Elden Ring players can often find themselves in intense situations, as FromSoftware games are famous for their difficult fights. The usual gameplay structure for a game like Elden Ring sees players advance through the game until they hit a difficult boss or area. Players then repeatedly throw themselves at this boss or area, learning more and more about it and advancing slightly with each death until finally they break through.
As demanding as Elden Ring is to its players, there is also a huge element of chance to the game. Bosses will sometimes seem to switch on immediately and kill the player moments after they enter the boss room, while other times they will seem inexplicably passive.
Elden Ring Player Shows Off Impressive Mohgwyn Palace Drawing
On very rare occasions a boss’s aggression can be its own downfall, as Reddit user SSSmoke found out recently. Sharing a clip of their fight against one ofElden Ring's difficult Crucible Knight enemies in the Crumbling Farum Azula, the Reddit user is seen playing very defensively and on the back foot from an endless onslaught of powerful attacks. Luck suddenly shifts in favor of the Reddit user, however, after diving through an archway and landing safely on a jutting out piece of land. Then in a bizarre moment, the Crucible Knight winds up a powerful thrust attack and flies straight out the same archway to its death.
The moment just goes to show how quickly the odds can turn in a FromSoftware game. Players have shared countless clips ofElden Ring fights going tragically wrong in an instant, and most fans of this series will sorely remember a time when they got greedy during a boss fight and were killed with a single hit left to go. Things suddenly going right for the player is
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