Oh yeah , but people seriously call them life jackets don ' t realize that they don ' t necessarily safe your life . Plus ingrained lifeguard response whenever I heard the phrase . <| sep |> You could try see the other ending , but there isn ' t supposed to be closure . The whole point of the story is its futile and cyclical nature and being thrust into NG after the credits is part of that . You probably were over levelled after the DLC , but more importantly you were prepared . For those that beat him before the DLC was released , he is a lot more aggressive than other bosses in the base game . Furthermore , walking through the fog gate you see him referred to as the Lord of Cinder rather than the Lord of Sunlight and coupled with the music , although it may not directly play into the difficulty of the actual fight , you are forced to think of Gwyn as a husk of his former self and just how much power he wielded when he was at his strongest .