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I feel like people very often forget that Ancient Wyvern is a boss in DS3... it's really not great. They took the concept of a boss runback and made that the boss.

This guy is THE national treasure of Scotland

The accent is so nice to my ears I love it, I wish Scottish people were real

"Moving on to the worst boss in dark souls 1" Everyone: watch, he's gonna say the thing

In defense of Halflight, he's only there to fill space once the game dies (right now). The entire Spear of the church bossfight is meant to give the player the opportunity to step in the place of the boss, which is an extremely cool idea. I don't say the fight is good anyways cause even if the PvP activates, it's literally a 4v1 with the boss player having no heals outside of miracles, and the difficulty very much depends on the skills of player randomly dragged out of his playthrough. I think phantom heals should've been disabled for the Halflight PvP fight, it might've become way more difficult but it's still a bossfight in the end

This was such a good video! Definitely subbing! In regards to Godfrey, I think my favourite thing about the opening cutscene to the fight is how it shows that he's a tarnished by giving him his own guiding grace that's pointing towards you! It just gives this extra bit of epicness and inevitability to the fight. Neither of you have any other goal than to kill the person in front of you. Such a cool detail.

Your Godfrey explanations are some of the reasons why I absolutely find him to be one of the best bosses I’ve ever faced. One thing that I want to point out that in the Hoarah Loux phase, his stomps become more random since his combos are unpredictable, which makes me love the Hoarah Loux phase even more since that phase just makes the jumping mechanic shine the most and no other bossfight came close into encouraging jumps to that extent. Also am shocked that you ranked Guardian Ape as Sekiro’s best boss considering that I personally favour Corrupted Monk over the Ape and that is my 3rd favourite fight of Sekiro

Ludwig lives rent free in my heart, my favorite bossfight of all time, and the OST, simply MAJESTIC

I also love the blue smelter demon. Smelter demon was already a great boss, but the blue version builds on it with its weird timings and mixups. I genuinely hold all of the iron king bosses in equal standing, but god DAMN the runups to smelter and alonne are cancer.

The thing that erks me the most about Godskin duo is that I noticed that they resummon eachother after one dies, so I spent a while making it so that I would kill them at the same time, thinking this would be the other way of defeating them, and then one after the other they just magically reappeared without the other resummoning them... Like at least make that a mechanic if your showing them respawn eachother!

You’re spot on about the Godfrey fight, the back and forth dance has never felt quite as fun outside of Sekiro

Guardian ape is actually one of my favorite boss fights as well in Sekiro it makes me happy to see others like it as well

Wow never knew Horoah Loux rips out your chest if the powerbomb is the killing blow.

Amazing video! Thanks for the time and effort you put into it. My favorite bosses in each Soulsborne game, in order of my favorite game: Elden Ring - Mohg, Lord of Blood Dark Souls 3 - The Nameless King (favorite boss of all time) Dark Souls - Manus (I feel that he is underrated. Everyone talks about O and Smough and Artorias, but I feel like Manus gets enough love) Bloodborne - Martyr Logarius Sekiro - Genichiro Dark Souls 2 - Old Ivory King Demon’s Souls - The Penetrator

Glad to find a fellow Scot on here. Nice video pal! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Unpopular opinion, but when I first played it, I liked the Godskin Duo fight. I don't remember what i did exactly, but I came up with some weird strat that involved Wild Strikes on my greataxe and it was so rewarding when it payed off. Now after repeated playthroughs and thinking about it, I agree that it's objectively a shitty boss though.

You have an awesome voice and audio-set up for videos, I'm looking forward to whatever video you release next

I'm always surprised that people don't talk about Ninja Blade. From Software worked on it, and though it's a product of its button-prompt time, it does have a secret Moonlight Greatsword hidden away.

I might not agree with everything on this list, especially with the demons souls pick for favorite with tower demon. I think there are plenty of fights that are groundbreaking for the time like the penetrator knight and false king allant, but the video is really well made and had a decent argument for every choice he made. Nice video 👍

Can't thank you enough for the work you put into these videos. Incredible content.

Very chill video, great change of pace from those retrospective :) Don't forget to sub guys!

Bro you be workin your ass off with these uploads forreal

Haven't completed the video yet, but thanks for another video so soon!

Love your channel!

Thank you for the hard work man.

Gotta love the accent and the general vibe. I also agree with the bit about the Maneaters, after a couple of deaths I found someone on Discord that had Firestorm and they one-shot those pesky bosses, so I had it really easy.

I love the gank squad! They have the most unique arena + you run around like a chicken with its head cut off while being chased. I always find it really funny but still trilling. It also feels really unfair at first, but once you can effectively navigate the arena, it is easy to prioritize an NPC and get a consistent hit and run attacks on them... Worst DS2 boss for me is Ancient Dragon 100%.

the gargoyale duo fight has to be my favorite duo fight, i died a alot on that fight to the point where i just didnt use any summons and memorized both of their attack patterns, its a very fun duo fight and my least favorite is the godskin or the crucible knight duo

Fun fact about the Godskin Duo: they're supposed to cure each other of sleep, but as long as some of the banished knights around the arena are still alive, they'll never do it bc they prioritize weaker enemies for the cure.

For the double ape fight, you don't even have to kill the second one. It will charge you once main ape screams and it will jump on you once main ape falls. Other times it's pretty passive. I had a lot of trouble beating this boss with no levelling, but once I got this feature, it became a cake

While Isshin is my favorite fight in all these games, you get an absolute W for picking Guardian Ape for Sekiro. In my own Souls boss tier list, it's an S-tier for me as well. Makes me really happy to see someone else deeply appreciate the fight!

THANK YOU for saying blue smelter demon is good. The runback is horrible, but the way he delays attacks and reacts feels genuinely good to fight against because you have to pay attention.

Good video. Only gripe is that guardian ape as favorite sekiro boss is the hottest take I’ve ever seen. Imo any of the inner bosses are significantly better and it’s not even close. Totally agree about headless ape though, it’s genuine tragedy that they made that fight in what is otherwise a perfect game imo

Loved your Lies of P video, so I’m checkin out the rest of your stuff. I fuckin love lists of things, so I think I’m in the right place 🎉

the only From boss with multiple enemies that actually works for me (and no, it ain’t O & S, they only work cuz of the pillars, just like the Godskins) is the Shadows of Yharnam. why? because while there are 3 of them, they don’t just all rush at you like most of the duos and many other multi enemy bosses. instead, one goes in close, one moves from mid range to close, and the third stays at range. it makes it a surprisingly manageable fight for being a gank. far better than the gank squad, which was released around the same time. and honestly, not enough people give the Shadows credit for being a well executed gank fight, from the moment they walk out all spooky, to the end when they get all snakey….

You have an interesting take on this topic. Cool video.

I’m shocked you didn’t mention Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne! Of all the bosses in SoulsBorne universe, it’s the one that gave me the most near controller-destroying fits!! When I finally beat him…I jumped around the room! That boss was so satisfying to beat!

Malenia is the best Elden Ring boss due to how she works. At first, it feels like you're fighting another person who has a suped up moveset. The katana without any flashy effects, and a moveset that needs that spiderweb of a flowchart to understand. Additionally, she is one of the few bosses that can be parried so late into the game. Maliketh has a Margit/Morgott/Mohg situation, but not entirely. There is an item that you can use that can parry his devastating combos for a massive amount of damage. Think of the Dark Souls 1 silver pendant if it staggered Manus if used at the perfect timing.

I always craft some extra sleep pots for godskin duo on each playthrough. Actually makes this fight fair since you can deal with them one at a time

Man this series is epic. I’ve only played elden ring and I’m only about 60% through it but watching this just shows me how much im missing out on

Only did Bed of Chaos all at once properly one time and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to recreate that lmao

excellent video. and don't worry. you did very well to include Sekiro, given that it is a souls-lite and the vast majority of souls elements from which it is composed cannot be ignored just because it has the fault of not being an RPG, but a purely action evolution of souls. and whoever does not consider him a member of the SouslFamily for this reason, is wrong

Please. Keep ‘em coming. You’ll blow up eventually.

Nice vid , my list would be : Demon's Souls : Best - Old King Allant Worst - King Allant , now if you don't consider this a boss fight despite having a boss health bar then It would go to Maneaters Dark Souls 1 : Best - Artorias , without the dlc Ornstein and Smough ( dlc bosses are generally going to have higher highs so I think it is fair to include the vanilla versions as well ) Worst - Bed of Chaos ( who else could it be ) Dark Souls 2 : Best - Fume Knight , without the dlcs Darklurker Worst - Royal Rat Authority Dark Souls 3 : Best - Slave Knight Gael , without the dlcs Nameless King Worst - Ancient Wyvern BB Best - Orphan of Kos , without the dlc Gehrman the First Hunter Worst - Micloash Sekiro Best - Inner Father , not including the inner versions Sword Saint Isshin Worst - Headless Ape ( the duo boss fight ) Elden Ring Best - Malenia Worst - Remembrance bosses are the true bosses so legends/demigods/gods so while there are no bad ones the worst of the bunch is the Fire Giant , if we include any mandatory boss then it is the Godskin Duo , if we include any boss fight Putrid Crystalians ( triple crystalians boss fight ) . We will see if any boss from the upcoming expansion will surpass Malenia .

This is so fucking good and you're so on point. Loved this tbh

man I remember my first time fighting the maneaters, after I killed the first the second one just flew off into the distance, and I waited for over five minutes and it never came back

I love the guardian ape for the same reason I love Radagon. A beast fight and a swordsman fight wrapped into one? Sign me up.

So I can only comment on ds2, ds3, and ER, but the biggest difference between those 3 is the move-sets of bosses. Ds2 had very repetitive moves, so fighting bosses always felt like memorizing a pattern, ER had soo many “normal mob” bosses in the various dungeons and catacombs, and so much repetition amongst the bosses that while some certainly shined, it made many feel like more of a chore as you geared up for a repeat fight from earlier. Ds3 had very little repetition, and also had a good mix between human and non-humanoid bosses, so it didn’t feel like you were just dodging sword swings. It also didn’t seem to needlessly increase the difficulty by just adding more numbers, which was something all too abundant in ER.

Which boss theme is playing at the intro of the video? I cant recall

For Micolash, use Augur of Ebrietas, hit him until your stamina is depleted, then hit him with the Augur and repeat

I started with the OG Demon's Souls, and I really love a lot of the bosses. There used to be a lot more experimental bosses and variety that flipped gaming expectations on their head and tied in with the world / story. Like Maiden Astraea. That was the first time in a game that a boss didn't fight back and begged for her life. It shook me. And having the final boss that had been built up and turned into a God turn out to just be a worthless slug.. It was also the first game that I know of which summoned another player as a boss. I love the big action packed spectacle bosses in later games but they lost some of the thoughtfulness

Love ds1 but bed of chaos barely counts as a fight rather than just some obstacles to avoid so I don't feel bad abusing save quit to make it easy. Hit the right orb, quit to menu, hug left wall until you get to crack in floor, stay there and shoot arrows at the roots and eventually you'll break through and hit the other orb, quit to menu again, run straight at bed of chaos wait outside breaking floor for two arm swipes, go in for the kill. I didn't even go out of my way to get a bow or arrows, just grabbed the one in darkroot garden on my way to save dusk and that was enough.

Here’s a very, veeery controversial take: If you use one of the knight ashes (Preferablg Lhutel the Headless) and complete Bernahls quest so you can summon him too, the Godskin Duo becomes one of the best fights in the whole game. I wish I could save states so I could replay that fight again with that and experience it again. Legit feels like you and a squad of brave knights extinguishing a cult of pure evil. Take your time and soak in the ost of the 2nd phase of the Godskin Apostles, and it becomes one of my favourite moments in all of Elden Ring!!

Ape duo is probably the most misunderstood boss from have made. I swear literally nobody knows that they take it in turn to attack. When white does an attack Brown will allways come in with a follow up. Its very predictable when u take the time to learn it. Still not an amazing boss but some people are making it out like they are just godskin duo. Go back and try them again but this time don't try to bumrush one of the apes or run around aimlessly. U will see what I mean, might even start enjoying the fight lol

Personally, I think boss runbacks have a real place in "level design" that, like... includes the boss as _part_ of the level and is balanced accordingly. If the boss isn't too _complex,_ you can reasonably stretch the "resource management" aspect of the challenge to incorporate the boss alongside the rest of the level, and it ups the stakes of the boss fight to boot. Sometimes the frustration of needing to run back to a boss is even the deterrent some players need to stop just banging their head against a boss that they're not ready for! It can encourage tactical reevaluation and more thoughtful taking-in of the boss as opposed to just throwing yourself at, say... the Dancing Lion 50+ times because you accidentally beelined straight for it. Personally, I find it to be a MUCH more rewarding experience to clutch a win by the skin of my teeth against a boss I had to run through the entire level to get back to, than to finally defeat a boss with a checkpoint _right outside the boss room._ The problem is it just plain wouldn't work with extremely difficult and complex bosses, like the majority of the heavy hitters in Elden Ring, and the constant soulsborne arms race between veteran skill and game difficulty probably means the bosses are just going to keep getting more and more buck wild. Also, you need to strike a REALLY careful balance with the level design, where the player shouldn't be able to just effortlessly run past everything, but their familiarity with the level _should_ grant them an advantage instead of forcing them to amble carefully through it all over again. The point of a boss runback is to test the player's mastery of the _level_ to make it to the boss with enough resources, not to just waste their time. Even some bosses in Elden Ring struggled with that, in my opinion! Like, if there's a grace right outside the boss gate, with no danger between it and the boss... why does the game feel the need to make me run for literally 20-30 seconds up a flight of stairs, watch an unskippable animation, and skip a cutscene? That honestly irritates me way more than a runback, haha

I have over 1000 hours in this series and I am still not very good at some bosses even if I can agree they are done very well, so it’s nice to see a creator mention their personal problem bosses. Most creators seem to be Souls experts obviously but I sometimes wonder if everyone is only worried about how gatekeepy the community used to be

Never seen anyone put Ape at #1 for sekiro. Nice to see as even though hes not the #1 for me, I think people neglect him in favor of the sword fights. Ape is a unique first playthrough experience because of the surprise second phase. Because of how hard the first phase seems, we truly don't expect it. Also totally agree with you Elden Ring choices. Spot on.

I honestly really regret using spirit ashes and Napheli Loux to beat Godrick, where I beat him on my second try. But I didn't know any better especially after Margit being so hard that I barely beat him with both. Although since then I never use spirit ashes and only the jellyfish for particularly hard bosses

Maliketh was probably my favorite Elden ring boss

I adore pretty much every boss in Bloodborne, and I try to avoid cheese tactics. With that being said, during my last playthrough, Micolash’s pissed me off so badly with his one-shot move that I finally just stood in the hole above his final arena and threw like 100 poison daggers at him until he hilariously just died without touching me. I can’t say I felt much guilt over it, either.

I’m sorry, you said the BLUE smelter demon was good!? No way. That run back is absolutely cursed

I think the Capra demon didn't get the Titel of runner up in DS1 because you can't skip it, with the help of Bombs

Dude, you are just on another level.

Sometimes I feel like i got lucky with BoC because while i didn’t get it first try it wasn’t super frustrating to me and i got it rather quick. That being said I did see the flaws in its design.

I agree with you on slave knight Gail - amazing boss. Ludwig would have been my Bloodbourne pick as well.

legit question bro - how do you get these videos out so quickly?

From what I understand the reason for s long run back Is to incentivise people trying their very hard during a boss fight. None of this I took a hit early so I'm just going to die on purpose so I can restart I appreciate game design that punishes you for being sloppy and rushing through it

I do believe you mean Soulsbornekiro Ring games

In support of DS2’s Gank Squad boss-> it’s there, in the name, that’s why it’s good. What am i on about? A Gank is the term for a group of co-op players lying in wait for a player to invade the host. Then they gang up on the invader. This boss will be all we have to remind ourselves of what that experience is like, once the servers shut down. It will be the closest thing in the franchise to what PvP was like. Ganks are tough to beat, as an invader. They aren’t called the “Nobility Squad of Honor”. They are an unfair and lopsided affair. But there’s a deep satisfaction for an invader to beat a Gank. And I for one felt that after a long afternoon of attempts. By the by, the boss runback is simple, once you figure out the route. I might have to roll only once for the knights in the bottom floor, but it’s a straight sprint the whole way.

Nothing out of the ordinary save for Godfrey on top of the likes of Malenia, Maliketh and Mohg.

Im glad you out godfrey at the top of elden ring cause he really is fun to fight. He was def one of those bosses where at the end i was like "damn i wish he had more health" lol

The music. THE MUSIC of Bloodborne is truly epic.

The godskin WHAT? Oh my gawd Larry shut it down

The Mist Noble is my fav, although a tad hard

Disagree with the idea that DS3 is the pinnacle of Fromsoft boss design. I do agree that it was the most consistent game for boss quality but Fromsoft has continued improve. If you just count the shardbearers and some of the "legends" then ER has better quality than the base game of DS3. Both Sekiro and Elden Ring have largely moved on from the "your turn, my turn" style and force you to find and make openings. The posture mechanics in both games adds an additional layer to the fights (in DS3 there's almost no good application of R2 and charge attacks during boss fights). Bosses like Father Owl and Maliketh have more flow chart like attacks based on positioning or whether you dodge, block, deflect or jump (this is especially obvious in Sekiro). These elements are present in DS3, but not to the same degree. I can see why people prefer DS3 though, the direction of dodges don't matter as much (cool exceptions like Abyss Watcher's fire trails), the timings are more intuitive (they don't have as many long wind-ups and panic roll punishes), and healing in neutral is a lot safer in general. It's just a more relaxing experience, imo. DS3 is a 10/10, btw, I'm mainly just defending recent Fromsoft boss design. It also might be due to the fact that I just think Sekiro and ER have better combat systems.

The only thing bad about the tower knight is that they changed the boss theme.

I feel like Tower knight is the best giant type boss, and should be a template for other bosses.

It's crazy how everyone has a different favourite boss. I hated guardian ape and it took me a year and a half of on and off playing to beat. But i beat headless ape duo first time.

For all three dark souls games he had someone with Knight who is in the DLC

The headless ape creeped me out

I absolutely love Halflight. It's my favourite DS3 boss ^^

I'm actually one of those rare people that prefers Dark Spuls 2 Scolar of the First single over Dark Souls 1. The DLC in DS2 was just so amazing that it elevated the wntire game. Not to mention I prefer the varied locales from 2 much more than 1. A lot of the bosses are pretty easy, but in hindsight so are the ones from DS1.

Found iron passage and fridgid ourskirts far wars of a runback than the cave

Before playing dark souls games, i thought everyone just loved soulsborne bosses just because they were "hard" and i thought it was a bs meaning to just make people pretend they like challenges, i absolutely hated souls games especially when i tried demon souls, which was my second souls game ever (my first was bloodborne but i only played bloodborne at my uncles house). When i started playing bloodborne myself and learning about the parry mechanics and everything, then i grew to love the game but my opinion on the bosses never changed, until i met ludwig in its DLC. It was hard and i thought i would never like the boss. After i defeated ludwig then i thought i would be glad that its over, but then after finishing the game, i found myself replaying the entire game and rushing at level 44 to ludwig. I started realizing that i missed fighting ludwig and that it was genuinely fun. And then thats when i truly started appreciating soulsborne games. Ludwig will always be my favorite and best boss out of any game there is, he changed my view on the "fun" of soulsborne games. 10/10 boss from a narrative view and gameplay view.

Yes, more Souls content!

I truly despise the Fire Giant. I always end up really mad after fighting him. Radagon is an almost perfect boss in my opinion. The way the difficulty scalates is excellent. He get's a little spammer with the projectiles towards the end but I still really enjoy fighting him. If it weren't for the Elden Beast he would be there with Isshin among the best final bosses of the series.

My favorites: Demon's Souls: Old King Allant Dark Souls: Artorias Dark Souls 2: Burnt Ivory King Bloodborne: Ludwig Dark Souls 3: Slave Knight Gael Sekiro: Sword Saint Isshin Elden Ring: Maliketh My least favorites: Demon's Souls: Maneaters Dark Souls: Bed of Chaos Dark Souls 2: Lud and Zallen Bloodborne: Celestial Emissary Dark Souls 3: Champion's Gravetender and Gravetender Greatwolf Elden Ring: Elden Beast

Man i want to play Bloodborne so badly, shame it's stuck PS4/5. I absolutely love all Dark souls games though, yes even 2 despite its faults. As for favorite boss it has to be Gael or the Abyss Watchers, i never wanted them to end.

Shoulda done armored core 6 bosses as an honorable mention lol

I feel like I cheated myself out of the Godfrey fight, I didn't know how or when the game locked into "ending time" so I went and fought millennia first, then ran to Godfrey and got the most scuffed 1st attempt kill. I felt pretty deflated and then after hearing so many people praise the fight I just wish I could do a quick redo because you just can't take in the move set in 1 go around.

Unpopular opinion, I find the bed of chaos easier than o&s. I learned very quickly the spaces and timing of the arms and only died due to the auto roll after jumps when going down to the main body

I moslty agree with most picks in this video. But why tower knight? Penatrator, flamelurker, old hero, and even old king allant are all atleast a B or higher id say. Tower knight i definitely wouldnt go higher than a C tho

Such picks and reasons why 🤘

Great list u know whatchu talking about

What ring do you need to wear so bad for Bed of Chaos that you unequip the orange charred ring between the runback and the boss every time for it?

I'm stuck on crystal sage

"Erm this boss doesn't just make me press roll at the right time so it's not good."

Great video, I guess I know which bosses to dread when I play the Dark Souls games and Elden Ring + Sekiro. You should take a look at Furi. Great game, lots of cool bosses that iterate or add unique elements to the game's combat.

“Forefathers One and All! Bear Witness!!!” - the voice actor killed it play Godrick the Grafted.