

While there are a lot of boss fights that could have fit into these lower spots on this list, Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast ultimately got the nod here due to its aggressive attack style and strong defenses. If you think that sounds like blasphemy, that’s because you haven’t tried to beat the absolute hardest boss fights in Elden Ring or the dozen or so other encounters in this game that could have easily made this list. While Elden Ring offers you a surprisingly generous number of ways to overcome some of its toughest boss battles, quite a few of the boss fights in this game could easily be considered some of the toughest boss fights that FromSoftware has ever crafted. Well, I’m…oh…let’s say “happy” to tell you how wrong I was. After all, with so many options available to players and so many potential ways to “cheese” those epic encounters, surely Elden Ring‘s bosses would ultimately end up being just a touch easier than some of the hardest bosses we’ve seen in the studio’s previous games. I went into Elden Ring wondering if FromSoftware would possibly be able to fill such a massive open-world game with the kind of difficult boss fights that have (in their own way) come to define the Soulsborne games and many of their spiritual spin-offs.
