Yes, agreed - we didn't tie it together well! If you tried to skip everything and just go straight to the boss, the knight was *much* harder to beat, if not almost impossible. If you kill a moderate amount of things and pick up a number of potions, you have a mid-range knight and a different attack pattern that's easier, and then if you kill a lot of stuff and pick up a lot of potions, the knight is so bogged down with crap that he's relatively easy to just stun-lock in a corner and kill. :)