Darak sewer fight issues

Wicked Feedback
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Its been a while since I did my challenge run (Naked (with a shield to parry, no weapon), no attributes spent, hitless) so might miss something, and the list isn’t in any specific order

  • The gate you enter through blocking the view if the fight ends up going south

  • First phase attack with a shield, I think there’s like 2 variations, and one can’t be parried, I lost a lot of time trying to parry it, there needs to be some clear indication of it (iirc there’s a sound but if you don’t know what its for its easy to miss)

  • Second phase attack where he points the sword then launches the tentacles has inconsistent parry timing, I’m assuming it’s related to how far you are from him making the attack hitboxes get to you sooner or later

  • If you are too close to him in the second phase his attacks miss (but only sometimes so you can’t even abuse it), meaning that you don’t get focus from the parry (meaning that i had no dmg)

  • Second phase attack where he does a 4 hit combo, even if you parry the sword hits you can still get hit by tentacles when hes falling over

  • There was one time where a barrel stayed floating after he destroyed the platforms, which blocked my view, killing me (considering it was one time in so many attempts its not critical but i figured id bring it up)

Now some personal issues:
Second phase is much slower than the first, especially with the ground tentacle attack, its 7s of just walking around waiting for him to stop trashing about, him creating distance is also pretty annoying when you are going bare handed

Additional feedback:
Let me lock my level to level 1, leveling up gives a bit of a damage boost, and as you can imagine a run like that has you die a lot, iirc I leveled up from lvl 12 to 25 dying to Darak (making the fight easier over time).

Unfortunately I ended up playing a different game and not beating Darak (reason why this feedback has been delayed so much). Second phase was simply not fun, with all of the aforementioned issues.
I’d love to complete this challenge with the next update so here I am.

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