10 Video Game Sub-Bosses Who DESTROYED Players
5. Havel The Rock - Dark Souls
Though Dark Souls is full of unforgiving bosses who love a good one-hit-kill, it’s also home to a good few sub-bosses and regular enemies who are more than willing to pin you up against a wall and twist your nipples until you turn inside out.
And yes, though after two pints I’ll start a several hour-long rant about how cheap and nasty Anor Londo’s snipers are, or how much I’d love to kick a Blight Town blowdart guy in the gonads, this entry isn’t to talk about how Dark Souls enemies are designed to be as cheap and nasty as possible - it’s to talk about how sub-bosses are designed to be as cheap and nasty as possible.
Though there are a good few optional sub-bosses in the franchise who thumped me silly (Smelter Demon in DS2 says hello, through a mouthful of blood), but none rocked my world quite like Havel.
To me, “optional” just means “irresistible”, so clearly I thought I’d take him on using nothing but my anime protagonist-levels of optimism and rusty butter knife.
”Just use the cheese strategy!”, “just use backstabs!”, cried the masses. I did neither. All I could do... was be rocked.