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One thing that I feel has almost become a detriment to the series, is that a lot of the bosses' (and some regular enemies) move sets are designed a lot more heavily around I frames rather than having believably moved out of the way of an incoming attack. Although they're always been a thing in Souls games, it definitely feels like its gotten at lot worse in Elden Ring partly as From Software likely feel like they need to up the spectacle with a lot of their Boss fights as well as them probably being aware that a lot of players factor I frames in to their playstyle.

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Hard agree with the agression of bosses and weapon design. Great point.

Fromsoftware lost the plot, wanting to just put out more and more difficult bosses ignoring the balance that made Souls games good. Also everyone's got this scared mentality, afraid of saying that it is too difficult and bad. Are you afraid of what? Of being told "git gud" by the brainless fanboys? Let me phrase it another way: I'm sure that if this game came out being developed by another studio everyone would've said: "It's a Souls-clone that, while being competent, does not understand at all what makes Souls games good".

not enough legacy dungeons. too much empty space 7/10

Well said. I feel like the issue with the bosses is that it's like I'm watching them play the game. I like some of the bosses, but even I will admit that it's spectacle first.

There was only 1 boss I enjoyed well enough to drop all the cheese and play with just a normal longsword with no arts/spells/status fx. I believe ER is the worst-designed game Fromsoft has made and this DLC hasn't changed my mind. Power fantasy with no soul to it.

People keep presenting Elden Ring's open world as if it's not empty at all, but it is. They didn't amend it in the DLC, there are lots of pointless locations or with rewards that aren't worth it. The story is a mess and all over the place with clear rewrites and rush and inconsistencies (I would have to write an entire essay where the story is falling apart so pardon me if I'm not going to waste time on it here - and no it's not just due to Fromsoftware's writing style). I consider it personally their worst DLC out of all their games. The bosses aren't enjoyable to fight nor learn from dying to them over and over, half of the weapons are wasted because you cannot use them fully on the bosses present in the DLC. Lastly, they didn't add a single repeatable content like chalice dungeons or even boss rush like in Sekiro. I don't really see myself replaying this over and over like I do with the rest of their Souls games.

The 'Inappropriate Activity' bug was patched yesterday! So at least they fixed that, the performance issues are quite terrible though. I notice it being particularly bad with EAC enabled. I agree with your take about boss aggression as well. I could never use my new cool moves.

Great review and very insightful! I have finished the DLC after 80 hours and I can say this is the best thing I ever played! What made it so great for me is the level and world design, the interconnectivity and verticality of it, the amazing and challenging bosses as well as the density of the content. You'll find a new weapon, talisman, spell, armor like every 10 minutes, whereas the base game can sometimes feel empty in some regions. I also love how some regions are hidden behind dungeons that lead to them. Whole new area hidden behind a cave is so cool and much more satisfying than a portal to a new region. Dungeons are also more complex and interesting as they changed them up more and gave them unique mechanics eg. Darklight or Deathblight Statures. The art director and visuals design also is on another level and even more mesmerizing than in the base game ❤. For criticism: The Quest design was not well done and is something where From Software id not good with in general imo. Little to no hints or logical process to a quest and if you play blind they are frustratingly easy to miss. Furthermore, the majority spells, especially new Incantations, are just so terribly bad that I do not know if this is intended or was an oversight. I forgot to add: I agree with your criticism that the map fragments are weirdly hidden and unintuitive to find and that some bosses need more opening windows. Especially the final boss does a 20 hit mega aoe combo and then lets you do a single attack. Impossible to cast a quick spell. I respecced from Int to Arc and parried the boss cause my magic was useless. Last but not least, the DLC ending was a letdown. Could have been more impactful.

I just finished the last big nameed boss of the dlc a couple of minutes ago…. Absolutely loved it.

Mohg nation won Our Lord beat the Allegations

Lore wise in dark souls the strongest protaginist is the bearer of the curse. If we consider the canon ending the crown one he litterally has a soul so strong that he is unaffected by the curse and in DS strenght of the soul=power. The biggest wins ds1 character had was manus, but in ds3 the character beats the "vessel" of the dark soul that should be stronger than manus since he technically has his soul+every other human, so ds3>ds1. In ds2 we don't beat demigods(even though it is arguable that the 4 lords have the souls of the 4 gods of ds1 so they are even) but the ending tells us that we are teachnically truly immortal and outside of the cycle of the flame and the dark, we are so strong that we negate the laws of the universe.

I randomly checked in, after my friends and I remember "that one nice sounding dark souls boy", and we were shocked to see that you are still going 10+ years later, but only get so minimal views.... Cheers from 3 girls from Denmark, let's go! 😊

I like ancient dragon from ds2, quite the charmer 😚

Gotta go with Tarnished cause they’re just killing actual gods and demigods left and right

Gael collected all the souls of the world the ashen one killed him

The montages return!

Somehow mgrr in a 2016 video is really surprising.

She was so strong, the gods asked her to kindly go to a different universe...lol

There’s not much here, but it is a very significant moment in the darksouls world. I remember finding out about this area for the first time and coming here and thinking “holy shit, this is the war against dragons from dark souls one” it’s cool we get to see it for ourselves instead of seeing it in a cutscene, even if it’s just a little bit of it

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When I read “Easy Kill” in the title I expected you to go in there with 500k souls on you and not get hit once. Instead, first thing u pick up souls after the last death, almost died again a few times and used all your estus lol. Easy kill huh?

Are we ignoring the fact that the hunter killed multiple great ones, which are inconceivable, godlike beings, and later ascend to the same level? A great one is comparable or equal to an outer god making the hunter surpass the tarnished in feats who only killed an envoy and the vessel of an outer god not the outer god themself. These feats are also above the different dark souls mcs. As I'm pretty sure the elden beast is stronger than anything the undead trio had to fight in their games.

The one thing missing from Dragon's Dogma is the option to set up camp somewhere safe at nightfall and your group takes turns keeping watch until morning.

I think it's more likely that his appearance in DS2 is as consistent and logical as the transition from Eathern Peak to Iron Keep.

dude this is radahn

Huh, didn't expect this from you

Where do you get them though? I started as the samurai so I don’t have them yet, but I already have one somehow? How do I get the other one

Nomadic Thane Knight Helm Raging Wolf Armor Eccentric's Manchettes Scaled Greaves Milady Wolf Crest Shield

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Very well done! This DLC has the best bosses I ever had the pleasure of fighting. The designs, movesets, lore and visuals are so good. My top 5 are: • Messmer the Impaler • Bayle the Dread • Relanna, Twin Moon Knight • Romina, Saint of the Bud • Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame

Not sure why this channel fell out of my algorithm But I’m back!!!!

GG bro

Great to see you and doug play this! Shadow of the Erdtree playthrough maybe Alex?

Alex. Are you going to be doing a lore series on this DLC?

Bayle was one of my favorite boss fights so far in elden ring I just wished they stopped making bosses that are already weaken like radhan placidusax melania and Bayle I want to fight them at there peak

Just for some extra context: Doug is not insane and talking to himself. But the Nvidia recordings never pick up my mic for some reason. We beat all the bosses but I didn't remember to record all of them. I was actually surprised that about the only thing we missed, going in blind, was how to get Ansbach's bow. But we managed about everything else. Also, the 'secret' boss beneath the cathedral? It went the same way as Romina: "splat." That thorn sorcery is so silly.

In under 1.5 minutes? King shit right there 👑

doesn’t really makes sense for it to been random enemy in the game but using occam's razor its makes more sense for it just to been radahn.

I’m so torn. I everyone says elden ring is better but it seems so difficult. This looks like a good game to play while we wait for monster hunter wild. As this looks like a baby version. And people say the combat is so much better in dd2. So it’s hard choice.

Ik this video is about 6 years old, but I'm gonna ask anyways. Any recommended weapons for a knight/paladin build that can also cause similarly powerful bleed procs? I'm gonna be hunting this goofy ahh down myself within the next few days

Man that weapon is honestly really helpful when it comes to farming. Blasphemous sword pretty good weapon as well

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Best technique i used is to glitch myself through it and attack continuing to run between his legs behind and the pg will clip through his body and you’ll be unreachable from his attacks

I’m excited for if you do this with DLC weapons. The move sets in that are amazing, especially the great katana. And I finally got Milady yesterday and by god are those attacks beautiful

Got a room full of small enemies that need clearing out? Wave of Gold. Got a human enemy that's giving you trouble? Wave of Gold.

I thought you were only doing these Weapon of the Week videos until the dlc launched? What a pleasant surprise!

I use this all the time for bullying human enemies. The skill will either stagger them or knock them down.

Silver Mont! youre a legend man, how you enjoying Shadow of the erdtree?