10 Secret Ways You Can Save Video Game Bosses From Themselves

10. Saving Solaire: Dark Souls

The Dark Souls games are well known for three things: Their devastating difficulty, their dark fantasy aesthetic, and their mysterious approach to world-building. Engaging in an NPC's questlines, players are often entirely unsure how things will proceed, whether they've made a wrong step, or if a decision they make may have horrible consequences.

Dark Souls' sun-saluting Solaire has a questline that can go very, very wrong indeed. From that first encounter in the Undead Burg, there are some specific things players have to do in order to rescue this poor soul. To do so, you must join the Chaos Servants after defeating Quelaag. The ultimate goal is to destroy a particular Red Chaos Bug in Lost Izalith. This little pest would otherwise doom Solaire to death.

Achieving this is convoluted and easy to get wrong, as is the wont of the series. It's very nice to have a friend you meet regularly throughout the game for once, though, rather than having to battle him. Solaire can ultimately survive the events of the game.