Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-16047389-20140430214818/@comment-24682999-20140508203818

The bosses are my biggest disappointment. Although, I agree with Dark Jeto and Cement Plant on virtually every point they made.

The bosses are just, put simply, unimaginative. Play Demon's Souls and Dark Souls and you will be able to find a copy/paste equivelant of bosses in Dark Souls 2. Most notably guilty of this are the 'huge armored dudes with big weapons'. While, bosses like the Smelter Demon, Duke's Dear Freja, and Lost Sinner gave a welcome horridly difficult  solo fight, but were made far too easy with summoned players. They felt relatively creative and gave me a breath of relief when they plowed over me through one method or another rather than being a hit, block/dodge, repeat cycle that was trying to be a boss fight.

The streamlined and varied movesets of weapons seems squandered on bosses who are little more than boulders that flail back as you push them out of the way.