First real boss in the game

>first real boss in the game
>moveset designed to rollcatch the player
>4+ attack combos, sometimes after what looks like a final blow
No way he thought this was good design, right?

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First time playing a miyazaki game mate? This is why people who've been with the games since 09 are sick of them

If they have been playing them since '09 then rollchecking and combos shouldn't be a roadblock unless they have poor adaptability

Bad game design is when you get punished for panic spamming the iframe button

No listen it isn't "rollcatching" It's delayed attacking and the retard jap decided in ds3 that he was gonna have ten thousand invincibility frames and have them go a quarter mile so to compensate they made all bosses delay their massive wide reaching hitboxes and the ones that don't cause massive shockwaves. The fix is really really simple you had these too games called Demon's Souls and Dark Souls where the amount of invincibility on the rolls was reasonable so you didn't have to compensate with retarded ass moves. Why fix something that wasn't broke.

I summoned the magic man and jellyfish for Margit

I won't apologize.

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>First main boss of the game
>Delayed attacks
>Attacks with variable delay
>Fake-outs
>Attacks with the same wind-up but completely different follow-through
>On a fucking bridge that he can't fall off of but you can

He really is legtitimately too hard for a first boss.
He's clearly the first "skillcheck" boss in the game, like the belltower Gargoyles, Father Gascoigne, or the Abyss Watchers, so he's "allowed" to be more difficult, but even then, holy shit man

It took me north of 20 tries to finally kill him at level 23, and it took me three tries to kill Godrick. That's most definitely backwards

Filtered (and this includes me too)
I think the start is a really good design choice, the tutorial "boss" is the one from the cave at the start of the game, that one is the easy one. It is good that he placed the Tree Sentinel at the start, teaches faggots that it's an open world and you should just skip things and come back to it later when you are ready, and it's good that the first main boss is complex so it forces you to not just mindless spam rolls or facetank by blocking right at the start of the game. It's better to do it like that because the previous games would be generous and let you get away with very lazy fighting all the time

The problem I have is how huge his melee damage radius is compared to the size of the arena

Hes hard so you are naturally encouraged to explore the area. You should explore the right half of limgrave and the southern island. At that point he is a reasonable boss to beat.