Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro's inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself

Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Zullie the Witch has uploaded a new video that interrogates one of the studio's most memorably strange non sequiturs: The giant guy made of rope who carries you from the kingdom of Ashina to the celestial Fountainhead Palace. It seems like there was once much more to Mr. Rope-a-Dope than we saw in the final game.

Much like the giant crow who takes us to Lordran in Dark Souls 1, or the multiple convenient transportation gargoyles in DS1 and 3, the giant rope...