Alice: Madness Returns
50 Achievements
1,000
28-35h
Pulling Strings
Defeat the Dollmaker without taking any damage.
30
How to unlock the Pulling Strings achievement in Alice: Madness Returns - Definitive Guide
PBreezey
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Defeat the Dollmaker without taking any damage.
*SPOILERS*
The Dollmaker is the final part of the game, and the first real boss fight of the entire game. This achievement seems more difficult than it really is. The reason it's easy, is because there are actually checkpoints that you can reload during the fight.
The first checkpoint will come immediately after destroying the doll face on the first hand. The second checkpoint comes after destroying the doll face on the second hand. Then you're in phase 3 and there are no more checkpoints.
How to:
The two individual hands are very easy to defeat. Just dodge their attacks and they will eventually stop moving. Once they're stationary, attack them with your weapon of choice.
It gets more difficult after defeating the hands. The Dollmaker will have both hands, but they attack individually. The hand on the right does a sweeping attack. Just use RB to dodge once the hand is actually moving. The hand on the left does a pinching attack. It will chase you around the platform trying to grab you, just run around and use RB when you need to.
Once the hands have finished, the Dollmaker has a stream of Ruin coming out of his neck. Use either the Pepper Grinder or the Teapot Cannon to damage it. After damaging it, one of two things will happen:
1. Three Drifting Ruin will appear and try to attack you. This is extremely easy to deal with. Equip your teapot cannon, wait until all three have their faces showing, then fire the cannon at the center one. All three should be destroyed in one shot.
2. The Dollmaker will being to spit ruin at you while shooting the ruin coming out of him. You will hear him get ready to spit, so you will know when to tap the RB to dodge his attacks.
Rinse and repeat. Once you've damage the Dollmaker to a certain point, the hands will resume their attacks. After the hands, back to the Dollmaker. Continue on until he dies. Pretty easy.
If you take damage, just Pause>Restart and try from the last checkpoint.
*Update* Thanks to Pedle Zelnip for posting 2 great tips to make this slightly easier, and also where to find it in case you miss it on your first playthrough.
- a note that this can be done on any difficulty. I did it on Easy.
- The chapter select point you're looking for is Chapter 6, Dollmaker 1.
InfiniteRefrain
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Equip the Fleshmaiden dress and level select Chapter 6, Dollmaker Part 1.
Once the battle starts, activate Hysteria and keep using it again as soon as it expires. This will let you get hit but you won't take any damage from the hits as it makes you invincible. If you do take damage before you can re-activate Hysteria, restart the checkpoint and try again. I took damage in the last part, restarted, and I still got the achievement.
Andres56502
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Now select Chapter 6, Dollmaker 2
the boss is quite easy, but if you get damage, immediately press start, and select restart, you will start from the last phase of the boss before it hit you, continue until you finish the battle, you will get the achievement
II, OE
You get this in Chapter 6. This achievement is a lot easier than it seems to be. There is nothing to do in chapter 6 aside from watching cut-scenes and getting to the back of the Infernal Train to fight the Dollmaker. If you purchased the Weapons and Dresses DLC and have unlocked "Level Headed", use the Fleshmaiden Dress to gain unlimited Hysteria uses.
First phase: If you get hit during this phase, simply restart the checkpoint and try again
His left hand will come out, it will perform slamming attacks. Once it has done enough, it will rest on the ground and expose the ruin. Charge in and attack. After enough time the hand will recover and Insidious Ruin will start to spawn 2 at a time. Ignore them unless you have to. His hand will chase you around the area. Spam dodge to make large circles around the area! It will get tired eventually and rest. Charge in and attack it again. Once enough damage is dealt, the ruin will disappear and the hand will go away.
You'll get a checkpoint here. If you made it to this checkpoint without damage you can restart it if you get hit in the next phase
Second phase: His right hand will come out now. Dodge its open palmed smashing attacks and swatting attacks until it gets tired and rests. Charge in and introduce it to your knife. After some time it will recover and some more Insidious Ruin will spawn. Again, ignore them unless you have to. The hand will chase you again. Again, spam dodge to make large circles around the area. It will get tired and rest again. Move in and take it out. If you deal enough damage to it now, you will not have to deal with the next attacks. If you haven't dealt enough damage, it will recover and summon Menacing Ruin. Dodge the attacks until it needs to rest and finish it off.
You'll get a checkpoint here. If you made it to this checkpoint without damage you can restart it if you get hit in the next phase
Third phase: Both hands will appear now. They will both try and grab you. Dodge both the hands and then they will grab onto the stone pillars. The Dollmaker will now spit out his tongue for you to attack. After getting some hits in, he will spawn Floating Ruins. Do your best to dodge all of the attacks from the ruins and the hands until his tongue comes back out. Use ranged attacks on it until defeated.
Refer to this video for further assistance:
