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I've watched over 10 videos and the way you explained it was perfect. Areith knew she had to die and switched the time line. They gave into the fanbase for cloud to save her. Beautifully done

I used summons against Radahn because that fight was designed that way but because I never found the bell on my playthrough I had to solo the bosses. Most of them weren’t too hard but I struggled badly against Margit and very badly struggled against Melania. Her heal and that attack in her second stage just seemed impossible for my build (strength). I eventually defeated her possibly due to lucky rng it was not a fun time. The rest of the bosses were no where near as hard as she was. I never faced a boss in their games that’s that difficult

Give it a few years and you’ll definitely want to play it again. Just leave it enough time to become fresh again

5:15 this is the kind of stuff that is super immersion breaking for me now, like when you are first doing it you don't think about it... why the fuck would an enemy repeatedly slow walk towards you and eat 12 arrows?

the title is the exact same sentiment that i have. playing the dlc now and im fine with one playthrough. 😊

The older I get the more I appreciate exploring From Software’s worlds and the less I enjoy fighting their bosses

I wonder why they didn’t just make Marston the protagonist for the whole game. It seems like a lot of effort for very little pay off.

Dude is spitting facts about the lazy enemy placement design, cause some really are just the same enemies but harder due to the area they are in .. the game has enough enemy variety where it's almost ignorable... Emphasis on almost...

I wasn't convinced by the announcement, trailer or reviews of Elden Ring 2 years later I forced myself to try again and beat the game solo I did I dislike Elden Ring. My gut reaction was correct People really overhyped this game

I think something you overlooked with Arthur is that he’s outlook on life changes throughly as you progress in the story. At one point yes he didn’t have it in him to be a family man. But by the end of the story he wants John to pursue what he didn’t have the guts to at the time. Arthur isn’t a good person he does a lot of things but what I think they tried to do is uniquely make him start to realize how wrong he’s been and start to try to do right before it’s too late. He’s a villain trying to redeem himself. Even if he wasn’t the worst of the bunch

Bravo!! I absolutely love your theory and basically is what I've been thinking too. Cannot believe this has had so few views! I also am not a huge fan of Zack and feel his addition has just been purely for fan service. In fact, if anything, it's caused more divisiveness in the fandom because I'm finding hardcore Zack fans are constantly hating Cloud's character for unjustifiable reasons. Regarding degradation, if you remember in Crisis Core, it actually states that Cloud is the only person living with pure S cells and these were needed to stop the degradation process! Cloud is not suffering from soldier degradation. I'm really hoping part 3 will hit all the right beats and not destroy the heart and soul of the orig game!

I like Arthur better, idk, just seems like a genuinely likable guy

Its a fantastic game and definitely changed gaming for the better but it isnt perfect. I think my biggest critisism can be summed up into "less is more". Maybe im spoiled in saying they gave us too much but sometimes the dungeons and rewards just felt redundant by the time you get to mountain top. The difficulty is inconsistent where sometimes you have perfectly balanced bosses, some thatre horribly easy and then some that just feel like they require speedrunning level skill to learn. Optimized builds make the game laughably easy but i like to hope fromsoft learns from this as its their first truly open world game. Again, i absolutely love the game and am currently in my 4th playthrough about to start the DLC for the first time. I hope this has been a huge learning moment for fromsoft and that they do see theyre heading in an amazing direction.

lol this hasn’t aged well

Philly accent for sure

This game has the Red Dead 2 effect. The game is so big and has so much to do with a lot of time NEEDED to be involved that after the first run on a character/playthrough that you don’t feel like playing for a while( for me at least) I took a 2 year brake and came back to elden ring and I felt that I knew enough to get me through the game but forgot enough to want to explore the world again and I was even finding stuff I never found on my first character who’s on NG+4

Ahh yes, the classic, “there’s only one way to play” while using big shield and Oonga Booga sword. Have you tried, playing a hybrid build with both physical and ranged options? Or a archer or craft build? Seriously, you cannot claim that the game has only one way to play, when YOU only played it one way. Every other critique is fair, I think the game probably faced budgeting problems, hence the reuse of assets, which is why Sotet is so much more unique and more like Dark souls of the past.

@34:40 I get what you mean, but there are UFOs (a bunch of alien enemy types, some of which fly), time travellers (anyone who travels to The Roundtable Hold or that **other** place are travelling through both space and time), and robots (various kinds of golems) in Elden Ring. To your point, the lack of noticeably shifting tone just colors how these things are represented in the game. That lack of change in tone/gameplay variety is actually the thing that bothered me most about Elden Ring when I was first playing.

I honestly think you’re wrong about Arthur’s plot as, “Ludo-narrative dissonance.” Arthur is a hypocrite, yes, but you’re summarising his character as a static whole, instead of acknowledging that he’s going through phases of self recognition and grief. He wrestles with those feelings of self hatred and anger toward Dutch and he takes that out on Strauss, because he’s just seen the damage he’s done to people’s lives on a debt collecting mission. He still can’t bring himself to challenge Dutch in his own heart, so Strauss is convenient at that moment. Yes he knows he’s as bad as Strauss and he tells him as much when he throws him out. “We ain’t decent, you and me.” But this is just like the guy who kicks the dog after being scolded by his wife. Because it’s either that or admit she was right, so he kicks down, not yet being brave enough to punch up.

Ik damn well he didn’t just mention Horizon Forbidden West and not GoW Ragnarok aka the game that should’ve won GOTY 🙄

I’m 2 years late not even 3 minutes in and you sold me just by the Boston Connor clip alone 😂😂😂😂🤝

Em jack did become an outlaw but not really a murderer because in canon he only killed one guy who killed john and i think everyone knows who that is edgar ross

Do I hear a Philly or South Jersey accent in this video??

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What is the point of warning everyone that you’re just providing an opinion. Theres no way that actually prevents anyone from getting angry at your take, and guess what….OF COURSE its just your opinion. What kind of idiot thinks youre sharing objective facts.

Bruh John literally let’s women get human trafficked he lets innocent people die for simple wanting better wages but he’s being this for his family but you can say the same for Arthur let’s not act like John’s not a hypocrite he’s like I’m just disgusted by the war crimes happening yet takes part burns houses allows rape and more people being shot with no evidence 💀

For me the npc questlines being so vague in terms of where to go and what to do + the repeated bosses + 2nd half of the game slog dropped the rating from a 10/10 for me to a 7/10

Man I feel like your explanation of the ending somehow made it even more complicated, and yet didn't explain as much (as some other theories). The theory that seems to make the most sense to me, and explains pretty much everything we see, is that Aerith DID survive in a separate world, and at the end of the game we're simply seeing the fact that Cloud can see into multiple worlds, so it looks as if they've been superimposed on top of each other. That theory explains pretty much everything. It explains why Red specifically also senses her (she gave Red some of her mojo in Remake), it explains the crack in the sky (the crack in the sky is in that second world with Aerith, but not in the main world). They also recently patched Remake to change some dialogue in the end cutscene, which seems to have been done purely to indicate the fact that Aerith could see into the other worlds herself. So that fits as well. She had the ability to see into the other worlds, and she gave that ability to Red and Cloud. Red only has a limited remnant of it though, because as they explain earlier in the game, the whispers stole it from them. I feel like this explains pretty much everything, and is simpler that most other explanations too. It's just they presented it in a bit of a messy way. I do think you're pretty much correct about the second timelines though, in that they're ultimately not going to mean much, and they're probably all going to be destroyed by the end. They were essentially just a way of trying to add some mystery and suspense to the story, whilst also included some fan service around some of the main characters (which is yet another reason why aerith surviving in a second timeline seems likely to me: because she has to have her reunion with Zack in part 3. That's totally why he's still alive. It's his only real remaining purpose.)

You talked a lot about "having fun" but never explained or defined what you meant by that.

Really good video! I appreciate that for a smaller channel you’ve got a good audio setup which makes listening so much better. Also nice to hear thoughts from a person who didn’t really vibe with the other souls games. Very engaging video!

Its funny alot of your criticism is basically how I feel about modern zelda exploring in botw is so god damned boring and it feels worse in the one trick pony category to me than elden ring.

Milton is not a minor character, especially after that long speech 😂

Nice video, asshole.

I really loved your video and I get your point about liking the story not being so direct, I like it aswell. But my problem is that it doesnt really put you in the spot of "My character doesnt really know what he is doing" because you literally belong to some sort of group with other people and the world seems to "work". In other souls games I really like the archeology of the lore, searching for it. Here it feels strange, like If I went to the grocery store and the person in the counter would act normally while the rest of the world act as actual zombies jsjsj

I just want Aerith to get a shot at life, even if it is in another timeline were the rest of the gang died. And she'll be seperated from her new friends and both Zack and Cloud so fans can keep speculating on the "love triangle" :P But she'd still get to live a new life and make new friends, find new love etc. And it wouldn't brake the canon in the "og" timeline. But just that she'll get a shot a living a full life is all i'm asking for. But there is also the thing which i thought of even back in Remake, the whispers and the notion of defying fate could all be a red herring, as you say. So narrativley "oh they have a chance to do things differently" yet the chips still end up falling into place. But if that were the case, her entire death arch was done horribly. If she was just meant to die anyway, using the convoluted plot and the multiversal /multidimensional 1 hour boss battle and all of the bait and switch was completly unneccesary. They could have had the boss battle take place at the temple of the ancients, triggering her desire to go to the city..... maybe even have Cid be the one to take her there.... Hence he would then have a reason to join the gang, out of guilt.... And then just end the game with the gang running in and seeing Cloud holding her body instead of this convoluted overloading stuff. Good video.

Grouping everyone together that dislikes Elden Ring as people that just haven't played past Fromsoft games before and don't understand the formula is pretty ridiculous. I've played and loved every Fromsoft game (except Sotfs, but I like the original) and I dislike E.r because its NOT the regular souls formula like you say, it's bogged down by an overly large copy paste open world. Traveling so far just to see the same enemies with different skins and the same assets over and over again got real stale real fast. People honestly seem brainwashed into thinking bigger must mean better, but it's just quantity over quality. Open world means 10/10 nowadays by critics, same crap happened with Botw.

Loved the episode this week. Hands down a fair list of non-UC shows. Finally wrapped up my MG Dom Custom Assualt Type Slowly getting some Waterslides on my HG XI Gundam. (Grandkids come first) Finally got confirmation on the 1/100 V-Tiger Hi-Nu Gundam YLJ version coming from SamuelDecal.

Calling Elden Ring another Dark Souls feels silly, bc Dark Souls is just a spinoff to Demon's Souls

1:32:41 totally agree with dyne’s changes

53:14 it’s on purpose that Zack’s appearance does not make any difference because he is in the lifestream. The ‘multiverse’ is in the lifestream. Zack and Aerith will unite in the lifestream and help the main party as they did in OG and CC, it was just assumed and not shown. Re series is just showing us what was assumed before.

Gotta say your ending analysis seems spot on. I’m a brand new player never played OG but I figured I was supposed to pick Aerith for the dates because seemed like Tifa was pretty mad at me from the beginning of the game so I went that route and makes sense to me considering Clouds reaction when she died was very intense like a man in love. But maybe that changed if you pick Tifa? Everyone keeps talking about this lifestream sequence between Cloud and Tifa so I’m assuming he dates Aerith and she dies and so in the next game I’m supposed to date Tifa next which is cool with me. Also the Corel jail scene I chalked it up to Cloud maybe actually WANTING to do the chocobo race cuz that seems right up his ally since the guy seems like a thrill seeker. Then I just figured the fact that they were in Gus’s turf as well. He couldn’t fight off a whole town with dudes with guns ig but that’s what I chalked it up too 🤷🏻‍♀️

We can all agree micah is trevor's ancestor😂

I bet you'll still play the dlc 😂😂

The only problem I've had with this game is that the bosses seems to have an infinite combination of attacks with very small attack window especially on later bosses. And the biggest one is the input reading AI and the follow up attacks which you could not, no matter what you do, avoid.

The game has a fair share of problems, but many of them were implemented to make them more money and it was successful. Though you may have some serious criticisms of the game, they added things like spirit ashes and sandbox features to cater to a more casual player base which made them way more money. A sandbox game cannot be balanced, and sometimes the scale is so large that it’s easier to reuse bosses and enemies. Essentially what I’m saying is while Elden Ring may seem like a larger game with more choice it’s really just a watered down dark souls that caters to casual players who wouldn’t be interested in Dark Souls.

1. This video only having 178 views is insane for this quality of production. Liked and subscribed. Incredible stuff 2. Totally agreed that the Remake/Rebirth ending are incredible, but I cannot imagine how semi-infuriating these games would be for either someone who a) Never played the original FF7 or b) Only played FF7 and didn’t take in any bonus content. The timeline manipulation and combination is so cool and awesome for a serious FF7 fan who’s watched every second of content, but good lord it is such less compelling and coherent story telling if being viewed in a relative vacuum

Bill was trying to clap Kieran’s cheeks not just be nice to him 😂

Do yourself a favour and dont play or talk about any fromsoft games in the future. They are all amazing games, but it seems like you are mistaking your personal gripes with the essential souls games design, with "objective flaws", which you didnt point out well. Some of your arguments made zero sense and it made you very hard to take seriously. Like the whole "I didnt bother trying out new Ashes of War, so finding them became boring", like what's the logic here? That is you willfuly choosing to not engage with a core combat mechanic and then blaming the game for it. Stuff like that just makes some parts of this review very hard to listen to. Also the whole "Souls community is meannnn" does not fit into this type of review. Nobody cares why you find some fans toxic and it takes away from things that you should actually be talking about in a GAME review. It's out of place and came of very passive aggresive. In any case, do better.

It's been two years, other than a week ago when i picked this up again. Buddy talked about it, only got it cuz of him. I love it, he hates it. He says the roll is worng. Compared to the other from software.