Job #60: Neff (Altered Beast)
Neff, the Demon God of the underworld in Altered Beast, responsible for the kidnapping of Athena, prompting Zeus to revive a Roman Centurion to go get her back.
Stage 1:
When first encountering the player, Neff will appear in the above humanoid form, firing lightning from his fingers.
After taking a certain amount of damage he will laugh and transforms into his
Aggar form:
Stage 2:
In his Aggar form he will rapidly rip his constantly regenerating head off throwing it at the player, who will have to deftly dodge the raining heads, to damage Aggar. Aggar isn't too difficult as it is an immobile boss. After the players defeat this initial form, causing it to explode, a giant illusion of Neff's head will appear from a light portal laughing at the player:
Stage 2.5(cut scene form):
Turns out this wasn't his true form, and was all dark magic at play...
Neff's illusion head disappears into the portal and the real Neff's body pops out.
Stage 3:
Neff shoots more lightning from his hands in one initial blast to catch the player off guard, before transforming into his
Van Vander form...the one Wreck it Ralph fans are probably familiar with:
In this purple rhino like form
(originally white, but Sega Heroes has adopted the purple look so I guess Sega likes it?), Neff's physical power is greatly improved. Neff acts similar to a regular fighter in this form, albeit being considerably larger than any of the fighters.
He has a charge attack that allows him to get across the stage quickly, hits like an absolute truck and has a huge pool of HP to deplete.
Occasionally, Neff will stop still and attempt to open up a portal of light under a fighter, summoning a giant Neff head to appear from within it.
If the player doesn't move before the beam of light shoots upwards, the Neff head will laugh and siphon off some of their All-Star move energy and health, similar to how Neff would steal the spirit ball energy from the Centurian after each fight. The player will be trapped in the light energy during this move, although fortunately the Van Vander Neff will not attack during this as his mind is currently transferred to the giant head form.
If the player
does manage to move away from it however, the head will not drain them of either energy or life, leaving Neff's Van Vander form body vulnerable, as his mind is concentrated on transferring himself into the giant head. This allows for a good quick opening for the fighters to deal some major damage.
Neff also has an
All-Star bar that will be added to as he steals the fighters All-Star Energy.
When unleashed Neff will charge forward and grab the opponent, throwing him or her into the air, as three 'Neffs' appear(actually three fakes) and transform into
Octeyes, a creature that shoots eyeball projectiles into the opponent knocking them through the air,
Moldy Snail, a half snail half salamander creature that shoots four energy blasts into the fighter and
Crocodile Wyrm who after launching a supernova blast into the player, releases two small demons that grab the frazzled player by the arms.
We then get a shot of Neff(Van Vander form) with his clenched fists above the player character, surrounded by humanoid Neff's lightning. He brings his fists down upon the players skull, smashing them into the floor. Naturally this does a lot of damage.
Edit: I forgot to say just before he transforms into his Van Vander form he of course says "Welcome to your Doom!" Very important.
