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The combat is simplistic. You usually have one of three plans.
If a part of your body or gear is glowing you need to use it. If enemy is blackened you need to get close and use magic
Let enemy try and attack you and dodge using acrobatics button. Attack their back.
Mash at attack and perfect counter any attacks. Hit attack during his animation of sword being in air and he will launch an attack with increased power. It can be chained but also interrupted. You need to be good at timing but some enemies go down the fastest this way.
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Offense: The Prince has four types of attacks; a Basic sword attack, a Lift attack, an Elika attack, and an Acrobatic action. These four moves can be chained together to perform a variety of the combos.
Block: Just hold the block button to, well, block. Useful when new to this game and possibly useful against the Warrior. A good button to resort to when you don't know what to do.
Deflect: When the enemy attacks, if your press the block button at the right time, you will deflect his attack and leave him open to your combos. The right time to press block is usually right when the enemy pulls their arm back or starts a movement when getting close to you. Very important to learn.
Counter-Deflect: Not technically in the game but a very useful strategy. When the enemy deflects your attack, wait for the right moment to re-deflect his attack. sometimes it will end up with you winning and latying down some damage, or , as i like to call it, a "Deflect Match".
THE Combo I recommend learning and memorizing a combo that you usually use. Then when fighting, you don't have to mash but instead you attack with a flawless, high damage, combo. Having a combo will obviously help with bosses and soldiers. I found the best and easiest to learn was:
Sword, Sword, Sword, Elika, Throw, Elika, Jump, Elika finisher.
Enemy States: The Corrupted beings can use the power of Ahriman to make themselves nearly invincible. They can change into one of three colors. Once they have taken on a new color, they are only vulnerable to a specific attack. You'll want to quickly hit them with the corresponding attack to end this powered state as fast as possible.
Blue: Only sword attacks can break this state.
Orange: Only gauntlet (grab) attacks can stop this state.
Black: Only Elika's magic attack can break this state.
Pink: Only acrobatic moves can break this state.