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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and what's your favourite boss cheese in a Soulslike? (lemmy.zip)

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I've been playing anything but soulslikes recently. Climbing my way up the ranked ladder in League, played some Darkwood, and recently got obsessed with Pokerogue which has been a lot of fun.

Soulslikes can pose quite a challenge for players with their oftentimes quite brutal difficulty: insane boss patterns that leave no breathing room, high amounts of damage, status damage. Luckily, many bosses allow for strategies that exploit intended as well as unintended weaknesses to make the fights a little more bearable. So following up on @MissingInteger@lemmy.zip's suggestion, I want to know what your favourite ways to cheese a boss in a Soulslike is.

Cheesing could be a glitch in this case, like glitching out the final boss of the Bloodborne DLC to stop them from attacking or having Gyoubu or a certain hateful spirit jump off a cliff in Sekiro, as well as "intended" cheeses, like chugging consumables and Fable Arts at bosses in Lies of P.

I haven't done it myself, but I always found it incredibly funny to think about that the Capra Demon from DS1, a wall for many new players, can be killed from outside their fog of wall with stones and dung piles. Or a certain simian boss from Sekiro being very weak to the Mortal Draw to a point where he's in a constant stagger animation and just dies without any counterplay.

What are your favourite cheeses?

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[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not really a boss cheese, but I recently started replaying Dark Souls 3, and when I arrived at Firelink Shrine I went to kill that Katana guy to get my precious Uchigatana and accidentally knocked him off the cliff and he died. But I couldn't reach what he dropped and was pissed and nearly restarted my game, but I rested at the shrine before rage quiting and found out that his drop respawns back up where he's normally chilling.

So I of course went back to the graveyard of ash and baited the crystal lizard guy to the cliff and waited for him to yeet himself off the cliff, which he did, and I got a sweet titinate scale.

I never thought to do this before because I was afraid of losing whatever loot was dropped, but I'm having a lot of fun seeing how many enemies I can trick/cheese their pathing into getting them to kill themselves. So this is now the run of knocking guys off tall places when I find them annoying.

[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Gravity the most dangerous thing in Souls games. NPCs especially love to take a dive.

You can also quit and reload for the loot to reappear.