10 Hardest FromSoftware Franchise Bosses Of All Time

10. Flamelurker

Before From Software earned their stellar reputation for sadism with the Dark Souls franchise, they cut their teeth with the slightly lesser known Demon Souls. Although not as challenging overall as much of its predecessors, Demon Souls was nonetheless a tough oul' nut to crack. The pinnacle of this challenge was the Flamelurker.

This bellowing behemoth acts as a significant difficulty spike in an already challenging game. The Flamelurker is extremely aggressive, leaving players with little time to recover if they're forced onto the back-foot trying to heal or even just consider a strategy to take down the fiery fiend.

His flame fist attack has a huge area of effect that make dodging it extremely tricky and he deals out a vicious amount of damage on top of that.

Demon Souls slightly dated mechanics make the combat feel chunky at times, and this adds significantly to the challenge as the Flamelurker seems unaffected by this crutch the player must bear as he hunts you down consistently and swiftly.

He is extremely weak to magic which trivialises the fight somewhat, but in a straight duel the Flamelurker is an insanely fast, powerful opponent who is easily the hardest that Demon Souls has to offer.