I got into your stuff a couple months ago and I want to briefly counter what you say at 0:19 Yes, Soulsborne rankings and reviews have been done a lot but you bring your own style and voice to the topic, making ANYTHING you do new! I love your vids because you bring a super laid back and positive vibe to the content. You’ve got good points to make and quality stuff to say! Keep doing you sir, I wish you all the best
I think DS2 has the best NG+ and has new encounters . Furthermore, with smelter demon and Fume knight start their phase 2 immediately if you wear a certain armor. The atmosphere is just incredible too, and Aldias monologue in the ending was perfect. You choose to bear the curse until you find another way to break the cycle. It is simply a perfect ending for me.
No way was I about missing this! I love how you do you. And you let everyone else have theor own perspective with virtually zero prejudice. And I am a stickler for your translucency. I do think Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice balance its lack of build variety with the prosthetic tools and special skill movesets. Frankly it still holds up as the best and most balanced Soulsbourne title in the series. (Oh, and I for 1 am all with thee on Dark Souls 2 as being the Black Sheep of the series. Also, I was stunned you failed mentioning how most bosses in Elden Ring have some BS moves and combos, e.g Malenia's Scarlett clone wraiths and waterfowl dance assaults.) Awesome video as always mate! Keep it up! You have our support!
Disagree with elden ring bosses the agressiveness is a natural evolution of ds3's difficulty, you dont simply panic roll to rely on s and you have to consider roll direction, running and position at times instead of rolling, and mixing up both pattern memorization and pure reaction, the agressiveness is good, not fun for more casual players, but a solid way of making the game more challenging for long time players, messmer is proof elden ring's boss philosophy can be done right, as well as bayle maybe (aside from the camera), with boss as agressive as the latter i managed to beat it with a colossal weapon suprisingly. What elden ring did wrong is pacing and handling content reuse. At times stuff are heavily reused and sometimes traveling with torrent can be a chore (but the exploration is still the peak of the series imo only one that compares is ds1). Elden Ring does have many amazing "remembrance" bosses, contrary to the popular opinion "elden ring bosses bad ds3 bosses good", when you remember half of ds3 bosses were mid as well, but hey both ER and DS3 still have better boss rosters than DS1 and DS2. Sekiro definitely is the most consistently good in terms of main bosses tbh, with only two real crap ones, monkeys and dual apes.
Right Sekiro: Combat + Boss designs Wrong Sekiro: Storytelling & plot. Fromsofts esoteric way of storytelling doesn't mix well at all with Sekiro having an actual protagonist and actual linear storyline Right Bloodborne: Aesthetic and artstyle portrayal of Lovecraftian imagery Wrong Bloodborne: Boss designs as a whole is okay with only a few exceptions, and many have visual designs that unfortunately aren't very unique or sometimes blend into each other Right Elden Ring: Translation of Fromsofts care and dedication of art and level design to the Open World space Wrong Elden Ring: Power Progression, you'll sometimes find yourself too low level to take on some bosses or sometimes too high where you can crush others Haven't played the others other than DS2 when I was a kid, and I can't really remember anything of that experience
Sekiro bosses are as easily as good as Ds3 and mechanicaly they are the best. DS3 bosses are almost as good, but might get the edge for people who are more impressed by the visuals instead of mechanics. Sekiro is almost perfection, it just needed to be little bit bigger.
DS trilogy, Des and Bloodborne - I agree almost completely. Sekiro - I can understand point about lack of builds, but "I don't fear the man who know 10000 skills, but fear the man who mastered one skill 10000 times" is basically the whole point why you have only katana. And yeah, balancing would be pain in the ass. Elden Ring - it's open world is not good. That's all. Even though it is very hecking beautiful and interesting at first, IT IS VERY REPETITIVE AND DULL. Every dungeon and cave feels the same with only few exceptions. Many repeating or reskinned bosses. Rewards are mostly shit not worth spent time. And legacy dungeons on the other hand are really amazing. Basically not open-world parts of the game are the best, lmao. DLC btw is also quite peculiar, because it have definetely greater points of interest, but you know what? Open world parts are even more dull. Blue and red zones, frenzied forest, jagged peak. They are beautiful, but it's mostly just the roads to the bosses with very few interesting things on the way. And fyi I really like the game, I can't say it is not good. Many cool bosses, areas, soundtracks, items etc. It was real fun. But ER's open world isn't really good and that's sad.
Sekiro was always a weird case for me. I think that everything It does is as good as It can get , hell I even disagree with the weapon variety take, why a Game like that would had as flaw "lack of something other different games has" is like asking every Racing Game to have items. Yet, Im not really that interested on Sekiro, once I got all the endings, I never looked foward to remember the experience or something. It never sticked to me as much as the other games, and Im not sure why. For contrast, DS1, the game which I consider the most flawed (yes, even more than DS2) on Soulsbornekiro is still my second favorite. I can't really say is a "me" thing, or something else.
I don't think it's Fair to compare because they were learning from each game and improve when making the next game so of course Elden Ring is the result of making 6 games
Tbh some of his takes are slighty questionable. I mean, does Sekiro really needs build variety? Btw, dont say "objectively", because it disregards opinions and start confrontation.
@@JoseViktor4099 ur right . wrong use of the word . i meant generally , everyone agrees that ER is the pinnacle of everything learnt up til then . i say a more fitting " did wrong " is the bosses they chose to reuse . why reuse the godskins if we HAVE to fight 2 of them to beat the game anyway same with the avatars and spirits , and that isnt even a fair criticism considering there is still 77 unique bosses
@notCeyuh I disagree. Elden Ring bosses provide lots of spectacle and there are some standouts, but the open world design made balancing a huge issue. To help mitigate characters becoming too overpowered (which is laughably easy anyhow) they made bosses and even some enemies capable of killing the player in only 1 or 2 hits. It never felt like I was getting good at the game, just finding the right way.
I got into your stuff a couple months ago and I want to briefly counter what you say at 0:19
Yes, Soulsborne rankings and reviews have been done a lot but you bring your own style and voice to the topic, making ANYTHING you do new! I love your vids because you bring a super laid back and positive vibe to the content. You’ve got good points to make and quality stuff to say! Keep doing you sir, I wish you all the best
Thanks man
I think DS2 has the best NG+ and has new encounters
. Furthermore, with smelter demon and Fume knight start their phase 2 immediately if you wear a certain armor.
The atmosphere is just incredible too, and Aldias monologue in the ending was perfect. You choose to bear the curse until you find another way to break the cycle. It is simply a perfect ending for me.
No way was I about missing this! I love how you do you. And you let everyone else have theor own perspective with virtually zero prejudice. And I am a stickler for your translucency.
I do think Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice balance its lack of build variety with the prosthetic tools and special skill movesets. Frankly it still holds up as the best and most balanced Soulsbourne title in the series.
(Oh, and I for 1 am all with thee on Dark Souls 2 as being the Black Sheep of the series. Also, I was stunned you failed mentioning how most bosses in Elden Ring have some BS moves and combos, e.g Malenia's Scarlett clone wraiths and waterfowl dance assaults.)
Awesome video as always mate! Keep it up! You have our support!
Disagree with elden ring bosses the agressiveness is a natural evolution of ds3's difficulty, you dont simply panic roll to rely on s and you have to consider roll direction, running and position at times instead of rolling, and mixing up both pattern memorization and pure reaction, the agressiveness is good, not fun for more casual players, but a solid way of making the game more challenging for long time players, messmer is proof elden ring's boss philosophy can be done right, as well as bayle maybe (aside from the camera), with boss as agressive as the latter i managed to beat it with a colossal weapon suprisingly. What elden ring did wrong is pacing and handling content reuse. At times stuff are heavily reused and sometimes traveling with torrent can be a chore (but the exploration is still the peak of the series imo only one that compares is ds1). Elden Ring does have many amazing "remembrance" bosses, contrary to the popular opinion "elden ring bosses bad ds3 bosses good", when you remember half of ds3 bosses were mid as well, but hey both ER and DS3 still have better boss rosters than DS1 and DS2. Sekiro definitely is the most consistently good in terms of main bosses tbh, with only two real crap ones, monkeys and dual apes.
Right Sekiro: Combat + Boss designs
Wrong Sekiro: Storytelling & plot. Fromsofts esoteric way of storytelling doesn't mix well at all with Sekiro having an actual protagonist and actual linear storyline
Right Bloodborne: Aesthetic and artstyle portrayal of Lovecraftian imagery
Wrong Bloodborne: Boss designs as a whole is okay with only a few exceptions, and many have visual designs that unfortunately aren't very unique or sometimes blend into each other
Right Elden Ring: Translation of Fromsofts care and dedication of art and level design to the Open World space
Wrong Elden Ring: Power Progression, you'll sometimes find yourself too low level to take on some bosses or sometimes too high where you can crush others
Haven't played the others other than DS2 when I was a kid, and I can't really remember anything of that experience
Sekiro bosses are as easily as good as Ds3 and mechanicaly they are the best. DS3 bosses are almost as good, but might get the edge for people who are more impressed by the visuals instead of mechanics.
Sekiro is almost perfection, it just needed to be little bit bigger.
DS trilogy, Des and Bloodborne - I agree almost completely.
Sekiro - I can understand point about lack of builds, but "I don't fear the man who know 10000 skills, but fear the man who mastered one skill 10000 times" is basically the whole point why you have only katana. And yeah, balancing would be pain in the ass.
Elden Ring - it's open world is not good. That's all. Even though it is very hecking beautiful and interesting at first, IT IS VERY REPETITIVE AND DULL. Every dungeon and cave feels the same with only few exceptions. Many repeating or reskinned bosses. Rewards are mostly shit not worth spent time. And legacy dungeons on the other hand are really amazing. Basically not open-world parts of the game are the best, lmao. DLC btw is also quite peculiar, because it have definetely greater points of interest, but you know what? Open world parts are even more dull. Blue and red zones, frenzied forest, jagged peak. They are beautiful, but it's mostly just the roads to the bosses with very few interesting things on the way. And fyi I really like the game, I can't say it is not good. Many cool bosses, areas, soundtracks, items etc. It was real fun. But ER's open world isn't really good and that's sad.
Sekiro was always a weird case for me. I think that everything It does is as good as It can get , hell I even disagree with the weapon variety take, why a Game like that would had as flaw "lack of something other different games has" is like asking every Racing Game to have items.
Yet, Im not really that interested on Sekiro, once I got all the endings, I never looked foward to remember the experience or something. It never sticked to me as much as the other games, and Im not sure why.
For contrast, DS1, the game which I consider the most flawed (yes, even more than DS2) on Soulsbornekiro is still my second favorite.
I can't really say is a "me" thing, or something else.
Sekiro is possibly their most polished and fully realized game. It's my second favorite of them all and the one I would most want a sequel for.
@@NWAP1337I can see It. I can't really find any single meaningful thing I can point out and consider "bad".
@JoseViktor4099 Agreed
I don't think it's Fair to compare because they were learning from each game and improve when making the next game so of course Elden Ring is the result of making 6 games
I honestly think that Elden Ring is just too big.
Thanks!
yes
I agree
elden ring generally ( everyone agrees ) has the best bosses in the franchise . no shot ur " did wrong " is about learning punish windows . no shot
Tbh some of his takes are slighty questionable. I mean, does Sekiro really needs build variety?
Btw, dont say "objectively", because it disregards opinions and start confrontation.
@@JoseViktor4099 ur right . wrong use of the word . i meant generally , everyone agrees that ER is the pinnacle of everything learnt up til then . i say a more fitting " did wrong " is the bosses they chose to reuse . why reuse the godskins if we HAVE to fight 2 of them to beat the game anyway same with the avatars and spirits , and that isnt even a fair criticism considering there is still 77 unique bosses
@notCeyuh I disagree. Elden Ring bosses provide lots of spectacle and there are some standouts, but the open world design made balancing a huge issue. To help mitigate characters becoming too overpowered (which is laughably easy anyhow) they made bosses and even some enemies capable of killing the player in only 1 or 2 hits. It never felt like I was getting good at the game, just finding the right way.