Dark Souls 3 Bosses: Underrated/Overrated 

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Midir wasn’t overrated to me until i tried it recently…still i rate bosses on music and atmosphere as well, doesn’t always matter like i might be jamming to the living failures in bloodborne but I’m actually just fighting living failures in a relatively small-medium sized dandelion garden However Gael and midir became easy to beat, fast, and that’s not entirely fun or maybe that’s just me, but their music and atmosphere are what keep me coming back to them so i gotta give them props for that, gael really felt like the final boss of the series and for midir…they couldn’t have chosen a better optional boss to end on. Talking lore-wise as well

@@EmberPlays soul level 1 all ds3 bosses?

The theories I hear is that we're either in the past like you said or in the future where the Age of Dark has began. As Solaire said "The flow of time in Lordran is convoluted, with heroes phasing in and out"

So not a parallel universe, but a time-travel wormhole instead💀

this is what confuses me, because hasn't the fire been linked continuously since Gwyn? Otherwise the age of dark would have begun.

​@@Robocoloku no it's implied that after an age of dark comes an age of fire again meaning the players choice in the first two games doesn't matter

@@Robocoloku the fire did fade and our little guy who transposes soul, who I can't remember the name of, linked it again. The fire has faded many times but somebody, horrified by what they see, links it again.

They're like those dredgings from Demon's Souls/Dark Souls 1.

I have a video of them hitting each other with a completely synced attack knocking both of them up in the air 😂

It really is

Death the Kid from Soul Eater just came.

I must say I hated them with every single cell in my body when I was fighting them and dying countless times but I just cant disagree with them being such amazing and cool boss after I beat them, also the 2nd phase was straight up fun to fight

people rank bosses on difficulty nowadays when Dark Souls bosses are far more than the difficulty.

My only criticism is their health pool is so low. Sucks the battle is over so fast

abyss watchers is a good boss but not the legendary masterpiece people make em out to be. ur literally fighting a squad of npcs and the second phase is one npc with a fiery sword. i swear half the hype for this fight revolves around that soundtrack

Most underrated boss OST ever. also, their moveset and poise feels fair regardless of your build or weapon. really fun fight. their moveset flashy without being overtuned, their lore is cool, design is nice and boss arena is perfect without any area denial/elevation/instak^ll pits etc. underrated

Oh yeah Twin Demons was intense. Really good!

i really enjoyed valiant gargoyles, just focus on positioning and get between the legs or jump attack over sweeps for openings.

@@Ghorda9 they are like a worse version of every other duo fight in the series

@@bittim9094 I wouldn’t say a worse version of EVERY duo boss, but they are absolutely a worse version of the Demon Princes. It’s easy to tell they took large cues from the Demon Princes, but balanced them very poorly.

​@@K0DA._. Demon princes let you hit them and actually dodge

Got super pissed after Dancer kicked my ass and I nearly lost all those precious souls, thank God she didn't kill me while I homeward bone'd away.

In the context of the entire franchise it's mid at best

@@AdrianTheArchitect Not really. It has WAY more consistent quality than DS1, DS2, or DeS

@@cardmossdn8058 I agree, I personally like more guided paths in my games, so ds3 was a more enjoyable experience for me than elden ring when I first discovered them.

@@AdrianTheArchitect ds3 is indisputably better than demon souls, ds1 and 2, and did a lot of things better than elden ring. It’s ost is also hands down the best fromsoft has ever made.

@@iamMildlyUpsetWithMostOfYouTub It is disputable Ds3 is is extremely linear and looses alot of replayability because the early game is always the same. If you played every game the order they came out then you realised that DS3 had almost no new ideas and recycled alot from the earlier titles. I think the color pallet is awful and everything feels grey and washed out. It does have very smooth gameplay and added alot of cool spells.just felt that i had played it before after played all the other games. And it didnt hjelp that the ps4 versioner was awful at launch

Yeah pairs well with the area since it’s Lost Izalith but in ruins and turmoil

As a 13 year old, it took me 4 hours 😭😭😭

For me why ds3 isn’t as good as ds1!was mainly due to getting too caught up in pvp. Lol the nostalgia, is always there when I play ds1 and I can always enjoy a playthrough no matter how many times I’ve beaten, solo or co op. Ds3 I always feel the need to invade or sit and get invaded, and such and it kinda took away from the game for me. There is a lot more pvp in ds3 than the other 2 and I feel like that’s why some people don’t rate it as high as it probably should be. To me all ds3 did was expand on some of the lore mysteries of ds1. And yes has flashy bosses and a great soundtrack, but for the veterans like me, ds3 also was a more “been there done that” type of feeling, after playing des. Ds1, and ds2. Bloodborne was a breath of fresh air, then there’s ds3. It’s a really great game but like I said, playing in order like that over the years, brought more of a “been there, done that type of feeling”. Which may possibly be another reason why some rate it on the lower end.

Agreed, personally i could not fathom placing DS1 over DS3 apart from maybe out of nostalgia. And i could not understand how people talk about Bloodborne as if it's light years ahead of DS3, DS3 is top tier, and i'm glad people are starting to see that now. Best boss roster and arguably the best soundtrack in the series.

​@@theprofanedblackknight6096 I tried my absolute damnedest to enjoy Ds1 more than Ds3 but the only 2 things that are genuinely better in Ds1 are the journey/world and the actual Lore itself surrounding the land, Gwyn, Manus and Artorias. Honorable mentions are some side quests, intricate details in the environment, and severing tails for more weapons but that's about it. The best bosses in the game to fight are Artorias and Manus by a long shot but they hold up beautifully. Most of the osts are pretty dull and the movesets are super basic but still endearing. I'd say the main reason for this is I never played these games until Bloodborne,then I got Ds3 and played backwards to Ds1 because I sort of had my own story going on with my character. Ds3 is incredibly linear but it's like a short and sweet boss rush game in a world that's collapsing under eons of kingdoms and wars with a beautiful dlc to go with it. It's a matter of preference but Ds3 pvp was so lame all I did was play the story and ended up beating it 23 times

@@Kn1ghtborne I agree it depends on preference, and again like I said the first time, I feel like it depends on the order you played the games in. I’ve been seeing on a lot of these types of videos, many people from the elden ring crew, decided to give the older games a chance, because they enjoyed e.r. And really only loving ds3, because it’s fast and easier to handle. Where it’s not fromsoftwares fault most people played the upgrades first before the originals lol. That being said though, back to preference, other reasons why ds1 will always be special to me, is because, 1 it’s like the most layed back in the series, it’s slower, clunky, and besides some bosses, doesn’t have just high intensity music. 2 was how you stated the world design is, but the biggest reason for me personally, was, when I was able to purchase it on the week it came out. I was living alone for the first time in my life, and I was living in a completely different state, far away from my hometown, and I was all alone, going through a really big struggle in my life, I didn’t have internet, and couldn’t afford any pretty much living check to check, and it was kinda stupid for me to buy the game but, I needed something to play and escape reality, so I traded in a lot of psp games I didn’t play at all anymore, and was able to get the game for 10 dollars. I was still pretty much a souls rookie back then because des. I only have 1 play through a year beforehand, so ds1 completely blind, no internet or summons besides ingame, and the difficulty for me back then with the game, it was like it resonated with what I was going through in real life, a strange new land, all alone, don’t have much at all, but let’s survive, and ds1 helped me get through that struggle. So always I can go back and enjoy ds1 with its lore, atmosphere, weapons, and all. Ds2 I like it as well but not as much as ds1. Ds3 to me again was just and expansion of ds1 could even pass as a remake for the people that don’t care for lore and such, but what I like about ds3 was the deep lore behind everything, like a photo of nashandra in irythyll, and many more things. But again, I’ve gotten really addicted to the pvp for a good spell. Like you, at first I though the pvp was lame as well, until I wanted to show off my build, a bit. Most guys just copy fighter pl and other RU-vidrs builds but I’ve never done that, and cooping wasn’t really showing my build much, so I began invading, and was winning pretty often, and that’s how I got hooked. But now I’ve finally got away from pvp, and now due to elden ring, I make my own self lore stories for my characters, and narrate them and post them. What started that was my one video, I made dedicated to shiva of the east, I. Ds1, and use some of the lore and brought him back to ds3. Getting off topic but yeah, that’s why I love ds1 the most.

I absolutely adore the mood/atmosphere in DS3. It’s so intense

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W-wait...I-I thought that was the whole point...I guess that, within all the magic spam, it's hard to see your surroundings and I must have gotten lucky to get a clear view of a purple one in the middle of all the blue...

Another thing about the clones is that they only attack you with crystal soul spear or crystal soul arrow. Only the actual Sage will attack you with soulmass, crystal hail or rapier. The real challenge is getting to the actual Crystal Sage while you get crystal speared in the butt from the out-of-view clones.

People die to this "boss"?

1st Try boss because I immediately realised that. It’s like Wolnirs big fat glowing bracelets that call hit me!

the clones cast blue magic, the real one uses purple, just focus on the purple one until it disappears then repeat

@@rustman2990 or hide behind something until it's safe and then beeline the real one.

Or use vow of silence lmao trivializes fights against magic users

I prefer Sinh as a dragin fight tbh. Midir is one of those that just isnt much fun to me.

Havent fought sinh yet bc I cant beat ds2 without smashing my Desk lmal

@@marius4159 oooof XD.

@@Foxtail190 yh its by far my least favourite

@@marius4159 DS2 was hella fun for me. Wasnt my favorite, but I found it more enjoyable than DS1. (DS3s bosses really make it skyrocket to the top)

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Thanks :)

Exactly, there is only two bossfight below c tier and the amount of bossfights that are tier s can easily be like 8-10 bossfights, best bossfights of the series unless shadows of the erdtree have a lot of S tier bossfights

@@jajasking9652 personally i think elden ring has some bosses that are better.

@@Ghorda9 yeah, i should have said overall, becuase of godfrey and mogh being at the level of the best ds3 bossfights, but overall, i enjoy more the ds3 bossfights, elden ring has like a lot of A tier bossfights for me

@@jajasking9652 since really getting to know the boss mechanics i would put a few on the same level as gael.

I love to hear that :)

the lore helps too. Underrated boss imo

I'd argue the interconnected level-design isn't what makes a game good. Most other Souls games don't have it either, It's strange how I only ever see DS3 being criticized for the lack of it.

From my experience it's because how funneled it feels early on. You get to firelink then fast travel away. No way to get back their (by foot not counting night mode) or reason to be there to get to another area in 1 and 2 their are multiple paths to go from the hub while in 3 you just warp away

i find that soul of cinder doesn't do enough damage to really punish you, i really only die to him if i run out of estus.

​@@Ghorda9 That means he's kicking your ass

@@Kn1ghtborne that means i beat him second try because he could never finish me off.

​@@Ghorda9 true, he is hell on sl1 runs though

Soul of Cinders was so incredibly easy for me, I rank him worst boss in the game. I had a lot more trouble with Nameless King.

He can teleport...

I have something to tell you my guy......

​@@innocentguest.4999 We'll in this guys defense I also didn't no Gael could teleport till my 3rd playthrough of the dlc

You messed up now you won’t be able to enjoy ds1 and 2

@@DCshandle eh I don’t think so, I’m not playing each game In hopes that the one I’m playing is better than the last. I’m doing it because I really enjoyed elden ring and wanna go back and experience the other games

@@DCshandle DS1 holds up in other areas, so I wouldn't worry. There's always an intruigue in checking out how things started, even if that means a more jank experience.

@@leithaziz2716 that’s why I’m glad things like RU-vid exist so I don’t have to go through the horrors of playing ds2

​@@DCshandle i enjoyed ds2

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you're supposed to stand in from of him and go for the head/neck you'll have a lot less camera issues that way and do more damage.

@@Ghorda9 As I said, I know what to do at this point from fighting him enough to at least minimize camera issues. It still doesn't make anything about that part of the fight good or enjoyable at least in my opinion. For me personally with how many quality bosses are in DS3 I can't put a boss with such a flawed phase in my top 5.

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