Had a real Dark Souls moment with this game last night. I've been failing at the Sir Alonne boss battle for a while, the Memory Of The Iron King area is completely vacant of enemies since I've killed them so many times. I bring the two summons with me for one last attempt, as I'm out of humanity and can't be bothered trekking around to find more. Anyway, those two guys did pretty good, and the last one perishes with the boss at probably around the 20% health mark.
Anyway, so I'm rubbish at Sir Alonne. Supposedly my tank build is pretty good for this fight, but he's way too fast for my liking. If I block all his swipes and then counter it leaves me with no stamina. I can't get the rhythm down for dodging the attacks. And that strawberry floating move where he stabs you gets me every time, no matter where I try to dodge it. I'm basically left hoping for him to just do that jumping move, which is easy to block and doesn't rape my stamina bar too badly.
So this is going fine, and he's down to his last tiny fraction of health. But wait, it's that banana spliting stab move again! I'm also down to a tiny sliver of health. I stand back up and think, strawberry float it I'll bash him while he recovers and I'll win. Turns out he has a shade more health than I think, and survives my bash! He raises his sword and I go for the yolo follow up. My hammer comes swinging back at the same time his sword approaches my head. I swear, if this is Street Fighter it's a double KO. But mine hits first, we're talking hundredths of seconds here, and the boss is defeated. VICTORY ACHIEVED proudly displayed on screen. Heart racing, blood pumping, I shake my fist at the screen and yell a most creative obscenity. And then I'm done for the night.
This. strawberry floating. Game.