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>Gael legitimately feels like a next gen fight compared to Radownies, taking place on a gigantic chunk of land and eventually spiraling into a cataclysm as the world around shits itself from Gael's power.
this is the part i disagree with
maybe i would have liked him a lot more if i played ds3 on release but i found gael pretty boring. i mean objectively speaking he is extremely style over substance, his moveset is literally weaker than bosses from the main game. Arguably index gundyr or dancer or whatever has harder attacks. Gael just has more health and damage basically but nothing really distinguishes him
If he does literally anything in the first phase, you roll in his direction and attack him in between. If he does his combo where he screams then does multiple slashes you can actually just spam roll until its over. In his second phase his cape is cool except it mostly just encourages you to "eat" the attack more with your i-frames and roll inside of him even harder, if you try to actually evade you get poked by it. His crossbow and light rings and lightning bolts are cool but they get automatically countered by absent mindedly strafing sideways while going towards him.
Thats it, thats the entire fight, literally just roll forward whenever he does ANYTHING. In something like elden ring bosses you at least should consider rolling in different directions to not get frame-trapped and have much more interesting defense options
