If I did miss anything do let me know! I'll post corrections in this pinned comment Music: 0:00 - The Beginning (Demon's Souls OG OST) 1:00 - Old Hero (Demon's Souls OG OST) 2:34 - Seath the Scaleless (Dark Souls OST) 3:19 - The Lost Sinner (Dark Souls II OST) 4:16 - Ludwig, the Holy Blade (Bloodborne: The Old Hunters OST) 5:53 - Halflight, Spear of the Church (Dark Souls III: The Ringed City OST) 7:11 - Divine Dragon (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice OST) 8:49 - Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon (Elden Ring OST) 9:39 - Fires of Rubicon (Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon OST) 11:01 - Remember (Armored Core: For Answer OST) 13:24 - Dark Reality (King's Field IV OST) 16:20 - Maiden in Black (Demon's Souls OG OST)
patches and Lap are 100% the same patches. he is one of the only people to make it to the end of the world. as he never went hollow till he ran out of people to mess with and sorta lost his own self imposed purpose of punishing greedy people. he was only out for himself, so never became crestfallen risking losing himself. which is why lap reverts to kicking people off a ledge once he reverts his hollowing and regains his memories.
As peps who got into the Armored Core Series in prep for the release of AC6, and knowing that there's like 16 mainline AC games... yh no the other two options really stood no chance 😭😭😭
About the DS3 Patches thing, it's definitely the same Patches, even the summon sign literally has him called "Unbreakable Patches", same as his base game name. He's also the same Patches from DS1 just as Andre is also in DS3 and it's 100% the same Andre as he references the Giant Blacksmith from DS1. If it wasn't the same Patches we would have a similar case as Siegward who is obviously a callback to Siegmeyer but is not the same person. As for killing him in the base game and him still coming back, it's probably just Fromsoft not wanting players to miss all his content if they did kill him before and it's not like it breaks the lore or anything, he is an undead afterall. But with all that considered I'd still count him twice in this case as the dlc does enough with him for it to feel like another unique experience.
I have to agree that the Moonlight Greatsword seems to have been heavily inspired by the Master Sword from Zelda. Similar upgrade process in many of the games to its original incarnation. Not to mention it has a very similar color scheme and the same gimmick of launching a beam/slash.
