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It’s as simple getting the parry and the- and I’m dead.
Fucking Guardian Ape. It doesn't make any sense - I usually manage to beat the duo on my first try! But the ape himself usually takes me significantly longer than Sword Saint Isshin.
I've now settled on a strategy where I wittle down his first phase as quickly as possible, and if I haven't used too many heals, I'll kite him around and only attack while he's locked in the forward lunge attack. That way I can usually manage the second phase on my first (good) attempt.
There's been a few. My first ever go at a soulslike Ludwig felt unsurmountable. Days of attempts turned into weeks, could not get phase 2 to click. I wanted to do it right so no summons, Victory tasted like the sweetest nectar, and it remains my favourite soulslike fight ever since.
This guy looks like Tom Scott in an indeterminate number of years.
Just got ER (very late to the game as a 49yo who has never played a soulslike) and found Godrick today after work…wish me luck!!!
How'd it go! I was out star gazing so I didn't catch this sooner
It’s just so cool to slowly work out how to beat these bosses, then backslide and still stick with it, then to finally break through and defeat them…big yell when I won!! And it’s just so gorgeous and fighting larger than life enemies and the music. And I’m barely started!!
See anything fun in the stars?
Hell yeah! (ง’̀-‘́)ง
Btw, we have a weekly "what are you playing" thread https://lemmy.zip/post/60677790 if you ever wanna share about your playthough, ask for advice or whatever. It's always nice hearing a new player first impressions, so consider dropping by sometime ;)
Hell yeah, I am glad you enjoyed it! Souls games are my favorite for exactly that reason. If you are a fan of platformers I really recommend hollowknight.
I'm out in the desert so it was genuinely the most full sky I had ever seen. Moonless as well so it was quite bright; I didn't realize how blue the stars could be. Granted I was on mushrooms so the color may have been influenced by that. Either way I spent a few hours finding constellations and when I was peaking looked at the orion nebula. Truly stunning, never seen anything like that in person. 10/10 would do again
You got it Matty!
This is still Radiance in Hollow Knight for me. I cannot beat that fucker.
Haha, try absolute radiance
What are your talking about? It only took me like 10 hours or so... To learn how to consistently get to that fucker.
Maybe Malenia on my first playthrough of Elden Ring? That victory took me forever the first time.
Attempt wise? Consort Radahn RL1 on my first RL1 run took the most attempts. I was experimenting with a lot of strategies and he can kill you so fast even in Phase 1 and in Phase 2 the splash damage that doesn't really matter on a level run is just brutal at RL1. My buff-stacking strategy gave me the win eventually and on my second RL1 run I beat Consort Radahn in far fewer attempts with that strategy.
“I am Malenia, Sword of Miquella.”
“I know. You tell me that every minute and a half.”
The Bloody Crow of Cainhurst in Bloodborne was probably my toughest boss fight to date.
The scaling of the hunters on higher ng levels is so broken, once you get to like ng5 or 6 their health pools are just impossible. You just spent what feels like forever fighting the crow, basically perfectly because a single bullet takes away most of your life, chipping away at his health. And then once it gets below like half or something you have to now be incredibly aggressive because he will heal, and wipe out the last 5 minutes of work.
He's just impossible. But even other hunters like younger Maderas Twin just can't be defeated, of at least, I couldn't manage it
i only fought him on new game, but it was my first souls like, and i had done co-op with my partner for most of the rest of the game, so he was still pretty darn tough. i have heard before that they get pretty cray at high ng+ levels, but i can only imagine. honestly sounds more like a slog than a fun challenge to me though.
So fucking understandable. Still a favorite of mine though, as hard as it was.
Lobster, Another Crabs Teasure
Nephro, captain of the guard I think is his name?
Yeah thats the bastard
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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