Introducing "Tenjian," Nike" and "Nimrod" of the G7

Wow, do I have a lot of information to share today! A couple days ago, various Japanese gaming news outlets shared more new information on the bosses of Gunvolt 2. These bosses include Nike, the hair-controlling adept (whom we've seen previously), and two other newly-revealed characters named "Tenjian" and "Nimrod." You can read all the details below the jump! As always, thanks a ton to Zoram for the translations!

Introducing the “Grimwald Seven”

“Zetsureiken (Frozen Sword)” Tenjian 

(VA: Watanabe Kou)

“You are so selfish… I’ll cut down your tenacity with my sword!”

He’s a Psychic with the “Super Freezing (All Freeze)” Ability, which is capable of freezing anything.

He loves four-word idiomatic expressions and uses them often. He’s the type who likes finesse. He employs 7 sharp swords like the “Circle Moon Ring”, a straight sword or a curved sword. He has a lot of knowledge as well and he’s the substantial leader of the G7.

All of his swords’ blades are at an extremely low temperature, which is even below absolute zero. Anything that touches these swords loses its molecular structure’s flexibility and is immediately severed.

“Shadow Ice Cut”

A short-ranged attack from a straight blade. The slash becomes an ice wall that remains on the field.

“Circle Moon Ring”

A long-ranged attack from two Circle Moon Rings. Their circling and special orbits will confuse the player.

“Freezing Splitting Slash”

A continuous attack that consists of an unpredictable descent, followed by a stab attack.

“Super Freezing (All Freeze)”

Tenjian’s 7th Wave (Sevens), which can instantly freeze all around him. Be careful: the frozen floor will be slippery.

“Ice Flower Snow Cut”

Tenjian’s Special Skill: he uses the All Freeze to trap the player in an ice pillar, and then smashes the ice pillar to pieces along with the player. It’s his ultimate sword skill.

Mission: “Freeze (Frozen City)” 

Boss: Tenjian

Destination facility: “Frozen City”

The G7’s leader – Tenjian.

He hijacks a prominent Japanese gigantic hotel to turn it into his base, and then traps the whole city in ice.
Gunvolt and Acura intrude into the hotel from different spots in order to free the city. Despite that both warriors have a common enemy, both are in conflict with each other – is their clash inevitable?

You’ll have to make use of the icicles that suddenly appear as platforms to move forward. These icicles vanish after a while, so time your jumps to get onto the next one.

Nowa’s relief supplies. If you coat yourself in the special coating agent that this sprays, it’ll be harder to slip on the frozen floor. In Gunvolt’s case, he can use these by hacking into them.

RoRo: “Maybe he’s trying to threaten you.”

Onslaughts from Tenjian's 7th Wave (Sevens) will happen along the way. The surroundings will be instantly frozen. Some enemies’ attacks will change once the area has been frozen, so be very careful.

“Tower’s Beauty Hair Angel (Towering Blonde)” Nike
(VA: Zhenya)

“It’d seem that… the starlight… doesn’t reach you…”

She’s a psychic with the “Tangle Hair” Ability: she can control her phantasgamoric hair.

She’s an odd girl: one of her hobbies is astrology. She says that she received “a message from the stars,” and thus joined Eden. Her words are elusive.

Her fortune-telling tends to be true a lot of times. It’d seem there are a lot of Eden members that accept her oracles as divine revelations. Some worship her like an idol, but Nike herself isn’t aware of this.

“Neo Wolf” 

A move in which she hardens her hair and stretches it as if it were a blade.

“See-through Bang”

A long-ranged attack in which she turns some split-off hairs into drills and shoots them towards Acura.

“Twist”

She gathers bloated hair around her, makes it spin, and then turns it into a gigantic tornado which pulls Acura toward it. She’s invincible during this attack, so focus on dodging it.

“Grunge Wave”

 An attack in which she makes her hair thrust upwards from the floor.

“Entangled Blond”

Nike's Special Skill. It's a large-scale attack in which she stretches the surrounding hair and tries to capture Acura. If you get caught by the hair, that's the end for you: a lot of hair whips will strike you.

Mission “Heaven Tower (Tangled)”
Boss: Nike
Destination facility: “Heaven’s Inverted Spear”

Nike, the Psychic who controls phantasgamoric hair, has taken control of Sumeragi’s Orbital Elevator.

It’d seem that she and her men want to get research data on the Cybernetic Singing Fairy (Cyber Diva) that’s supposed to be within the orbital base.

Acura challenges the heavenly tower he’d faced in the past once again to stop Eden from getting their hands on the data.

RoRo: “Jump into the tailwind and use your dash jump!”

A gale is blowing outside of the elevator. If you jump, it’ll push you backwards.

This is an enemy that shoots special bullets capable of tying up the player. If you get tied up in mid-air, you might be tossed from the elevator.

Temporary scaffolds set up by Sumeragi for the purpose of inspecting the Orbital Elevator. When Acura, intruding into the place, touches them, they vanish after a while. You’ll have to move fast from one to another.

“The Flowing Merman” Nimrod 

(VA: Ootamari Takaki)

“Small… Compare the size of what you fight for to the size of the sea: it’s 

truly small!”

He’s the psychic with the “Liquid” Ability that allows him to control fluids.

He’s a bit of an odd man who loves the ocean with a passion. He joined Eden while keeping up his life's work of ocean preservation activities.

He’s a good and lively man who is endeared by a lot of his pals, but he shows no mercy towards those who oppose him.

His “Liquid” Ability is supposed to allow him to control any kind of fluid substance, yet, as a possible result of his crude personality, it’d seem that he hates controlling anything that isn’t water or seawater.

“Aqua Trident”

He plunges his trident into the ground to make an ice blade emerge from below.

“Harp Boomerang”

A move that turns his hips' harps into boomerangs to launch them.

“Splash Dash”

High-speed movement in which he generates a lot of spray. If you get pushed backwards by the spray and touch the trident, you’ll fall prey to the attack.

“Vortex Rush”

A big move that creates several water tornadoes. If Gunvolt gets trapped inside of one of these tornados, he’ll be unable to move, and will be attacked by the Harp Boomerangs.

“Hydro Zapper”

An attack in which a special electrolyte is shot at an extremely high water pressure. If you touch it, you’ll turn into Overheat state, so try to dodge it.

“Aqua Avatar”

Nimrod’s Special Skill. He and several water clones attack Gunvolt in succession. Can one properly avoid the compound attack by the clones and the real Nimrod?

Mission: “Rapids (Water)”
Boss: Nimrod
Destination facility: “Underground Water Supply”

Gunvolt gets info from Xiao that Eden members are intruding into the Underground Water Supply.

Gunvolt and his friend predict that they aim to cut off the lifelines by hijacking the Waterworks, so Gunvolt and company try to intrude into the Underground Water Supply to prevent a large-scale terrorist attack.

Large masses of pressurized water burst out from the walls. Move quickly to avoid hitting them!

These are gigantic water tornadoes triggered by Nimrod’s 7th Wave. If you touch them, they’ll drag you upwards. Use the Thunder Scales’ Hover Ring efficiently to dodge these.

Aside from being unable to use the Thunder Scales while in water, if you stay under for too long, you’ll lose HP due to suffocation.
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And that wraps up this round of information! Wow, talk about a ton of interesting news! Gotta say, I'm really loving the themes of all these bosses so far. They all feel really unique and different from each other, which is great! I think that Tenjian, in particular, is gonna be my favorite boss in this game. I mean, dang, he just looks and sounds so cool...in more ways than one!
By the way...I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed the incredibly uncanny resemblance between Nike's "human" form and Monica. It's also interesting to note that Nike is located in the same area where we saw Monica last in GV1: at Sumeragi's Orbital Elevator. Very curious, huh? In the first game, however, Monica had no septimal powers, so if she is, in fact, Nike, you have to wonder how she got ahold of those new abilities. Maybe she just had them implanted into her in a lab, like Shiden/Nova? Pretty thought-provoking!

Anyway, as always, I hope you enjoyed this post!