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Thunder Force III Boss FAQ
Written by: Scott Clemmons (SClemmons/FFMrebirth)
Last Updated: March 6, 2005
Genre: Horizontal Shooter
Version: Final
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Any game play questions will be deleted, and your e-mail name will be
blocked. I've written FAQS before and have gotten questions about a completely
different game. This is very annoying and I don't tolerate it. Granted I sound
like an over-bearing ass, but that's just the way it has to be.
Gargoyle comes onto the screen and moves up very close to you. Don't be too
anxious to start attacking him right off the bad since he'll begin to blow a
stream of fire that effects the entire bottom portion of the screen. To dodge
this, make your way up to the top left-hand corner of the arena. Afterwards,
go ahead and open up on his stomach. He'll start to shoot out fireballs that
have a pattern to them. The first one will come right for you. Go ahead and
move down some to evade this. He'll fire out two more sets; keep moving down
slowly to elude these as well. Between all of this, you should have time to
get some attacks in on his stomach. He'll go down without a fight.
Twin Vulcans are very easy if you have the Hunter weapon equipped going into
the battle. One of them will be at the top and one will be at the bottom once
the fight starts. Just sit there with your Hunter weapon and let them home in
on the weak points of the Vulcans. If you don't have the Hunter, this battle
may be a tad harder if you use any another laser. You're going to have to
position yourself to so you don't get killed by running into the Vulcans and
still be able to do damage. Go ahead and finish one of them off. The other one
should go down without a fight.
King fish is King pushover. The top and bottom of him will keep firing out
yellow rings the entire battle in a straight line. Right after that, he'll
fire two yellow lasers from his eye ball that you're going to have to dodge.
To do this, just simply slow your ship down some, and slowly move out of the
way. If you go too fast, you might end up hitting one of the rings. I used the
regular laser during the battle to do the damage.
Midway in, he'll begin to fire the yellow rings even faster than before. If
you stick right in front of his eye, this won't concern you. Just keep firing
the lasers at his eye and dodge the ones he fires at you. He'll die in a
matter of seconds.
Three parts will appear and combine into one to form this boss. He's not
really a hard boss at all, just an annoying one. The first thing he does is
shoot ships at you from the top and bottom guns that he has. The second thing
he does is he'll fire out some attacks at you that look like this:
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To dodge this, simply slow down your ship and get in the middle of the two
beams at first followed by moving up just a tad. Going too far will mean
death. Going too slow means death as well. After you keep the pressure on for
about ten seconds, he'll die.
The G Lobster will come from behind you, making you have to move to the front
of him to do damage. G Lobster is a total wimp. Get between his claws and just
start opening fire on him. He'll fire out a packet of missiles your way, but
it's really nothing to worry about; your weapons will be able to bust through
them. Once he extends his claws, he'll fire out a charged homing laser that's
capable of actually doing some damage. Go forward a tad to dodge this. The G
sLobster will fall in under ten seconds.
Stage Cerberus ends after you make your way to the center of the ship and
destroy its core with only a few bullets. After this, you'll find your way to
the Orn base.
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- H1. Orn Base -
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Target:???????
Weak point:?????????
The only actual hard boss in the entire game I think. He'll have four blocks
at all four sides of the screen that'll move around. They have quite a lot of
patterns. They can move back or forth. Sometimes they're able to move up and
down. Other times they'll be moving and stop, only to start moving backwards
at you. The only advice I can offer is just to keep an eye out on them while
trying to blow the cover off the boss. Once you manage to do this, he'll start
to fire one straight laser right at you. This is very easy to dodge, but
things can get complicated with the boxes moving around the entire battle. I
used the standard weapon to take him out. After his death, you'll move further
into the Orn base.
They begin with throwing a boss at you in the opening moments of the stage.
This guy will
This is the main boss of the entire game. At first, he'll begin to unleash a
plethora of bullets right at you. Subsequently, he'll begin to fire bouncy
balls at you as well. Make sure you destroy his first form rather quickly
because if he managed to get enough of these bouncy balls out, you will die.
Once you get past his first stage, it's pretty much smooth sailing. He'll
start off by firing a large, rotating ball of lasers at you. Just dodge this
like you would anything else. Afterwards, he'll release a set of wave beams at
you. You may have some trouble with this to be honest. What I did was go to
the very left-hand bottom portion of the screen to dodge these. Keep the
pressure on, and he'll die within a few seconds. What a pushover for a main
boss.
Sit back and enjoy the ending. You saved the world (who would've guessed?)
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