Motoi Sakuraba (桜庭統, Sakuraba Motoi, born August 5, 1965) has composed musi… Read Full Bio ↴Motoi Sakuraba (桜庭統, Sakuraba Motoi, born August 5, 1965) has composed music for various Japanese video games (such as Dark Souls and the Tales of series), anime series (such as Star Ocean EX), and TV dramas (such as Cyber Bi-Shoujo Telomere) as well as independent progressive rock albums. Sakuraba is regularly contracted for composing work through his own TEAM Entertainment, a company founded in 1999 to promote and license the work of artists.

With respects to his musical style, Sakuraba takes the baroque and melodic Japanese progressive rock of the 1980s and expands it with his own trademark complex rhythms, emotional flutes, use of male choir and heavy reverb. The lighter side of his style is a crossover between symphonic progressive rock, cinematic orchestra and new age. Sakuraba is also known for introducing many jazz-like improvisations to his music style. In recent years he has made a serious effort toward expanding his style even further.

For more information about the composer and his works you can visit his Official Homepage,Motion, or his Official English Website.

Four Kings
桜庭統 Lyrics

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M.A.I.M. Ladies and gentlemen I got my **** in my pants, ****…
Soulmass Darkstalkers and evil hearts Wraiths from the black Abyss D…
Young Buck Feat. T.I. Young Jeezy & Pimp C Ladies and gentlemen I got my **** in my pants, ****…

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High Octane SynX

2y↑1

-you jump of the stairs for the first time
-forgot the ring
- YOU DIED
-you came back again but this time you remembered the ring
-you jump
-you are in the almighty abyss surrounded by nothing but pitch black nothingness
-you start asking where should i go, and what should i explo -
-before even finishing your sentence this OST starts out of nowhere
-you are panicked as hell because you probably didn't expect an immediate bossfight also 0:01 hit you so hard already
- YOU DIED

All comments from YouTube:

Dinorex

3y↑371

I love how this fight can be both "Three Kings" and "Eight Kings" depending on how much damage you deal and how aggressive you are.

Jade Wedge

1y↑24

A singular king, should one have sufficient damage!

Toprak

1y↑49

"Varying Number of Kings" doesn't have the same ring to it

Bonk

1y↑5

@Toprak N=damage dealt kings.

Fountain

8y↑2.3K

See, this is one of the few boss battles to correctly emulate fear. You land in a literal abyss of nothing: the sensory deprivations makes you dizzy and the sheer darkness consumes your vision. Then you see them. The gnarled twisted forms of the old kings. They snarl as they charge at you, and panic floods your mind as you struggle to hit them back.

Razerbros 6

8y↑145

I nearly panicked to death just from the fall. The complete dark did NOT help

ZZZzz Mmm

8y↑122

wtf you talking about? it's one of the best fights in the series.

Boy

8y↑17

+Rebel Raime (Fume Knight) Every time I fought them I ended up getting blindsided by the ones I wasn't attacking. It's very shittily designed, but the franticness and atmosphere of the encounter takes away from it.

Zachary Seiders

8y↑52

if you cannot dps the 4 kings fast enough it does become bullshit

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Darkwireman

8y↑1.3K

That one boss everybody tried the "just put on Havel's and whale on them" strat for.

Silvy

8y↑237

Though that strat proved useful in the end.

Charr

8y↑34

I thought that would be Pinwheel.

CanadianCaesar

8y↑53

+Darkwireman try doing that in NG+ and beyond, you'll find the results to be a little underwhelming.

OrthodoxGod

8y↑120

+Charr who actually thinks of strats against pinwheel xD

Big E

8y↑78

+Charr Pinwheel is more like "oh look a boss! oh wait, it's just a normal enemy with an enormous health bar..."

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Leonel Rodriguez

7y↑713

I honestly loved new londo.

The bodies, the nasty faces, the darkwraiths, fear and the genuine feeling of wanting to leave and finish the place as soon as possible.

The kings, the soundtrack, everything except the ghosts gutting you from the walls.

Royal Hero

5y↑72

Agreed, the whole place genuinely scared me. When you drain the water, get the lift to the bottom and see all of those bodies piled upon one another is so disturbing

Cockytrice

5y↑20

I would’ve really liked this area if it weren’t for the nigh-invincible spam-ghosts

Andres Jim

Faces? What faces?

javier morales

3y↑2

I hate it the only thing i like about new londo was the black knights

Bruh

3y↑6

@Andres Jim The "Mass of Souls" enemy

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Miguel Bernal

8y↑3.2K

When you jump from the top of the stairs and end up landing on the final jutting platform and die before actually fighting the boss.

Heedfulconch3

8y↑88

i know that feel bro

Nira

8y↑166

that's why I run down the staircase

ᴏʀɪᴏɴ ღ

8y↑11

Lmao

Ventus S

8y↑227

Do you know what's worse?
Is when I pass the fog gate and going to equip the ring to traverse abyss, a ghost hits me from the fog gate and pushes me down and kill me before I wear the ring...

Irma TheShepherd

8y↑37

i've actually died trying to enter the abyss with the ring equipped.
fucking shitty pc port.

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rat tongue

8y↑1.7K

"Prepare for trouble..."

"And make it quadruple!"

Bitch,I'm Ornstein

7y↑72

*quintuple

Nick Valley

7y↑2

Dark Sauce

Baller Balgruuf

7y↑7

Quintuple means five. There are four kings.

Yassin Sisco

7y↑6

you mean more-than quadruple...

zeehond

7y↑19

Baller Balgruuf up to SIX of them can spawn

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RoiRoiJe #2

5y↑439

Now imagine if they didn't share a health bar, had four Health Bars present on screen and all spawned at once.

Hyorvenn

2y↑45

This would be cool along with a different AI. One of them attacks at a time while hitting them correctly would repel them for a bit, allowing you to focus only on the others. This would make this boss fight a rhythm/reflex game instead of a DPS race.

William Wright

2y↑19

I thought that was what it was gonna be at first, ngl.

William Wright

2y↑2

@Hyorvenn That would make for an interesting fight!

SuNGviN

2y↑7

@Hyorvenn totally yea, like mantis lords from Hollow Knight. Even when you fight more than one at a time it feels like a dance

GAMER ASH

2y↑1

Quadruple princes' instead of twin princes' 🤣😂

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Austin Lane

9y↑584

This theme conveys the fight perfectly: PANIC!!!! KILL THEM! KILL THEM FAST!

MTF Theta-11-1

9y↑12

this boss in a bit shell " maby they won't one shot us" this is of course before everyone gets 1-2 shot including the Havel monster

Austin Lane

9y↑3

My goal is to not get hit at all. My strategy: dual-hand, power within/whatever other buff I have, and kill them fast while rolling through their attacks. You need to kill each one fast before another shows up. All in all, one of my favorite fights.

MTF Theta-11-1

9y↑1

+Augustus CB I've done that before... to have power within kill me after

AngelCakes

8y↑2

+Alex Ward They do more damage the further away you are. Get right into their body and just wail on them and they'll die and barely do anything to you. The run up can be difficult and it's pointless trying to block their attacks so just hope your health stays at not dead and that you can poise your way through it.

The others don't attack all that often. The AI can't handle not being attacked so just waits for an opportunity. However most often an opportunity won't present itself, in their eyes anyway, because you're something without stopping so the AI just goes to a default "stay away and wait for an opening" mode. I always kill these guys so fast and easily just from the fact that the AI is kinda thick and that they deal less damage the closer I am.

When one King dies the others are usually very close by so you don't have to worry about another run up.

AngelCakes

8y↑1

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Charr

9y↑706

From the Dark Souls Wiki:
"The Kings spawn in one after another at a rate of about 1 every 40 seconds, and all four can be present at once. If one is killed before 40 seconds elapses, another will take its place, immediately resetting the spawn timer. Kings will continue to spawn for as long as the battle lasts, unless there are already four Kings present."
Using this information, i say that they are in fact just four kings, and once killed, they will simply regenerate and respawn after a certain amount of time. Don't ask me how they share this humongous health bar though.

Naz Az

8y↑38

+Dabirro “Dabir” Fabinirro Gwyn's Soul keeps them intact.

a2l

8y↑30

+Charr Don't know if you care anymore but I once killed them with only 3 that spawned. If one dies you can still slash it for a good 5 seconds until it disappears completely and the health goes down considerably that way. Not many people know this ;)

Charr

8y↑1

MisterDeadGuy
That wasn't QUITE my point though...

a2l

8y↑4

Charr Yet you said: "Using this information, i say that they are in fact just four kings"

Charr

8y↑6

MisterDeadGuy
Because there's other comments in this comment section saying how there's MORE THAN four Kings down there.

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Bevsworld04

4y↑646

Me: killed 4 kings

Random 5th king: allow me to introduce myself

Bevsworld04

4y↑56

I'll leave this in the comments so that it doesn't impact the joke, but the reason you can get 5 kings instead of 4 is because an individual king's health is not exactly 1/4 of the whole health bar, but slightly less, so if you don't deal extra damage while a king is dying, a filth one will spawn.

SonOfSparda3139

4y↑1

i only get four whenever i fight them

William George

3y↑9

I somehow saw 7.

JacenTV

@William George what weapon were you using I was using a black knight greatsword +3 and saw 4

William George

@JacenTV I think it was either an occult longsword +3 and good faith or velkas rapier of similar level.

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Pardoner Fennel

9y↑790

I like this fight. It forces you to man up and be more agressive, and you need to be REALLY agressive to beat this dps-race.

David Levin

9y↑91

Be. Aggressive. Be. Be. Aggressive.

Big Blue Kaiju

9y↑11

Be aggressive like the pizza!

Skeletus Flavourus

9y↑2

David Levin I started doing that too.

s21411

8y↑6

+Mattias Djärv I hate it, literally just pick the hardest hitting weapon i can, buff/resin it, power within, full havels, hold down R1.

Dumahs Assassin

8y↑1

+David Levin (Derpghost56) are you singing the song?

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TTheDDoctor

9y↑231

At one point, this theme was incredibly enjoyable. After NG+, it turns my soul to ice every time I hear it.

Antonio Vivaldi’s Ghost

2y↑2

Just use a Gravelord Sword and you can destroy them

huluandebay man

2y↑2

@Antonio Vivaldi’s Ghost confirmed, took me a bit but I soloed them successfully with the sword

Lady_Efrafa

10y↑221

One of the best boss themes in the game by far. So grim, solemn and tense and really gives you the feel of fighting four corrupt and evil, but once majestic beings of the pure Dark.

Bruno_CFH

10y↑13

Agree

Lady_Efrafa

9y↑11

Just realized I should have said "but STILL majestic beings of the pure Dark". Because they do look fucking cool, yep. One of the best themes for one of the best bosses, so to speak.

JopocaJ

1y↑12

The setup, the location with the text saying "the abyss", the silence and suddenly this bomb ass music as the bossfight starts with the kings being summoned, i loved this so much

ナナシさん

3y↑14

Heavily underrated soundtrack. It really conveys the urgency of the battle. Either you kill them or you get overrun.

Zomby Jano

8y↑2.5K

We don't need depth perception where we're going!

Cal

5y↑17

True though

Void Bow

5y↑34

An Event horizon reference on a Dark souls video?
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

Blue199

4y↑5

great reference

Universal Soldier

3y↑25

"How the fuck did my halberd miss!?"

Alraune Dollmind

10y↑279

Jesus. Effing. Christ.

Four Kings. Hardest boss in Dark Souls and one of the hardest boss fights in any game I've ever played in my life. The amount of pressure I feel under when I'm in combat is mind-blowing; every fraction of a second I have to spend dodging or blocking the Kings' stronger attacks makes me feel like I'm closer and closer to defeat, frantically thinking "oh god oh god the rest are coming", and don't even get me started on that DAMN GRAPPLE ATTACK, half the time there's no way I can react in time to dodge by the time I realize it's winding up for a grapple (it does that unique circle-motion before lunging forward) and I get a horrible ten second penalty in addition to the nasty damage, and UGH, everything about this fight is unbelievably brutal even by Dark Souls standards.

But you know, that's why I love this game. 'Cause by the time I finally win, there's that amazing feeling of wanting to leap out of my seat and shout YES YES YES YES YES YES at the top of my lungs for a minute straight. I fight this guy hours and hours into the game while I'm nearing the end of the game, and it's still providing me with the primal need to struggle and conquer, with battles like this out of left field.

It's because this game does things *right*, that's why.

Mrster

10y↑25

I was kind of underwhelmed to be honest. I just ran straight into them and started swinging, I could kill them one by one before the next one would show up basically. Didn't change the fact that the setting and music was epic though.

YSB

10y↑4

Four Kings were kind of easy for me. Maybe I was overleveled when I fought them, but I was able to defeat them without getting hit more than about 3 times.
It was still a super intense fight. Everyone had warned me that this fight was a hard one, so I was nervous when fighting them.

Poecile sp

10y↑4

Mrster It's a bit harder on NG+.

Mrster

10y↑1

FanNotANerd Oh I'm sure. I'm playing NG+ and I died multiple times vs S&O, as opposed to the first time where I killed 'em on the second try I believe. Although this time I'm taking on Super Ornstein, not Super Smough.

Poecile sp

10y↑2

Mrster Super Ornstein's not so bad. Every one of his attacks (except the butt-slam) can be avoided by hanging out between his legs.

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Maliketh, the Mixed Blade

6y↑199

These guys are something that you would see on a bad acid trip.

Alex Kennedy

4y↑21

Whole fight might as well been from my experience.

Starskill

3y↑59

Ornstein/Smough, Four Kings e Manus são as boss fight com as musicas mais fodas

Ronam SilvaΩ

2y↑7

A do Gwyn tbm é foda

認Simon認

E tbm as Boss fight mais cascudas do Dark Souls 1 kkkkkkkk

Pedro Araujo

@認Simon認 four kings acho facil, o problema é o caminho de volta. Pra mim kalameet é do top 3 mais dificeis

認Simon認

@Pedro Araujo Kaalamet já outra história kkkkkk, bicho apelão do Karai

Prototype Jack

7y↑182

Wish I could recreate the feeling of going into this boss for the first time

John

7y↑3

yeah....

4chan Spy

4y↑3

With enough immersion, you definitely can

Aaron Barber

4y↑18

I’ve never played these games, but after hearing the OST and reading the stories behind the creatures I have to play this now. I missed out on this game.

4chan Spy

4y↑8

@Aaron Barber nah man, you havent missed out on anything. Whenever you get the chance, play it bro

Anthony Rodriguez

4y↑1

Just fight them in NG+++

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ZZZzz Mmm

9y↑45

this boss is amazing in it's design, i mean the pitch black arena, their appearance, their size, the music, the difficulty, everything, also eventually in maybe ng++ or more, they'll be the most dangerous enemy in the game to take on solo

Ghiaccio

Four Kings Remembers Devil Jin

wampXs

8y↑2.3K

for speedrunners: 2 kings

For me: acoupleofhundredofthem

「Killer Memes at a Reasonable Price」

8y↑35

This video should come with a trigger warning for how awful this fight is

「Killer Memes at a Reasonable Price」

8y↑136

First Surname It's not called bed of bullshit. It's called Falling into Holes Simulator

Jett

8y↑104

A small loan of a million bosses

Clockworkz

8y↑46

So, good luck! Err... I mean... Good luck.

Unknown 247

+Jett irk

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Alfons Hedström

7y↑23

No experience EVER has been as good as seeing Four Kings and this OST starting

Dark Souls first experience is fucking amazing, man

qsqua

9y↑267

This fight was way too creepy for me. You jump down into nothingness and land on ? nothing!!
And when you look at the kings, half their body is below ground (If you can call that ground).
I was happy to finish this asap.

Big Blue Kaiju

9y↑11

Yeah not only was this fight disorienting, but it pretty much turns into a DPS contest.
Good thing I was using a strength-faith character with a +8 Devine ultra greatsword at the time

qsqua

9y↑27

Michael Margolis
True. Patience isn't rewarded here. Speed and opportunistic behavior is.

Jerec 12

9y↑2

qsqua that was me in the depths
that place has everything i despise and am frightened of
rodents and bugs a dark confined space and the boss reminded me of the movie teeth

qsqua

9y↑2

Jerec 12
Oh, you mean the monster with the giant teeth? The one that convinced me to either remain a virgin or become gay? Yeah, I repent fighting that boss.

Gorfinhofin

9y↑4

+qsqua I kept trying to attack, found I wasn't close enough, moved forward, tried again, still not close enough... "HOW BIG ARE THESE THINGS???"

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The Wind Is Blowing

2y↑8

1:17 - 1:28 is the best part of the song for me. That harmony in the brass and the vocal melody just oozes a relentless struggle of doing the impossible.

JulianY2K12

10y↑24

I like how you have a few moments to take in the pure darkness and silence of the Abyss before the boss appears and the music plays. It goes from quiet & suspenseful to scary and intense. The tension even continues to escalate as more of them start appearing.

It's also visually impressive because of how the characters contrast aganst the background and it even effects my depth perception slightly. This boss fight is perfect imo.

Novin Sadighi

8y↑38

One of the most badass, awe-inspiring and intimidating bosses in the series. That time when you jump down the abyss for the first time in DS1 was one of the biggest "nope" moments in the entire series. I swear to god i was so intimidated by this boss and it's music that i alt+f4ed out of the game and didn't play it for a week. Haha. Sweet times.

Isaac Halley

6y↑28

1:38 pure adrenaline

ShiftyMario

12y↑13

The pure darkness screws up the sense of scale. At first, "Oh look a human sized boss." Attacks when thinking boss is close enough. "God help me."

Royal Hero

5y↑18

These guys remind me a lot of the Nazgul - once kings of men who were tempted by power offered by a sinister figure and thus fell into darkness.

Flavortown

8y↑544

Anyone else try to take off the covenant of artorias after landing, and soon realize that's not a good idea?

xander

8y↑22

Yes.....

borek921

8y↑17

What happens when you do that?

Flavortown

8y↑136

you get taken by the abyss. I tried to put havel's ring back on, but I regretted it quickly. there's actually an animation for it.

Vision of the Chief

8y↑10

Why yes, yes I did.

xander

8y↑15

And then Alucard The Abyss realized who the hell you are and spat you back out like some bad lobster right?

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Dexi

1y↑3

I think this boss is one of the coolest visually and environmentally, but, they seem more like final fantasy enemies than Dark Souls. Really remind me of Safer Sephiroth

Abyss

9y↑11

Probably one of the best bosses in Dark Souls just because it really forces you to think about how damage really affects everything and to be man enough to Red Tearstone at least once.

Jane

11y↑9

Beating the Four Kings on NG+ is quite possibly the greatest feeling I've had in a video game in a LONG time.

Sirinterweb

9y↑920

Probably the most disorienting bosses in the entire game, just because it's just an eternal blackness so it's hard to judge distance

Mikizi

8y↑15

+Bagel Bagon I had no issue with depth perception at all during the fight. Might depend on the person.

JohnRad

6y↑28

A fitting description then, for the place called the Abyss. Hey we don’t know much about the Abyss but what we do know is that it turns people into mentally insane monsters. Seems like it makes sense that the abyss would feel so unnatural and disorienting.

Kinda like if you had to live their you would come out as one of those monsters. I suppose it’s reasonable to complain about but it’s also kinda cool when you think about it.

Eddie Sullivan

6y↑3

I had more trouble with O and S. Died like 10 times I think. I beat 4 kings on my first try. (I'm not bragging either because I'm definitely not a "great" souls player.) But I think it does vary depending on the person and their build.

Bramble

Years late but yeah, it’s pretty hard to judge the distance, in fact I even thought the 4 kings were small when they first appeared, then they got closer and...

HellishPumpkin

These guys are a chore to fight in NG+. I have the DPS to kill them quick but my depth perception is fucked in the fight compared to real life.

Dude Dude

3y↑8

Me: dives off staircase “Wow it’s dark down here, Lemme heal”

One second later, the musical manifestation of a heart attack

4chan Spy

4y↑8

This ost actually makes me shake when I listen to it. It's so menacing and intense, it gives me cold chills listening to it.

If I'm ever going to make a music video about an epic boss battle, THIS ost will be one for sure

Live Amasawa reaction

2y↑3

This is probably one of my favorite bosses, the sheer amount of fear and pressure that you face is so fitting considering the fact that you’re fighting 4 (or more) mighty kings in a cold, dark abyss.

Ashton Haggart

3y↑7

I think all of us missed our first 5 hits when we first fought this boss just because of confused we were

Eddy Sullivan

6y↑4

One of the only bosses to truly instill fear into me, not because they are scary, but because on ng+ cycles if you can't kill that first king before the 2nd one spawned in, you knew you're chances of winning we're slim.

AnamGGSS

6y↑6

Basically, my favorite boss fight in the Dark Souls series, closely rivaling Friede and Ariandel. Not only did this boss "clickbait" me by saying "Four Kings" boss fight. More like "Infinite Kings but four at a time" boss fight :). This boss fight is the most terrifying in the ENTIRE SOULS SERIES for me, not just the Dark Souls series, but THE ENTIRE SOULS SERIES. Not only are you fighting in an abyss, where you can see where you are standing on, and not only are you fighting there weird creepy "king" things, but the soundtrack brings forth the feeling of hopelessness and dread, and gives the "YOURE ABOUT TO DIE A DARK AND HORRIFYING DEATH" feeling. This fight makes the Gaping Dragon look like something from a kids show.And not to mention the DIFFICULTY of this boss when it comes to higher New Games, take for example NG+5, and the BS hitbox these guys have, I already reached the point that all my stats are maxed, yet this boss still made Ornstein and Smough look like a cakewalk. Sure this boss was a cakewalk for the lower new game levels, but once you reach NG +4 this suddenly becomes the hardest in all of Dark Souls 1 - 3, and the most terrifying in all of the Souls Series. (The only game in the Souls Series I haven't played yet is Demon Souls but I saw what the boss fights there were like)

Boomerangofjustice

12y↑1

Right at 1:36 One of them did the soul steal grab and it was freaky, seeing my character struggle as my humanity was being stolen. Say what you will about how easy it is to tank them, but this fight is brilliantly set up to be absolutely suffocating and intense

Billie Jean's lover

4y↑22

The time has come.
Full Havel
Dragon greatsword
Mask of the child
Power within
Forgets the ring
dang

RJ Dujon

3y↑5

Easily the best theme in the whole game

RJ Dujon

2y↑3

This may be one of the best bosses in the series or in any game for that matter

Rip Van Winkle

What the fuck

Alex

4y↑8

My favorite boss in Dark Souls. The music makes it even better.

TheRealX1ras

5y↑5

God, I was traumatized by New Londo forever after I fought this boss for the first time. Seriously, if there was a moment where my heart beat was at its fastest, it would be this.

Alfons Hedström

3y↑4

I don’t think I’ll ever feel the same amount of dread as when I jumped down in the abyss and immediately gets jumped by this boss with this music

Rids

8y↑419

NG+ FLASHBACKS

Gregory Williams

4y↑17

more like NG+ PTSD = Four Kings

VRCX DC

4y↑1

What's the difference between NG and NG+ in this matter?

Gregory Williams

4y↑71

@VRCX DC NG+, the Four Kings have more than twice the health they did on the first play through, and take off a hellish amount of damage. It's labeled to be the largest boss buff change from NG to NG+ compared to the rest of the bosses on the game. And boy........do you feel it during the fight. I was going off of endorphins for a good week after my NG+ fight....

VRCX DC

4y↑5

@Gregory Williams Thanks

TheKiss

4y↑7

Especially if you don't know they do primarily magic damage. I literally couldn't drink Estus fast enough to stay alive

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Chino Gambino

2y↑2

I love the idea the god inadvertently created things he dared not challenge. The greatest knights fell before it. Its like you are fighting some ageless mythical insurmountable terror.

FrankAsplund2

5y↑10

the sound that plays in my head when I wake up in the morning before school and I realize that I overslept

Slop

2y↑2

this was probably one my favorite boss fights in the entire game it was an amazing concept pulled off amazingly

Rycluse

9y↑37

I like this boss. It's not my favorite design-wise, but gameplay-wise it's a fight that's utterly unafraid to pound your ass into the dirt if you don't know what you're doing.

Arran

9y↑2

DrRaklryja Oh please, these bosses are a dps race. I wish they would just spawn all four of the kings directly and make you be able to fight them all at a time!

Arran

9y↑1

DrRaklryja Oh please, these bosses are a dps race. I wish they would just spawn all four of the kings directly and make you be able to fight them all at a time!

Dragonmage Voro

9y↑1

DrRaklryja yLike everyone else doesn't.

Arran

8y↑1

***** Make you be able to fight them all at a time, that is nerf them and spawn all in. It's bordering on impossible to fight all 4 of them at once.

Random ness

@Arran yeah i m sure u can gaurd 4 overheards and that purple thing that follow u

Roland Kimbrough

3y↑2

I love how frantic this soundtrack is! I think it represents the fight perfectly. It's like it's rushing you to finish the fight quickly since the longer the fight goes the harder it gets.

Zomby Jano

4y↑6

This is probably my favorite boss in the base game. Just this music in tangent with the risk of being overwhelmed by multiple Kings gives me nothing but fear and dread. The only thing saving you is your dps (and great magic barrier but shh...)

MrItalianmustard

12y

I love this boss fight. I think it's the most climatic feeling boss fight in the game, and the story behind it and the location it takes place really escalates the climatic essence. Very well presented.

Mertcan Özcanar

5y↑2

This music is the best part of the fight ı love it

minecraftmaster1224

3y↑5

one of the more underrated tracks

androsh

12y

Most surreal boss fight ever. The music helps with this feeling a lot. Btw, anybody else felt a weird Final Fantasy vibe from the Four Kings when you fought them?

MrSanghelios

8y↑310

The real question is why would anyone need four kings for a single city (New Londo)?

Moorezone

8y↑86

These are the questions that must be answered.

Heedfulconch3

8y↑138

they probably each represent different parts of the city, all debating and acting to provide the judgement of four somewhat wise people and combining it

MrSanghelios

8y↑84

Heedfulconch3 That and maybe New Londo was the capital of mankind during the Age of Fire, therefore the Four Kings not only had to watch over their biggest city, but they also had to represent humanity as a whole.

Heedfulconch3

8y↑33

that doesn't explain why there are four though
i think it makes perfect sense that they each represent a quarter of the city

Menno Barten

8y↑23

maybe they are something like the abyss watchers? they are a group but have one soul

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Malcus

5y↑15

Now I see what Sif was guarding against....good lord

Dr G

10y↑27

this theme always freezes the blood in my veins..

Heedfulconch3

8y↑28

[Equips Havel's Armour set]
[equips lightning zweihander +3]
[equips grass cress shield +2]
LET'S DO THIS B****ES
(for those who don't know, an easier way to go through this fight is to Poise tank them, so Armour like Havel's set is very useful)

TheKarui

8y↑3

I just use Zwihander +15 with crystal magic weapon buff and power within combo. Kills them pretty fast.

Rids

8y↑7

beatrice makes the fight worse

Lazzaro Scacerni

7y↑1

Thanks a lot for the tip. I always tried to tank with Artorias Shield and always got owned. I was using Havel + Child Mask for stamina regen /)_-

Captain_Morgan

NG+7 washing pole+15, sunlight blade, power within, giant set

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HatsODoom

10y↑6

Good ol Motoi Sakuraba, always making kickass music. Also, this boss was AWESOME.

Panoulis

3y↑6

Me and my mates were on acid last year and one of them turned off the lights in the room and started playing this song I thought I was going to die by the Four Kings

meachew

6y↑9

Can't wait for these guys in the remaster. :)

bonenito

6y↑2

can i just say that this song started playing in my head this morning as i woke up and things felt pretty intense

Vivi

8y↑1

This music perfectly encapsulates the fight.

You're on a clock, and these guys are just going to keep spawning in until either you or them are dead. So you need to hit hard and fast.

Xuanathan

4y↑4

Roses are red
I’m fighting four boys
But they can’t hurt me
BECAUSE I HAVE TOO MUCH POISE

Without Name

Only working at beginning 7+
Get rekt you

Marko Valčić

9y↑48

New Londo is easy for me. A few parries here a few small fights there. But when I cross that small bridge and walk through the fog my heart starts racing. I put on the ring and start sweating. I'm to scared of jumping from the top so I walk down the stairs until there is no more stairs to walk on. On NG 4 kings are a stressful fight. On NG+ and further it's the definition of my nightmares.

La Pulga

9y↑1

***** How do you deal with the ghosts? They always ambush me inside the house.

Marko Valčić

9y↑2

Nutty151 for characters with faith: Wrath of Gods or karmic justice. On strength builds: any wide ultra greatsword swing. on dex: any wide swinging thing. another option would be to simply stack some poise so that you can get through without getting stunned

La Pulga

9y↑1

***** Sounds like a good strategy. I am a tank class based on strength (Havel Armor) and use Queelag's furysword (cursed).

Marko Valčić

9y↑1

just spam dem r1s and you should be good. don't forget to heal! :D

La Pulga

9y↑1

***** I'll try that for sure. Sometimes the ghosts come out of nowhere and when you try to lure em they keep theit distance xD.

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Serperior KAL

5y↑3

Ah, yes, the boss fight that made me feel like my eyes wanted to jump out of my skull.

icy_dew

7y↑3

the fucking first time this song suddenly started playing in the empty Abyss, i had a fucking heart attack.
tbh reading that much about this boss made me prepare for it, and preparing for fear makes you get spookt more.

TouchMe

2y↑1

This theme suits them really well because the length is the same as how long the fight takes

randominternetman9

12y↑2

this is the most intimidating boss theme, i ever heard and the most scariest intimidating boss fight ever

Tesseract9820

6y↑2

feels like your plummeting into the abyss for reals 0:22

DAEMIAN

Easily my favorite theme from Dark Souls. Every instrument melt together to form a very menacing sound, it urges you to fight, and it signals the evil and dark nature of what you're fighting, more than the kings, you're facing against total desolation, against the nothingness, and total oblivion.
I specially love the piano piece at 1:30, it sounds like... broken, utterly hopeless, seemingly without rhythm, and the violin and vocals make everything so ominous. I love it.

Alfonso Ramirez

Throughout the whole thing it really sounds like someone's speaking underneath the music. It's a really neat effect to add into something so heavy and frantic.

Paint Monarch

5y↑8

This and Gaping Dragon were the only bosses that actually scared me the first time I played.

Blixadon

I love the first time I fell into the abyss and saw a small figure on the distance approaching at me with intense ost. The chills man

High Octane SynX

2y↑1

Juani Furlan

8y↑1

So damn tense and scary... I love it

menial bee

I just love the feeling when you kill one super fast and you're just like "COME ON! GET OUT HERE! I COULD TAKE ALL 4 OF YOU ON!"

Hien Nguyen

8y↑75

Dat feeling when you killed one of them already and counted 4 of them....

Plopo

10y↑10

Me and a fellow undead did this on plus. Most epic thing thats ever happened. Just as the battle was about to end my friend got grabbed by one of them, he would of died had i not landed the finishing blow and ended this nightmare

8MxYue4RzFfx9ATjLc

10y↑6

Oh man! Dark Souls stories right? what nightmares are Dark Souls 2 going to bring to us all!

Valta

4y↑1

Idk why but this music makes the battle so tense. Shame 4 King’s isn’t a better boss fight but this was sure memorable first I played in 2015

Kuisma Haapala

I love the big homing dark bolt that either blows up in your face, or you outrun it long enough that it disappears, but still blows up in your face. My favorite attack in the whole game.

Knight Blonic

4y↑7

Imagine just going into a closet and turning off the lights and within 20 seconds you start hearing this.

Saucedbox

3y↑1

This is the only boss in the game that actually fills me with dread. The only boss in any video game I’ve played, in fact.

Mega Firefly

4y↑4

"Ornstien and Smough is the hardest boss in Ds1!"

Four Kings: "Hold my beer."

LivingSushi

4y↑1

Hold our beers*

Kayque Elson

3y↑4

0:01 First King appears.
0:33 Second King appears.
1:15 Third King appears.

Darrei Deamos

This music and the boss fight captures the feeling of the abyss overwhelming you really well

js100serch

10y

The first time I beat the four kings in NG+ was epic. I made the final stab immediately one of them hit me on the back, the four kings died and right after I fell on my knees and died too... man that was just epic... I'll never forget it...

CATZILLA

1y↑1

This boss fight gave me PTSD 11 years ago
The horror, the horror...

Outer Heaven

12y

I lost to these guys once before I drained new londo. The second time around I summoned a phantom (I didn't know what the hell I was doing) to clear the way so I could finally beat the four kings. This game is fantastic.

Bos Meong

when i comeback after playing elden ring, i realize they will never beat dark souls (and bloodborne) ost. Its so epic. There are quite few one that memorable on Elden Ring while on dark soul it leaves everlasting impact on my brain

KingKaiYT

10y↑6

The boss theme's all remind me of really good villian theme's

Undying Sentinel

5y↑2

Ah this is nolstalgic, I remember jumping down that hole for the first time and dying instantly. Then I got covenant of artorias and depth perception ceased to exist. Despite that I love the panicked nature of this fight and the soundtrack really oomphs the vibe, one of my favorites to be sure

Crownless 7

9y↑2

I just recently beat this boss for the first time. I started a new character and did a dex build that had the End for the golem set, well along with Havel's ring. My first attempt with a mix of golem armor and silver knight armor I beat them, my Uchigatana +12 won the day for me, on my FIRST ATTEMPT with that character, and I had never beaten them before, such a tough battle.

ale

I fought these guys yesterday for the first time, I was so shocked on my first try that I was swinging but hitting nothing but air.

The Music, the Horror, and The Abyss consumed me.

rak wraithraiser

10y↑2

Man I love these guys they define the difficulty of this game but when you fight them on ng+ and after a minute or two your fighting all four at once it gets anoyingly dickish but then again that's why I think everyone loves this game especialy when you get that moment of victory

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