Rat boss totally tilted me off, everything of the boss goes against everything other bosses have the entire game. Contact damage, random moving platform, barely-parriable attacks with hardly any cue, and the constant stress not giving you any room for healing. Alraune boss was doable with parrying, but this is just painful. I'm better off asking for a save on the next stage than dealing with this.
you can heal in this game??? yeah this is why this game is in early development (its not even on steam as a demo yet), nothing is explained but we're adding new content which is WRONG. Devs should focus on mechanics first and then add content to the game even when its porn, but we still didnt get proper screen transitions, usable menus, and some things not working at all. i just love the difficulty of it. and i can give tips on how to beat the rat boss here:
first you'll most likely do most of your damage from blocking the attacks and getting mana to shot her, because coming close to her is too dangerious because she has her own hitbox, and she's destroying platforms near her.
lets do a rundown of her attacks now:
scoop - lets call them "left one" (when she attacks from above) and "right one" (attacks from the right). the only way you can avoid them is by blocking them, and to do that you have to LOOK at the right direction (thus why i named attacks like that) and get the right timing on block to not get damage. you can get mana from these if you press block right when she's attacking (but you better be early than late), you'll learn the timings of her scoops eventually by playing more, and you'll learn when to block. on second phase she can double attack with the scoop, both the left one and the right one, so you gotta be faster at blocking from two directions
dynamite - she has two ways of shoting them, targetted (2 being thrown right at your location), and preset (3 being thrown at preset locations). so far this is the easiest attack to block and it'll be your main mana source, you gotta learn to perfect block them to get mana. just press block looking at the dynamite when its close and that's it, also dont forget what you can easily dodge them if you're in a bad situation.
laser - first you cant block it, we have to avoid it. you gotta learn the timing when it shots to juke, or you can enable panic mode and try to avoid it by any means, the only tip i can give is that player's hat doesn't count as his hitbox, so you can be under the laser in tight situations. and generally you gotta be lucky with the platforms, because sometimes you cant even avoid the laser and sometimes you cant even jump to the next platform and you're forced to damage from the spikes. also on phase 2 i somehow destroyed the laser once, idk how, i couldnt repeat it anymore (maybe because i found a lot of opportunities to hit the boss with the sword and it killed the laser idk)
rock - an annoying attack that you gotta watch out for, it doesn't do damage, but it stuns you, and it means you cant block, so you'll get damage from other attacks. those small particles from the ceiling say where the rock falls, so yeah, a lot of things to watch out for
and i guess that's it, be lucky with the platforms, be better at reacting to the attacks, dont put yourself in a bad spot and the win is yours. it just takes a lot of time to learn the patterns
also i won the entire game without healing i guess (not counting save rocks)