Why Is the First Boss So Hard Compared to the Rest?

[Indie-ana Jones]

The first boss can chain unblockables together, has relatively fast attacks with weird timings, and has two health bars. I've gone through everything up to the the boss in the mountains and all of the bosses are much easier than the first guy you fight.

[Unrighteous]

You can virtually perma-stun the first phase, just watch out for unblockables (parry them). The second phase is kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you mess up parry timing, but manage to parry a few unblockables and you'll be good to go. Also, you can block pretty much everything else.

Not 100% sure how the second phase works, but it might be a time thing where you just need to survive long enough to one-shot him. I've killed him like 4-5 times now and the health he's at when the one-shot activates is always different. Probably have to get him past a certain point though is my guess.

He's a bit harder than the following two bosses, but you spawn right outside the boss room, so you can practice as much as you want with little downtime.

[Verdy]

It really isn't hard. There have been only two bosses to make me try so far, one was the bell guy until I realized his gimmick, then horse man where I had to focus a little.

[Nuaimi200]

press Y + B on 2nd phase which is your ultimate, it will one shot him didn't realize about that until later when i opened audio on my screen since headset audio doesn't work on this game

[Indie-ana Jones]

Yeah, I know how to beat him, I'm just wondering what the point of making him so much harder than the rest of the game's boss roster was, especially for where he's placed in the game. I haven't fought anything remotely as challenging as him so far.

[HighLanderPony]

I guess they wanted to make him a gatekeeper. Still odd. lol

[rasabt]

get the flags
kill the "special" kitty
grind some enemies
at 22 to 25 moral the boss dies in a minute or so...

[HighLanderPony]

Or they overtuned him because of demo/beta feedback.

[Fwha]

Originally posted by rasabt:

get the flags
kill the "special" kitty
grind some enemies
at 22 to 25 moral the boss dies in a minute or so...

You can defeat him at 10 no problem. Just parry and attack. It's literally that easy. However, this also requires you to be able to run the game properly or at all even

[TheShadowHatter]

to teach you game mechanics like perfect parrying

[Dusty13B]

Originally posted by Unrighteous:

You can virtually perma-stun the first phase, just watch out for unblockables (parry them). The second phase is kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you mess up parry timing, but manage to parry a few unblockables and you'll be good to go. Also, you can block pretty much everything else.

Not 100% sure how the second phase works, but it might be a time thing where you just need to survive long enough to one-shot him. I've killed him like 4-5 times now and the health he's at when the one-shot activates is always different. Probably have to get him past a certain point though is my guess.

He's a bit harder than the following two bosses, but you spawn right outside the boss room, so you can practice as much as you want with little downtime.

You have to get the meter filled for your special attack by parrying him in the 2nd phase. Once its filled your ally will tell you to use it.

[D. Flame]

Because his first phase has a cheap critical attack that he can basically cancel into, and it comes out faster than many of your moves will finish even after the have already started.

[Reaper]

Wait till you get to a certain horseman. Jesus the difficulty spike was insane compared to the first boss.

[Littlefatcat]

because it is a dumb game.

[icantsee]

lu bu is the only somewhat hard one, just completed chap 4

[Potato]

I swear the first boss in this game is way harder than the first boss in Elden Ring.