Once the reign of the Skeleton Lords is ended, beyond the Hunter's Grove, another area unfolds: the Harvest Valley. If the grove can be seen as the mad "garden" of the neighboring king, then the Harvest Valley can only once have been a working and mining area, which probably served to enrich the king's weapons supply. . Like many areas before this, this too has decayed and one breathes a deadly air, indeed, to be more specific, a poisonous air.
The workers of the valley, having lost their vitality and moved by a mechanical task, no longer extract minerals and riches, but poison, so much so that the place is irreparably compromised, spotted with an unnatural green. Anything to please your own queen, who consumed by jealousy went so far as to use poison as a beauty treatment.
The queen had eyes only for her king and did not like the man who fell in love with her by her side. Crumpled in solitude he became there creature in defense of the queen: the Demon of Greed.
This monstrous demon is actually among the simpler bosses in Dark Souls II. Renamed "Jabba the Hutt" by the community for its resemblance to the Star Wars character, his menacing size also signals his awkwardness, but it has a specific attack that can take you by surprise and turn the tide of battle.
The arena is open and circular, with stairs on the right side that can be used as a temporary shelter. The boss can easily be distracted using her natural greed against him: hanging from the ceiling are some jars that contain sacrificial victims. Hitting them with an arrow (not wooden), the jars will break releasing the contents and attracting the Demon of Greed, who will devour the undead for a few moments..
This time can be spent attacking the boss or catching his breath if - for some reason - the demon turns out to be more complicated than it is. While it is busy it will suffer less physical damage than expected, but it shows how the Demon of Greed's only comfort was and remains to eat as much as possible to forget.
Weak to fire, magic, and lunge attacks, we see how the once human creature from Dark Souls II staunchly defends his beloved.
Attacks:
- Scratch: the boss will try to scratch with the claws of his short arms. Avoidable by rolling in the opposite direction of the arm or back.
- Rotolamento: the demon rolls on itself with the intent to crush. Be careful when it gets back into position, it counts as damage if you are nearby. In an attempt to rearrange itself, it could also "jump". Strike once and rearrange yourself too: the important thing is not to be greedy.
- Colpo di coda: attack that the demon makes especially when you are behind it, slams its tail to the ground vehemently a couple of times.
- Crash: the boss will get up for a short time and will try to crash with all his weight. Easily dodged on the sides.
- Jump: The boss will pause for a moment to try to take a leap of faith to strike with. Here too it is difficult to be taken by surprise given the slowness of the attack: dodge sideways in the right time.
- Throat (grip): undoubtedly the most dangerous attack available to the Demon of Greed, the attack that may surprise that we mentioned at the beginning. It is a hold that sees the boss devour the victim and spit him out stripped of his equipment: armor, weapons, rings are back in the inventory and it will be necessary to re-equip everything using the different openings that the demon offers to balance the clash. Attack phoned from the opening of his huge mouth complete with a dangling tongue. Remember the vases hanging from the ceiling: they are a great opportunity to distract the demon.
In an ice cave in Eleum Loyce, in the Dark Souls II Crown Of The Ivory King DLC, it is possible to encounter another white-colored Daemon of Greed as a miniboss. The strategy is the same as the original Demon.
Drop:
- 13.000 souls.
- Soul of the Demon of Greed (creation, from Straid: Bone Sickle).
Lore:
The Demon of Greed is the first true demon encountered in Drangleic. It is a demonic race that is distant and apart from that which originated from Cradle of Chaos in Dark Souls, (almost) disappeared in the kingdom of Vendrick, corruption of a feeling, the desire, which is one of the strongest themes of Dark Souls II.
The man who now bears the name and likeness of a Demon of Greed is a being ofunrequited love for Queen Mytha and who, taken by despair, directed his intentions on food, eating non-stop until he became even more isolated than before.
It is likely that the queen does not even know that this giant worm faithfully defends the entrance to the Earth's Peak by showing her his impossible love. A man who spent every day by her side and who, perhaps, could have made her happy as she never was, but who fell due to indifference into a whirlwind of unstoppable desires, eventually becoming the most ugly and lonely of the realm.
► Dark Souls II is an RPG-Adventure game developed by FromSoftware and published by FromSoftware Bandai Namco for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the video game was released on 11/03/2014 The version for PC came out on 25/04/2014
