So, the reason Putrid Tree Spirit has so much more health than other Caelid bosses is because it's not actually it's a Caelid boss. It's a Dragonbarrow boss. Dragonbarrow uses end game scaling, unlike Caelid (I believe it's ahead of even Farum Azula, but I'm not sure). That's why the bosses in that area are notorious for being so deadly despite technically being in Caelid.
I didn't know it used that scaling - I had assumed it's placement behind Radahn puts it in Caelid in terms of location, but using that higher scaling definitely makes its stats make a lot more sense!
@@TheAkasharoseFor an over analysis you sure don't do much research. Especially since this is something people have said under your previous video too
@@tomekk.1889well when the videos are this long , before it’s been edited , people are bond to make a few mistakes here or there , so how about you show some understanding
1:22:29 The Regal Ancestor Spirit will gain a new move based on which animal he emerges from. The charge from the boar, the hop from the hare, and the roll from the goat. Of course, no player will ever actually notice he's doing that themselves, but it's still neat. I wish they would've done more with it.
@@zach_zach5453 Everyone knows it has the moves, but the fact he gains them from the animals is VERY easy to miss. It's easy to miss that he even emerges from an animal at all, and during the heat of the battle it's easy to just never make the connection between an animal he teleported out of and a move he might not even use if you kill him too quickly. I imagine most people only know by reading the wiki or by watching a Zullie video.
One time I got to the regal ancestor spirit under-leveled for it, and it was the best time I've ever had fighting it, saw every move and barely managed to kill it, had to really be on my A game and hit it fast so it wouldn't heal.
I know you haven’t covered it yet but Morgott’s “willful traitors all” line hits a lot harder after finishing the dlc and realizing why he didn’t include Mohg in that list.
AFAIK, the Radahn nerf is a bit of a myth. There were problems with his hitbox on launch, and in a patch fixing it, they ACCIDENTLLY lowered his damage. The damage change was then reverted while the hitbox fix remains. So he is *technically* easier, but only because he was actually broken at launch. IIRC it was changed first in 1.03 and then fixed/reverted in 1.03.3
@madmorgo6233 There's also the Malenia glitch where finishing phase 1 with a crit skips phase 2. And Caelid's Fallingstar Beast was a full-grown one, despite what the name on the boss healthbar suggested. And there's also the broken stake of Marika on what I believe was the Watchdog duo, which never activated.
@@Sharkamfss oohh 👀 I didn't know about that Malenia one... but that bit about the stake sounds familiar! I read recently that they were originally going to be switchable toggles, like Summoning Pools are now
I agree that the Valiant Gargoyles are a horrible boss fight, but if you just want to reach Deeproot Deepts there's a secret second etrance behind an illusory wall close to the three fingers grace. Letting you avoid the fight completly.
Peak video. But I gonna HARD disagree on Radahn’s theme since not only is it a well composed military marching band song befitting of the Redmanes and their beloved Lion General, but is pretty much the music playing during the battle in verse, according to the ER manga no less( Plus you can’t go wrong with them drums and trumpets)
42:48 I just want to say that Radahns purple arrow can be dodged on torrent with a sprint, you just have to run diagonally from Radahn when the arrow is shot
12:25 I think it's relevant to bring up Crystal Darts when talking about this encounter in specific. It follows a common design trend in Fromsoft's games that a lot of the community has come to either feel indifferent or negatively about, which is hiding a specific item or skill that trivialises the encounter somewhere in the map. In this case, someone astute enough to read the crystal darts' blurb might have tried using them against golem type enemies and seen that they make them fight their allies. It then so happens that this is the PERFECT opportunity to use these, turning the 2v1 gank boss into a 1v1v1 encounter where the watchdogs more often than not knock each other out. I do wish more hints were given to this, such as having crystal darts show up inside the catacombs itself, or having an earlier encounter where this was made very obvious, but I find it cool that tactics like this can work on bosses at all. It's one of the things that I find to be a signature of fromsoft.
Radahn nerf is one of the most annoyingly persistent reddit memes in this community. No, he is not weaker than his release state, not by a long shot. This nerf did 2 things: Reduce damage output of his attacks and clean up the hitbox. IN THE VERY NEXT HOTFIX they REVERTED the damage changes so only cleaned up hitboxes remained and his damage output returned to what it was.
Radahn was never "nerfed" in a sense. all they did was fix his finicky hitboxes/hurtboxes. they lowered his damage by accident and then brought it back.
Both of these first videos have a lot of "if-only-I-had-any-wiki-tab-open" kind of mistakes, which don't ruin the video or anything, but do make me feel weird when I'm supposedly watching an "over-analysis".
1:27:05 - Good news, there's another way into Deeproot Depths and that's through Sewer Mohg, there's an illusory wall at the bottom of the Frenzied Flame area that takes you there and it's way more satisfying and atmospheric than trying to fight the Gargoyles and then taking a random coffin into the area, you do have to deal with that annoying jumping puzzle though. In response to the some of the difficulty complaints of the the midgame bosses like the Sanguine Noble or the Demi-Human Queens I feel like it's designed so that you can go to either Caelid or Altus as your next area after Liurnia so while it is more of a natural progression to go Liurnia -> Caelid -> Altus, players who go straight from Liurnia to Altus with the Ruin Strewned Precipice won't be overwhelmed.
Rykard's monologue reminds me of an equally controversial performance on a classical black metal album: Mayhem - De Mysteris Dom Satanas. It's equally edging the line between goofy and uncomfortable, using a very similar voice, and it's goal is specifically known to be "sounding inhuman". That era of Mayhem was all about that undeath concept with Attila making an excellent take of his own on lines written for their previous vocalist.
another amazing video. I’ve watched pt.1 like 12 times in the background while in the DLC. Some cool things i’ve experienced I believe you’d enjoy: 1. the terrible crucible knight/misbegotten duo fight has an interesting feature where if you jump up on the little wooden stage after killing the misbegotten, the crucible knight will take like 15 seconds for its AI to understand it needs to jump to reach you. I use that time to add all my buffs and heal which made the fight significantly easier. 2. I believe Lanseax is the only boss that is programmed to summon herself quickest at mid-day. When the sun is the brightest she comes down sooner at her spawn. 3. Regal ancestor spirit adopts aspects on the animals it teleports into. It gains the roll from the sheep, the charge from the ram, and the hop from I think the springhares? Also if it teleports enough it gains a strong forward puking attack directly after teleporting that super punishes charge attacks. 4. Just as you said Omenkiller is a remake of Capra Demon, Demi Human Queen Maggie I strongly believe is a remake of Prowling Magus and Congregation from DS2
3:50 Small error there. There are indeed 3 dragonkin soldiers, but all of them are bosses. Apart from Nokstella's, one is in Siofra river (so you're likely to encounter him earlier) and the other one is in lake of rot. But indeed Noskstella's is the only one who has a second phase
i like to think the reason radahn starts using gravity magic in phase 2 is that the thrill of battle with a group of warriors powerful enough to actually pose a threat to him brought his mind back a little, especially since even before that he was focused enough to keep holding back the stars despite having gone completely insane
35:48 Feels like Frenzied Duelist got done dirty here. May not come into the purview of boss analysis per se, but I think the implications of the fight - the drop-in arena combined with it taking place in Gaol Cave, a place where the Vulgar Militia seemingly imprison dangerous undead (or formerly living souls turned into flaming zombies), makes for a really thematic battle when you drop into a lower-down hidden chamber and find their most dangerous prisoner, which then leads into an interesting shortcut back out to Limgrave with the Regalia of Eochaid as your reward. In a vacuum, it is kind of a meh boss, but like you say, this game isn’t a vacuum - I’d argue with context it’s probably a low C rather than a D. 56:57 This watchdog also got undervalued, if by a hair: I don’t think it changes the ranking, but it being a lightning variation is considered in the arena design, as lightning attacks produce conductive ripples in water, and the player’s lightning defense decreases while they’re wet. It’s a minor change, but it does show care. 1:17:26 This move is a get-off-me tool for players using Torrent, as the final flap will knock you off him, likely leading to a huge punish if you’re positioned for the boss to do a quick attacker afterwards since the stagger animation for being knocked off of horseback takes a few business days to get over with. It’s unreliable, though, so often you just get knocked off and it’s an annoyance you’ll have to run away to deal with. I think mostly it’s so you can’t just hack at her ankles and then run away. 1:27:21 Ordovis in the Auriza Hero’s Grave would like a word.
Fun fact: when the Regal Ancestor Spirit used the "collapse and teleport in the place of a spirit animal" move on me, it just vanished and died offscreen instead. Absolutely a bug, probably patched by now, but it was funny when I realized what had happened, I assume the specific animal spawned offscreen somehow and the Spirit's AI just chose very badly
Idk about others , but radahn's theme is top tier , especially 2nd phase which is one of my favorites . It feels like a proper send off for a great general , it has a certain sense of might and grace and sounds pretty unique .
I feel I might have been too harsh on the theme. It's not a bad theme, and it fits Radahn well - but my favorite themes in this series completely change how I play the game. When Ludwig's second phase started for the first time, I held my breath from the tension that OST made - and for a boss in the DLC (End of the Abyssal Woods), the tension that the music created releasing at the end of my first attempt made me laugh out loud. Radahn's theme didn't make me feel anything - it fits with the fight, the area, and the festival theme, but it didn't go beyond in the way the rest of the fight does. And of course, music, along with all art, is subjective! For me, the theme didn't draw me into the fight more than the visual or mechanical design was able to - but if it did for you, awesome!
@@TheAkasharose My favorite part of Rad Dan's theme is the almost choir or chant you can hear in the backround, making it sound like his soldiers from the castle are watching and heralding their former general's warrior's death. The Manga executes this idea well, with Radahn's death being viewed upon by the whole army.
About the Regal Ancestor Spirit: He not only absorbs the animal spirits around him to heal, but in his second phase (yes he has a second phase which lets the whole ost to play out unlike the normal Ancestor Spirit), he will get unique attacks depending on which animals he absorb. He is a much more unique and special boss than most give him credit for
Also, the crucible knight in Redmane castle joins the fighter after 30 secs as far as I know, independently of the misbegotten‘s health, which is an interesting introduction I think.
He also talks about the Godskin Apostle in Altus like it's the first time you fight them. But there's a Godskin Apostle in the basement of Caelid's Divine Tower, that you can reach right from the start of the game.
Yeah. That struck me as especially odd when he was saying how weird it was that the first one an average player is likely to encounter is the only one with a second phase, when I would otherwise expect most players would actually encounter the one in Siofra first, since you get there from Limgrave
That stunt with the Radahn theme on O'Neil is pretty bizzare. Everyone would notice it's Radahn's theme because it's very recognizable. Nothing in the game utilizes male choirs, drums and horns in the same way. The first phase music matches the frantic yet trained nature of his swings and slams, while the second phase music resets the mood into a military march, and then slowly turns into a funeral piece with the choir becoming more prominent near the end. It provides more than action music for the player, it is a piece meant to honour the Mightiest Demigod of The Shattering, and I believe it does that well. Besides that, I'm still enjoying this video. I also watched your Sekiro and DS2 vids and might watch the rest while waiting for part 3 of Elden Ring. Keep up the good work.
There's been a lot more love for Radahn's theme that I expected, which was this video's surprise for me. I suppose it's one of those musical things - it never really connected with me like some of my favorite themes from this series do, but I might be the exception on that!
@@TheAkasharose: For what it's worth, I didn't notice... but then again maybe that's because I've only ever played the whole game through all the way once. I'd probably be hard pressed to accurately match most bosses to their music.
Crazy how the first four shardbearers have all gotten the only S ranks so far from what I can tell. Really goes to show how much the uniqueness and story presence adds to the fights.
Elden Ring's boss roster including every encounter looks pretty average, but when you just look at the best of the best it really shines, even among the rest of From Software's library.
@@TheAkasharose 100% agree. It’s definitely a design choice I can see the pros and cons of, plus watching you systematically go through and explain the purpose of all the encounters does make me appreciate it more, even if it doesn’t measure up to the more consistent rosters of other games.
The Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella is my favorite boss in the base game. They took an already badass design and added a second phase. Literally so cool. (I also adore their designs just in general.)
Im really glad someone else is saying the Godskin apostle in altus is a good fight. It was so memorable for me and its such a fun boss with a good arena too. And to top a great boss off you also get its weapon too!
48:39 There's conflicting info about this. I may well be wrong here, but If I remember correctly, they reverted the nerf to his damage, but kept the nerf to his hitboxes. Some people have said they kept a nerf to his projectiles, but I'm not sure.
Projectile nerf might be placebo since many people fought him before getting 30 vigor, which would be a one shot with Radahn's collapsing stars/meteors/arrows. Once people stopped ignoring vigor the projectiles stopped being oneshots, even with unerfed damage. I believe the tracking on the meteors is still nerfed but I might be wrong.
I found the same conflicted reports. I know it felt like I was surviving longer on this playthrough, but how much of that was the game and how much was be getting better at avoiding his combos is up in the air.
The main reason I love your videos so much is because your opinions so closely match mine, rarely would I have placed a boss more than 1 tier off from where you placed them, that's why I was fully expecting Radahn to go into A-Tier. Needless to say, I was dying laughing as you were contemplating where he would go. (also p.s, using a katana and not something larger is really good for these types of videos, missive bonk sticks can be really distracting)
I played with the bonk stick my first playthrough, so I knew I wanted to experience a different melee option this go around. Using the katanas was really fun - I'm doing the DLC with the Katanas right now and loving it, I'm excited to swap back to the bonk stick for that second go through!
something I noticed when fighting the dragonkin is that I THINK that your supposed to hit his arms after he attacks you but it can be a little inconsistent
Would have been interesting, if the mimic tear could have used any gear in your inventory, so could swap between weapons you have upgraded or different armor types and form builds out of that. Would have been cool for the second encounter at least
I feel the reason so many duo fights exist in the game is so people who usually don't co op or summon can have some fun with the mechanic. they arent amazing but If you refuse to summon ever thats kind of on you for not using the right tool for the situation
@@TheAkasharosethanks for the heads up I definitely will, and I might’ve just missed it in the video but I also didn’t see the Godskin apostle that’s situated in the Calid great tune tower in the video
Fun fact about the invisible BKA in Sage's Cave: You don't need to be physically holding the torch for it's effect to be active. You can put it in one hand and two-hand your other weapon just fine. Not sure if that decreases it's effective range, but you don't have to compromise offense, although it does nullify access to power stancing, offhand casting and shield blocking. Alternatively you can just summon a spirit ash which are unaffected by the invisible status and can bloodhound that lady regardless.
I'm looking up footage and it does - for some reason I never remembered that! I'll grab footage and get him tossed into Part 3! Thanks for the correction!
Since you never do this in the gameplay, do you know that when the Night’s Cavalry falls, you can riposte/critical hit him while his lying in the floor for basically an one shot to his remaining health
I assumed the rykard spear wouldn’t work with my build because I had created a katana build 100% around bleed so I just stuck with that and I beat him in two tries, I might’ve been a little over leveled it’s so funny seeing these videos showing how obvious it was when I just thought it was a fun Easter egg weapon if you had a build that fit it. I just didn’t wanna risk leaving my tunes in the room lmao
Correction for the regal ancestor spirit, it has a few moves you missed which relate to the teleport It had a jump because it teleported into a rabbit, along with copying other moves from animals like the sheep’s roll if it was the last one teleported into.
Great video. I personally don’t enjoy fighting the ancient dragons, as even though their weak point is their head, it’s less frequent to hit than Midir. This means that I end up fighting their ankles, which is safer, with less attacks to hit the player, and unfortunately less visibility of what the dragon is doing. If the dragon would leave its head more accessible for longer or the weak point multiplier was increased, it might be more fun to engage with.
I believe the triple flap attack is meant for when you fight the ancient dragon enemies in Farrum Azula. I've definitely been blown off the edge by it. Failing to dodge while you're grounded can push you pretty far if you get caught out at a bad angle.
28:04-Unfortunately this ends up being a property of all flying dragons. As far as I've seen if you move out of a certain range they're dragged back to their original spawn points with their damage retained. I've had it happen with multiple dragons but Ekzykes has quite a small arena relative to its size which is why I think it happened so frequently. Although sometimes they do get all their health back. I think it ultimately comes down to if the game considers if you've run out of the fight area, therefore resetting the boss
Another comment mentioned the Health regain was a bug later patched out - which is why a lot of people remember it, but I ended up not dealing with it this go around.
4:09 ok, so there is 1 more Dragonkin Soldier boss fight found in Siofra River that can be accessed from the initial visit down there through a waygate halfway through the area (its the one that drops the Dragon Halberd). This does technically mean that the Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella isn't the first one you can encounter in a playthrough, though it is likely the first one a lot of players will encounter due to their placement being far more obvious to find than the Siofra River one is. The Siofra Dragonkin either requires you to find a waygate that can be easy to miss and surrounded by tough enemies on the initial visit to Siofra or requires you to platform down to it from Nokron on your second visit to the area.
23:15 the commander bosses also have a 2nd buff they can cast, that being a defense buff to his summons that make them decently more tanky. O'Neil tends to do the defense buff before doing the attack buff, while Niall tends to do the artack buff first, which plays towards their different summons very nicely
29:19 This idea of "Fallinstar Beast is designed to terrify Limgrave players" was even more drastic at launch, since it was mistakenly using the moveset of the fullgrown version you run into at the end of Mt. Gelmnir for some ungodly reason. This was quitely patched out, but it was definitely a source of trauma for people who played the game at launch
34:02 the Nox Monk found here actually has access to a secondary moveset where he transforms his hammer into twin shields to attack the player with while being capable of tanking through attacks. Its a really neat extra wrinkle to the fight, though you'll rarely see it due to the bosses' low healthpools
46:50 so, the way Radahn's Starcaller Cry attack (the scream attack you were referring to) works is that he does the pull in AOE and then performs the followup slam if someone is in front of him afterwards within a specific range. This can be exploited pretty easily if you're close when he does it as you can dodge the initial cry, stand in front of him so he preps the slam, and then run behind him to turn it into a massive opening
One of the biggest missed opportunities, with the weapons, is Serpent Hunter not having lesser wind attacks outside of Rykard's arena. My Nameless King build would be so perfect if it was so.
An easy way to deal with the duo watchdogs would be the use of crystal darts. With about 8 of them you can make them turn against each others, just like how you can do that with the catacomb imps.
i actually like the basic dragon bosses more than some remembrance bosses (adula is my favourite). the ancient dragons however, i hate because you can never attack their heads
Great video as usual. There's one thing you didn't mention though: the stonedigger troll actually can use the Flame Fall Upon Them incantation to blow up the barrels. It's a really small detail and he almost never uses it but it's pretty cool.
That'd be really cool - I just went through about the top four or five walkthroughs on RUclips for the boss, and it's a tough move to find. Gotta try to get that in the future!
I admittedly ruined much of my first playthrough by playing it so long after launch and being so neurotic about missing content and items. But the shaded castle and Elemer were one of my biggest surprises. I never encountered a bell-bearing hunter before I fought him, which was incredibly lucky. He's one of my favorites for that reason, plus he's basically Darth Vader :)
Really enjoy your content with Fromsoftware games and your analysis method on these bosses. Looking forward to other content as well that you plan to cover.
I actually kinda like Radahn's theme. It's not one of the best, but it's unique enough that i recognized it when you played it under the Commander (I also didn't challenge him that many times, but i could distinctly picture those arrows coming at me when I heard the notes) Btw, you said you'll need a part 4 for the DLC..... Welll..... Let's just say that maybe you'll need a part 5 too, depends on how much you'll talk about minor compared to major bosses. Still, I am really looking forward to it.
I mentioned this in some other comments, but it seems Radahn's theme clicked for people a lot more than it did for me - in retrospect, I think I sold it a little short. It doesn't hit as hard for me as other tracks from the series, though that might come down to personal taste - I have a preference for boss music that either directly contradicts the action onscreen (Gwyn, The Other Promise, Sealed Vessel), or music that focuses entirely on building tension (i.e. All of Bloodborne) - and Radahn's music focuses more on building the setting of the battle in a way a lot of other themes, especially in From Software games, don't frequently do. And if my count of bosses in the DLC is right there's 41 (42, depending on if you consider a certain encounter a boss fight), the roster is just a lot tighter - less bosses than the first parts, but a lot less than hordes of Demi-Humans lined up in a row. All together, I think it'll be about the same length as the other ones!
@@TheAkasharose Radahn's theme also didn't really click with me until very recently, specifically after hearing the DLC version. It definitely felt kinda like generic action music to me, but I think after hearing the "Prime" Radahn theme that is Promised Consort Phase One, the "Rotted" Radahn theme tells a lot more of a story, but obviously that's not a very fair way to assess the music on its own.
I do cosplay builds, and one of my favourite ways to test them is to see if a build can kill Rykard without Serpent Hunter. The lava isn't that big of an issue usually.
Your videos are good on a surface level - enjoyable to listen to, but my guy... some of the things you say really are quite bizarre. It makes it difficult to take an "analysis" seriously when you so frequently say things that make me question if the gameplay is even yours. An example being, "The projectile is not an attack that can be dodged on torrent, even with a sprint" in regards to the Radahn fight. Such an incredibly bizarre thing to put in your analysis video. How have you fought Radahn multiple times and not learned to simply sprint left or right as the projectile approaches whilst on torrent? And additionally, have you not once viewed anyone else's gameplay? Done any research? At all? A similar point is the method of fighting dragons - how have you supposedly done 3 playthroughs, and not once come to the conclusion that they are best (And clearly designed to be) fought by weaving in and out of horseback combat? Using the mobility to reposition and avoid the breath, and hopping off for certain attacks to allow for easy punishes and more reliable dodges? I feel like this is something most players realised naturally during the Agheel fight, not after "3 playthroughs". I only write this as constructive criticism. If you are delivering a piece of analytical content, you really, really cant be casually including this type of lack of fundamental understanding, or in Radahn's case, straight up misinformation. It greatly impacts the credibility of your analysis's and, I can assure you, causes many people to immediately tune out and instead only listen for the background white-noise. As a final point, your opinion on the Radahn OST is absolutely wack, and again, makes me wonder if you've even actually listened to it. Subjective tastes are one thing, but completely disregarding / missing the meaning and intention behind the song, and making zero mention of the very specific militaristic / honorary vibe it presents, and how that clearly ties into the festival theming (especially after you just finished praising the festival aspect itself) is quite bizarre, and to me, yet again just shows a lack of understanding and / or attention to detail. Don't misunderstand - I'm not saying you have to like the OST on a personal level, but the absence of mentioning these aspects and instead just calling it "disappointing background music" is absolutely a failure on your part as someone delivering an analysis, and there's no two ways about that.
So I do have to ask. Since they finally added the ability to use Torrent in the Elden beast boss fight will that change be included in the main game list or will the changes be mentioned in the DLC part of the boss review assuming you have any changed opinions on the fight at all?
For Elden Beast, I'll probably mention it, but with the DLC consuming a lot of my time, I don't know if I'll have a run finished in time to give personal takes. I'll likely try to find some footage of it from other people, but right now, Shadow of the Erdtree has me in its grasp!
100%! I already have the footage and script for Hollow Knight and Death's Door - and I've been playthrough through Lies of P, so that's somewhere in the future!
When the Godskin Nobel goes into phase two, I just call the rolling attack “Fupa Rolling” Idk why I decided to say this. I just think you’d be the type to find that mildly humorous
I wonder if Fromsoft took some inspiration from Monster Hunter when designing Radahns moveset. His phase 2 transition is identical to Valstrax's ambush attack where they both rocket into the sky, circle a bit and then divebomb the player
He almost never uses it but the stonedigger troll in altus tunnel can cast flame fall upon them, which gets more threatening if you are near one of the explosive barrels
I guess they wanted Elemer/the Bell Bearing Hunter to be a "constant adversary invader who appears around every corner" character, like Knight Kirk, but Kirk's so much more compelling of a character DS1 Kirk is a Chaos Servant, DS3 Kirk is a Finger of Rosaria - he's a killer, but with a soft spot for sad sick monster-women, and will kill anyone just to give his ladies some relief from their constant pain Elemer is just a straightforward murder-guy, he's got absolutely nothing going on and nothing we can infer about him
I believe you need to throw in the Calid Godskin Apostle in part 3. It's a massive challenge early game. Good shit on the analysis though, it must be exhausting.
Despite being in the Divine Tower of Caelid, the Tower access itself officially counts as Dragonbarrow - so he's on that list of boss fights! Glad you're enjoying it, though! Definitely a big project, but it's been a really fun process.
I do encourage to try fighting Fortisax from the head, the lightning aoes mean that it is not at all easy, especially in phase 2 when he spends so much time in the air. In fact it is easier to fight the regular dragons head on, and even more strongly encourage you to do that.
Fun fact. The Fallingstar Beast in Caelid had the Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast's moveset on launch and was later patched out. In the tiny arena, the gravity attack of the second phase was insanely difficult.
33:00 I actually fought the magma wyrm as one of my first bosses on this current playthrough. I'm doing an int/dex sorcery centric build and since he drops the moonveil I wanted to get it asap. I ended up having so little trouble with him that I could literally just run in circles shooting magic rocks into his face and have 0 trouble. It's a bit cheesy, sure. But usually bosses have some way to discourage this and the fact I was able to do this at such a low level goes to show just how weak this variant of the magma wyrm is.
The one defense I would maybe offer to Elden Rig duo bosses is that I don't think any of them are meant to be fight alone. Not only do we have the same access to summons as every previous FromSoft game, but we have spirit ashes, meaning even offline there are alternatives for separating the bosses.
Very true - especially in some of the harder Spirit Ash fights. After the AI adjustment, solo is a lot more possible, but Spirit Ashes make battles like Gargoyles a bit more pleasant.
for the DLC: Rellana uses moves (pretty much identical but sorta different animation-wise) from Lady Maria, Pontiff Sulyvahn and Malenia (and also maybe Abyss Watchers?). The last boss has a move directly ripped from Pontiff Sulyvahn save for the very end of the combo.
Rellana felt very Maria and Malenia especially - the side dash into a delayed downward slash into a combo really combined the lifeblood of prior bosses together. And I haven't reached the last boss yet! I've reached the area, but I've been hunting for other major fights. I've just got the Eighth Rememberance, which leaves three more major bosses left - and, of course, seeing how many small encounters I ended up missing!
I agreed with a lot of these rankings, especially the Valiant Gargoyle. I just fought them a few days ago and yeah, they are the absolute worst. I don't usually use spirit ashes but I have no problem busting out Mimic as soon as the second one comes out just so I can get it over with.
"I'm not a proffessional Elden Ring player" But if those videos are monetized... And you played Elden Ring to make them... That means you got payed to play Elden ring... So your statement is objectively wrong! Unrelated: I like being pedantic on the Internet.
You've activated my trap card - still not monetized! Ad sense is being finnicky for some reason, so this channel is still 100% a passion project! I just like talking about games.
14:33 do you know that you can use crystal darts to confuse one burial watchdog to fight the other? I think it changes the fight completely, from a 1v2 to a 2v1 and then a 1v1 once the un-crystal-darted watchdog dies. how do you feel about the boss with this strat?
Hey sorry for the multiple comments I'm leaving but i got to the part with the duo gargoyle and u said if u could avoid fighting them u would. There's actually a way to avoid them to get to deeproot a hidden wall in the room before the 3 fingers leads to deeproot
Silly question: Demi Human Queen Margot...wouldn't her name be pronounced like the name Margot? (mar-go) Especially since there's one named Maggie iirc
I think it's Mar-got, since the Demi-Human Queens name themselves after major characters in the game Marigga and Gilika are Marika, and Margot feels like Margit - so I've always pronounced it as a mispounciation of Margit, rather than the French Name Margot. To my knowledge, though, it's never spoken aloud - so I could see it going either direction.
The gargoyle duo fight perfectly sums up my issues with ER the at will summoning is fine on paper, but the games balance suffers because of it. I firmly believe a lot of bosses are specifically designed to almost force you to use summons. Especially the mimic tear which I feel is the worst tool to give a player in this kind of game. Granted I'm not a fan of open world, but I feel the game is too big which makes it suffer with bloat. Too many recycled/uninspired bosses and the ability to basically infinitely grind hurts the balancing even more. DS3 is peak souls game design imo. Sekiro doesn't count
So, the reason Putrid Tree Spirit has so much more health than other Caelid bosses is because it's not actually it's a Caelid boss. It's a Dragonbarrow boss. Dragonbarrow uses end game scaling, unlike Caelid (I believe it's ahead of even Farum Azula, but I'm not sure). That's why the bosses in that area are notorious for being so deadly despite technically being in Caelid.
It's the same scaling as Ashen Capital. The only areas with higher scaling are Consecrated Snowfields, Moghwyn Palace and Haligtree
I didn't know it used that scaling - I had assumed it's placement behind Radahn puts it in Caelid in terms of location, but using that higher scaling definitely makes its stats make a lot more sense!
@@TheAkasharoseFor an over analysis you sure don't do much research. Especially since this is something people have said under your previous video too
@@tomekk.1889 Not to mention this has been known since release.
@@tomekk.1889well when the videos are this long , before it’s been edited , people are bond to make a few mistakes here or there , so how about you show some understanding
1:22:29 The Regal Ancestor Spirit will gain a new move based on which animal he emerges from. The charge from the boar, the hop from the hare, and the roll from the goat. Of course, no player will ever actually notice he's doing that themselves, but it's still neat. I wish they would've done more with it.
That’s actually really cool!
Oh, that's really cool!
wait people didn't know this?
@@zach_zach5453 Everyone knows it has the moves, but the fact he gains them from the animals is VERY easy to miss. It's easy to miss that he even emerges from an animal at all, and during the heat of the battle it's easy to just never make the connection between an animal he teleported out of and a move he might not even use if you kill him too quickly.
I imagine most people only know by reading the wiki or by watching a Zullie video.
One time I got to the regal ancestor spirit under-leveled for it, and it was the best time I've ever had fighting it, saw every move and barely managed to kill it, had to really be on my A game and hit it fast so it wouldn't heal.
“Explaining the gravity of who you’re about to face”
I know you haven’t covered it yet but Morgott’s “willful traitors all” line hits a lot harder after finishing the dlc and realizing why he didn’t include Mohg in that list.
Morgott's entire speech in general is pitch perfect, both in terms of hype and lore.
AFAIK, the Radahn nerf is a bit of a myth. There were problems with his hitbox on launch, and in a patch fixing it, they ACCIDENTLLY lowered his damage. The damage change was then reverted while the hitbox fix remains. So he is *technically* easier, but only because he was actually broken at launch. IIRC it was changed first in 1.03 and then fixed/reverted in 1.03.3
Do you remember the Fire Giant's bleed glitch? I remember discovering that by accident on my first playthrough
@madmorgo6233 There's also the Malenia glitch where finishing phase 1 with a crit skips phase 2.
And Caelid's Fallingstar Beast was a full-grown one, despite what the name on the boss healthbar suggested.
And there's also the broken stake of Marika on what I believe was the Watchdog duo, which never activated.
people who brag about beating pre nerf radahn punching the air rn
@@Sharkamfss oohh 👀 I didn't know about that Malenia one... but that bit about the stake sounds familiar! I read recently that they were originally going to be switchable toggles, like Summoning Pools are now
@@monkymoment4182 hey beating him with broken hitboxes still sounds like an achievement
I agree that the Valiant Gargoyles are a horrible boss fight, but if you just want to reach Deeproot Deepts there's a secret second etrance behind an illusory wall close to the three fingers grace. Letting you avoid the fight completly.
Whys it gotta be in the deep asshole of leyndel??? Both such awful convoluted paths
Getting there is just a different kind of hell.
Peak video. But I gonna HARD disagree on Radahn’s theme since not only is it a well composed military marching band song befitting of the Redmanes and their beloved Lion General, but is pretty much the music playing during the battle in verse, according to the ER manga no less( Plus you can’t go wrong with them drums and trumpets)
42:48 I just want to say that Radahns purple arrow can be dodged on torrent with a sprint, you just have to run diagonally from Radahn when the arrow is shot
it's easier to just run perpendicular to him as soon as he launches the arrow, just make sure that your direction is accurate
12:25 I think it's relevant to bring up Crystal Darts when talking about this encounter in specific. It follows a common design trend in Fromsoft's games that a lot of the community has come to either feel indifferent or negatively about, which is hiding a specific item or skill that trivialises the encounter somewhere in the map. In this case, someone astute enough to read the crystal darts' blurb might have tried using them against golem type enemies and seen that they make them fight their allies. It then so happens that this is the PERFECT opportunity to use these, turning the 2v1 gank boss into a 1v1v1 encounter where the watchdogs more often than not knock each other out. I do wish more hints were given to this, such as having crystal darts show up inside the catacombs itself, or having an earlier encounter where this was made very obvious, but I find it cool that tactics like this can work on bosses at all. It's one of the things that I find to be a signature of fromsoft.
The reset of location causing an enemy to heal was patched out of the game at some point, thats why it didnt happen to you with big E this time.
Miyazaki is my goddamn hero, then.
Radahn nerf is one of the most annoyingly persistent reddit memes in this community. No, he is not weaker than his release state, not by a long shot. This nerf did 2 things: Reduce damage output of his attacks and clean up the hitbox. IN THE VERY NEXT HOTFIX they REVERTED the damage changes so only cleaned up hitboxes remained and his damage output returned to what it was.
Radahn was never "nerfed" in a sense. all they did was fix his finicky hitboxes/hurtboxes. they lowered his damage by accident and then brought it back.
I could make a joke about how before patching the render bug, Rahdahn was invisible.
Both of these first videos have a lot of "if-only-I-had-any-wiki-tab-open" kind of mistakes, which don't ruin the video or anything, but do make me feel weird when I'm supposedly watching an "over-analysis".
1:27:05 - Good news, there's another way into Deeproot Depths and that's through Sewer Mohg, there's an illusory wall at the bottom of the Frenzied Flame area that takes you there and it's way more satisfying and atmospheric than trying to fight the Gargoyles and then taking a random coffin into the area, you do have to deal with that annoying jumping puzzle though.
In response to the some of the difficulty complaints of the the midgame bosses like the Sanguine Noble or the Demi-Human Queens I feel like it's designed so that you can go to either Caelid or Altus as your next area after Liurnia so while it is more of a natural progression to go Liurnia -> Caelid -> Altus, players who go straight from Liurnia to Altus with the Ruin Strewned Precipice won't be overwhelmed.
Rykard's monologue reminds me of an equally controversial performance on a classical black metal album: Mayhem - De Mysteris Dom Satanas. It's equally edging the line between goofy and uncomfortable, using a very similar voice, and it's goal is specifically known to be "sounding inhuman". That era of Mayhem was all about that undeath concept with Attila making an excellent take of his own on lines written for their previous vocalist.
Your exhaustive analysis of fromsofts games is a treat to watch, I'm so excited to see the next one!
‘Siluria is the only named Crucible Knight in the game’
ORDOVIS AND DEVONIA WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
I even had them on my list, I don't know how that line got through my edit!
I thought they all had names, which all derived from periods of Earth's ancient prehistory?
No, there are generic Cruxes, but the three revealed names should be Ordovis, Siluria, and Devonia as of SkibidooTree.
the ruler's back (trumpets)
I hope my guy Morgott gets the love he deserves
Morgott is my eternal love, and he shall be respected.
@@TheAkasharose whew, I was worried that you were eluding to him being a poor boss at the end of the video 😂
@@D0verking69 But he is a poor boss...
@@jxgalaxy3810 huh, I guess he is if you say so
He does spend too much on the Boiled Crab...
another amazing video. I’ve watched pt.1 like 12 times in the background while in the DLC. Some cool things i’ve experienced I believe you’d enjoy:
1. the terrible crucible knight/misbegotten duo fight has an interesting feature where if you jump up on the little wooden stage after killing the misbegotten, the crucible knight will take like 15 seconds for its AI to understand it needs to jump to reach you. I use that time to add all my buffs and heal which made the fight significantly easier.
2. I believe Lanseax is the only boss that is programmed to summon herself quickest at mid-day. When the sun is the brightest she comes down sooner at her spawn.
3. Regal ancestor spirit adopts aspects on the animals it teleports into. It gains the roll from the sheep, the charge from the ram, and the hop from I think the springhares? Also if it teleports enough it gains a strong forward puking attack directly after teleporting that super punishes charge attacks.
4. Just as you said Omenkiller is a remake of Capra Demon, Demi Human Queen Maggie I strongly believe is a remake of Prowling Magus and Congregation from DS2
3:50 Small error there. There are indeed 3 dragonkin soldiers, but all of them are bosses. Apart from Nokstella's, one is in Siofra river (so you're likely to encounter him earlier) and the other one is in lake of rot. But indeed Noskstella's is the only one who has a second phase
i like to think the reason radahn starts using gravity magic in phase 2 is that the thrill of battle with a group of warriors powerful enough to actually pose a threat to him brought his mind back a little, especially since even before that he was focused enough to keep holding back the stars despite having gone completely insane
35:48 Feels like Frenzied Duelist got done dirty here. May not come into the purview of boss analysis per se, but I think the implications of the fight - the drop-in arena combined with it taking place in Gaol Cave, a place where the Vulgar Militia seemingly imprison dangerous undead (or formerly living souls turned into flaming zombies), makes for a really thematic battle when you drop into a lower-down hidden chamber and find their most dangerous prisoner, which then leads into an interesting shortcut back out to Limgrave with the Regalia of Eochaid as your reward. In a vacuum, it is kind of a meh boss, but like you say, this game isn’t a vacuum - I’d argue with context it’s probably a low C rather than a D.
56:57 This watchdog also got undervalued, if by a hair: I don’t think it changes the ranking, but it being a lightning variation is considered in the arena design, as lightning attacks produce conductive ripples in water, and the player’s lightning defense decreases while they’re wet. It’s a minor change, but it does show care.
1:17:26 This move is a get-off-me tool for players using Torrent, as the final flap will knock you off him, likely leading to a huge punish if you’re positioned for the boss to do a quick attacker afterwards since the stagger animation for being knocked off of horseback takes a few business days to get over with. It’s unreliable, though, so often you just get knocked off and it’s an annoyance you’ll have to run away to deal with. I think mostly it’s so you can’t just hack at her ankles and then run away.
1:27:21 Ordovis in the Auriza Hero’s Grave would like a word.
Fun fact: when the Regal Ancestor Spirit used the "collapse and teleport in the place of a spirit animal" move on me, it just vanished and died offscreen instead. Absolutely a bug, probably patched by now, but it was funny when I realized what had happened, I assume the specific animal spawned offscreen somehow and the Spirit's AI just chose very badly
Nope, Happened to me in June, definitely still here.
Idk about others , but radahn's theme is top tier , especially 2nd phase which is one of my favorites . It feels like a proper send off for a great general , it has a certain sense of might and grace and sounds pretty unique .
I feel I might have been too harsh on the theme. It's not a bad theme, and it fits Radahn well - but my favorite themes in this series completely change how I play the game. When Ludwig's second phase started for the first time, I held my breath from the tension that OST made - and for a boss in the DLC (End of the Abyssal Woods), the tension that the music created releasing at the end of my first attempt made me laugh out loud. Radahn's theme didn't make me feel anything - it fits with the fight, the area, and the festival theme, but it didn't go beyond in the way the rest of the fight does.
And of course, music, along with all art, is subjective! For me, the theme didn't draw me into the fight more than the visual or mechanical design was able to - but if it did for you, awesome!
@@TheAkasharose My favorite part of Rad Dan's theme is the almost choir or chant you can hear in the backround, making it sound like his soldiers from the castle are watching and heralding their former general's warrior's death. The Manga executes this idea well, with Radahn's death being viewed upon by the whole army.
About the Regal Ancestor Spirit: He not only absorbs the animal spirits around him to heal, but in his second phase (yes he has a second phase which lets the whole ost to play out unlike the normal Ancestor Spirit), he will get unique attacks depending on which animals he absorb. He is a much more unique and special boss than most give him credit for
It's Starscourge Radahn
Also, the crucible knight in Redmane castle joins the fighter after 30 secs as far as I know, independently of the misbegotten‘s health, which is an interesting introduction I think.
It's on a timer but it is sped up based off the misbegottens health
accidently skipped the best bosses Dragonkin Soldier in Siofra river and of course Ritual Sword Talisman I mean Demihuman Queen Gilika
He also talks about the Godskin Apostle in Altus like it's the first time you fight them. But there's a Godskin Apostle in the basement of Caelid's Divine Tower, that you can reach right from the start of the game.
Yeah. That struck me as especially odd when he was saying how weird it was that the first one an average player is likely to encounter is the only one with a second phase, when I would otherwise expect most players would actually encounter the one in Siofra first, since you get there from Limgrave
Fun fact: according to the Elden Ring strategy guide, the boss Mimic Tears have 300% of the player's max health.
That stunt with the Radahn theme on O'Neil is pretty bizzare. Everyone would notice it's Radahn's theme because it's very recognizable.
Nothing in the game utilizes male choirs, drums and horns in the same way. The first phase music matches the frantic yet trained nature of his swings and slams, while the second phase music resets the mood into a military march, and then slowly turns into a funeral piece with the choir becoming more prominent near the end. It provides more than action music for the player, it is a piece meant to honour the Mightiest Demigod of The Shattering, and I believe it does that well.
Besides that, I'm still enjoying this video. I also watched your Sekiro and DS2 vids and might watch the rest while waiting for part 3 of Elden Ring.
Keep up the good work.
There's been a lot more love for Radahn's theme that I expected, which was this video's surprise for me. I suppose it's one of those musical things - it never really connected with me like some of my favorite themes from this series do, but I might be the exception on that!
@@TheAkasharose: For what it's worth, I didn't notice... but then again maybe that's because I've only ever played the whole game through all the way once. I'd probably be hard pressed to accurately match most bosses to their music.
Crazy how the first four shardbearers have all gotten the only S ranks so far from what I can tell. Really goes to show how much the uniqueness and story presence adds to the fights.
Elden Ring's boss roster including every encounter looks pretty average, but when you just look at the best of the best it really shines, even among the rest of From Software's library.
@@TheAkasharose 100% agree. It’s definitely a design choice I can see the pros and cons of, plus watching you systematically go through and explain the purpose of all the encounters does make me appreciate it more, even if it doesn’t measure up to the more consistent rosters of other games.
The Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella is my favorite boss in the base game.
They took an already badass design and added a second phase. Literally so cool. (I also adore their designs just in general.)
Even if I may not enjoy the fight as much as some others, that design is absolute FIRE.
Im really glad someone else is saying the Godskin apostle in altus is a good fight. It was so memorable for me and its such a fun boss with a good arena too. And to top a great boss off you also get its weapon too!
48:39 There's conflicting info about this. I may well be wrong here, but If I remember correctly, they reverted the nerf to his damage, but kept the nerf to his hitboxes. Some people have said they kept a nerf to his projectiles, but I'm not sure.
Projectile nerf might be placebo since many people fought him before getting 30 vigor, which would be a one shot with Radahn's collapsing stars/meteors/arrows.
Once people stopped ignoring vigor the projectiles stopped being oneshots, even with unerfed damage. I believe the tracking on the meteors is still nerfed but I might be wrong.
I found the same conflicted reports. I know it felt like I was surviving longer on this playthrough, but how much of that was the game and how much was be getting better at avoiding his combos is up in the air.
Oh, and I think you have missed the Demi-human Queen in the Lux ruins right after entering Altus plateau, or I have missed watching that part! xD
We are so back
The main reason I love your videos so much is because your opinions so closely match mine, rarely would I have placed a boss more than 1 tier off from where you placed them, that's why I was fully expecting Radahn to go into A-Tier. Needless to say, I was dying laughing as you were contemplating where he would go. (also p.s, using a katana and not something larger is really good for these types of videos, missive bonk sticks can be really distracting)
I played with the bonk stick my first playthrough, so I knew I wanted to experience a different melee option this go around. Using the katanas was really fun - I'm doing the DLC with the Katanas right now and loving it, I'm excited to swap back to the bonk stick for that second go through!
something I noticed when fighting the dragonkin is that I THINK that your supposed to hit his arms after he attacks you but it can be a little inconsistent
Let’s goooo, been waiting for this ❤
Would have been interesting, if the mimic tear could have used any gear in your inventory, so could swap between weapons you have upgraded or different armor types and form builds out of that. Would have been cool for the second encounter at least
I could've sworn there was a third Demi-Human queen boss at some point around this part of the game.
Yup, invisible points for you! Gilika was in the Plateau, learned about her watching another challenge video yesterday!
There is also a non-boss one on the weeping peninsula for some reason
@@TheAkasharose: Wait, so does that mean you've been doing these videos without ever double checking them against an actual list of all the bosses?
@@TheAkasharose Wait, you didn't know what all the bosses were before you started making the video?
I feel the reason so many duo fights exist in the game is so people who usually don't co op or summon can have some fun with the mechanic. they arent amazing but If you refuse to summon ever thats kind of on you for not using the right tool for the situation
Hell yes, peak upload skills. This is perfect for the rest of my work day. Thank you Akasharose!
Yes finally I can continue my all bosses playthrough
I did miss two bosses (One Dragonkin in Siofra and one Demi-Human Queen in Altus), so make sure to add those on your lists too!
@@TheAkasharosethanks for the heads up I definitely will, and I might’ve just missed it in the video but I also didn’t see the Godskin apostle that’s situated in the Calid great tune tower in the video
Fun fact about the invisible BKA in Sage's Cave: You don't need to be physically holding the torch for it's effect to be active. You can put it in one hand and two-hand your other weapon just fine.
Not sure if that decreases it's effective range, but you don't have to compromise offense, although it does nullify access to power stancing, offhand casting and shield blocking.
Alternatively you can just summon a spirit ash which are unaffected by the invisible status and can bloodhound that lady regardless.
We're back
I believe the Dragonkin Soldier in Siofra River does have a boss health bar
I'm looking up footage and it does - for some reason I never remembered that!
I'll grab footage and get him tossed into Part 3! Thanks for the correction!
i can't wait for you to get to godskin duo, which is one of the best fights in the game imo, i have no clue why they're despised almost universally
Siluria is not the only named crucible knight. There's Ordovis too.
Since you never do this in the gameplay, do you know that when the Night’s Cavalry falls, you can riposte/critical hit him while his lying in the floor for basically an one shot to his remaining health
I assumed the rykard spear wouldn’t work with my build because I had created a katana build 100% around bleed so I just stuck with that and I beat him in two tries, I might’ve been a little over leveled it’s so funny seeing these videos showing how obvious it was when I just thought it was a fun Easter egg weapon if you had a build that fit it. I just didn’t wanna risk leaving my tunes in the room lmao
Correction for the regal ancestor spirit, it has a few moves you missed which relate to the teleport
It had a jump because it teleported into a rabbit, along with copying other moves from animals like the sheep’s roll if it was the last one teleported into.
1:08:00 RISE NOW YE TARNISHED! YE DEAD WHO YET LIVE!!!
Great video. I personally don’t enjoy fighting the ancient dragons, as even though their weak point is their head, it’s less frequent to hit than Midir. This means that I end up fighting their ankles, which is safer, with less attacks to hit the player, and unfortunately less visibility of what the dragon is doing. If the dragon would leave its head more accessible for longer or the weak point multiplier was increased, it might be more fun to engage with.
I believe the triple flap attack is meant for when you fight the ancient dragon enemies in Farrum Azula. I've definitely been blown off the edge by it. Failing to dodge while you're grounded can push you pretty far if you get caught out at a bad angle.
Lmao, your buddy at 1:09:08
RISE NOW
YE TARNISHED
YE DEAD
WHO YET LIVE
28:04-Unfortunately this ends up being a property of all flying dragons. As far as I've seen if you move out of a certain range they're dragged back to their original spawn points with their damage retained. I've had it happen with multiple dragons but Ekzykes has quite a small arena relative to its size which is why I think it happened so frequently. Although sometimes they do get all their health back. I think it ultimately comes down to if the game considers if you've run out of the fight area, therefore resetting the boss
Another comment mentioned the Health regain was a bug later patched out - which is why a lot of people remember it, but I ended up not dealing with it this go around.
Oh sick, we're so back. I'll do what I did last time and make a thread here to cover any corrections/additional details I can point out as I go
4:09 ok, so there is 1 more Dragonkin Soldier boss fight found in Siofra River that can be accessed from the initial visit down there through a waygate halfway through the area (its the one that drops the Dragon Halberd). This does technically mean that the Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella isn't the first one you can encounter in a playthrough, though it is likely the first one a lot of players will encounter due to their placement being far more obvious to find than the Siofra River one is. The Siofra Dragonkin either requires you to find a waygate that can be easy to miss and surrounded by tough enemies on the initial visit to Siofra or requires you to platform down to it from Nokron on your second visit to the area.
23:15 the commander bosses also have a 2nd buff they can cast, that being a defense buff to his summons that make them decently more tanky. O'Neil tends to do the defense buff before doing the attack buff, while Niall tends to do the artack buff first, which plays towards their different summons very nicely
29:19 This idea of "Fallinstar Beast is designed to terrify Limgrave players" was even more drastic at launch, since it was mistakenly using the moveset of the fullgrown version you run into at the end of Mt. Gelmnir for some ungodly reason. This was quitely patched out, but it was definitely a source of trauma for people who played the game at launch
34:02 the Nox Monk found here actually has access to a secondary moveset where he transforms his hammer into twin shields to attack the player with while being capable of tanking through attacks. Its a really neat extra wrinkle to the fight, though you'll rarely see it due to the bosses' low healthpools
46:50 so, the way Radahn's Starcaller Cry attack (the scream attack you were referring to) works is that he does the pull in AOE and then performs the followup slam if someone is in front of him afterwards within a specific range. This can be exploited pretty easily if you're close when he does it as you can dodge the initial cry, stand in front of him so he preps the slam, and then run behind him to turn it into a massive opening
One of the biggest missed opportunities, with the weapons, is Serpent Hunter not having lesser wind attacks outside of Rykard's arena. My Nameless King build would be so perfect if it was so.
An easy way to deal with the duo watchdogs would be the use of crystal darts. With about 8 of them you can make them turn against each others, just like how you can do that with the catacomb imps.
i actually like the basic dragon bosses more than some remembrance bosses (adula is my favourite). the ancient dragons however, i hate because you can never attack their heads
I know at the very least the Sanguine Noble can ambush you at the Rose Church in Liurnia early on which can serve as a more tense introduction!
Great video as usual. There's one thing you didn't mention though: the stonedigger troll actually can use the Flame Fall Upon Them incantation to blow up the barrels. It's a really small detail and he almost never uses it but it's pretty cool.
That'd be really cool - I just went through about the top four or five walkthroughs on RUclips for the boss, and it's a tough move to find. Gotta try to get that in the future!
I admittedly ruined much of my first playthrough by playing it so long after launch and being so neurotic about missing content and items. But the shaded castle and Elemer were one of my biggest surprises. I never encountered a bell-bearing hunter before I fought him, which was incredibly lucky. He's one of my favorites for that reason, plus he's basically Darth Vader :)
Really enjoy your content with Fromsoftware games and your analysis method on these bosses. Looking forward to other content as well that you plan to cover.
I actually kinda like Radahn's theme. It's not one of the best, but it's unique enough that i recognized it when you played it under the Commander (I also didn't challenge him that many times, but i could distinctly picture those arrows coming at me when I heard the notes)
Btw, you said you'll need a part 4 for the DLC.....
Welll.....
Let's just say that maybe you'll need a part 5 too, depends on how much you'll talk about minor compared to major bosses. Still, I am really looking forward to it.
I mentioned this in some other comments, but it seems Radahn's theme clicked for people a lot more than it did for me - in retrospect, I think I sold it a little short. It doesn't hit as hard for me as other tracks from the series, though that might come down to personal taste - I have a preference for boss music that either directly contradicts the action onscreen (Gwyn, The Other Promise, Sealed Vessel), or music that focuses entirely on building tension (i.e. All of Bloodborne) - and Radahn's music focuses more on building the setting of the battle in a way a lot of other themes, especially in From Software games, don't frequently do.
And if my count of bosses in the DLC is right there's 41 (42, depending on if you consider a certain encounter a boss fight), the roster is just a lot tighter - less bosses than the first parts, but a lot less than hordes of Demi-Humans lined up in a row. All together, I think it'll be about the same length as the other ones!
@@TheAkasharose Radahn's theme also didn't really click with me until very recently, specifically after hearing the DLC version. It definitely felt kinda like generic action music to me, but I think after hearing the "Prime" Radahn theme that is Promised Consort Phase One, the "Rotted" Radahn theme tells a lot more of a story, but obviously that's not a very fair way to assess the music on its own.
I do cosplay builds, and one of my favourite ways to test them is to see if a build can kill Rykard without Serpent Hunter.
The lava isn't that big of an issue usually.
Your videos are good on a surface level - enjoyable to listen to, but my guy... some of the things you say really are quite bizarre. It makes it difficult to take an "analysis" seriously when you so frequently say things that make me question if the gameplay is even yours.
An example being, "The projectile is not an attack that can be dodged on torrent, even with a sprint" in regards to the Radahn fight. Such an incredibly bizarre thing to put in your analysis video. How have you fought Radahn multiple times and not learned to simply sprint left or right as the projectile approaches whilst on torrent? And additionally, have you not once viewed anyone else's gameplay? Done any research? At all?
A similar point is the method of fighting dragons - how have you supposedly done 3 playthroughs, and not once come to the conclusion that they are best (And clearly designed to be) fought by weaving in and out of horseback combat? Using the mobility to reposition and avoid the breath, and hopping off for certain attacks to allow for easy punishes and more reliable dodges? I feel like this is something most players realised naturally during the Agheel fight, not after "3 playthroughs".
I only write this as constructive criticism. If you are delivering a piece of analytical content, you really, really cant be casually including this type of lack of fundamental understanding, or in Radahn's case, straight up misinformation. It greatly impacts the credibility of your analysis's and, I can assure you, causes many people to immediately tune out and instead only listen for the background white-noise.
As a final point, your opinion on the Radahn OST is absolutely wack, and again, makes me wonder if you've even actually listened to it. Subjective tastes are one thing, but completely disregarding / missing the meaning and intention behind the song, and making zero mention of the very specific militaristic / honorary vibe it presents, and how that clearly ties into the festival theming (especially after you just finished praising the festival aspect itself) is quite bizarre, and to me, yet again just shows a lack of understanding and / or attention to detail.
Don't misunderstand - I'm not saying you have to like the OST on a personal level, but the absence of mentioning these aspects and instead just calling it "disappointing background music" is absolutely a failure on your part as someone delivering an analysis, and there's no two ways about that.
So I do have to ask. Since they finally added the ability to use Torrent in the Elden beast boss fight will that change be included in the main game list or will the changes be mentioned in the DLC part of the boss review assuming you have any changed opinions on the fight at all?
For Elden Beast, I'll probably mention it, but with the DLC consuming a lot of my time, I don't know if I'll have a run finished in time to give personal takes. I'll likely try to find some footage of it from other people, but right now, Shadow of the Erdtree has me in its grasp!
Understandable, best of luck with shadow of the Erdtree.
I love this series. Im sure you've probably answered this before, but do you have plans to continue doing these over-analyses for other games?
100%! I already have the footage and script for Hollow Knight and Death's Door - and I've been playthrough through Lies of P, so that's somewhere in the future!
@@TheAkasharose That makes me happy. I was so hoping that this series would continue beyond Fromsoft. You do great work.
1:17:30 I think the reason for the stagger move is to lower player damage to the dragon so it’s AI has time to prepare the “get outta here” flyaway.
Finally Part 2!🎉
When the Godskin Nobel goes into phase two, I just call the rolling attack “Fupa Rolling”
Idk why I decided to say this. I just think you’d be the type to find that mildly humorous
I wonder if Fromsoft took some inspiration from Monster Hunter when designing Radahns moveset. His phase 2 transition is identical to Valstrax's ambush attack where they both rocket into the sky, circle a bit and then divebomb the player
He almost never uses it but the stonedigger troll in altus tunnel can cast flame fall upon them, which gets more threatening if you are near one of the explosive barrels
Erm, Scarscourge? Don't you mean Starscourge lol.
I guess they wanted Elemer/the Bell Bearing Hunter to be a "constant adversary invader who appears around every corner" character, like Knight Kirk, but Kirk's so much more compelling of a character
DS1 Kirk is a Chaos Servant, DS3 Kirk is a Finger of Rosaria - he's a killer, but with a soft spot for sad sick monster-women, and will kill anyone just to give his ladies some relief from their constant pain
Elemer is just a straightforward murder-guy, he's got absolutely nothing going on and nothing we can infer about him
I believe you need to throw in the Calid Godskin Apostle in part 3. It's a massive challenge early game. Good shit on the analysis though, it must be exhausting.
Despite being in the Divine Tower of Caelid, the Tower access itself officially counts as Dragonbarrow - so he's on that list of boss fights!
Glad you're enjoying it, though! Definitely a big project, but it's been a really fun process.
Yes part two finally! I'm sat!
The mimic tear has sanctuary stones to throw, even if the player doesn't.
I do encourage to try fighting Fortisax from the head, the lightning aoes mean that it is not at all easy, especially in phase 2 when he spends so much time in the air. In fact it is easier to fight the regular dragons head on, and even more strongly encourage you to do that.
Fun fact. The Fallingstar Beast in Caelid had the Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast's moveset on launch and was later patched out. In the tiny arena, the gravity attack of the second phase was insanely difficult.
33:00 I actually fought the magma wyrm as one of my first bosses on this current playthrough. I'm doing an int/dex sorcery centric build and since he drops the moonveil I wanted to get it asap.
I ended up having so little trouble with him that I could literally just run in circles shooting magic rocks into his face and have 0 trouble. It's a bit cheesy, sure. But usually bosses have some way to discourage this and the fact I was able to do this at such a low level goes to show just how weak this variant of the magma wyrm is.
Bro u r a legend , plz more Elden ring stuff , very good video series !
The one defense I would maybe offer to Elden Rig duo bosses is that I don't think any of them are meant to be fight alone. Not only do we have the same access to summons as every previous FromSoft game, but we have spirit ashes, meaning even offline there are alternatives for separating the bosses.
Very true - especially in some of the harder Spirit Ash fights. After the AI adjustment, solo is a lot more possible, but Spirit Ashes make battles like Gargoyles a bit more pleasant.
Brother you know that Demi-Human Queen is "Mar-goe". You can't be serious
for the DLC:
Rellana uses moves (pretty much identical but sorta different animation-wise) from Lady Maria, Pontiff Sulyvahn and Malenia (and also maybe Abyss Watchers?).
The last boss has a move directly ripped from Pontiff Sulyvahn save for the very end of the combo.
Rellana felt very Maria and Malenia especially - the side dash into a delayed downward slash into a combo really combined the lifeblood of prior bosses together.
And I haven't reached the last boss yet! I've reached the area, but I've been hunting for other major fights. I've just got the Eighth Rememberance, which leaves three more major bosses left - and, of course, seeing how many small encounters I ended up missing!
@@TheAkasharose well I'm sure you've enjoyed the DLC so far and I think you'll enjoy the rest, well I hope so anyways xD can't wait for your vid
I agreed with a lot of these rankings, especially the Valiant Gargoyle. I just fought them a few days ago and yeah, they are the absolute worst. I don't usually use spirit ashes but I have no problem busting out Mimic as soon as the second one comes out just so I can get it over with.
I remember playing a randomizer and got the crystalian trio in an arena with pillars. Actually a surprisingly fun fight
You forgot the Godskin Apostle in the divine tower of Caelid, which is notoriously much harder than the Altus variant
was looking forward to this - you better do the bosses from the DLC too young man!
"I'm not a proffessional Elden Ring player"
But if those videos are monetized... And you played Elden Ring to make them... That means you got payed to play Elden ring...
So your statement is objectively wrong!
Unrelated: I like being pedantic on the Internet.
You've activated my trap card - still not monetized! Ad sense is being finnicky for some reason, so this channel is still 100% a passion project! I just like talking about games.
I enjoy the godskin enemies as well, buti swear akash if you say godskin duo is a good boss ima crash out
I may be tripping but didn't you miss the gargoyle outside Beatial Sanctum in Caelid??
14:33 do you know that you can use crystal darts to confuse one burial watchdog to fight the other? I think it changes the fight completely, from a 1v2 to a 2v1 and then a 1v1 once the un-crystal-darted watchdog dies. how do you feel about the boss with this strat?
just saw another reply that mentions the same, sorry for repeating that. stlil curious to hear your thoughts though
Hey sorry for the multiple comments I'm leaving but i got to the part with the duo gargoyle and u said if u could avoid fighting them u would. There's actually a way to avoid them to get to deeproot a hidden wall in the room before the 3 fingers leads to deeproot
Silly question:
Demi Human Queen Margot...wouldn't her name be pronounced like the name Margot? (mar-go)
Especially since there's one named Maggie iirc
I should've waited 3 seconds wow, ya Maggie is her name 😭
I think it's Mar-got, since the Demi-Human Queens name themselves after major characters in the game Marigga and Gilika are Marika, and Margot feels like Margit - so I've always pronounced it as a mispounciation of Margit, rather than the French Name Margot.
To my knowledge, though, it's never spoken aloud - so I could see it going either direction.
The gargoyle duo fight perfectly sums up my issues with ER the at will summoning is fine on paper, but the games balance suffers because of it. I firmly believe a lot of bosses are specifically designed to almost force you to use summons. Especially the mimic tear which I feel is the worst tool to give a player in this kind of game. Granted I'm not a fan of open world, but I feel the game is too big which makes it suffer with bloat. Too many recycled/uninspired bosses and the ability to basically infinitely grind hurts the balancing even more. DS3 is peak souls game design imo. Sekiro doesn't count