'll do the fire run constantly(often trapping you in a triangle or square) and elbow you hard. Okay at this try to saty near the edgeand avoid the elbow and hit him since he'll need to pause.

Things to remember.
1. yes this is the most ridiculous Snake Tale
2. Don't go after solidus anytime. he arms can defend and usually he'll counter quickly.

hope i helped :thumb:

ive got a small strategy. what i used to do, was attack and dodge until he gets his SWORDS out, and then roll like crazy, escpecially during his flame attacks, and once you roll out of the way while he flame-skates, he's vulnerable for about 2 seconds or a little less. thats when you attack. so while he's flame-skating, try to roll IN his driection, going OVER the flames.

I beat solidus 1st time without using aration,i found that battle one of the easiest tihngs about Snake Tales,which i have a had a few troubles with

the battle against Meryll was more difficult.

Either this advice sucks, or I just plain blow at this. I just spent the better part of 2 hours playing this part against Solidus. I never fucking win. I had him down to hardly any health at all and my health bar was full. Solidus had already taken off the octopus shit and as he sped at him he slashed me once and the ENTIRE health bar drained and I was dead.

You know, video games are supposed to be fun. They aren't supposed to be so fucking hard that you are so angry with the game you never want to play it again...

alright dude here i'll load up my saved game of MGS2 and play til the end, then ill tell you how to beat him ok?

Here i took the easy wat out and copied and pasted this from gamefaqs.com
this is EXACTLY FOR the last snake tale.


Attacks

- Trip: Solidus will trip you using his snake arms. Either run away from him
or quickly roll over the attack to avoid it.

- Snake arm strike: Solidus yells shoots his snake arm forward to try and hit you.
Just run to the up or down to avoid it. If you're quick you can get a combo on
him in.

- Choke: Solidus will grab you with his snake arms and hold you off the ground.
Quickly mash the buttons to escape otherwise he slams you into the ground.

- Wall jump: Solidus leaps off the tall building to the right of Federal Hall.
It's pretty easy to see this coming. Just run away from him to avoid it. It has
a bit of a recovery delay, so try to do some damage on him.

- Missiles: Solidus shoots three missiles out of his Snake arms. Run forward
and above or below Solidus to avoid the attack. You can also run to the edge
of Federal Hall then climb back up. During the falling and climbing animation,
you are invincible.

- Sword slash: Solidus will to three sword slashes. They aren't consecutive,
there is about a second long delay between attacks. If you avoid the 1st part,
you can probably get a hit on him before he follows up.

- Downward swipe: Solidus will do a powerful downward slash with his swords.
When he is about to do this, Solidus will hold both swords above his head and
energy will gather into them. It takes about a second or so to attack and has
a bit of a delay, so avoid it and attack.

- Three hit combo: Solidus basically does the entire sword slash attacks, but
consecutively. If you get hit by the first attack, you'll get hit by all three.
However, if you miss, there is a big delay after the attack. Take the shot.

- Kick to the face: If Solidus blocks several of your attacks, he's likely to
boot you in the face. Just a warning.

- Dash: Solidus will rocket across the area. If you get caught on fire by the
trail he leaves, quickly roll a few times to put yourself out.

Get Solidus' health down to about a third and he'll get rid of his snake arms.
In this stage, Solidus tend to jet around the area a lot before attacking, so
be careful of fire. Solidus maintains most of his non-snake arm attacks in
this stage, so I'm not going to repeat them.

- Dash strike: Solidus jets around three times then rockets right in front of
you and attacks with his sword or elbows you in the face. I suggest falling
over the edge of Federal Hall when he is on his third dash. He'll say "over
here" before going in to attack.

- Single dash strike: Solidus will say something then dash right in front of
you for a three hit combo or an elbow to the face. This is easier to avoid by
running above or below him.

- Multi Dash Strike: When nearly dead, Solidus will dash around all over the
area before attacking you. Just fall of Federal Hall and climb up to avoid it.

Keep it up and attack whenever possible and you should down Solidus after
some time.

There is only one ending for this Snake Tale. Congratulations! You've completed
the Snake Tales missions. Now jam out to the Commandant Speech Remix. o_O