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However, in his second phase, he explodes into a series of black serpentine tendrils like the first Dark Souls 3 boss. Otherwise, his moves are predictable with literal red lines showing where he’ll be swinging. He’s a slow-moving tank that’ll only ever kill you if you’re impatient and greedy. The Guardian’s first phase is fairly standard Souls stuff.
When developer Fallen Flag told me to get ready for broken controllers, it wasn’t kidding. I spent over an hour in a musty room with The Guardian - not the newspaper - grinding my teeth to dust as I ground my own in real life. It’s a short but sweet experience… unless you die a lot, as I did on the second boss.
Instead, it’s a conveyor belt of Big Bads with even bigger health bars waiting to pummel you into the dirt. The main difference is that there aren’t enemies on the path to each fight. If you can’t pay your dues, then you’ll probably just walk away and lick your wounds.Įldest Souls is a Dark Souls-like boss rush game - I’m not being a parody of a games journalist here, the developer touts as much in the marketing. The first boss is the manager roping you into the arena. Quite tedious.Eldest Souls throws you into a boxing ring with a pissed-off Mike Tyson and an inflatable baseball bat and says, “Good luck.” You’ll get your teeth knocked out, your ribs - and spirit - crushed, and you might even end up over his knee with a broken spine. If you are in the arena just before a fight starts you have to give up, get teleported to a waypoint, change your skills, and then trek back to the fight. That annoyance rears its head again when you want to re-spec your character before a fight. There were moments where I turned the console off due to being frustrated with a certain fight and needing a break. Eldest Souls can swing wildly from a test of skill to frustrating and stress-inducing depending on the boss. With some augments this can almost make you feel invincible against one or two foes, but with others the amount of damage they do negates the health recovery aspect.
The player can recover health through using Bloodlust attacks which do take time to charge up. What I also found is that the dash to dodge could be unresponsive or slow at times, meaning damage was taken even when a dodge appeared to be timed correctly. Patterns are easy to work out but there is still randomness involved which means that you could be doing well in a fight but something will catch you off guard. However, Eldest Souls seems to unevenly tilt towards players needing quite a lot of luck in some fights. The intent is to make you figure out each one’s attack pattern so you can get past them.
It hinges on the fact that you will die a lot while coming up against each boss. If you die while facing off against a boss in its second phase you will have to restart the whole fight over.Įldest Souls is a game that will not have mass appeal. New attacks are introduced and the bosses move faster. Do enough damage and the boss will transform for phase two, becoming more deadly. Each boss in Eldest Souls is pretty unique when they come to attacks, but there are similarities in how fights unfold.
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