Golden Hippo is one of the worst designs so far, for me anyways

[[SIN] Kryadan]

He is easy enough to dodge, only thing that ever catches me is the long run which of course insta kills me, but small room and giant boss that charges, I cant even see what is happening half the time. Maybe just me the way I play but I lose sight of him a lot, especially after being knocked down and then I cannot tell what move he is doing because i keep getting blocked by walls.

[psilocybe]

I dunno... I always hear how this one is difficult.

When I fought it.. I just face-tank everything, hit with every attack.. and still won just kind of spamming R1 from time to time.

[Crashbug]

It's a hungry hungry hippo on too much crucible kool-aid.

[[SIN] Kryadan]

Yea I just beat him, it was maybe my 7th try but i still thought the post warranted lol. I just had me and my mimic cast comet and he died pretty quick once I knew his roll attack and timing for charge attacks.

[boombaclock]

Bro...your fighting the bosses before you should.... explore more....thats it....

[Not Rawr]

This boss is not fun at all

[twiggy]

obvious skill issue here tbh

[[SIN] Kryadan]

Originally posted by boombaclock:

Bro...your fighting the bosses before you should.... explore more....thats it....

I go where the game takes me. To Twiggy, I will take skill issues on rolling at wrong time. When I can't see anything because of camera angles, that isn't a skill issue.

[dande48]

It's not even a hippo. But I beat it first try. :)

[Tiny Messiah]

seriously, how are they still making bosses this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad and unfun?

[Tiny Messiah]

Originally posted by twiggy:

obvious skill issue here tbh

played 1500 hours and you're really gonna talk ♥♥♥♥?

[sno0ks]

Originally posted by dande48:

It's not even a hippo. But I beat it first try. :)

probably used mimic tear and rivers of blood or some other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[Drax]

You're going to love Gaius if you found the Hippo's charge annoying. Gaius is the only boss in the DLC I didn't like.

[sno0ks]

There are a couple of his moves that feel bad. Like the delayed uppercut and the delayed roll jump. But generally his moveset is fine. The grab was initially annoying, but if you learn to sprint+roll to his left (your right) you will dodge it pretty consistently. The bad part is that he can initiate it while you're sprinting towards him with zero wind up and you just get insta-grabbed by it, though that's rare. He tends to initiate when you're some distance from him.

The single thing that makes this one of the worst fights in the entire series is the camera. The arena is relatively small, and the hippo is giant, and probably half of my deaths have been due to me being thrown up against a wall and unable to see anything except some jank-ass pieces of the hippo as my camera is inside its body. I love From games, but it is undeniable that in many respects they are just bad developers. There's no excuse for something like this.

[patrol]

Necromancy time

[Drybonz]

I also found the charge tough to get away from. It seemed like he could "suck me in" even if I was clear of him. So, I fought him like 10 times or more because he kept insta-killing me with the charge... finally I had the mimic out, and I died with one hit left on the hippo, and the mimic got the last hit while I was dying and I got the count. He was gone when I respawned. I was willing to take it at that point... lol.