Name me the hardest boss fights you have ever fought. Did you succeed? How many attempts did it take if you did?

Since i've been playing a lot of Dark Souls recently my hardest fight comes from them. This is probably one of the hardest segments in a game that i've ever done. It took me something like 9 tries to beat them - and when I finally did beat them it was with the help of another player that I summoned to assist me. I had to spend a lot of souls (read money) to buy the resources needed to upgrade new equipment from scratch just so I could damage the guys.

It's very difficult to explain why this boss is so hard but luckily I have a video I recorded of one of my failed attempts that should easily illustrate its difficulty.



I admit that this was nowhere near my best attempt on solo. I have to explain the mechanics of this boss fight briefly so you can understand since I died so early.

This boss fight consists of two guys - which is why it is so difficult. They are constantly on your back from the second you enter the boss room. When one of the guys dies the other absorbs his power, gains some of his abilities and returns to full health. So you have to kill one and ignore the other - which if see you when you watch the video is extremely difficult.

Again I will say that I didn't do my best in this at all, in fact I did pretty shit. They do so much damage though and some of their attacks are unavoidable and unblockable and it can come down to luck. The attack you see when Smough is charging along and I jump was just unlucky because he literally was charging then he turned towards me. The deathblow was my fault sort of because I wasn't blocking though I wasn't facing Ornstein which meant he could stab me from the side.

When I actually defeated this with help. I targeted Ornstein - the short guy with the spear and kept him busy while the other guy killed Smough - as he had done more damage to him. Then Super Ornstein was killed by us both.

It actually does matter from a gameplay perspective which one you kill because you can get their armor and stuff based on that.

So this boss was definitely one of the hardest i've fought in a long time. Dark Souls is pretty renowned for being a challenging game. To put this into perspective, most of the bosses I killed on the third try or so. I know I killed two of them on my first definitely and most others on the third or fourth.

This boss battle was in a league of it's own. The next battle I have to fight however has four bosses which spawn based on time so maybe it will be harder. If i post here then you will know! :p

Beach Bum wrote:

Yeah that boss battle was a bitch the first time I tried it. Best thing to do is get one of the AI souls and use it distract one of them while you blast the other with magic, doesn't even matter if they die because you should be down to one of the bosses by then and one on one these guys are cake. Unfortunately using one of the AI souls requires not being in Soul Form which means you can and probably will be invaded by another player. Don't know how many times I got just to outside of the boss room only to see "x has invaded!" Actually the final boss in Demon's Souls felt harder than this fight once I got the patterns down for both. Guy was incredibly strong and he could steal your soul level with one of his attacks, weakening you if you got hit by it. Fucking hated that fight. Ended up cheesing it to win it with a glitch that made the boss unable to attack you as you headshot him from the entrance just to get to New Game+. Managed to beat him legit in New Game+ but he's still not easy by any means, you can't really wear much armor to fight him so you stay mobile, but if you do get hit it was pretty much a one hit kill because of the lack of armor. The boss fight I hated most in Dark Souls was the Capra Demon. If you didn't roll at just the right time and get to the stairs behind him so you could deal with the damn dogs before he recovered he'd one hit you 90% of the time. If you survived that hit one of the dogs would finish you while you were staggered. I struggle to do that fight every time I do it and I've done it probably 100 times by now. Without the dogs that fight would be easier but you can't guard against the demon and two dogs at the same time since one inevitably finds itself at your back. I've tried everything from no armor to the heaviest armor and it doesn't matter if you fuck up that initial roll and either get hit or don't make it past him. Honestly both of those games have some crazy hard boss fights. Most of them were doable on the second try if you saw the patterns during your first one. There were some like Capra and Smough & Ornstein that were seriously difficult and required being nearly perfect with your opening to win though. Of course there were the super easy ones like the Great Wolf and Butterfly that you basically couldn't lose too.

I summoned Solaire a few times, he was useless! The difficulty with this boss as well is due to the fact that the bonfires are so far away.

You either have the 10 estus one which you have to take the lift down to and run across the entire area to. You have the 5 estus one where you have to continually move the lift up and down and then you have the final one where you have to fight the two silver knights but you only get 5 estus.

I felt due to the difficulty i was having that 10 was the best route. The problem then is that you summon Solaire and then you have to fight the giant things with the halberds (which name i forget) and they are pretty tough since when you are coming down the steps it can be difficult to aggro just one of them.

So in most of the cases i found that Solaire got the shit kicked out of him by those two - as I was trying to preserve my own health/estus and not lose my humanity - which is so rare that every time you die it's a wasted opportunity.

That's the other thing with Anor Londo, the number of invasions. In one attempt I was actually invaded but I just ran into the boss and they were vanquished.

I have both Demon Souls and Dark Souls for PS3 but since I rarely play it due to my shit tv and basically non-comfy gaming position I bought it for steam on sale. So i've played more Dark Souls and Demon Souls - I literally only finished 1-1 in Demon Souls.

Interesting how you say Capra Demon. I actually killed Capra Demon my first try. The only other was the butterfly which I killed after it's first cycle when it landed. I literally ran up to the ledge and moved to the furthest part without falling off and then Capra tried to follow but he fell off and then i did the dropping sword attack - rinse and repeat and he died easily.

Sif gave me a bit of trouble actually, only because my weight was a bit too high and my speed wasn't the fastest. So it was pretty difficult to get under him and he kept jumping away. I got him like third try or so though.

I've sorted the weight issue now, i'm using havels ring. Also for Smough and Ornstein I ended up making Queelags Fury Sword which is what I had to sink a lot of souls into because i had no curved swords upgraded and because I have no access to fire upgrades yet otherwise I would have crafted that.

EDIT: Finally on Smough and Ornstein. The big difficulty with them isn't learning their moves. It's the fact that they are so difficult to keep apart and like how Ornstein can attack you through Smough. The pillars can only do so much. My big mistake in that video was that I just ran and didn't target them to see where they were.

I'm doing Four Kings next. Already half way through New Londo Ruins, water is already lowered.