Dark Souls 2 really has Impressive Enemy Designs (2)

[@manosassassin]

I felt like a lot of DS2 enemies were super creative and sometimes even disturbing.

[@ArbiterEx]

I felt like a lot of DS2's enemies were super uninspired and most of the time outright boring.

[@basaltcrust1915]

The Duality of Man

[@belich4609]

Because it is supposed to be open world and not even dark souls, but the former developer(not tanimura) was too ambitious, and consoles were not ready for such overloading, so he was fired. But the assets and concept arts left from previous developer so tanimura decided to reuse it(not his fault tho, he had not much time left for publisher)

[@BruceWayne-fj9bm]

@@belich4609 What do you mean too ambitious? There are lots of open world games on that generation, my friend.

[@degenerateprick3288]

@@belich4609goddamn, need me some ds2 mods in elden ring 🥴

[@tragiclittlepikachu9632]

The one Golden Lion warrior that you encounter that is actually gold doesn't respawn because it isn't hollow for those that are wondering. It also has an extremely rare armor drop.

[@Battleguild]

Golden Lion Barbarian Warrior Wields a Great Axe Totally an Elden Ring Easter Egg of Hoarah Loux, Chieftain of the Badlands.

[@griffin1095]

⁠@@Battleguild That’s not a unique concept limited to DS2 rlly, Lions are a common animal showing strength, and barbarians very often use axes.

[@hectorwilson663]

@@griffin1095 it's a joke man wtf

[@23Butandione]

​@@hectorwilson663wtf? Wtf wtf! "Wtf" what tf?

[@griffin1095]

@@hectorwilson663 no jokes allowed in youtube comments bruh, read the terms of service

[@Drakuma35]

Man they really just went “let’s tear their heads off” with a lot of the enemies, the giants sort of had that as well, but only their faces

[@desplanchesstevan1418]

There's a reason

[@Zephyr-lp2mi]

The manakins had their heads removed due to copyright and the giant to make them look less generic

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

The headhole got me acting... Unwise.

[@PersonGuy968]

​@@sturmmagnunstein1008💀💀💀

[@23Butandione]

​@@Zephyr-lp2mithe copyright thing is total bs, tell me what they were infringing on and don't say Naruto because that isn't true

[@TheReal_FishFins]

The idea of endlessly wandering and searching on a journey across a fallen kingdom is stellar in dark souls 2. I hope it gets a re-imagining.

[@lordsusano7667]

It got a re-imagining. Its called Elden Ring 😬

[@platypuspracticus2]

@@lordsusano7667 Elden Ring even has headless guys and pyromancer giants.

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

​@@platypuspracticus2But a very disappointingly small enemy pool

[@trufreedom]

I hope it's when they can make that initial trailer a reality, I still watch that trailer and day dream about that game...

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

it has a redo called scholar and it still sucked

[@usov656]

DS2 has its flaws but among the other games in the series is the one that mostly makes you feel like you're wandering a long lost land where everything bad and important has already happened and you're just picking up scraps trying to figure things out.

[@LifeGearr]

Best way to explain how it feels wandering in ds2

[@DragonDoomLord]

And you keep getting told "You have to inherit this!" which... the game makes it clear it's a fruitless and questionable endeavour. Hell doing all the DLCs let you unlock the ending of saying "no thanks".

[@usov656]

@@DragonDoomLord that's why I think the game became good when they released the SotFS edition. You get to question why the whole cycle thing is fruitless and leads to nothing good, though they could have prob done a better job with the conclusion, since the ending is basically "eh we don't know what will happen now" and fighting Aldia is kind of a lame reward.

[@jeremyabrahamson2872]

It also is the one with the strongest actual plot that happens on the same time, which is a really good achievment considering the other games mostly just relied on extremely strong backstories.

[@linorsel]

Wow the first is predator of dark fantasy

[@Ladle66]

He did show them one by one after that. Like a hunter.

[@Rotadere]

I like how sometimes, at least in my experience, you play the games like Dark Souls 2 so fast without stopping to pat attention to the lore, the design of enemies and of the game itself, but when you stop to admire, you see how everything is beautiful, creative and complex.

[@griffin1095]

Same goes for every other Fromsoft game, not limited to DS2

[@perryborn2777]

​@@griffin1095I think the observation they were going for is that people rarely stop to admire it in DS2 like they do in the rest, save for a few areas like Majula, Dragon Aerie, and the first look at Drangleic Castle

[@Dhrazor]

Except the Bonfire rooms that are after each important boss encounter...

[@TheyBenefit]

​@@griffin1095same goes for life itself 😄

[@Touma134]

Fromsoft is full of that. The blood mages in Elden Ring is an absolutely amazing design. Especially in their standing pose looking up is so damn cool. I know you couldn't have gameplay like souls in first person without some major compromises but the designs would be much easier to appreciate in first person.

[@maximshmelev3458]

Another thing I really like about DS2's enemies is the fact that pretty much all of them have a unique (although sometimes limited) moveset. Look at basic unarmed hollows in Things Betwixt, Forest of the Giants, Lost Bastile and Huntsman's Copse. IIRC they all have different animations for walking and attacking. As somebody who played DS2 first, I gotta say I was a bit disappointed when almost all hollows throughout DS3 were just reskins of each other.

[@MsUndertaker99]

Too bad that sometimes that "unique moveset" happen to be a shitty placeholder, that has no place in released AAA project. Falconers, Heide knights, dogs from Black Gulch, etc simply must not exist in the way they are

[@maximshmelev3458]

@@MsUndertaker99 Yea, that is unfortunate that DS2 had so much trouble in developement. It's clear the team were planning to do a lot more than they managed to complete in the final product

[@remilenoir1271]

Huh, what a weird way to pick on Ds3. Ds3 has way more variety in ennemy moveset than Ds2. The base hollows you're talking about are recurring enemies in similar areas (Lothric Castle and surroundings), not reskins. The only reskins of them in the game are found in the Cathedral of the Deep, which offers a dozen new and unique ennemies on top of these. Ds2 ennemy patterns all boil down to the classic "swipe, swipe, thrust/long swipe" combo or some variation of it, plus one "rush" attack that will track the player until it has connected/been dodged, no matter the size, weapon or lack thereof, of the ennemy. I don't see much variety when Velstadt's moveset is basically the same repetitive thing as your basic hollow's, except this time, he's 4 meters tall and wields a hammer.... Compare him with Dragonslayer Armour, and you'll see where I'm getting at.

[@davidnewhart2533]

​@@remilenoir1271 Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Enough of your DS3 fanboyism. DS3 is terrible.

[@remilenoir1271]

@@davidnewhart2533 Sure, Ds3 is terrible. What about the topic at hand though ?

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

3:51 He looks so sad, he must feel bad about killing MaatiMovie.

[@tenebrisnemo9927]

He should! He was trying to tell us the lore of the land!

[@Pie_Smacker]

It genuinely saddens me that out of all the ds2 stuff they could've used for 3, they didn't use Aldia or any of his influence, outside of a "maybe sorta could be him but also could easily not be since they didn't bother to put him in, physically, at all" with the princes. His experimentation on undead, hell just the way all the cultures made use of undead, the giants, the abominations, the unique far off cultures like the varangians, the flexiles, the golems, the dark daughters, all of it was just completely ignored. The fake dragon was at least mimicked with Midir, but the lack of Aldia by itself, ignoring the other stuff I mentioned, was sad.

[@core-nix1885]

They did though, Sulyvahn is Aldia 2.0 bruv. Lindelt had the real power in DS2, not Vendrick, Nashandra or Aldia.

[@bajscast]

@@core-nix1885 Sulyvahn is mid compared to aldia

[@WeeabooPocky]

the ashen warrior looked more intimidant on the concept art... but damn, in the game they do a lot of damange and some of their noises stress me for some reason. by their own the're not a problem but in groups, damn, you better be careful.

[@griffin1095]

Yeah they look like shit in game, basically just a hollow with some big axes.

[@rumbla]

I think this burning undead could be an idea for Dark Souls 3, so they decided to use it later with a bigger concept

[@remilenoir1271]

They look stupid in game, though. The way Ds2 embraced the generic high fantasy design tropes of "big weapons big pauldrons" on 90% of the ennemies is a clear proof of a lack of creativity and one of the many reasons it is such a letdown.

[@griff-p9094]

​@@remilenoir1271Nonsense you are seriously trying to drug something through the mud only for a single character design you are just grasping at straws

[@arathdejesusescobarromero4904]

I always liked how odd, terrifying, grim or beautiful the models and scenery are in ds 2 compared to ds 1 and 3, i played for the first time early this year and it was magical. Truly a Underrated gem.

[@Fabruz233]

i complete mi first run a few days ago, agreed.

[@Cathart1c]

Underrated? Not only this game is extremely overrated bring treated like "not the best chapter of ds" while in reality it's mediocre soulslike but it also has pretty bland design compared to other chapters.

[@griff-p9094]

​@@Cathart1cBack to your hole in 4chan troll

[@yourdad5799]

​@@Cathart1c that's just wrong

[@GooTheMighty]

I absolutely adore this game, more than any of the others, and so much of it is the vibe and all the unique freaks encountered along the way. It still feels like part of the world of Dark Souls, but a part wholly unique to the stomping grounds of the gods explored in the other two games. This is a place of giants and dragons, where kings reign headless of the whims of gods, but slaves to the whims of Dark. It’s just cool to see MORE of this world, rather than more of the same. And I love the Kobolds. They’re just skittish little guys!!

[@rumbla]

Kobolds? They are not exist in Souls, no?

[@illeagle666]

Downloaded the Dark Souls 2 design works PDF on the internet archives after your last video! You can really tell a lot of love and respect was put into the project. Shame that in terms of actual design, the developers mostly resorted to increasing the number of enemies you face at once :p Although I have a hard time replaying it, DS2 holds a special place in my heart, if not only for all the good memories of PVP fight clubs on the bridge to the iron keep

[@kuro_kishi]

It's a shame the reason why Dark Souls 2 turned out the way it did was because of an extremely hellish development cycle. The original director, Tomohiro Shibuya, screwed up a lot of things before Yui Tanimura replaced him. Tanimura, of course, not only had to clean up the mess Shibuya made. He also had to finish designing the game before mirror-polishing it entirely; all of this he had to do when the deadline was getting tight. Dark Souls 2 may have not been the Souls game we all wanted. But it is the Souls game that had survived miraculously from an incredibly disastrous development period.

[@Vespyr_]

That's a change that only affects Scholar of the First sin. The original Dark Souls 2 did not have huge gank fights. This was an alteration that Miyazaki did when 'refreshing' the game. If you play the original, the true original, it's a completely different experience.

[@theopeneyes]

@@Vespyr_ Miyazaki had no direct involvement with DS2 or Scholar of the First Sin other than being a supervisor.

[@Fern_2019]

@@Vespyr_ SOTFS actually reduced a lot of ganks and made changes to zones that made them better. Everyone shits on the Smelter Demon run, but in the original version there was an archer that was extremely difficult to avoid

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

Ill miss the golfswings at the ironbridge for sure!

[@dziosdzynes7663]

it should be a crime how they butchered the in-game version of the manikin mask (copyright infringement or w/e the reason was)

[@WeeabooPocky]

true, instead we got the mark succ mask, i would like the real reason why they cutted it from the game.

[@trufreedom]

It's my favorite! So creepy and chilling..

[@Ghost_gc]

The reason was some copyright stuff regarding a naruto mask that looked a lot like manikin's or something.

[@JoseViktor4099]

@@Ghost_gc Huh, thats weird, knowing that Fromsoft likes to put Guts Sword and Berzerk references everywhere. Companies are more d*ck than others, I supose.

[@dziosdzynes7663]

@@Ghost_gc most retarded shit is that there is no mask in naruto that even resembles the manikin one

[@daviturtelliferreira2622]

The Mad Warrior really reminded me of Predator

[@to_the_vo1d]

hope someday we get a remake like DeS Ruin Sentinel is still my favorite design

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

You realise they would completely ruin these designs?

[@Fern_2019]

@@arsenii_yavorskyi If Bluepoint is the one in charge, then yes, they are going to ruin the designs. Demon's Souls Remake butchers the whole vibe of the original game, and it even ruins the storytelling that the world itself provides you

[@ChuckPalomo]

I'm not fond of the demon's souls remake. Completely unnecessary redesign that ruined the whole vibe of the game in spite of the higher res assets. I would like someone to do justice to the original vision of this game though.

[@griffin1095]

@@Fern_2019bruh what? They changed a few designs yes, but they didn’t fuck with the world in any negative ways. Take off your rase tinted glasses please if you’re gonna critique. At least be honest.

[@to_the_vo1d]

@@arsenii_yavorskyi Only one that i can recall - its Fat Official, others changes was not that remarkable so i cant even remember them... And if they change a couple designs it wont hurt at all, like FS change Manikin masks, so they wont looks out of place

[@waltuh11121]

I loved the suspicious shadow design, for me one of the best Fromsoft has ever made and if their cut attacks were in game they would be one of the best enemies in the series

[@zerk555]

Mad Warrior armor is my favorite set ever

[@grubbierlizard6091]

When I first saw the lion clan warrior. I actively went oh s*** after seeing what they looked like. Knowing me and my rinky dink club were losing the looks contest.

[@JoseViktor4099]

DS2 always had an extremely good design in almost all its areas and monsters. I would even dare to say that it has one of the best, if not the best qualities design wise. Man, you dont know how I would like to see a DS2 Reimagined. All the goods things in DS2 deserved it.

[@alchemi8085]

DS2 was always the most immersive in the series for me.

[@DngrDan]

The Golden Lion Clan Warrior is exactly how I imagine "the Mane" from the Elder Scrolls lore. One bad ass, old Khajiit battlemaster with long ears and braids.

[@subject8776]

It always had super cool designs and a variety of them too. The sexiest armor, sexiest weapons, Gyrm Greataxe! Gavlan wheel, Gavlan deal.

[@dmitrykhvostik5975]

At least Manikin Mask didn't just vanished but became the health icons for Hollow Knight

[@Alfenium]

lol

[@michaelmannix1604]

Some of it's neat, others look a bit too generic or nasty. The artificial undead seem straight out of Resident Evil, which isn't necessarily bad, but feels a bit disconnected. My favorite creature designs were all the ones that just confused me. That "hunting dog" emerging from the dark looked to me like a guinea pig dipped in nuclear waste. Even the lion warriors were a bit baffling at first, since their heads barely look feline, and their green skin/fur gives the impression of a zombie. I never noticed those little petrifying "dogs" all looked like Gollum up close, lol. Still, there's such a distinctly forlorn vibe to DS2's designs that I love.

[@turtlebuttmudd]

Generic fantasy is a way too put it. The aesthetic of the enemy design definitely diverges from that of DS1, and later DS3 does a better job of sticking with the original's direction. Some of the designs are good, like the Pursuer, but man, some of the others miss the mark.

[@Sveta69420]

FORLORN VIBE IM DYINF

[@michaelmannix1604]

@@Sveta69420 Uh, you alright?

[@bajscast]

@@turtlebuttmudd How does DS3 stick more to DS1's? Half the enemy designs feel more like bloodborne than dark souls

[@asterisgor9761]

I would really love to see a reimaginated version of Dark Souls 2, with considerable differences, keeping what is good and removing things that aren't that great

[@dr.veronica6155]

I present, for your consideration, Elden Ring. Which is *basically* what you just described. I mean, it's not exactly Dark Souls 2, but it did keep a lot of the good things from Dark Souls 2 and had the director of Dark Souls 2 working on it a lot, so it makes sense.

[@MrTavrosNitram]

@@dr.veronica6155 elden ring is toootally unofficially dark souls 2 2

[@Kayther33]

@@dr.veronica6155 it plays too fast. i hate ds 3 for that reason. Is cool and all, but is not a fun dark souls for me, so no, elden ring is not a dark souls 2 2.

[@Battleguild]

​@@dr.veronica6155 Except Elden Ring got rid of all the amazing Caster support that DS2 brought forward.

[@A7XKoRnRocks1]

Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2 2

[@A7XKoRnRocks1]

The Majula theme hits me in the gut, I feel like just sitting down and absorbing it.

[@theblanquitus473]

Those designs idk from where but they all are references to something

[@VapidFart]

Im glad ds2 is getting the appropriate attention now, it wasnt without flaws but there was alot to offer that had me hooked.

[@sirith9157]

DS2 is amazing in it's own rights. It's just sad I suffered from such a horrible design process... It deserve full remake with it's original ideas

[@AtreyusNinja]

Best Souls 2

[@penatio]

@@sirith9157 Just don't let Bluepoint do it.

[@pedrovilar6123]

Biggest problem with DS2 were the 1st maybe 3 hours of a persons 1st playthrough. Not only is the hollowing system very punishing to early exploration considering the nerf to estus healing but knowing where to go early is horribly designed. I legitimatly didnt know wtf huntsmans corpse was for the 1st maybe 20 hours of my 1st playthrough Other than that the game is massive the weapon variety is amazing and it has more build variety than all the other from souls games combined

[@mclarenf1gtr99]

​@@pedrovilar6123It is not horribly designed, it is the Dark souls experience. You have to explore to know your way and that is what makes them great in my opinion. I never played DS3 but I assume it is the more linear of the three games?

[@leonardoteixeirasantos8709]

The first design looks like a medieval predador armor

[@midgard9057]

And music. Amazing soundtracks

[@perryborn2777]

I finally realized why I like the look of DS2 so much It's kinda cartoony and campy, and that stands in stark contrast to the rest of the series which is really dreary most of the time. The contrast is insane in DS2, kinda like PS2 games. It's just "video gamey" in a way the rest aren't, and I love that

[@griff-p9094]

How exactly is it "cartoony and campy"???!!

[@junichiroyamashita]

The lion warrior is the best example,feels like something from a more mainstream RPG rather than FromSoft

[@jeremyabrahamson2872]

I loved the setting of Drangleic, even if the game didn't fully reveal it the way it could have. It's my favorite game in the series in alot of ways, and even the scraps of vision that show through I think are enough to push it over the edge. The Iron Samurai, the Goblins, the Prowling Magus, and the HorseHeads are all some of my favorite enemies in the series.

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9902]

Sometimes I forget just how many enemy types there are in DSII. There's a lot of enemies that only appear a handfulof times. I wonder if it has the most out of any of the souls games

[@darthtom100]

A lot of DS2's enemies just feel like reskins of one another though. It probably does have the most enemies but it doesn't really feel like it.

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9902]

@@darthtom100 I'm not trying to be rude here, but they aren't. Falconers, varangians, gyrm, primal knight, Heide Knight, Darkdweller, Suspicious Shadow, Gaoler, Rupturing Hollow, Leydia Witch, Leydia Pyromancer, Wall Ghost, Imperious Knights, Dragon Acolyte, Undead Aberration, Ogre, Prowler Hound, Swollen Mongrel, Banedigger, Hammersmith, Artificial Undead, Poison Brumer, Alonne Knight, Lion Clan Warriors, Ironclad Soldier, Darksucker, Cragslipper, etc, etc. The game genuinely had an incredible amount of unique enemies. Some of which only ever appear in one area, a couple of times. Not all of them were well designed, but they certainly are not what I would describe as reskins.

[@darthtom100]

@@gaiusjuliuscaesar9902 You're not being rude, I was the one instigating. Maybe calling them reskins was a bit harsh (even though there are plenty of legitimate reskins too), but so many enemies in DS2 don't feel unique or exciting to fight compared to one another, there are a few archetypes that occur with different enemies and the way you fight them is always the same. Compare this to DS3 where most enemies have unique attacks and behaviour and forces you to respond accordingly. Not to hate on DS2, there's a lot of things the game does better than the others, I just don't think enemy design is one of them.

[@Studiosmediamilk]

Lol it's been 5 years since I played DKS2. I don't remeber most of these

[@ToolaRoola]

I've heard the developers got a copyright strike from the right owners after the Manikin design was released. That's why those creatures are headless.

[@_sargentocoelho_4441]

The difference between concept vs in-game is peak "we have [design] at home"

[@RiccardoMemoSmochi]

Hm? Not really, manikin being the exception

[@arnebobflutschkopf3439]

Jason vs Predator Thumbnail

[@Snuffy2727]

The Kobold are so cute and I always did love how the Mad Warrior set looked, so cool to see them all in detail

[@will2fite34]

I just want DS2 to get some more love from the modding community to restore some of this stuff

[@franciosdauteuil4626]

5:20 ah yes my old enemy the original bloodhound knights!!!

[@necromax13]

a few takeaways here: 1) The suspicious shadows are two. Each with their unique mask. 2) The redesigned manikin mask exists in the game, and it's a beautiful addition to the game, being a straight up executioner's mask. 3) It's a telltale sign of a rushed development cycle that the finalized models are basically a 1:1 representation of the concepts. The dev team didn't have the time to experiment past the concept stage for basically everything in the game.

[@R4v3nB14ck]

Daaamn never noticed how fucking cool first enemy looked

[@villelepoaho4105]

4:30 that has to be one of the coldest enemy designs in Souls history. That lion is absolutely dripped out.

[@RYNOCIRATOR_V5]

Ashen Warrior got done dirty, that concept art is sick.

[@noplacetv]

The concepts looks clearer and more colorful, i like them more.

[@mightyarbokking7197]

DS2 not only had great enemy design, it had great fashion design!

[@Stonezorz]

1:46 that art looks incredible

[@Kayther33]

this game deserves more love

[@The_Mud_Monkey]

A DS2 remaster would be pretty sweet.

[@thex6992]

I remember killing that one red phantom a million times in belfry sol because I wanted the full berserker armor so bad when I was 14, it took me like 5 hours but still the coolest looking set in the whole series. Also I don't get why they removed those big abomination enemies that spawned in sinners rise and aldias keep in the sotfs version.

[@battedbook5811]

I only ever managed to get the sword and mask to drop.

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

Or the painting guardian sword! Boy that frame 1 parry was something akin to cancer lmao

[@stripedhyenuh]

Imagine if they didn't just turn all the designs into a uniform greenish-brownish-gray

[@user-37dvk]

Okay, now let's see their animations

[@mlekoimleko]

Prowling Magus has absolutely the best design in game, and it's weird because it's one of the worst bosses.

[@iamMildlyUpsetWithMostOfYouTub]

Fromsoft tends to make badass looking enemies into complete forgettable fodder

[@Fern_2019]

@@iamMildlyUpsetWithMostOfYouTub I still remember the Gaping Dragon. Such a cool design for such a horrible boss 😭

[@IlAdrianlI]

For real!!!!!

[@umukzusgelos4834]

A bit excessive at times but certainly cool I like the details on the Manikins clothing with all the little bags for arrows and vials and the embroideries on their sleeves and boots

[@beanbeater]

my biggest gripe with ds3 is basically not adding and building to all these insane concepts present in ds2

[@remilenoir1271]

Could you elaborate ? Ds3's designs seemed far more memorable. Ds2 is pretty high fantasyish and generic.

[@griff-p9094]

​@@remilenoir1271Not even close

[@heivatlertm3272]

​@@remilenoir1271dumb

[@yourdad5799]

​@@remilenoir1271 What is memorable about ds3? On top of my head I can remember only like 4 enemies that made an impresion

[@andrewbowen2837]

My favorite fashion was the shadow helmet with imperious everything else. Immaculate drip

[@Xune2000]

Yeah. Shame about the enemy placement. And animations. And level design. And sound design. At least they looked cool. Or would have, if the lighting hasn't been set to full-bright and everything wasn't flat and washed out.

[@Gianno_]

DS2 really leaned into high fantasy. Dark Souls 1 and 3 are more grounded but ds2 has kobolds, cyclops, manscorpions, lion men etc.

[@HazyJ12]

The Prowling Magus would have been a terrifying enemy to encounter out in the world but they reduced him to weapon practice. Shame, his design is awesome but all anyone remembers about him is the "That's it?" feeling after beating him.

[@dungvuanh6417]

Yep, feel a bit disappointed after I one shot him + all his goons include with Darkstorm

[@Demokaze]

If there is one thing you can't criticize about DS2 is its enemy variety.

[@gaszwyn449]

Yup, more = better, the golden rule of the Soulsborne series.

[@ChuckPalomo]

Yeah, even the npcs had unique movesets. Lots of effort went into enemy designs, more so than most games.

[@MsUndertaker99]

Lol, you're delusional

[@brentramsten249]

the darksign on that steel worker looks fantastic

[@xxJacket]

I wish I could play Ds2 for the first time again

[@edanpino-xt1ph]

Some of these enemies seem like they belong in Dragon Quest or something, even if that game takes a much more lighthearted approach to everything

[@davecorry7723]

Man, the music ... the memories ...

[@wadewade3790]

The Concept art for these enemies look really great. I feel like The incredibly dark color palettes used on the In-game models blur alot of the fine details and make them look blobbier than they actually are.

[@magnusartifex59]

Dev team really looked at the Ashen Warrior concept and said "nope, I don't think so".

[@hellxapo5740]

We need DS2 Remastered badly

[@Vespyr_]

I wish they had stuck to the concept art more directly. The first mad warrior design looked amazing on the page with the solid mouth piece. I still don't understand why the Manikin mask is missing as well. It's such a mystery to me why it's missing to this day.

[@red_menace1829]

You're kidding right? It's literally been discussed why lol. Some other game at the time had a similar looking design and since it came out before DS2 fromsoft changed it for copyright reasons.

[@exbelion3543]

The developers really took liberties by making as twice as much enemies compared to the first game and with more variety. Among my favorites are the half dragon undeads with a miserable face, the Imperfect Ones with their horrendous hitboxes, the parasite spiders and their hosts, Demon of Song, Prowling Magus even if his boss battle is shit, Suspicious Shadows and all of Alva's twisted creations

[@HeyItsTheWykydtron]

The great thing about top notch Art and Design is that no matter how old a game gets it would still look great. Tech wise it might reveal it's age but it's never a tall hurdle to get over. When you look at Sekiro or Elden Ring, they're not the most extravagant looking games on a technical level but art and visuals more than makes up for it.

[@latinojackson9694]

Best armor sets in all the souls games

[@ItsMeAngelAphrodisia]

The Mad Warrior mask would've been so much cooler without the mouth

[@Redz922]

I honestly can’t tell you how longgg I spent grafting to get the mad warrior armour must have been daysss

[@xXLunatikxXlul]

The Kobolds look like pre-stone imps from Elden Ring - their faces look so similar.

[@VisionoftheChief]

I'll never forget farming that Predator mask, took forever to get 😅

[@michaeljohnston8891]

4:38, tell me that’s not the Mound-Maker’s symbol from DS3

[@granzon7396]

I miss those Golden Lion clan warriors, there's so unique in the game.

[@DrawingTrance]

i dream with dark souls 2 remake

[@karljohan2300]

always found it odd undead steel workers were in th epoison pot place why not in th eindustry parts of iron keep?

[@Paddy656]

DS2's character design is a shame, really. These artists are obviously very skilled and their work is incredible, but it's let down either by poor modelling/texturing, bad placement, bad animation/pose direction, or all of the above. I don't mean to disrespect the 3d/texture/animation artists, but they should have gotten better direction or more time to work. There's also a lot of designs that are _good_ but not quite there. I wholeheartedly believe that a lot of DS2's character design could have been amazing if many of the designs just went through a few more iterations with more focused direction. Not to mention the graphical downgrades that had to be made that can make the models look worse.

[@GuardianOwl]

Interesting, I had never noticed the Prowling Magus has the same pale green skin as the Grave Wardens and Royal Sorcerer Navlaan. Is there a version of the Magus without its helmet, or can you camera zoom in to the mask to see if it has the same red eyes as Navlaan?

[@BehuraStudio]

The enemy designs and variation in ds2 is just so freaking majestic, even the enemies look like they're long lost relics of a bygone era.

[@NigelUnchle]

You can blame Naruto for the disappointment on the manikin's design

[@minespatch]

I wonder if the Kobolds are the offspring of the primordial serpents? 🤔

[@sethgaston8347]

Every DS2 enemy was terrifying….. because you always had to face like 6 of em at one time. Those enemies were really on JJK timing with how they never have 1 on 1s.

[@skuruhai001]

Kinda looks like my Sphynx cat when she's mad 1:05

[@timelordacaelus5959]

Now that I really look back at my time playing DS2, I realize that I never really got a good look at most of the enemies. Almost everything from that time is a bit of a blur in that regard, and its weird seeing them so clearly now...

[@griffin1095]

Cause the game doesn’t usually do a great job of showing them, either due to smokey effects or how small the enemies are. That’s why most enemies in the other games are bigger than the player, they’re more imposing, bigger targets to hit, and you can see their designs better.

[@jongaraizar5798]

Yeah they generally all end up looking like lumps of grey with a few spikes that scream or moan. One of the biggest issues with the game.

[@mark0183]

5:11 👈 when the shadow is sus 😳

[@void_pepsi6405]

designs in catastrophic need of subtlety

[@redgarlicbred6228]

A lot of them boiled down to essentially dudes in armor, but those dudes in armor looked actually really good. If only we could get a DS2 with the original vision.

[@CosmicKnightly]

Those are kobolds, i always considered them imps

[@OneNationUnderPug]

The mad warriors remind of the Zamor warriors.

[@mistermorphescarnoe2898]

If only they spent half as much time in the gameplay department for the SOTFS release as they did in concept arts & music

[@hyper0505]

could you do "npc summons in dark souls 2" next?. They have interresting personalities and amazing design.

[@Touma134]

Man the concept art is great on these but some of the in game models don't do them justice. Mad warrior in concept looks sick but the in game design isn't as sleek and they added skull teeth that gives sit more of a generic look.

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

I miss my predator cosplay... Pls gib spiky hair for shadow of the erdtree.

[@sokunakara]

o ds2 schoolar não tem esses bichos? ja joguei algumas vezes e não me lembro da maioria do começo do video

[@Csumbi]

all FromSoft games should've had model viewers, there are way too many small details that are unnoticable in gameplay. Cool stuff, love these videos.