The Mummy Demastered (EP)
38 Achievements
6-8h
Recognize, Examine, Contain, Destroy
Defeat the Giant Scarab Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
42.0%
How to unlock the Recognize, Examine, Contain, Destroy achievement in The Mummy Demastered - Definitive Guide
Simple here is to understand the pattern.
The Scarab will laser from top left, then move to top right, laser there, and then move around the screen with the gears moving.
Key is to just take your time. What I did was sit on one of the two platforms level with the Scarab so you could just stand there and shoot it. As it is about to laser, jump to the top platform as it doesn’t fire there - wait until the laser passes the platform below, then just drop down and shoot it as much as possible. Then repeat when it moves to the other side.
The spinning cog section, just get as high as you can although you only have to jump up probably 3 cogs and can then stay where you are as it will stop. Then rinse and repeat.
The Scarab takes a lot of damage - I put all my machine gun and harpoon gun ammo into it, plus a load of normal ammo as well, but did it only losing about 200 health by taking my time.
Good luck!!
Story related, can not be missed. The battle takes place in two different parts that repeat until you defeat the boss.
The first one is where the Giant Scarab will move to one side of the screen and then begin firing a laser towards the other side before moving it downwards towards the opposite bottom side of the screen. After it completes the first laser, it will move to the other side and repeat the same attack. To avoid this you just need to get up to highest platform and wait for the laser to go down enough for you to drop to another one safely.
The second part of the battle is where the Scarab will begin walking around the room on the walls while causing the gear platforms to begin to rotate, as well as dropping the gear platforms towards the spikes below while making new ones appear from the top of the screen. During this part it's best to just keep making your way up the rotating platforms to avoid hitting the spikes below while ignoring the Scarab until he is done with this part of the battle. When he stops moving around the screen, the gear platforms will stop rotating and moving, restarting itself to the first part of the battle.
Keep making your way through both parts of the battle while shooting away at the Scarab. Once you defeat the Giant Scarab, the trophy will pop.
Video Guide
This is the fourth boss of the game. The boss itself barely does anything of note. In this fight, the arena is the only real challenge, and only for short amounts of time. The boss will go to one side of the arena, shoot out a laser horizontally, then sweep it across. Get behind a platform to avoid it. Then he'll move to the other side and repeat. After two lasers, he'll hide in his shell and run around the arena, and meanwhile all of those gears you've been standing on activate, and the arena rises. You'll need to platform up to avoid the spikes. It's pretty slow and you have plenty of time, just be careful. This is the entire fight though: two lasers, then arena rising. I personally use the flamethrower and harpoon to end this fight as fast as possible, only having to deal with three sets of lasers.