The cinematic has Alden, Tusk and two wolf-like creatures, but they are missing from the fight.
They are. He summons them in a line attack.
He basically absorbs them and uses them as a projectile extension.
It’s the right decision because soulslike combat with animation locks totally falls apart on multi-enemy fights.
Especially with a fixed camera.
Would be nice if they had either some fade into plague animation something, indicating that they are the summons/powers of Alden, otherwise just found them missing and in the attacks they are easy to miss when being focused on the combat.
This also felt strange to me. I was expecting the wolves to show up in the fight. Even if they are pretty easy, their death could’ve served as an enrage trigger for the boss itself. That gives you the strategic choice to fight and enraged boss without summons, or the normal boss but while having to deal with summons