After finishing our adventure in the first chapter of the FromSoftware saga (just over the weekend we talked about the last monster) let's move on to Dark Souls II - arrived in 2014 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC and later remastered on current generation consoles - and its first boss: theLast Giant. If you have difficulty or want to know more about this (not too) fearsome enemy, read our guide: you will not regret it!
Strategy and useful advice
First, know who the boss is very slow in the movements, so you shouldn't have much trouble dodging his attacks. The most effective strategy is to stay between his legs and hit him while being careful of the pestons. When he leaves, run under him again and go forward like this. When he has 50% of his life points, he will detach his arm and use it as a weapon: continue as before, trying to make him do the pestoni and not give him more than two or three hits at a time. Know that in this phase of the fight you will not be able to parry, so learn to dodge his blows.
Also remember that the Ultimate Giant is vulnerable to lightning and fire.
Attacks
- Sweep: A 180 ° sweep with your left arm, which you can parry (if you have a decent shield and enough stamina) or dodge by rolling.
- Stomp: if you are close to him, the boss will try to stomp on you; with this attack, it will cause you a lot of damage, but you can easily avoid it.
- Multiple stomp: the giant performs three stompers, alternating feet; you can easily avoid this attack as well.
- Arm-Mace: In the middle of his life points, the boss will detach an arm and use it as a weapon, thus becoming able to perform sweeps with a much greater range than before.
- Devastating impact: the boss will stop and try to crush you with his body; with this attack it will do you a lot of damage, but if you manage to dodge it you will have an interesting time window in which to attack it.
Drop
- Soldier's key
- Soul of the last of the giants
- 10000 anime
Giants are fascinating creatures and, more often than not, misunderstood. In all the stories they always inspire a strong aura of danger and charm and in Dark Souls II the question does not change, on the contrary. The fascinating people are introduced into the narrative sector of the story as peaceful and extraneous to the main events narrated, but, in the end, the giants are brought up almost by force in the course of events. The king of Drangleic, Vendrick, decides to draw on the immeasurable power they hold, irremediably antagonizing them. This event will set off a series of frightening clashes that will ultimately lead to the extinction (or so it would seem) of the giants themselves.
In fact, one of them (but also more than one) survived the great battle: The Last Giant, the first boss of Dark Souls II. Not much is known about being: its genesis is not known, nor how it managed to escape the sad fate of its fellow men. What is of great interest is the fact that the giant enemy holds the Soldier's Key as evidence of some form of interaction with the human race. Defeating him will not be difficult, but understanding the secrets of his existence, instead, yes.
► Dark Souls II is an RPG-Adventure game developed by FromSoftware and published by FromSoftware Bandai Namco for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the video game was released on 11/03/2014 The version for PC came out on 25/04/2014
