@xtian0729 yea it can be annoying at times but when you force yourself to try lots of options you often are pleasantly surprised

@themuffinprincesa21 its honestly how i first played too and its an easy trap to find yourself in without really asking yourself why do I play this way every single time. Took many playthroughs and thinking about the game to realize i was being rigid

@loopine 100% agree it isn't easy to self reflect & notice the implicit bias. Especially given it's the same dev studio & people still call things by other games terms, such as runes being souls, grace being bonfire, estus, etc. The community around also likes to treat them similarly, a bit too similarly IMO. Which adds to the difficulty of having that mental adjustment

It's an objective fact though, unless you're deliberately misinterpreting his argument. He's specifically talking about how several bosses have attack patterns that can end at a certain point with a punish window, or continue going, and there's no way to know which is going to happen, so you just have to gamble. For one example off the top of my head, Crucible Knight, with its stomp-overhead-swing-swing pattern which can just end there or go right into two tail swipes.

Except, you can. Also, you can parry everything that is a sword swing on the crucible knights as well. Meaning you create your own openings by knowing the game. For your example though, you jump the stomps to get in the extra hit. The tail swipe you roll into him & get a free rolling attack. Hat half hp or lower it is always a double tail swipe so dodge twice & punish. They also only tail swipe if you're dodging backwards or towards their non sword side. It's their ranged attack & AoE swipe. You can also always bait out the stab combo by running out & pausing. At half hp they will do the dive attack instead of this, which you can jump over or roll through, then get the punish when they land. There is also a ton of guides on their entire moveset & what combos pead from what attacks + positioning on the players end. Nothing is actually "random". Its about learning how your positioning opens up their AI combos & to learn it.

I agree, it's a good boss

I actually skipped him because they were one of my least favorite minibosses 😅keep whiffing on him point blank and looping a couple moves. the forst lightning one is cool tho and contender for the best arena in the game

why are you holding 1 year+ long grudges over internet drama that never even involved you? thats kind of weird

Having something feeling tricky is fine, but to say unfair windows is just outright incorrect. People can & have consistently, beaten these games with only walking without being hit in a boss fight. You honestly think that's random? You think someone like GinoMachino getting the god run of beating demonsouls- elden ring back to back without being hit a single time was random? When talking about maliketh, the only way I can see someone think he has unfair windows is if you're only dodging backwards instead of through him to land on his side or behind him. He has enough of a windows that collosal weapons can get of a fully charged heavy attack. The slowest attacks available in the game.

@@jerrycunningham3857 Fly high from Aim for the Top, Gunbuster. Edit: nvm its called Gunbuster March

@madcat300X yea its an awkward amount of restrictions to fit in a title lol

@@blob8396 probably can at least charge r2 there tbh

Every win always has one chatter saying good on the winning attempt lol