None of this is new information, I know, and I promise I’m not here to rip on Dark Souls for fun – it’s still a great game, just not perfect. You can even cheese him with heavy armour and you’ll see the credits roll in no time. The Four Kings are a DPS check, Pinwheel is a joke, and even the final boss, Gwyn, is a wimp once you know how to parry. You fight the Asylum Demon three times, you have to die to Seath and potentially lose a heap of souls (unless you know ahead of time to equip a protective ring), the drop to enter the Gravelord Nito fight can literally kill you, the Capra Demon is just a brawl in a phone booth, and then you’ve got the Bed of Chaos, which you can only beat by platforming in a game with some of the worst platforming mechanics of all time. Again, not fair challenges, just nonsense.Īpart from the aforementioned dynamic duo, Sif, and pretty much any boss from the DLC, I have some stern words for the boss fights, too.
But even if you give a pass to the dodgy rafter sequence, which has no place in a ‘tough but fair’ Souls game, you’re still left with a Titanite Demon crammed into a tiny chapel and the pair of Silver Knight archers with magical homing arrows. That’s not a challenge, that’s bullshit.Īnor Londo is slightly more contentious, because it’s gorgeous and Ornstein and Smough are rightly regarded as one of the best duo boss fights around. Tomb of Giants is bad because the only thing that makes the area challenging is that there’s no light. I don’t have to explain the first three, you probably already harbour a deep hatred for them, born of curse-spewing frogs and falling to your death. Blighttown, the Depths, Lost Izalith, Tomb of Giants, and (glorious architecture aside) Anor Londo are all just horrendous slogs that you have to endure. I know this is going to be tough, but deep down you know that Dark Souls is a deeply flawed game in places. The perfect remedy for this restlessness? Revisiting the dark horse of the Souls trilogy: Dark Souls 2. Look, Elden Ring is potentially still years away, which means Souls fans on PC could be in the middle of a very long wait for more brutally difficult FromSoftware goodness.
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