10 Most MADDENING Bosses In SoulsBorne Games
6. The Bed Of Chaos (Dark Souls)
The Bed of Chaos sits at the top of many a "Worst Souls Boss Ever" list, and for good reason.
The monstrous tree/tentacle/fire hybrid may look visually striking, but the awe soon gives way to ennui as you try your luck again and again like a gambler desperate to snap a losing streak. There's no strategy to the fight - you either get knocked into the abyss by a randomly flailing tentacle, or you get lucky and stumble into striking distance of the monstrous entity's weak points.
Far more than any other SoulsBorne boss, defeating the Bed of Chaos relies on a combination of luck and sheer bloody-mindedness. All you do is race across the arena, being buffeted by tentacles like a ball in an Lovecraftian pachinko machine, hoping each time that fortune will favour you and let you hit the jackpot (or weak spot, in this case).
To be fair, the developers themselves clearly knew the fight was broken - that's why Bed of Chaos is one of the few SoulsBorne bosses with built-in checkpoints. Because without that safety net, actually managing to hit all three weak-spots without dying to random tentacle violence would require enough luck to power a national lottery win.