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Dark Souls 3 has awesome boss fights!

Oooh, a great Katana you say...don't mind if I do.

My mistake, misunderstood your post.

All their games have good and rubbish boss fights. The most consistent is probably Bloodborne. Problem with DS2 bosses is that they're mostly quite easy

The tree, wizards, big skelly, fire demon, all those nobs in the cathedral and the giant are, off the top of my head, some pretty crap DS3 bosses

I'm going to beat Margit today. Not even going to level up - he's not worth it. Fuck im

I'd consider half of the DS3 bosses you mentioned to be pretty good. More from a lore/design perspective than the fights themselves mind.

They all have good and bad bosses yes, but I think DS3 just has the best ratio with the most good and least bad ones.

It would be nice if some of the bosses had a little window for heals. It generally involves a dozen rolls to make space whilst you hope you don’t get one shotted. Then when you heal the boss lunges across the whole area and slams you with some giant weapon that’s left you on 1% health, then whilst your stun locked on the floor not able to move it jumps on you again.

Without the tank build people will be needing some epic and consistent dodging for the finale. I saw a video of someone parrying it to death a bit like ds1 final boss but when I gave that a go the boss never did the obvious parry move that it kept doing in the you tube video.

I think the design of the bosses is great. Half of them just feel like they're designed by someone who wished they were making a character action game. It doesn't gel with the game's combat. It's awkward having twitch-heavy combat when the dodge roll is bound to *releasing* a button and not pressing it and the game's buffering still works the way it did back in Demon's Souls.

I'm trying to figure out what came first - did they realise they had done the above and introduce the summons to let people get around it, or did they introduce the summons, realise that their boss AI couldn't handle it and just turned up the aggression and gave the bosses a ton of AoEs to compensate.

(I have a similar theory that lives were only introduced in Doom Eternal because id realised it was too easy to just get randomly instakilled from full health on harder difficulties before you even knew what was happening)

I honestly think with a lot of the bosses in this game, if it *wasn't* made by From, a lot of reviews would be saying that the developers didn't quite understand what made the challenge in Souls games enjoyable and that the game crutches on the ashes as a means to get players through.

Got myself sorted and found some more DLC upgrades, now +14/+8. Snakey boy is done and that was proper intense. Using the Flamedrake Talisman +3 made a good difference.
Went back to some earlier bosses, like the Mausoleum chap and didn’t have many problems.
I’m looking for a couple more areas and the upgrades then I might look at the main quest.

OK, don't want to spoil anything but there's an amazing Easter Egg at the Cerulean Coast.

Question about Godrick (who I've also decided I want to beat before I level up)

I've basically skipped everything in Limgrave so far- if I kill Godrick, will that lock me out of any NPC questlines?

Mogh minced by "The Reaper", my +25 grave scythe with spinning strikes

Bit of an anticlimax after the buildup.

This map is fucking insane. It’s like they’ve actually managed to finally seamlessly blend classic dark souls layout principles with an open world. It’s phenomenal.

I'm in the Ruah ancient ruins region and I think I've reached a point where the game is getting in the way of itself by having the worst combination of field enemies littered everywhere and they've been kitted out with new moves that just seem to have infinite range. It's a really odd decision and like the EG review said it's beginning to feel difficult for the sake of being difficult. I'm not having fun at this exact moment.