The Good:

• World and Level Design - One of the best open worlds, if not the best, out there, and the major (Castle Morne, Shaded Castle etc.) and legacy dungeons are some of the most well-designed areas in gaming, period (suck it, Breath of the Wild, with your fucking no dungeon policy). The hidden areas are a particular highlight

• Boss Design (Great Enemies and Legends) - as a whole, solid A-tier on my first playthrough, moving up all the way to S-tier after some more practice and experimentation. Best base game boss roster and second best next to DS3 if including DLC

• Build Variety and Weapons Roster - If you've played the game and/or seen others play it, than this part is obvious and self-explanatory

• Jumping - Excellent in combat and in exploration

• Enemy Design and Variety - A lot of 'em, most of them well-designed. I'd still say second best to DS3, overall

• Aesthetics and Art direction - A stellar combination of dark fantasy atmosphere with high fantasy visuals, complimenting each other perfectly

• Score and Sound Design - Possibly the best selection of boss themes of any Soulsborne game, with a set of ambient pieces that are more than efficient in their quality and implementation

• Story - Easily one of the best fantasy worlds in gaming, maybe in all of fiction, with great characters that have meaty backstories. despite the cast being bigger than ever, excellent lore and mythos, and superb indirect storytelling

The Mixed:

• World Size - Despite superb world design as a whole, the game obviously suffered due to its sheer scope, with some late-game sections being rather obviously not properly finished and somewhat empty

• Overly Mobile Enemies - A fair few enemies tend to move to the side or backwards immediately after attacking, making guard counters or even just regular punishes occasionally frustrating

• Repetitive Dungeon Design - Probably one of the victims of the size of the world, their repetitive nature can make them a bit dull, though there are exceptions

• Spirit Summons - Should have had a bit less health and lower resistances. Right now, too many of them can make bosses and other enemies too easy. Still a useful tool in a number of situations though

• Recycled bosses and minibosses - Not as bothered by this as a lot of others are, but it's an issue nonetheless

• Some Boss Design Elements - A few unavoidable attacks (i.e, Godskin Noble's belly shockwave), moves that force an unpleasantly passive and cautious playstyle (i.e, Malenia's Waterfowl Dance), and input reading of player's attacks that leave a rather low number of punishable openings (Morgott and Malenia). Some of these spice some bosses up too, but only with good implementation

The Bad:

• Torrent's Lack of Depth - Mechanically and thematically. No I-frames on the jumps and/or dashes and you can't customize him despite the game getting harder further along; story-wise he's completely absent and insignificant after acquiring him

I'll post this onto the Dark Souls discussion forum, since this one is oddly empty for some reason.

So at this point I've beaten every boss at least twice and some of the other bosses like Radahn and Malenia four times each. So this is my original boss ranking impression so far.

15. Fire Giant - I don't think he's really all that terrible, but at this point, I think he's the worst boss for several reasons. The first being that he's kind of boring. If everything goes your way, it still ends up being a long boring fight. I fought him both on horse back and off and honestly, I couldn't tell you which the developers intended. Either way he rolled around wayyyy too much and dragged the fight out. Twice he got stuck up on the ledge and made it impossible for me to get close to him without getting bodied. And one time he rolled on top of me, hitting me twice, immediately killing me. I think he has some AI problems, area problems, and just general boss problems. I like the idea of fighting him like Midir but his openings weren't big enough and he mostly just spammed magic and rolled away.

14. Radahn - I don't see why people love this fight so much. With summons, he a joke, on horseback he's a slog, and off horse back he's a total camera beast. I've never found myself enjoying this boss and I don't see how they could fix him at this point.

13. Regal Ancestor Spirit - Really just a boring, easy boss. I don't know what more so say about this boss. Nothing caught my attention fighting it both times nor did I ever feel challenged. I felt mildly annoyed during the healing and teleporting but that's about it.

12. Fortissax - Arguably the most impressive looking fight with probably the sloppiest moveset. I couldn't really tell you what was happening during this fight but I got through it both times without dying. I can't say the boss was bad at all, just nothing notably good.

11. Astel - A cool boss in theory that ended up being kind of annoying. It teleports away too often and has a really annoying grab attack. Add in some pretty crappy gravity magic and you have a fairly mediocre boss. I did like a good portion of its moveset, but those portions were ruined by other really annoying attacks.

10. Renalla - First phase speaks for itself. Second phase, just kinda feels boring. No complex dodging, just running. I can't say anything was really annoying, but nothing stood out either. Run up to her, attack, repeat, win. Kind of a let down.

9. Malenia - To be fair, I think Malenia has potential to be one of the best bosses fromsoft has ever made. However, at this point, I feel like she's a cheater more than any other boss. I think she has a fantastic moveset and I don't mind the complexity of waterfowl. My three biggest gripes are health steal, animation cancels, and waterfowl charge up. Give her a bigger health bar, remove health steal (or lessen it), add a quarter to a half second of wind up to waterfowl, and remove her ability to cancel her getting up animation into a kick or waterfowl and I think we'd have an easy S tier.

8. Radagon & Elden Beast - A sure-fire s-tier combined with an utter piece of garbage. Radagon is probably my favorite boss in this game and possibly my favorite fromsoft has produced. Radagon has been the highlight of my run each playthrough. Elden beast on the other hand is steaming garbage. Not all the time though. He's really just RNG if RNG were a boss with some garbage moves. Totally brings down the radagon fight.

7. Goddrick - Now we're getting into the bosses I have very little trouble with. I think Goddrick would be an S-tier boss if he was a little faster, had fewer openings, and had greater moveset variety. I love his design, I love his moveset, I loveeee his transformation. However, the fight feels over a little too soon and a little too easy.

6. Morgott - Him and himself (Margit) are just quality boss fights with the same problem as Goddrick; the fight is over too soon. I still don't feel like I don't fully understand his moveset, but I look forward to learning it better in the future. So far, the fight has just ended too fast to really feel like I needed to get good at it. Same with Margit. Maybe they just need a little bit more health.

5. Placidusax - Another solid fight, that I found very fun. I love his moveset and his design. I love the teleporting and reappearing part. He has very cool attacks that don't feel annoying. Maybe my only problem with him is he's a little too slow. I'd love to fight his lightning claws more face to face like midir, but his booty is really the safest place to be for now.

4. Rykard - This boss went from a D tier to A tier the second time I fought him. The first time, he trapped me against a wall and had me stuck in his stupid fire for awhile. I wasn't pleased by that. I also didn't understand how the explosive skulls worked so I was constantly frustrated. The second time, I had a lot of fun. I really like his moveset that they fixed in 1.04 and I thought fighting both the god-devouring serpent and Rykard were really fun. I also might be biased because I absolutely love the artistic design of this fight. (Shut up, I'm not moving Radahn up.

3. Horah Loux - Just a genuinely fun, difficult, and rewarding fight. I loved learning both phases of this fight. Great moveset, great opportunities for jumps and strafes, and it really rewards you for knowing his moveset inside out. The two problems with this fight are 1. his hitboxes are a little ridiculous and 2. I fought him on xbox one and the frame drops during this fight are for some reason so much worse than any other fight.

2. Mohg - A great contender for #1 in my mind. I loved the change in pacing in this fight compared to other Elden Ring bosses, I felt much more like a DS3 fight. I also liked racing against the clock to see it I could beat the boss before phase two. I never did, but I always enjoyed the fight. The only thing I would change is how long the fire stayed on the ground.

1. Maliketh - Easily my second favorite boss (after radagon of course). The second phase is absolutely amazing with how you can bait his attacks with good positioning. His moveset was very difficult but very rewarding to master, in fact, my second playthrough, I beat him no-damage first-try. It was a great feeling after he wiped the floor with me 30+ times my first playthrough. Again, I think the only thing keeping this fight from S-tier is Beast Clergyman. I like how jumping is actually really good against him, but I feel like his projectile spam adds too much time to the fight. It was also quite a bit harder than most fights with colossal weapons.

Unfortunately, I don't think any bosses are a solid S tier. Some are very close but as for now, that spot is yet to be claimed. Hopefully some updates in the future fix this.

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Just some minor changes:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in which the effect duration of the Cerulean Hidden Tear was revised downward

• Fixed a bug with Malenia, Blade of Miquella in which her HP was not healed correctly in the online multiplayer environment

• Fixed a bug that caused some bosses to die at unintended times

• Fixed a bug that prevented the boss "Elden Beast" from working properly under certain circumstances

• Fixed some texts

The Malenia bugfix is worded weirdly, what they probably meant is the bug that let Malenia heal when attacking a player phantom even if the player dodged the attack.

The Elden Beast's AI had changed a lot with 1.04. I wonder if all of the 1.04 changes were reverted or only the extreme case where it did nothing but spam the 3-hit sword combo.

Cerulean Hidden Tear had been nerfed from 15 seconds duration to 7 seconds. Gonna have to test if it is all the way back to 15s.

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I don't get how the AI for my summoning ashes hecking suck in comparison to literally everything else in the game. I summoned my Black Knife Tiche+10 to fight Maliketh with me and guess what? He literally just strafed for two minutes while I was trying to get my spells off.

I got a few hits in too to try and trigger Tiche's agro on the boss but nah, tiche watched me get clapped up and then decided to fight when I died.

Hey, so I'm gonna start reviewing bosses, that cool? Great.

Dragonlord Placidusax. Don't ask why this is the first boss I'm critiquing. It's just the one that I feel like writing about right now.

The good:

Reaally sick design, a good arena, overall well-choreographed attacks, so it felt like it was (most of the time) my fault when I got hit, awesome entrance; the visual of him suspended in mid-air with his wings folded around him is so cool, he is the only wholly unique dragon in the game which is nice since all the dragons are the same tedious fight every single time, I would've much preferred if they just made a few, unique and engaging dragon bosses, rather than opting to scatter a bunch of duplicate dragons across the map, the ancient dragons could've been a lot cooler if you could freaking lock-on to their feet since it's the only spot you can even hit them, but you can't do that for some reason, anywho, the fact that Dragonlord is unique is pretty cool.

The bad:

His divebomb attack sucks. Tbh, it would've been pretty cool as he circles you high in the sky in a storm cloud and plummets towards you at Mach 10. That sounds really cool, but it is complete bs to dodge. Every time he divebombed me, I timed my dodge to a T, but he would leave behind this stupid trail of lightning or smth that lingers for far too long, and I would get hit anyway.

After beating the boss (third try), I thought maybe I was supposed to jump over it, but I recently tried that in new game+, and it did not work. The only consistent way I found to dodge this attack was to lock on to his stormcloud, sprint to the left the moment he started circling me in the sky, keep doing that until the last moment possible, dodge, and I'd barely avoid the colossal hitbox. I'm surprised I even figured that out since it's so convoluted.

Overall it's a terrible attack, and there is no reason for there to be a freaking lingering hitbox that punishes you for dodging it. Like, bruh, I can't BELIEVE you thought you were supposed to press the roll button right before an attack hits you, like with pretty much every other attack in the game! How did you not presume that you were supposed to book it to the left of him and THEN dodge? Which can be quite hard as you lock off of him when he vanishes, leaving you spinning around frantically searching for the stormcloud to lock on to. Except that's hard to do when he simultaneously makes massive bolts of lightning strike everywhere (later in the fight). Forcing you to evade those whilst whirling your camera around looking for him... and we all know the camera is definitely up for this since the camera is always so great in these games.

I didn't encounter this very much in my first playthrough, but I fought him in my current 2nd playthrough recently, and it caused me to lose the fight when he had a smidge of health left. I would've & should've won, but since the lock-on dot is probably in the worst spot you could possibly put it on a massive dragon (other than the head), every time I got behind him and tried to hit him, I would just sorta miss. My character, staring up at him and swinging at the air like a moron, instead of slicing at all the rest of Dragonlord that I was literally rubbing up against, but my Godskin Peeler just kinda said: "Nah, Imma just ignore all that meat right there, the real fight is this nothingness right here in the air, you can't see it since it's invisible." But yeah, extraordinarily obnoxious to miss a freakkkkking mountain-sized dragon that is right in your face.

The REALLY good:

Let's leave on a note that doesn't make it seem like I despise this boss... cause I think Dragonlord is awesome. Since I just ranted about an attack I hate, I'll rant about his 2 moves that I think are AWESOME in this fight.

His anime laser beam attack is sick. More bosses need attacks like this; easy to dodge but is soooo over the top and spectacular, you don't even care how easily avoidable it is. He starts breathing fire, and you're like: "Aww man, gotta stay back a bit," and then beams of golden death start shooting out of his mouths. THEN you're like: "OOUAH- NANI?" and you're in awe as he wildly fires the lasers in every which direction, leaving trails of explosions behind each laser's wake, it is so freaking cool. (At least... I had an easy time dodging it. I legit only had to dodge a single time to avoid the whole attack)

The other attack is where he stabs a big ol' lightning bolt into the ground, then smacks it causing a flippin' nuclear explosion. I adore the way all the music and sounds cut out, and the noise that the explosion makes is, ohhhh, magnifique.

So despite the flaws that can peeve me off quite a bit while fighting him, he still has a lot going for him, and I like him quite a lot. Also, I simply can't hate the boss with 2 of the coolest attacks in the whole game.

Verdict: Pretty epic boss with some major annoyance but also some really freaking cool moments that balance it out.

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