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Elden Ring is my favorite FromSoft game but DS2 was my favorite from the Dark Souls trilogy mainly because of the bosses. I've always been a sucker for cool looking suits of armor and helmets/masks, I absolutely loved Fume Knight, Alonne, Ivory King, Looking Glass Knight, Velstadt, Mytha, Lost Sinner, and Vendrick to name some off the top of my head. Also Vendrick, Aldia, and Emerald Herald are very cool story/lose wise. I know DS2 can be a janky mess but I feel myself being called back to replay it on new characters more than DS1 and DS3. Still love em all tho to be fair

I could do without the misogynistic language while fighting Melania. "Heated gamer moment" makes that come out? Why was that on the tip of your tongue?

21:30 lucky?! Lucky enough to find it?! It’s in a church! You know? The things with sacred tears in them!? The things you can see from the map?! The thing that is easily found, accessed and a thing you’re given reason to go to?! wtf does Joseph mean by lucky?!

Even though i started with Demon's Souls on PS3 and got every From game thereafter on release, I didn't start Elden Ring until 4 months ago. I got older. I remained spoiler free this entire time. Even though it's not my bag, my brother who's been there with me told me to run it depraved → strength and two hand like i did DS2 (my last favorite. Shoot me) because this game feels the most like that one. He waited for over 100hrs (I'm compelled to check every nook and cranny) until I made it to Malenia. He was certain I'd finally crack and admit this was the hardest the series has ever been, basically unfair. 3 runs later she was in a heap. Twice I'd knocked her out of the air stopping her crazy combo. Her poise was nothing. I'd died much more to the Godskin in Caelid. "Git gud" never resonated with me until I finally finished the DLC (more rage inducing than the base but manageable) and started watching reviews. How could people be so much worse than me, a mediocre player (i have a video of dancer destroying me on my channel when i was a sword and boarder) years outta practice with the series who mostly plays just so I can write lore down in a notebook and theorycraft? So much worse they blame the game itself 😬 I have complaints. It's not perfect. I had glitches hear and there, I faced a crazy camera freakout in the corner against one of the tree spirits. I had a (self imposed) hard time trying to actually hit hyper mobile bosses who alway seemed to be on the other side of the arena out of bonk range. But i can comfortably say 9.9/10 deaths were on me.

Easy. It doesn't.

1. Your voice is way too compressed. Back the ratio down to 2:1 or 4:1 max. Also, the recording you’ve compressed is really muddy. You need to pop on an eq to drop some of your mid and bass frequencies. (Btw. If you’re compressing and eqing in post: compress first, eq after. It’ll sound much clearer). 2. Some good points, but abrasive tone. I’d pull some punches with your delivery. You come off as plain mean sometimes. I appreciate what you made here. Lotta potential. I look forward to future uploads.

1. Your voice is way too compressed. Back the ratio down to 2:1 or 4:1 max. Also, the recording you’ve compressed is really muddy. You need to pop on an eq to drop some of your mid and bass frequencies. (Btw. If you’re compressing and eqing in post: compress first, eq after. It’ll sound much clearer). 2. Some good points, but abrasive tone. I’d pull some punches with your delivery. You come off as plain mean sometimes. I appreciate what you made here. Lotta potential. I look forward to future uploads.

I wonder why Loop never used jumping heavies to punish the stomps

Godfrey fight will forever be one of my favorites in huge part thanks to the soundtrack. Just something about how it compliments his aggression and constant stomps gives me an еrection. And the second phase devolving from an honorable duel to a scrap in the mud with biting and kicking in the nuts both musically and visually.

Hey what happened to the Ancient Dragon Man vid? I coulda swore I saw a vid of you fighting that fucker

I just hope he's a better dad than a critic because oooh boy.

Meanwhile no one made a guide on how to dodge the Dagger double strike, I'm guessing it's impossible

I think it all comes down to preference. Personally liked DS’s more intense and choir battles as they were very memorable for me. Elden Ring’s music is a step up in terms of variety though, but it’s not as memorable to me as say DS3’s main menu title or Vordt’s 2nd half. I really liked Godrick, Radagon/Elden Beast, and Godskin Duo’s track though.

Oooh yeeeeah

18:17 Castlevania music always goes hard. 32:13 Metal Gear Rising music goes hard. 45:45 Peer Gynt music goes hard. 49:17 This is why Minecraft is a good game. If you had to beat it single player blind it would be harder than Lv1. Wretch no items Elden Ring due to obtuse systems, though doing that is more viable now. 50:00 Simon’s Quest is kinda hard for the wrong reasons, but with a couple of patches (ha ha) it’s quite fun.

I gotta be honest, I still think Mountaintop of the Giants enemies are BS, because god, the big finger creepers and the fucking Caelid crows are ANNOYING to fight. I did it for like an area each, to reach Ranni and to pick up items in Caelid and left those shitheaps alone whenever possible.

4:52 where is this from?

13:20 "If you are having fun, you are playing the game right. If joseph is not having fun with this game then by his own definition he is playing the game wrong." No bitch thats a whole new sentence

Thanks, man. I really like your video. It helped a lot.

It's very clear that u just glaze ER based on ur waterfowl argument alone. U just can't accept that an ER boss can be poorly designed. Waterfowl is badly designed cos it has minimal telegraph, stun locks u if u get hit, she heals an insane amount from, and confusing her ai is not the intended way to dodge it either. Don't like act FS expected most players to figure out that that's how it should be dodged when it was challenge runners that did that. And challenge runners do plenty of other stuff that aren't intended either. I don't know y these types of vids always use challenge runners as an example that a boss is actually great. Please stop with that bs. And having a boss ignore game mechanics like a shield is not a "necessary evil", it's stupid.

Midras theme 😫👌

Just 4 more bosses to go!

I am wanting to try the strafes he does in the fight but always end up getting hit, is there a specific way to do them?

Personally, I really don't get why Midra is considered so easy to people or even "too easy". He's certainly no Radahn, Malenia or Bayle, but he's on a similar level to Messmer in my mind. Like, he has a similar amount of openings to him. The thing is that some of his attacks are less complicated than Messmer. On the other hand, as a concept he really should be hard. He does frenzy on a bunch of his attacks and if that triggers it stuns you. Then Midra immediately swoops in and does loads of damage to punish you on top of the damage from the initial attack and the frenzy proc. In particular, this can happen, if he gets any distance from you, like after his phase transition, because he has many ranged frenzy attacks. It feels kind of like when Radagon starts going insane with projectiles and teleports, except it's punished way harder. Then he also has giant literally room filling frenzy AoEs and even a complicated 5 hit combo in phase 2 that does that on every hit. But maybe I also had so much trouble with him, because I really got into trying to find jump punishes on him, which is probably more risky and everyone else just played him like DS3 and found him underwhelming. I still believe people would've complained about him being too hard had he been in Ringed City though. Either way, Midra is a great entry to Elden Rings boss roster precisely because of his many jumpable attacks and other evasion options. Like, him and Godfrey are on par. I wouldn't change a thing about him. S tier.

Response video to person who critiqued a game... opens with "this person is incorrect in their opinion" as early as in the _title..._ yyyeeeah... don't mind me while I dump poison in this well, I'm definitely not insecure at all. Sorry, but that kind of avenue of arguing or discussing doesn't really invite being taken seriously by anyone who doesn't already agree with you and just wants to hear their opinion repeated back to them by you.

So basically he played a Fromsoft game, refused to participate in the game mechanics or "git gud", then blamed the game. Lmao.

Throughout all the years of playing soulsborne titles i've never casted a spell or incantation. the closest i got was trying to a find an incantation to add lightning on my zweihander but didnt read the wiki and realised i needed to level faith once i did get it, and i was like screw it, i guess im not playing with a glowing stick the whole run lolol

As a German, the abbreviation "zwei" for zweihänder makes my brain melt. What a weird way to say that. It's as if I called your RUclips video a "tube".

imo best boss besides messmer purely because of his "no-rollableness"

I really like complicated bosses like Rellana and Morgott, but I also really don't mind simplicity too. I think most good players (lots of people here) complain too much when a boss isn't the hardest thing ever. Not every boss needs to be over the top and have like several dozen combo strings and moves. A simple and clean boss is good too, and not being crazy doesn't make it "mid".

A boss with this many openings needs 120 stance, also think he needed a 3rd phase, fight goes for so long and it’s all phase 2, maybe could’ve given him a frenzy sword on his dagger to combo with or put some flames on his cape to copy Gael.

While he wasn’t perfect this is probably the most easily creative in evasion and counters due to how many of his attacks are so polished. He definitely could have used a crazier phase 3, like maybe when he gets to 30% he gets a second blade made out of frenzy so that the stub is an actual sword and he ramps up some lingering frenzy flames. Honestly if they had another 2 months to work on this and a few other fights he might have been able to take over messmer.

While he wasn’t perfect this is probably the most easily creative in evasion and counters due to how many of his attacks are so polished. He definitely could have used a crazier phase 3, like maybe when he gets to 30% he gets a second blade made out of frenzy so that the stub is an actual sword and he ramps up some lingering frenzy flames. Honestly if they had another 2 months to work on this and a few other fights he might have been able to take over messmer.

Hi, rarely comment on videos but I came to say I really love the soundscapes in music section and can relate so heavily since I tend to get lost on similar genres. I still put on FLCL OSTs from time to time. But what blew me away is when you mentioned Kid A. Radiohead largely shaped my taste in music, particularly the bends, OK computer and Kid A. I used to listen to these albums and transport myself away to another reality listening to these during long transits ages ago, so really understand what you're talking about. Have yet to watch the rest of the vid but subscribing for this great take.

I just love everything about this boss I can't help myself

You took the MID out of the Lord of Frenzied Flame, MIDra. Yeah, boss needed at least two more attacks, specially another "get off me" attack.

He needs more get off me moves. So many, if not all, of his lingering frenzy is redundant if you are at close range. Mohg did this infinitely better because he moves around much more and his bloodflame lasts much longer. I want to be a Midra glazer because everything about him is so intense, but the fight itself is way too calm. Feels too fair.

wonder how long this would’ve taken with no skibidis

I'm a physician and this was one of the blindfold kills ever

1:51 did he fucking dodge you?

Ah, I quite like this boss despite it's simplicity however I do agree ppl glaze it a bit too much...🙄 Nice job though, hopefully I can catch a stream before you finish the run.

Bro, did this guy get a different copy from Elden Ring than anyone else? Margit is not an attack spammer by A LONG SHOT. Like, because its been a while I looked up footage of the boss fight and there were so many opportunities to punish, even between attacks. What a crybaby.

I can’t fathom how much he must suck at this game. Neither Radagon nor Margit are particularly hard. Play more aggressively. Use positioning. Also it’s really crazy that he thinks that games shouldn’t make you engage with their systems. Imagine if someone said “no don’t make me go into detective mode while playing Arkham Asylum. That won’t be fun for me.” Literal brain worms.

Well, now the discussion turns to “how to dodge the Waterfowl dance” and how Elden Ring is a bad game when it comes to teaching its players how to deal with its challenges, hiding mechanics/not talking about important mechanics like jumping and stance/how to dodge specific attacks to the point where people need to make videos on how to dodge specific attacks.

00:21 this is a great opportunity to do a free R1 between the two spins by just positioning yourself out of the range of the first spin, it's probably my favorite thing to do in this fight.