Yeah, but that wasn't really necessary. He could have used a vital star before.
Besides, he kept trying to hit the Hunter with Osiris, which is a weak weapon against him. It barely did a tiny damage. It's like they tried to tell us that the game was actually harder than what it looks to be, but that was way too much exposition, lol.
By the way, I noticed that the harder mode had all the missions available, but several of them didn't even have the final ranking . Mission 2 had SS, but Mission 1 only had that---- written. Does that mean all missions are already available on harder modes and you can choose them without having to follow their order?