I was about ready to punch out with this area too, but persevere and you will find a way through. One on one, these guys aren't so bad. So the trick is to lure them out one by one. They also hurt eachother, so use that to your advantage. They'll usually do sweep kicks that hit one another, so they usually kill eachother, if not weaken eachother significantly. So even if you attract two of them, chances are one of them will either get killed by the other one or lose interest leaving you with a one on one battle. Gauge your distance and sphere of attraction so you can manipulate them into a one on one fight. Protip, hide in one of the rooms in the middle of the lava, the one with the treasure chest. After a while of hiding in the room and luring each one to the entrance of the room, I was able to learn their patterns. They can't get into the rooms and get stuck at the entrance, so if you can get them to do the body slam, that leaves you a couple seconds to get a heavy attack or two in on it. But if you learn their attack patterns you can dispatch them fairly easily. Basically if you stand in front of them, they will stomp at you with their right foot, you know, the three stomp that usually depletes your stamina or kills you if you aren't blocking. If you stand directly beneath them they will do one of two things, they might do the body slam or they might stomp both their feet. The stomping is easy to dodge, but the body slam you will have to run or try to block. But they are still both easy attacks to dodge. But what you want to do is you want to be directly under them and wail on their left foot. Whatever you do, do not stand in front of them or else they will do the three stomp or worse, the leg sweep ( which is something you only want if there are other dinosaur dudes around.) Also there is a bonfire at the second building in the lava lake which you can take refuge in, you just have to get past an illusory wall. The dinosaurs don't respawn either, so dying isn't an issue as long as you can reclaim your souls. You're technically always making progress if you manage to kill at least one of them.
This was an area that I felt was truly impossible, more so than the Anor Londo double archer area. But then I cleaned house of all those dinosaur things once I learned their attack patterns and was taking them out one by one with ease. This was one of those Demon's/Dark Souls moments where I felt like I accomplished something and overcame something with skill. I still think the Anor Londo archer area is the worst area and poor level design and impossible for the sake of being impossible because that part is still dependent on luck I find and I did not have any fun overcoming it because I had to rely on phantoms to provide assistance and usually as cannon fodder for the archers unfortunately.
I will agree that this part was hell on the eyes and someone needed a talking to when deciding the brightness of the lava.
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