10 Gimmick Bosses In Dark Souls

Found in The Grave of Saints in Dark Souls 2, as soon as you enter the arena, rats will start pouring out of the walls. Using the statues for cover and doing your best to not get surrounded and beaten down, after the player kill a few you may notice that there isn't a health bar.

While this might seem strange, keep up the dodging and eliminating of rats and after enough have been dispatched, the Royal Rat Vanguard's bar will appear.

While many first time players might have discovered it by accident, the only rat that you need to damage at this point has a little mohican on his head and back, and once you focus your attention on him, the health bar will melt away in short order.

Not the last time that this idea and design choice that basically consists of "mob enemies where you need to focus on one" is seen in this series, there were more complaints about this due to how the bosses in Dark Souls 2 were viewed - some lazy repeats and boring design choices just to pump the numbers up, arguably at the cost of quality.