i can't beat him , everytime i get to the golden armor(with the eternal engine) i run out of fuel before i can even crack his armor, the hard part is getting the cross missles in him, only once did it say "now dentonate them!" and i shot at them and it didnt work. im ready to give up, please help!

What charachter are you playing as? If you need to shoot 3 large cross arrows, the you need to do it quick. You also need to hope you teamate does the same as you. If you haven't won the new engine you can only shoot 3, otherwise you can shoot 4. It's the last boss so it will be the hardest.

I've tried it with Femme and the err.. yellow ship . I haven't gotten the engine so.... I'll try and get that. Thanks.

welcome.

here's some in depth information regarding your situation..
with regards to your LOW FUEL problem - you need to beat the level faster. Thats the key because you need spare time to beat the machine soldier, esp. since you haven't beat him yet. I used to have this problem too, and that's because during the part where you separate the Grand Last Ship[or whatever its called] into segments, I destroyed the little joints the wrong way.. The CORRECT way is to shoot the guns to the sides of these joints so that they chain explode and cause HUGE damage to the joint. This will make the time it takes to beat the stage VERY short.
with regards to BEATING THE MACHINE SOLDIER - in order to detonate the cross missiles on time, wait until Copain says that the machine soldier has stopped.. then IMMEDIATELY fire one fully charged cross missile into the machine soldier. Once your heat goes down, quickly fire another fully charged cross missile.. and let heat go down again.. That makes TWO CROSS MISSILES.. now this next time, you want to fire TWO more cross missiles one RIGHT after the other. This will cause you to overheat, but at least you WILL get the right amount of cross missiles in. Make sure all the cross missiles are attached to the machine soldier. If you timed everything right, the computer will finish shooting their cross missiles and copain will say detonate them now.. so quickly shoot them all. The Reason it didn't work for you is probably because some of the cross missiles fell off because their time expired or maybe some other dumb reason. ..... NOW, in order to beat the machine soldier for the other two times, just keep firing full cross missiles and detonating them on impact.. Avoid machine soldiers weapons at ALL costs [in order to avoid his gun fire and spinning trident-thing attack, use barrel-rolls A LOT; in order to avoid his heat-seeking missiles, fly away as fast as you can].. Thats about all i can see. Ganbatte ne, keep trying. If you beat the machine soldier as fast as you can, you might get the chance to destroy ventre's battleship[very easy].. and its worth 2,000,000, which is important for your score.

This message was edited by eclewlow on May 18 2007.

Bravo! very nicely done.

If you need help i'll be glad to help! Soooo,u want to deafeat Gold vanquier? It's simple laod up with cross missles by hitting the little cannons you see scatterd on the battle feild,use one firework per cannon.Once u think you have enough cross missles aim directly at the top of the vanquier's head, make sure that you keep all the cross missles together or it wont work.Also if one of your cross missles brak off of it,then that means the vanquier is starting all over again! Wait until copain fires pumpkin bombs at it then when you fire cross missles at it (But make sure there together!) Dont for get your engine will over heat so make sure your engine cools down a bit when you fire 1 cross missle the youll be able to throw 2 more at it! Keep doing this until you beat it! (I got 2 A rankings for ceil and femme,An ss ranking for rival, And a s ranking for copain!) If you practice a little youll be just like me!
Ur welcome!!!

Hey. My 2 cents about the final boss.

The easiest way I found to take on the machine soldier is to fly straight down on top of him.

In this way, when firing all of your cross missiles, you'll hit him right overhead. Usually the AI (Femme or Ciel) will place them high enough that you can detonate them all at once no problem.

Usually at the beginning of the soldier fight, I get high up as far as possible and begin a slow decent. Usually I try to fid-daddle until Copain sets up his pumpkin bomb. Then, I launch 1 cross missile and make the next but DO NOT fire until the heat level goes down far enough that you WON'T overheat. In this way, you can fly back up and come straight down on him again following the same process. You WILL have enough time to shoot 4 missiles on your own and by the time you get done with the fourth, your partner will already launch their 3 (making it 7 and good enough to open that tin can like Campbell's soup.

For the second stage (still holding the gun lance) I follow the same routine as before but I vary it up a little bit. First off, you don't need to plug him up with full cross missiles. Instead, fire one or two. Pause, do it again so you can get up to nearly 6 regular cross missiles in him.

Shoot 'em out and watch his health bar go down. Mind you, keep doing the divebomb / vertical swoop on him at this point. His shot range is pretty terrible from over head. Just be careful as he is mobile, so you need to move along with him.

Lastly, (the section I always seem to struggle with) he moves around and just kind of annoys me with the many, many, many things he throws at you. I just repeat the process of shooting the [regular] missiles at him and hope they connect and don't blow up the object he's holding instead.

--As a side note: Heavy Fire does the trick here. While the machine soldier prances around on the deck of the ship, he'll occasionally stop altogether and swing his arm around like he's gone completely insane. If you've been following his movements closely, Ciel can Air Brake right over him and shoot the crap out of its face as it leans straight up and looks toward the sky. The clear shot is brief though, be prepared to jet it right out of there in case those pesky cannons get in the way.