The Door Guardian is an insult to this game and its players

[Turncoat]

The Door Guardian is total trash. It’s poorly designed, artificially difficult, unfun, gimmicky, waste of time ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! It took me over 20 attempts to beat the king of Puppets and I kept wanting to try again. He was fair and fun, but super challenging. The Door guardian is cheap and annoying and just makes me want to stop playing the game.

A) ♥♥♥♥ SHOCK!
B) How does it make sense that he can track you and rotate WHILE AIRBORNE?!?!
C) his posture keeps you from hitting his weak leg unless you get lucky and are able to get behind him OR you get right under him, to which he responds with a smash that knocks you to the ground (it takes an insane amount of time to get back up, allowing him to hit you several times increasing shock).
D) dodge rolls don’t work, parrying doesn’t break his stance, and guarding knocks you on your ass. All you can do is run…if you don’t have the shock status.

For a non-optional mini-boss that blocks the players progress, he is an insult. The rest of the game is so fantastic that, for me, this boss drops my score from a 9-10 to a 6-7. He just siphons off all of the fun that I’ve had to this point in the game.

What a terrible design! DO BETTER! After a year, they still haven’t made that fight better with a patch. ♥♥♥♥ THE DOOR GUARDIAN!!!

[LuckyCheshire]

get gud, m'dude. It's a gimmick fight.

[Bankai9212]

I can agree he is pretty annoying you could use fire to do chip damage at least or use the perfect guard grinder or throwable a.

[Fenix]

Heh… I was like, wtf this guy doesn’t take damage… stun/riposte… oh… right… I didn’t find him THAT hard… annoying for sure.

[SigniusAP]

Don't know why they decided to put a gimmick boss this late in the game. Kind of a mystery though...

[swordfish]

Originally posted by Turncoat:

The Door Guardian is total trash. It’s poorly designed, artificially difficult, unfun, gimmicky, waste of time ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! It took me over 20 attempts to beat the king of Puppets and I kept wanting to try again. He was fair and fun, but super challenging. The Door guardian is cheap and annoying and just makes me want to stop playing the game.

A) ♥♥♥♥ SHOCK!
B) How does it make sense that he can track you and rotate WHILE AIRBORNE?!?!
C) his posture keeps you from hitting his weak leg unless you get lucky and are able to get behind him OR you get right under him, to which he responds with a smash that knocks you to the ground (it takes an insane amount of time to get back up, allowing him to hit you several times increasing shock).
D) dodge rolls don’t work, parrying doesn’t break his stance, and guarding knocks you on your ass. All you can do is run…if you don’t have the shock status.

For a non-optional mini-boss that blocks the players progress, he is an insult. The rest of the game is so fantastic that, for me, this boss drops my score from a 9-10 to a 6-7. He just siphons off all of the fun that I’ve had to this point in the game.

What a terrible design! DO BETTER! After a year, they still haven’t made that fight better with a patch. ♥♥♥♥ THE DOOR GUARDIAN!!!

The door guardian is the easiest boss in the entire game. Either you do not know the game mechanics or you have a bad build. This boss should not take more than 4 mins

[11clock]

I found this guy really easy because he attacks like once per minute and is trivial to parry. I am being curb stomped by a boss in the tower, though.

Also, you can roll out of being grounded.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by swordfish:

Originally posted by Turncoat:

The Door Guardian is total trash. It’s poorly designed, artificially difficult, unfun, gimmicky, waste of time ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! It took me over 20 attempts to beat the king of Puppets and I kept wanting to try again. He was fair and fun, but super challenging. The Door guardian is cheap and annoying and just makes me want to stop playing the game.

A) ♥♥♥♥ SHOCK!
B) How does it make sense that he can track you and rotate WHILE AIRBORNE?!?!
C) his posture keeps you from hitting his weak leg unless you get lucky and are able to get behind him OR you get right under him, to which he responds with a smash that knocks you to the ground (it takes an insane amount of time to get back up, allowing him to hit you several times increasing shock).
D) dodge rolls don’t work, parrying doesn’t break his stance, and guarding knocks you on your ass. All you can do is run…if you don’t have the shock status.

For a non-optional mini-boss that blocks the players progress, he is an insult. The rest of the game is so fantastic that, for me, this boss drops my score from a 9-10 to a 6-7. He just siphons off all of the fun that I’ve had to this point in the game.

What a terrible design! DO BETTER! After a year, they still haven’t made that fight better with a patch. ♥♥♥♥ THE DOOR GUARDIAN!!!

The door guardian is the easiest boss in the entire game. Either you do not know the game mechanics or you have a bad build. This boss should not take more than 4 mins

Ignoring the basic aspects of the boss out of all the mini bosses he's just lame in general.

[swordfish]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Originally posted by swordfish:

The door guardian is the easiest boss in the entire game. Either you do not know the game mechanics or you have a bad build. This boss should not take more than 4 mins

Ignoring the basic aspects of the boss out of all the mini bosses he's just lame in general.

Yes maybe the boss is lame but not difficult. Did not the DS series have some lame bosses? Of course they did have plenty of lame bosses. At least, this game have the tightest control and combat mechanics as good as Sekiro

[Bankai9212]

Be specific not all bosses are winners but Dark souls was pretty consistent with bosses in general. That and having options or means to skip them.

[gungadin22000]

It's kind of a bad boss. Probably the worst boss in the game.

But it speaks volumes of the quality of LoP's bossfights that even this not-very-good boss is still actually....fine. Not especially enjoyable to fight, but also not an absolute travesty of a bossfight, which most gimmick bossfights tend to be.

Looking at you, Bed of Chaos. Also you, Rykard.

Honestly, I can think of no boss in LoP that had me roll my eyes and loudly exclaim "this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥."

[11clock]

Originally posted by gungadin22000:

It's kind of a bad boss. Probably the worst boss in the game.

But it speaks volumes of the quality of LoP's bossfights that even this not-very-good boss is still actually....fine. Not especially enjoyable to fight, but also not an absolute travesty of a bossfight, which most gimmick bossfights tend to be.

Looking at you, Bed of Chaos. Also you, Rykard.

Honestly, I can think of no boss in LoP that had me roll my eyes and loudly exclaim "this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥."

idk, the grapple move in the second Black Rabbit Brotherhood fight aggravated me. It comes out almost instantly, so if he happens to use it while you are mid-swing you get yanked away.

[gungadin22000]

It also doesn't really do any damage and you can just dodge away from any follow-up damage.

BBR2 is my favourite gank fight of all time. Which generally is a bit like saying that breaking your finger is a lot better than breaking your pelvis, but I actually really enjoy both BRB fights.

[Turncoat]

Originally posted by 11clock:

I found this guy really easy because he attacks like once per minute and is trivial to parry. I am being curb stomped by a boss in the tower, though.

Also, you can roll out of being grounded.

🤦‍♂️ I forgot that I could roll from the floor. I just went back and beat him pretty handily.

Still a lame ass boss, though.

[Cyamone]

I just use a ton of throwables on him... He's very annoying. And the fact that you have to walk all the way back from the last save point adds to the frustration.

[swordfish]

Originally posted by Cyamone:

I just use a ton of throwables on him... He's very annoying. And the fact that you have to walk all the way back from the last save point adds to the frustration.

If this easy boss is difficult for you then what you gonna do with the two phases way more difficult coming boss 😅. And I not being smartass.. just saying