Kabuto’s missions went more quickly than expected, so I managed to finish off Giants tonight, earlier than I thought.

The goals in his missions were all fairly straightforward: smash some things. And then smash a few others. Followed up with a bit more smashing. The main opposition was from dense emplacements of sea reapers and evil raiks with their spells (time slow and shrink were particularly annoying), but there wasn’t really an awful lot of risk. Most of the time I could just run up and do a full adrenaline attack, belly flopping onto the ground and destroying most barracks and towers in one or two hits and then chomp on the leftovers running around.

At a few points I smashed a crystal to get a shard as a magnifying glass and could use it to burn enemies from a distance, but all it was really needed for was to open a couple of gates. There were also two minions I had hatched, but I barely used them either, as regular chomping and smashing and the adrenaline attack were all that was really necessary and the minions were annoying to control.

And finally it ended with meeting the original Kabuto for the final boss fight, except that Delphi got knocked out and I switched back to Baz, one of the Meccs, for the fight. It was fairly straightforward though, just shoot him in his weak spot (the groin, of course) while using the jetpack to avoid the ground shocks he sends out when he leaps and lands, and it didn’t take too long.

Overall it was a pretty fun game with a fair bit of variety to it. The only real weak point was some repetitiveness in Delphi’s missions, with the three base missions that play out pretty much the same way and the four frustrating reaperski races.

Tonight it was time to get back to Giants, and I finished off Delphi’s missions. The base mission I’d left off at was fairly easy, and it was then followed by yet another reaperski race. This one was actually fairly frustrating, since it was difficult to pass the other guys without getting bumped around too much, and once in front I pretty much had to pick up boosts and use them near-perfectly in order to remain in front. It must have taken me a half-dozen tries, and I was starting to wonder if I was going to be permanently stuck there.

Then after that was yet another base mission, again fairly easy. This time the attackers started showing up earlier, so I had to defend the base a bit before the walls were up, but the time slow spell made that fairly easy and once the turrets were down the base could pretty much take care of itself, as usual. After that was the boss fight against Delphi’s mother, Sappho, and again it wasn’t too hard. She kept leaping all over the place, but some sword strikes when she was close and sniper arrows when she was up on high ledges quickly took care of her.

Now I’m starting Kabuto’s missions (though technically I’m still Delphi…), and the first couple just involve a lot of stomping around, bashing buildings and squishing enemies, and eating Evil Smarties in order to gain power. The control is quite different, since he’s a huge monster, and he feels a bit weak right now since he has no ranged attack yet, but he has a ton of health. You need it though, since as a huge monster you can’t exactly dodge the enemies, and there’s no health replenishment. By the end of the first mission I was already down to about half health. (Edit: Oh, reading up elsewhere, eating non-Smarties will replenish health. That’ll be useful.)