An error. If we were to describe the Centipede Demon with one word, this would be the most suitable one. Last in a slew of bosses before reaching Lost Izalith, the realm of a Lord worthy of the receptacle, the Demon Centipede is nothing more than a distraction ... and a destruction, that of a pampered and well-liked little brother turned into a horrible bestiality: Endless Download.
The centipede-like demon is a slimy being that can be seen even before the boss fight effective, leaning over a cliff continuing past the first Demon Ruins bonfire and past the lesser Demon Bull and Demon Goat. In this phase, however, it will be as immobile as a statue and virtually unassailable.
He will be found awakened from torpor immediately after the Fire Demon, to ambush - as a predator he is - the Chosen Undead. Consequently, like his colleague before him, the Demon Centipede is an optional boss, avoidable by donating 30 humanity to Quelaag's sister and using the shortcut that leads directly to Lost Izalith before facing the Fire Demon.
Dark Souls: Remastered and QLOC (the Polish studio that took care of the remastering) did the boss a favor, who in the original Dark Souls was a nightmare of frame rate and camera coming together to create (together with the Centipede) a deadly cocktail. In the remastered version the frame rate is more manageable, while the camera - infamous in FromSoftware games with large bosses - does its best but remains what it is.
The Centipede Demon is one of the last aberrations that we will cross on our path in view of the Cradle of Chaos. The boss's most obvious difficulty is the arena: a lava lake with a few safe clods of earth. The demon, born of Chaos and in a certain sense a manifestation of lava itself, is immune to the very high damage that instead awaits the Chosen Undead should he set foot there. All the fire defense the world of Lordran can offer would only lengthen a premature end by a couple of seconds. However, it is possible - indeed, mandatory - to move in order to survive.
Il safer place where jousting with the bosses is in fact a little further away from the fog. The Centipede Demon will land far away giving you time to move and that is to go to the right, where there is a path at the end of which you have to jump to get to a large square to fight (you will recognize the location by a body from which you can take two large green titanites). At this point, while you are waiting for the Centipede to reach you, you can drink an Estus. Some of the lava is unavoidable and you will definitely need it.
Once this is done, the real battle can begin. The Demon Centipede doesn't shine either for fun or mechanics, turning out to be confusing, not to mention a nuisance to leave behind as soon as possible. The best advice is to stay under him, hit his paws and step away as a precaution when he jumps.
The Centipede is a boss consisting of six heads or limbs that can be maimed. By cutting off a limb you will get a ring that you can equip to make the lava damage negligible, drop guaranteed even in case of defeat of the boss, but which can be obtained in advance to facilitate the boss fight. Be careful though, because the severed limbs are still "alive" and will attack you until you kill them. The boss is weak to magic, electricity, weapons wielded by the Black Knights and is instead immune to fire.
Attacks:
- Mr. Fantastic: it will attack you from a distance by extending its longest limb, the left one. To avoid this, you just need to escape sideways; due to its length this limb is also the easiest to cut to receive the Blackened Orange Ring ahead of time.
- Jump attack: the boss will jump, turn around and with little grace will try to hit you with a limb; this attack can be dodged with a side somersault, but the timing has to be pretty accurate.
- Multiple ram: the demon will attack with confused pestons if we stay too long under him; to avoid it just move away.
- Presa: Dark Souls does not contradict itself and also on this occasion it rhymes with “it hurts a lot”: the demon will try to grab you to slip you into his monstrous mouth; the damage inflicted by this attack is huge but it is possible to avoid the grip entirely by dodging the limb with which it tries to catch you or by pressing the R1 and L1 keys (or their counterparts) alternately very quickly, minimizing the damage.
- Jump (explosive): performs a jump landing and causing damage at the point of impact; attack easy enough to avoid, powers up after the Centipede Demon has lost most of his life by adding a burst of fire.
- Fireballs: The boss will jump less high than the (explosive) jump by throwing fireballs at you, to be dodged or parried with a high defense shield against fire.
Curiosity: Usually the boss doesn't last long enough to see him with his own eyes, but the severed limbs grow back over time. Miyazaki originally wanted to put the Demon Centipede in the Church of the Undead, in place of the Gargoyles of the Bell Tower, but chose to move it to a more suitable place because it would have been a fish out of water.
Drop:
- 40,000 souls;
- x1 Humanity
- x1 Bone of Return
- Blackened Orange Ring (Allows you to walk on lava for minimal damage. Needed to continue on the main street of Lost Izalith).
Everything we know about the Centipede Demon must be extracted from two lines at the bottom of the description of the Blackened Orange Ring and connects with Infinite Discharge, the previous owner of the ring. Born with wounds, we remember, the loving sisters had given him the ring to mitigate his suffering. Unfortunately, silly as he was, one mistake was enough to change his life. A single mistake: dropping the ring to the ground. From that point a horrible demon originated which would later take the name of Demon Centipede, a soulless being who shouldn't have existed.
An error, therefore, that made its way arriving at the Ruins of the Demon while the only male Izalith was transformed between pain and tears into an unrecognizable creature, dedicating his life to atonement for his sin by watching over the clothes of one of his sisters. The Demon Centipede continues the insect theme linked to Chaos and its Cradle, infesting with its similar eras and cycles, leaving behind a painful civilization and a lot of destruction.
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