Mary Skelter: Nightmares

Mary Skelter: Nightmares

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Route to Underground Cavern's Nightmare
By bat0
This post-game dungeon's area 2 - 4 are 100x100 tile maps. It can be a chore to fully explore it.
This guide will shows you the route to the Core Guardian and Nightmare.
Mary Reverser and Hameln is needed for this route.
   
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Mary Reverser and Hameln
To use this route, you need Jack's Mary Reverser and Hameln's Iron Piccolo.

Mary Reverser

Retrieve Gun Parts and give them to Haru to upgrade your Mary Gun.
Mary Reverser will be unlocked after all 3 upgrades are done.

Downtown
Get Prison Key 10 on Downtown Area 2 (36,22)
Unlock the door (27,28) to Area 4
Area 4 (06,38)

Dorm
Move forward to Area 3 (5,45)
Warp puzzle (7,18) (Follow the warp with white stone beside it)
Get Dorm Key 1 (39,38) (hidden room, use Snow White's bomb)
Go back to Area 1 and unlock the door (40,31) to Area 2
Warp puzzle (22,34)
Area 2 (31,07)

Station Grounds
Area 1 (14,33)

Hameln

I prefer to recruit her as soon as possible (Chapter 7)
Once you have Mary Reverser, go to City Streets Area 2 (28,10)
Turn back and use the Reverser to cross the chasm.
Move forward to Underground Cavern Area 1 and fight her.
Area 2
Facing East, use the Mary Reverser to cross the chasm
Use the Iron Picollo
Use the Iron Picollo
Face South and use the Reverser
Area 3 to 4 - Getting the key
Grab the heart slate and use Thumbelina's Tiny Princess to shrink it
Backtrack to Area 3
Area 3 - Boss fights
Rapunzel's Hair Flair
Guardian (weak to Water)
Nightmare 1st phase (weak to Air)
Go East
Nightmare 2nd phase (weak to Lightning)
Easy Kill on Boss
(On Horror difficulty you'd need to grind more. High agility and high defense is necessary)
The Core Guardian has a multi-hit skill (up to 4 times on a character) that bypass Paladin's Cover.
The Nightmare will always open with Sleepy Times (AoE Sleep) & Tremor (on its 2nd fight).

For the Guardian, Physical Resist gear is useful for mitigating the damage.
For the Nightmare, Andvaranaut accessory along with Physical Resist and/or Earth Resist gear.
You can purchase Andvaranut from the wandering merchant in Jail Tower.
Shrink it first to minimize the stat decrease.

The quick and easy way to defeat them lies in Jail Bonus Wheel buffed by Logic's passives.

Spec Snow White and/or Gretel as Logic and max out the Jail Up passives.
(You can spec them as Item Meister, Mimic, and Blood chemist first if you want versatility)
Make sure the Hunger and Libido bonus can be activated within one attack / lick.

With Logic's Jail bonuses, the % damage to enemy is increased and can occurs twice.
On normal difficulty, the Nightmare received 22k(!) damage. Doubled, it's already 44k.
It's possible to defeat it before it takes another turn.
Area 5
After defeating the nightmare, you can access this area.
Cinderella's Twelve Dash
Use the switch to open the locked gate
backtrack or use Reverser
Same as before. Explore or use Reverser
Forward to Area 4
Hameln's Iron Piccolo then get across with Reverser or Gretel's Bread Portal
Kaguya's Bamboo Guard
To unlock the gate, extinguish the 3 candles with Mary Gun
Area 5
3 Comments
langdonx 23 Jun, 2024 @ 8:57am 
Wonderful guide, thank you.
Be Aggressive 9 Jul, 2023 @ 7:05pm 
Accurate info, thanks.
DrAto 14 Oct, 2022 @ 3:40am 
Great guide easy to follow