Sometimes the visual design is better than the fight, you know? (Like mergo’s wet nurse) So let’s talk aesthetics for a moment. What’s a soulslike boss design that made you go… Wooow! And why? From any game (Horny answers are welcome as well)
For me it’s Divine Beast Dancing Lion. when the trailer for SoTE dropped and this boss was revealed I got chills. It’s not my favourite fight by a long shot, too chaotic; but design wise the lion dancers are such an inspired choice. It instantly communicates a strong and agile enemy, the horns promised interesting lore implications. It’s sort of grotesque looking? But also grandiose and regal, in a way. It poses many questions, feels enticing…
What about you?
My horny answers would be Radagon. (Redhead Peter Steele) :P and Godfrey. Hell let’s thow in Lady Maria as well and we have a party.
Artorias <3 totally. Classic is classic for a reason! DS Dlc is phenonenal in terms of lore, I loved that Artorias gets the credit for saving the princess dealing with the abyss.
Since I was concurrently playing lies of p, while.playing DS I was left expecting a second healthebar for Artorias( and Gwyn as well.) regardless it’s a very cool fight.
Yeah it’s a bit of a shame that Artorias is kind of not that hard. One of my dream games is a full Dark Souls 1 remake where they keep the world as-is, finish the areas in the last third where they ran out of money and time and just threw shit together and upgrade the bosses to modern FromSoft DS3/ER level movesets.
Something like that would be near-lethal doses of absolute cinema.
My kingdom for that! I’ll take it over a bloodborne remaster/ remake any day. Dare I say, maybe even a BB sequel/prequel? That’s never happening anyway so… :P