Video Gamer is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Prices subject to change.I love Elden Ring’s bosses. I’ll never forget fighting Radahn for the first time. Charging up the hill with your ragtag militia to wage war on a demigod under a blood-red sky, and don’t get me started on the meteor. Nearly all of the bosses in Elden Ring are spectacular and certainly deserve their plaudits.
And they’re far from the only example, the Lands Between are chock full of weird and wonderful beasties just waiting to taste the steel of your blade. There are the bipedal dogs with massive heads you find in Caelid. The Vulgar Militia are knee-height gremlins who chase you with miniature swords and sickles. Every time I see an Albinauric cartwheeling around me with their chubby little frog-alien faces I can’t help but love it.
If those ramparts had just been another set of knights, I’d have just blitzed through the area and not thought twice. These enemies are more than just faceless, voiceless NPCs, but have their own distinct character. What makes them weird is what makes them so memorable, and by extension, what makes the world they exist in so memorable. This gets taken to a whole new level with the Living Jars, giant pots with arms and legs filled to the brim with human viscera.