Dark Souls 2 - Boss Design 

dark souls 2 is fucking awful.

+Instig8iveJournalism I decided DaS2 would be shit a month before it was announced. I love being miserable. Kill me. (Also not being to reply directly with this fuckin g+ is what's awful)

you forgot about Big Ass Dragon and BIGGER Ass Dragon

That wasn't Ornstein, it was my OC donut steel Old Man Dragon Poker.

it's great to see the dark souls 2 irrational defense force is alive and well in this comment section.

I like how the brief clip of the Executioner's Chariot is of the horse falling into the pit and killing itself. Very nice touch.

perfectly summons it up id say

In Demons Souls you had a bunch of monstrous creatures but I agree DaSII only has big dudes with big weapons

but that big guy with a weapon is BLUE! BLUE IT CHANGES EVERYTHNG

Where my Old slow king and Mytha the "SECRETS OF THE WINDMILL" queen at? also you forgot the Big dude with 2 weapons and the caged dragon featuring THE ANCIENT FLYING CHUNK OF MEAT

I find Scorpioness Najka to be a much more fun fight than Quelaag tbh. With quelaag I can just hug her left and avoid damage completely.

All these years later, Elden Ring can replace DS2's title for having the most big dudes with weapons

Here are the two main problems the majority of bosses have in Dark Souls II: they're not very interesting visually and they are NOT AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH.

Easy boring Nito...so if she is so easy why fight her with 2x avelysn ?

Literally Ornstien is the one that got me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of the Empress Bulblax.

you forgot 'ceaseless except not shit and stupid'

This illustrates my thoughts exactly. Whats worse is in the sunken king dlc they were like "Lets re-texture of nashandra, make her spam random spells we already made, and summon a boss we already made as well as skeletons to make it spooky!" That boss was particularly uninteresting and fighting it was just a boring chore, rather than a harrowing experience. Even the supposed lore behind why she summons Velstadt is contrived bullshit.

"Not that Dark Souls 2's boss fights weren't fun, because a lot of them were, but the inspiration just wasn't as forceful as it was in Dark Souls 1." I think people literally missed this when they watched the video. I too enjoyed the DaS2 bossfights... for the most part... especially in the DLCs... well 2/3rds of the bosses there mostly. I can at least thank them for creating Sir Alonne. It was just a really fun boss. Not particularly hard until NG+++... etc., but it was all about the atmosphere with that one.

I like the Ruin Sentinel fight but I think their boss design seems really out of place. They look like something from ancient Egypt.

To be honest, I enjoy Dark Souls 2 perhaps as much as I enjoy Dark Souls 1, and I admit this video gave me quite the laugh, especially at the end with the little Pikmin bit. A sub for you, friendo!

Marvelous, simply marvelous.

Some bosses were fairly easy, but I still thoroughly enjoyed the game. Definitely not a shit game, just didn't meet expectations of fans.

I enjoyed the bosses In DaS2. DaS1 had some cool bosses, but none of them were extraordinarily superior to Das2 ones.

I...uh...IlikedProwlingMagusplsdonhurtme

Now we need an Elden Ring version.

I can't believe the DLC bosses are even LAZIER 3 NPCS AND ONE OF THEM IS LITERALLY HAVEL NASHANDRA 2.0 ANOTHER DRAGON LITERALLY SMELTER DEMON BUT BLUE BIG DUDE WITH WEAPON BIG DUDE WITH WEAPON OH COOL, A NEW BOSS DESIGN, A TIGER LITERALLY THAT SAME TIGER AGAIN IN THE SAME DLC ONLY THERE'S TWO THIS TIME BIG DUDE WITH WEAPON AND TONS OF LITTLE DUDES (to be fair that one is good) FUCKING FROM

What could be worse than a guy with a giant weapon?

Am I literally the only guy that played Dark Souls 1? I seem to remember a ton of bosses that is a guy with a weapon.

I agree that the humanoid gimmick gets a little tired after a while, but all the knight guys fit the backstory of the game quite well, what with kings and queens and stuff. I'd say that as a whole, they took a different approach to boss design to make some of them feel more like mini-bosses, and just generally streamlined the game. That's not entirely a good thing, obviously - the bonfire placements are erratic and some of them are useless.

Holy shit! That pikmin at the end got me

Okay, I take issue with this. This same half-assed logic can be applied to the first game. Hell, if any Dark Souls game was guilty of being uninspired (which they aren't), DS1 would be much more so. Asylum Demon: Big monster with a big weapon Taurus Demon: Big monster with a big weapon (pulled straight out of mythology, too) Capra Demon: Big humanoid (Apparently that's a sin) with not one, but TWO big weapons *gasp* While we're at it, Demon Firesage: Literally Stray Demon, but SET ON FIRE. That's it! Just set a boss on fire, and you've got a new boss design. Easy peasy! Stray Demon: Probably their worst example of laziness, literally Asylum Demon just scaled up 2 to 3 times Crossbreed Priscilla: Big humanoid with big weapon Ornstein and Smough: Two big humanoids with big weapons Four Kings: FOUR big humanoids with big weapons Sanctuary Guardian: Basically a Manticore. Pulled straight out of mythology. Manus: Big monster with big weapon Gwyn: Humanoid with big weapon So, here we have a large amount of bosses that are basically big monsters or humanoids with big weapons. Is that lazy? Hell no! They all look radically different from each other. Then why are you using this same flawed logic for Dark Souls 2? Sure it has its share of big humanoids with big weapons, but they too look largely different from each other from the bulky Dragonriders to the slender Ruin Sentinels, to the Pursuer who's moveset is just awesome to look at, to the Rotten who is just a cool idea in and of himself. PS: Way to mock Japanese people with Seppuku. Very tasteful.

Some had neat gimmicks, like poison and water and circular arenas that affect combat, but shit like that didn't help in the long run.

Lol, you make a good point... but you know what this means, don't you?? Dks WAR!! :)

Lol, you make a good point... but you know what this means, don't you?? Dks WAR!! :)

The funny thing is that Nito is easier and more boring than Nash without his skeletons.

Hm, if only Tittchy Gren was considered an innovation in the souls series. Voice-acting wise.

Can you say rehash?

I don't get all the hate for Dark Souls 2. Sure, it doesn't quite live up to the previous installment, but personally I found it to be a great game nonetheless.

Oh, you!

Look at all these big guys, If you were to take their weapons from them, would they die?

This is Intern Souls, what is this Dark Souls you speak of?

"Easy, Boring Nito" Funny how the fights aren't remotely similar, and Nito is even more of a push over WITH extra mobs on the fight that you seem to hate so much. Souls series bosses have always been shitty, Demon's/Dark Souls 1 bosses were just as shitty, take off the nostalgia goggles.

Lost my shit when I heard the fucking PicMin music

Beat all of them solo on the ng+ and then fucking tell they are easy.

wow the one original boss was taken straight from a better game :^)

Expected a Gaben joke at 1:25 but that works too.

Hey, that game you made is really cool......

Oh well, better luck in the sequel... wait....

i actually thought the ds2 bosses had much better designs in terms of mechanics than ds1. having said that, that video was hilarious

but Mirr-oh,sry LOOKING GLASS KNIGHT is also a big dude with a weapon

you should make a ds1 video to compare.

Let me just give a handful of bosses from Dks1 Tarus-Big dude with axe Asylum Demon-Big dude with hammer copy pasted 3 times Capra-Big dude with dogs Gaping Dragon-Creature that can never hit you I can do more.

f- video

The thing people don't seem to realize with DS2 is that more=worse boss fights. Every enemy you add takes more processing power and makes the fight less interesting.