Talk:Arachne Lord/@comment-23969508-20131006191115/@comment-10534118-20131006223139

Torotoro confirmed that that sequence was intentional but to experience the game's "True" difficulty he recommends not relying on it.

Also spoiler warning: It doesn't work on every fight. But the fights I know it doesn't work on are mostly in the untranslated remains of Chapter 3.