I feel like gael was more of a final boss for lore while midir was the final boss for pure completionists.

I can't believe they decided to give us two more swamp levels before the series ended.

really surprised u didnt mention the dragonslayer armor fight, which felt like "here is ur armor set that u wanted from the base game"

I'll take a near minute long run back to Midir over the run back to blue smelter any day.

Can we just take a sec and appreciate that Joseph took the time to play fashion souls, dress his character as Rocky, give him a Rocky training montage complete with punching meat and climbing stairs just for visual reference?

You did miss the the point of the large headless monsters. At 14:30 when they're first introduced, the monster jumps down from the top of the stairs. It shows the player that there is a staircase you can run up to do a plunging attack. If the player does just that, a unique animation will play and you will do thousands of damage. Everywhere these monsters are located, there is a vertical component of the map. You are intended to lure the monsters to certain areas, so you can do a plunging attack for a one shot kill.

>The turtle clerics are a fun enemy No.

I completely disagree with you in the order thing, both the dlc order and the dragon. I am 100% sure painted world is suposed to go first, youre suposed to meet gael when he has not been consumed by his quest, you travel to the end of time to stop him and retroactively are able to save the painted world by gathering the blood. Similar to killing the soul of cinder/gwyn adn having the choice to relight the flame you get the choice to go back to the past and give the blood to the painter, it is a meaningless menu in terms of mechanics and doesnt really give you a big cutscene or anything but it is a meaningful choice your character can make, sort of like finishing the poem that is the lore. That said I agree with you that 2 DLC packs were not the plan from the start I believe both DLCS were 1 originally but they were still in this order, where you kill Friede way before Gael.

20:05 "cryptic npcs that tell you about the bosses you'll be fighting" their not talking about bosses silly, fear not the dark my friend, and let the feast begin.

Gael is meant to end out a playthrough. Gael leaves you the messages, and leaves scraps of his cloak near hard to find locations that are required to progress.Knowing Gael's lore greatly improves the fight.Gael is meant to be a friend, and dueling him is meant to give off a similar feeling to the Gherman fight.

“Before 2020” OOF

6:31 FromSoftware said in an interview before Ringed city was released that they were figuring out where to put the DLC entrance for people who did not buy Ashes of Ariandel and they ended up placing it in the Kiln of the First flame. To me this seems to suggest that Ashes of Ariandel was meant to be done first since the beginning.

how do I know this entire upload isn't just a subtle justification for showing everyone how hard you wrecked Jesus on netplay

Why didn't you talk about the amazingness that is the Lapp questline?

With the lore implications and the general difficulty, I think you're supposed to do Ashes first. Let's break it down. First off, all through the Dreg Heap, Gael is helping you. He left tatters of his cloak, and later he left messages for you. Because you were originally supposed to follow just his cloak, that means you HAVE to have known who Gael was before going into the dreg heap, if you want to have any idea what's going on. Furthermore, Gael helps you in the first boss fight, and also helps you against Friede. It fits his story more that he would want to see Friede killed first before hunting down the dark soul, as he needs his lady to be able to paint first, before he can even think about getting the pigment. While yes, Friede is a 3 phase boss fight with 3 health bars and radically different battles, Gael has enough health to be 3 health bars. And each phase is extremely different, and broken up exactly at 1/3 intervals on his health bar.

I like the part when he says it's important to time your dodges to avoid taking damage from the angel's laser but all I can see is roll spamming.

"shocked if there's no DS4/reboot before 2020" Welp

I think, the idea of headless guys is that you don't necessarily kill them in staight fight, but try to plundge attack them, since it have unique animation and require only one hit to kill. In the Ring City itself I just ran to bridge and dropped on them whenever possible, found it more enjoyable, instead of fighting them head to head

That moment when you did the entire dreg heap without knowing you could kill the angels.

dude wtf... u must be writing hundreds of pages for your videos. Absolutely amazing man! So underrated.

25:10 also, people call it the artorias throw, while, nobody mentioned that the Penetrator did it before artorias

There's a neat shortcut to kill the 1st angel in earthen peek, just head towards the hut on the cliff edge and drop around it to the right on to a branch. The Harald knights can be killed quickly with a plunge attack, they usually give you access to do that for each knight.

Ashes is definately meant to go first, at the end of it is where you're sort of given your mission to find out about Gael's quest for the dark soul. Then you go through it and give the painter the pigment. There's even a bonfire in friede's boss room that takes you to the dreg heap.

After 5 years I went and played this dlc, wow it was great. I look forward to Joseph's elden ring review in 2031.

"It's so easy to stunlock enemies in this game that one hit is usually all you need" Has 99 endurance and a straight sword

Gael is one of my favorite bosses in the soulsborne series because it feels fun dodging all his moves and he reminds me of orphan of kos (which is also one of my favorites).

Midir's laser attacks looks a lot like the new Godzilla's laser breath.

Really shows how different people find bosses - Midir is super well telegraphed in my opinion

Joseph riding down elevators twice to get to midir is what I come here for

Whilst I agree that different skill levels is an inherent issue for Halfllight, this is the reason that in order to unlock the covenant you must defeat Midir. In my opinion this is why Midir had such a large health pool. You must prove that you can consistently dodge attacks for a prolonged period of time before you can earn the right to become a dark souls boss. You have to show you have the mettle to take that role.

The lore is great and gael really is finally boss due to him being the embodiment of the dark soul

"Over FOUR. THOUSAND. HP" 3159

he even has a mid-fight cinematic for when he *increases his power level*

I feel like the idea of the Harald Knights in the street part of the Ringed City is to force you to look for the sidepaths that lead to items. At the end of the sidepath with the spear Ringed Knight and all those ambushing curse pygmies, you get a drop that circumvents all those Harald Knights and get straight into the swamp, but also an NPC Preacher who talks to you before you drop. The other sidepath leads to the Alva invader and Zullie's gear.

The Rocky montage was glorious.

When I fought Gael I figured out my weapon staggered on the 3rd hit every time, so I used that knowledge to cancel the 5 hit rapid thing in the first half, and to help in the second half. I’m not sure if this was intentional. Did anybody else use the stagger thing.

28:20 Midir does not have a "gigantic health bar". I see this parroted all the time when Midir is discussed and it just isn't true. On NG he has a total of 15,860HP, compared to Gael's 14,985HP. That's a difference of only 875HP. Not a big deal. The real issue here, and why so many people fervently believe that Midir is tanky as all hell, is that he has more immunities and resistances and he's so mobile. Most of his fight is about positioning, so you spend the majority of your time running around or waiting for him to do something, meaning you aren't dealing damage which means the fight takes longer that it would with any other boss simply by virtue of him having the zoomies.

As much as i like the DS franchise, i really hope it actually is the end of the series(or at least a major break from it), we need something fresh from From Software, i also hope it will not end up as a Playstation exclusive :/

Both Swamps were the biggest disappointments. I thought Ringed City will be a vine, overgrown forgotten City/Castle you can explore. Sadly, only in the beginning that was the case. The Rest was swamp and a little Dungeon.

22:22 Aww, the little "REKT" when the arrow hit you.

I actually love the Gael fight as an ending. It feels really climactic and desperate, the fight itself is one of the most challenging in the game and it literally happens at the end of the world as you fight over the blood for which the series is named. While I think you could definitely see Friede as a harder fight, it would feel weird from a lore perspective and wouldn't be as fitting an end to the series. Also, you can enter the door while the elevator is going down and I like the runback to midir bc there aren't any enemies to deplete your much-needed estus

you can use items known as 'clumps' which can heal certain effects like curse and poison.

Joseph Anderson is criminally underrated.

0:14 "I'll also be shocked if we don't see something about dark souls 4 or a reboot before 2020" This comment didn't age well

I managed to get the Dark Souls3 season pass for $20 due to a PSN coupon so I played the two DLCs back to back. $20 for the whole thing or $10 for each DLC felt fair to me. Ashes didn't feel low on content to me since I was able to play Ringed City right after. Though I do think $15 for it individually is a rip off. Especially if then you had to wait months for TRC

Midir is probably one of the coolest designs of any dragon imo. The first time he did the lazer beam fire breath blew me away, he's so cool.

Thank goodness Leyndell from Elden Ring was that Ringed City you wanted to explore.

These videos are honestly something so speical, and there's no other video that i see posted like yours that gets me as excited to watch some new content. Thanks for the amazing video as always, and I absolutely loved the little "rekt" that you included when you got shot by the exploding arrow. Keep up the great work Joe.

Midir after his tail kills you: 'YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE FOR THE HEAD"

I agree with a lot of the video, though I don't feel like Ariandel was supposed to come after The Ringed City. From a lore standpoint I think Gael really feels like the end of the series, since you're pretty much some of the very last people left, fighting on the ashes of the world. Can't get much more final than that.

I have been waiting for this for so long. But I am glad for your long process, it really aids the quality. Thank you.

i actually loved getting through ringed city and realising a huge amount of what you can see from all areas is another area. that realisation that the church of the spear catherdral was always in the skyline, some parts where you can see virtually all the areas.... imo it was one of the better level designs in all of ds3, even better than spending some time looking around in anor londo and seeing all of ithiryl laid out below you. hey i'd always want more streets to explore but i think From nailed the background look combined with areas you actually go to in this one. great review as always, after a couple of hard months im looking forward to sending you some patreon cash as i think i've seen every single video of yours now! don't worry about being too negative - the discussion of flaws is often the really interesting part of critique. thanks for all your videos so far and looking forward to whatever you upload next

4 years later: I have played DS1 and DS3 (in that order) and for me Dark Eater Midir somehow overshadowed all other bosses with the awe i felt and an epic knight on dragon feeling. If classic fantasy video games could be boiled down to one bossfight, it would be this.

About the cursing enemies. The game encourages you to use bombs and other consumables throughout the game so they are not that bad. Could have been done better though.

you didnt just roll through the hidden path halfway up the elevator on the way down instead?

25:12 - btw Demon's Soul's Penetrator did that throw first. :)

Any chance of a witcher 3 analysis?

Super weird, but I actually found Midir nigh-impossible to beat until I did what I consider to be the weirdest thing I've ever done in a Souls Game - I started naming the boss's attacks after Pokemon attacks. Seriously. Outrage is his berserk frenzy, Dragon Tail is the Tail Swipe, Hyper Beam is the beam attack, Fire Blast and Flamethrower are his ground-flame and straight-forward breath attack, etc. Somehow, this simplified the boss immensely in my mind, allowing me to beat him in one or two tries once I'd logged his attacks.

You have a weird infatuation with fighting multiple enemies in this series. And about the last part... dude, Anor Londo was the exact same deal. Multiple buildings and streets you never got to explore as they were just set dressing to make the place appear like a big sprawling city. Games do that a lot. It was pretty clear that the Ringed City was meant to immitate the good ol' Anor Londo level in the original Dark Souls (and more) and one of the ways it did was by putting a massive part of the city out of reach to make it appear large. Oolacile was the same. Undead burg was the same. Hell, Lost Izalith was the same too. It's a classic Dark Souls level, with all the good and the bad (overwhelmingly more good though). The Ringed City was just long enough. I don't know how much I would've liked it if I had an extra helping of the same tileset. And did you seriously miss the fact that you could 1shot the fat bastards with plunging attacks? That's one of the most beautiful things about the streets level of Ringed City, giving you so many opportunities to do that is going back to the staple Dark Souls design philosophy of levels as puzzles more than successive fights. I missed that about the game, and absolutely loved that they came back to it here.

Your reviews have always been extremely analytic and have a lot of work put into them keep up the good work .

For Midir you don't have to ride the elevator down and then up again. Roll through the door while the elevators going down. You're mad about a 30 second run? There's way longer runs to a fog wall in the series.

I think I miss the point of your reviews. I do enjoy them, but more than half the time is spent just describing the things you do in the game (how the levels are designed and enemies etc.), and its like your opinions are just thrown in to the mix every once and a while. I don't really need an explanation for whats in the game, I've already played it. I want to hear your opinions, because there are long chunks where you just describe the game instead of giving insight about it. Its weird, because at the start of your videos, you mention "don't watch if you haven't played" and then describe everything for the people who HAVE already played. Like, I already know how the boss fights work, and what the levels look like. I just want to know some insight you might have for us.

29:00 in all fairness, you don't have to ride the lift down and then back up again every time. just run face first into the wall with the hole in it while going down :P

I love the quality of your videos, you’re very good at compiling your thoughts and communicating them. I really appreciate that in your videos

This confirms that you dislike runbacks to bosses that offer no difficulty, so I'm curious why you didn't bring them up in your Dark Souls 1 critique. Towards the beginning of DS1 there are hilariously bad runbacks, including the one to the Taurus Demon and the one to the Bell Gargoyles. They have enemies in those runbacks, but after a few rounds you will have memorized a very consistent path through them all, and it becomes brainless. This is one of Dark Souls 1's biggest weaknesses for me, and I just find it strange that it doesn't get brought up when people praise the first half of the game. It's a major, major hindrance on that first half.

Haven't watched it yet. Just wanted to say hi, and thanks for posting a new video so quickly after your previous one. Edit: Just watched it. Funny and insightful as always.

Joseph keep on making awesome, insightful, and interesting reviews and analysis. Ive seen all of your videos at least once, so I need more. Keep up the good work.

Ik this video is old, but the criticism that Midir doesn't make it obvious enough that you should attack his head doesn't make any sense to me. It's his only lock on point & you can figure out just by hitting his head once then hitting his leg once that it does way more damage. How else do you want this communicated? The game obviously isn't going to give a death screen tip that just says "dragons are weak to blows to the head." I really don't know how else they can communicate it through gameplay more than they already did

No reboot and it’s 2020. It was truly a bittersweet ending

I loved the bits of lore revealed in this dlc. It finally expands on the Pigmys, if humans are evil just by nature and the relationship between humans and Gwyn (Darksign). I also liked that Gael serves as a counterpart to Gwyn. Lore wise, this ending provides closure to the story, with humans finally being able to live in peace because of the painting.

Gael and Midir are the only bosses in the game that I can fight again and again for hours without getting bored. Especially Gael, his soundtrack is the best in the series in my opinion.

Sorry for the off-topic question, but I was considering checking out your books. If you had to recommend one single book of yours to read (to get an idea of whether I like them) which would you pick? Do you have a favorite, or one that you think best represents what you're trying to accomplish without depending on previous books?

I just wrote a 1,074 character comment and then realized it was all an irrelevant complaint about this game. Gotta throw that shit in the garbage bin because all I want you to know, Joseph, is that your content is always great. You're very insightful and I appreciate your views even if they're different from mine. I love watching your videos about games I'll never even play because you divide a very clear line for me in knowing when a game is "good" and when I had a "good experience" and I want to thank you for being such a positive influence on people like me. Great moves. Keep it up!

I have just finished this DLC finally (I was experiencing souls fatigue and hadn't played in quite some time, but I wanted to play it on NG rather than on NG+ cycles with existing characters). I thought it was ok - stellar bosses but lord did I hate some of the areas. My build was light; I was using the sellsword twinblades my class had started with and a small leather shield for parrying; and I massively struggled with the enemies. Any fight against multiple ring knights meant death pretty much, since unlike in your video footage I could never spam them to stagger but I would always get staggered when my character was so much as tickled - despite wearing medium armor. For me it all comes back to FROM's decision to remove poise. I had taken up a large chunk of my carry weight wearing decent armor that didn't protect me from anything. Fighting multiples here never felt fun because of this. I would get stunlocked by the ganks of murkmen (one tiny area had 3 summoners, a miracle casting knight and what felt like a hundred of these guys and I had to hide in a corridor and bait the knight to do it after dying several times). The angels were fine IMO - I'm a completionist so I found all their effigies to kill, and I liked that these didn't respawn so I could loot the area afterwards. I didn't mind the swamp but I didn't like that it was much easier and more efficient to just run through and collect rather than take the time to kill everything, as every nick of damage I took seemed to drop a full estus charge worth of health even from the weaker enemies - again despite 40 vigor, ring of favor (+3 even when I found it), and medium armor. And the game relishes in throwing 4-5 enemies at you at once. Without a heavy, staggering weapon with sweeping attacks this regularly felt like bullshit. Demon prince was ok and I killed him on my first attempt. First phase was great - they did exactly what you said, one would melee attack while the other telegraphed ranged attacks and it felt fair. However I burned a lot of estus on phase 2 because unlike your experience, my prince spammed the chaos orb meteor shower shite over and over and it became hard to get opportunities to attack without taking massive damage. Midir was a little frustrating because my puny swords couldn't reach his head a lot of the time. I died probably 8-10 times learning the first phase, a couple more thanks to crazy lazor in the 2nd, and then got the kill which was immensely satisfying. I didn't lock on at all after seeing that the camera was going to be bad and it wasn't an issue. I did not bother going for body hits because of the pathetic damage my swords did and his enourmous health bar, but it felt ok given that he is a massive dragon. 1 shot kills with the laser on my huge health pool felt a little bullshit though. I actually fought him first; FROM has conditioned me to look for jumpoff points on elevators and there was a message in front of the illusionary wall. I feel like the run to his boss room helped me though - sometimes a bit of a break is good to cool off after the adrenaline and stress of a long attempt that failed. The fucking half light whatever pvp bullshit was the worst. I didn't realise what it was or I would have done it offline. Australian internet does not go well with PVP in this game, and though I did it on the first try, I spent the entire fight dodging the painting guardian knives and homing soulmass while the invader R1 spammed over and over. He wasn't a very good player, which is the only reason I won, because his swings would connect with me from across the room. Lag is why I don't engage in any of the online content; it is not fun on any level. I managed to pull off a surprise parry on him which he wasn't expecting but I had to hit parry before he'd even swung (I just guessed he would since he was sprint attacking over and over again). Just got the kill with no estus left. Never again. Gael on the other hand was fantastic, a tough callback that I likened, like you, to Artorias and Orphan of Kos. Fantastic fight, took me a few attempts but nothing too crazy to get frustrated (unlike Blackflame Friede who kicked my ass every time I made it to her). I'm glad they didn't give him never ending combos like her. He felt fair and it was a good fight. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to share my experience. I don't mind fights with multiples necessarily and I have never complained about DS2 or manually aiming the camera to crowd control. But dealing this much damage per hit is unmanageable with smaller weapons and often feels extremely unfair. I don't think players should have to change their loadout for a certain area. To me, Souls games have always been about finding a weapon you like then making it work. My twinblades often felt excessive against some bosses that I could just wail on, but then whenever I was fighting anything with a shield (lothric knights, cathedral knights, ringed knights) I couldn't do anything. I had to practice parrying against lothric knights and the black knight with the ultra greatsword for a couple of hours to parry so I had any tool to use at all. Even worse if there were more than one of them. No kick, no stagger, no poise of my own. Not fun. I'm glad to have done it to say that I've completed all the soulsborne content but I don't think I want to do it again; the levels are tedious and frustrating. I will gladly play a bossrush mode if it's ever introduced though (I know there's a mod for PC but I have PS4 and I'm not buying this game again).

why dont you drop through the doorway to midir when the elevator descends? You would you wait for it to go back up to do it? seems confusing

About the poison and curse meter thing, isn't there already items that can undo a whole bar with one button press?

25:10 "be wary of old codger"

You've got some really great stuff, especially you're Fallout video and look forward to see more but there's one thing I think you're wrong about, Ashes is intended to be played first, not TRC. Gael is meant to be interacted with before you start TRC though of course I can't say that for a fact(Story-wise there's really not alot of things that can be stated as a fact other than it's foundation but even that can be twisted to a certain extent) but it really seems like they intended for you to meet Gael, learn of his mission, follow in his footsteps - that way when he fails, like he already expected to, you can finish what he started.

0:14 He knew The madman

What a great fucking channel

Gael Fight for me was absolutely awesome. It does to me, exactly what you talked about in your "Little Nightmares" Review, when a game just clicks with you and you feel it? That fight did a similar thing for me right from the start, and I love it everytime I play it, its just a shame that you have to go through the whole game to play it once :(

That's a lot of food for thought, dude. And the Rocky montage alone was worth the watch.

Always good to see another video from you man, great analysis as always

Did anyone notice that the shaft you fall down on the way to Midir is very similar or is(i can't confirm) the shaft that you go down in the opening cutscenes from DS1? It seems like the Midir room and entry to it is a big call back to the opening of DS1 with the room and the fall looking so similar.

19:05- OH! oh I completely missed that... feeling a lil stupid

29:39 I know you have experienced Dark Souls 2, there are longer and less interesting boss runs. Especially in the DLC

Are you working on a sekiro video? I'm really on the fence about getting it and your recommendation would really help

Fantastic review as always, I've been looking forward to this video!

FROM definitely seems to have a problem with letting their "Effect Bars" go down quickly : Be it "Curse" here in DS3, or "Frenzy" in Bloodborne.... .....I really cannot even think why.

After watching your DS3 reviews the main problem I've found is that you're so hung up on DS1 and what you want the game to be, you don't enjoy it for what it is.

Damn you uploaded. I guess i HAVE to have an amazing day now! Thank you!

16:07 the twin kitty fight is similar. After you get the second one to come down they also attack in turns. That's what happened to me

You didn't talk about lapp

Okay, so my take on the curse-fodder enemies is that, they're not necessarily uninteresting, but curses and petrifications and statuses in the Souls games are generally really badly done. Statuses on your weapons are generally also really badly done. Especially because of the whole bar/build-up nature of it. Completely destroys the natural pacing in the game especially from PVE enemies and nature; and adds up a cumbersome and clunky mechanics, namely dealing with it, since usables aren't really very naturally paced, often locks your character, and the menus aren't very intuitive either and sort of slow to navigate (and if you have no items to deal with it, it feels like a sort of penalty that just eats away at your health or simply kills you with no imminent threat, because the game didn't really present any way to deal with it). I'd rather poison weapons had a sort of, lower initial damage and an added direct and limited damage over time. Basically just splits the damage of say, 200, to 100 on hit and 150 over the next ten seconds, with a faster and larger drain the more times an enemy is hit in a row (and just add the poison as a seperate elemental type of damage too). Will stack and create panic, but more importantly, the whole direct dots presents the receiver a new problem, namely how to deal with it here and now, and not in the after or even before, and presents a higher amount of damage in the future, at the cost of it being in the future. Problem with the status bars that we have now, is also that it often never even procs. Because players that you fight are good enough to dodge enough of your blows to not get hit repeatedly enough for it to proc, and if they do get hit repeatedly, they're dead anyway. Also statuses have different speeds in execution, meaning that some types of afflictions have nigh no threat, since they chip health so slowly. Or you run into an enemy that, through providence and luck has an armor set that for some reason has high enough poison resistance to completely render your weapons useless - that's also a problem I have with the whole resistances and elements in the game. For a game that's centered around you picking whatever weapon you want to use, create your own character in an action-RPG, there's really a lot of rock-paper-scissors in it. I remember fighting the Nameless King the first time. With a lightning weapon. RIP me. And lightning weapons are really great typically because not a lot of enemies have lightning resistances. But you have the problem of the chance of running into bosses and enemies that completely negate your playstyle. Not forces you to adapt, but completely negates. If you don't have the tonnes of crafting materials, souls, and prerequisities to make something new, you're stuck with the one weapon you have. Hint, a level one weapon picked randomly out of my backpack that I might be able to use, will probably be as bad as my lightning +10 weapon. So there really are some bosses that just aren't necessarily difficult in mechanical gameplay, but rather statistically cuts you out. Which, imho, is bad in an *action* RPG, and actually in most games. Since most games don't let you carry a weapon for each encounter (the sheer amount of stuff you have to do in Dark Souls to get more weapons for carrying, spec up to use them, upgrade them, the sheer amount of souls spent on carrying weight, etc) even if they promote doing so. And let's be frank. Who plays Dark Souls like a Swiss army knife, and not an RPG character? There should be elements and resistances. But if you have that, you also need a system that *at least* doesn't cut people out from the equation. One thing is having a higher lightning resistance, another is having basically lightning immunity. But elemental resistances should typically also present a weakness in physical resistance. So it sort of adds up. But then you also needs a higher emphasis on said elements, so there's any PVP reason to focus on any one. But again that's where statistical gameplay wins over Fashion Souls. Nameless King has a moveset that is easy as... Pinwheel. But when you fight him with a lightning weapon (that fucking sucks in lightning damage, and its physical damage is more than quartered), it just feels spongy and sort of like your chosen weapon locks you out of content. It's a balancing act I don't feel like FromSoft has ever been really good at. Except in Bloodborne, but Bloodborne is wildly different, since most enemies simply just deal damage and take damage, and some damage types work better, not worse (some might, but the bosses in Bloodborne in general aren't that elemental, and you also have less elemental play with your weapons overall). Other way is to completely remove elemental effects from weapons. Or basically go the Bloodborne way. Where elemental effects are just elemental effects, and be it fire or electricity, doesn't really matter. The play is elemental or not, and if you plan on going elemental, you deal a lot of damage, in a certain way and it's very niche. But you can still deal a lot of damage as a physical or whatever. You don't feel as much locked out, as you do of another flavour. Statistical play doesn't really work well for a linear game either. And yes, I consider the Soulsborne games linear. You don't have a faction of enemies or players who engage in certain ways of dealing damage, in certain physical areas, that you specialize and come back to. No, you go through all the content, meeting gimmick enemies with gimmick damage now and then. The problematique of preparing for an encounter is ridiculous when encounters are single-dos and the preparation sort of becomes moot. - The headless big ones are just really bad, hands down. Because they're made for that one gimmick. They're bland easy enemies that just feel spongy. They're really made to be killed, in one specific way, and not fought.

God your awesome, I get super excited when you show up in my notifications!

Why are there old levels in the ring city? I haven't played the game so I'm curious.

"I'll be shocked if we don't see anything on darksouls 4 or a reboot series by 2020". rip

It's like Christmas whenever you upload a video

oh wow this channel blew up. i watched a video a year ago remember liking it and now i found the channel again with over 140k subs gd job man

Joseph Anderson, keep up the amazing work you do. I've never enjoyed videos as long as yours. Your Uncharted/LoU video took 3:20h and it felt like a normal length video. Cheers!