Beating Elden Ring by Incredibly Stupid Means 

Especially the poison swamp crab parts!

I loved watching you play the game, best

Boop

This playthrough was hilarious and perfect, all the way through. The way you do fromsoft games is pretty much the best. It's precisely what the community needs because of all the perfectionist "if you aren't following a guide and min-maxing your stats you're doing it wrong" people. In my eyes if you have fun you're doing it right lmao

@@EverTheFractal Haven't had any fun yet.

If the lion is his held back rage then I kinda wished he became the lion, might of made his second phase cooler

I was genuinely confused when I played through myself. Thank you for the insight!

@@vivalaglavii6736 Maybe, but only if the Lion kept the wrestling moves lol

@@vivalaglavii6736 I like the simplicity of the second phase: he's back to being just a man, a simple warrior

Ooooh, that's really cool! Thanks for explaining why Godfrey killed his stand

Yeah, he was behind. Why RT mad, it was perfectly valid message

it was infact behind

I thought the same thing!!

I mean it's a lie by omission of the dragon actually being there, just behind you

@@viviennestone8851 they never said it wasn't there. Just that it wasn't ahead 😜

Plus he's jacked, must've gone to the university of Texas. Might've been a wrestler. I bet he could've gone pro if he didn't become the Elden Lord

@@runtergerutscht4401 are you making a metal gear rising reference?

@@runtergerutscht4401”DONT FUCK WITH THIS WARRIOR.” *while suplexing the tarnished*

@@faceless_man566 it's commonly referred to as revengeance but hell yeah

@@runtergerutscht4401 guess he could break the elden beast in 2 with his bare hands

Maybe makes you a blood baron, or a blood prince even

@@masonkennedy8089 At least half of a blood prince. A half-blood prince, if you will.

@@nixel1324 you... hmm... yeah...

He did indeed Beat the game by stupid means

You could say that it's Todd's success story. Final boss represents Skyrim.

yeah it shows how broken mimic summon is LOL

@@elpximso6771 It's a really solid weapon for PVE, for sure. Add the insane power spike of Mimic Tear... it's pretty spicy

Not it’s from the power of a god. Todd.

honestly would not be out of place

@@rexana_rexana in fact, that's surprisingly *in* character for him.

That wasn't a dream

that was god telling you to do what needs to be done

almost any ranged attack actually he does it even with stuff like hoarfrost stomp

@@GRIMHOOD99 I just realized when RT was trying to hit jump attacks, eventually Radagon would be like, "Nope." and teleport them.

Man, AI is getting terriffyingly good.

@@grakata5620 peep the nemesis system

@@dredgenjinn Can we try and convince miazaki to make dark souls 1 but theres the nemesis stystem

There wasn't an anime "w..." but sure.

A pure soul asks the question, but a suave man takes the hand he put the ring on.

The game fades out specifically becasue it, itself doesn't know.

@@ngastakvakis4425 Are you implying nobody ever stutters except in anime?

Okay but pizza cutter

@@LandBoundFish ok but oversized stick

....yeah

I was a dex/faith build and switched for strengh big hammer the moment i got it.

STR?

its the trial in order to be her husband

@@VorpalTiger To marry my daughter, you need to defeat me AND god!

Sol and Ky be like

@@TheActualMrLink true

@@thechosenfundead6626 happy to see another Guilty Gear fan!

I mean, it is four times the size

It is Four time the hand

Yeah that’s the neat part

It means you aren't overpowered.

@@user-td2cd8dd9y in souls games standards overpowered doesnt really exist I think

@@Hide____ The magic beam build is "stupidly over powered," however. In every Souls game Magic has been quite powerful, at least in PvE. What Daniel has isn't overpowered, if it was it would "make [the game] too easy."

@@Hide____ on this one it exists, the magic builds can one shot most bosses with comet azur

Just for that: three more swamps.

@@blarg2429 And a swamp dog riding a crab as the boss

@@onyxrose4349 And not only that, but it's one of those multiple-enemy bosses where if you don't kill them both fast enough one of them respawns, and in this case they then hastily re-mount.

@@blarg2429 Ornstein and Smough as Dog and Crab

@@onyxrose4349 lmao

he probably wont get it because he done the ranni questline

@@calebclark1821 if you look under the video you see RT's Comment talking about doing one more video where he looks at all the endings

@@calebclark1821 you can get both

@@Shuroii what how?

@@calebclark1821 once you beat final boss you choose your ending you want. To do Ranni you summon her after so even if you done the quest you don't have to summon her

you can see it happen syllable by syllable. 'god' kalm . 'ski- oh no'

FUCK SPIRITCALLER’S CAVE ALL MY HOMIES HATE SPIRITCALLER’S CAVE

@@DimIsHigh especially if its your first time fighting a noble, was so happy when the little bug came out of hiding.

Was just about to comment that

We love failing the goldmask quest and finding the statue anyway

radagon is marika

damn statue text was a twist ngl

@@kajbaldwin1868 "Radagon is Marika"

It’s actually a big discussion whether Radagon and Marika used to be different people that fused into one being, or a single being with split personality.

@@kolosmenus I have a feeling that that will be revealed in the description of a DLC item. This game is practically bound to get DLC.

I don't think Tolkien has much say in anything anymore

Imagine if Frodo couldn't get to Mordor because the dead marshes had poison damage

Miyazaki literally said in some interview that with elden ring he rediscovered his love for making swamp levels.

I'd like to image the two madmen giggling while discussing about the swaps "So I'll make this very huge swamp but this time it made out of super AIDS" "Yo, let's make it necessary for the players to cross it. I'd say we put a waifu on the other side. Those maidenless peeps would swim through it even at the cost of their life" "Genius. You know what? Why don't we add a boss in there as well"

Lmao he fixed his mixing up tolkein and martin 😭

Sameee

Shame you didn’t get to experience it firsthand

that's probably a stupid mistake you made, cause it's AWESOME af. but good for ya

Why not? Play it

There’s definitely more differences than just the hair color but the hair color is the most obvious distinguisher

I love how Gurranq greets you into the arena if you finished his quest line before getting to Farum

Only if you complete Fia's questline

Base ER ending is the fractured ending. In this ending the world isn't restored, you just place yourself as Elden Lord over the remains of what the demi-gods fought over and Marika fucked up. To actually make things right you need to do Ranni's ending, the Order ending or the Duskborn ending. Ranni takes away Order and thus the influence of the Outer God named Greater Will (who the Two Fingers serve). Instead the world is now influenced by the Dark Moon, Ranni's patron deity and you join Ranni at her side as lord. Order Ending restores the world to basically how it was before Marika broke the Elden Ring (which should unfuck death for everyone). Duskborn ending see you fuck with death this time, you introduce the idea of life within death to the world. It reintroduces death but it also does something to death what exactly is unclear. As for the two remaining endings, they are the two truly evil endings, either covering everything in a horrible terrible evil curse, or just burning it all down because why not?

@@NATIK001 For the burning everything down ending, the reason you burn the world is because the Frenzied Flame told you to. Why it does this is because once everything was the same thing, that thing being the Frenzied Flame, but then the Greater Will split from the Frenzied Flame, then maybe the other outer gods did too, not 100% certain on that one, and at that point, the Frenzied Flame wanted it's bodyparts back. By burning the world down, you essentially boil it down and merge it all back into the Frenzied Flame: Removing all things from existence and leaving only the flame behind. This is still an evil ending, but it's an evil ending that's a bit more complex than "why not lol". Or at least, that's what the Frenzied Flame was, this being a soulsborne game your characters motivations are unknowable and you might actually just be burning it down because "why not lol". Sorry for the lore dump but i really wanted to share lol

yeah my normal block then guard counter tactic does not work against blood loss dogs, they almost instantly proc me

I don't think it's 100 but yeah they proc 7ish times or something? So you get 7 instant bleed process for 15% of your health and die instantly. It's either a joke or a bug but it seems to be on particular dogs.

I saw a slowed down webm of their attack. It hits every frame instead of once.

oof

@@zambsDGOW o.o

Iconic

@@internetuser7004 one of a kind

Strength build lmao

What I cobbled together from her other dialogue was that she seeks to remove the interferences of all powers, (including her and us?), from the "normal" world. Thus leaving a world of "fear" and "loneliness", for there are no active gods and powers in the life of the people, which might scare those acustomed to the Golden Order. I guess it is also lonely for her and us, doing whatever mystery pondering "we" are doing meanwhile.

@@DeutscherDummer The fear and loneliness refers to the thousand year journey Ranni and the player have to make. Ranni wants the people to grow independent and not rely on outer gods but to do this, she needs to remove herself and you, the Elden lord. That’s also why she says a thousand years and not forever, it’s to give the people time to learn how to exist without gods.

In the English dialogue this is implied to an extent. Probably could have been more clear though. She's removing the 'order' or godlike powers from the world, leaving mortals to fend for themselves and in doing so gain autonomy.

As always, the game has somewhat anti-capitalist messages, however now it’s somewhat also anarchy now

​@@alwest4472 What in the fuck does removing gods and space beings have to do with being anti capitalism

Neither was Morgott

Perhaps it is the secret ending, cheesy bowling strike animation and all.

The Spiffing Brit: No, it's an UNLIMITED EXP FARM under the right circumstances.

He's beaten the game. Credits begin to roll... or do they? The scene fades back in. The moon starts rolling towards him.

@@JustinMcJustin This comment needs more attention

What tower?

@@Erick-tv8oq Where ya meet Ranni herself

@@Anonymous-ss1kg That grace did look suspicious, but I didn't think I would have to talk to the doll again, I thought maybe she would show up and when she didn't I just continued on to the end of the game. Damn.

@@Erick-tv8oq Well, she does but ya gotta do the blue summon sigil thing iirc to get her there. This bit only applies to a small easter egg, or rather, reward for spending more time with Ranni than what was needed

Finishing maybe instead of beating?

he did a stream yesterday i believe, where he does the quests he missed, bosses, and secrets, i watched the stream and he does find this boss, just wait a bit for the next stream highlight

@@NyesoEX Ah, thank you much.

@@NyesoEX I couldn’t believe he missed the deep root depths stuff, unless that didn’t make the cut

@@mmsL125 it made the cut in the last highlights

I think you mean Skyrim: The Squeakquel.

I mean you have to do that to progress so he would have gotten there anyway

The whole time watching it I was wrestling with how I felt. It was so... amorphous. And the fight itself was like beyond information overload, just constant fireworks in your face. But it was about as epic as a boss gets, and it was indeed completely unique

I reminds me a lot of the tree god from princess mononoke, it makes me wonder if Lobo is supposed to be a reference to that too

I liked it visually as well, and the music was great, but as an actual fight I found it very lacking. It's moves are fairly limited, involving a lot of running away for longer periods and then hitting a bunch until it goes away again. Radagon is a lot more interactive and intense (apart from the teleport aoe dmg). Additionally, the camera sucks in melee with these huge bosses. I also find the "symbolic" effect of the boss is not that great, especially as it has not much lore. Gwyn and Nashandra were established characters with a lot of lore, same with most final DLC bosses. Soul of Cinder sticks out a bit, but it makes a lot of sense as a representation of former fire-linkers, particularly Gwyn in the second phase. Those are things easily picked up by the player and even represented by the different weapons/movesets. Elden Beast is just a beautiful looking blob, but what is it? What does it represent in/by its form?

@@DeutscherDummer I mean, if you actually want the answer to what it is within the lore, it's in part the Greater Will's primary avatar in the Lands Between, in part serving the role of shadow to Marika/Radagon like Godfrey's cat. The final boss is like the reversal of the penultimate boss encounter; Godfrey murders his lion so he can fight you as a free man, while Radagon surrenders himself to the Greater Will so that the Golden Order can be maintained. The Greater Will is a celestial outsider like some of those other optional outer god boss battles, thus the constellation spine and galaxy starburst explosions. Honestly, being confused by that part of the design seems a bit hyperbolic, since if anything it's overly on-the-nose cool outer space themed. (Also, the general model references a lot of the same sources as the Divine Dragon from Legend of Dragoon and original FF7 Safer Sephiroth. The Elden Ring and Elden Tree are at least tangentially related in inspiration to the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. And Fromsoft loves their alchemy.)

@@Shalakor That helps somewhat, although I don't see how we know the Elden Beast to be a shadow to Marika/Radagon (like Maliketh, Serosh and Blaidd are), in fact that would give it a lesser role than the remembrance implies. It just says " the vassal beast of the Greater Will and living incarnation of the concept of Order". That to me sounds it is subservient only to the Greater Will and is the Elden Ring, while Marika/Radagon are in turn the vessels of it. In any case, my point is more about what the boss as a final boss means to the player, prior and while fighting it. That's why I pulled up all the examples of Isshin, Gehrman, Aldia and Nashandra, Gwyn, Friede and Gael (they are not final bosses, but for their DLCs they are and very memorable ones at that). We might argue about the Soul of Cinder and Moonpresence being not... expected I guess, but I think they are more established and their relation to the player's journey "felt" more clear than the Elden Beast. All the sparse lore we get is from the remembrance, a thing we get only after the fight. These are just my attempts to describe why I felt a bit disappointed by it compared to most other Fromsoft (final) encounters. It did not help that Radagon was a mechanically much more interesting and tense fight. The final boss of a game leaves often one of the strongest impressions on the player, the Elden Beast did not fill that role as good as I hoped it to be filled. I won't argue against it graphically and regarding the soundtrack though, it is great in those ways.

Actually godrick doesn’t normally lose health from that it was from the jellyfish

They're making a new one? Never heard of that news before. I really hope they at least remaster/remake the Armored Core series

@@ChronoAlex There’s a leak on that not long ago. With what we can see its def armored core.

@@rightsideup6304 honestly makes sense for FS to swap genres. Cuz how the actual fuck would they be able to follow up Elden Ring otherwise?

@@selenagamya1612 Avoiding fatigue of the franchise and generally diversifying their modern portfolio would also be a really good idea. You could only keep on making the same game of the same genre for so long before you’d kinda get tired of it. Not to mention it’ll be a waste of them not making a modern version of their IPs especially when it have such a cult following.

I just want Kota Hoshino to return as main composer

The churches of marika would like to know your location

The entire sequence was just for the jojo memes

That girl must never sleep I swear. She has to be watching the stream the first time around and taking notes, shes is absolutely cranking shit out lately

Ahead, but hole

You can cleanse yourself from the flame of frenzy after burning the tree so melina neither dies nor becomes your enemy. But it doesn't give any extra dialogue or cutscenes.

@@Xonarag Yeah that's a case where we don't know if she becomes an enemy or not. Guess we'l have to wait for DLC

@@Xonarag I mean, you get the scene where she’s mad at you and leaves you and you get the scene where you kindle the flame yourself, so you get something a little extra. Also if you went through with Hyetta’s questline you get a bit of extra dialogue there as well

Thanks for keeping my comment relevant in your edit

I don't know if I would take that trade what would you even do with a second face.

Breathe fire, apparently. and hell, he's more mobile without the leg.

The game was cracked literally a day after launch, so if you really wanna play it I'm sure you can find a good torrent for it

@@Shuroii I left behind the pirate life a while ago as I needed more time to do IRL stuff. So it's not exactly a bad thing I can't afford it. But not a bad tip!

also name-dropped in the opening cutscenes before sir Gideon Offnir *breaths in* THE ALLL KNOWING

Reminded me of the twin princes, looks like the same/slightly modified model

New to this game?

lol yeah, berserk inspired dark souls, and then on.

There's quite a few references to it in this game

The second one is wrong it was clearly God Howard killing a god

Yeah, I agree!

He only struggled with dogs because he never had a shield, every dog fight is easy if you let them hit your shield then counter

Pretty but an absolute nightmare to fight because of it's constant running away.