Elden Ring Age of the Duskborn Reaction

[@bingus6978]

I'm so excited to see your reaction to the age of stars (ranni's ending) please don't make us wait months 😭

[@TheAshenTarnishedHunter]

Wake up babe, Wildcard Wednesdays are on again And as an aside, I can't wait for Age of the stars, even if we have to wait a while, as it's by far the best of vaati's elden ring stories

[@inevitable-armageddon]

Do you know why they reacted to this one and not the age of stars?

[@captain02rex]

the newest one about millicent is also very well made

[@catnip7481]

@@inevitable-armageddon I think they talked about a poll in the beginning

[@inevitable-armageddon]

@@catnip7481 Ahh ok that makes sense

[@TheAshenTarnishedHunter]

@@inevitable-armageddon perhaps leaving the best for last?

[@sanshakuvakei9620]

For what it’s worth, I believe Rogier doesn’t have a say in whether or not his spirit fights you when summoned by Fia. Whatever is left of him after his death, Fia has complete control over it.

[@rampantsarcasm2220]

that's correct

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for clarifying that 🙂

[@spiraljumper74]

Ranni is a super interesting character, definitely one of the most aloof and mysterious women Miyazaki has ever created, which is saying something because the guy definitely has a type. Getting to know her better during the course of her quest is a very interesting and memorable experience. I’ve played all these games and there’s really not another character quest like it, you really do feel like you’re working towards a grander design together. Also, in Elden Ring you have tons of friends, it’s just kind of a fucked up world and everyone’s personal quests have incredibly high stakes.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Glad you are able to have friends in Elden Ring world 🙂😊

[@GhostDeltaX]

Can’t wait for you guys to do the Age of Stars one next!!

[@Darthorias]

Age of the Duskborn was my first playthru ending. :)

[@johnwright148]

In regards to the death of Godwyn, it is only depicted in the game with a still image of the Black Knives surrounding Godwyn as one of them carves into him the Cursemark of Death. For this video, Vaati and his crew reenacted the scene with in-game assets and animations for our viewing pleasure. He actually does this a lot in his videos for scenes that we hear about but don't witness firsthand.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Well very effective job recreating it 😱

[@deangeloellis729]

Fia (she "lays" with corpses and players) had a grip on the fanbse, so many touch starved players hugged her and didn't even care about the consequences of the debuff you get inflicted with while doing so lol.

[@earth2saka]

I wouldn't call boosting your poise whenever you want a debuff lol

[@fishnchips62]

​@@earth2sakait decreases your health when you first get it

[@GirlofCulture]

Age of the Stars are my favorite of the Prepare to Cry series. Hope you guys will watch it soon ... I cried in this one, and this happens not often.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😯 we will have tissue box ready

[@Moschel91]

Now Age of the Stars is the next movie. Really hope you'll check it out soon. It is in my opinion the best video, Vaati has produced so far. I bet it will blow you away. Also Ranni's ending was the one I had in my first playthrough ^^

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Looking forward to it

[@min24434]

The Rogier we fight isn't the actual Rogier it's just a memory of him conjured up by Fia and she only did it to protect herself and her lord(Godwyn). Once she realizes the Tarnished means no harm she entrusts the Tarnished with her mending Rune her entire purpose.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍🙂

[@GirlofCulture]

This was absolutely amazing, the only ending i did not get yet. But this is so touching Vati and his team did a amazing job.. this is what that's the element that's missing from this great game... the presentation of these characters... it's all there laid bare, in this game but so easily overlooked, by many, cause the gameplay is so tight and frustrating sometime. These short films are a brilliant addition to this masterpiece.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Well said 😊

[@Blaster746]

I like how Stephanie remained unwavered as her dog kept licking away at her hand ^^

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Used to it by now 😂 also it’s Bethany 😜😇

[@Blaster746]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Oh I'm so sorry Lady LickBeth. I just had to. ^^;

[@GirlofCulture]

Abridged Goku once said: "Aww hugs are nice" and i like Hug-Lady.

[@melkermagnusson5070]

Really hyped for you to see ”age of the stars” video.

[@justcantburnTV]

Age of Stars Ending next please 🙏🏼

[@kiranshah1672]

Kinda unfair that Those Who Live in Death are just people who died, and (not by choice) came into contact with Godwyn’s death root, were forced back to life, and were then hunted and killed by Golden Order zealots like D.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Very unfair. But that’s life, and death apparently 😢

[@Wotiwoll]

Age of the stars next! Easily my favorite one

[@PrimeCo129]

Age of Stars one next! Wooo! I'm ready.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎🤘🥳

[@alejandrobrenes6101]

Can't wait for the next Ranni episode! I love this game so much and your reactions are great!

[@arcadius2569]

Living within death like Godwyn was considered illegal in Marika's golden order. By taking the centipede rune and becoming elden lord, you basically make it legal to be a skeleton. Not a bad ending in my eyes. Just another avenue of death and life. Whenever you watch rannis video prepare your minds. In true elden ring fashion, she is not evil or good. She's just another woman with a mission in this terrible Lands Between.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Fighting for the skeletons 😎✊

[@ThatsOk83]

I've been waiting for this specific video for a while. Shocked it took so long to get voted tbh. Imo this is one of the best lore video of Elden Ring

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Our favorite so far but we’ve heard great things about Age of the Stars 🙂

[@Sezenian]

Vaatividya Reaction?! For me?! You shouldn't have :)

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😜🤗

[@Lark_man]

Fun fact, if you attack Fia when she's next to Godwyn, he will attack you in her defense; indicating that his soul may still be there in some way.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😯 thanks for sharing that

[@earth2saka]

I'm pretty sure I suggested this before but it can't hurt to do it again. The creator has a great series of videos for Sekiro too which I think you will find incredibly amazing. It's called Sekiro Shadows Cry Twice. A play on the game's subtitle combined with the Prepare to Cry theme. :)

[@ajn_rules_5074]

Fun fact: That giant sword near the beginning of the video is actually inspired by Berserk, Gut's Dragonslayer sword Rip Kentaro Miura

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Ah okay. Can see it now. We’ve only briefly touched on Guts and berserk via death battle 🤗

[@Abaddon_1314]

Age of the Stars called, it doesn't appreciate your comment about "favourite Prepare to Cry"!) Great vid, guys, as usual, thanks for being awesome as you are!)

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😂 tbf, we haven’t seen it yet 😜

[@Abaddon_1314]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames exactly!;)

[@anexhaustedcryptek1076]

If you guys want to check out the alternate ending that Vaati won't be covering, the Age of Order, I'd definitely recommend checking out someone else's video on it, such as SmoughTown's for example

[@captain02rex]

why won't he cover it? did he say that? As we have seen, he is not done with base game videos yet, despite the dlc being out.

[@anexhaustedcryptek1076]

@@captain02rex vaati quite literally says at the end of this Prepare to cry that the next and last one he'll do for the Elden Ring endings is Ranni's ending

[@captain02rex]

@@anexhaustedcryptek1076 oh, then i just didn't hear that lol, sorry

[@fumeknightofshovelry3901]

It's an incredible shame, I love that ending.

[@GirlofCulture]

Who is to blame in this great tragedy? Marika? Ranni? The Greater Will itself? We, as playing as a Tarnished, as a tool? We are all to blame..The law of regression and causality. The persons with good intentions, those with selfish reasons, and a Outer God.. who is long gone... i think...

[@bingus6978]

Finally, more elden ring!

[@theiberianbadger0123]

I cannot wait for you guys to see “Age of the Stars.” Its effectively a movie.

[@_inSight__]

There are many cool bosses in the game, but fighting the Lichdragon was probably my favorite surprise, because most dragons fights in the game play out the same way with similar attacks, and then you find this dragon, deep beneath the earth, hidden in a dream, with an awesome move set, truly unique arena design, and who’s reveal comes completely out of no where. Like, before you teleport to the dream in which you fight him, there is zero indication that there will be a dragon encounter, and at this point in the game, the dragons had grown kind of stale. The only problem is that by the time you reach this area, and by the time you figure out how to complete Fia’s quest, which is required to fight the dragon, most people will probably be a high enough life to kill this thing in less than a minute. I don’t know anyone who struggled with this fight, even though on paper it sounds epic. It uses red lightning, more powerful than normal yellow lightning, and uses death lightning, which spawns clouds of death blight that kill you instantly if you stand in them for too long. Death Blight is the only status effect in the game that ignores your health bar and just flat out kills you if you let the meter build up entirely. Other status effects are like bleed, frost, madness, etc, which either pin you in place or do a dangerous amount of damage when they trigger, but death blight is supposed to be the worst of all. And the fight with the Lich Dragon, the black and red thorny dragon that inhabits the dream of the first demigod that ever died, the dragon that stood toe to toe against the golden child of the golden order, the dragon that rips crimson lightning bolts from the sky itself and pierces the earth… the fight just isn’t that hard. It left me feeling awed and upset when I beat him, because I felt rewarded and disappointed at the same time.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Lich Dragon is cool name too. 😁

[@punkypony5165]

So excited for the next elden ring ending reaction from you two.

[@_inSight__]

The characters that don’t have tragic endings are typically left alone because they have gameplay uses. They usually don’t have any motivations or impact on the lore. There is a pope turtle that teaches you spells if you give him the corresponding scrolls, and he hints at a secret you can find elsewhere, but he doesn’t do anything. There is a little goblin guy that helps alter your armor if you give him a sewing needle, but his quest doesn’t impact the narrative in any way. There is always a blacksmith of some kind in these games, and they are needed throughout your entire play through, so they are guaranteed to be safe. These types of NPC’s don’t really lend themselves to these types of videos that try to have a through line narrative, and so from your perspective, every NPC seems tragic. But I do agree, they don’t offer true friendship in these games without it being a setup for tragedy or trauma. Any NPC that is actively trying to participate in the state of the world or change something usually fail, because one of the most prominent themes in these games is that you, the Player, are the exception to how the world wishes to be. You alone are the only one capable of making real change, be it selfish or selfless. You are supposed to see others fail time and time again, so that when you reach the ending, it really feels like you defied the odds. It’s one of the few things in their games that I disagree with, because it feels disingenuous when you try to treat the characters seriously. Like, some people might receive the intended feelings, but for me when I play these games for the first time, I can’t help but wonder how they will eventually fail. Everyone tells you how dangerous your task or mission is, and how many of them have lost hope or struggle to continue, and I’m like “okay. That’s rough buddy. Why should I take your word for it?” It’s hard to place your trust in any character, and when you do, they betray you or succumb to their self inflicted trials.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Good point. We do have a skewed perspective on the npcs because of how we’ve consumed this game thus far 🤗🙂

[@jessyonugbolu2106]

I would love to see your reaction to age of stars

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

It’ll happen 😅

[@johanstenfelt1206]

I really like these Videos, they are so well done, I hope you do more. How about doing his Dragon Video too at some point?

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Yeah we enjoy his videos and dragons so seems like a good fit

[@heroicryan6257]

Still strongly suggest Max0r's next Elden Ring entry! Chances are he'll be covering the DLC soon as well

[@ArvindRajAgnosticAtheist]

Fun Factoid : The Black Knife Assassins are all females. Also Ken, you might turn around on Ranni when you watch her video.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Looking forward to having my perspective flipped 🙂

[@funnyname8276]

Can’t wait for you guys to react to Age Of The Stars ending (our cute 4 arms wifu)

[@mattsherman4964]

Fia, the undead's rights activist

[@Brekkenrick]

The life of Christopher Lee

[@thatoneguy71]

D was an okay character and I liked his armor set in game

[@goingblargh]

I would love to see you two’s reaction to PancreasnoWork’s Halohammer videos, they’re pretty fun if you’re interested.

[@antonironstag5085]

The Black Knife assassins are female 🤭

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

🤗

[@antonironstag5085]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames hard to argue with that. You are forgiven 🤭

[@AlmightyNorppa]

Ah yes.. D calls Fia a "lady of the night". Absolutely horrible and such. Ken also called her a "lady of the night" and that was just giggle worthy.

[@DeathCyakoy99]

Keep up the great work

[@luisjimenez1907]

Keep dropping more elden ring videos

[@kinetx5054]

New dbd dracula trailer came out if you wanted to react to it !

[@Jaroku_Chronicle]

Please react to the elden ring age of stars. Really good story.

[@lourdedevilson7739]

Yey my favourite prepare to cry

[@DeathCyakoy99]

Love your videos

[@AaronMauricioCardenasLeon]

I love your videos

[@ThatGuyTator]

please do more yakuza stuff

[@Freightautist357]

Just do Rani ending

[@-RajanYT]

react on dead by daylight castlevania trailer

[@Brekkenrick]

Warhammer 40k stories: the General and the Angel. A very good story that I recommend to anyone watching. Especially from military background.

[@Rocketbaby2]

Please react to marvel rivals trailers they are so cool❤❤❤

[@Dav1dYT]

Sorry I'm late

[@Dav1dYT]

Let's colab

[@Heavyweapop]

Vaati is decent, but he always changes little details and doesn't state things correctly. The cumulative effect of all his little edits makes a different story than the one told in the game. I know he does it to make the video more cinematic, but i can't stand watching it when it's just wrong sometimes.

[@johnathanedwards9054]

If you value your sanity, don't play the Dark Souls or Souls Born games. The games are very good and have a massive fan base, but they are ridiculously hard as per From Software ideology that gamers love to be challenged. Elden Ring is no exception. I think it might also be one of the best-selling Souls Bourne games of all time. Personally, I don't feel like dying 20 times just to beat one boss that isn't even that strong compared to the rest of them.

[@obwolf]

Honestly no hate but that mindset really is a skill issue none of Fromsoft’s games are hardcore in the slightest they just require you to learn & understand the mechanics.