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Reunited with Cheshire inBayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, you approach the near end of this adventure after your prison break in Puca’s Fortress. Having gained the ability to Regenerate, you’ll now have a way to chase the Faerie King for a tough battle and the promise of your final elemental core.
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Thankfully, this chapter is perhaps one of the shortest installments in the story, and you’ve already faced the terrible Jabberwock. Stride confidently through this last portion of Puca’s Fortress, and put that blabbering king in his place so you may take your final steps toward saving Lucaon.
Chasing After The King
After the long series of cutscenes ends, travel left to a broken platform.Using your Witch’s Pulseon it now will activate a special dance (roll your Right Joystick to the right in a circle) and your Regenerate ability.
With the platform now fixed,jump across to the Arcane Lanternwhere you should definitely take this opportunity to save your game and ensure you have the maximum amount of Healing Tonics.
Grab theJournal pieceas you travel east across gears to another broken platform.
Regenerate the platformand step onto the elevator.Activate the deviceto ascend into the next area. As you reach the top, you’ll immediately see the Fire Elemental Core ahead.
However, nothing can be so simple. Moving toward the Fire Elemental Core will trigger a cutscene and a fight with Puca, The Faerie King.
Fighting Puca
For an in-depthguide to fighting this boss and his summons, click here!
Puca, dramatic and cowardly, will begin his fight by summoning an angel to do his dirty work for him.
He’ll fire magic from afar to make your life more difficult as you fight the angel known as “Affinity.” Avoid these strikes until you get the angel’s health down enough totrigger the blowing wind and open the Iron Maiden.
Strike the angel until it’s pushed back into the Iron Maidenand defeated. This will, in turn, throw you into the strange second phase: a puzzle maze.
The buttons on each character’s path will typically open the doors on their companion’s side (e.g., hitting a button on Cheshire’s side will open a door for Cereza). There are multiple fire traps, a spinning wheel of death behind you, and Puca’s magic onslaught to deal with.
Some of the magic Puca summons will beballs of firethat act as obstacles. Put them out withAquastream.
Begin byputting Cheshire on the nearby buttonandmoving Cereza forward to the button at the end of her path.Stepping on it will lower a wall on the right side of her path, opening a window to the fire.
Have Water Cheshireput out that fire with Aquastream, and move Cereza back tostep on the revealed button.
Move Cheshire forward and face toward Cereza’s path touse Aquastream on the large box.This will push the box out of the way, and Cereza can begin moving up her path after Cheshire clears any of Puca’s fire magic obstacles.
Destroy the gates on Cheshire’s sidewith a Slash attack, and place Cereza and Cheshire on the buttons on both their sides.
Move Cheshire back quicklyand around the corner to go north on the right side of his path while Cereza continues to the next button.
Place Cheshire and Cereza on theirrespective buttons simultaneouslyin order to lower the large wall into the second section.
Turn Cheshire into hisStone Modeandblock the turret laserswhile moving Cereza up toward the wall blocking her path. Then move Cheshire to the button to clear her way. Put out any fire traps with Aquastream and move Cereza onto the button on her side.
As you move Cheshire up, Cereza must continue on her side throughfour sets of timed spike traps.Run across during their openings and step on the buttons along the way.
When Cheshire’sfinal buttonis revealed, step onto it and put out the fire on Cereza’s with Aquastream.
When they areboth in position, the door will open, and you may enter the next phase.
Thankfully, the last phase is a lot like the first, but there aretwo Affinitiesthis time.
Defeating any of the Affinities without repairing the Iron Maiden fast enough will result in them respawning, soonce one Affinity is defeated, race to repair it.
This section of the fight is particularly annoying due to Puca’s magic support always targeting Cereza, and any damage dealt to Cereza will require her to start the Regenerate dance if she’s begun using it. Therefore,it isn’t safe to attempt using Regenerate on the Iron Maiden before an Affinity is defeated.
Once the Iron Maiden is prepared, damage the Affinities until the option toknock them into the Iron Maidenappears. When defeated,Puca will fall to the groundand grant you the opportunity to attack.
You’ll have torepeat this process twicein order to win the fight.
Winning will result in Puca hitting a big red button to eject himself and cause a minor explosion. This will, in turn, open your path again to theFire Elemental Core.
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Wait for a chest to appear, opening it for a Vitality Petal. Then, gather the resources on your way to theElemental Core. Just like with previous cores,attack itwith Cheshire to absorb its powers.
Fire Mode Cheshire can spit fireballs with hisnew R attack: “Pyroblast.“It can:
In addition, Cereza can also nowabsorb sources of fireto put out blazing fire traps.
With these abilities in hand,venture to the rightof the “Fire Shrine” area until you reachan object that looks like a very small volcano.Absorb its powersto turn off the fire traps blocking your path. This will revealan elevator deviceyou should activate with Witch’s Pulse.
At the bottom, you’llface three faein an ambush. One of them is an elite warrior, but otherwise, they’re not that concerning. Defeat the faeries and absorb the nearby fire source to reveala second elevatoryou need to take.
From the bottom of the elevator,run right and across the bridgetoward the Arcane Lantern and White Wolf.
Once they’re done conversing, you canenter a frozen areablocked with icy brambles.
Use your Pyroblastto burn and melt the brambles, clearing your way forward.
On the other side, an elite warrior faerie will appear withan Ice Shield.
Use Fire Cheshireto attack with either standard Slash or Pyroblast. This will take down their shield, and you may defeat them normally.
After it’s defeated,two more enemies will spawn:a Sparcanagh and another enemy with an Ice Shield.Defeat them bothto end combat.
Continue down the set of natural stairs until you seetwo icy pillars blocking the path on the right.Use Pyroblast to melt them and reveal a path with a continuous laser.
Stone Cheshirecan be used to block the laser while Cereza crosses over to a frozen chest. Move Cheshire out of the laser, transform to Fire Mode, andmelt the chest’s outer layer with Pyroblast.
After collecting your resources, return to the main path.
Use Pyroblastto make a path forward through the ice pillars and defeat the faerie waiting in ambush inside one of them. On the cliffside is abridge flower.Grow it to reach the other side andapproach the moon symbolon the ground.
After speaking with Morgana, you’ll be thrust into the next chapter with all the game’s abilities under your belt and your final goal in sight.
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