The Shadewalker Ox [r/bossfights] 

A horrific nightmare of a boss. After an extensive section of dungeon crawling (the reason for taking so long), I made the almost fatal mistake of stopping to pause the game while I had dinner. When I came back to my computer, I took some time to heal up and decide on my next moves. Little did I know, however, that if you open the opposite the ox head, the head manifests a shadowy humanoid body to attack, which if you don’t have your headphones on for, you might not hear it manifesting and approaching. Now, you can probably guess whether or not I had my headphones on or not. This “fight” is not so much a fight at first as it is a classic horror chase section. I unfortunately died at first, since I was *not* prepared for this fight mentally. Of course, the game auto saves right as you open the chest, so I couldn’t go back and not open it. At the start, I tried fighting it, but I couldn’t, for reasons described below. It took a few tries, but I managed to escape it initially, running almost blindly through the hallways of the mansion. It doesn’t have any ranged attacks, rather doing damage by goring you with it’s horns, which it can do by charging, which while doing makes it faster than you, but it can only do it for a dozen or so seconds at a time, needing a recharge after that. This makes it a game of weaving through the labyrinthine halls, since it can’t change directions when charging. It is boosted in its ability to catch you by teleporting to an area without direct light, which is scary when it does, as you can hear its soft footsteps disappear from behind you, and then it can appear anywhere there’s not light. The above section is pretty scary and hard for a number of reasons. You can’t feasibly fight it, as there’s not enough space in the halls to dodge its attacks, and it heals in darkness. So you’re forced to run, and you can’t turn around to look at it while running, since you might get gored. The only way to tell if it’s behind you is by its footsteps, which are so faint that it’s hard to distinguish them from your own, even harder in the situation you’re in. But identifying the boss’ footsteps is critical to predicting when it’s going to appear out of nowhere in front of you, since its footsteps disappear before then. Fortunately, the walls during the chase are very handy, giving you vague directions on where to run in order to “escape” the beast. If you manage to get through and close the door you need to escape through, on the other side you’ll find the ballroom, nicely lit with electric lighting. You’ll feel relieved, until the lights flicker, and the beast appears in the middle of the room, at which point the fight begins in proper. The actual fight is quite easy, as it still only has one method of attack, which you can dodge decently easily. Occasionally, the lights will flicker again, allowing it to teleport and heal slightly, which adds a small ounce of unpredictability to the fight. The main gimmick of the fight is that if you try to heal, the beast immediately attacks you, making healing basically impossible. I died the first time I did the fight proper, and had to do the chase again, but the second time I beat it, and got the head as a really cool piece of armour with pretty good stats, so I’m not upset massively about the fight. 6/10, it’s pretty scary the first time, and the chase is heart-pounding, but the fight itself is quite meh apart from the occasional teleport.

This secret boss is truly immortal. It is tied to a location with special lighting and walls. There is only one way to win - run... 8/10

I just realized why this was recommended to me. I saw some of your other music remixes before.

Why was this recommended to me?