Day 25: Vulture and Electro
With most of our favorite web slinging superhero's strongest enemies out and about, courtesy of Doctor Otto Octavius, A.K.A Doc Ock, it's up to him to bring them to justice.
Spider-Man starts his crusade to clean up the city by exploring Doc Ock's secret lair where he learns of a secret project titled 'Icarus'. When he finds a crate labeled 'Icarus,' it turns out to be a trap because when Spidey opens it, he finds the crate is filled with bombs. He manages to escape before they blow, but he is quickly apprehended by Vulture and brought to a power plant where Electro is waiting for him.
With no other way to get out of this mess, Spider-Man is left with no choice but to engage the airborne and electrifying duo in combat.
You start the battle against Electro and Vulture by first taking on Electro. He'll try and shoot Spider-Man down his blasts of electricity, and you'll have to web swing around him in order to get close to him so you can shoot webs at him. Once Electro is loaded with enough webs, zip over to him and punch his lights out.
This will cause Electro to position himself on a transformer where he'll use it to blast vertical waves of electricity at you. You need dodge these waves and web up the transformer so it'll explode. When it does, Electro will retreat and you have to contend with Vulture next.
Vulture's main methods of attack are him trying to fly into you and launching bladed wingtips which can be thrown back at him. Like with Electro, just dodge his attacks, web him up, and then zip over to him for a beatdown.
Once Vulture's taken his lumps, Electro will come back into the scene, and now you must fight the both of them together.
Nothing really changes about Electro and Vulture's attacks. They remain the same, but the only difference is that, obviously, you're dealing with the two of them together, giving you more to work with. The fact you're fighting two enemies while swinging around the power plant gives this fight an energetic feeling that I don't really get in most of this game's other bosses.
But basically just keep doing what you've been doing. Dodge their attacks, web them up, beat the shit out of them, take out another transformer if necessary followed by some epic quick time events, and eventually you'll have this duo on the ropes.
The fight against Electro and Vulture is one of my favorite fights in Insomniac's Spider-Man due to how fast paced it can be, especially on higher difficulties. Seriously, when you fight them both together it can get very hectic. On top of that, given how good this game is at making you feel like Spider-Man, it's incredibly satisfying to use your web slinging abilities to take these bastards down.
I just hope the Spider-Man 2 game coming out later this year gives me a boss fight of this caliber.