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In a stroke of complete luck I got past Joel and Bald Joel (I have no idea how) and had a lot more fun with the Bulk fight because it was a lot easier to tell what he was going to do - and after dying a few times managed to cheese it by just alternating right uppercuts and left normal hits one at a time and for whatever reason he just didn't attack once or even try to even after several consecutive blocks from him

I will not be attempting expert mode.

Congrats! Bulk Bogan has some oddities in his programmed patterns, I've had a couple runs where he barely fights back as well and then others where he follows up a double power punch with two more double power pucnhes followed by relentless 4 punch combos. Usually it's somewhere in between, though.

I think if we had mroo\e time we could have had extra frames that telegraph attacks more clearly, as of now a lot of the animations are sprite shaking and position shifting. So when Joel attacks up he first moves back a bit, if hes attacking the body he moves back less but more to the side before pucnhing. It's a subtle difference and maybe hard to spot until you get a feel for it.

Thanks for playing!

I can give a few more tips in case you want to give it another shot sometime.

I've already mentioned high and low pucnhes get telegraphed differently. However, if you block them you will take chip damage (1dmg) but that's not usually a big deal. It's mroe effective to dodge but you hae to be carefull dodging body shots because if you dodge into the direction the body shot is coming from, or you duck into a body shot you'll get hit anyway. Luckily no input blocks body by default so playing it safe could be dodging high punches and jsut blocking low ones.

Also inc ase you weren't using the special mirrors to block the bald shine that lets you get in a steady stream of free hits. Head punches do more damage and for Bulk Bogan body shots basically do chip damage to him, again only 1dmg. But for him, any pucnhes you get in will be worth it so if he's blocking high too much then get a few body shots in.