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I actually like how weird a lot of Demon's Souls bosses are. There's only one or two truly awful ones (looking at you Dragon God) and the variety of weird fights makes the normal ones like Flamefucker, Penetrator, and False King all the more noteworthy. Of course, it might just be a "you had to be there" scenario if you've already gone through the entire sequel series of circlestrafing big dudes.

However I WILL say that Demon's Souls has several gimmick fights that still haven't been topped. Old Monk is still the best PvP boss variant in the series, Storm King got a callback in DS3 but the original fight is still legendary, Maneaters is still the best "gargoyles on a roof" fight by virtue of being the hardest and worst. Even in the ones that aren't traditionally "good" boss fights there are a lot of off-the-wall concepts that are really interesting that the series hasn't really played with since. I'm thinking of Astrea, Old Hero, and Fool's Idol.

I guess I'd say Demon's Souls isn't really more about "making your own fun" than Dark Souls, but it's full of all these wacky ideas and concepts that Dark Souls has had three games to tweak and perfect. But in the process they also streamlined a lot of the weirdness out (it took them two games to bring back the HP penalty for dying!), but even doing that the series is left with plenty of weirdness to go around. And I mean, despite my love for Demon's Souls I still think all 3 games in the Souls trilogy are better, so your reaction is understandable.

also if you were disappointed by the difficulty then you for sure would not have liked a magic build because magic in DeS is BUSTED

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