All of the wikis say that you can use Soulsucker on Garl (to the extent of having two different sections about ways to do it in the tips section), but I’ve just spent a solid half hour landing square hit after square hit on him, and no dice. I’ve tried catalyst in left hand, right hand, and even got him stuck on some geometry where I tried angle after angle with no luck.

At this point I’m convinced that the wikis are wrong, and that you can’t use Soulsucker on Garl Vinland in either the Remake or the original game. I may just be bad, but I don’t think even I can be that bad for that long with dozens of hits that look like they’re squarely connecting.

I’ve looked around a bit and haven’t actually found any evidence of anyone else being able to successfully do so either - does anyone here have any additional info on this?

Maybe it’s just black phantom Garl that it works on? I haven’t checked yet, but that’s definitely not what the wiki says.

Edit: Can confirm that it does work on BP Garl (first try - I’ve had a lot of practice), but not on regular Garl. Wiki seems to be conclusively wrong.

  • hakase@lemmy.zipOP
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, my typical approach was to knock him down with the DBS, then time it so that Soulsucker proced (with the green flashes) when he stood up and was ready for action. I tried a bunch of different timings, from hitting him just as he began to get up, to hitting him significantly after he’d finished getting up, at about quarter-second intervals, until I was satisfied that no timing was going to do it.

    Then I got him stuck on the geometry in a walking animation, so I could test all of the distances and angles I wanted to. And Soulsucker worked on BP Garl first try.