#like when i get caught in wfd i don’t feel like it’s my fault. that’s a problem. if it’s my fault then that’s fine i’ll learn and improve

[sadlazzle]

this got long so. rm

okay so i hav beat malenia, i jst got the demigod felled screen the split second i died but for some reason it decided not to count it as a win, but i am bc defeat message = defeated so. is what it is. but anyway. i don’t think she’s as good a boss as everyone loves to say. is she really good and fun and genuinely interesting ? yes, yes she is. is a lot of that interest sullied by a move born from such absolute bullshit that it can kill someone with 80 vig in one go ? also fucking yes. n ive seen a lot of ppl using the ‘git gud’ argument n sayinf shit like ‘well she’s an optional boss in an endgame area she should b hard’ b like. im not disputing she should b difficult, she’s hard enough on her own without wfd and that’s a straight fact. n like if u wanna get into it n compare the fight to other similar bosses in previous titles, let’s take two frm everyone’s favourite(for some reason) entry: DS3. slave knight gael and sister friede. both incredible bosses that challenge u quite a bit, with gael in my eyes being the perfected version. they’re both challenging bosses, and when i defeated them i didn’t feel like id gotten lucky - i felt like id learnt their movesets and figured them out, and earnt my wins. i’ll b real, im yet to feel like ive earnt a victory against malenia cause it was pure luck. pure and utter luck. and idk maybe it’s just me, but im not a huge fan of bosses that rely on luck and rng over actual skill. malenia does hav a lot of parts of her fight that involve skill and learning, but the fact that there’s a pretty significant luck element there rlly takes away frm such an amazing boss. ik i keep going on abt it but it jst rlly upsets me cause i think malenia is so fucking cool n they didn’t need to add artificial difficulty to an already amazing boss