Iudex Gundyr Primes Dark Souls 3 Players for Multi-Phase Bosses Perfectly
The bosses in Dark Souls 3 are some of the best in the series, starting out strong with the tutorial encounter that perfectly sets the groundwork for the fights to come. This tutorial encounter comes in the form of Iudex Gundyr, who has the task of setting up several trends that will persist as players continue to fight Dark Souls 3's most intimidating enemies.
More than anything, the role of Iudex Gundyr is to test the player's initial skills with the game since at this point there's no way to increase levels or upgrade weapons. The result is a boss fight that isn't the most difficult encounter in Dark Souls 3, but it will still likely kill most players at least half a dozen times before they make it to Firelink Shrine for the first time.
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In the case of Iudex Gundyr, the best place to begin picking apart this fight is from the end, specifically the start of the second phase when the Pus of Man makes its first appearance. This is one of FromSoftware's most impactful spectacles across the developer's catalog, with the secondary enemy appearing from within Iudex Gundyr and then exploding into a giant, snake-like creature made of black ooze. All of this is capped off by the emergence of this enemy starting with a massive claw attack that can easily catch a player off-guard the first time they reach this point in the fight.
Beyond the quick kill that the Pus of Man can easily deliver, this phase primes players for something that had occurred in some bosses from earlier games, though not all of them. In fact, it's the fact that Iudex Gundyr has a second phase at all that sets the boss apart from many of the bosses from the original Dark Souls. Especially when considering the first
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