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6. The Mimic Tear Copies Your Loadout - Elden Ring
There isn't a single Elden Ring player alive who doesn't want their character to be kitted out in awesome gear that makes them a major force to be reckoned with.
Yet the boss fight against the Mimic Tear is an exercise in admonishing the player for their vanity. The Mimic Tear is an exact mirror image of the player, copying their entire loadout - including all equipped armor, weapons and spells - and appearance throughout the fight.
As such, the better equipped you are, the tougher the fight's going to be.
Now, the Mimic Tear admittedly isn't a mandatory boss for beating Elden Ring, and you can cheese the fight by de-equipping everything before it starts and then re-equipping immediately afterwards, but if you play it as FromSoftware truly intended, it's an amusing act of taking the player down a peg.