The Gnaw

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Summary
The Gnaw is the first boss you face in Dementium II. You first see the Gnaw in a cutscene after you escape your jail cell. William sees a Mutilated body hanging from chains in the Plane of Anguish when suddenly two doors open at each side of the hall. The Gnaw then comes charging out of the right doorway, rips the body from its chains, leaving only one of its arms hanging from its chain. William doesn't see The Gnaw any more until he completes the door puzzle in the infirmary, The Gnaw makes its second and last appearance in the next room as the first boss you face. After William kills the Gnaw he can enter the room the Doctor was in earlier and obtains the Revolver.

Boss fight
Because you only have the shank when you meet up with The Gnaw you have to time you attacks right to get hits in. Strafing is the best tactic in this fight as the boss gives you more than enough time to react against its attacks. You must keep an eye on the boss because it will take any chance it has to attack you. If you took the Adrenaline from the infirmary then you could use it to make dodging attacks easier.

It's arsenal of attacks consists of, Jumping onto the ceiling and climbing along it to get over top of and drop down on you after which it will ether bang the blades on its arms together a couple times and slice at you. Strafe around it to get an attack in. When running on the ground after dropping from the ceiling it might run off away from you and charge toward you. Pay attention to it and sprint away so it runs into the wall and stuns itself, it may also start spitting a liquid around the arena duck to avoid it. If you get hit by this you will continue to be damaged for several seconds. Its final attack is when it's above you it'll start to spew an orange liquid pods will then roll out of the puddle and if they aren't destroyed slugs will hatch from them. The pods need only one hit to be destroyed.