i have difficulty beating large size bosses due to not seeing movement clearly. i have defeated valkyries in god of war but people say souls bosses are even tougher
I've played the souls games (not Demon's Souls yet), but Sigrun in GOW 2018, Gna and some of the Berseker-bosses in GOW Ragnarok in hard mode are definitely just as hard if not harder than some of the toughest bosses in the Souls games. So far Malenia and Consort Radahn from Elden Ring are my biggest challenges in any action game ever, where I have to practice A LOT, but still I have to summon Spirit Ashes to help me out haha. No shame in seeking help to beat the bosses in souls-games, that's an intended part to beat those games.
Spirit Ashes are ghosts you can summon during boss fights or some areas with multiple hard enemies. Some are more OP than others though, in the beginning I often used Lhutel, then Mimic Tear. Black Knife Tiche literally just cut some of the bosses throats for me hahah
Turning off target-lock on can help. Did for bosses like Sif in ds1. Nameless king is the roughest camera boss ive fought, but the rest are mostly fine imo.
thats whats so great about soulslikes! if you are just bad at it, it wont let you play it! thats why it separates players into worthy and unworthy! we can argue about gameplay all day, but i generally dont have to with people that CAN actually play the game. there is way more truth in "git gud" than people like to recognise!
yeah i don’t honestly care about someone recognizing my skill. i think souls games are niche and don’t appeal to masses. it separates the try-hards from regular folks trying to enjoy
I think that's less a matter of taste and more a matter of whether you enjoy that kind of challenge-reward loop. Some (maybe most) people simply don't get much satisfaction from pushing through frustration to eventually master something... and that's perfectly fine... i guess I just wouldnt act all proud about it
My partner loves them and would play them for days and days and I’d watch him roll around for hours and stab stab, bloodstain, roll around, die, start again, roll around stab, roll around, bloodstain bloodstain stabby stab die and again and again. I picked it up at his insistence and he would warn me that it’s super hard and I got pretty far didn’t die much which made him a little quiet and then told him ‘okay, I’m done.’ Not for me.
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u/imacooldude8767 Aug 19 '26
Elden ring definitely