I genuinely hate the Ozma fight.

[ForceKin]

It's just tedious. The dude has 3 phases, and each one takes a while with him just flying away and making you chase him. Then you catch him and the camera gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up against an invisible wall or he flies straight up above you so you can only see his toes. The worst is the first phase. I hate the way human bosses behave with stamina in this game. The amount of times I'll brink guard into a damaging combo and watch their stamina start rising from like 2% instead of breaking WHILE I'm hitting them--mind you this was preceded by a brink guard, meaning no time was given to them--is infuriating.

Add to that him constantly throwing down AoEs that last for minutes and he seems to always want to stand in them so you risk getting hit with chaos even when he's not directly attacking you, and he spends so much time in the air that if you try to stay close you're always looking up while the ground is covered with lingering AoEs.

For me Ozma is all the worst parts of the game thrown into one and then also extended because he has 3 phases. Reese was such a fun fight. I wish they had ended it there.

Edit: Oh and I forgot, he's also immune to all status effect build ups. So not only does he have the most phases of any fight, he's also maybe the only one that you can't try to speed things up with some fire/poison/earth stuff. They really want you to just have to fight this dude for 10 minutes. If you die at minute 8, oh well, start over. It's so tedious.

[Ravnin]

Yeah, I don't like fights where you are spending a good majority of it just avoiding damage at range and/or chasing them down. His first phase is annoying for this reason. His second is better since he goes more melee but he does hit pretty hard and is a lot harder to pin down which is annoying cause you have to snore through first phase just learn his second.

Haven't got to third yet, got him down to about 30% in second but he can combo chunk my hp so he's actually killing me before running out of heals unlike other bosses.

[ForceKin]

Originally posted by Ravnin:

Yeah, I don't like fights where you are spending a good majority of it just avoiding damage at range and/or chasing them down. His first phase is annoying for this reason. His second is better since he goes more melee but he does hit pretty hard and is a lot harder to pin down which is annoying cause you have to snore through first phase just learn his second.

Haven't got to third yet, got him down to about 30% in second but he can combo chunk my hp so he's actually killing me before running out of heals unlike other bosses.

Honestly I'd like the fight a lot more if the first phase just didn't exist lol. Second and third he's more aggressive and you can spend a good amount of time trading blows instead of just running around dodging a mine field while he floats away.

[Kashra Fall]

Practice your reflection, because phase 1 has a TON of reflection chances. Most notably as soon as the fight begins, the second hit of his initial hit is an easy reflection, which is an opening to do damage for you.

[Anime]

Osama?

[ForceKin]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Practice your reflection, because phase 1 has a TON of reflection chances. Most notably as soon as the fight begins, the second hit of his initial hit is an easy reflection, which is an opening to do damage for you.

I do them, and I get some chances from them, but it still takes too long in my opinion. I've said it before, but I think the bosses also have too much health. It's clear they originally made the game with the weapon scaling from the demo in mind, and nerfing weapon scaling has made some of these fights drag on too long for my liking. A 3 phase fight is just egregious with the scaling change imo.

[Noop]

I think the first phase was super easy and fast. Got that done first try and only died once to it. Learning 2nd phase was rough but once I got that I also got 3rd phase first try as that is almost the same. Idk why people complain about human bosses, they are so easy to bully to a degree where you can corner Maluca first phase for example and just beat him down without him ever doing anything at all. Ofc given you have enough stamina regen which is difficult early on in the game but later on I dont see an issue with that.

It is a difficult boss but I think phase 1 is indeed kinda annoying with all the stuff on the ground, but you can reduce a lot of it by staggering or parrying. I think it would be nice if they had a lower duration while on the ground.

I had issues with the 2nd phase cuz it was very hard to see what the boss is actually doing with all the effects. It's not a bad boss but I think it could have been cleaner overall.

[Senki]

I just finished that fight and it's easily the best one in the game for me. It was amazing and one of the few fights where all I felt is fun and 0 frustration.

[ForceKin]

Originally posted by Senki:

I just finished that fight and it's easily the best one in the game for me. It was amazing and one of the few fights where all I felt is fun and 0 frustration.

Well I'm glad someone's enjoying it lol. Congrats on beating the game. :)

[Harassment by Moderation]

This is the exact same problem with Hismar. Too many camera issues plaguing the fight, among myriad others.

[ForceKin]

Originally posted by prosthetic soul:

This is the exact same problem with Hismar. Too many camera issues plaguing the fight, among myriad others.

I agree. Hismar may have been the least fun fight for me. Ozma has a lot of the same problems but I still find his moveset more enjoyable than Hismar's at least.

[电动天使]

This was the easiest fight in the game for me. He has a lot of reflectable moves and his attacks are very readable even if you see them for the first time. Probably also helps that I had my optimal combo and stagger damage sequence figured out by this point.

[Kisama]

Skill issue.

[ForceKin]

Originally posted by Kisama:

Skill issue.

Made it 13 comments before this one got thrown out. That's gotta be a record right? Glad to see the community isn't letting go of the classics.

[[OTnL]Grieves Amorl]

ugh made it to phase 3 got him down to 1/4th health and died, im over this fight it feels more like "hard" difficulty than "normal". Even tried the Golden set combo and while i dish out more damage i cant even break free of phase one. Hats off to those who manage to get through but I dont think i will. Hismar was bad enough with the crappy camera angles, but to see this mistake repeated for the final boss, and how he just dawdles in the air like trokka its a very tedious and dog water fight. And what the heck is with not allowing to craft the best quality of gear until you beat the final boss, and even then being restricted to level 200, but not being able to level up your equipment past 147? its stupid as hell literally spits in the face of those who aren't hardcore level souls players.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by OTnLGrieves Amorl:

ugh made it to phase 3 got him down to 1/4th health and died, im over this fight it feels more like "hard" difficulty than "normal". Even tried the Golden set combo and while i dish out more damage i cant even break free of phase one. Hats off to those who manage to get through but I dont think i will. Hismar was bad enough with the crappy camera angles, but to see this mistake repeated for the final boss, and how he just dawdles in the air like trokka its a very tedious and dog water fight. And what the heck is with not allowing to craft the best quality of gear until you beat the final boss, and even then being restricted to level 200, but not being able to level up your equipment past 147? its stupid as hell literally spits in the face of those who aren't hardcore level souls players.

"Not being able to level your gear passed 147" what? I have a 164 great sword O.o.