Little tip here for Freja: And it's stupidly hard to kill the boss when it shows up at it's ng+ location. And do not try and kill it fully. If you are lucky enough to get it's health bar to 0, it will immediately crash your game without fail. It wasn't intended to be killed there, so the game kinda freaks out when you somehow pull it off. I absolutely agree about ng+ btw. More games should try and spice things up in ng+ instead of just scaling enemies and bosses to higher health
You guys are so cool. I love the way you both give your perspectives in your videos. Great concept and it’s kinda rare to see such a wholesome friendship.
Great video, Guys! We're slowly but surely getting into better bosses from the series and have thankfully left the worst of the bunch behind. I agree that Ruin Sentinels are pretty underrated, and they stand beside The Pursuer as one of my favorite early-game DS2 boss fights. Similarly, I feel like the Sanctuary Guardian tends to be rather overlooked when it comes to DS1's roster. Sure, it's not a top-tier fight (even by that game's standards), but it's still better than the high majority of DS1's bosses and is mainly overshadowed by the far superior bosses that follow it in that DLC. One of my favorite aspects about Ebrietas' fight is actually the way you reach the arena. Most people don't realize this, but breaking through the window to get there is a subtle homage to "The Haunter of the Dark," H. P. Lovecraft's final short story he wrote before his death. In it, the protagonist breaks through the window of an abandoned church that holds an ominous presence in the attic. Ebrietas' design is also very Lovecraftian. If Moon Presence resembles Nyarlathotep (in one of his thousands of forms, that is), then Ebrietas is sort of like a miniature Cthulhu, particularly because of the giant bat wings. Anyway, I'm enjoying your content as always and look forward to your next upload!
Sanctuary Guardian marks a huge step up in quality in DS1's boss roster and while I would place him somewhere around the upper middle part of my rankings, he's a lot better than most base game bosses and is just unfortunately overshadowed by all the other great bosses in the DLC. I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing the best DS1 bosses way further out in the rankings too. I remember you telling us about how Ebrietas specifically homages HP Lovecraft some time ago, I love little details like that which can seem pretty unsubstantial to most but is a great surprise for those in the know. I just need a 60fps update for the game because I find it really hard to go back to now lol
@@aarontruong354 Yeah, Bloodborne's filled with Lovecraft references from top to bottom. The Fishing Hamlet being an homage to "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is one of the more well-known ones, but there are many more where that came from.
@@Lagoon243 Hey, Lagoon! I actually haven't played YIIK, but I've heard of it. I know it's supposed to be a subversion of RPG tropes in the vein of Mother / Earthbound, but I don't know much about it, besides that.
Finally getting out of the shitter for the most part. Hope you guys did well on your finals! Was that Jack NFC? That part was funny af Flamelurker is pretty balls and I'm so glad you guys are in agreement. The AOE slam is so inconsistent sometimes I can dodge it and other times I get hit when dodging it in the exact same direction. Also the "muh atmosphere" crowd can suck it. I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the Tower Knight's downright hilarious OST from the PS3 game. People will really look at Flamelurker's design in the OG game and say yeah bro this complements the atmosphere so well, MF WHAT AM I EVEN LOOKING AT On a normal playthrough, Oceiros is pretty easy, but on SL1, that guy is really hit or miss. The charge attack is instant and just straight up unreactable, and will one shot you on SL1 even when you're embered. You gotta just hope he doesn't do it, or try to anticipate it and preemptively dodge. Still pretty cool overall and great lore I quite like the Corrupted Monk. I totally understand that she recovers posture way too quickly and doesn't take much health damage to offset that, but I love her moveset and think she's fun to fight. Also, 3 snap seeds put her at half health instantly, so her posture recovery will take a hit if you just spam those shits frame one, although trying to figure that out on a blind playthrough is pretty slim tbf Seath is alr and hell I even like the scripted death in the beginning, I just hate that it causes curse, that shit is just evil for a forced death. Fight itself is perfectly mid, although I actually hate the Duke's Archives and find it pretty unfun W video as always
Did Fortissax dirty. He's actually really fun if you purposely fight him early (which is probably when you're supposed to fight him, we all just get to him later then we are supposed to, or the balancing is just very poor), and his moveset is NOT copy + paste, it is entirely original minus a few attacks, did you guys even learn these bosses or just faceroll them in 1-3 attempts and move on?
6:20 in fact, Alonne's thrust has an accurate hitbox, but it's the janky animation that makes you think otherwise because if you has low agility and get hit in the toes, the grab animation won't start until the roll animation is finished. You can see the hitbox visualized on Domo3000 channel.
So i have a few questions. 1. How many games are being combined to make this list? 2. What is the order thus far about which game has the weakest boss roster and how are the games ordered as the rosters get stronger? 3. How many entries from each game are left? 4. How many of the final bosses have been ranked?
so it's all the bosses across the FromSoft Souls games (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls I-III, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring) and so far Demon's Souls is by far the weakest. Followed by probably Dark Souls II, then Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring and Dark Souls III. For the final video which will be a collection of all nine parts in one larger video, we'll do a quick breakdown of which game has the best bosses statistically, so not fully sure which actually is the best. Either Souls III or Elden Ring for sure, though.
@Cytonox I could definitely not make a series of bosses this long. I haven't even made a countdown ever but I know this would be a tremendous challenge.
Alex here, we’re still around and hoping to get a video up today. On my end I got a job at a public relations agency and have been addicted to playing ace attorney/smtv so I’ve just been kinda slacking. Part 6 is pretty much done though. Jack did all his stuff already so its mostly just being held back by me being a bum. I appreciate your concern!
I'll take the duke's archives over the other post-lordvessel areas but it still blows, feels like they designed an area and had no interesting ideas for what to put in it so they just haphazardly dotted it with hard hitting enemies like they let someone loose in there with a garry's mod spawn gun. to me the coolest thing about the area is just the fact that you can rotate the staircases which is not much. also its placement near the end of the game is a huge blow to sorcery builds because it's full of great stuff for those, but the remaining game is all garbage so you don't get to use a fully realized sorcery build for anything good (especially sucks if you're a moonlight greatsword fan) seath also comes and goes like a wet fart in every single playthrough i've done so i don't understand the rationale for him getting a double digit spot when he barely even constitutes a fight, but whatever keep cooking
You DO get rewarded for deflecting, mikiri'ing etc Corrupted Monk, it's just with very little and is lost very easily until you whittle her red health bar down. Saying you don't get rewarded is just plainly false.
i mean you don’t really until you randomly start doing damage to her - for the first minute or so unless you attack in between one of her attacks she’ll deflect it, so unlike all the other bosses, you don’t get rewarded - jack
@@Cytonox you do. you can beat her without touching her red health and if you weren't rewarded from anything else that wouldn't be possible. one of my favourite things about the fight is her fast recovery and the challenge of getting red health hits in because it's what makes her unique, especially from True Monk. and believe me, you do have those opportunities, but even if you didn't I still found sacrificing mikiri and and deflection opportunities for instead dodging and hitting her red health until her recovery is weak an effective and fun strategy. you can also bait some of those out, which makes it even more effective and adds depth to the pure gameplay strategy which Sekiro excels in comparison to other Souls game.
AHHH I’m CRAAAAZY!!!
Can’t wait for your shadow of the erdtree ranking
Guys it’s been 2 months I’m waiting and checking every day for an upload
Been a hot min last time i checked this channel out. Got to say i am loving this mass soul boss ranking.
Never knew I needed Crazy Jack in my life
Little tip here for Freja: And it's stupidly hard to kill the boss when it shows up at it's ng+ location. And do not try and kill it fully. If you are lucky enough to get it's health bar to 0, it will immediately crash your game without fail. It wasn't intended to be killed there, so the game kinda freaks out when you somehow pull it off. I absolutely agree about ng+ btw. More games should try and spice things up in ng+ instead of just scaling enemies and bosses to higher health
Ayyyee! Glad you got through your finals guys and I know this vid is about to be awesome! Keep up the good work
YAKUZA 4 MENTIONED. WHAT THE FUCK IS A COHERENT PLOT
You guys are so cool. I love the way you both give your perspectives in your videos. Great concept and it’s kinda rare to see such a wholesome friendship.
Thanks for the comment! best comment of the year 👊 - jack
Great video, Guys! We're slowly but surely getting into better bosses from the series and have thankfully left the worst of the bunch behind. I agree that Ruin Sentinels are pretty underrated, and they stand beside The Pursuer as one of my favorite early-game DS2 boss fights. Similarly, I feel like the Sanctuary Guardian tends to be rather overlooked when it comes to DS1's roster. Sure, it's not a top-tier fight (even by that game's standards), but it's still better than the high majority of DS1's bosses and is mainly overshadowed by the far superior bosses that follow it in that DLC.
One of my favorite aspects about Ebrietas' fight is actually the way you reach the arena. Most people don't realize this, but breaking through the window to get there is a subtle homage to "The Haunter of the Dark," H. P. Lovecraft's final short story he wrote before his death. In it, the protagonist breaks through the window of an abandoned church that holds an ominous presence in the attic. Ebrietas' design is also very Lovecraftian. If Moon Presence resembles Nyarlathotep (in one of his thousands of forms, that is), then Ebrietas is sort of like a miniature Cthulhu, particularly because of the giant bat wings.
Anyway, I'm enjoying your content as always and look forward to your next upload!
Sanctuary Guardian marks a huge step up in quality in DS1's boss roster and while I would place him somewhere around the upper middle part of my rankings, he's a lot better than most base game bosses and is just unfortunately overshadowed by all the other great bosses in the DLC. I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing the best DS1 bosses way further out in the rankings too. I remember you telling us about how Ebrietas specifically homages HP Lovecraft some time ago, I love little details like that which can seem pretty unsubstantial to most but is a great surprise for those in the know. I just need a 60fps update for the game because I find it really hard to go back to now lol
@@aarontruong354 Yeah, Bloodborne's filled with Lovecraft references from top to bottom. The Fishing Hamlet being an homage to "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is one of the more well-known ones, but there are many more where that came from.
RPG FAN I FOUND YOU. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON YIIK A POST MODERN RPG
@@Lagoon243 Hey, Lagoon! I actually haven't played YIIK, but I've heard of it. I know it's supposed to be a subversion of RPG tropes in the vein of Mother / Earthbound, but I don't know much about it, besides that.
@@rpgfan1187 you have to. It is truly the most post modern rpg and I think everyone should experience it
Please my glorious ranking kings, bless us with part 6
hope your finals went well :]
Loving this series!
Hope you guys are doing alright. Looking forward to seeing an Elding Ring DLC vid whenever you can.
Finally getting out of the shitter for the most part. Hope you guys did well on your finals! Was that Jack NFC? That part was funny af
Flamelurker is pretty balls and I'm so glad you guys are in agreement. The AOE slam is so inconsistent sometimes I can dodge it and other times I get hit when dodging it in the exact same direction. Also the "muh atmosphere" crowd can suck it. I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the Tower Knight's downright hilarious OST from the PS3 game. People will really look at Flamelurker's design in the OG game and say yeah bro this complements the atmosphere so well, MF WHAT AM I EVEN LOOKING AT
On a normal playthrough, Oceiros is pretty easy, but on SL1, that guy is really hit or miss. The charge attack is instant and just straight up unreactable, and will one shot you on SL1 even when you're embered. You gotta just hope he doesn't do it, or try to anticipate it and preemptively dodge. Still pretty cool overall and great lore
I quite like the Corrupted Monk. I totally understand that she recovers posture way too quickly and doesn't take much health damage to offset that, but I love her moveset and think she's fun to fight. Also, 3 snap seeds put her at half health instantly, so her posture recovery will take a hit if you just spam those shits frame one, although trying to figure that out on a blind playthrough is pretty slim tbf
Seath is alr and hell I even like the scripted death in the beginning, I just hate that it causes curse, that shit is just evil for a forced death. Fight itself is perfectly mid, although I actually hate the Duke's Archives and find it pretty unfun
W video as always
That is indeed Jack NFC lol, good ear
I'm a known DS2 hater and even I agree that Ruin Sentinels are pretty damn good. I actually think you have them too low... Solid video as always!
thanks for the comment! - Jack
Why do I enjoy this so much when I've played like 5 minutes of souls?
When I was in 8th grade I watched a ton of vids like this before playing the games, we were once in your shoes!
Loved the idea however❤
Did Fortissax dirty. He's actually really fun if you purposely fight him early (which is probably when you're supposed to fight him, we all just get to him later then we are supposed to, or the balancing is just very poor), and his moveset is NOT copy + paste, it is entirely original minus a few attacks, did you guys even learn these bosses or just faceroll them in 1-3 attempts and move on?
6:20 in fact, Alonne's thrust has an accurate hitbox, but it's the janky animation that makes you think otherwise because if you has low agility and get hit in the toes, the grab animation won't start until the roll animation is finished.
You can see the hitbox visualized on Domo3000 channel.
Yeah, the tip with that attack is to dodge to the left and only when he launches the blade
This bouta be a W ass video
ALWAYS IS😤
So i have a few questions. 1. How many games are being combined to make this list? 2. What is the order thus far about which game has the weakest boss roster and how are the games ordered as the rosters get stronger? 3. How many entries from each game are left? 4. How many of the final bosses have been ranked?
so it's all the bosses across the FromSoft Souls games (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls I-III, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring) and so far Demon's Souls is by far the weakest. Followed by probably Dark Souls II, then Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring and Dark Souls III. For the final video which will be a collection of all nine parts in one larger video, we'll do a quick breakdown of which game has the best bosses statistically, so not fully sure which actually is the best. Either Souls III or Elden Ring for sure, though.
@Cytonox I could definitely not make a series of bosses this long. I haven't even made a countdown ever but I know this would be a tremendous challenge.
Speaking of souls games have you guys tried anothers crabs treasure yet?
Its a very unique soulslike available on gamepass
i haven't. i'll look at it, i have a ps5 so i don't have access to game pass they need to fix ps plus. thanks for watching! - jack
You guys alright? Haven’t seen an update for a while.
Alex here, we’re still around and hoping to get a video up today. On my end I got a job at a public relations agency and have been addicted to playing ace attorney/smtv so I’ve just been kinda slacking. Part 6 is pretty much done though. Jack did all his stuff already so its mostly just being held back by me being a bum. I appreciate your concern!
Hope to see it soon, along with the video for the Elden Ring DLC
I'll take the duke's archives over the other post-lordvessel areas but it still blows, feels like they designed an area and had no interesting ideas for what to put in it so they just haphazardly dotted it with hard hitting enemies like they let someone loose in there with a garry's mod spawn gun. to me the coolest thing about the area is just the fact that you can rotate the staircases which is not much. also its placement near the end of the game is a huge blow to sorcery builds because it's full of great stuff for those, but the remaining game is all garbage so you don't get to use a fully realized sorcery build for anything good (especially sucks if you're a moonlight greatsword fan)
seath also comes and goes like a wet fart in every single playthrough i've done so i don't understand the rationale for him getting a double digit spot when he barely even constitutes a fight, but whatever keep cooking
Why didn’t you guys just wait for shadow of the Erdtree
The Dragonslayer Armour is not Ornstein
2 weeks? More like 2 months. Take it or leave it.
You DO get rewarded for deflecting, mikiri'ing etc Corrupted Monk, it's just with very little and is lost very easily until you whittle her red health bar down. Saying you don't get rewarded is just plainly false.
i mean you don’t really until you randomly start doing damage to her - for the first minute or so unless you attack in between one of her attacks she’ll deflect it, so unlike all the other bosses, you don’t get rewarded - jack
@@Cytonox you do. you can beat her without touching her red health and if you weren't rewarded from anything else that wouldn't be possible.
one of my favourite things about the fight is her fast recovery and the challenge of getting red health hits in because it's what makes her unique, especially from True Monk. and believe me, you do have those opportunities, but even if you didn't I still found sacrificing mikiri and and deflection opportunities for instead dodging and hitting her red health until her recovery is weak an effective and fun strategy.
you can also bait some of those out, which makes it even more effective and adds depth to the pure gameplay strategy which Sekiro excels in comparison to other Souls game.
the fight is still mediocre
@@XAll-FatherX well, your opinion. never said I thought she was the greatest fight anyway. I just like her.
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