NG+ Boss Notes

Here there be NG+     Okay, I'm going to use this one post for all my NG+ boss musings. Some battles are exactly the same as the first playthrough, so those will be super simple. No need to retread old posts. I'm not keeping count of deaths, and I'm not going to rate difficulty like the first time around. This will be reserved for my general thoughts on how the battles differ from the...

Darklurker

Asshole(s)      Where to start with this one? This guy is one of the hardest bosses in the game, and you have to go through three of the hardest areas of the game to get to him. Firstly, you have to find Darkdiver Grandahl (the old guy in the fancy wheelchair) in three hidden ...

Ancient Dragon

King of the one-shot kills!     This was the boss battle I was most worried about. From reading on forums, I thought this would be the one boss I just couldn't beat. Or it would take endless attempts. In actuality, it took only (I use the term loosely here) thirteen attempts, and...

Vendrick

He's in the doghouse (permanently. Also, he's hollowed, and he just wanders mindlessly around)!     Chances are, if you tried to engage Vendrick in battle after Killing Velstadt way back in the Undead Crypt, he whooped your ass. As I'm sure everyone knows by now, Vendrick's defense...

Nashandra

The beginning of the end     After the Throne knights fall, a cut-scene starts. It shows a grotesque, skeletal woman, with a large dress (made out of pure death itself?) and an equally large scythe. She readies her scythe for battle, and mentions that you've proven yourself to her,...

Throne Defender & Throne Watcher

Bad boys      These boys are the real deal. If not for certain help (I'll get to that later), I would consider these guys the hardest bosses in the game for me. Perhaps I still do. Maybe From went easy on some of the later bosses, but these guys (and the boss fight immediately...

Giant Lord

Time travelin' fools Normal 0     This is the last easy boss in the game. Mind you, that doesn’t make him less annoying than a tougher boss, though. The Giant Lord resides in one of the strange Giant Memories, the Memory of Jeigh (must be the Lord’s name?). Let’s talk...

Guardian Dragon

Wow! So scary!     This is a pretty pedestrian boss, made all the more inconsequential by the fact that this boss appears at least three times more as an enemy in the Dragon Aerie (god, what a great-looking area). Now, I'm going to go off on a tangent here, so bear with me! One thing...

Velstadt, The Royal Aegis

What the hell is an, "aegis", anyway?      Wow, talk about a nerve-wracking battle. This might be THE most hold-your-breath, anxiety-bringing battle in the game. The main reason for that, at least for me, was because of the run-up to the boss. There's a bonfire close by, and...