Boss Battle: Hades’ Heart


The surprisingly cute heart of Hades begins the fight by running as fast as it can away from Pit, using the mazelike environment as cover against your attacks. Once you do some damage to Hades’ Heart, it glows red and flees toward another location, leaving behind a clone of itself. This clone is actually a walking bomb! Do not stand in the same “row” the clone occupies in the maze. When it self-destructs, the explosion extends in four directions to any wall it can reach.

Chasing down the real Hades’ Heart can be perilous. It occasionally drops land mines to defend itself. As the fight continues, and Hades’ Heart sustains more damage, it runs faster and faster, making it difficult to predict where the heart is going, and more difficult to dodge if it happens to be running straight at you.

The extreme heart attack is explosive enough to give Dark Pit a chance to rescue his brother. Pit survives to fight another day, but things are looking grim without the Three Sacred Treasures. You need a new trump card.