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Can You Beat Psycho Mantis Without Breaking The 4th Wall?

Hotdog Fontaine

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This isn't my typical style of video but hey, let's have some fun.

After some of you mentioned it might be possible, I decided to take on the challenge of beating Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid without breaking the 4th wall or using the statue trick. Meaning NO controller swapping.

Just for good measure, I also decided to forgo all weapons too. Why not?
So can we do it? Let's breakdown the fight and take a look at my attempts to see if I can make my own future.

Full fight: https://www.twitch.tv/hotdogfontaine/...

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20 Comments

@HotdogFontaine Creator 2 years ago Pinned

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@Zero86Sk 2 years ago

Me and my brother had the German copy as kids. We had limited knowledge of English and German. So we didn't know about the controller swap or statues. Yet through sheer patience we beat him. Socom works the same if i remember right. Every 7th hit counts.

@Nirakolov 2 years ago

I remember just using C4... but in retrospect I probably accidentally hit the statues

@waxitoto1234 2 years ago (edited)

I always knew it was possible, since that's the only way I beat him, I didn't even knew about the control swap or the statues back then, you should see how shocked I was when I found out about it

@zacharywaddell1048 2 weeks ago

I did it without gimmicks as a kid because I was dumb, it took 45 minutes and is one of the most memorable video game moments for me even today.

@Superkitty-n1t 2 years ago

Hand to hand, explosives, and unrelenting full auto fire (with bandana)

@vacantcrow 2 years ago

on my first playthrough, since the emulator i used wasn't so advanced, i couldn't switch ports, and i didnt know the statue trick, so it really felt like fighting him on hardcore. still one of my favorite boss fight

@Sd-cb3mz 2 years ago

More MGS challenges!

@danielholowitski3855 2 years ago (edited)

I recently did this without the benefit of this video. Swinging the busts across the room is also part of his attack pattern initially, after chairs, but after a couple attempts he stops.

@malusuarte4595 2 years ago

I remember talking about mgs1 with my boss at work, and he said when he was a kid he didn't know of the port or the statutes trick, so he spent hours to beat mantis like this

@TVC-JE 2 years ago

What a cool challenge. Even cooler watching it happen live!

@hariman7727 2 years ago

Neat! I knew it was possible to beat him with guns, if you're good, but I didn't know about the statues.

And I never would have tried fists only.

@valentinobambino6728 2 years ago

My first language is not English so as a kid I could not understand the colonel's advice. I still beat the game.

I eventually got a magazine (in Spanish) and learned about the controller ports.

For me, this was probably the longest boss battle ever.

@JJMGS3_School 2 years ago

JJ was here thank you for the advice

@thefallen2220 2 years ago

If you equip any weapon you run faster that would make it easier

@MacInTheBoxx 2 years ago

You're pretty good

@stormmeansnowork 2 years ago

My first Mantis play through was on the computer (i.e. no port swapping) and it goes through just as if you already swapped the controller port. So I never had problem dealing with Mantis and even found out about the statues trick, but I never got to know that you can land one out of 7 hits on Mantis without using any tricks till this video

@otakutsukonko 2 years ago

I don't remember if I tried this on the Playstation or the GameCube version, but I distinctly remember that I found that I could beat him with a war of attrition, using the bandana and the FAMAS to just keep shooting him repeatedly until he went down for the count.
So, I suppose every 7th bullet was a hit, like it was with your punches and kicks?
and yes, the "So... you used the other..." was still there just like if you did the gimmick you're meant to.

Also, I've always heard that bit about the statues, but I've never encountered in while playing.
I DO know there's also a joke about the Hind D fight where they tell you to listen with your stereo TV...
"What, Snake? You don't have a stereo TV?" can happen, as I had a Mono TV for the longest time...

@translarrybutz 2 years ago

Only a fool trusts his life to a forth wall break

@Lagbeard 2 years ago

If you want some silliness to cleanse out the pain of punching Mantis to death, there is another boss you can beat in a different way than intended that some people might not know.
The second Sniper Wolf fight in the snowfield, you can run off to the side and be in cover from her shots and use the Nikita from there to fight her.