Ok, I beat Soul of Tinder and DS3. What a fucking annoying boss, but perfect fit for this game. He examplifies everything wrong with DS3, over-reliance on reflexes rather than tactics, punishing in a cheesy way attacks, and the 100% emphasis on rolling like a retard.
90% of what you do doesn't matter against Soul of Tinder. Use movement to gain distance? Doesn't matter, he zips around across the arena on each attack, the concept of range doesn't exist for this guy. Use fancy footwork to get behind him? Doesn't matter, he has 360 degree tracking, and aoe attacks at close range. Try to deplete his stamina? Lulz, tell me how that goes after his 6th attack in a row. Block him with shield? No. Parry? Nope.
Oh and just to fuck with you, his attacks will alternate between super fast and super delayed.
At the end I beat him the same way as Twin Princes, just fought him enough times that my brain subconciously memorized the patterns and I could roll through most of his bullshit. Stupid, stupid fight, but I am done now.
Beat the game, done, uninstalled, good riddance. Have completed the whole trilogy. Hoping Elden Ring will be a lot more like DS1 than this shit. My opinion is any action RPG fan should play DS1, DS2 is much worse and optional only if you really dig this kind of play, hard pass on DS3 for most people.