9 Scrapped Bosses Used In Other Video Games

9. Dark Souls III's SnakeSoul - Elden Ring

Considering the many, many bosses featured in each and every FromSoftware game, it's little surprise that the likes of Dark Souls and Bloodborne left a number of tantalising bosses on the cutting room floor.

And given the design ingenuity of most every FromSoft boss, can you really blame them for recycling any of their discarded ones?

That's exactly what happened with the Ulcerated Tree Spirit from the developer's recent Elden Ring. Enterprising player Zullie the Witch dug into the game's code and discovered that it actually had the data name "SnakeSoul," which to hardcore Dark Souls fans is a moniker that should sound familiar.

Following the release of Dark Souls III in 2016, dataminers discovered references in the game's code to a creature called "SnakeSoul" which never actually appeared in the game itself.

Furthermore, the Ulcerated Tree Spirit even bears a strong resemblance to a mutated tree-like creature that was featured in leaked alpha stills of Dark Souls III yet never appeared in the game proper.

And so, we can freely deduce that the Ulcerated Tree Spirit is indeed the mysterious SnakeSoul, finally closing the door on a years-long mystery.