This counts as your spoiler free video for the day.

Saint is literally the best Souls Game KZfaqr. Seeing how much fun he had with it was a big inspiration for me.

Saint: Pronounces zweihander more or less correctly Nerds: ackshually it's

i like how for most of these podcast episodes recently it has been rata having prepared questions beforehand to ask the guest only for him to ask 2 questions and the episode devolves into them both just gushing about whatever random thing in these games that they are obsessing over, its great.

This is the most bloodborne hopeium that I have huffed in a long time.

Please do this again with Saint. I love both of you.

Ok, you get the Pile Bunker. But it's the actual Pile Bunker. A scrapped AC fell from space and the arm is just kinda sitting there.

Man i think Rata sounds a little starstruck with saint on here. This man is giggling like a school girl

Literally the two best souls dudes in one internet thing. Nice.

Thanks for having him on the podcast you rule! My favorite part of Saint riot is that he just gets it. The vibes and the chillness of coming to terms with the game and having fun experimenting with it online. Also he likes final fantasy tactics ost. Goated.

Iyrthill border patrol will forever be my favorite saint video

Saint Riot: “Get rid of the stupid dodge roll” Based and I will now sub

The guard counter attack in Elden Ring is what finally allowed me to crack the Soulsborne game play formula

Carian Knight Sword should've gotten like "Carian Majesty" where it does a followup attack like the UGS 2nd R2, launching people into the air.

Didn't know Ratatoskr could be this happy for two hours straight... This was great!

So I just started saying…. …..VERTICALITY!!!!

I need more Saint and Ratatoskr collabs in my life after watching this

Okay, this has to be the BEST episode of Yggdrasil podcast, you and saint have amazing chemistry

I just wanna say thank you Ratatoskr for being respectful and making content for the people that wanna go in blind! Always making awesome content. Keep doing what you are doing because you are doing great 😎

Thanks Rata for these vids! I consider learning about the weapon movesets a spoiler so I didn’t watch the last video, but otherwise your videos have been such a nice space to share my excitement without learning every possible detail beforehand.

Yeah i agree with the others here, this was the best episode of the pod. We also should have a giant roundtable of lore once the dlc drops with all the theoriests.

This is incredible. Saint Riot with Ratatoskr is an amazing pairing. You have to invite Saint Riot again!

Easily best souls KZfaqr, been watching saint riot for years now.

Can’t believe I started watching saint 7 years ago

as a german saints pronounciation of zweihander was pretty close unlike whatever his comments are apparently telling him

I’m glad y’all agree with the glory that is the carian knight blocking heavy

All I'm goona say is Bloodborne Kart took a C&D out of nowhere recently

38:20 It only looks weird when people do it in videos because they unlock to rotate around her as much as possible. If you stay locked on, run up left until she starts slashing and roll at the last moment, it looks a lot more normal, feels nice to do, and comes across as far more intentional than throwing a frost pot or something where she snaps to the ground. Highly recommended.

Amazing episode. You both sounded like you were having the most fun! I can't wait for the next episode, as well as the next one Saint features in!

This podcast was really good. I really enjoyed the talk about fromsoftware as a company. 🎉

I don't know who Saint is (only Souls game I've beaten is Elden Ring unless you count Armored Core). But this conversation was great. Definitely going to go check out his channel.

Like this premier stuff

This was INCREDIBLE I'm so excited for when you have Saint back and you get to talk invasions and mechanics and tangent back and forth all over 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Great episode. I enjoy both of your guys content.

Love the thumbnail, love Saint, loved the podcast

Love the vibe on this one

thank you for the countdown

Love this podcast. A fan of both

This collab is something I didn't know I needed but now that I see it I can't see how it hadn't happened already. Much love and respect to both Rata and Saint, keep being yourselves

Watching Saint playthrough AC6 on stream was such a treat, I’ll never forget his 100 attempts at mechalenia

Loved this whole episode, now I gotta work through your other stuff! Can’t wait for Pt 2 of the Ramblings of Madmen Podcast lol

First discovered Saint through his John Sekiro videos and immediately got hooked because of the humor. Honest Rivers is the second best thing!

I liked the interview a lot man good job

My dream follow up to both Bloodborne and Sekiro would be to lean into traversal, verticality and trick weapons as one continuous mechanic, where the environment itself is part of the treacherous gameplay loop. I'm thinking one massive crumbling city inspired by Minas Tirith and you're constantly upgrading your weapon-tools and your exploration decisions affect who, what and why you fight. I could also see this as a scifi horror that takes influence from Dead Space on some huge asteroid prison colony where carving your path changes the map and actually determines how you finish the game. Would also love to see FromSoftware's version of Avatar/Korra: martial arts bending, chi blocking, crazy projectile action. My last idea is something with weather, since Miyazaki loves to fuck with players, I'd love to see FromSoftware design the most mechanically invested weather system and make it part of combat and map design. If any other studio can pull off any of those I'll pay whatever it costs.

My all time favorite Soulsborne content creator on my favorite Soulsborne podcast! Hail Saint!

This is definitely needs a second episode!

hey Ratatoskr, im a long time subscriber and i realy enjoyed this podcast. hearing how hyped you got over Blood Borne cracked me up, as it's the first From Software game i actualy managed to finish so i can relate to wanting more... i realy enjoy your channel and like your aproach to "content" i originaly started watching your Dark souls lore videos and have grown to love your podcast's where your character comes out more :) Keep up the good work and i hope you have a good time with the upcoming DLC

Was initially surprised by this combo but it fits. I have watched a fair bit of Saint Riot and these two mesh well.

One thing I liked abt Lords of the Fallen was how they would have pendants and rings that changed how your ranged options worked. Like there were rings to let you cast different types of spells with different catalysts and a pendant that would reward you with more damage by casting different types of spells in succession. It was fun, I'd love a talisman that let me cast incantations with staffs or spells with seals. I feel like that would help hybrid casting builds a lot for versitility

This was great!

I absolutely love the idea of having an ash of war that turns a weapon into a catalyst

To tag onto the notion of having different options to dodge attacks other than the dodgeroll: I have been anxiously hoping that Fromsoft would update their control scheme to allow for a short quick step to be taken that has *no* s but can interrupt/speed up recovery animations (like rolling out of getting up from falling) and can allow you to reposition without needing to use s *besides* also having the actual, , dodgeroll. Often I find myself trying to get control of my character back after being hitstunned in a fight but having no other option than mashing the roll button or hopefully waiting. The option to have a lower stakes reposition move *without s* would allow for less punishing additions (like extra damage taken shortly after the dodgeroll) and would make fighting the fast and agile bosses of ER so much more fun. I also despise that the dodgeroll is still mapped to the sprint button *such that* it only comes out when you let go of the button. Either have it start already when you press and then turn into sprint if you keep pressing, or stay a roll when you let go. Sekiro fixed this issue by just having the quickstep be the first step of the sprint. ER really dropped the idea of improving on any of these core systems in favour of adding more weapons and enemies and map locations, which was a huge disappointment to me. Same goes for the physics and collosion mechanics, and the enemy pathing and AI tbh.

Currently in dark mode until DLC drops, but this still happened across my feed, thanks for the spoiler-free fix.

I just re-beat Melania this morning using a summonless jump attack build. She's fine, she has some pretty good openings when you know where to look, and you can drop her out of waterfowl dance with a frost pot

I really enjoyed this podcast

Great podcast. Saint is a legend.

The recent podcast episodes have been peak keep it up gamer

I won’t say how specific of a job I had, but it was one that had me constantly bombarded with puns from folks - the same ones CONSTANTLY. My favorite way of dealing with it when someone was being extra annoying was to act like it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard, doubled-over laughing, to an almost disruptive and possibly concerning degree. The reactions after were always so much funnier.

This podcast went nowhere, but I had so much fun going there.

Same here. I haven't fully started a new game because I'm waiting for after the dlc so I can really focus on it

Ratatoskr is already a souls community staple and key figure, great content as always. Saint is an OG too

That bit about taking a break got me. I had intended to get a few characters up to the DLC entrance and then take the final week before release off of playing. Yet here I am and all I'm willing to play is Elden RIng.

Appreciate you, Saint

Damn, this guest has some good takes. Great conversation

can't wait for the Great Longsword

“We were limited, we were LIMITED, now we’d be UNLIMITED” 😂😂😂

Rata you’re a god

I recently made a quality build with 45/45 str/dex and 25 faith and ai can pretty much use all my favorite weapons. The versatility of quality overshadows the damage loss and I can kind of counteract the damage loss with faith buffs.

Hey. Ive had an idea. So a recurring theme in GRRM works is that magic has a cost. A price. We see it in Elden ring with blood magic, the little animal sacrificed on the thorn staff. Glintstone is supposed to be the life of stars as well. Death hexes and rancor as well. But nothing for golden order. Where do incantations draw their sacrifice? Supposed the mass of bodies in the trailer is a sort of sacrifice to create the drawing of golden order holy magic.

This was a kick ass podcast

Its really interesting listening to this after playing the dlc. We did get a casting weapon! And they buffed Malenia's great rune, its what helped me beat the 2nd hardest boss.

Please bring Saint on again!

Remnant 2 has a neutral backstep with i-frames. If youre fat rolling you belly flop and its slow af but you can master the risky backstep with heavy armor and make it work.

We love you saint!

I pictured the entire game when saint said, "Sekiro but with a longsword and a battering ram arm". I pictured NPCs yelling about how they're getting sieged by a single knight, like how they talked about the Blazing Bull in Sekiro.

Damn, I feel called out, I started using the death ritual spear on my character I was making for the DLC, didn't even realize it had been buffed, loved it. Now I'm the guy in the colosseum during united combat that if you ignore me and just gank my partners I will just spam the ash of war.

Great crossover

A perfect example of what you're talking about with the fat roll rework is Greatsword in MHW where you basically shoulder charge to armor everything and punish with charge attacks

Aquamarine Dagger... The day I discovered the true power of that thing I was a menace for probably about a good 3 weeks straight before keen eyes started catching on better. And even then I love it as a back pocket weapon. lol

I would love a baked in heavy dodge alternative, and I would probably balance it around the FP bar, get a special fat dodge that consumesn FP automatically, and turns into a fat roll when you're out of FP. I would also like an ability like Miriam has in the inverted tower, the ability to teleport midspell cast, either as a reposition or cancel option (but make it only work in a small window of start up frames, like Sekiro) and you can balance that by making the FP cost HUGE like a flat 50% of whatever your max FP is, so it cant be spammed, maybe add like a ultra rare talisman that cuts the cost to like 33% so you can get a maximum of 2 cancels before needing to drink. it would definitely be powerful, but I think if you makr enough trade offs, like two talisman slots, or a great rune/physic flask slot, I think it would be a pretty fair inclusion.

Dark Souls 1 has the Manus catalyst which is also an axe.

I’ve always thought the series to follow Dark Souls is the Age of Darkness itself… We as players explore what goes bump in the night and what eventually leads to the spark of the first flame

Hey Rata be careful the DLC Final Boss got leaked and is going around. Great Podcast as always man :)

I never said Malenia was a bad boss, but i never considered just blocking the start of waterfowl. Not even once, but it's true that i have never managed to fully avoid that opening flurry.

OUR LORD AND SAINT BLESSES THE SQUIRREL WITH HIS PRESENCE! TRUELY GREAT WISDOM WILL BE SHARED AS THIS VIDEO IS SUBMITTED INTO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE AS GUDIAS CHAPTER 11; Famous as the follow up holy book to Getius!

I love how you tried to end the podcast like 5 times and he was so excited that it extended the podcast to a feature length film 😅

1:23:11 Miyazaki gave the white dragon a moonlight sword then vomited poison into the sunken valley and that was his entire contribution to sekiro.

Subscribed for the dungeon master

Lol this is one the funniest podcast you put out rata

the old version of the darkmoon great sword is the golden order greatsword

The real reason why aquamarine is a real trick weapon and not rkss, was cause u could do a roll and use the transform button to do a transition attack, same with running attack. I Wish rkss did that, and i hope we get one weapon with that in the dlc

Saint is the shane gillis of the fromsoft world

This dude is the funniest 😊

praying that the chakrams we see on that one enemy are backhand blades with thrown heavies

YES! The Guts greatsword (my fav weapon) is great as a shield. And if you have the stamina and do a guard counter you're almost guaranteed to stance break any normal enemy unless they die. I tend to roll most times to use the thrust attack, but seeing an incoming attack and knowing you won't have the time or space to roll and just pressing block right before it lands, negating like 80% of the damage and then guard countering feels as good as any shield parry I've ever done. Blocking, guard countering and attacking during enemies "artificial difficulty" delayed attacks to stance break them is what makes ER so much more fun than the DS games, and I get a bit frustrated when people don't get it and restrict themselves to play the game by rolling and waiting for an opening where the boss goes afk after their attack. That's a totally valid play style, but it is in most cases a self restriction that makes the game harder, so don't complain when it's too hard when you're doing it to yourself.

YES.

Really eager to play Lies of P, I just want a sale. I really don’t like buying games at $60 because I’ve learned that if I buy games new they usually sit in my backlog until they cost a fraction of what I paid for them lol. I’m looking forward to that and Reternal. This video made me want to try Nioh 2.

Man, I knew Saint Riot was based, but hearing him talk about how he felt about Sekiro, in particular how it's the only one of these games he's gone to NG+8 in-it's like he reached directly into my head and plucked my exact experiences right out of me! I played Sekiro eight times and it never got old (because I am dogshit and still had plenty of room to grow even after that many cycles lmao). Frankly, the only reason I switched to other games instead of, like, trying a no death run or a no upgrade run or something, is because Elden Ring came out, and after that more and more bangers kept releasing faster than I could play them all. ...That reminds me, I still need to beat DD2. >.>

Also, Miyazaki talking about how his other directors are gonna do their thing so he can do his own weird shit reminds me of Miyamoto and his 10 year Pikmin side quest 😂

I liked this guy. Didn't know him.