Dust An Elysian Tail
30 Achievements
400
15-20h
Xbox 360
Cutting It Close
Successfully Parry with less than 10% health remaining
10
How to unlock the Cutting It Close achievement in Dust An Elysian Tail - Definitive Guide
You can do this at almost any point during the story, but if you do it early on, it's a lot easier to waste your health as you won't have any upgrades and require far less hits to lose your health. Once you encounter the area with the first boss like enemy, allow it to waste your health until it's down to a small red flashing bar. Once you've got to this point, walk up to the enemy, then hold "x" as the enemy tries to attack you. If you time the attack right you will parry and this will unlock. You can do this on any enemy in the game, but the bigger enemies are far easier to time.
5 Comments
I'm not sure doing it early on is the best solution, really. It's a lot easier when you have more health and just go back to an early section. They have no ability to one-hit you, so it gives you some room for error.
By Anxsighety on 16 Aug 2012 22:49
Just another note... flashing red doesn't necessarily mean 10%... make sure your health is 10% of your total, or it won't pop.
By xx Hollywood on 05 May 2014 07:07
You'll play a tutorial for how to parry early in the game. Hold when an enemy attacks to parry. This prevents any damage that would've been done to you, and also stuns the enemy.
Let a monster hit you until your life is flashing red. Hold the same time they attack to parry and unlock the achievement.