BB has the 2nd best bosses on average in this series. It goes DS3 > BB> DS1 > DS2 > DES for base game bosses. If anything is overrated, it's the criticism that "r1 spam" gets whenever anyone talks about th
Actually, that might be true, and if nothing else, BB's bosses are amazing visually. The problem is that the stupidly designed combat system undermines anything that's good about them mechanically. I maintain that all the beast bosses in the early game (Cleric Beast, BSB, Amelia, Paarl) are pretty boring and samey, but the game has some more interesting designs later on, like Ebrietas for example. But it doesn't matter, because the combat system lets you just ignore all of this.
Let's take Gehrman as an example. A lot of people tell me he's a great boss, which is certainly possible. Thing is, I've played through BB twice, and both times I've killed him on my first attempt, so I simply don't know. The game didn't force me to learn the fight properly, and I just parried and R1-mashed my way through it blindly. Same was true of Ebrietas or Wet Nurse. BB's combat makes it difficult to design good bosses without making them stupidly cheap, like Ludwig phase 1 for instance.
