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The Spider closely matches its namesake in appearance, though with only four legs surrounding its central head-body rather than eight. Its whole black chassis is covered in red spikes.
History[]
Spider is one of many types of Guardians constructed by the Ancients of the Starfall Islands to fight against the Ancients' true enemy. The Ancients' civilization eventually collapsed, and the Spider was sealed away along with the other guardians.
Most of the Spider's body is shielded from Sonic's attacks, including all of its vulnerable points on its legs and head. Its whole body is immensely strong, capable of breaking rocks away from the volcanic ground of Chaos Island with a single stomp, and a shake of its head can send Sonic rocketing into the sky.
Spider+[]
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Spider+'s whole body is immensely strong, like its original counterpart. The only difference is that its legs are no longer vulnerable.
Weakness[]
A Cyloop (or Quick Cyloop) can disable the shields on the Spider's legs, allowing him to slow the creature down and access its head. Sonic can also remove its head shielding by skydiving through blue glowing rings.
Gallery[]
Spider Concept Art From the Sonic Frontiers: Digital Art Book
Spider Intro
Spider Model
Spider+ Model
Spider Battle Screenshot
Battle[]
Boss guide[]
Spider[]
Sonic having been launched far above Chaos Island by the Spider.
When Sonic engages the Spider, it will move toward him and attempt to stomp on him with its powerful legs. After a stomp, its legs will briefly become stuck in the ground, allowing Sonic a chance to use the Cyloop to break its leg shields (Or just attack the legs directly with Quick Cyloop).
After the shielding on all four legs has been disabled, Sonic can attack the Spider's head. However, if the head is still shielded, the Spider will throw its head upwards, launching Sonic into the sky and initiating a skydive. While skydiving, Sonic must move through as many blue rings as possible while avoiding bombs, laser fields and Cyclones; if enough blue rings are collected, Sonic can then attack the Spider's head. If more blue rings are still needed, the Spider will once again launch Sonic into the air, forcing him to collect the additional rings.
Spider+[]
When the player engages the Spider+, unlike its original counterpart, Spider+ fires waves of spike-shaped missiles to attack, some of which will zero in on the player and are extremely difficult to dodge. Spider+ can leap and cause a huge spike tsunami, and can use the regular melee leg attack to damage Sonic if he gets too close, or leap away at times. During the battle, Spike Bombs will also spawn around Spider+ and its stepping will cause spikes to spawn.
To break the shield on the head, the player needs to use the Spike Bomb by performing Cyloop or other variants (except Quick Cyloop, as the bombs cannot be targeted) on those Bombs. Spike Bombs caught in the updraft will be launched towards Spider+'s head. Three bombs are required to break the shield, and after this Spider+ is down, with the head open for attack until it gets back up and regenerates the armor.. Repeat the progress until Spider+ is defeated. Alternatively, when the head is vulnerable, the player can Cyloop the head three times allowing a one-hit kill with any damaging move.
If the player parries the spike wave and somehow causes a spike bomb to break Spider+'s armor, the prompt for a Grand Slam will appear, but deal little to no damage, repeatable if Sonic parries spikes spawned by Spider+ stepping. In addition, Spider+ will act identically to Spider in this phase and not regenerate its armor plating.
In Sonic Frontiers: Digital Art Book with Mini Digital Soundtrack, concept art for a "regular" Spider is featured (with a color scheme resembling that of the regular Soldiers), along with concept art for purple, red, white and gold variants, each with different arrangements of armor and spikes. Curiously, while the version of the Spider seen in-game has the red variant's coloration, it has the armor shape of the white variant.
Although the other variants of the Spider do not appear in the Sonic Frontiers base game, an unused version of Spider does appear in a CGI sequence in the game's Showdown Trailer, battling Sonic on Kronos Island
A white variant does finally appear in The Final Horizon as "Spider+", though it retains the exact same armor shape as the basic Spider.
Another white variant with additional attacks also goes unused.
The original Spider apparently was supposed to walk on an invisible web. However, when the player completed the dive phase, Spider would often either stay grounded or clip through the floor.
A unique unused attack by another white Spider model would have sent projectiles flying everywhere. It goes unused, however.
