Being cursed making you unable to kindle is not really important as you havent unlocked kindling at that point and is actually lesser known than the masters key, everyone knows about that, you can also skip blighttown without it, just go to the valley of drakes through the darkroot basin and voila

Totally agree, I know you didn't take Shadow of the Erdtree into consideration but the overall balancing definitely still applies. I was having lots of fun with the new fedora-tipping light greatsword "M'lady" and its rhythm, but switched to a bleed build because it was objectively superior, and I really hate that. It got better results in a game that kills me in two mistakes and takes over five minutes of intense concentration for every boss fight, so it was a no-brainer. All these cool weapons and everyone is just funneled into something that makes the game less of a drag.

The master key is not a requirement to skip the lower burg, the depths and blighttown. You can just go from the undead parish through the dark root garden and valley of drakes. So the capra demon is an optional boss.

Imagine it fromsoft made demon's souls an open world like elden ring as their first "souls game" and now imagine the actual dark souls franchise as all open worlds... that'd be a weird timeline ( 5:52 )

The merchant in the depths sells the master key when he moves to firelink

Another dark souls video essay lets gooo

I could never get into the Souls titles themselves, but Bloodborne absolutely hooked me and its atmosphere alone forced me to change how I fundamentally approached games after running into a wall in the starting area. I tried to get invest myself in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3, to no avail, but Elden Ring and now Sekiro/AC6 have brought me back to this company. I think what I appreciate most about these games is that "Fashion Souls" really becomes the whole game when you lean into the roleplay and figure out the pace of combat. I've had some of my most memorable roleplaying moments by just committing to Fashion Souls in the purest form: choosing a faction/allegiance/creed and having all my gear reflect those choices, as well as headcanon PC idiosyncracies. There's no other games where I can truly get lost in a world and see my playstyle coordinate so well with my roleplaying, with possibly the sole exception of Fallout: New Vegas.

This video is so beautiful. I feel like its my friend whos telling me about his favorite game in great details to make me want to play it too. And in fact i have not beaten this game yet, so now i know what i will play after the ER dlc :)

Miracles were certainly not "all the rage" in demons souls. There were almost no offensive miracles in either demons souls nor dark souls.

skill issue. I didn't have any difficulty facing capra or frogs

Great vid but depths and blight town aren’t half of dark souls😂

I think the issue with the late-game in Elden Ring is that if you explore everything, you'll obtain levels and weapons that let you breeze through the early to midgame, only to be stopped by the wall of difficulty at Mountaintops of the Giants. The endgame is not more difficult from a design standpoint, it's just scaled higher and players who waltzed through the first two-thirds without actually learning how to fight well will perceive this as a massive spike in difficulty.

Entirely unrelated to the video, but hearing What We Did in the Desert in the background of the video hit me with a wave of nostalgia. I know its weird to have nostalgia for a song thats only like 2 years old but I cant help it

Overleveled for capra maybe you should get better

Just beat this game for the first time. It forced such a primal rage out of me that I genuinely don’t think any other game will ever make me feel and it made me kind of sad after it was over. Fuck the bed of chaos tho

one of the coolest things about the soulsborne games is playing the new game plus cycle and seeing how easy everything becomes and you just wreak face through it. so satisfying

its not a lie its more like a puzzle

I liked the vid but you used examples for ds2 being broken that apply to every souls game I.e. janky grab attacks. Example iron giant, gaping dragon grab attacks.

I'm the kind of guy that NEVER watches again movies or shows, even masterpieces I rearely watch them again. Even if I LOVE movie I rarely watch it two times in like the same 5 years. Yet I've watched CSM anime 3 times, it is THAT good for me.

This was so good! Please make more!

Great video!!! I agree with everything especially with that take on ds3. I hope you'll release a dark souls 2 vid cause its my favorite fromsoft game. I wish you well man with your channel and all

bro edit your videos…

great video dude!!! scrolled down expecting a huge channel and saw 16 comments... keep it up bro i was engaged the whole time

Great video!!

You can enter the short way to Blighttown without the master key Dark root basin---> valley of drakes---> Blighttown. You don’t need the key.

This video popped on my feed out of nowhere lol

This story was just too real, I have no other words to describe it, but just truly depressing.

You should have Dazai in the title as well. He wrote the novel and created the character. Ito was not even the first, or even the second to do a manga about the book.

I find the way people approach problem solving in these games very interesting. I beat Capra with the elite knight armor and wolf ring, poised through the dogs and killed them quick before hard swapping out my armor to get a faster roll to deal with Capra. My friend used the spell that distracts enemies to kill the dogs. I also know that you can 'cheese' him by tossing firebombs over the wall, lol.

very good video

Didn’t expect that ending at all

Capra is what woke me up and made Dark Souls click for me. It's a cheap fight, but that huge difficulty curve gave me the best feeling of accomplishment when I finally beat him. I remember standing up in my chair and doing that arm-cross "suck my dick" pose and screaming my victory. That feeling is something I rarely ever am able to hit with many other games (maybe some like GoW, or other similar ARPGs.

Been playing since DS1, and love the growth the From team have gone through. Sekiro, AC6, and ER+ Shadow; all have me wondering what's next. I hope for something focused like sekiro with more ng+ changes like AC6. The lengths for both were much more manageable too.

Stories like this makes me realize how glad i am about the advancement in understanding of mental health and psychology.

damn bro, the way you contrasted reze and makima had me thinking

I think a big part of why he ended up as he did was because of the implied sexual abuse he faced as a child from the servants.

great video

Well, I feel at least a little better about how I killed the Fire Giant last night.

woohoo

Yoooooo, I've never clicked so fast.

As someone who hasn't really played a Souls game I like the idea that you can't hack and slash every single enemy you come across

Awesome thumbnail, happy your back

I'm not a Weebo, but this was an excellent vid. Thanks.

I find surprising that the protagonist, who has ruined countless lives and caused several deaths, yet still considers himself a victim who lives in fear of other people. He is a privileged young man who is never confronted by his actions, every time he ruins everything he gets another opportunity to still keep living a comfortable life. He is never confronted for any of his crimes until the ending. He is just a manipulator who uses people, is never sincere and dedicates his whole existence to vice (drinking, smoking, s*x, dr*gs) and spends most of his youth coasting off other people. He is just a psychopath. The only thing that makes him look sympathetic is his victimistic and delusional narrative. Of course he is not human: he is a piece of sh*t. I cracked up laughing when he called his best friend a parasite. He may be a philanderer, but he is not at fault for any of the bad decisions the protagonist made. In fact, the protagonist flocked to him because he felt comfortable keeping him as a false friend to feel normal himself. For all the fear he had towards others, he is the one who killed or betrayed everyone around him and ruined his own life many times. The worst thing he feared from others was being lashed out at, or getting "found out" to be different. The worst thing he did to others was provoking m*rder, s*icide, imprisonment...

You should watch Fate Zero now! All the things you hated about Kirei and Gilgamesh are given a reason to be and Kiritsugus relationship with Ilya are much more developed, I think you would enjoy it

The anime is trash because the source it’s adapting is trash. I hate how people praise mediocre anime like this because anime isn’t original anymore. Chainsaw man is everything I hate about modern anime.

That smile look pretty normal to me but them other people with no mouths is wild lmao

Perhaps my favorite Japanese Ficitional work, granted this is only vaguely Ficitional, though more stories are of such a nature than Non-Authors realize. I was unaware Junji Ito had illustrated an adaptation of Dazai's work. I feel now more than ever people from both the East AND West can profoundly relate to.

Is the repetition of sentences in the narration on purpose?

Is is sad that when you describing not feeling human and having human connections I felt like that was me growing up I never felt any connections with people and would feel awkward in my friend group like I was a fake friend because I didnt talk enough and was just quiet. I couldn't understand why I was like that I didn't even cry at my step sister's funeral I had to fake cry. Ive always felt like I had on a mask and was worried about other people thinking im weird and any time I spent time with femily I would dread it.