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As Silksong drags them into the spotlight again, have boss runbacks had their day?
Hello and welcome to the first in an almost certainly occassional series of features we're tentatively calling The Big …
Let me paint a picture: Vlor, Despoiler of the Night, raises his mighty fists toward the blackening sky, thick swells of crackling magic signalling an incoming downpour of vicious spears from dimensions unknown. By Dark Souls 3, though, the series' boss runbacks were growing notably less severe, and by the time Elden Ring arrived – let's ignore Raya Lucaria – it seemed From was about ready to consign them to the dustbin of video game history once and for all, tossed aside as a pointless bit of legacy faff. Over the years, we've seen the subgenre embraced by the likes of Nioh, Salt & Sanctuary, Lords of the Fallen, Mortal Shell, Blasphemous, Steel Rising, Nine Sols, and Lies of P; the full list is long.
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