Malicious

[saturn-gamer]

I dunno what the savegame does, maybe cancel?

The last boss isn't that hard, really. Remember you can block everything, even his ohko plasma ball. And if you time it right, you'll get some 2k or more Aura from perfect blocking it. I tend to do it on the red heat seaking ball since its not deadly. What you have to do is land on and light the floating platforms with L1+X (Release). You can do L1+X again to immediately disable Release to save aura. Just make sure the platform changed from blue to orange.

Light them all.. watch his attacks (turtle and watch his animations, and you can dash or L3 fly away when he swipes) as he tends to attack you just when you want to light up the platforms. When all are lighted, you'll enter phase 2. You'll likely find out what to do. From there on its pretty much this.

By the way I mapped L3 and R3 to L2 and R2 and having a better time flying since then.

[J0e Musashi]

You can deffo "Perfect Block", "Just Defend" etc. I found this out against the Escort boss after getting caught by his minigun. If you hit block right on impact you gain massive aura.

Not played for two days, but I'm about to boot it up. Determined to get the no continue trophy.

I've found that swapping Triangle and Circle works well for me, L2 and R2 are way better than L3 and R3 too.

when you go to load up your save game you're given two options. What do they mean? because I always picked the top one.

The bottom option is to start a new game.

Do any of you know what Body Break is once you clear a stage? I got a score of 4, which got me an S Rank. Have no idea what it means though.

[Riskbreaker]

Just picked this up. Fought the library boss using the bloody demon bullets without realising the fists were available Took a while to get to grips with, the controls take some getting used to, but I'm really enjoying it.

I thought body break was the number of limbs lost.

EDIT: Anyone know what are of the moves are for the fists upgrade? I can understand the two knew combo's that crush the enemies and launch them away, but I don't get how to pull off the other two.

[jimtendo]

Cheers fellas for the help!
Manage to down that sucka with about 2 minutes 30 secs left on the clock >.<
It didn't help that I kept on getting swatted off the highest platforms. bah.

What is the tombstone icon on the stage select screen?
I go to activate it but nothing happens.

Anyone know what are of the moves are for the fists upgrade? I can understand the two knew combo's that crush the enemies and launch them away, but I don't get how to pull off the other two.

There's the hundred hand slap/ punch. Just hammer the Square button. I'm not sure on the other one.

EDIT -
nevermind, found out that the tombstone is the credits reel. doh.

[J0e Musashi]

I'm still having trouble with Forbidden Floor. Can't get a proper strategy sorted, and I don't really know how to hurt her. She seems to block everything and/or do that head-grab counter.
I mainly just fly around shooting at her, with the odd Lance and punch combo. Can't even get her down to half yet, and it's hard to build up aura.

How do you activate counters too? There is a trophy for doing them all, but I've only even seen two of them so far, which seems to have happened randomly.

[saturn-gamer]

Keep dodging around her. Aura + 3 punches, then switch to projectiles for the combo ender. Its a good way to hit her and also clear mobs which gain you aura. Constantly dodge away when she teleport and strikes, you can also try to jab her inbetween teleports but its risky. You could also consider Just Defending her strikes.

I've fought her many times and I usually kill her in a 5 minutes or so, also in Free mode.

Counters are initiated by having the sword and lance in your inventory, but the moment when it happens seems to be kind of random. The woman will be countered by the spear, the triumphant thing by the sword etc.

[Riskbreaker]

Cheers Jimtendo, I'll try the hundred hand slap thing tonight.

Going to try tackling Forbidden next as I keep hearing the boss is a cow Any suggestions for which level to tackle last between Foughten Field and Escort of Queendom?

[J0e Musashi]

Do Forbidden, Escort and then Foughten.

[Riskbreaker]

Cool. Sounds good to me

[jimtendo]

... Do any of you know what Body Break is once you clear a stage? I got a score of 4, which got me an S Rank. Have no idea what it means though.

This refers to your body break (not the bosses) as the lower the better. As I always thought it meant the bosses as it always puzzled me when I had a high body break but it gave me a low grade.

Some more combos, providing you've unlocked the fist upgrade/ sword and lance modes.

Starting with fist melee:

Rapidly hit []
(very quick multiple fist hits)

[], [], /\
(2 x punches into double hand clap

[], /\, /\, /\
(punch into uppercut into downward fist pound into double hand turnaround punch)

[], [], [] then Up on the D-pad then mash [] for multiple shots
(3 x punches then multi projectile shot finish)

[], [] then Left on the D-pad
(2 x punches into sword thrust)

[], [] then Left on the D-pad then Right on the D-pad
(2 x punches into sword thrust into lance thrust)

[], [] then Left on the D-pad then Down on the D-pad
(2 x punches into sword thrust into double fist hit)

[], [] then Left on the D-pad then /\
(2 x punches into sword thrust into twirling 360 sword slicer)

[], [], [] then Right on the D-pad
(3 x punches into lance thrust)

[], [], [] then Left on the D-pad
(3 x punches into 360 sword slash) - pretty much the killer combo in the game.

[] then Left on the D-pad then /\, /\
(1 punch into upwards vertical slash into downward vertical slash into 360 horizontal slash)

[] then Left on the D-pad then /\ then Right on the D-pad
(1 punch into upwards vertical slash into downward vertical slash into lance thrust)

[], [], /\ then Left on the D-pad
(2 x punches into hand clap into front twirling sword slicer)

[], [], /\ then Right on the D-pad
(2 x punches into hand clap into lance thrust)

[], /\ then Right on the D-pad
(punch into uppercut into upward lance thrust)

[], /\ then Left on the D-pad
(punch into uppercut into downward sword slash)

[], /\ then Left on the D-pad then Right on the D-pad
(punch into uppercut into downward sword slash into lance thrust)

[], /\, /\ then Left on the D-pad
(stright punch into uppercut into double fist pound into forward sword thrust)

[], /\, /\ then Right on the D-pad
(straight punch into uppercut into double fist pound into lance thrust)


Starting with Sword:

[], /\ then Right on the D-pad
(horizontal slash into vertical slash into upward Lance thrust)

[], /\ then Down on the D-pad
(horizontal slash into vertical slash into double fist hit)

[] then Down on the D-pad then /\, /\
(horizontal slash into uppercut into downward double fist hit into turnaround double fist hit)

[] then Down on the D-pad then /\ then Right of the D-pad
(horizontal slash into uppercut into downward double fist hit into lance thrust)

[], then Down on the D-pad then /\ then Left on the D-pad
(horizontal slash into uppercut into downward fist smash into front twirling 360 sword slicer)

[] then Down on the D-pad then Left on the D-pad then /\
(horizontal slash into uppercut into downward vertical slice into 360 sword hit)

[] then Down on the D-pad then Left on the D-pad then Down on the D-pad
(horizontal slash into uppercut into downward vertical slash into double hand clap)

[] then Down on the D-pad then Left on the D-pad then Right on the D-pad
(horizontal slash into uppercut into downward vertical slash into lance thrust)

[], /\ then Down on the D-pad
(horizontal slice into upward vertical slice into double fist turnaround hit)

[], /\ then Right on the D-pad
(horizontal slice into upward vertical slice into upward lance thrust)

[], [] then Down on the D-pad
(horizontal slice into upward vertical slice into strong punch)

You can cancel out at any stage of the combo sequence by either blocking or dodging.
A beautiful game, and most probably in the shortlist at the end of the year for "Great game that nobody played".

[saturn-gamer]

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/01/18/malicious_update/

Big ass update incoming.

Easy Mode - speaks for itself
Full Button mode - If i'm right this means that dodge and block will be separated under different buttons. Which I think is good news although I kind of mastered it.
Camera Adjust - sounds good, the report says that it won't go AWOL against big bosses.

Now is the time to buy this great game, if you haven't already.

[J0e Musashi]

Full button mode will get me back into this. One of my main reasons for shelving it originally.
The camera was dodgy at best before I thought. It couldn't keep up with the pace of the game at times, so any improvements are most welcomed.

[briareos_kerensky]

Couldn't find a thread in the Headlines foroum for this, so I'm resurrecting this thread.
Malicious will have an English version, though there is no official announcement but a filing in Korean rating board by Sony.

['Press Start']

I can't find this game on PSN. I am in the mood for a high octane game at the moment, can you buy this from the JAP store on a PAL PS3?

[briareos_kerensky]

You have to create a Japanese account and add funds to it, don't know if the PS Store blocks UK cards on JPN accounts though.