Subscribe for more! ⇨ / @bossfightdatabase ☆ Radagon of the Golden Order and Elden Beast boss fight in Elden Ring. See all bosses here: • Elden Ring - All Bosses BFD, Boss Fight Database. Radagon boss battle. Elden Ring boss battle.
The fact that the devs have secretly been building up this boss fight for years makes it even more crazy. Ragadon is in the very first reveal trailer, same with the ost. The tamer version of the ost was in the very first gameplay reveal. Every time you turn on the game you hear a version of this theme. And then when you finally see him hoist up that hammer in the same way he did in that very first reveal trailer, and the ost BLASTS off, brass so strong is overpowers the choir, it's an absolutely mindblowing moment.
So first you fight the Elden Jesus wielding Thor's Hammer, then you fight Elden Loch Ness Monster wielding Excalibur and after that you become the Elden Eye of Sauron with a body.
the elden beast turned radagon into a sword. that's why after the hand is done stretching out and grasping him he emerges with the blade. the gods were always just a tool for the elden beast
The Elden Beast is in turn just a tool of the Greater Will - its remembrance calls it the Greater Will's "vassal." The True Outer Gods of the setting are all distant and can't be fought.
The sword that you get from turning in the elden beast's remembrance is also the same model. The item description states "sword wrought from the remains of a god who should have lived a life eternal."
In case anyone is confused or they think that the Blonde God is the same person as the Red Haired God, in the beginning of the cutscene you see Merika (female) crucified to the Rune. When it breaks, presumably by the Elden Beast to protect the Erdtree, Merika transforms into Radagon, Red Haired. They are fused, one and the same person.
Actually Marika herself shattered the Elden Ring to defy the law and order she was accustomed to, but Radagon is a manifestation of the part of her that still remains true to the Golden Order and thus he tries to repair the Elden Ring
In actuality, Merika and Radagon are the same person; Radagon is Merika shape-shifted to be male. She took this form to strategically end the war between Lyndel and the Carian Royales, but she also ensured that her relationship with Renalla would end in such a way, as to cause crippling madness by heartache. Why she continues to change form like this, for specific purposes, isn't entirely clear; what does matter, is that this shape-shifting came with suspicion, so she breeded with herself to make everyone else think Radagon and herself were two different individuals. ... Hence why Melania and Miquella were born cursed; one cursed to be the vessel of a rot god, the other cursed with eternal childhood.
Never imagined that the secret message of Lyndell's Radagon/Marika statue was ABSOLUTELY LITERAL. Realising that here was a magnificent moment and one of Fromsoft best plot-twists
@@myankoZuluTango3613 She did not pose. Rather Marika divided herself into two beings: Marika + Radagon. One part wants to destroy the order and the other part still wants to preserve it. My understanding though
People say that the elden beast is underwhelming but I love him.. the erdtree roots inside of him and his celestial body-like appearance.. not to mention the background and the almost surreal music is beautiful.
the last bosses in souls games are usually not the hardest ones. Like in Dark Souls with Gwyn. He was just a normal guy with a flaming sword. You could parry every swing. Getting to the last boss is the accomplishment. The journey is finally over, kind of idea. In Demon Souls it was just some lump of flesh on the ground that could hardly attack.
@@windmolen00 You're Right. False King Allant was definitely what I would call the "final boss" in Demon Souls. The fact that he could de-level you was scary and stressful lol. The first phase of this fight has been no problem for me, but I am having trouble with the second form. I know I'll get it eventually.
Elden Beast and Radagon need to be viewed as one fight, in which they are really good because they both serve to summise 2 of the souls series main forms of fights, fast humanoid and big beast. They do it REALLY well, Radagon feels like Gwyn if his original fight had weight behind it kinda like souls of cinder's 2nd phase reimagined
They fucking did in the end. They finally managed to make a final boss with the game's main theme as his own. From we love you. Edit: OK, I know there are other bosses in the series that do this, but Radagon is the one where you just can't not notice it. I don't know about Allant because I haven't played Demon's Souls, but Gael's phase 3 is a very different remix. One can even not realise it until someone else states it.
@@dinorex3464 If you play the Convergence mod for DS3 (seriously the greatest mod ever created), they use the game's theme for the final boss battle. If you have a PC, I highly recommend it.
That moment when Radagon held that hammer high I instantly got chills. In my mind I knew one thing "He shattered the Elden ring!!" The theme was also a such a power trip for me. But after he died and the Elden beast emerged and the theme shifted to that of something spectacular I knew I would instantly fall in love with this scene. The beast is so majestic I almost just wanna sit down and watch him.
Virgin Malenia: *Entire speech about her brother before she gets her ass into the battle* Chadagon: *Stares deep into your eyes before exploding your cranium with a holy sledgehammer*
Radagon was by far my favorite boss fight of any souls game. The music, his design, the design of the arena, his fair but punishing moves... Just great.
Radagon is Marika and Marika is Radagon btw, one that still baffles me how come this particular creature able to produce an heir such as Milenia and Miquella for example considering they're one of the same person?
@@emilykaldwin3081 they arent the same person per se, but two aspects of the same. Both have individuality but also can be one and the same. It's not meant to make sense it just is. Kinda like the trinity in Christianity? Christ and God are one and the same but also separate.
@@will2brown50 I'm not familiar with Christian religion but you do make sense with the Christ and God description, appreciate that. I hope they enlightened us more with the DLC, the very origin of Radagon and Marika, also Dragonlord Placidusax God, it says in the remembrance that dragon is the Elden Lord as well before the age of Erdtree
In terms of just raw aesthetics, elden beast is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long time. The golden stars. The music. The golden rings and the massive urdtrees in the background. This boss is a masterpiece!!!!! Edit: Apparently alot of ppl hate this boss’s gameplay mechanics. All i said was that the VISUALS are beautiful. Everyones has their own subjective experience and opinions. Just let ppl enjoy stuff ffs.
sadly this boss is a joke. i know that it's the 1st phase but he's too EASY and not worth for the design People will forgot this boss after beat the game Malenia or Markitt is much more better
Fighting Radagon/Marika with the Moonlight Greatsword makes it all the more cinematic. Challenging that which commanded the stars with a blade forged from them, given to you by the lunar princess. Completely encompasses the general Blue/Yellow color dichotomy of the game.
@@bbpoItergeist This game favours magic quite a bit imo, barely any bosses/mobs have strong magic absorptions. In contrast to DS3 where quite a few enemies were resistant to it. I made a mage build running through this game and never felt the need to switch to other forms of damage (except Rennala but she's weak to the Rock Sling spell so that's hardly an issue).
At first I thought it was… kinda cute, majestic, like something good finally happened to this decaying world. Then it pulled out the blade, reminding me I was playing a FromSoftware game.
Stunningly annoying as shit lol. I keep getting spammed by its range attacks, then when you get close he's got a punish aoe with its sword. And on top of that it has a million HP. Quite cancer imo, really not liking this final boss, the only good thing is the Elden Ring main theme and then Elden Beast's design. Soul of Cinder and Sword Saint Isshin felt way better.
I absolutely love what FromSoft did with the Elden Beast. The visual design looks genuinely otherworldly, supernatural, befitting of a literal god. Also love how Marika ends up both figuratively and literally a tool of this deity. What a phenomenal game.
I love how we tackled this boss backwards. I used Mimic for Radagon so I could fight the Elden Beast solo. My second playthrough I just solo'd them both. Still wish Radagon fight was longer or had two phases, cause the main theme in the background is so good.
Well, I respect people's subjectivity but ER is objectively From's masterpiece.. level design, lore, story telling, objects positioning in the map, npcs...all top notch. If they complete the 2 or 3 quests that are still half done it's an absolute 10/10 (a 9.9 for now).
@@Jaaaak I actually disagree. You can see exactly what he did and while his contributions are nice, it wasn’t anything notable really. 99.5% is solely Miyazaki and his team
@@gumb18i think the game is letdown by the final act. The mountain top of the giants is a massive disappointment both visually and gameplay wise by the reused enemies. Then after burning the tree you kinda just tp from boss to boss for no reason. You’re at the forge? Oh no.Suddenly you’re in broken palace in the sky. Wait, now you’re in the burning capital. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense
@@gumb18also, I think Clergy/Malekith fight is the worst in the game for how unfair Malekith is to non-spell builds. Then Gideon is a spell spammer (although he’s not that hard). I really enjoy Godfrey/Hoarah Loux (my favorite boss) and Radagon, who would be my favorite, had it not been for the massive disappointment that is Elden Beast. Same problems as Malekith, just keeps running and running and running and leaves a sour taste on an otherwise great game
Watching the Elden Beast transforming Radagon into a literal sword made of living and healthy flesh and bone was by far the uncanniest thing I have seen in months. Thank you so much for this mister Martin, and of course, mister Miyazaki.
Mister Martin? All GRRM contributed was writing some of the game's lore/backstory. He had nothing to do with anything you actually experience while playing the game.
@@pockit5107 Wow, chill out dude. And inform yourself a little better next time. I love Miyazaki a Lot, but You sound like a fanboy, and i have been Here since DS1, Jesus.
@@allmasterofficial yeah probably since Bloodborne. I think Sekiro really highlighted it better since we got a number of additional movement options that can be used to dodge attacks like crouching and jumping.
Last hours of the game have been incredibly intense, especially the Boss Rush mode we started since Malekith then Gideon then Godfrey and the grand battle that was Radagon and the Beast.
For anyone having trouble with the Golden orb that follows you, loop it. It has a wide turn radius that by just looping it twice its over worked wonders for me with only getting hit once maybe twice through the whole ability
@Weaver considering he did world building for them, but everything had to still go with a dark-souls-esque-formula, i would guess none of the enemies are his idea and 80% of what we tangibly interact with is all From.
@@SobeCrunkMonster I'm not trying to take anything away from the Fromsoft team, they all played a major part in building the game (obviously lol). I'm just excited for their future projects and hopefully Fromsoft will involve George again :)
You can totally play her and inherit the frenzied flame after Farum Azula. Then you get to be the lord of chaos without the incoming retribution arc :)
The way his hair turns from gold to red, further cementing the impact of discovering the truth behind his/her statue in Leyndell. Fuck, those fromsoft details always on point
@@bowser885 im pretty sure they have different personalities since they married different people and only radagon seems hostile, but probably share a soul or something like that
@@bowser885 Should I just bring in the joke from Ace Ventura? "Oh my god, Marika is a man?! UUUGH!" (cue montage of Tarnished burning their armor and vomiting profusely)
@@bowser885 now that you've said that I can totally see it, that when you enter you can pretty clearly see that she has breasts, but then when their hair turns red while his back is towards the screen, when he stands up his chest is masculine.
I could never forget the first time I reached this point. The goosebumps and everything. The scene where radagon is holding the hammer and the intro music starts is just perfect. It was as if radagon is saying that you finally made it. Now prove it if you truly have what it takes to become the elden lord. This is the perfect definition of a last boss.
Absolutely, unequivocally, the most chill inducing, heart rate increasing final boss intro cutscene I've seen From pull off to date. I was speechless the first 3 or 4 times I had to fight him xD. Little less speechless after that but still, like one of the top comments said the build up to this since they announced Elden Ring so long ago, the fact that From managed to hide all of this under our noses this entire time, literally in plain sight. And that glow inside their chest cavity, literally holding the Elden Ring inside themselves, or at least a significant portion of it it seems from having tried to repair it. That's what it looks like to me at least. Plus the Elden Beast reveal and that God Slain message that catches you off guard and makes you feel a bit like a god yourself in that moment. This beast is a weird nessie-looking glowing god-thing with wings, and a weird body, and it's entirely made of solid crystal yet is flexible enough to swim around like a bleeding arsehole all damn fight. Is apparently a living copy of actual God in this universe. At least one of the big ones. That, right there, is an amazing way to portray a diety. Something so far removed from biology and, uh, physics?, that it's physical body alone makes zero sense. Have you ever tried to bend a crystal? Doesn't go so well. I kept expecting a stun like with crystallians but it never came, just that crunch crunch crunch sound. What I want to know is, after shattering the Elden Ring, how did Marika get up on that fragment that was left of the ring? Or did Radagon place himself there and then shift back to her? Or neither?
It is presumed that the Elden Beast punished Marika for shattering the ring. Because Marika and Radagon are one and the same, they both got punished despite both having different perspectives on the golden order.
@@gp-oi5nt That makes a ton of sense! And why the Elden Beast just straight up turned Radagon into a weapon at the end when he lost his usefulness as a person.
@@darknaio60 Also, Radagon is the half of Marika that supports the reunification of the Elden Ring and Golden Order. (Hence, his name, ‘Radagon of the Golden Order’). That’s why when Marika was freed it was Radagon you fought. Marika doesn’t want the ER put together so she has no incentive to fight. And as you noted, once Radagon was defeated the Elden Beast had no choice but to roll up its sleeves and do the dirty work itself. What I’m curious to know is what does the Golden Order/Greater Will have so strongly against the Tarnished?
@@gp-oi5nt That is a good question, since isnt it the Greater Will that brings us back to life anyway? The whole guidance of grace thing, i thought that was part of the erdtree and greater will. Which, if im being honest, I totally forgot what exactly the Erdtree is supposed to be as far as its connection to everything else, I think I either accidentally skipped dialogue related to it or missed it some other way. I feel its super obvious but I just cant recall it.
@@darknaio60 When it comes to the Erdtree itself I'm in the same boat as you lol. I see it as more of a symbol of the Golden Order's power more than anything else. But I read a comment that the Greater Will decided to give the Tarnished 'guidance' once more as a means to get them to collect the elden ring shards so that once said Tarnished brings them to the Erdtree, Radagon could kill them and finally mend the Elden Ring restoring the power of the Golden Order.
Probably one of the most cinematic starts to a final boss, never felt so pumped for the final fight before. For some reason, the fact that Radagon hardly even acknowledges you is my favourite part.
This game is the most fastastic thing I would ever dream about. The design of bosses, the fragmented lore, the wonderful mythical-like world, the surrounding music...everything is so beautiful, so breathtaking and so perfect! No words to describe. Even if I was expecting something cool from Miyazaki and R. R. Martin, I still have no words to say how impressed I am. Just perfection. Just WOW! These guys actually made a legend. And if they won't get the respect and the fame they deserved, Idk what could happen (not threatening, just warning).
Lord of Frenzied Flame ending is the ending which Radagon and Queen Marika died for real, The Erdtree is set ablaze, and perhaps probably one of the evil endings.
I interpreted it as Surtur in Norse mythology, the flame giant destroys everything but eventually the world will begin a new, our character in this ending will eventually die or the flames will fade giving birth to a new world without the influence of the greater will/Elden Ring or demigods. From a certain point of view it's actually a good ending, although I prefer the age of stars ending way more than this one your tarnished finally gets a Maiden.....
That phase 2 looks sick. My clear about a half hour ago unfortunately glitched and just stopped moving after a few combos and I killed it before I realized it probably bugged. Came to see that it was, indeed, bugged.
@@joot9184 From playing the game myself, though not very far in yet, I'm leaning towards Zero's thinking. I haven't read the wiki but the game isn't really finished yet so I can't trust it.
According to Marika’s hammer Marika Shattered the ring and Radagon tried to repair it. I think Marika is more sinister than what is let on. I don’t believe they are one being but, I do believe Marika knew about the beast and her shattering the ring had something to do with it.
The Elden Remembrance states that the Elden Beast is the incarnation of the concept of Order and a vassal to the Greater Will. It's more plausible that they are a separate entity from the beast
Yesterday i probably got the biggest goosebumps ever playing a game when the ost kicked in as he lifted his hammer. playing since ps1 and i almost played any minor SP game from back then till today and i gotta say elden ring took the nr1 spot for me. cant wait for wat fromsoft is gonna do next !
Here's a trick for the Beast. When it does its ring attack, do a complete 180. It tries to emerge on the opposite side of the room after that attack, so if you turn around it'll surface right on top of you and you can attack it some more.
@@hoen2009 Same. Its really annoying how they built a boss refight system for sekiro and then removed it for elden ring. I wanna fight so many of them again but I need to go through the whole ass game.
In a parallel universe, we were 5min late to get there, Godfrey entered the erdtree unopposed, saw his wife... become his husband... turned around met us on the way out and said "crown is yours!"
I am a "nothing" player. First time souls game player and this journey has kicked my ass every single day playing it. When I finally arrived at the final boss battle I'm clocking in at lvl 179. I'm rigged as a int/dex build I suppose (int58 jacked up to 62 by talisman and dex36 jacked to 41 by talisman). I have mimic at +10 and Black Knife Tiche +10 and I'm swinging Sword of Night and Flame +9. But what has carried me through end game is that I have the Carian Knight shield at +25 with Carian Retaliation Ash of War attached to it. My other buffs are Alexander's Shard and the one that makes you use less FP on every skill. In one of my biggest "WTF!" moments of this entire game, I somehow managed to off Radagon in only two tries (with Tiche assisting) and downed the Elden Beast in just two tries as well. Holy Smokes. I don't know that it was any skill on my part, perhaps I just got lucky with the RNG on both. Anyway, game completed. Now back to mopping up the bosses I missed on the journey to becoming "Consort for Life" to Ranni. :) What a wild ride it has been ...
Is it just me or does the elden beast look very similar to the forrest spirit in the anime movie "Princess Mononoke" + There is a moving castle aswell,so this is probably one Miyazaki taking inspiration from the other Miyazaki.
There is just something extra about how his theme starts as the cutscene is still playing. The same with Godfrey when his theme starts as he says his name.
me vs the elden beast felt like anime especially with bloodhound step, dodging all his spells and seeking missiles felt like I was playing armored core 4, it was exhilarating 👌
@@charlymrivera7236 i completely agree, don't know why people keep saying Elden Ring has the best bosses From Software ever made....not a single one come close to Gehrman, Maria, Ludwig, Gael, Artorias and the list goes on....
Radagon is the aspect of Marika that represents order. It’s why he tried to repair the elden ring. She didn’t want to follow the Greater Will so she seperated that part of her from herself, resulting in Radagon.
@@elirchi9214 ahem- yes but she is also a being that Is at the same time both male and female, so that would mean Radagon was always there. It's the same thing with Miquella he is saint Trina or perhaps Saint Trina is her own person but at the same time is not
I loved this fight and I definitely wasn't expecting the second stage to go "Hey, what's poppin my fellow weirdos? It's ya boi HP Lovecraft back at it again with horrors beyond our comprehension!"
I always liked winning the radagon fight with 2handed guard counters, here at the end of the games' through line of mortals not being able to challenge gods it just narratively feels *right* for it to be a slugfest where you both just trade each others' best shots and see whose body breaks first
As much as I love both Radagon and the Elden Beast fights, I kind of wish these two were their own separate boss fights. Me personally, I would prefer them excluding Elden Beast for 2nd phase and have only Radagon being the final boss with giving him a 2nd health bar phase to do even more cool new shit. They've been building up this mysterious Radagon guy the whole game and it felt kinda anti climatic to have this Elden Beast pop up being the one controlling the strings. When I found out the plot twist that Radagon is actually Marika and they're both 2 of same person when I did that questline with Golden Mask I was stoked and hyped to see them as the final boss. Here's an idea, imagine if 2nd phase was Radagon constantly switching back and forth between both their Radagon and Marika forms, making you change your strategy between the both of them, that would've made for a legendary final boss fight! Now don't get me wrong about Elden Beast, I still love that fight, but I would've prefer Radagon/Marika having another HP bar for themselves and have Elden Beast be its own separate boss. We've always got future DLC so I'm excited for what's to come, this game has been a blast! I've still yet to reach Malania but once I finish this game... man I'm gonna be sad when its over.
I beat this yesterday, and I felt something was wrong. Wasn't sure what it was. But now that I have read your com, I absolutely agree. Radagon and Marika are too goddamn good to be just "a first phase". The momento I fought Elden Beast, first thing I thought that it should have been a different boss fight. A weird decision coming from FromSoftware designers, in my opinion.
Agree about the separate boss fights but your idea is basically a downgrade reverse version of Soul of Cinder, 100% would not make it a better fight and lore wise it doesn't make any sense. Radagon himself already has a very similar fighting style to SoC 2nd phase
the arena where you fight Elden Beast is almost like Ash Lake from Dark Souls 1, some place so eerie yet so beautiful, I died so many times because I can't believe how gorgeous the trees are in the distance!
