10 Video Games That Reused Enemies (And Made Them WORSE)

Dark Souls is enamoured with the concept of returning bosses. Few in the latter titles are actually freshly-created creatures, instead being direct copies of previous characters or a slight variation. This can be fine - but then you see the Basilisks.

One of the franchise's most infuriatingly irritating bosses, the googly-eyed creatures have appeared in every Dark Souls game to date, and have caused the majority of stress-related incidents for players.

At first, they ambush you in swathes, obscuring your vision with a thick cloud of smoke that depletes your health bar so fast the words 'YOU DIED' appear almost immediately.

Later on, though? Make yourself a nice hot cup of tea, put your feet up, binge-watch that Netflix show you've been putting off, and come back later on. Your character will still be standing, because they become useless.

Basilisks' standard non-smoke attacks do very little damage and they can be killed quite easily - but this only makes them more infuriating. Why have these gluttonous frogs been able to kill you with one spray of smoke when they're able to be one-hit killed later on? Make it make sense, FromSoft!