WhileBanishers: Ghosts Of New Edenprimarily focuses on its storyline, it also features significant combat elements where you may utilize both Red and Antea to confront spectral entities and other adversaries. Additionally, there are several boss encounters throughout the main story of the game.

Upon reaching the Mount Pleasant region, characterized by its snowy landscapes, and advancing through the storyline there, you’ll eventually face a boss fight against The Puppeteer deep inside a cave. This particular boss fight is unique in terms of its mechanics and defeating it can be challenging.

Red and Antea are standing next to the Puppeteer - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

The Puppeteer Attacks

The Puppeteer presents a unique challenge withthree chunks of health, andits attacks are all ranged. Unlike previous bosses, you won’t be directly attacking it. Instead,you’ll target weak points in the chains that bind it, weakening them before delivering a Banish attack.

Throughout the fight, The Puppeteer constantlylaunches multiple forces through the ground towards you, followed byunleashing an AOE damaging chains. These attacks are easy to spot, allowing you to quickly evade them.

Red just dodged a ranged attack from the Puppeteer - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

Additionally,enemies will continuously spawn, so it’s essential to deal with them promptly to focus on the boss.

Each time you hit a weak spot in the chains,the roof will start to crumble,causing damageif you remain in its path.

Red is standing in the dark and there are multiple Antea reflections on the wall - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

Upon depleting the first chunk of The Puppeteer’s health, it will thentrap Antea, preventing you from switching to her.The arena will darken, making visibility difficult. During this phase, you need todefeat the spawned enemies as Red, thenlocate and free Antea from one of the reflections.

Choosing the correct one frees Antea, while the wrong choice spawns an enemy.

Red is about to dodge waves of magic coming at him - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

Once Antea is free,resume targeting the weak spots in the chainswhile the Puppeteer continues its ground attacks throughout this phase.

Keep in mind that breaking each weak spot causes the roof to crumble, and enemies continue to spawn.

Red about to start the fight against the Puppeteer - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

After depleting the second chunk of health, the same scenario repeats, with the Puppeteer trapping Antea once again. Follow the same process to free her.

In the final chunk of health, the Puppeteer adds another attack,raising its hands to unleash multiple homing waves of magic. These can be easily dodged at the last minute.

A circle showing the weakspot in the chain as Antea which glows slightly more green - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

The Puppeteer Strategy

Throughout the entire fight against The Puppeteer,your primary objective is to avoid its attacks and target the weak spots on its chains when they glow orange, allowing you to shoot them with Red’s rifle.

At the start of the fight,switch to Anteatoidentify the weak spotson the chains for this phase.They will appear slightly more green, indicating their readiness to be shot by Red once they are weakened.

Antea is dodging a rock coming from the roof - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

Keep an eye out for The Puppeteer’s ranged attacks, and whena weak spot turns orange,shoot it with Red’s rifle.

Antea will usually provide a cue for you to do so.

Red is aiming at the orange glowing weakspot on the chain - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

Be cautious, as hitting a weak spotcauses the roof to crumble and damage you, requiring you to move away quickly.

The first chunk of health hasthree weak spots.

After shooting all three when they are weakened, The Puppeteer will fall down, and you mustrun toward it to perform a Banish attack. This will not consume your Banish meter.

After this, The Puppeteer will trap Antea, and you’ll be plunged into darkness. Initially,you will rely solely on Redand be cautious as you defeat the enemies that spawn.Keep blocking until you spot them, then deal with them.

Red is about to free Antea from being trapped - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

Once all enemies are defeated,multiple Antea reflections will appear, and you must locate the correct one to free her.

Approach each reflection andcheck for Antea’s ghost. If you spot her within it,interact with itto free her.

Red is performing a banish attack on the Puppeteer - Banishers Ghosts of New Eden

This will return the fight to normal,with the same process. Identify the weak spots as Antea andwait for them to weaken, then shoot them with the rifle. After hittingall three weak spots during the second chunk of health, perform another Banish attack on The Puppeteer, leading to the darkness and Antea being trapped once again.

During the last chunk of The Puppeteer’s health, there will befour weak spots, andmore enemies will spawn, in addition tothe additional wave of magic attack from The Puppeteer.Switch to Antea to deal with the enemies quickly, locate the weak spots, andwait for them to weaken before shooting them.

Stay at a distance from The Puppeteer to effectively dodge its ranged attacks.

Finally, when you shoot the last weak spot in the chains, all you have to do isperform a final Banish attack on The Puppeteerto finish the fight.