Ranking the Demon's Souls Bosses from Easiest to Hardest [#1-23] 

I'm pretty sure that the difficulty of demons souls stems from the actual journey to get to the boss.

"King Allant is a massive letdown" Blob Allant IS supposed to show how far he's fallen that's the point

Sir Alonne wants to have a word with you for saying "Maiden Astrea is the only boss in the Souls series to kill herself"

flamelurker isn't that bad if you have the purple flame shield and the ring of flame resistance EDIT: I take that back, i just ate shit in ng+

you forgot to mention fools idol is unkillable if you don't kill a certain enemy in the level

For all those who havn't played Demon's Souls, it's not as easy as it looks here. The bosses may be not as hard as in later souls games but most of the ordinary enemies, and from that the way to even get to the bosses is very hard and at least for me it feels harder than in later soulsgames. Also you have, different to the dark souls games, no bonfires spread througout the world. You have archstones that only appear after you have beaten the boss. So unless you got some shortcuts you always have to beginn your way from the last boss

Hadn't played Demon Souls in a while but watching this made me realize that Demon Souls difficulty came almost exclusively from the levels themselves instead of the bosses. A mechanic that seems flipped in the later entries. Except for DS2 DLC because well, everything was hard

Who’s back here cuz the new remake trailer got released

I think it is important to point out that at the time this game came out, these bosses were difficult. Remember, this is where the souls game got its' name for being difficult as hell. The fact that many people had to start with Dark Souls etc, it makes it much easier for them having experience with the game already. BUT when this first came out and nobody had any experience with this game, it was hard, very hard.

The first time i played this game, nothing was easy.

Ready to see king allant in all of his 4k ray tracing glory

I feel like the Penetrator was inspiration for Artorias' boss fight. The Artorias fight is just more exciting.

1:43, what the fuck did you call it? aducator...............

"Dis b0ss is rely eezy dood, died to him just once, get rekt" Chips half of the boss' health with a single blow

Finally I beat this game (the reason I bought PS3 is to play Demon's souls, yeahh!). Well, I think the route before old hero (4-2) or 5-1/5-2 route is a loooot more frustrating rather than fighting the bosses, especially when the world is in black tendency. I spent 4-5 hours to pass that horrible skulls , the exploding white thing, flying sting ray ahh goshh.

Keep in mind this was the first game in the series. And flamelurker whooped some major ass XD

God I loved False King Allant. Such a fun fight, can’t wait to go back for round two in the remake.

This doesn't sound like a list made by someone who played Demon's Souls first. First time around all those bosses were difficult.

"maiden astrea is the only souls boss to kill herself" *SiR aLoNnE wAnTs To KnOw YoUr LoCaTiOn*

I really like watching these videos over and over again. I find it kinda relaxing and really enjoyable. Almost as if i'm playing the game without the frustration

True King Allant vs Magikarp.

Old King Doran's cry when he dies makes me tear up!

It is always nice to just relax and watch a DeMod ranking video.

The thing that I liked in so many of the demons souls bosses was that many of them were like little puzzles. It took time to realise what worked and it required courage to overcome the spook factor of the bosses, but once you figured it out, it felt neat to finish them off. Sadly it made some of the bosses like the dragon pretty annoying on future playthroughs. Fools Idol for example was a very memorable fight for me because I didnt realise to kill the dude on the balcony. I went there, but since he seemed harmless, I didnt kill him. I died in the fight many times and scratched my head while thinking what I was doing wrong. Then revisited that spot and figured that I should probably kill the "harmless dude". It felt great after that. While truly a bad thing for re-playability, I feel that the newer souls games lack this sense of discovery with the bossfights. Its almost always down to tehcnique now which makes the fights somehow less memorable in my opinion. But I understand that you have to change things up in the future games or the games would be far too predictable.

Nowadays these bosses are a joke, but when this game first came out and I had no clue wtf I was doing it took be over an hour to just get to the phalanx. Miralda my bae for life though and omg I forgot about the damn flame lurker. So many headaches trying to kill that damn lurker.

What was the point is writing how many times you died? This isn't your first play through and it makes it seem as if the game is super easy. Im sure you died many many times the first time you played it. Plus in this run you are extremely overpowered compared to a normal player. Overall great video just felt that was very unnecessary and wish you had used a character that didnt kill the bosses in two hits, thats not normal

died 0 times to man eaters my fucking ass.

Man I just got Demon's Souls a few weeks ago and when I first fought flamelurker, it was just epic. my only weapon was the flame sword and it only dealt like 50 damage every hit. I'm was shocked and stunned when beat the boss on the first try. Definitely my favorite boss of all time.

Maneater was the most miserable boss fight for me. I hated Flame Lurker, but I've always thought Maneater was much worse.

"Adjucator" "Miridian Hammer"

Flamelurker is actually insane. Managed to do it today massive W

Just realized that the shield and spear guys in the painting for DS1 took inspiration from the Phalanx in Demon Souls. First time watching, I think

Magic is massively overpowered in this game, even compared to Dark Souls. In fact, if you've played the later games, there are maybe 3 or 4 bosses in the entire game that will give you anything close to the trouble you'll remember from the other 4 titles. Almost all of them have a gimmick or are easily exploitable with a bow or magic, something that comes up much less frequently later. Demon's Souls is a great game, but it's a rough draft for everything that would come after. I'd imagine if you'd played this back in 2009 it would have been brutal. After a half a decade of 3 Dark Souls games and Bloodborne, it seems like a walk in the park.

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Oh my god, Garl is Velsdadt.

I can’t wait for you to do a ranking about this game after the remastered version releases.

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I have to say, these bosses are a lot harder when you aren’t over leveled. Actually the first time I beat this game I did it with a broadsword +5 (because I had no idea how the upgrade systems worked lol) and it took me ages to kill Flamelurker and Old King Allant (non blob version). The first time I beat Allant felt so damn epic and part of that was because I was barely doing any damage with my hits haha. Also I played this game when it first came out and holy shit was it hard back then, I’d never played anything like it and initially I couldn’t even beat the first level. It was so satisfying beating this game for the first time

the thing I found funny about Demons souls is that almost every boss in the game had some easy cheese strategy that could trivialize the boss fights. Use noise cancelling and Old Hero is a joke, the fog gate trick for False King, Firestorm pillar for the maneaters, and bone cage stick pokey for Flamelurker, to name a few. It was nice in that for the harder bosses there was always a cheap little gimmick to beat it smoothly if they were just too hard for you... But I am glad that a lot of the sneaky cheese vanished for later games.

"If you bring Biorr to the Penetrator, he'll distract him 99% of the time". That's blasphemy, good sir! Biorr is like the Iron Tarkus of Demon's souls. He will DESTROY the Penetrator :D

I really wish you had more viewers, these videos are really well made

I’m so excited for the remaster since I never got to play the original!

"Go forth, Garl Vinland. May you be unharmed" Can't wait to hear that in the remake

well the experience is definitely different back in 2009...

King Dolan is difficult? Try Meleeing a Flame Salamander. Also not sure if Ranking the Two Dragons is worth calling a Boss, as they are more so a Terrain Obstacle than anything else, like the Hellkite Drake in DkS1.

I now know what to expect with the remake thanks brother

liked the video, would love to see you create a base stat wanderer playthrough. so much fun

Fool's Idol actually gave me trouble on NG+, so did Old Monk NPC. The fights are so different on the second go, while the stronger ones remained pretty much the same. The strategies against Lurker and Eater are so etched into my brain that they give no trouble to me regardless of gear.

"You were almost certainly slain by this guy in the tutorial, if you even made it there that is." It's literally impossible to die in the tutorial before Vanguard.

I've been meaning to comment on ur Boss BourneSouls ranked lists. You've done these really well. They are quick and straight to the point. As a game on it's own Demon Souls was at it's time unlike anything out there. It was an early PS3 release that took a lot of balls to create in the first place. For those of us that played this game without any help, tutorials, or tips of any kind - we quickly learned just how crafty From Software was to get away with seemingly impossible bosses. They did a lot with very little and did it damn well.

I really love the Armor Spider fight and Maiden Astraea/Garl Vinland fight,by far my favorites.

Wouldn't Adjudicator be easier than Phalanx? I mean, Adjudicator's attacks are so slow it literally cannot hit you unless you allow it to, while Phalanx's spearblobs can at least poke you a bit if you don't have fire.

I've been playing through it for the first time and I'm getting pretty wrecked by the Maneaters. It's reassuring to know they're considered one of the harder bosses haha

glad you decided to make this. I just beat it on my first playthrough yesterday. It's my new favorite of the 5. The old graphics of Vangaurd, the fluted armor, and Garl vinlad are just so charming. The art of the characters and bosses in the load screens.. My favorite 5 were Tower Knight,Storm King,Fool's Idol,Old Hero and False King Allant. I hust had a lot of fun Fighting them ,killed them all first try but I did just beat dark souls 3 ,2 days before hand. I loved all the bosses though. to be honest I didnt die to any of them though. the only times I died were 4-2 and 5-2 ,fuck 5-2. 4-2's constant manta attacks and the light sweepers with the spining skelees. then I put on the thief ring and it was cake. 5-2 was just the stagger when you try to roll when fighting the giant unstaggerable truck fisted assholes. they'd be easy to dodge if you could so i just kept to the ground.

I would love to see your boss ranking on the remastered version once it's released! To see if any of your opinions changed or anything, I'm hyped!

A lot of "Old Kings" in the Souls games.

I think that, f you don't cheese him with poison, Old King Doran is definitely the hardest.

I look at your footage and it's always pure light or clear light, no wonder the game seemed easy to you!

My hardest boss was Tower Knight early in the game, because he one-shot kills in the close range. I died so much times there :D Everything changed in the game for me when I found health/mana regen rings and started casting Warding with boss fights - killed most of the bosses without deaths easily from there.

Am I the only one who died several times against Man Eaters just because of that fucking leap attack that pushed me off the bridge? Seriously, I have NEVER died due to damage against them. NEVER.

I actually almost beat the tutorial vanguard but my controller died when he had only ONE health left

Looking forward to playing this

Fun fact: Just got demons souls emulated on pc a month ago and the first thing i noticed about the vanguard is that if you always move to his left his attacks will never touch you. The only exeption is the flying attack, where you need to backdodge. But it's so telegraphed you even have time to think which direction you had to dodge in case you forgot and get a couple hits on him.

Still my favorite of the Soulsborne series. I can only dream that Demon's Souls one day makes its way to PS4. I would even take it as a port without any enhancements. Such a great game!

Man Demon's Souls is a classic and is the second best in the series. Sucks that a lot of the community has never played this masterpiece.

This brings back many memories

You can also use the house with the storm ruler, making it a lot less perilous to fight the boss, especially since it get summoned in only after you've killed off some of it's little manta ray thing first, so you mostly just have the Storm King to deal with. Oh almost forgot, I'm sure someone prolly mentioned this, but there's a safe spot right next to the Armored Spider's leg on the left side, the only thing you have to run from is his big fire attack and just remember to block while he does his little blade swipes and body slam. Also, thanks for sharing some tips on a few of the harder bosses, I'll be trying them next!

Is the fools idol holding bread?

Flamelurker was a bitch to fight, I did melee only, and I got rekt by him. But the music theme he had was awesome.

I remember every fight. They were so memorable!

This list is perfect

demons souls > dark souls in my opinion. the boss fights where more creative and i liked the nexus and the athmosphere. also it was something completly new in 2009

wow, look, like, the only two bosses I can fight right now are ranked hardest. great.

I beaten yesterday the Flamelurker on my second attempt at Level souls 22. I think all depends on the class/build that you choose. I Chose the Royal and the Magic from the distance really help the fight

It’s coming back so I’m rewatching

Imagine how much these fights will improve once the remake is released. I’m looking forward to it.

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Yay now that the game is getting remade I can now understand this list more

I'm currently playing this game for the second time, the first time I didn't like it, now I think is amazing! Of course I understand it better because I have played all SoulsBorne games

I only just realized that the storm ruler in dark souls three is a reference to the storm ruler in demon souls

So, basically, Demon's is the abusive grandfather, Dark Souls is the Jackass of a son. DS2 is the easy daughter the family wants nothing to do with and DS3 is like Demon's Souls' long lost brother.

Saw this video 4 years ago, watched the remake trailer and had to come back to prepare myself :p

This vid is back in my recommendations after all these years.

Who came back here after hearing about the ps5 remake to freshen up on these bosses?

I always thought the true king was just a nod to the player. "Oh, you beat the game? Here, take your frustration out on this piss easy blob."

And of course i love the Boss fight with astraea. possibly my favourite "fight" in all souls games. allthough i didnt finish ds3 by now. But the music in this fight, garls looks and attacks, the words they say to you and the bad ass area. incredible. makes you think makes you feel sad and guilty. great experiance.

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I really don't think Flamelurker was that difficult. Just read his attacks and dodge to the back. False King Allant and Tower Knight were the only bosses who gave me trouble...

Soooo.... The Penetrator is just Pursuer 1.0?

If you are patient enough, you can actually push Doran all the way back to the stairs and push him off to his death, then quit and reload to get his armor set.

Flamelurker truly was my favorite boss in Demon's Souls especially since I was doing a melee build.

I feel like, especially for Demon's Souls especially (as it had no marketing push for difficulty compared to DS1 and 2) ranking bosses in difficulty is a waste. The majority aren't supposed to be difficult and ranking them shows a misunderstanding of what they are. The Adjudicator is easy because the bird on his head is the real Adjudicator - the thing he rests on is just a blob. Phalanx represents an archer and relies on the army to defend him. Fool's Idol's difficulty rests upon people not knowing what to do with the healer on the floor above. As you say in the video, Old Monk was *supposed* to be a player summon. You got this when talking about the Tower Knight fight; it's about realism and player enjoyment and a lot of people love that fight, so that's cool. Same with Astrea. The only Souls game that's 'hard' is 2 and that is due to misunderstanding.

The maneaters were the hardest boss for me by far in all of the games combined and I've completed all the soulsbourne games.

I think the order of this list is dependent upon your build. I played as a pure caster mage, and it definitely makes certain bosses easier (great examples being Tower Knight and Armored Spider, both of which can be taken down from a distance with the soul arrow spell without you getting close enough to ever be hit)

I actually liked the Dragon God fight. It throws an interesting concept of stealth in a game similar to Elder Scrolls. I talk about Bed of Chaos in the Dark Souls ranking.

God, this game is so good. It is meaningful to me in a lot of ways and has some godlike lore. I really hope they continue it someday.

how the hell did this guy get so much grass?

I can't wait to watch the remake!

I'm still proud I beat Flamelurker the first time as a total noob using sorcery+melee pre-Dark Souls...My heart was racing so hard, sweating with so much adrenaline through that drawn out struggle. Love walking into an unexpected boss fight I just walked into it completely unprepared with limited castings. I remember first Black Ops came out around that time and I never played Demons Souls past that point traded it back in. Regret that now as I have all the souls series except the original. It was just so foreign to me as a game then. I struggled hard on Tower Knight though.