Lies of P

Pfft king of Muppets more like.

I got a one shot on them, I found blasting the little ones out the way and let the specter deal with the big chap until I had a gap.

I absolutely loved their intro movie though, it's the best one so far.

With the Brotherhood I actually made a point of parrying right from the start to break his sword. The others only join in after a damage threshold anyway so you'll have time. Just keep practicing, youll get a feel for timing. Breaking the sword means less of an issue for rest of the fight. Spear and rapier guy can both be backstabbed too.

...If "cheesing" means "using items that were put in the game by the developers and explicitly encouraged by having a shop that sells them right before the boss", that is

(sorry Frog and anyone else, but I'm never going to consider simply using resources available to you as cheesing. If they broke his AI somehow -if the Specter made you fully invisible in terms of aggro, for instance- then maybe, but otherwise cheesing -to me- is more along the lines of "jump/glitch on the box in the corner and the boss' attacks can't reach you ever, but you can still hit the boss even without ranged attacks", unintended/missed-in-testing behaviour, basically)

Never had it, but it sounds delicious 

To clarify, (because I recognize that my post above could come across as standoffish), I'm not saying that someone that doesn't want to use items/summons/whatever is wrong for wanting to limit themselves, just that using said things doesn't line up with what I view as "cheesing" in a game. It was part good-natured ribbing, part me stating my opinion 

100%

Lies of P is a delight between bosses, and then when you hit the next one it's just a bit annoying. Boss fights for me are always something to suffer through in these games rather than something I enjoy. 

The Brotherhood was an interesting fight - almost easier without the summon as with him drawing the little ones away was a bit trickier, and I think that was my route to success: draw them away from the big dude, finish them asap, and then get back to him. Rinse, repeat. 

And use the trusty flamberge of course. I bloody love it, especially now it's levelled further. 

I either hate or dislike most of them   I'm not being a contrarian, there's just something about most boss fights in these games that trigger rather than tickle me (my son never fails to remind me of the one time in my life I have actually smashed a controller - Black Cerberus in The Surge; I still feel ashamed of myself!).

The exception from your list might be The Storm King - I'm all for more gimmicky bosses, for want of a better word. Maybe I draw the line at Dragon God. Funnily enough, Demon's Souls is the one game in the genre where I love most boss fights, even notorious ones like Flamelurker. Perhaps because with many there's a way to cheese them, like raining soul arrows on Adjudicator from above   But it's also got a number of encounters that just felt really fresh at the time, and are still fun without being rage-inducing - Tower Knight, Fool's Idol, Old Monk, Old Hero...Old Hero is possibly my favourite of the lot simply because I love boss fights which are based on patience rather than skill (despite the controller-smashing, I have some of the former...and also have none of the latter).

This is likely why The End from Snake Eater is my favourite boss encounter of all time (and MGS as a series probably wins in terms of overall favourite boss battles, especially the first and third). 

FlexibleFeline Agree with you on that! I'm enjoying these smaller, compact areas in this game (and Wo Long, come to think of it), but the Malum was too small (ooh matron)...

Yeah, it's been very linear - with little offshoots and loops - and I've enjoyed that about the game in truth.

I am in a cathedral getting knocked off beams by big fat cunts throwing decay bombs. Annoying as shit.

Easily my least favourite part of the game in terms of traversal - persist and as Frog mentioned to me a page or two back, definitely unlock the shortcut once you get up there!

King of Puppets?!? King of Muppets more like it!!!
Sweet boss weapon too, even though it doesn't scale with my build.

Finally got the archbishop down, took another four attempts today, so had to work for it. I was persevering with the flamberge legion arm for too long, switching to falchon eyes gave me the edge I needed. Good fight, though I'm aware I wouldn't likely have said that pre-patch.

It was nice variety at that point to have a fast, human opponent. However... they all fall to the backstab...