Top 10 Worst Boss Arenas in the Souls Series 

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Is it even considered a top 10 worst list without the bed of chaos?

One of my friends was doing a One Shot Run in DS1 and when he got the the Moonlight Butterfly, after waiting for it to come down he shouted, "FINALLY!!!" Then as he went to face it, she kept going down, and down, and down, and down, until she was completely gone from sight. All he could do was homeward bone out because the Boss LITERALLY left the arena!

Moonlight Butterfly: *Finally lands* Gael: "What...? Still here...?"

In Scholar of the First sin, if you summon Devotee Scarlet, she will at least emote at the big windmill blades letting you know you're supposed to do something to them.

Dark Souls 2: Hold my bee- Dark Souls: Not so fast

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Alright, in my opinion, the ancient wyvern section is actually pretty fun. Don’t get me wrong, from a boss standpoint the wyvern is very gimmicky and underwhelming but if you think of it less as a boss and more like just any other regular area, I think that the wyvern section is way more fun than anything from archdragon peak leading up to it. I just think it is a cool concept to navigate around this ruined castle while a dragon try’s to stop you from getting to the end and stabbing him for a one hit K.O. and unlocking the next area.

"Bed of chaos is my favorite boss in souls game" Said no one ever

I am very sorry but I had to pause the video because I had just uninstalled Raid Shadow Legends after 1 month of a lot of insistence, but finally gave up due to its ATROCIOUS monetization and ridiculous energy system. And let me tell you about it! The "silver" the regular money you earn is spent even to unequip gear from your heroes, if you don't want to LOSE them, making customizing for different bosses and scenarios and PvP almost impossible, if you are not swimming in silver. It's 2019, and this game has energy. This should sum up pretty much how freemium this game is. You have so much stuff to do yet so little energy. You might be getting a lot of it in the beginning like I was, but once you start to receive quests that make you drop certain specific gear, with minimal % rates, you understand how they manage to suck your energy away. You are usually either leveling in the campaign (best place for xp) that sucks to get good gear drops, or you are dropping gear in "dungeons" or you are dropping some "potions" to "ascend" (increase base stats) herores in other dungeons, or you are killing the Minotaur in its dungeon to drop some scrolls that also customize a passive tree for your hero. And the xp in dungeons is usually terrible compared to campaign on purpose, to force you on using even more energy, because guess what? THEY SELL ENERGY, AND SILVER. Remember when I said that silver was spent to change gear? It is also used to upgrade gear, and unlock heroes and ascend heroes and you get the point. Oh yea, and ALMOST EVERY SINGLE AREA is just 3 zones with waves of enemies to defeat, sometimes with a boss at the end. It gets stale so quick the only reason I got to play it for long was because I actually almost never play turn based RPG games so this one felt "fresh" for me. Now I had just got into weeks of hiatus, tried again, remember it wouldn't improve its store, and gave up. If I'm going to play a game that is screwing me or limiting me just to try and take my money, I might actually do it with Dark Souls which I already paid for and I KNOW it's trying to fuck with me! The PvP is not even a real pvp. You fight against a pre-set team that another player built, and fight that team controlled by an AI, and the balancing of the PvP is HORRIBLE because it's basically non existent. Heroes do have a power meter, but it is not rounded down or anything in earlier ranks, meaning that you may find full teams of lv 50 heroes (max being 60) fully ascended in the SECOND RANK, bronze 2. Oh, and remember how in order to be a little forgiving they let you not lose rank up to a certain point so you don't get too demotivated? Not in here, you can go back to bronze 1 if you mess up. Also, while people attack your team controlled by an AI which might not even use the right skills in the most optimal sequence, you lose rank. So you might grind with some effort, go to bed, them boom, down 1 or 2 ranks because people picked your team to fight against. The "fight against bosses with your clan" is the most deceptive message I've seen in some years! What actually happens is that the boss has a shared HP and every clan member fights it *individually* and get a reward for doing a certain amount of damage to it. For a game named "Raid", not having any raid with multiple players seems pretty ironic. And now for the best part: The store. They try to sell loot boxes with heroes inside for egregious prices, usually the one that comes with the best box, that doesn't even guarantee the best rarity hero is the price of a released triple A title, AT LAUNCH! That is the most ridiculous price I have seen in years! "Hmm I wonder what I'm gonna do, get Cyberpunk, OOOOR A LOOT BOX?" And of course they don't expect you to buy it without a discount, that is what anchoring is for! Now that you found this price absurd they will eventually pull up a "limited time" offer with a certain % of discount for you to believe that price is actually worth it, because you know, obviously a digital loot box with not even guarantee for a legendary hero is worth the price, discounted. Obviously. (not) If you are against the predatory practices that EA and Ubisoft have been implementing, do yourself a favor and don't play this game. The core game is pretty ok, but the monetization is simply evil. I'm sorry for posting this, DeMod, but as a person who is worried with the integrity of how other gamers might become prey of egregious schemes, I cannot recommend this game at all.

I think Bed of Chaos would be a better fight if it were in Sekiro instead of Dark Souls.

>imagine how much better the MLBF fight would be if you had to go through an obsticle course, dodging the butterfly's hazards until you get to the end and shoot an arrow at it "Oh, this guy must like the Ancient Wyvern fight" >Ancient Wyvern show up higher on the list Bruh

I disagree about Micolash. It's a boss fight that's supposed to be a chase. Branching paths are necessary to make it not feel like a beeline.

Sees Capra is 2nd Me: What's worse than the Capra's arena?! Sees Bed of Chaos is 1st Me: Oh

*Reads the title* Hmm... I wonder what the second place is going to be

Me: trying to chill and watch a video Raids Shadow ledgends: not so fast

I'd personally add Maneater from Demon's Souls toward the top of this list. Two of those things coming after you on a tiny narrow bridge is pretty rough.

I knew bed of chaos was first Didn't see the video yet

My top 3 worst boss areas: 1. Bed of choas 2. Capra demon 3. Ancient dragon

I actually like the Old Iron King’s boss arena-thematic, colorful, invigorating, and if you’ve been keeping with the lore the whole time, exciting. It was tough (if you didn’t know how to hide behind the wall), but it was a thoroughly enjoyable boss fight and extremely satisfying. One of my favourites, really.

You missed a chance for a great segway: So today I'm ranking the worst arenas in the Souls series, and speaking of garbage fantasy things, THiS ViDEo iS SpoNSoReD bY RaId SHadOw leGEnDs

please nerf old iron king's hole, it's the most unfair and overpowered enemy in all of dark souls

Me: "Demod is really out of ideas, he's just squeezing the Souls series until the last drop!" Also me: "How do I like this twice?"

At least this wasn’t sponsored by raid: shadow le- oh wait...

In defense of the Centipede Demon, the developers put a corpse with an item on it on the right side of the arena once you enter. It lures you to a piece of land that's large enough to comfortably fight the boss. It's the only boss I managed to defeat on my first try, thanks to that eye-catching item.

I'm surprised that vape god wolnir wasn't on the top 10

The moment I read the title I immediately thought, “Bed of Chaos is #1”.

I doubt anyone who has played ds1 will disagree with the number 1 spot

The stairs on the Capra room can be used for plunging attacks, making the boss a lot easier. It actually rewards you for thinking out of the box.

“Mytha is here to fill that hole” Mytha, the wife of the Old Iron King. The Old Iron King. Hole. Oh. No.

I feel like Nito and Giant Lord deserve an honorable mention: - When fighting Nito you're encouraged not to use half of the arena, since doing so will aggro the big reviving skelly bois. - Giant Lord's 'arena is just a small space on a wall where if you move too far back, you will get bombarded by a bunch of bullshit balls. Thankfully the boss is ridiculously easy to compensate.

I burnt the windmill of Earthen Peak in my first playthrough of DSII. But DSII does a pretty good job of letting you know that exploring the map is important, so I actually just stumbled across the windmill burning part. You’d only have missed it if you were rushing through the game. lol

I personally like bosses that deviate from the norm of dodge and attack. And both wyvern and micolash are neat examples of that, they are not made to be a wall for the player( we got a lot as it is) but rather a fun encounter, and their arenas play very well into that.

I just had a random thought; the bed of chaos would have actually been decent if it was a Sekiro boss.

To be honest I've always found the Four King's boss arena bad. Still, the abyss is a pretty cool place to battle a boss/bosses, but I find it hard sometimes to properly judge distance because of the complete darkness. I always find myself dodging either way to early or way to late. Have to git gud I guess

I honestly think micolash is fine, the fight feels like the DeS style of riddle-type boss but it actually gives you an actual fight afterwards

I'd rather fight 10 Capra Demons in the same arena than play Raid: Shadow Legends

My worst and best arena is gundyr Mostly cuz that's as far as I can get 🥺

I'd count the sekiro well loneshadow boss arena in there, my camera spazzed out so much I still get ptsd when im stuck in a corner

If you stay close to Micolash in the second phase you can easily defeat him by always dodging his tentacle attack by sidestepping. He won't use "A call beyond" like that.

I've... Never been knocked into the Iron King hole. But he's a bad boss because he's boring.

I dont know why but I love Moonlight Butterfly soundtrack. Guess that was the only reason I didnt hate that boss

I've beaten Dark souls 1 at least 15 times and capra demon is always the most stressful thing ever

Maneater needs a mention. Because of his attack pattern if you are locked on and roll you can end up going the opposite direction straight into the abyss for no damn reason. The difficulty in the boss itself is hard but add the tiniest damn ledge to roll off to have the pain. There is also a mini boss in Sekiro towards then end who has a second person in the arena with them and its on fire, to add to the pain its a tiny arena and the guys entire attack sets are huge area of effect swings

Dark souls 2 "I have the most annoying boss" Dark souls "I don't think so chief"

what would've been cool with the Moonlight Butter: have a long, winding and kinda broken bridge that you have to run across. Mr. Butterfly will always land on certain grass spots to pause, so it's more a catching up with him so you can get some hits in to take him down. And with that the ranged fighters also have to actually do something outside of firing projectiles.

Would people like the ancient wyvern more if they removed tge health bar?

Me couldn't stop wondering what can possibly beat Capra Demon when seeing it in the 2nd place... Later: How could I possibly forget bed of chaos...

Bed of chaos was a joke my first playthrough and has been ever since but that capra demon arena still makes me rage quit like a bitch. It's honestly more beneficial to cheese him from outside the room. Saves time and frustration.

I've never had a problem jumping to the larger area with Centipede Demon, he stays on land the whole time over there too, always been one of the easiest bosses for me

Dark souls was slightly claustrophobic and put you out of your comfort zone, which is good. Having boss fights that have small arenas purely to make it a bit more challenging is a bit cheap though.

For the windmill before mytha, a summonable npc will use a point emote when he comes close to the windmill so that you can discover it yourself

Capra demons boss arena is so small that I can't even breath properly

Before I watch the video, Bed of Chaos is gonna be #1. I'm calling it. I see that I'm not the only one who predicted it.

I think this is your first ranking video where I went "yeah that's about right" to every single entry. It's surprising how many DS1 entries are on this list - I adore DS1 but it is probably the most uneven entry in the series, with the highest highs and the lowest lows. That's part of why I was so disappointed with the remaster - there were so many things they could have fine tuned and they botched it.

I just absolutely love your videos please keep it up

Disagree on Micolash. Is so original, is a great idea and a funny match up

When DeMod uploads.. It's a great day!

One that I hate but would understandably fly under the radar is the 2nd time you fight the pthumerian descendant in the room with the pillars. He can hit you through them but you can't hit him for a start, 2ndly there is so little space to move and he is one of the fastest, most aggressive hard hitting bosses so as soon as you back into a pillar (which is all the time) your dead lol.

Don't forget if you find moonlight butterfly annoying to fight, reverse hollowing and look in a bush under the stairs to the boss room and there will be a mage you can summon who will kill it for you.

I loved the magic of first going through the forest and up those stairs and the music starts. So early in game too

Demon Soul : Maneater two gargoyle that can 1 shot you on top of arena that is basically just a ledge, too many people cheese this boss when demon soul first release, and the trip to the fog gate will make you want to throw the controller to the monitor. A lot of bosses in demon soul will make you scream how the heck do you even kill this thing. Dark souls 1 : Bed of chaos nothing much to say Dark souls 2 : Old iron king, lost count how many time i died due to that small lava hole on first run. Dark souls 3 : Not many bad bosses arena design in this game, but the worst probably ancient wyvern Bloodborne : Agree with Micolash here.

5:28 don't mind me, just making a timestamp for that cackle, thanks

In regards to Mytha, the phantom you can summon actually directs you to the windmill. So im sure alot of people found it on their first run :)

I never once died to old iron kings hole😂, although the area between the 1st and 2nd bonfires in iron keep annoyed the hell out of me😂

The twin ape arena from Sekiro is an honourable mention IMO, mostly for the same reasons you gave for Throne Defender.

As soon as I saw the notification I immediately screamed: "BED OF CHAOS, OBVIOUSLY." lmao

I didn’t expect a raid shadow legends sponsor tbh.

that Raid: Shadow Legends has sucha high rating just shows how many bot ratings are in the app store.

Title should be Top 10 times Muyazaki trolled us with his desine

The Maiden Astraea arena was great. It was thematically suited for what it was, and the fact that there are multiple options for engaging the boss is fantastic. I would love a Demon's Souls Remake.

Old Iron King You can bait out where he pops up and hide behind the wall when he does his fire breath. Even if he doesn't pop up where you want, you can get the distance to help dodge his fire. His fight just takes a bit more strategy. Watcher and Defender" There are 2 good summons right on the doorstep of Throne Watcher and Defender (Vengarl and Behnart of Jugo). This is in DaS2 v1.0. So, maybe it's different in Scholar.

Micholash's arena is one of my favorites tbh

Do Top 10 best shortcuts in Soulsbourbe/Sekiro

I don’t know about the worst one but one of the best ones is definitely gaels arena.

I think even if you could split up the Throne Watcher and Defender there wouldn't be much change other than a brief moment of reprieve. Their moveset and damage output is widely the same and their buffs are also generally the same. Sure theyre split now, but you still have to manage to get equal damage and dodge the same attacks from both. O and S had huge differences in attack style that also added some breakpoints when you couldn't use the pillars. The arena in their case isnt the problem. Its the boss itself.

I feel like Moonlight butterfly with an obstacle course would end up exactly like the Ancient Wyvern...

I killed mythas in the poison, cant describe how pissed off i was

When I first fought centipede, the immediate layout of the arena made me think the fight required running around. I ended up beating him on the far right island. Arena is still trash tho

Interesting tidbit about burning the windmill in DS2 to make Mytha's boss fight easier. If you summon a Phantom before getting there, that phantom will point to it after dealing with the Grave Warden guarding it. Not to mention that there's also a bonfire nearby to light a torch. Makes me think that bonfire was placed there deliberately by the devs to get you to do this.

Yeah, with Mytha I didnt know about draining the poison until I looked it up; I always thought by default there was solid ground because I always set the windmill on fire. I just had the torch out the first playthrough and stumbled on it by accident, and so I did that every playthrough

The first time I fought the ancient wyvern I thought where he was stood was the whole arena, safe to say that was they hardest boss of the game for me lol.

To be fair, many of these arenas make for very memorable boss fights. I can still remember many of these bosses years later, whereas some of the ones in “generic” arenas are forgettable.

We already know Bed of Chaos is number 1.

moonlight butter doesn't fly is a phrase that continues to haunt me years later

Demon of Hatred is pretty much the centipede demon on steroids with a better arena.

Honestly spent a good 5 seconds waiting for the "skip ad" button when Raid came on screen 😅

Apparently Micolash was supposed to be a friendly npc early in development

Capra demon's arena can be completely circumvented by standing underneath the archway outside his fog door, looking up, and tossing dung pies into the sky. If you get lucky and land that sweet spot, the Capra demon will fall. Smough and Ornstein's arena can be made easier during the super Ornstein battle. If you let Smough destroy a few of the pillars before killing him, you can hide behind one of the pillar stumps when Super Ornstein starts shooting lightning at you. If you are a mage, this is the perfect angle for you to blast him where he can't provided his AI doesn't catch on and move elsewhere. Hope this helps.

Dat music at the beginning!!

YES, It's the video I've been waiting eons for. Nut worthy

I have never heard of anyone having troubles against the centipede before, and reaching the larger area on the right is straight forward easy as hell. One roll, one estus and that's it. The centipede isn't even fast enough to interfere of you go for it immediately

Honrable mention for the Demon Firesage. Getting stuck on those roots and branches is so much fun.

You're forgetting that BoC and the entirety of Izalith is so shit because of a development deadline. It wasn't intentional design. If they had more time it would've been way different, you can tell just by looking at BoC's concept art.

5:29 When you fight against Bed of Chaos

Amazing bro! Heeey were can i find the minature picture? Of the capra demon

They could have easily added a mechanic like torching the windmill in Earthen Peak or lighting the Lost Sinner arena to the Moonlight Butterfly to help melee builds. Like, a hidden trigger in the previous area that reveals a balista you can use to more consistently bring the Butterfly to your level. Or a hidden trap under the moss it feeds on that, once enabled, you could trigger to keep it in place for longer. Still totally possible to beat without these assists, but would give the melee focused player a way to mitigate some of the tedium.

I didn't know you could plunge attack ancient wyvern on my first playthrough so i just fought the shit outta him it took like 45 minutes

seriouly Capra Demon area so bland it need upgrade from IKEA

The bed of chaos can actually be beaten easily with firebombs. There is a spot you can stand where you can hit the 2 outer bugs with a firebomb (the 2nd has to be done fairly quickly) and from there, you are already safely inside the area that cant crumble and you can go kill the final bug. There have been times where the game intentionally screws you by using a weird fire attack on you when you get to the last bug but it doesn't always happen.