Which soulslikes offer repeatable boss fights?
Which soulslikes offer repeatable boss fights?
I know of Sekiro and Khazan so far - Sekiro via its reflections and Inner variants, and Khazan via just repeating the boss fight where you fought them initially. I quite like both and think it's cool to re-experience the fights if you feel like it. Which other soulslikes do that?
DS2 has bonfire ascetic which lets you bump an area up by one NG+ level and respawns the boss.
Can you do that on NG already or just on repeat playthroughs?
Yes, and you can do it multiple times, with the NG+ bump persisting and also increasing per each proper NG+ cycle. So if you were on NG and used bonfire ascetics to fight the same boss 3 additional times (NG+3 difficulty), when you finish the game and come back in a proper NG+ that area will be NG+4.
Speedrunners use it to farm to the 1 million soul memory threshold for a certain locked door and skip a lot of the game. There are also some unique item drops from bosses in NG+, like the soul for Moonlight Greatsword.
I really wish they had kept the bonfire ascetic mechanic in DS3 and Elden Ring. Not to mention DS2's NG+ cycles add additional enemies and some shop items, so it's a bit different and gives some incentive to actually play through multiple times. It's one of those quirky DS2 things they took a chance on and got it right.
You can. Requires an item and puts that specific area on the next ng cycle.
Item is relatively rare.