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I fought First Sinner, and I gotta say, that was definitely my favorite fight thus far, maybe by some margin.

There are a few things that set it apart. For one thing, it heavily rewards aggression. You pretty much have that ZR trigger held 90% of the fight, and yeah I appreciate that a lot, even though the boss' teleportation was excessive on the first try. For another, the boss fucking respawns you right outside the door, which should be standard and up to the player if they want to return to the bench for their tools (didn't need em anyways). For another, there's a very clear distinction of what is a 1 dmger and a 2 dmger, and that alone sets it massively further ahead of every other boss design in this game. You don't take 2 dmg from just slightly brushing against the boss, and it's pretty clear the blade is more dangerous than their body.

Somehow it took me 2 tries, and on the first try I was already able to get to 2nd phase, even if it did take me a bit cuz I was still learning the moves. The only genuinely threatening one was the side needles. I swear to god every one of these fundamental type bosses have that one threatening move that's just a needle skirting the ground. Either way, this was THE boss that actually rewards getting better at the game. I know for a fact older me would've taken way more tries.

If every boss was like this, I'd give this game a clean 9/10, but I think there are far too many stinker bosses in the game that are literally just annoying and nothing else

I did 2 try Groal. I've read enough precaution to know exactly what to do, and well I guess I won't ever know how bad the runback is cuz I only really did it once, cuz my first attempt was with like 5/8 hp and running back from a side quest lmao. But Groal would be a boss that's just annoying. Yeah you can pogo him, but you can also just get gimped by his repositioning. Why even risk all that when there are cheeseable strats. I didn't care for the design enough to engage it when the runback was like 5 min