Human Trashcan
Banned
Gael was a great fight! But narrative wise... It's pretty meh. We don't get enough information on Gael to really care that he's fighting us. Gwyn was portrayed as a god, a king, a hero. When you finally fight him we see that he is nothing more that a shell of himself. That's why both he and soul of cinder work.
I don't care one lick about Gael and his story.
The whole point of Gael is that he's a total nobody, like the player. That's not a bug, it's a feature.