Overall the take-home message is that the difficulty is something you really need to determine for yourself. If you're not used to timing jumps, you might find these sections a little hard. Some attacks don't give openings throughout the entire attack animation, but every boss has at least one attack where the animation is long enough that you could dodge and quickly attack them.Īlso, this game has some platforming that's absent from Dark Souls. So if you learn each block animation for a given boss, you can determine which ones are easiest to exploit and attack. On average I spent 1-2 hours beating any given boss and the extremes take between 3 to 4 days to beat the hardest boss, which is optional, and about 5 minutes to beat the easiest boss, which is mandatory.įor the general feel of each boss, they all have a block animation for attacks that, once they start, they do not stop midway. Just keep in mind it's probably not going to be the same as your own experience with the game.

So here's my personal experience and I'll try to give you an objective summary of the general feel of the bosses in this game to give you a rough idea. Even then it might not be reflective of the time you'll spend on each boss.

The best you have to work with is taking a survey of everyone's experience and taking an average of the number of hours they spent on each boss. Because you have one fewer dimension to work with, it can be a double-edged sword since it means one fewer element you won't have to worry about the enemy utilizing, but it's also one that you can't take advantage of either.Īlso, there is something inherently problematic when it comes to discussing difficulty because everyone plays the game just a little differently and they find certain things easier than others and it's hard to establish a baseline of how 'hard' something is. The 2D space is quite a bit different than 3D. My answer is unforunately neither here nor there.

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