After ascending the multiple story Museum and brawling a ton of enemies, you’ll finally reach a snow-covered battlefield for a two-round fight against the third boss of the story, Kuroki The Artist.

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The Artist attacks are hyper-fast, with multi-hit combos that can slice you to pieces in seconds. Your saving grace is going to be yourPalm Strike Combo, which you learned from fightingThe Artist’s tutorial counterpartearlier in the game. Approach the first round as follows:

Repeat this strategy, stay patient with your defense, and attack during your windows of opportunity and you’ll send the fight into a much tougher phase.

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In the second round, The Artist ismuch moredifficult. She’ll rush you with a flurry of attacks with patterns that are difficult to memorize, then instantly create distance andthrow daggersfrom range. To counter this offensive onslaught, proceed as follows:

Make no mistake, this is atough fightthat is throwing you everything the game has taught you so far. It may take a few tries and a few more years of our hero’s life, but you’ll start to find patterns in her attacks. You may not dodge them all, but stay frosty and keep with it until you get the takedown prompt to end the fight.

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