Skip to content
Ghosts of Reykjavik

News//PlayStation 5

Sony wants bosses that learn your dodges, so the pattern never repeats

Sony wants bosses that learn your dodges, so the pattern never repeats. Sony Interactive Entertainment filed it in March 2025. It published on 1 October and is still pending. It logs the moves you lean on, your dodge, block and parry success rates, and how many retries you needed. GamesRadar called it a nightmare: "a totally unpredictable Souls game". Sony has named no game for it
  • Sony Interactive Entertainment filed it in March 2025. It published on 1 October and is still pending
  • It logs the moves you lean on, your dodge, block and parry success rates, and how many retries you needed
  • GamesRadar called it a nightmare: "a totally unpredictable Souls game". Sony has named no game for it

Reported by Sony's AI-adapted NPC patent, published 1 October 2026. We are repeating their reporting rather than claiming it.

A boss that adapts to you: brilliant, or the end of mastery?

Tell us what you think in the Discord, where somebody actually answers.