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u/Swift_Scythe 10d ago
Gwyn Lord of Cinder
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u/royalblue4 10d ago
Legit where I learned to parry in ds1
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u/RepulsiveAd6906 9d ago
Dead-ass where I did my first ever parry. Went through the entirety of DS3 + Dlc, and the whole run of DS1. With DS1 though, I ran with my friend and he told me that his opening attack can be parried. "The hell is a parry?" Well anyway that first parry awakened something in me.
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u/i_bagel 9d ago
Did...did you not read the tutorial markings in the Undead Asylum?
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u/RepulsiveAd6906 9d ago
Hah. "Reading." Jokes aside, when I started the game it was after work, which was when I was able to play with my friend at the time. Which was basically about midnight. So 10-1 I likely saw it, but never acknowledged it. Hell, never even saw it happen throughout my first hundred or so hours of the series. Knew about guard breaks and backstabbing, but not parries.
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u/That_boi_Jerry 9d ago
You can do a similar parry against Pontiff Sulyvahn in DS3
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u/godotace 9d ago
I used the “tank everything with a greatshield and chip away damage when there’s an opening” tactic for every single boss in the game until Gwyn. Actually had to learn how to dodge on the final boss lol
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u/JuicyMellonMan5 9d ago
I’ve always seen people say he’s too easy and not a very good fight because you can repost him to death, but being able to parry has always made him more fun to me. It’s the same with Gundyr in DS3
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u/BLZGK3 4d ago
Yeah, same Lmao.
I'm able to beat him now without parrying, but back when I first played the game and encountered him, he folded my ass for nearly an entire week until, out of curiosity, I tried to parry him, and was successful the first attempt. Admittedly, it was a fluke because afterwards, he folded my asses many more times lol. I eventually got the timing down well enough to outlast him, not entirely perfect, during the first time I beat him. Felt kinda guilty that I sort of cheesed him when it was all said and done though...
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u/TheShipEliza 10d ago
First thing i thought of. Gotta parry. The game been telling you but you did not listen!
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u/LeatherfacesChainsaw 10d ago
Parry? More like hide behind my big ass shield
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u/ArchmageAstra3 9d ago
Or run away and throw dark fireballs like a coward. (That was how I beat him my first time)
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u/PaladinCorbin 10d ago
And a special mention to Soul of Cinder from Dark Souls III when he enters his second phase and his epic choir theme slowly fades away into Gwyn's theme again.
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u/Kumorrii 9d ago
My mind was blown when I realized I was fighting Gwyn again, what a way to end the trilogy.
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u/PaladinCorbin 9d ago
I honestly think Soul of Cinder is a fantastic final boss. He uses different move sets and spells that are available to the player, representing all the people who have linked the fire over until ages, but as you finally beat them, it reverts to its original form, the first being to ever link the flame, and starts playing the original theme song.
Genuinely cooked with that one. I died against the boss the first time because I was too busy focusing on the change in soundtrack and I didn't dodge the explosion grab.
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u/CheesecakeMage42 9d ago
man when Souls of CInder p2 music in DS3 does gwyns Plin Plin Plon on the piano i lost it
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u/Igyzone 10d ago
MGS Snake Eater felt like I was the antagonist chasing the protagonist.
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u/FireWater107 10d ago
Ya played through 3 whole games as a "skilled soldier" but otherwise normal dude fighting all manner of crazy characters with crazy powers, fighting tanks and fighter jets and freakin anime mechs on foot with nothing but a rocket launcher.
Then you get to The Boss. The muthaf***in Boss.
Another "skilled soldier".
And now you know how those poor super soldiers felt when they had to go up against you.
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u/Confident-Disaster96 10d ago
You play 3 different charakters in those 3 games my friend.
MGS1 -> "Solid Snake" (Clone of Big Boss) MGS2 -> "Raiden", and Solid Snake abit MGS3 -> "Naked Snake" later called Big Boss after beating his Me tor and Motherfgure "The Boss"
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u/Simansis26 10d ago
His point still stands. You do play as a "skilled soldier" in all three games. They just aren't all the same guy all of the time.
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u/Pension_Pale 10d ago
I still agree with him since every single one of those are still just "skilled soldier" with no superpowers or anything, but... it's kind of funny to think that of all the Metal Gear Solid games, you spend way more time playing other people than you do actual Solid Snake.
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u/Minute_Zombie_424 9d ago
Were her side boobs being exposed necessary for the plot?
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u/FFKonoko 9d ago
Yes actually. Sort of. She unzipped specifically to show off the snake like scar on her body, while giving a history lesson. She is zipped up for most of the game. She really should have zipped back up for the fight.
Arguably she doesn't, to give you a better chance to beat her. For plot reasons. But also, it's kojima.
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u/pablo_montoya 9d ago
The amount of skin showing on a Kojima character's body is directly proportional to their power level
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u/Karl__RockenStone 9d ago
Wasn’t there a character that breathes through her skin and that’s why she is always half naked? Or was that just another meme?
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u/Consistent_Pain_6690 9d ago
Naked Raiden covering his junk while he does one-handed cartwheels must be god tier then.
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u/Outrageous-Site-3344 10d ago
If you win you take his place (he wants you to win cause it sucks)
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u/Rod935 9d ago
Dragon’s Dogma
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u/Glad-Initiative317 9d ago
Is it a good game my friend gave me a copy to play earlier today and want to know also I’m going in blind
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u/Goricatto 9d ago
I imagine youre talking about the original Dragons dogma dark arisen, its a endearing flawed game, but the gameplay is quite unique, i recommend you dont take the story seriously, its kinda funny at its best but mostly predictable and boring, until the latter half, which i wont spoil. Despite all that its my one of my all time favorites
If youre talking about the second one...its basically the same thing with better graphics and a different setting some things are better and some are worse, which is it goes from person to person, the latter half gets better if you played the first one tho
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u/TheGoodCaptain13 9d ago
Gehrman (though I think he's not wanting you to take his place)
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u/rvtcanuck 8d ago
Correct - Gehrman offers you a way out, but if you refuse, he tries to kill you and force you out because he knows you're making a huge mistake.
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u/BrocksHarem 10d ago
Definitely the Volo theme from Legends Arceus. I love that it is a reprise of Cynthia's theme. Plus, for a Pokemon game, it was actually a fairly challenging battle.
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u/Evalover42 10d ago
Volo and Cynthia both.
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u/NekoNiiFlame 9d ago
Cynthia's theme isn't a calm piano though
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u/WishYouWere2D 9d ago
Probably referring to her intro theme (though I wouldn't describe it as calm, personally)
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u/SeraphRising89 9d ago
As a D&D DM I was initially confused by the beginning of your comment mentioning Volo (and I thought Volothamp Geddarm) lol.
Volo Geddarm + challenging battle = his description of his morning constitutional after eating too much Waterdhavian cheese the night previous.
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u/CtrlPwnDelete 10d ago
Gehrman, the First Hunter from Bloodborne, such an impactful fight thematically and the music is incredible
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u/mattchamp98 9d ago
Its a shame that the dlc completely ruins his fight as you become way too over leveled for him
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u/Hunterstorys 9d ago
Shouldn't the dlc be played after the main game?
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u/Centipede_Summoner 9d ago
the game goes straight into new game plus after you defeat gehrman, so you have to do the dlc beforehand or wait until you unlock it in the next new game cycle
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u/Character-Survey8917 9d ago
If you have consumed enough umbilical cords then you can fight the real final boss (Moon Presence), that if you die against you can then go back to do the dlc after killing Gehrman (though technically Gehrman wouldn’t be the final boss in that instance, regardless of whether Gehrman or The Moon Presence is your final boss the game ends when you beat them)
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u/TheAutumnLeafeon 9d ago
Volo, the only Pokémon Trainer with 7 Pokémon (8 of you count Giratina's second form)
Not a god exactly but he is trying to be one! He is dressed like Arceus
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u/PurpleGemsc 9d ago
Yeah I heard volo’s difficulty being explained as “HE HAS 8 POKEMON AMD TWO OF THEM ARE GIRATINA!!!”
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u/Mysterious_Ad216 7d ago
As someone who grew up with Gen 4 I had ptsd of Cynthia's theme. It was vindicating how his team resembled hers and on the brink of victory I recognised his theme. I wished all polemon games showed the level of challenge this battle had, the last time I felt so motivated was against Wally in ORAS. Now thats a theme to fight too
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u/NSightMSG 7d ago
He is NOT the only Pokemon Trainer with 7 Pokemon. Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness has one as well(the final boss fight has 7, 4 of which are Legendaries).
He IS the only one with 8 total Pokemon Health Pools, but he's not the only one with 7 Pokemon.
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u/Immediate-Rope8465 10d ago
Omori but replace the piano with violin
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u/MLGesusWasTaken 9d ago
The Paintress’ third phase
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u/Civil_Economy9873 8d ago
YES
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u/Archavos 6d ago
Remember, the people of Lumiere could see the giant paintress from docks. they were probably watching the entire time, until the end when the numbers vanished, not knowing the tragedy of it all.
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u/Similar-Language-180 10d ago
Describe Gwyn without saying his name bcs there is nobody else who fits this description.
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u/Stay_at_Home_Chad 10d ago
I was trying to think of a single example of this anywhere else.
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u/SergeantIndie 9d ago
Maybe Lord of Cinder.... But he's also technically Gwyn.
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u/Similar-Language-180 9d ago
SoC is an amalgamation of all Lords including Gwyn, that's why you see his combat style in phase 2 and hear parts of his theme throughout the SoC theme but SoC isn't a god, more like a husk containing the souls made from the remains of those who sacrificed themselves for the flame
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u/poopoobuttholes 9d ago
Soul of Cinder doesn't have a calm piano theme though. It's a whole ass orchestra going on.
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u/Joadow420 9d ago
Renoir/Aline from expedition 33, kinda. The song is a 10 minute orchestral piece, but it does have calm piano
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u/Nelorfin 10d ago
The Princess - Slay the Princess
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u/ofAFallingEmpire 9d ago
Even people who just hear of the game are fucking with the narrator. Lovely.
It’s a game about torturing birds.
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u/Alas_Babylon64 9d ago
It...can...be a love story. This is one of those you don't want people to spoil for you.
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u/jearley99 9d ago edited 9d ago
It’s not an easy game to spoil. I have no idea what I would say to someone if I was trying to ruin their experience. Like how do you to explain the Shifting Mound and Long Quiet to someone who hasn’t played it yet
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u/Boring-Vegetable-745 9d ago
This funny guy?
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u/VarianWrynn2018 9d ago
Not the creator of the world by any means but the Renoir fight fits the bill
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u/Patient-Reality-8965 10d ago
Not counting Souls, Xemnas was the first who came to mind
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u/JazzHandsMinuteman 10d ago edited 9d ago
I was gonna say Roxas, but not a god. That sad music that is also so epic bc he is literally fighting himself inside his own heart.
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u/Tzhaar-Bomba 9d ago
I loved this one, also Roxas when you first arrive at The World That Never Was is purely piano music playing
Also the final fight against Xion in 358/2 days was a beautiful track
Kingdom Hearts had some absolute banger boss music
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u/RebelliousKite 9d ago
Simon, Expedition 33
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u/BrilliantWhile2413 9d ago edited 9d ago
That shit was awful unless you cheese him with the girl. There was no way in hell I was ever getting all of those parries on time
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u/Zestyclose_Push_5251 9d ago
Feels damn good when you do though. Now Simon 2, fuck that guy.
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u/BrilliantWhile2413 9d ago
Wait what
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u/TigeltonMi 9d ago
If you haven’t played the free dlc, it adds more super fights into the endless tower and also a whole new area! I think the free dlc came out this past December or January
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u/RebelliousKite 9d ago
I haven't been able to beat the Endless Tower bosses yet, so I'll probably amend my comment later, lol.
The two duelists scare me.
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u/RebelliousKite 9d ago
Simon 2, half-health version had minor changes to his attacks, but felt like a relentless monster. I hate that I loved fighting him.
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u/darthphallic 9d ago
I don’t know if he counts as a god (even though he can change / erase the world at his whim) but Renoir from Expedition 33. The first time his boss fight kicked off it was like that scene from Ratattoie where the critic suddenly remembers his youth, because I hadn’t been that floored by a boss theme since one winged Angel.
https://giphy.com/gifs/WIMya2nmv69XBFAZDZ
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u/CZsea 9d ago
this mf
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u/virakitsune 9d ago
To be fair the lead up to that fight he literally throws all of creation at you so, it's definitely a huge spectacle at first
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u/HEATfox554 10d ago
The only reason it's a calm piano is simply because this isn't a fight, it's someone putting some sense into you
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u/OldFirefighter3293 9d ago
That's literally Chakravatin's true form from Asura's Wrath
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u/DracoNinja27 9d ago
I had an actual fight/flight fear reaction when i saw how uncanny the design is
Unlucky for him,he made Asura's daughter cry.
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u/Future_Leadership953 10d ago
I’m willing to bet some people are thinking Cynthia from Pokémon. While I never thought she was tough (I used to defeat her for fun as a kid), she’s the golden standard of Elite Four Champions to the Pokémon community.
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u/xx_Chl_Chl_xx 10d ago
She’s one of the only trainers that fights like the player: a mixed team that’s able to counter the opponent’s team. Another notable example is Red in Gold & Silver, who was literally the player character in the previous game
Any boss that fights like the player is a force to be reckoned with
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u/stronkreptile 10d ago
red was the previous player? thats way ahead of its time
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u/OneJobToRuleThemAll 9d ago
It was the absolute peak of playground discourse back in the day and is one of the reasons I still feel like I'm 10 years old again whenever I boot up a new pokemon game for the first time.
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u/THEgassner 9d ago
I believe Dragon's Dogma does this.
In the original, the real final boss took the form of the character you play as in the prologue, but if you're on your second playthrough or higher, its your prior arisen
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u/oldmayor 9d ago
Does the Nameless Puppet count? They're a little bigger than P, but compared to almost every other boss in the game they're closer to normal size.
Also Gehrman is up there. I am a Bloodborne shill if anything.
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u/TheZeldaNerd04 10d ago
Completely unrelated question but why does her hair change in the fourth panel?
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u/chaosargate 10d ago
Its from a different episode with the same set up gag of “Fujiwara is learning how bad Shirogane is at a task she has volunteered herself into teaching him.”
(The anime is Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
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u/R0xasXIII 9d ago
Furi kinda fits. The Beat is the last boss if you decide not to save the planet. It's a chill synthwave song.
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u/fliegenscheise 9d ago
Xenoblade 3, it's not quite calm piano but compared to the other boss themes it fits quite well
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u/LibraryOfLunacy 9d ago
Reception of the Black Silence from library of runia. Specially the final phase
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u/who-stole-the-cake 9d ago
Dmc3s Vergil three fate of the brothers but instead of a piano it’s a whole orchestra
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u/Psychological_Use586 9d ago
Applies to the almost final boss of OFF, The Queen. Her theme is the somber piano piece 'The Meaning of His Tears' - driving home the point that by now you should have realized that the Batter is not the hero of this story. As she says herself 'there is nothing but the void after me...'
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u/Art-Zuron 9d ago
I mean, Gwyn from Dark Souls 1 with his plin plin plon comes to mind. He's relatively normal sized. Still a giant compared to the player, but everything is pretty much.
In Gwyn's case, he's just a frightened, burnt out husk of a man, desperately clinging onto the past, to a legacy destined to fade away, to a light in the dark.
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u/thephilthycasual 9d ago edited 9d ago
Bit of an older one but Megaman Juno, he's not fully a god, but he was left to watch over the earth by God, and his theme is crazy.
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u/die_maus_im_haus 9d ago
His first stage is so calm too, like he's just having a chat about reinitializing you
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u/Honest_Entry_8758 9d ago
what in the specificities? pretty sure there's only one example of this and it's the one op is thinking about when they made this post
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u/ButterscotchQuiet830 7d ago
Nice, I see you and raise you with Ganondorf from TP.
https://giphy.com/gifs/MVSgt9dtq6hTknT2eF
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u/throwthiscloud 9d ago
Sister Frieda in DS3. Its absurd how good the OST is and how it ratchets up as you fight her.
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u/CertifiedRinaOshi432 9d ago
Don't forget to add the Latin chant/lyrics, that's when you know you're truly, royally fucked up 🫡
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u/kronikid42069 6d ago
I absolutely love a classic duel with no gimmicks, just 2 swordsman and skill
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u/Ragnarock-n-rol 10d ago
Even better when the final theme has the same motif as the theme song, if not the same exact song.
Oh and bonus points if the final level is named after the game too