@magicat7356 they added a lot of boss revamps in the boss rush update. They're very fun (tiger Vanguard got shockingly harder). Also, any idea when a new video is gonna drop?
Based Erlang enjoyer. My favorite discovery during the fight was when I learned to use Immobilize to force him into his counter-attack animation which gives you enough time to land a free heavy attack which cancel his counter-attack. This was so cool because Immobilize was still technically doing its job while simultaneously bypassing Erlang's immunity to heavy attacks.
Great vid! As someone who wants to make their own action game with a handful of souls inspiration, i've been loving the boss ranking more than others since it feels a lot more constructive and goes into detail of the movestes. Combo tree's are basically my favorite gaming thing ever now and seeing how far this game can push it is astonishing. One day i hope to create a boss worthy of the likes of erlang and wukong and these analyses feel like they help tremendously. (On the other hand promised consort is my favorite boss in gaming so what do i know.)
Great video bro always nice to see how others felt with certain bosses (I’d put yellow loong as the second best next to wukong but that’s because I’ve fought him as early as possible in ch.4 with literally no damage output)
DeliriusHunter is too late to the (diddy) party but here we are. Great ranking series overall, some of my favorite editing yet. Absolutely agree with Erlang on the top, prob mechanically best boss I've ever seen. Hardest disagree is Violet Spider.. she was GREAT, awesome fight and seeing her only in decent was pretty sad tbh. Overall great Game, actually amazing game, probably my second favorite game of 2024 after Lost Crown. Great fight, loved the video
One thing I find great about Erlang that hasn't been covered by the video: he copy your four banes status to use against you. And not just cheaply done too. He actually has an animation where he picked up the residue of fire (ice, poison) you used from the ground and coat his spear with it, then style on your for a good chunk of a minute.
Really great video. I think main issue with hard bosses is, if they are so much harder than everything else it seems unreasonable. I personally love the boss, so I don't necessarily have that complaint, but I do prefer scaling is very visible in difficulty. To make an example without spoiling too much in case you dont know/havent played game. The best boss in nine sols is by far the hardest, but nothing in the game really compares you for that fight, which makes people "rage" over it. If game was better at scaling up to that specific fight, it would be awesome. And in case you haven't played Nine Sols... get on with it, I know you love HK and I know you love fromsoft.
The craziest part is that Mr. UA-camr Man separated their fights into two, I wonder if the top two would have swapped if he had talked about the full fights.
I agree about great sage but erlang is a fight I couldn’t enjoy fully. He had great moves but also very weird ones as well to me making the fight just feel not fun. I didn’t hate it but I wouldn’t go out of my way to do it again
Just to add to the erlang love, if you use any bane against him while guard is still up, he will channel it into his spear and use it against you 💀 What a chad
Of all lists l've seen, yours' is most similar to mine: 10. Stone Monkey 9. Four Kings 8. 100eyed master (but I fought him after the patch though) 7. Duskveil 6. Yin Tiger 5. Yellowbrow 4. Inspector 3. Great Sage 2. Erlang 1. Yaksha King (but without Red Boy)
3:53 I didn't have this "bug" when I played. Instead it took 2-3 3 focus heavy attacks to take it out of it,... or wait for about a minute or two for it to expire by itself. Horrible design, indeed, but it might be intentional. Don't know for sure though, of course.
22:34 lion dude...not a tiger...btw great video enjoyed it...especially the part 2 of this boss video series where you made fun of pale axe steward...lol
Btw just wanna bring up that the reddit post at 38:16 was bs lol The guy was complaining about rock solid not working on erlang is legit untrue lol. Rock solid legit stops most of erlang's attacks 😭
Those double bosses were the highlight of this game for me. Yeah this game had incredible solo bosses(admitedly much better than double overall), but this was first game in my memory that made double bosses really enjoyable. And overall bosses were much much more enjoyable for me than anything fromsoft have produced since ds3. And broken shell/stone monkey felt like a true last boss it made sense it was awesome it was fun it was hard it was great spectacle it had incredible cinematography(best boss to date for me) with Erlong being close second. Also every secret zone/boss in context of final chapter boss and whole wukong lore made so much sense.
I think my comment didnt send but scorpionlord is extremely reactionary imo. I beat him in 3 times and i didnt " memorize" his moves. Yellow loong took me like 15 tries and he was an extremely " memorize" heavy boss. Thats just my opinion tho. Great video
Mantis was like a few other "hard" bosses in this game. If you rushed in and threw everything at him at once (All your spells) you could kill them instantly...if you didn't they were next to impossible...not the best boss design. Mantis was a pita until I went in and unleashed everything at once...killed him quickly.
Hard to say, too early to say. Allmind resonated more thematically, story-wise (i dont really know much of erlang outside of what the game tells you since i never read or watched adaptations of journey to the west). But allmind also has a pretty bad phase 1, whereas erlang has some pauses in excitement.
Erlang is the absolute limit of dodge roll combat. But i think they could have gone even beyond allmind in ac6. If they ever make an ac6 dlc it has to have the best boss oat
Red Loong annoys me so much because he's got a sweet design and his moveset is genuinely quite fun (if a little too easy) but the two times i've fought him he's literally been struggling knocked over for about 70% of the "fight". Surprised you didn't mention that. Maybe i've just been really unlucky (technically lucky) about his staggers. Or maybe it's a pillar stance thing?
Well on the part of OST, I agree. I much prefer Elden Ring OST, Dark Souls 3 or even Lies Of P over Black Myth: Wukong. This is just personal preference
Great Video. But for me sadly Supreme Inspector would be awful Tier cuz it was just a lag fiesta on PC. Almost all other Bosses were fine (Kang Jin Star was also pretty laggy but not as infuriating as the Inspector)
You said that the game generally doesn't have good music, but are there exceptions? Did some of the major bosses or story moments have good or great music?
There are exceptions for sure, I pointed them out as often as I could but left some unmentioned. I liked the music in most if not all of the animations after each chapter, I liked the headless singer in chapter 2, black bear guai, keeper of the flaming mountains, yaksha king, kang jin star, non white, phase 3 of supreme inspector and erlang. Probably a few others too that dont come to mind immediately.
Am I the only one who didn’t find anything special with great sage? His mechanics feel too soulsy. He never really lets you do anything cool with the combat, it’s just attack dodge attack dodge for most of the fight. He had way too much poise for how agile and lengthy his combos are. I found erlang much more enjoyable. Best bosses off the top of my head(not ranked) -erlang -yellowbrow -yellow wind sage -Yaksha king
@ngianaedm Oh right, I probably thought he was some other guy who already did this. I watch a lot of these guys and they have very similar thumbnails 😅
Maybe, i just feel i have little to say about the lesser areas. Many of them are just nice looking and were fun to discover, but have little content other than building up the boss of the area
I dont know many games with good chinese music that fits the period, and outside of a few exceptions wukong's just doesnt do it for me... but yeah wo long, despite all its many downsides, has pretty great music imo
5:04 Why did u put that boss in the good category. That's one of the easiest bosses and most boring boss in the game. I personally think bishu beast should be great tier. I think zu Bajiu could be one of the best bosses in the game if he switched up to normal form and boar more often and switched up combos between switching forms and not have to wait the till his entire ink form phase done to beat him even if u take out his whole health bar. Erlang is a great fight but would be be the 2nd best imo if he either didn't have such a high parry bar or not have one at all and not use his long drawn out sword mini gin and big red lighting slam so much,and he should do more combo attacks instead. Thats my only complaints about erlang.
@@SleeplessSpecter One, Stellar Blade isn't a Soulslike. Two, the combat, art style, soundtrack, and especially the bosses in this game completely blow Stellar Blade out of the water. As for Lies of P, it just depends on what you personally value the most in a game. Lies of P has better areas, art direction, and lore. However, Wukong once again has far better combat, bosses, and soundtracks.
Erlang is really great and might even be objectively the best boss as you explain but off how much I enjoy a boss it’s easy the great sages broken shell and it’s not even close tbh only real weakness is no dialogue
Update: They've added RAT CAPTAIN boss into this game. Now I must redo the whole list. Stay tuned.
No way I rewashed this video 3 times, and you commented during my third watch, and are you going to do a top 10 bosses of 2024?
@magicat7356 they added a lot of boss revamps in the boss rush update. They're very fun (tiger Vanguard got shockingly harder). Also, any idea when a new video is gonna drop?
peak game, peak video, peak list, peak youtuber.
more like overrated
Peak game, bad video, awful list, horrendous youtuber
@@Omega77232 Nice bait
@@Omega77232peak bait
Game is far from peak but magicat is a great creator
Based Erlang enjoyer. My favorite discovery during the fight was when I learned to use Immobilize to force him into his counter-attack animation which gives you enough time to land a free heavy attack which cancel his counter-attack. This was so cool because Immobilize was still technically doing its job while simultaneously bypassing Erlang's immunity to heavy attacks.
Much love for sticking it out with such a long series. Amazing game, equally good ranking videos
Great vid! As someone who wants to make their own action game with a handful of souls inspiration, i've been loving the boss ranking more than others since it feels a lot more constructive and goes into detail of the movestes. Combo tree's are basically my favorite gaming thing ever now and seeing how far this game can push it is astonishing. One day i hope to create a boss worthy of the likes of erlang and wukong and these analyses feel like they help tremendously.
(On the other hand promised consort is my favorite boss in gaming so what do i know.)
Great video bro always nice to see how others felt with certain bosses (I’d put yellow loong as the second best next to wukong but that’s because I’ve fought him as early as possible in ch.4 with literally no damage output)
DeliriusHunter is too late to the (diddy) party but here we are. Great ranking series overall, some of my favorite editing yet. Absolutely agree with Erlang on the top, prob mechanically best boss I've ever seen. Hardest disagree is Violet Spider.. she was GREAT, awesome fight and seeing her only in decent was pretty sad tbh.
Overall great Game, actually amazing game, probably my second favorite game of 2024 after Lost Crown. Great fight, loved the video
This game deserves a hard mode unlock, these bosses are great when they actually have a chance to move.
One thing I find great about Erlang that hasn't been covered by the video: he copy your four banes status to use against you. And not just cheaply done too. He actually has an animation where he picked up the residue of fire (ice, poison) you used from the ground and coat his spear with it, then style on your for a good chunk of a minute.
my fav youtuber is back
As a fellow erlang enjoyer i fully agree with what he said. Absolute peak of fights
Really great video.
I think main issue with hard bosses is, if they are so much harder than everything else it seems unreasonable.
I personally love the boss, so I don't necessarily have that complaint, but I do prefer scaling is very visible in difficulty.
To make an example without spoiling too much in case you dont know/havent played game.
The best boss in nine sols is by far the hardest, but nothing in the game really compares you for that fight, which makes people "rage" over it.
If game was better at scaling up to that specific fight, it would be awesome.
And in case you haven't played Nine Sols... get on with it, I know you love HK and I know you love fromsoft.
I love Erlang's bossfight so much. I love how he adapts to you.
Erlang Shen and Great Sage's broken shell out here setting up new standards for bosses and to think this is this studio's first game.
My man erlang has more moves than all ds1's bosses combined
That might actually be true not gonna lie
@@Mr.Starlight_gamingkinda unfair to compare them, DS 1 isn't a boss focused game
The craziest part is that Mr. UA-camr Man separated their fights into two, I wonder if the top two would have swapped if he had talked about the full fights.
I agree about great sage but erlang is a fight I couldn’t enjoy fully. He had great moves but also very weird ones as well to me making the fight just feel not fun. I didn’t hate it but I wouldn’t go out of my way to do it again
The Breaking Bad segment lmfao
Just to add to the erlang love, if you use any bane against him while guard is still up, he will channel it into his spear and use it against you 💀
What a chad
Wo Long osts went hard
Erlang is so insanely good that only Allmind from AC6 beats it. Like I've never seen such combo variety.
Of all lists l've seen, yours' is most similar to mine:
10. Stone Monkey
9. Four Kings
8. 100eyed master (but I fought him after the patch though)
7. Duskveil
6. Yin Tiger
5. Yellowbrow
4. Inspector
3. Great Sage
2. Erlang
1. Yaksha King (but without Red Boy)
3:53 I didn't have this "bug" when I played. Instead it took 2-3 3 focus heavy attacks to take it out of it,... or wait for about a minute or two for it to expire by itself. Horrible design, indeed, but it might be intentional. Don't know for sure though, of course.
It would only take one heavy + light tap from certain stances (dont remember which, maybe thrust), from what I've heard from other people.
22:34 lion dude...not a tiger...btw great video enjoyed it...especially the part 2 of this boss video series where you made fun of pale axe steward...lol
A lot of the bosses benefit from being unique. And well GS really know what they are doing with gank fights.
"This just sounds like a sex position" bro i thought the exact same thing too😭😭😭
Btw just wanna bring up that the reddit post at 38:16 was bs lol
The guy was complaining about rock solid not working on erlang is legit untrue lol. Rock solid legit stops most of erlang's attacks 😭
Those double bosses were the highlight of this game for me. Yeah this game had incredible solo bosses(admitedly much better than double overall), but this was first game in my memory that made double bosses really enjoyable. And overall bosses were much much more enjoyable for me than anything fromsoft have produced since ds3. And broken shell/stone monkey felt like a true last boss it made sense it was awesome it was fun it was hard it was great spectacle it had incredible cinematography(best boss to date for me) with Erlong being close second. Also every secret zone/boss in context of final chapter boss and whole wukong lore made so much sense.
i like your analogy--trucks to peaks.
I think my comment didnt send but scorpionlord is extremely reactionary imo. I beat him in 3 times and i didnt " memorize" his moves. Yellow loong took me like 15 tries and he was an extremely " memorize" heavy boss. Thats just my opinion tho. Great video
Mantis was like a few other "hard" bosses in this game. If you rushed in and threw everything at him at once (All your spells) you could kill them instantly...if you didn't they were next to impossible...not the best boss design. Mantis was a pita until I went in and unleashed everything at once...killed him quickly.
24:20 Hey, you forget my Poisestone.
I'm really upset that I stumbled into the Duskveil arena and lost my chance to fight Scorpion Lord. I had to put the game down for a couple days.
im now mad that i didnt think of using jumps at all on the erlang fight 😭
You should play Furi, a certain boss on furier is my fav of all time gameplay wise.
Has erlang surpassed all mind for you as your favourite boss ever?
Hard to say, too early to say. Allmind resonated more thematically, story-wise (i dont really know much of erlang outside of what the game tells you since i never read or watched adaptations of journey to the west). But allmind also has a pretty bad phase 1, whereas erlang has some pauses in excitement.
Erlang is the absolute limit of dodge roll combat. But i think they could have gone even beyond allmind in ac6. If they ever make an ac6 dlc it has to have the best boss oat
Red Loong annoys me so much because he's got a sweet design and his moveset is genuinely quite fun (if a little too easy) but the two times i've fought him he's literally been struggling knocked over for about 70% of the "fight". Surprised you didn't mention that. Maybe i've just been really unlucky (technically lucky) about his staggers. Or maybe it's a pillar stance thing?
Alright guys, which is the better boss golden eyed bishui or flamelurker?
Moveset-wise bishui, but only if he doesnt make the game lag
My favorite frog is Lang-Li-Guhh-Baw AKA the electric one.
Well on the part of OST, I agree. I much prefer Elden Ring OST, Dark Souls 3 or even Lies Of P over Black Myth: Wukong. This is just personal preference
Have you played Remnant 2? The bosses there are pretty darn good 👍
Great Video. But for me sadly Supreme Inspector would be awful Tier cuz it was just a lag fiesta on PC. Almost all other Bosses were fine (Kang Jin Star was also pretty laggy but not as infuriating as the Inspector)
Wandering wight with glasses and beard ❤
Man I love this game
they are name loong instead of dragon is because china's new culture policy want to separate the good eastern loong from evil western dragon.
And then they have each loong try to murder us
what do you expect? their destiny is written, saying the Destined One will come for their head😂😂@@magicat7356
You said that the game generally doesn't have good music, but are there exceptions? Did some of the major bosses or story moments have good or great music?
There are exceptions for sure, I pointed them out as often as I could but left some unmentioned. I liked the music in most if not all of the animations after each chapter, I liked the headless singer in chapter 2, black bear guai, keeper of the flaming mountains, yaksha king, kang jin star, non white, phase 3 of supreme inspector and erlang. Probably a few others too that dont come to mind immediately.
@@magicat7356 thanks.
@@magicat7356 Yellow loongs theme was amazing
honestly I dont get the complainers. Erlang can be beaten fairly easily if you know how
Am I the only one who didn’t find anything special with great sage? His mechanics feel too soulsy. He never really lets you do anything cool with the combat, it’s just attack dodge attack dodge for most of the fight. He had way too much poise for how agile and lengthy his combos are. I found erlang much more enjoyable.
Best bosses off the top of my head(not ranked)
-erlang
-yellowbrow
-yellow wind sage
-Yaksha king
When are you ranking the Salt and Sanctuary bosses?
Can you rank the shadow of the erdtree areas?
He already did
@@Edric09 AREAS
@ngianaedm Oh right, I probably thought he was some other guy who already did this. I watch a lot of these guys and they have very similar thumbnails 😅
Maybe, i just feel i have little to say about the lesser areas. Many of them are just nice looking and were fun to discover, but have little content other than building up the boss of the area
@@magicat7356 but shadow keep is their greatest area ever imo i think you'll have alot to say about that
I agree on everything except for Scorpionlord. It's just a spam boss that has 0 fun in it.
For me the opposite, i'd consider him a top 5. Super satisfying if you perfect dodge the whole combo. Honestly thought magicat ranked it a bit low.
You really like wo long music huh ?😊
I dont know many games with good chinese music that fits the period, and outside of a few exceptions wukong's just doesnt do it for me... but yeah wo long, despite all its many downsides, has pretty great music imo
5:04 Why did u put that boss in the good category. That's one of the easiest bosses and most boring boss in the game.
I personally think bishu beast should be great tier.
I think zu Bajiu could be one of the best bosses in the game if he switched up to normal form and boar more often and switched up combos between switching forms and not have to wait the till his entire ink form phase done to beat him even if u take out his whole health bar.
Erlang is a great fight but would be be the 2nd best imo if he either didn't have such a high parry bar or not have one at all and not use his long drawn out sword mini gin and big red lighting slam so much,and he should do more combo attacks instead. Thats my only complaints about erlang.
Big heads = funny
Fun game. Flawed but fun
Bro you messed up the title its part 3
Erlang or allmind?
Cant say yet, but its really close and thats saying a lot
Mid game tbh
In your opinion, what makes you think that?
@@GordonTheGamerbait
Nah, Wukong is easily tied with Lies of P as the best Soulslike ever made
@@jameslough6329 Not even close to Lies of P. Not even as good as Stellar Blade
@@SleeplessSpecter One, Stellar Blade isn't a Soulslike. Two, the combat, art style, soundtrack, and especially the bosses in this game completely blow Stellar Blade out of the water.
As for Lies of P, it just depends on what you personally value the most in a game. Lies of P has better areas, art direction, and lore. However, Wukong once again has far better combat, bosses, and soundtracks.
Erlang is really great and might even be objectively the best boss as you explain but off how much I enjoy a boss it’s easy the great sages broken shell and it’s not even close tbh only real weakness is no dialogue