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The Night's Cavalry in Dragonbarrow yearns for the abyss. There are so many different cheeses for that one. The most popular is the one where you position yourself on the side of the bridge. The cooler one in my opinion is where you throw Kukris and it looks like you mind controlled him to jump of the branch. This works because enemies follow sounds and Kukris make quite a loud sound. Kukris are generally great for distracting enemies (Greatbow arrows are louder but less convenient).

Dragonbarrow is overall a very cheesy place. 4 Bosses in Dragonbarrow are cheese-sable. The Night's Cavalry, the bridge dragon, Greyoll and the Bellbearing Hunter. You can make the bridge dragon (Greyll) lose a fight against a tree; it's pretty finicky to do. Greyoll can easily be cheesed with any bleed weapon, it's just time consuming. The cheese for the Bellbearing Hunter looks easy, but is far more difficult than it seems. You need to get the Golem way below to shoot him and then use a crit to get him over the edge.

There are so many great cheeses in the cheese plater that is Elden Ring. You can almost skip Phase 2 Malenia completely if you kill her phase 1 with Howl of Shabriri or a Volcano Pot. Or you can abuse the way Boss agro is programmed: In Elden Ring, they didn't do it like DS1 where the Boss always "smells" you in the arena, they simply gave the Bosses huge agro. So you can stack Assassin's Gambit and Unseen Form together and the Boss doesn't notice right away and then you can sneak behind them and ~~blow gas up their ass~~ use Poison Mist to slowly kill them. That was to cheesy for me to try it, yet. Here is an example with Morgott.

Now that I think about it, one of my favorite cheeses is ~~Gouda~~ the intended cheese for Ceaseless Discharge. The way he falls of the cliff to his doom… very cinematic. If we ever get a proper remaster I want a satisfying thunk when he hit the ground and maybe even a corpse that stays there.

It's also interesting to think about what is a cheese? Does skipping a Boss count? Is it really a cheese if it's harder than fighting the Boss? The skip past Godskin Duo with Hand of Malenia is way harder than throwing a couple of Sleep Pots. Also are Sleep Pots a cheese? It's just an intended weakness, if a major one. Or are high damage builds cheese? One shooting Mohg with Comet Azur is super easy and fun and imo everyone should try it sometime, but feels very cheese. In the end everyone has to decide what is cheese and whether or not they like doing it in their playthroughs. We all want to have fun playing video games.

Some nice videos about cheese in Souls games:

• How Many Bosses Can You Cheese/Skip? (In Dark Souls 1)
• Dark Souls II: How Many Bosses Can You Cheese? - The Vendrick Cheese is crazy.
• All Bosses you can CHEESE | Elden Ring - No commentary and not quite as detailed, but still a nice collection using the current patch.

Speaking about fun: with the many games I never played at my disposal I will obviously play through Elden Ring at RL1 again, for the third time. I actually started last weekend and got pretty far already. I'm already in Leyndell. I didn't follow my careful plan of leveling up a Claymore to +20 and instead started by running naked into Stormveil with only a Broadsword. The Broadsword destroys Margit so hard. If been using the mostly the Broadsword since then. Pretty good weapon at RL1.

I also got a bit goofy since cheese was on my mind. I stacked enough anti undead buffs to one-shot Death Birds with a Holy Pot. Only I overdid it a bit. I did 34k to the Death Bird in Weeping Peninsula that is almost 10x the damage needed and mind you that's at RL1. The crazy thing is that's not even close to optimized. At endgame I would have access to even more buffs. I will experiment further in the snow when I get there. The one in the snowfield should be easy to hit in the head.