There's nothing like booting up a new video game and experiencing the gameplay for the first time, especially the first few boss battles in a game.
What happens if you kill the tutorial boss in Elden Ring?
There have been plenty of great first boss fights over the years, but a recent Reddit thread on r/Gaming asked which one was the best. The original poster listed several examples that he believes "set the standard for bosses for that game." These included Valus from Shadow of the Colossus and Poseidon from God of War 3. The latter franchise was one that came up often in the comments on the thread, with some going so far as to say that every first boss in PlayStation's fantasy action series was fantastic, but for different reasons. Baldur/The Stranger from 2018's God of War, however, received a lot of love for its music, gameplay, and how well it sets up the rest of Kratos and Atreus' journey in the reboot.
Several titles developed by FromSoftware were also discussed in the thread. The Cleric Beast (or Gascoigne, depending on how you played, as there were several conflicting answers) from Bloodborne and Gundyr from Dark Souls 3 were mentioned. FromSoftware's masterpiece Elden Ring was also mentioned multiple times, unsurprisingly. Due to the open nature of the game's world, players came up with varying answers as to who the true first boss of the game is.
Is it the Grafted Scion you encounter after creating your character? Is it the Tree Sentinel in Limgrave that shows up after the tutorial? Or maybe it’s Margit the Fell Omen, the beast that lives outside Stormveil Castle. It makes for a fascinating discussion amidst an already interesting question.
