Other bosses come and go but the Tower Knight from Demons Souls will always stick with me. The scale, the music, the slow telegraphed yet very powerful attacks. The design is really cool too.
Lady Maria, I beat her first try but she’s beautiful in a lore, appearance and gameplay sense. A true 1 vs 1 boss with no real gimmicks in my eyes, just two strong foes facing each other. That grab animation is haunting.
True Corrupted Monk. Gorgeous area and the fight is so damn fun, it’s as cinematic as Divine Dragon but is much more challenging too.
Godfrey just because of how fun he is to fight, I enjoyed his first phase more but both are awesome.
Then I’d say a tie between Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Orphan of Kos and Sword Saint Isshin. Dancer just has amazing music and I love her movement but Orphan is a hectic fight that is super challenging but fun. Then Sword Saint is a marathon event that caps off a beautiful game with a beautiful arena against a varied moveset.
Morgott, Maliketh, and Messmer are definitely my top three favorite fights! I love rada/beast too, but the fight doesn’t feel as dynamic as the others.
Gael is probably the fight I had the most fun with, followed closely by Lady Maria. I also loved Sister Friede and Malenia. Messmer and Rellana and Romina are amazing too. Bayle is my favorite dragon fight. I’m currently playing through DS1 and Sekiro so I’ll see who my faves are from those ones!
Disclaimer: I haven’t played all of the FromSoft games, but I have fought many of their bosses. Some of them many, many times LOL.
For me, it’s mostly about boss design. The more big and beautiful, the more WTF, the more body horror the better. I just love being surprised by crazy design.
This are some favourites, is no specific order.
– Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. She’s just beautiful and her story is so sad.
– Moonlight Butterfly.
– Astel, Naturalborn of the Void. Big cosmic bug with skeleton head —> yes please!
– Metyr, Mother of Fingers. I didn’t think FromSoft could top the horrors that were the finger creepers, until I laid my eyes on this abomination. I was horrified and delighted at the same time.
*Moonlight Butterfly* is my personal favourite. I will never forget the first time I just so happened to well, *happen* upon her. She’s such a random, secluded boss fight, you have to specifically disturb her neck of the woods, and you see her fly in from the castle she’s perched on farrrrrr away. Her music, as opposed to all the intimidating scores thus far, is delicate, soft, and graceful. Like her floating effortlessly as she dances along the bridge you precariously stand on. She’s beautiful.
Her lore is also completely devastating. The frame of her body when viewed from her concept art resembles that of a woman in a dress with long, beautiful sleeves for a reason. Seath, the monster scientist he was, would have his servants abduct women from Anor Londo and Lordran to serve as his unwilling test subjects in these eldritch experiments, all to try and artificially create his own dragons. To hold a power no human should have. All of these experiments, though he got closer and closer to his goal of artificial dragons, to usurp nature, failed. And Moonlight Butterfly is the living representation and result of that complete perversion of nature and life that Seath so fervently sought after. A woman’s form, contorted and morphed into a beautiful, haunting, ghostly butterfly.
(This music also plays in Gwyndolin’s boss fight, and with Gwyndolin, he actually has snakes all along the bottom half of his body if you pay close attention. Which suggests a LOT.)
Other bosses come and go but the Tower Knight from Demons Souls will always stick with me. The scale, the music, the slow telegraphed yet very powerful attacks. The design is really cool too.
Controversial take: I love the Elden beast. He’s beautiful and so is the fight
Sif the Great Gray Wolf. Backstory and the battle itself are quite sad, but it always stuck with me for that reason.
Midra is so fucking fun. I spent like an hour placing a summon sign down to keep killing him lol
Gael is my most favorite boss in any video game to date. Followed closely by Artorias and Lady Maria.
The penetrator from Demon souls. Makes his entrance by killing one of the most unlikable enemies in the game and holding him like a trophy. Zero chill
Any of the early ones (I’m not very good at souls games lol)
Moon presence for suuuure
I like to pretend it’s at fault for every rough period I’ve ever had XD
Top 5 (technically 7) in no order would be;
Slave Knight Gael, he’s an obvious shoe-in.
Lady Maria, I beat her first try but she’s beautiful in a lore, appearance and gameplay sense. A true 1 vs 1 boss with no real gimmicks in my eyes, just two strong foes facing each other. That grab animation is haunting.
True Corrupted Monk. Gorgeous area and the fight is so damn fun, it’s as cinematic as Divine Dragon but is much more challenging too.
Godfrey just because of how fun he is to fight, I enjoyed his first phase more but both are awesome.
Then I’d say a tie between Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Orphan of Kos and Sword Saint Isshin. Dancer just has amazing music and I love her movement but Orphan is a hectic fight that is super challenging but fun. Then Sword Saint is a marathon event that caps off a beautiful game with a beautiful arena against a varied moveset.
Owl from Sekiro, both boss forms was so fun and intense for me.
Ludwig from Bloodborne gave me chills from beginning to end and Gehrman was also a very solid fight.
Artorias from DS1, Messmer and Midra from Elden was also very fun, hard but fair.
Sword saint isshin.
Sure you got the amazing telegraphy of the fight. But its just that the sword saint pulls a gun at you. The damn sword saint.
Glock saint isshin is more like it.
Morgott, Maliketh, and Messmer are definitely my top three favorite fights! I love rada/beast too, but the fight doesn’t feel as dynamic as the others.
Gael is probably the fight I had the most fun with, followed closely by Lady Maria. I also loved Sister Friede and Malenia. Messmer and Rellana and Romina are amazing too. Bayle is my favorite dragon fight. I’m currently playing through DS1 and Sekiro so I’ll see who my faves are from those ones!
Disclaimer: I haven’t played all of the FromSoft games, but I have fought many of their bosses. Some of them many, many times LOL.
For me, it’s mostly about boss design. The more big and beautiful, the more WTF, the more body horror the better. I just love being surprised by crazy design.
This are some favourites, is no specific order.
– Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. She’s just beautiful and her story is so sad.
– Moonlight Butterfly.
– Astel, Naturalborn of the Void. Big cosmic bug with skeleton head —> yes please!
– Metyr, Mother of Fingers. I didn’t think FromSoft could top the horrors that were the finger creepers, until I laid my eyes on this abomination. I was horrified and delighted at the same time.
Rusty in Steel Haze Ortus
Breach The Karman Line is just top mecha gaming
Similar to yours just add lady Maria and lady Friede to the list
artorius, dancer, pursuer, and abyss watchers
I love Morgott. His moveset is very cool, like a dance but it still easy enough to not be annoying.
(And his voice is pretty nice too)
Genichiro and Isshin Sword Saint
Lady Maria.
I love that she’s the real woman behind the Doll.
I’m too bad at FromSoft games to have a favorite boss
I’d need to reach one first lol
*[Passionate Souls rant coming up]*
*Moonlight Butterfly* is my personal favourite. I will never forget the first time I just so happened to well, *happen* upon her. She’s such a random, secluded boss fight, you have to specifically disturb her neck of the woods, and you see her fly in from the castle she’s perched on farrrrrr away. Her music, as opposed to all the intimidating scores thus far, is delicate, soft, and graceful. Like her floating effortlessly as she dances along the bridge you precariously stand on. She’s beautiful.
Her lore is also completely devastating. The frame of her body when viewed from her concept art resembles that of a woman in a dress with long, beautiful sleeves for a reason. Seath, the monster scientist he was, would have his servants abduct women from Anor Londo and Lordran to serve as his unwilling test subjects in these eldritch experiments, all to try and artificially create his own dragons. To hold a power no human should have. All of these experiments, though he got closer and closer to his goal of artificial dragons, to usurp nature, failed. And Moonlight Butterfly is the living representation and result of that complete perversion of nature and life that Seath so fervently sought after. A woman’s form, contorted and morphed into a beautiful, haunting, ghostly butterfly.
(This music also plays in Gwyndolin’s boss fight, and with Gwyndolin, he actually has snakes all along the bottom half of his body if you pay close attention. Which suggests a LOT.)
Queen Yharnam, Lady Maria, and Vicar Amelia and the Moon Pressence
Maiden Astraea for the lore and presentation, Penetrator because he looks cool.>! (hot take: I like him more than Artorias :P)!<