About the Ashes of Ariandel final boss

[Toastee:)]

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So Im a little late to this DLC, and I just wanted to share my thoughts on the final boss. I dont think the boss fight was bad, I just think that it could have been better. First off, I dont think adding 3 phases was a very good idea. Getting through the first 2 phases, just to die and have to redo the entire fight sucked. I could see a lot of players (especially players who are new to the Souls series) giving up on this fight, because of how tedious and frustrating it is. I have played through each Souls game about 3 times (Bloodbourne about once), and I have to say that this is definetly one of the most frustrating bosses in the series. It took me about 10-12 trys to finally beat the boss. My stratedgy was to basically use the black knight swords WA to poise through all of Friede's attacks. After finally beating the boss, I didn't really get a rewarding feeling, it was more a feeling of "Thank god thats finally over". And there wasn't even an ending to the DLC. All we got for suffering through that fight was a thank you from that one girl who was at the canvas. In all the DLC wasn't awful, though I do hope that the Ringed City is better.

[Ari]

1. Phase - Gehrman
2. Phase - Ornstein and Smough
3. Phase - Lady Maria

That's basicly the bossfight.

[Toastee:)]

Originally posted by Arazeth:

1. Phase - Gehrman
2. Phase - Ornstein and Smough
3. Phase - Lady Maria

That's basicly the bossfight.

I can kind of agree with that

1. Comparing phase 1 to gehrman is kind of insult to Gehrman tho, considering how weak she is in her first phase. Phase one was IMO champion of ash with a crazy ass scythe

2. O and S was MUCH better than this fight, considering all you have to do is attack father ariandel, since he always leaves himfself wide open

3. As for Lady Maria, I havent actually gotten to the Old Hunters DLC yet, but regardless, Phase is a ♥♥♥♥♥, and could have possibly been a boss fight of its own

[Ari]

Originally posted by Hoobert Skoobert:

I can kind of agree with that

1. Comparing phase 1 to gehrman is kind of insult to Gehrman tho, considering how weak she is in her first phase. Phase one was IMO champion of ash with a crazy ass scythe

2. O and S was MUCH better than this fight, considering all you have to do is attack father ariandel, since he always leaves himfself wide open

3. As for Lady Maria, I havent actually gotten to the Old Hunters DLC yet, but regardless, Phase is a ♥♥♥♥♥, and could have possibly been a boss fight of its own

What I was trying to say is, that the entire boss fight is a bad copy of these boss fights.
And for the 3. Phase, as I know this is exactly what Lady Maria is like.

[Merilirem]

The moment when she hit the 3rd phase was great and getting frustrated and giving up are hardly bad things for a souls game.

You might be playing the wrong games looking at your problems with it. I will say that they could up the difficulty of phase 2 a bit more but i think the idea was cinematic and that making each phase too difficult would make the total overdone. I would of course be fine with it no matter how hard it was without being "artificial 9k extra stats etcs" style of hard.

12 tries isn't that bad and thats mostly to do with your ability and playstyle.

[Gosen]

Ringed City is much worse man. They pasted one of the worst location from DS2, added powerful and annoying mobs, increased density of high hp and high dps monsters and made sick bosses with insane amount of hp. In the end you don't get any ending and guess what? You will go back to the same girl to hear new one or two lines of text, that's it. Not to mention that one of the bosses is copy and paste (including area) from DS1 dlc and the final boss is completely random boring guy, who you already know and you would never suspect that he's the one.