Hunter Snake

Hunter Snake
Found In	Dragon Valley
Health Bars/Petals	None
Preceded By	Spider Beamer
Succeeded By	None

The Snake Mount is a recurring enemy found throughout Dragon Valley. It is encountered as an enemy, a mid-boss under the name of Hunter Snake, and a boss under the name of Mad Hunter Snake. It is the second overall boss in Freedom Planet.

The Snake Mount appears to be a companion or mount of Serpentine, as in the cinematic after clearing Dragon Valley, when Torque curls into a ball, Serpentine cries, "Where's that blasted snake mount?!" only to find one of its segments fall to the ground next to him. (In the beta/original version of Freedom Planet, there is a small cutscene before Dragon Valley that shows the Snake Mount rising from behind a hill and Serpentine riding on its back) It is not known as to whether the snake mount is a mutant animal or an alien creature brought by Serpentine and Brevon.

Behavior

Carol fighting the Snake Mount during the mid-boss fight.

The Snake Mount will pop out of different holes in the ground and fly around in different, easily-telegraphed patterns. After entering one of the holes, it could pop back out to spit fireballs at Lilac or Carol. To defeat it, the player's character simply needs to destroy the shells protecting the different segments of its body and then attack its head. In the mid-boss battle, the player only needs to attack it once. Later in Dragon Valley, it will hide in waterfalls and occasionally pop out to spit fireballs at the character.

The major boss battle has the same strategy as with the mid-boss battle, except now there will be boulders falling down from above, and the Snake Mount can also perform a bouncing/rolling attack before burrowing into one of the holes. The Snake Mount's head now also needs to be damaged at least three times in order to defeat it for the second and final time, and boulders will fall down from above for each time the Snake Mount's head is damaged.