Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

How to Beat Darkness Manifest: Locations and Strategies

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How to Beat Darkness Manifest
This is a fight guide on Darkness Manifest, a boss in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. Read on to see strategies against Darkness Manifest, locations, and attack patterns!

Darkness Manifest Information

Strengths and Weaknesses

Darkness Manifest ImageDarkness Manifest
Difficulty ★★★★
Weaknesses None
Resistances None

How to Beat Darkness Manifest

Tips and Strategies

Absorb Abilities

Absorb Abilities
While the only attacks you can absorb in this fight will be during Phase 1, absorbing spells and recasting them at Darkness Manifest gives you additional attacks at your disposal. Abilities like Furious Flame and Malicious Waters are what you want to absorb as these deal good damage.

You can determine which element Darkness Manifest will imbue its attacks with based on the arm it used to cast. Keep this in mind at all times throughout the fight!

Attack From the Flank and Rear

Get Behind It
Darkness Manifest will be casting a number of spells which require it to lock at a direction for a few seconds. Once you see it begin any animation, that would be the perfect time to reposition yourself behind it. This opens up a better opportunity to attack since the critical strikes will let you inflict quality damage.

Combo abilities that have a charge like Marauder's Moon Slash or Breaker's Zantetsuken combined with Lunatic are great to have for this strategy as you can benefit greatly by dealing more damage with a longer charge. Similarly, abilities like Dragoon's Vanquish or Samurai's Hana-Arashi which require more time to finish their full combo work just as well.

Evade and Block

Evade and Block
At this point in the game, players know that evading and blocking attacks in boss fights is essential. Equipping command abilities that give extra mobility like Swayback and Flee can help your movement so switching up your battle settings might be something worth looking into!

This final boss fight will be the ultimate test of these skills because once you get hit by a spell or attack, Darkness Manifest follows up immediately with a barrage of melee attacks.

Darkness Manifest Attack Patterns

Elemental Attacks

Attack Description
Flame Spout Darkness Manifest casts a circle of flames around itself in a medium range.
Furious Flame Darkness Manifest throws a flame projectile across the area.
Odious Wind Darkness Manifest calls upon 5 wind spheres that drops and deals damage to enemies in melee range.
Dread Earth Darkness Manifest punches the enemy in front of it twice.
Earthquake Darkness Manifest hits the ground while doing an AoE attack around itself.
Malicious Waters Darkness Manifest hurls discs of water toward you./td>

Chaos Attacks

Attack Description
Anguished Shadows Darkness Manifest throws chaos projectiles to enemies in front of it.
Ruin Darkness Manifest stomps its foot and releases a cone-shaped chaos attack that sweeps forward.
Condemn Darkness Manifest performs a flurry of melee-ranged attacks.
Cataclysm of Chaos Darkness Manifest hurls 2 quick chaos projectiles in front of it.
Implacable Darkness Darkness Manifest bombards a target area with chaos spheres.

Where to find Darkness Manifest

Known Mission Locations

You can find Darkness Manifest in the final area of Chaos Shrine during the main mission: Warriors of Calamity.

Known Locations
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