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Evoland

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Defeating the Last Boss: Zephyros
By Alenonimo
Having trouble with the last boss? It's easy when you know what to do. Here's what you'll need to do to defeat Zephyros.
   
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Phase 1
Zephyros is using a giant floating armor with two giant arms that tries to squash you or hold you at the fire-breathing zone. He'll turn around somewhat randomly, hit his hands down (half heart damage if lands on you) and breath fire between them (quarter heart damage if you're inside). Each hand has a weak spot in the form of red eyes.

The plan is to dodge the arms so you're not inside the are where he'll breath fire. When he hit his arms down, you'll hit his hands as many times as you can. Pay attention that sometimes he tries to watch your movements tochoose which side he should go but sometimes he moves on his own. If he goes to one side, you try going to another.

You need to kill both his hands. Have patience as sometimes he doesn't let you get near the one you want to hit.

This part is somewhat easy. The next one is tricky.
Phase 2
You killed both his arms! Hooray! Now he'll breath fire like crazy, doing a full circle (a little bit more, if you pay attention) and you have to hit the weak spot on his chest, right?

If you played on your own, the first thing you tried is to kill the weak spot in his chest. You'll notice that he'll stop for a second when he finishes breathing fire. If you were like me, you would hit him a lot and… he wouldn't die. What gives?

Here's where the bastard is tricking you. That was not his true weak spot! You were not hitting him at all! Remember that red orb you saw every time he would give his back to you to sterelize the arena with his fire breath? What happened was that hitting the eye on his chest pops out that red orb behind him, outside of your view. That thing is what you need to hit to kill the tricky bastard!

When he breathes fire, try to be somewhat near where you think he'll stop, so you can hit him. If you're close enough, you'll manage to hit him. But hit him only once! Then run like crazy to slash that red orb.

You may notice it comes close to one of the sides and won't go exactly behind him, so sometimes you'll manage to hit it and other times it will go back to the armor before you can reach it.

The next part is not that hard.
Phase 3
Now Zephyros come out of the armor. He'll taunt about how you can't hit him. Once he stop yapping, he'll start throwing stuff at you: three fireballs and an blue energy ball.

All you have to do is defeating him Ganon style. Hit the energy balls so they'll be sent flying into his ugly mug. Dodge the fireballs though and have patience, as that energy ball will miss him sometimes. Clink is not that good at volleyball.

Hit him enough times and he'll fall. Enjoy the ending.
Addendum
With newer technology comes new problems. This game uses the refresh rate for calculating internal timings. Which means that running this at other than 60 FPS will cause you trouble.

If your monitor is running at 144 FPS, this battle is impossible to complete.
20 Comments
Boots 26 Jul, 2021 @ 5:04pm 
Bought this game ages ago and gave it a go today. THis guide saved my butt
fash 15 Oct, 2020 @ 11:55pm 
Holy cow.... on 60 FPS this boss is easy mode. You run like a million miles per hour!
Can you please edit the guide so that it has a giant warning message at the top telling readers that they need to set the framerate to max 60FPS?
Nevermore 27 Mar, 2020 @ 5:18am 
Fuck!! Stupid technology...
gusopocho 25 Dec, 2019 @ 2:02am 
If you cap the fps to 30 the Boss is very easy.
FlawedVision 23 Jun, 2019 @ 1:14pm 
Can confirm that setting the monitor to 60hz allowed me to beat the final boss. :neutral_face:
Doc 14 May, 2019 @ 10:22am 
Yep, set monitor to 60Hz to be able to defeat the last boss. Tried several times before reading the comments here. First try afterwards!
Helgrave 25 Mar, 2019 @ 10:36pm 
Just wanted to confirm what Tazza.sh said below.
I had my monitor set to 144Hz and kept getting killed by not being able to move away from the arms fast enough, and not being able to reach the orb before it went back into his body.
Setting my monitor to 60Hz allowed me to move much faster (likely, the intended speed), and I was able to beat the boss in one attempt.
Tazza(steemdeck).sh 19 Feb, 2019 @ 12:35am 
had a bug when running in 144hz, you cant run fast enough to ever hit the eye in 2nd phase, force monitor into 60 hz and boss is easy
sjdswanlund 28 Nov, 2018 @ 3:13am 
At first I wasn't sure if the boss was horrible, and it was just me. After reading the guide and seeing that I was doing everything right, I can confirm that it was definitely the boss. What a horrible final boss.
Menaiya 16 Jul, 2018 @ 7:38pm 
This was an extremely helpful guide, I found it easier on the hands to alternate hitting them even if it wasn't the "close" hand. I'd wait. that made my 7th attempt successful. The fire beam seems to go around for 4-5 "beam sound" cycles then stops.