User blog comment:TheBlueRogue/What Are Your Most Triumphant Dark Souls Moments?/@comment-3236835-20160303133356

Mine definitely has to be defeating Kalameet (cutting off its tail, of course). Funny thing I've noticed in the Souls games is that even the hardest (read: "cheapest") bosses can be defeated easily once you learn to read their patterns and develop a counter-move for each one.

Now I can beat Kalameet, Lud and Zallen, the Lost Sinner with her two pyromancer friends in NG+, Smough and Ornstein, Lord Gwyn, and many others with ease. I've never EVER beaten Manus in a fair fight, though; the guy just gives me the creeps! I always chicken-out and instead end up killing him from the cliff outside his lair by shooting like 80 arrows at him. O_o'

What's funny is that I've never had any problems in beating Artorias, while many people mention him as one of the hardest bosses ever conceived. Dunno, maybe it's all the lore about his demise or something like that.