Imagine, after two grueling waves in Elden Ring Nightreign, you and a couple of comrades reach the boss at the end of the second night and take him head-on, with surprisingly good results. It’s nearing the halfway mark of its health, and before Crucible Knight goes into its aggressive secondary phase, another health bar populates on the screen. It’s the hungry, hungry Golden Hippopotamus here to ruin your hot streak.

There’s nothing more demoralizing than Golden Hippopotamus spawning in the middle of an Elden Ring Nightreign boss fight. The Golden Hippopotamus, a field boss who first appeared in the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, is a massive hippo with the horn of a rhino and the ferocity of a pitbull. It only has three attacks — Hippo Bite, Hippo Rush, and Fanged Charge — but they’re........

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