Fromsoft rarely lets you fight legends at their peak. The strongest bosses you encounter in souls games are already going downhill by the time you meet them, and they already lost the fight long before you showed up. You’re rarely fighting the greatest warriors, you’re fighting what’s left of them.
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YOU. Beat last giant at his prime
Guys he doesn’t mean they literally lost a fight🤦 he’s saying all these bosses are past their prime when you meet them. The “already lost” refers to them declining or them being in a deteriorating state
Last giant: YOU AGAIN!? You : who are you? Prime Giant: who are you? You: YOU AGAIN!?
Kalameet, he got shot before we fought him
it goes to show that we mostly took advantage of time, or arriving late to face their peak in case of the giant lord, we got way too ahead of him and basically got the king's power to match/overcome this giant's peak
Ludwig is technically stronger as a massive beast. You beat the Last Giant during his prime in a memory, which is why he's enraged when seeing you again. PC Radahn is stronger than peak Radahn as Mohg's Omen body is physically and has Blood Incantations. + Miquella's divine light powers.
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Idk what it is but the mere mention Of Ivory King makes go "BANG BANG BANG! PULL MY DEVIL TRIGGER!!"
You do get to fight The Last Giant and Radahn in their prime, you could also argue that that second phase Soul of Cinder represents a Gwyn in his prime since this one uses lightning unlike the one we fight in DS1.
Yeah that’s the point there is WAS a thriving world but not anymore you explore what’s left of a ruined world
Now I think of the guardian ape in sekiro bro has a samurai in his neck and diarrhea
CURSE YOU BAYLE
Vendrick still haunts me to this day, seeing him in DS 2 after Hours of Gameplay just.....wandering....aimlessly. After all he only wanted the best for his people and was manipulated by a child of the dark into slaughter and conquest. THAT was the moment i realized the first time HOW BAD Hollowing actually is.
Nameless King too
This why Sekiro is built different. We beat peak isshin and (somewhat) owl.
Fire Giant. Literally the last of his kind, before you killed him.
This reminded me that many Bloodborne bosses have some sort of impediment. You fight the wet nurse of a baby, a guy on a wheelchair, a moon alien after someone went to town with her wings and torso, a reanimated frozen corpse and a literal newborn old man.
Soul of Cinder, containing the soul of your character from Dark Souls 1.
peak short.
Consort Radahn allows me to mentally count my blessings