That makes sense.

In the end Gael was still a slave. From the gods, to his own insanity.

He also knew the player would be following him, and counts on us to put him down and give the pigment to the little girl, accomplishing his mission

Damn bro knows his shit

@@noravanguard3993 I strongly disagree with that. Gael led you through both the Painted World and Ringed City DLCs because him being driven insane by his search for the Pygmy Lords was all part of his plan from the very start when you meet him in the Cleansing Chaspel. He led you to his future self after he digested the dried blood of the Pygmy Lords so you two could clash and he could spill blood, now the Blood of the Dark Soul. From the very start he knew he would never make it and he would have to be killed by you so you could harvest the Blood of the Dark Soul from him and give it to his lady. He died as his former master Gwyn's worst nightmare come true, and as a free Man who gave himself to a cause he believed in.

True, you need to actually think for that one =D

Agility gear exists tho, and its plenty of them actually. Full set, ring, crown, weapon. Anyway ds2 is an easy walk before Glass Knight. His attacks requires agility or incredibly good spacing.

@@EdgarikiLGK just have some bad hitboxes honestly

Currently on my ds2 sl1 CoC run right now. With agility gear, i-frames aren't that terrible. And ds2 sl1 has wider weapon options compared to ds1 and ds3 (great club is usable in ds2 sl1).

The hit boxes are even worse than having to level rolling.

However he's almost immune to lightning damage.

@@Sir-Pleiades that’s probably because the lightning is capable of hurting him. Interesting choice on the devs part, but it just adds to the fight in my opinion.

@@Rexis102 Might represent how both of you are still human. What hurts you can still hurt him.

@@Sir-Pleiades His own lightning from the cape red rancors that spawns. There is random lightning around that does even more but the chance of it hitting him is extremely slim.

Have over 700 hours and disnt know this... based

I'm a little surprised that he didn't mention that the Demon Prince's arena is Firelink Shrine

Farron Keep being Oolacile explains why those weird ape swamp enemies that eat your face off exist, since they are probably decedents of the enemies we fought in Oolacile previously.

@@feebleking21 there are so many references to Farron Keep being Oolacile that i'm surprised that your first choice was to compare it to Blighttown just because of the poison swamp. The section with the dead mushroom enemies, the Crown of Dusk, the golden scroll, and even the fact that the abyss watchers pretty much have the remains of the soul of artorias are just some to name

​@@jhx97 also the slugs.

Isn’t Elizabeth’s body in the cave that has the golden scroll?

He literally is powerful enough to break the game rules and use his own summon signe on another players world xD

@@jurivjerdha2467I men’s he has been alive since the war against dragons all the way to the end of time getting to the dark soul the long way, I’m sure anyone would figure out travel between worlds by force within those thousands of years

Is it chosen people? or just two nobodies fighting at the end of time for some paint.

@@_Tzer for some paint that will create a new world. Gael knew he would end up like this and guided the player to him in order to kill him and take the paint. It is the most important item for this doomed world

​@@_Tzer 2 idiots with a lot of luck that the world has not killed them, so yeah, 2 nobodies who wanted a better world, one forgotten of his adventure and the other going basically tru the same thing

This comment doesn't make sense. Gael knows exactly what he is fighting for, the dark soul to use as pigment for his lady's painting. He still remembers it when he was fighting you. He only goes hollow once he realizes his mission is fulfilled, and leaves it up to you to deliver the pigment. So both participant in this fight has a purpose. Whether your character realizes it or not is up to you, but Gael absolutely knows what he's doing.

"two chosen undead fighting to the death at the end of time in the ruins of the world for a purpose neither really know or understand." False, I fight Gael simply because of that OST, skill-building, and because it's cool

I also believe it's close because all the lands are converging upon lothric

Huh. I didn't know that little tidbit. What was his weapon before he left for Archdragon Peak? His current one is the Dragonslayer Sword-Spear, a prototype to the Dragonslayer's Spear wielded by Ornstein

@CrimZon Pegasus you know that all ornsteins we fought in DS1 DS2 and empty armors in DS3 were illusions and fanboys (like Abyss Watchers or Havel Knights) and real one went on a journey to find nameless king probably becoming a dragon - either the one the nameless king rides, the ancient wyvern or meditating one. During development they even planned to make him a boss fight in giant tree arena below the alter overlooking the giant archdragon - that's why you find his armor there. Imagine fighting real ornstein half turned into a dragon.

Stripped*

​@@crimzonpegasus9714 the sunlight blade miracle. The description specifically says that the nameless king left this miracle on his father's grave when he left Anor Londo

If it helps, you can destroy two of his three bracelets and THEN kill him without damaging the third one. The unique death animation still plays then.

Then it goes from disappointing to sleep-inducing.

Hey, if it's challenging you are looking for then that sounds like a great idea

I wish I knew this during my first SL1 run. Thankfully by the time I did my second it I already knew about it

Ironically? What's ironic about it? In any case I'm torn between agreeing and being frustrated at the extent to which bad translation has rendered it incoherent. There's seemingly a LOT of nuanced ideas that were lost in translation that would have gone a long ways towards smoothing over the feeling that DS3 pretty much retcons DS1's "laws of the universe". It's been argued that the Big Crunch has something to do with it but that's sort of a lazy answer. Who are you? Ya made of ash, dingus (what? No seriously, what ARE you?) The embers of bonfires make you... better somehow (again, what?) The Darksign no longer has much to do with hollowing specifically any more, in your case as a weird ash golem thing, you get your own version of the Curse. (actually a new thought for me which makes this make *slightly* more sense) Instead, the Dark Sigil is related to *hollowing* and the Undead specifically. Whcih sure, it's the thing we've seen on the body of Undead before, but how are you, a pile of ash, able to get it again and start hollowing again? Oh boy, double-curse! And why don't you start needing *humanity* again? There's a nation of intelligent hollows (bullshit, half of "being hollow" is that no soul = no sanity) Aaand then there's the rest of it, compared to DS1 the motivations & actions of all the major players don't really *fit together* so much as they're just... a series of things that happened.

I see so few people bring up how it's clearly established by the game that the land of Lothric has some special force slowly pulling other distant lands towards it eventually smashing them all together until it's nothing but ash and dust remaining. this is such a cool detail to me that the game really drives home a lot but also could have explored a lot more like the dreg heap you see at the end of the game and get to play in the DLC is not just a creative idea they did cause they could and it's cool to have nostalgia... they actually built up to it with the lore and worldbuilding it's why there is so much familiar in the game entwined with the new and why it's so apocalyptic feeling. i get if people don't enjoy how derivative DS3 can feel but that derivative nature is core to it's storytelling and worldbuilding pretty much everything revolves around this being the twisted remains of what we saw in the previous games, before our eyes being ground down into nothing... it's so tragic and heartbreaking when you look at it this way and ties into that theme of not wanting to let go of the past... the message of the game with Lothric is that you have to move on cause the world doesn't wait for you to move on and if you keep dwelling on the past you will just end up caught inbetween the old world and new one this is basically what happened to gael it's all because of the lore point that these are the end times for the whole world of Dark Souls and the way it's manifesting is this final kingdom of Lothric basically is a magnetic force pulling in any other kingdoms that have been influenced by the struggle between age of fire and darkness to finally end it all this makes gael even more of a tragic character because he really is just fighting against the end times for the world he has always known, if he can't have his world stay in tact he will just make a new one by any means necessary and what we see when we touch Fillianore's egg is the very end results of what's happening in Lothric with the phenomena of pulling in distant lands... everything is just ground down to ash & dust, barely any remnants of the kingdoms that once remained just an endless wasteland that's beautiful in it's own way This lore point is so cool and interesting to me it makes me also wish they did more with it and I see a lot of missed potential in the game, really wish Dreg Heap was a much more expanded area with more intertwining aspects of the previous games being smooshed together into this twisted destroyed amalgamation, it's such an inspired and creative idea

I'll have to try that on my next level 1 run!

@@feebleking21 next💀

They really went above and beyond for no reason with Dancer as most properly leveled people can totally skip phase 2. It's a fun fight on challenge runs though

Dancer has one of the most opening in the game

Unlikely to be both, as Sen's, Firelink, Parish, and Burg would have to all fall into Blighttown for Darkroot to fall into Blighttown, as they're all in between the two, which are on opposite points of the triangle they form with the Archives/Crystal Cave. Darkroot is closer to Kiln and Anor Londo. No clue how it became the anywhere close to the height Farron is, as the keep is ~level with Anor Londo...

@@theapexsurvivor9538 The land clearly changed between games

Its oolacile township

@@Wilhelm4131 Oolacile Township is Darkroot Garden 🗿

@@Orzacle which is then also farron keep

100%. The same problem is almost non-existent in Elden Ring because ashes of war and magic were all actually really good and useful for 99% of builds. I never ran full estus in Elden Ring, but I nearly always did in DS3, especially at sl1.

The complaint with bosses also makes me wonder if I'm the only person who hardly ever runs out of estus on a boss. I almost always either kill the boss without having to use too many flasks, or I die from mistakes I make before I can run out of estus. Outside of early game, especially ds 2, it's rare for me to actually run out of estus. (Though ds 2 also has life gems in its equasion.)

​@@MalzraAirwynn yeah pretty much. If you running out of estus on a boss you need to take a step back and learn the moves and openings

@@MalzraAirwynnIn Ds2 Estus is so slow that i always take 2 instead of 1 because getting hit is almost guaranteed even if you baited long recovery attacks. Yet never ran out of because of lifegems being so broken

@@anstorner 2, especially early on, is reallly the exception since you start out with what, one use of it? And yeah it's slow especially early on. Until you get enough bone shards to have a decent number and enough adaptability to make your drinking faster. I still died a fair amount in 2 even with life gems, though I also did high speed low armor builds, and the slow healing of life gems wasn't always enough if I was hit again before recovering.

I agree but I think that's to it's detriment. Half of the bosses are meme bosses that just have some basic gimmick

​@@markkeys1142 you have got to be joking

@@sneaky5141 count em bro Yhorm, Deacons, Wyvern, Wolnir, Greatwood, Halflight, Watchers, Sage

@@markkeys1142 LUNATIC take oh my god you are the furthest beyond delusional

​@@markkeys1142yup. The only gimmick bosses done right imo are the twin princes since you have to actually attack the guy hanging on the back and not just mindlessly attack the teleporting one.

Funnily enough I feel the opposite, I love the never ending combos and love elder ring boss design

@@maroonring that’s definitely fair enough. I somewhat recently have been replaying DS3 and after playing Elden ring, I found he was MUCH easier to manage. I’m hoping with my insights from a first play through, when I get around to a second Elden ring run I’ll share your opinion :)

@@EJB9 I personally feel like most of the Dark Souls 3 bosses are a bit too easy. It's just roll and backtrack to win, that's why I love Elden Ring bosses who punish roll spamming and backtracking, forcing you to play to aggressively. Perfectly timing rolls through a barage of attacks and hitting at the tiniest of inetrvals while staying in the boss's face just feels so exhilarating.

I swear to god, Margit ruined everything, he and Malenia are the only bad bosses, every other one is completely fine

⁠@@sassas1487i feel the issue with margit/morgott is that it feels like he’s in control. It’s not a boss fight, it’s just waiting for margit to stop his stunlocking temper tantrum to have one opportunity to beat him over the head with a stick. Malenia on the other hand is just a fucking pain. Her insta activating hyper armor and just blatant ignorance of game mechanics is bs.

He actually turns hollow interestingly, dude managed to stay sane for thousands of years and managed to go between worlds without the need to be summoned

Through*

uhm i said it for short@@jarlwhiterun7478

Pedophile

all of the persona 5 music made me unimaginably happy

Some days midir is my all time fav boss he def in my top 5.

I disagree. I think his laser barrage in phase 2 is not something that you can reasonably dodge on your first time, and it one shots most character. The animation for when the laser comes towards you during the 4th and 6th "swing" of the barrage is too sudden for an attack that kills you instantly. Combined with his large hp pool, he can be very annoying to fight unless you look up the attack online. I can kill him reliably nowadays, but he was very aggravating on my first run of Ringed City. I still don't like fighting him, because he takes too long even with constant head attacks, and his attacks aren't very fun to avoid, since he has very little variation in his combos compared to human bosses.

I will say, after you fight him for a While, absolutely.. for the most part His laser that then explodes after a few moments has a really, really shoddy hitbox Along with how you get forced into DPS race near the very end But I will say, you are absolutely right!

calling midir is easy like in the video is just being a clown. He's is easy when you LEARN his entire moveset but that does not mean that he is suuuper easy like said in the video, he has that lazer, sometimes you have to fight the camera and still get a huge healthbar - health reduction and high damage. You will suffer before you learn to hit the head and learn his moveset as well as dodge his godzillal lazer. He is 100% of the game strongest bosses.

dasbombeds

for anyone interested, you can actually predict where crystal sage will spawn by just looking at the crystal patterns.

I agree, but compared to Dark souls 1, it isn’t as good.

The order I went in was: BB, started it and got past Father Gascoin but then put it down, wasn't enjoying it. Elden Ring got me back into the series. Finished it. Replayed and finished BB. Then I did the Dark Souls trilogy in order, picking the Scholar version for DS2. I found DS 1 to honestly be the easiest of the lot. Not that I never died or anything. But none of the base game bosses took more than a few tries. And the only level that gave me too much trouble was Sen's Fortress. I still had a good number of deaths, but it wasn't until the DLC that DS 1 really got difficult for me. O&S took me three attempts. Nothing in the game was quiet as difficult as Friede or Nameless King for me. Personally between the three, DS 1 was the easiest. DS 2 had the hardest levels due to too much enemy spam in places, and DS 3 had the hardest and most fun bosses on average for me. I'm giving the vanilla DS 2 a go now and enjoying it a bit more than Scholar in the levels, but I think the bosses are still the same.

@@MalzraAirwynn i find it very interesting when people say that nameless is the hardest boss of ds3 or atleast close to that. i personally don't even think he's top 5

@@Omenify Different people have more or less difficulty I guess with different bosses I guess. Nameless King wasn't the hardest boss for me in DS 3, that was Friede, but he did take me the longest to beat among the base game bosses of DS 3.

@@MalzraAirwynn oh, yeah, i know that. its just that he objectively has a way simpler moveset than bosses like friede, soul of cinder, dancer, demon prince. only thing that really gives him difficulty is his hp and how hard he hits perhaps.

@@Omenify It's always interesting to see what bosses do or don't give people trouble. Dancer for example doesn't give me much trouble at all. Even play through to play through I can have different experiences if I'm in a funk or just in a stride when I hit a certain boss. For example first play through I smashed through crystal sage really quickly, but for some reason I died several times on my second play through, which I think was mostly down to just being in a bad mood and if I'd just stepped away and come back the next day probably would have beaten it easily again.

Mantis Lords too?! aahh

you were most likely hitting his feet or tail. if you only go for his head, he is less of a sponge than gael is.

Pontiff is more fun than Rellana imo.

@@feebleking21 i agree right now but I wanna see some strats develop first before saying so.

@@feebleking21 Pontiff is fun until you kill him in a minute cause his healthbar is so tiny. and Rellana literally has more openings than Pontiff your SOTE video was so braindead man

I'm yet to do bare fist, but I remember STRUGGLING on shield and whip runs. But with fists, at least you have a very clear opening, since you can just parry only him

@@highlightermarca-texto3281 no, I think I wasnt slow Walking... I dont know the item anymore, maybe im wrong about that

😊v 6c ctn59999 24:42 poopppoop 😊

Defo took me like 2 full days worth of attempts it was insane

You guys are champions, I don't have the guts anymore. My 2nd DS3 playthrough has been an absolute cakewalk because I lost all patience for challenge runs and finally levelled vigor.

Im stuck on her right now, shes way tougher than gael in my opinion

That only takes you to the last bonfire rested at. If you rested at blighttown you would just stay there until you find out a way out.

That's not a defence, that's backwards justification. DS world is fictional and it's internal logic can be changed to whatever FS wants, so you should use that logic to justify the changes. To clarify, I don't have issues with DS3, only with this type of logic to defend certain changes in general.

@kindlingking2485 yeah well frankly I'm tired with people always telling me there's something wrong with what I'm saying so could you step off your high horse every once in a while?

@@delsinrowe4551 hey, I'm sorry if you had a rough day, but please don't project it onto complete strangers like myself. I'm just voicing my opinion in regards to the way people these days excuse a lot of souls design shortcomings with in-game lore.

@kindlingking2485 my dude, fromsoft likes to make their design like that on purpose, a lot of their limitations often become lore but frankly all the places they put in the third game don't make sense to be connected to eachother anyway, like how did firelink get connected to lothric? Besides the game has still got a good few areas that are still linked which implies they could have made the choice on purpose

@@delsinrowe4551 Yes, FS tends to pay close attention to details and like to present their narrative through game mechanics. But I'm pretty sure they did not make parts of DS2's map overlap on top of eachother on purpose, nor that they actually thought about Consecrated Snowfield as an flat empty area with reused enemies, nor did they actually wanted to reuse so many assets throughout Elden Ring in general. And no matter how much lore there is to justify the linearity of DS3, we all know the real reasons were tied to it's development. Not to mention saying "it was meant to be bad!" does not make something good.

He said he thinks DS3 is better though?

Autism

mad that it’s better than your fav 😭

I'm happy that you're enjoying the sl1 run!

Finally, someone that has brain, ER gives you a lot of openings and oportunities if you are decent, more than ds3

@@BBQcheese You're on point. A lot of early ER critits completely misunderstood the game, and the result, were some of the worst takes i have ever seen in gaming, ( which at this point is becoming a tradition for From games ). I wonder if any of them is going to have the integrity to do a correction video at any point, or if they'll just leave it as is, showing a complete lack of care for their own craft, and disrespect for their audience. The healing thing is hilarious to me, because i am pretty sure heal punishes have been around since at least ds2, with Fume Knight especially. Just stop being an idiot and quit healing in front of the boss from neutral, it's that simple. Games should hold the player accountable for their actions ( especially this types of games ). As for Beast Clergyman, i believe you can jump over most if not all of his dagger swipes, so yeah, there are a lot of punish windows in that fight, you're absolutely right. On a side note, i was fighting Loretta the other day and realized just how many of her moves can be punished mid combo by crouching under them. The more you know!

@@BBQcheese At this point only time will tell if perspectives on the game will change or not. To the more casual audience i think you're right, the damage has already been done, but for those who stick around maybe there is still a chance, IDK, people also didn't like Sekiro´s combat in the beginning and now it´s considered the best. I'm also super tired of talking about Malenia, i think she is fine, and Swaganapanos turtle´s vid was super insightful, but i would now rather turn the spotlight towards bosses like: Morgott, Mogh, Maliketh, Radagon, Godfrey and even Radahn, as i think these are by far the best bosses in the game, and some of the best bosses in any From game. And critics like VG Matthew... Well, let's say should def feel ashamed of their contribution to the discourse surrounding these bosses and the game as a whole. Also in the 5 hit combo the charged swipe Clergyman does before the final hit, can be jumped and punished, which is cool because if you're still in front of him, you can then bait and outspace the big slam and get off the CR2 you mentioned before.

Also i need to mention this, but, when VG Matthew said no matter how good you are at fighting Margit, he will always frame trap with the fast knife move, i just lost it and had to take a week long break before finishing the rest of the video🤣

@@corporialme thats the best of Er bosses you always learn more about his moves and punish windows, even more than souls ones

The level of low self esteem it takes to desperately try to look better than others is embarrassing. ITs tOo eAsY