The WORST Game Review on Youtube | Dark Souls 

Posting this to just cover some common comments i see. If you continue to post these comments then... you will be completely fine. I value your input. I just may not reply due to it being covered here 1. "My definition for Retrospective is false." This is 100% true actually and its completely on me. Most retrospectives on youtube are in depth so my brain has the 2 tethered together. Nothing about the word Retrospective promises an in depth analysis though 2. Some people are mocking the way i speak, im not offended or anything but feel like i should straight up say, yeah i suck at talking. Always struggled with pronouncing words properly, particularly any word with the letter R in the middle of it gives me a really hard time. I tend to combat this by saying problematic sentences quickly, for those making those comments i really dont mind but your kinda making yourself out to look like an ass 3. The boulder, yes its fair, i just have the observational skills of a dead cat and projected my own experience as fact, thats my bad. 4. "he is just a troll and im giving him attention", i have absolutely no doubt that his opinion of dark souls is genuine, but i do feel like he plays it up for rage bait. I don't believe i have been played in any way though. even if he did fake everything just for a reaction it was a satisfying experience for me to rip apart every argument he had. i genuinely had fun making the video even if i did get frustrated near the end, and the video has done way better then i could of ever imagined so i just cant see how i have been played in any way. 5. "Im punching down" okay so how so. there are 3 ways i could personally take this and only one of them i see as genuinely valid the first way i could be punching down is because Acerthorn has already been covered by a lot of people before me. so its like everyone ganging up on him. while i don't exactly agree that this is punching down i will accept this argument because it at least makes a little bit more sense the second way i could be punching down is because Acerthorn has less subs... except he doesn't when i made this video he had at least 9X the amount of subs i had so if anything I'm punching up. The third way is the reason i feel like most people are saying this. i could be punching down because Acerthorn seems to be autistic. to be honest I'm not entirely sure he absolutely is, i would not be surprised if he was i just never went and confirmed it as it had no relevance to my arguments. but for the sake of argument lets say he is. ...So? Autistic people can be normal you know. if your autistic that does not automatically make you act like a complete ass. quite frankly trying to excuse his repeated bad behavior with autism is insulting to autistic people as in order for his autism to be an excuse your implying that's just normal autistic behavior. if it was not normal autistic behavior then obviously you could not use autism as a excuse right? thats all for now by the way if your reading this i started scripting a video about zelda 1 :) might take a while to come out, my working speed is very inconsistent so uhh... its ready when its ready lmao

Can we get a 40 minuet video exclusively talking about theories for how his hud scale got set to zero? Here I’ll start ‘He misread it as HD scale, and thought having HD scales on all the dragons would slow down his game, so he turned them off’

Acer perfectly incapsulates the quote, “you can never argue with someone stupid, because they will drag you down to their level and win by experience” or as I like to put it, “you can’t out-mind-game the mindless”

4:21 id actually even argue that its good that the bolder is pretty much unavoidable on your first playthrough as you're about to be given the estus (your healing item) giving you the chance to use it while you're not in any real danger

Ironic that Acerthorn complains about toxicity, and censorship when he has false copyright strike, sued, and tried to dox multiple RU-vidrs for criticizing his videos in order to silence, and extort them to ruin their lives. He is the last person to complain about people saying toxic things to him when he tried to destroy anyone who criticized, or made fun him.

you can literally see the bolder before it falls if you look up the stairs

Jesus, the comment where he compared himself to a physical abuse victim made me realise he's not just stupid and snarky but ultimately harmless, he's actually just genuinely a terrible person. Like wtf, imagine having that much of a victim complex that you think someone daring to criticise your takes online is the same as being physically beaten and gaslit by someone who you thought you could trust.

I can't watch videos like Acerthorn's directly because they get me too worked up. Thank you for being a buffer of rationality to the sheer lunacy that comes out of that guy's mouth.

On the topic of your motivation - there is actually a very clear conflict in the game, from the intro. We know that the flame allows for a time of light, and one usually believes light is good. Now that should be worrying when you find out the flame is fading. They say it I think twice in the intro. So another conflict being prepared for is "how will you stop the flame from fading". This is further prepared by Oscar telling you at the start, that you might be a chosen undead. Dark souls prepares you for the conflict before it starts.

24:02 What makes the comparison even worse is the fact there was a great example of somber music during a part where you're supposed to kick ass. Its during Gwyn. And if played through the entire game, he would've known that and actually use it to support his argument. But he didn't finish the game for his retrospective so it falls flat on its face even harder.

Tbh when they said that it is the most toxic community ever, all i could think was "this person has clearly never played league of legends"

I feel like pointing out that when he was complaining about being unable to see the boulder he had previously shown his brightness at 4 obviously he couldnt see the boulder. also great video man keep up the good work

"You can't reason someone out of an opinion they didn't reason themselves into"

Heads up from someone who has dealt with Acer in the past. I would keep an eye out for a DMCA or a privacy complaint against the video, since he can't take any from of criticism at all. Stay safe out there and I hope to see more content from ya my man.

Etymologically, a retrospective is when you look back on something, after finishing it, and view it as a whole. This is mostly in depth, requires having finished the game, and maybe throw in a couple development anecdotes in it. (English not my main language, sorry for any mistakes)

I can’t believe people like Acerthorn don’t sit don’t and think. “Huh, literally everyone hates me. Wonder what the common denominator in here is?”

man hates video game, proceeds to say “whatever” to someone’s soulmate dying, god he would’ve been better just not replying to that comment good video btw!

The story of DS1, is to save Solaire. There is no other path to follow.

Whatever.

If I stopped playing around the same time this guy did, all I would really have to say about it is that it feels like an NES game going through its emo phase.

I would argue that the boulder is perfectly fair. It's designed to hit you if you're just running all willy nilly, but if you're being careful (like the game is teaching you to do here) it's 100% avoidable. It's also to show you the estus flask and how it works while also being directly next to a bonfire. It's perfectly fine. The dragon I can kind of agree with, since while it does kind of expand on the boulder thing the punishment is a bit extreme at this point in the game. Also... I can beat Dark Souls 1 in one sitting lol. I could at launch, too. I had thousands of hours in Demon's Souls by the time Dark Souls came out. It's almost fascinating how little of value the dude actually had to say, kinda made QuantumTV look like he had a brain.

gonna be fully honest with you brother, you deserve more subscribers.

2:49 my brain broke for a few minutes there. I think we found a level below game journalist

I love how he says he "won't let the fanbase win" like, my guy, elden ring and fromsoft are some of biggest names in gaming and he's been made a laughing stock, not only of the souls community, but the whole of the gaming community and youtube as a whole over these takes. The fanbase already won lol.

Oh shit, I didn't realize this was the same guy that did the Elden Ring review without playing it. It's fucking hilarious

This Acerthorn dude legitimately has a video titled: I'm friendless and family-less by choice. In which he explains how you need to pay him 20$ just to hear him describe his hardships, that should tell you enough about this dude. Strong incel vibes from him.

For the rat poison thing, he was obviously confusing the poison meter coming up with actually being poisoned, not realizing that it wasn’t the case.

I wish he would see this video and just comment "Whatever" 💀

Me: Literally never heard of the review. Also me: watches anyway. Edit: Oh my God, the guy couldn't open the door. Couldn't open the ###ing door. The ###ing door. The ### was he doing?! Oh, my God. Oh, my- (Deep breaths)

Turns out Acer was the real Undead Berg all along

that falling rock from 4:30 is designed to hit you, because it opens the room where you get your healing flask, so it teaches you two things, 1. to be careful 2. how to heal

I could've sworn the name Acerthorn was familiar. Apparently Mutahar and Critical did videos about him copyright striking/claiming others about a year ago

It's a shame to see you dont yet have more videos or subscribers, I've done a number of videos profesionally for companies and know how much work goes in to them; its great to see the sheer amount of passion you put in to your work. Please keep up this effort that you've put in to your craft, as you really have potential to go far.

Hello, Acerthorn here. I would like to take your video down because it violates copyright law and doesn't fall under Fair Use. Just to remind you I have only seen 1 millisecond of this video, but I'll take it down no matter what. Whatever, bite me. - Acerthorn

Midway through I already thought there's no way a man who's going out of his way just to spread hate towards an entire franchise he never really touched to begin with can live a happy life. So when I was done watching I took a look at his channel and he has a video called "I'm friendless by choice and familyless by choice" (granted I didn't watch it) and although a bad mental state doesn't justify insufferable behavior I just hope he'll get better. I've had a serious phase a year ago and nobody should live hating and mistrusting everyone around him, that eats at you. I sympathize with him even if his behavior doesn't leave anything behind to sympathize with

man i hate those people who don't know much about the game cretesizing it especially when they make smthing minor seem like a big deal

I don't mean to sound heartless but how does one lose someone due to a fanbase? did they ratio them into having a heart attack? great vid by the way Ekim, love to see up and comers putting in work.

"Because I thought it was fun, bite me" lmao. Mad respect, keep it up!

4:06 funny thing is if he didn't lower the brightness he would've been able to see that boulder.

Along with all his other bad takes, he also doesn’t explain how or why Fromsoft “harbors a vile community”. Almost like he’ll look for any scapegoat to deflect his shitty attitude onto.

Hopped into this video on a whim did not expect such a thoroughly good video, earned the sub my guy

The first time you encounter a mimic is absolutely NOT fair either honestly lmao

Soo umm..... funny story dark souls 1 is my first souls game given by a friend, and the first time i played it i thought it was one of those joke game that is impossible to win since i goes the wrong way in my first play trough (i keep going to the catacombs) and like the retard i am i kept on insisting for a solid 2 1/2 hours until i said to myself "yep this is a joke game" then i stop playing after a few days my friend said why i don't play the game did i finished it? then i said to him there was an ending? I thought the game was a joke, he just gave me the blankest look i have ever seen, then he guided me where to go my EYES are open and i played the best game i have ever played on that time my rating was from Nice Joke Fromsoft / 10 To a 10/10 with just one pointer

Another thing about the boulder at the beginning is that it gives you a good reason to immediately use the estus flask when oscar gives it to you which subtly teaches you what estus is even if you didn't pay attention to the dialog and also will later show you that it refills upon resting at a bonfire.

I'm sorry but when some talks the way that this Acerthorn does immediately looses all credibility because it sounds like he is being entirely sarcastic.

Love the way this video is made, quality editing and the highlighting “agree,” “disagree,” “in between” of the comments is a really smart succinct way to introduce your opinion on individual components of a comment before explaining it. Glad I found this video!

fundamentally the problem is that he wants to play the game without dying. Dark souls is actually pretty short compared to most games. the only thing that extends its length is that you will inevitably die until you learn what to do differently. "Give me a chance to react" your chance to react is when you are running back from the bonfire.

Bro got filtered by ds1 so hard that he couldn't even boot up elden ring

He is going to try to strike this video

It is a crime that this doesnt have 1m+ views rn. this is absolutely perfect in almost every way. of course i disagreed with some points, however unlike acerthorns statements, i can respect them as they were phrased in the form of an opinion and not as an objective fact as acerthorn seems to think his opinion should be treated. how entitled do you have to be to think that everyone elses opinion in this huge community is subjective but your own is not? by making this point acerthorn sounds like an entitled little brat and invalidates everything he says in these videos. keep up the good work on this informative and genuine feeling video style! id love to see more like it in the future!! oh also one minor critique from someone who used to make videos: your audio levels were a little bit low in this video. sound mixing SUCKS and i hate it but its something that can make your videos even better!

I never knew about acer or his “retrospective” of dark souls and on one hand the way he responds to the pushback makes me angry. But on the other hand knowing how far his unreasonable distain goes for the game makes me sad that someone can hate a game to such an extent. which I hold so dearly and have enjoyed as much as I have.

I tried DS1 back on the PS3 back in the day and just couldn't get into it. Hated the slow, animation based attacks and whatnot. Then years later my boyfriend practically begged me to play Bloodborne (one of his favorite games), and I gave it a shot. After acclimating to the gameplay, Souls games are now one of my favorite genres and DS1 specifically was so good I played it twice back to back to get both endings, and now hang out in it regularly as one of my cozy games. It's a shame acerthorn will probably never give it another chance, but he's not alone. Plenty of people just don't get into it, and that's fine, it's not for everyone. But the story, the atmosphere, the combat... I love almost everything about DS1, more than any other Souls game, and I wish more people would give it a second chance.

This video is super well done and you convey your points really well. Personally I would go as far to say you need to beat a game to review it and need a deep understanding of the game and it's impact to drop a full scale retrospective. Really hope this video reaches more people.

Bro really said that a game called "Dark Souls" was too depressing 💀

im genuinely confused if both these videos are satire or if one (or both) are genuine about their statements. Can someone please confirm as I am genuinely confused as to how someone (Acerthorn) can have insanely braindead takes

I’ll never understand people who say a product is bad because the fanbase is toxic. The fanbase has nothing to do with the quality of the product at all. It’s like refusing to eat pizza because a couple of people you don’t like also enjoy eating pizza.

Also this is the turkey hot dog man, isn't he? What a clown. Great objective video Ekim.

I remember the first time i played DS1 and that boulder hit me........i was way more cautious about bummin round after that! Great design imo, and because its in the tutorial area, there literally aren't any consequences.

You're a champ for sitting through this, and deciphering the gobbles.

The Boulder in the tutorial is a teaching moment to pay attention to your surroundings and not walk around like you know what's going on

just fun fact about the portal section. the world record glitchless speedrun for Portal is under 15 minutes (14 mins, 23 seconds, 430 ms specifically). that means portal is technically beatable up to 96 times in one day, and if you limit a "single sitting" of a game to maximum 8 hours (or one business day worth of work), 32 times. 😅

The follow up to this should be, The Worst live stream on youtube with just Acerthorn inhaling hotdogs while acting like a turkey

As someone who's been a part of the Souls community for the last 12 years, the only times I see toxicity is either when someone else is being toxic first, or as jokes towards other Souls community members. Of course, there's the minority of players in any game that are just naturally toxic, but in my experience those who are like that get shut down pretty quickly by other community members. I love Souls and its players

The boulder thing isn't unfair in the slightest, and actually makes sense now that I think about it. First the boulder hits you, then knocks the wall down, opening the path to the knight who gives you the Estus flask. Rather than outright telling you that the flask heals you, it gives you 5 uses, which I believe is designed to tempt you to try and see what it does. I think mandatory damage is justified in this case, because it's specifically a situation designed to teach you how to restore health.

Funnily enough, the Hollowing is actually a parallel to players of the game as well. People go hollow when they go mad and give up. So anyone who rages at Dark Souls and quits playing have symbolically gone Hollow. Acer went Hollow :P

Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

"People were mean to me so I hate these devs' games without ever trying them." Wow, what an incredibly mature and nuanced take. That and claiming the community was toxic to him after dismissing valid criticism and disrespecting others with the simple "whatever"s

I honestly respect how you gave him a fair chance and made a good video out of it. Btw your lisp is adorable

Acerthorn more like Quantum TV 🤣

Portal 1 is like 3 hours...what??

Yo, this is a very quality video. The way that you dismantled his false view of the game without outright calling him an idiot. I really hope that you get more subs from this videi because you really deserve it!

The comparisons between MeatBoy and Dark Souls is insane! I have completed both multiple times and I’m hoping he was just trolling when he did.

I see titles say "worst review" and of course it's responding to acerthorn 😂

"the pwobwem"

Do not let acerthorn play Sekiro, that game would crawl out of the screen and beat him up.

You’re the best ❤

Having someone reply to my comment with "Whatever" is far worse than had they said nothing at all.

Wetwospective

Most popular vid on the channel in just 2 days. Congrats man was very well made

I think the thing that needs to be understood about dark souls and the like is that it isn't fair, it will have moments where it rails you relentlessly, and you have to outsmart ( or cheat) and adapt to the world because it won't adapt to you. The boulder trap is pretty good since it teaches you how mean the designers are and you shouldn't run into things without first looking ahead and planning at least something out. I'm not a big fan of ds1, I think ds2 is way better, but I can't deny what I love about it and its design quirks sometimes

Careful man Acerthorn is known to false copyright strike anyone who criticizes him as well as try to sue them. Acerthorn is an insane narcissist. Just try to stay safe man.

Hey man, wanna say I like the video. You have a decent style and actually seem pretty openminded overall. Acerthorn is however, already a well known idiot. Basically DSP of reviews, and the type that can't understand "fuck around and find out". But low hanging fruit aside, I enjoyed this video even with me disagreeing with alot of stuff said about dark souls in it. To kinda clarify what I mean, this game does have such horrible polarizing sides pretty much always arguing over it. It's no where near as good as the "masterpiece" claiming hardcore fanbase, but its far from absolutely horrible either that the decriers like to say. If you wanna know why I think I know anything about that, I have roughly 500 hrs in the first dark souls, 200 on the sequel, 300 on 3, around 500 more in demon souls, and about 150 in bloodborne. I know most of these games fairly well (2 and bloodborne being the ones I had the least interest in for multiple reasons) But specifically demon souls, ds1 and ds3 as I played them extensively, speedran them, and have tried out a significant number of builds. So I'll throw my hat into the ring on Dark Souls 1, just hoping you find it interesting. To start, I ironically wouldn't tell anyone ds1 has a good story. It's story is railroaded af, has little narrative weight or importance to most people, and is often so poorly understood you need lore channels to present it in a manner that's actually engaging. SPOILER.......... its also rather pointless. The core story is "break" the undead curse, but you can't and don't. You just refuel the cycle. You maintain the undead curse, and the actual way to break it was by doing nothing. The only other ending isn't even that, it's the "secret" become uber hollow man. This all isn't much a big deal to most players, as they typically don't even understand what happens by the end. This was a big deal to me, someone that bought demon souls after playing ds1 and realized its just the same story for the most part with nearly everything handled better narratively. You have actual motive instead of nothing better to do, what is happening is better understood and conveyed to the player so that you don't need long lore explanations to put weight being actions in a blind playthrough, and the ending is actually something of impact that has weight beyond "game was hard me feel good it over". And all the things well done and established in dark souls (good worldbuilding, atmosphere, tone, art design) are all still there in Demon Souls. On top of it being samey, its heavily lacking and takes quite a few steps backwards with genuinely poorly told story with overall less weight to the player and their actions and decisions. DS3 actually did a better job at this by far with its plot being actually present and understood, and it didn't have cheap cop out endings that impacted little to nothing. I can like games like that, like darkest dungeon that spends its whole game setting up a reveal that your efforts are meaningless, but DS1 seems like it had a alpha style cutscenes for its end cleaned up as the clearly noticable good and bad ending, even though the "good ending" is fucking up shit by maintaining the state of the world and not fixing shit and the "bad ending" technically has 0 ramifications whatsoever, and is what actually beats the undead curse. And I feel the need to point that out because it seems like you think something different happens? Then I wanna get to the more objective flaws, as people can say what they want on the story, or how it doesn't apply to them at all etc. DS1 wasn't ever finished. It was early shipped out and sold in an incomplete state. It literally was not ever polished, or designed with the full intentions of its design team. It's world was never complete. Plenty of it is rushed and it shows. Alot is underwhelming. It does break in plenty of ways. This is part of where I won't agree with Acerthorn, the foolish guy he is, but it is genuinely terrible to call any of that a masterpiece. Unfinished products are a terrible thing to call a "masterclass of game design", which is not something I'm accusing you of, but you and I have seen that thrown around by plenty of people. It's likely part of what causes DS2 to release in such a terrible and unfunctional state. That game on release was pretty much a scam with how poorly it worked, rushed shitty coded cash grab mess it was. Took quite a long time to be in a decent state too, with some scummy business. Props to the future releases not following suit. But I will go on to say the actual games design isn't "perfect" or even of high quality. I'll work my way up to define my issues. Demon Souls is my personal favorite, but it and DS as a series share many issues. I'll start with pointing out how its a weak railroaded rpg, lacking any real rpg mechanics outside of leveling and stat sticks. The most rpg like thing is builds forming sort of classes, but past that its pretty much just a rather linear action-adventure game. Sure, you can go to "higher level region" instead of "level 5 go here" place, and have more choices with thief key. Those are not really significant choices. You're heavily limited in how you can interact. Then we can look at how well it functions as an "action game". My opinion is very poorly. Sure you can say that is the intention, but that doesn't change the fact that actual combat is so utterly simple and lacking in depth. Complexity of recognize animation, hit dodge or parry at correct time and swing x number of safe hits is several decades behind. Plenty say it isn't a power fantasy, but they clearly don't know how badly itemization breaks the game. You will get a power fantasy, just upgrade your weapon high early and watch everything melt with minimal effort. Abuse poise and outtrade the 4 kings by killing them on the 3rd one because your damage exceeded dev intentions. Kill everything with a few spells bursting bosses down, cheese the bed of chaos in secs, parry Gwyn a handful of times. Just learn to avoid the bad mechanics (you wallchip and miss but enemies hit you through them), and exploit similar gank (so many ghost hitboxes that suck) etc. Then, I can say DS2 release, but at least that one had good pvp for the first and last time lol. DS3 itself didn't even correct these issues, as it does overall play better but gutted so many mechanics and features from the former game that its mechanically more shallow and easier (it's a wonderfully new player friendly one, most of my friends actually enjoyed compared to the others). Then my last point, its very easy to just run away from most enemies. Great for speedruns, bad for gameplay. Every area short of Sens fortress in 1 is disgustingly easily to just skip. The areas look nice, but are not well designed, often having garbage like the cheese you with toxic in the swamp dart guy, sens fortress traps being skipped by exploiting code, stupid trial and error time waster stepbacks and a bad camera. More often than not you can ignore most threats, and cheese most bosses bad AI, and that's if there is nothing to just exploit to break the game further. Most of it's not intended, or even remotely skill based. It's almost entirely depending on game knowledge, and its why a PR for speedrunning the first at like mid 50 mins isn't even impressive. But yeah, I'm a former fan a bit burnout of the series. I also haven't played Elden Ring, and don't want to. I won't call it bad, it looks vastly improved on the souls series. Still, I certainly know for a fact I don't want it. The collective 1000+ hrs in souls games is all I need to know that. It's also all I need to know it likely still shares some of the same issues and highs as the others, that I just couldn't care less about. None of this is new to me. And when I say haven't played it, I mean I never finished it. My buddy got it because he had fun playing ds3 with me, and he passed me the controller a bit to try it. He got bored roughly around level 50 and never finished it, because the gameplay is too basic and stat focused instead of having good gameplay (his own words). I still like the older ones, but not enough to play them much at all. Demon Souls is the only one I've played in the last 5 years. Now, I don't expect you or anyone to agree or disagree with me. I don't wanna even change anyone's opinion of the games in fact. But if you're interested in hearing some negative criticism of the game not as dumb as Acers, here you go friend. What I will say is objective quality has little to nothing to do with personal investment or enjoyment of something. Plenty of things we love are not "a masterpiece". They don't need to be to be engaging and highly enjoyable entertainment. The enjoyment of something is usually in spite of its flaws, not because of its "objective quality". I wanna add that to why its great you go in on Acer the way you did, this fella and those much like him are idiots because the overall quality is irrelevant to anyone's enjoyment. More, perfect, and flawless are nothing compared to being interesting, engaging and fun. Genuinely, the mark of a game being good is how often it makes a fan that will say "who cares, I'm having fun and gonna play more". Logic loses to joy and pleasure. Still, I hope my own gripes are much clearer for others to understand lol. We talk about these things as we have a vested interest, so I hope you find it amusing as I did the video.

on a side note, I think you color coding the highlights in comments with what you agree with, disagree with, and are neutral on is actually pretty neat, and something I don't think I've seen before. Keep up the good work!

I wish he would come to this video and comment "whatever"

"Credit" where it's due, every time he gave a "whatever" response he was at least promptly ending any notion that there'd be any meaningful discussion with him about the subjects of those comments. It's a deliberate choice to "step back into the ring" and continue trying to push the discussion after someone disassembles the entire arena of debate like that, and it makes it easy to see how little point there is in any further engagement, which hopefully saved people some time.

35:18 the blurried "Victory achieved" in the background fits so well xD

"How many people have actually beaten Portal in one sitting?" Bruh I've beaten MGS4 in one sitting. It isn't that insane.

The very first boulder is actually amazing, not only does it set the tone of a punishing game, where enemies can come from anywhere, but it also serves the tutorial in multiple ways : you now lack health that Oscar's Estus Flask will help you with, effectively giving an idea of how much health a basic Estus gives back ; you now know to observe your surroundings carefully before proceeding ; you now know triggering certain events can (and will) open access to hidden and/or previously unaccessible key (story-wise) areas. But hey, seeing how far he went in the game, I should've known he would have a hard time applying any lesson the tutorial teaches, my bad.

Isnt that the guy who cut his father's face becouse internet was too slow and then tried to sue him? Yeah... him having bad takes on a game I enjoyed is beyond

"No Investigation, no right to speak"

He has inspired me to review Shadow of the Erdtree, and I don’t even own a Ps5

~4 seconds to dodge? A WHOLE 4 SECONDS?!

Anytime I hear a script in a video I assume the RU-vid has 50k + subs this mfer has 700. Sub up boys

He, even nowadays, still refusing to accept he is wrong. All would be good if he still thinking that DS is a bad game, that’s OK, it’s his opinion and not an ‘objective’ criticisms, which he said it is.He said is objective and what he did is say random things that he dislikes and tries to make that as the reality. As you said, trying to demonstrate that these people are wrong is like moving a building with your hands, nearly impossible. However, nice video!

His first mistake was not doing what the rest of us did: watch FightinCowboy's 100% walkthrough guide. Bet he would've liked the game if he did that.

Don't tell Ekim about Avid Alchemist...

You can see the boulder long before going up the stairs in both the asylum and undead berg. My first play through, I did not get hit by the asylum boulder, but did get hit by the berg fire barrel.

I'd like to remind Acerthorn that a retrospective is when someone has played the game to completion, been playing it for a few years, has nostalgia toward it to make a long video about it. That is a retrospective 😂

His dark souls has no story complaint is basically what people also said about elden ring's story. People are so used to games shoving cinematics and dialogue that directly explains everything to you instead of building the story through characters and the environment.

thank you for being a sane window that lets me experiance the insanity of a youtube reviewer claming he can objectiviely review qualities of a game withouth even playing it.