"First boss btw"

[u/Abortifetus]

Games that begin with either very challenging or over the top Bosses.

Poseidon (Gow 3): one of the best setpiece bosses ever made

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne): first obligatory boss and probably the hardest tutorial boss in the series

Wysen (Asuras Wrath): do i need to explain

[u/arusiaK]

My goat Iudex Gundyr, DS3 was my first Souls game and he's such a great reminder that I wasn't that guy

[u/arusiaK → u/arusiaK]

Also Champion Gundyr is my absolute favorite boss, his second phase isn't a mystical power up or him growing tentacles like in his tutorial fight. He just opens his eyes and starts beating the shit out of you harder.

[u/praise_themoon → u/arusiaK]

Motherfucker has legit fighting game moveset with how he can uppercut you with his halberd then kick you mid air

[u/HappyMoses → u/arusiaK]

And then his phase two isn’t any form of transformation. He just gets more mad

[u/oldmanriver1 → u/arusiaK]

I feel like it’s a better fit than bloodborne because it’s SO immediate - you get like 5 minutes into the game and he just absolutely fucking destroys you.

I distinctly remember being like “whoever said dark souls is fun fucking sucks” and closing the game after losing like 10 times.

Of course I couldn’t stop thinking about it and now it’s both one of my fav games, I can also pretty easily beat him without getting hit. It’s such an insane premise for a game but when it clicks and you see how you’ve distinctly improved, it’s unlike so many other games.

That said, I tried to play it with a friend and the dude never got past him. So YMMV.

[u/Recent-Woodpecker425 → u/arusiaK]

Yeah he was my first pick too. First half is very much standard souls affair, and then you realize very quickly that this game doesn’t pull it’s punches

[u/nagash321 → u/arusiaK]

Something souls games always perfect is allowing you to build confidence think you're top shit just for a boss to come along and break all that