Museum boss dumber than any Fromsoft boss

[MobyPhallus]

Can't beat this ♥♥♥♥♥

[Elymnir]

She's legit harder than the last boss, at least to me. Here's how I beat her, as someone who haven't mastered the game at all.

If you don't already have it, find the key to the elevator so that you can go straight to her after beating the two starting goons.
That way, you can have either a sword or a bat with you.

As for the fight itself, I managed to beat her phase 1 with a hit&run tactic. Come close enough for her to begin her combo (she has like two), stay just out of reach, make sure she's finished because sometimes she does a finisher ending with a vertical slash, then hit her as much as you can. When she's coming towards you with her windmill of death, just spam the parry button. You'll get hit a bit but one or two parries will land, damaging her structure.

Rinse and repeat.

Alternatively, avoid is more reliable than parry for this fight, so if you're up for it, try to learn her up/down combos. It'll also grant you more focus, which means more focus attacks.

In phase 2, you want the skill that lets you catch throwables. It still requires the right timing, but it'll help the fight tremendously. For the rest, you can simply dodge/avoid all of her attacks. Her phase 2 is far simpler than her phase 1 in my opinion.

[JAG]

Assuming you're on Disciple, Kuroki is the first boss to really utilise high-low mixups in the same strings. Ideally, Grunts, Flashkicks, and Disciples should've taught you to avoid low attacks, but regardless. It takes a while to learn the patterns, and, understandably, they can feel insurmountable at first.

• As Elymnir said, make use of the elevator shortcut to save yourself the trouble. If you need better shrine bonuses, you'd probably be better off running through Club or even Squats if you want to come back with a different build.
  
• Bring a weapon with you! Not for attacking, though - holding a weapon in hand nullifies chip damage (blocking bladed attacks barehanded still deals chip damage to you), reduces the structure damage that you receive, and increases the structure damage that your deflects/parries deal.
  
• If you've beaten her at least once, she'll be available in training mode. You can spend as much time as you'd like learning her moveset. Otherwise...
  
• Instead of trying to beat her, focus on learning her moveset during the actual fight. Accept that you'll have to die a bit in order to get to that point. Simply stand still, weapon in hand, watch her animations, note what you think is a high or a low, and then Avoid accordingly.
  
• If you find Avoids too difficult, focus on learning deflect timings instead (barehanded deflects also nullify chip damage, so you don't have to bring a weapon, though it'll still be good for structure damage). A single-button input is easier to execute than a multiple-button input, after all.

[Kuraft]

When I first played, I somehow managed to beat the Squat boss, the Fight Club boss, but when I reached her, she was the first one that just kept killing me. Her attacks were too blurry for me to understand the timing, and it was difficult to understand whether she goes for low or high. Not to mention she sometimes breaks her combo and goes for a different attack. It was unimaginable for me at first to get past her without dying at least once to her. But it is doable, after all. Just keep practicing, and don't get discouraged.

[MobyPhallus]

It's definitely the high/low combo I struggle with. I am way better at avoiding attacks than deflecting, but I rarely need to use the high dodge so I suck at it

[Killer2001]

Came here to complain about this boss. I'm fine with a challenge, but this difficulty spike is ridiculous.

[Porculeitor]

Bloody hell, Kuroki. She's the first boss I've felt was utterly unfair. Her attacks have VASTLY longer range than yours, they're bladed, so unless you have a weapon you cannot properly block (and no weapon will survive the entire fight), unlike Sean or Fajar, who had at most 5-6 move combos, her combos go on forever (I'm pretty sure her windmill attack goes well into the double digits), she OF COURSE has hyper-armor, so openings in her pattern cannot be exploited unless you want a knife to the face, and, to top it all off, she's incredibly evasive, so even when you finally have an opening you can barely do chip damage before she jumps 10m backwards.

I beat Fajar on my 2nd try and Sean on my 3rd, but Kuroki is proving to be nothing short of invincible. It feels like playing a baby duckling against a DBZ character.

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

Originally posted by Porculeitor:

Bloody hell, Kuroki. She's the first boss I've felt was utterly unfair. Her attacks have VASTLY longer range than yours, they're bladed, so unless you have a weapon you cannot properly block (and no weapon will survive the entire fight), unlike Sean or Rafar, who had at most 5-6 move combos, her combos go on forever (I'm pretty sure her windmill attack goes well into the double digits), she OF COURSE has hyper-armor, so openings in her pattern cannot be exploited unless you want a knife to the face, and, to top it all off, she's incredibly evasive, so even when you finally have an opening you can barely do chip damage before she jumps 10m backwards.

I beat Rafar on my 2nd try and Sean on my 3rd, but Kuroki is proving to be nothing short of invincible. It feels like playing a baby duckling against a DBZ character.

excuse me who the hell is rafar? is that some super ultra boss hidden in unused content of game?

[Porculeitor]

Originally posted by 𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒:

excuse me who the hell is rafar? is that some super ultra boss hidden in unused content of game?

It's the boss of the first level; I didn't properly recall his name U^_^

I've already corrected my post.

[𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒]

Originally posted by Porculeitor:

Originally posted by 𝕊𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕚𝕒:

excuse me who the hell is rafar? is that some super ultra boss hidden in unused content of game?

It's the boss of the first level; I didn't properly recall his name U^_^

I've already corrected my post.

oh ok i was just confused.