Elden Ring - Radagon of the Golden Order / Elden Beast (Final Boss) Cutscenes

[@user-fb7xq9xv9r]

Oh my fucking god.. Radagon is def my favorite boss in the entire game just because of that music.

[@young_draco7401]

Fr he took me like 15 tries and I watched that cutscene 15 times 😂😂😂

[@naturespipes5718]

Fuck yeah!!!!

[@ryanator7935]

@@young_draco7401 Gotta make sure you have the music on que for his attacks lol. If you start from the end of the cutscene most of his swings go with the beat.

[@itsthewhiteowl]

1:09 Miyazaki holding up the GOTY Award

[@vighneshkoalapunani8851]

And dont forget your favorite orthodox rabbi bill clinton making his appearance as the elden beast.

[@cloudshines812]

1:19 Then his head turn to God of War Ragnarok

[@elhel]

This is the cutscene I never skip in any of my playthroughs. The hammer pose + the theme gives me chills every time.

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Saaaaaame. Man, the music is so powerful here. Gives me chills just thinking about it

[@XeroFailGames]

The music, the pose of him with the hammer slightly looking back at you as the rune in him activates.... somebody said let's make the word Epic a person lol

[@iP3RFEKTIONoO]

The sheer scale and everything that goes into these bosses and cutscenes is incredible. I’ve been been in more awe as I was getting murdered by that elden beast

[@Scarecr0w_ofWaaagh_strawpies]

You mean space loch Ness monster

[@lewispooper3138]

Too bad elden beast is garbage

[@maxp3934]

@@lewispooper3138 it was fun and it's cute af

[@lewispooper3138]

@@maxp3934 no it wasn’t fun It’s the worst fight ever to chase an idiot for 10+ minutes.

[@Suddenghost24]

@@lewispooper3138 if you suck, just say you suck lol

[@quasarone3083]

1:10 they didn't have to go _that_ hard

[@rajanbirsidhu5650]

Made probably my favorite cutscene in the entire game

[@derpi3438]

TSUKASA SAITOH MY KING

[@thorfinnmek3951]

Yeah that was so awesome

[@luhed]

​@@rajanbirsidhu5650Fire Troll second phase cutscene is... fire?

[@mitchellbutler2307]

Radagon literally has half his face missing but you can tell he is looking at you with absolute fury. Such good scene design.

[@sidekickstreams]

imho anyone saying the elden beast should have been optional were kind of missing the point. the game constantly indicates that something *far* more cosmic is happening behind radagon and marika. finally seeing *what* that cosmic force actually looked like was exactly what i was hoping for on my first playthrough and boy did i get what i wanted.

[@TheHopper2000]

Completely agree. You fight the order of the world itself in order to put through your own will, whatever that is. It's badass.

[@oktimusbrime6751]

The Elden Tree and Beast are alien parasites

[@KotaMM0]

It shouldn't be optional, it should have been a good boss

[@Bobbie_Lee84]

2:44 that music part hits HARD!!!

[@markgallagher1790]

The theme drop still brings me back here

[@naturespipes5718]

That music kicks in and you know it's do or die

[@TheOnePistol]

1:10 That music got me so hyped when I first encountered Radagon. Almost forgot about the full ass whooping I was destined to receive. lol

[@Crowald]

When I saw the hair turn red, it was the first time a FROM game confirmed my own wild guess in real-time. I'll never experience it again, and I take solace in knowing some ass-backwards crazy guess was right. Radagon is Marika.

[@crowstakingoff]

What was it that suggested this was true in your playthrough of the game?

[@deathscope1million]

@@crowstakingoff there’s a statue in the capital that *literally* says “Radagon is Marika”

[@crowstakingoff]

@@deathscope1million Ah ok, I thought you were saying you had figured it out before this reveal from the sculpture. I was asking about how you figured it out before the statue reveal

[@murdurmuffin7872]

@@crowstakingoff And @Crowald has yet to answer you. Unlike Radigon and Marika, @deathscope1million is not @Crowald. OR IS IT?

[@Kaizer_GG]

Bro that is funny ​@@murdurmuffin7872

[@michaelmejia8678]

Finally got to see this cutscene today in-game. I was not disappointed!

[@vexcine]

I was preorder and beat it a year later gang

[@jonah_eats_kids3357]

The music mixed with radiation holding is hammer in the air is so epic

[@Burnett0608]

Radiation based

[@MrUshtush]

When Radagon looks back with that hammer my soul literally sets on fire, perfect pre workout gas

[@bigtonithegreatjamboni9850]

I just realized the sacred relic sword is actually Radagon's body

[@dragoniccrab]

SAME!!!! (Is that what it's called?)

[@bigtonithegreatjamboni9850]

@@dragoniccrab I spelled Radagon wrong lol, I fixed it

[@dragoniccrab]

@@bigtonithegreatjamboni9850 lol

[@knightspartan7201]

Oh the elden beast's sword is made of radagon. I saw that it was fleshy but I didn't really get it. Now I see that he dunks radagon in the juice and pulls him out stretched into a sword.

[@batman-hv9wp]

Holy shit it is even in the middle of the cross-guard is his rib cage

[@bleakraven]

@@batman-hv9wp the crossguard is his stretched arms so I guess the pommel is his head

[@gamma3319]

was just gonna comment this

[@diamondkyle812]

I love how the stars shoot out of the elden beast and the music lands as you enter the sun set showdown in the realm of the gods

[@syphonexp4695]

It’s almost poetic seeing the first ever character we’ve ever seen in this game from the 2019 teaser being our final challenge (I don’t count elden beast he’s just there I guess) I feel elden beast should’ve been an optional final boss kinda like the moon presence from bloodborne

[@bolson42]

considering how moon presence was the final boss for a specific ending, it would’ve been cool to fight him in either the age of stars or frenzied flame endings. It doesn’t really make sense to fight it if you’re trying to repair the order. But it does if you’re trying to overthrow it, which is what the other endings are for

[@bolson42]

@Greg's Holy Legs Lol, i like the analogy

[@mocha5742]

Elden Beast was always there. The soft piano notes in it’s theme are the same that play at the beginning of the Main theme, and the Beast itself is the manifestation of the Golden Order and the Erdtree in the Lands Between. Elden Beast doesn’t come out of nowhere, it’s presence was always there

[@badrpr69]

When radagon lifts that hammer and the camera shot behind him, that shit was tough lol metal as hell to most badass entrance for me

[@isxero]

I find the next part to me more impactful, the husk of Radagon the puppet laying there, the Elden Ring goes out like a christmas light. The Elden Beast decides "Fine. Enow. Thee seeketh the truth and thee shalt has't t..." And behind you the entire time is the "fog" you all came from, the Tarnished, Marika, The Elden Beast... then it lifts the veil, removes the fog and you're but a thought, in space beholden to 100's if not infinite Erdtrees this alien like creature has spread throughout the cosmos. The implications of Marika/Radagon literally being it's sword, is very imposing.

[@_Gutso_]

1:58 kind of wierd when the elden beast pulls out the sword cuz if you didn’t know it’s radagons body morphed into a sword. You can see him doing a t pose at the hilt of the sword.

[@justamanofculture1168]

1:09 that time you understand what a godly blacksmith do with his hammer.

[@priyanshupanda4677]

For all connecting the lore of Marika and Radagon and how their existence works, there is slight confusion. I think an easier way of understanding could be assuming their fusing/separation just like Vergil's in DMC 5 into V and the demon

[@TREVORVADER]

That’s a decent comparison actually

[@thelonekooistra]

Actually the coldest boss intro, by far my favorite

[@cb-9938]

The music that starts off the second phase with the Elden Beast is haunting

[@imraw17]

The chating when the head comes down to get a look at you made my heart rate jump so high the first time.

[@crutonman1547]

the shot of you standing off against the elden beast goes so hard

[@zeeboss7553]

I love how radagon doesn’t say anything. He already knows why you are there and is going to fight to the death to stop you.

[@McMarc_1993]

Both these cutscenes are outstanding. Chills every single time.

[@daltonmichalik7848]

This fight was so epic.but in the end Radagon felt like a puppet to me and the elden beast was just a messenger. I hope we get a second Elden Ring or DLC with an outer god

[@raptorrish]

The Elden Beast was the puppet master, we killed the god of our land and I wish we could kill other gods in the future

[@zerstorungdeslichts4706]

Radagon's design is one of the best that Fromsoft has come up with. Anyone know if his design was inspired somewhere? If not then props to Fromsoftware for the original idea.

[@nojokejon9577]

He’s really similar to the hollow knight from hollow knight. Radagon is a tall cracked mf who picks up his weapon laying next to him when you release him from a prison thing, and then when you eventually defeat him a giant light creature thing appears that’s the final boss of the game. The hollow knight is similar. He’s a tall cracked mf who’s chained up with his weapon laying next to him and you have to break him out in order to fight him. But the fights aren’t that similar, hollow knight is one of the easiest in the game on purpose whilst radagon is just hard but mostly fair. Tbh the concept has probably been used in other games and radagon was probably inspired by something in berserk (I’ve never read it) but I thought I’d just say what I think Edit: A giant light moth appears out of the hollow knight when you defeat him which is similar to the Elden beast too.

[@AlvenVinland]

You can say they use Thor as a base because of the red hair and the hammer

[@kenneth27205]

Thor

[@ZettontheGOAT]

Thor, and to be specific his appearance here and his clothing look kinda like Thor from Record of Ragnarok

[@Infrared-nyne]

@@AlvenVinland nope. Thor has blonde hair

[@danimaietta583]

Bro that's literally Jesus and the second boss is God itself

[@ranker4]

Second boss is one of the gods. It's confirmed there are multiple "higher wills" (gods) in Elden Ring universe.

[@glockenspiel604]

@@ranker4 the elden beast isn't even a full outer god it's just a vassal of the greater will

[@jonahward4522]

@@glockenspiel604 makes me wonder if we’ll ever get to see vassals of other gods such as the formless mother, fell god, or the god the eternal cities worshipped

[@syaoran5476]

@@jonahward4522 the fell god vassal is seen in phase 2 of the fire giant ^^ that's their communion

[@jonahward4522]

@@syaoran5476 that makes sense. Still tho, there’s lots of other gods I can’t wait to get more info on. The gloom eyed queen was said to be an empyrean, but of what god? There’s so much info we still don’t know so we can’t piece together a lot of the plot points

[@brocksander8978]

lowkee loved the music of the elden beast though and it's a beautiful fight

[@eiji862]

So basically, from what I can understand from this is that for one, the obvious, Marika and Radagon are the same. When Godfrey was no longer of any use to Marika, she banished him and then made her alter ego Radagon the second Elden Lord. I don’t fully know why but I have a theory, Marika wanted to free her people from Destined Death which is why she gave the Rune of Death to Maliketh. As to why I brought that up is simple, Marika has always had her own vision in mind for how her world was to be ruled, a vision that differs a little from her creators. Because of that, she chose Radagon, herself to be the next Elden Lord because she wished to keep the power and control over the Lands Between to herself as she couldn’t trust anyone else with such a title as high as Elden Lord. This confidence she may have had in her abilities to keep her alter ego under control may very well explain how she ultimately lost in the end when The Shattering occurred, it also explains why Radagon attacked us as he’s duty bound to a higher order, one that Marika rejected when she shattered the Elden Ring, which is what led to her imprisonment. To think, Marika could care less for her offspring’s futile war for power. While she was essentially at war with a higher will that is far more powerful than her, her children are fighting other demigods for a lesser power. What I love about this story is it just shows how everyone basically failed to ascend to godhood because their lust for power blinded them from the true enemy which is whatever this higher power is. I wonder where this story will go next!

[@gatti8738]

if i'm not mistaken, radagon and marika were not always the same person, they merged at some point. I think there is one item description that says this

[@triumphhampton2923]

@@gatti8738 my theory is that they were grafted together at one point by TGW

[@gatti8738]

@@triumphhampton2923 I think that too, probably in their marriage

[@arhkadian2389]

i know im late, but you can see marika turn into radagon in the cutscene, you even see her blonde hair change to radagons ginger hair.

[@publiusthefederalist6843]

I think Marika hid destined death and then shattered the elden ring in order to keep the world the same, i don't think she rebelled for good reasons, it was a murder suicide. Meanwhile Radagon wanted to hold on to power, he fights you because he still thinks he's elden lord

[@mrjooxmanallah]

After watching all the Vaatividya videos on Elden Ring I still don’t know what’s happening.

[@Fucev]

The elden beast gives me serious Attack on titan vibes. People who are caught up on the manga will understand.

[@princeofiron1742]

That’s what I was thinking when I first saw the erdtree. Then the Elden beast was the cherry on top

[@ahsank.]

Radagon in his prime would have been unbeatable

[@thorfinnmek3951]

You could literally say that to every Fromsoftware Boss. Every Boss is a far cry from His Prime.

[@CriticalPlNE]

@@thorfinnmek3951Malenia reaches her peak in our fight with her

[@KintusTM]

@@CriticalPlNE Nah she doesn't. Her peak was at her fight with Radahn

[@CriticalPlNE]

@@KintusTM she ascends to godhood mid fight with you

[@nightmare4lol]

​@@CriticalPlNEits also possible that radahn is at his peak when we encounter him as well, as a feral beast, crawling the wastes, seeking a warriors end

[@supparmanpawar4203]

The moment when we realized "it's that the Elden Ring inside him that we heard of?"

[@zc07217]

I'm watching this because I give up trying to beat it and I'm just gonna start a new game😭

[@itshobogoblin]

The goosebumps are ridiculous

[@malak67]

Took me 2 years to realize that he/she is in Marika form while hanging in the air

[@derjahgalgion]

I hope the real Radagon as a boss in DLC, not that statue thing beast that we all beat. I want Marika too as a final boss.

[@-LMND-]

I just noticed that while hanging in the crucified position his hair is blonde with a long braid and he looks more like Marika, but after he falls to the ground and clutches the hammer you can see his hair turn red and is a little shorter more like Radagon. Pretty cool detail.

[@connors2388]

Thats because it IS Marika hanging crucified. At this point Marika and Radagon share a body, but they are long dead and are now puppeted by the elden beast.

[@dragoniccrab]

How long did it take yall to realize that Radagon's body is used to make the sword of the elden beast?

[@angelovalenz]

Bro I’m in this phase right now wish me luck

[@BlueBrix233]

omg thank you

[@SaltyDerps]

The one cutscene i never skip is Radagon

[@WealthyHomeless]

0:55 I think it's marika that changes into radagon, So marika is alive and changes into radagon by her choice or by radagon's choice?

[@ashkanpower]

This shit is a piece of art!

[@just_cade]

What is the read spear-like object that seems to be impaling Marika’s body? Is this the rune of death? Like it’s been released from Maliketh and now it’s returning to the Elden Ring?

[@connors2388]

It is implied that the Elden Beast attacked and imprisoned Marika (and therefore Radagon) inside the Erdtree after she shattered the elden ring. We find her body crucified, which is all part of a big creepy reveal of the truth that an alien god from space is here to impose its will, and Marika was only its puppet until her son Godwyn was killed by Ranni's assassins and she freaked out and smashed the elden ring. So the spear is from the Elden Beast, it will throw golden spears at you too if you let it.

[@_Tzer]

Marika's family's height.. because people already did this for dark souls.. and gwyn was originally taller iirc.. cuz of the tomb's size. and even non illusion gwynevere was definitely taller than the player. Marika/radagon is about 10ft tall, malenia 8ft tall miquella despite being cursed to look like a child is the same size as the tarnished maybe a little taller cuz demigod.. (and fromsofts addiction to making everything taller than the player) trina was likely the same size before spoilers. dlc spoilers is 16ft tall.. mohg and morgott are about 12ft iirc.. ranni's og body is tall about same size as radagon iirc Radahn is 26ft tall..(absolutest unit) messemer is about the same size as radagon so 10ft tall... my conclusion: everything that comes out of marika and radagon is an absolute unit besides melina who is probably a ghost like ranni.. i did this out of boredom and dlc ptsd help me..

[@loweloking88]

Like Radahn, I wish we get a dlc where we can fight Radagon at his full strength and not broken up and mangled.

[@Stranded2023]

Thought the elden beast was gonna give me the elden ring 😢

[@joshuawhite4113]

The sword the elden beast uses is radagons body

[@SkitLegoIdeaTheory]

Who wins: 1: God himself 2: A singular blackflame ash of war

[@nobodyimportant4778]

Radagon spinal cord sword

[@MaquilingWorks]

what is the red spear that is impaled in marika? just like longinus spear

[@alihorda]

probably the attack of elden beast, as a punishment or something . during the fight he does the same to you.

[@-Mothy-]

It has the color of Destined Death

[@thedeependschanger1089]

@@-Mothy- I assumed it was the Death rune as well

[@504godzilla]

Radagon oozes jojo vibes

[@xianfa1708]

a bit weird for people to say the sacred relic sword is radagon's body, true it may seem that way in the cutscene, but remember, after the bossfight, the remains of the body is still intact in the bossroom. i just thought it was the body of a previous elden beast or something like that.

[@ravnemagne9598]

Doesn't the game literally say that the Sacred Relic Sword is made out of the body of a god? And the Elden Beast pushes Radagon's body into the ground before, without moving it's hand, pulling a blade out that shares Radagon's skintone, and shares Radagon's lack of a left hand. As to why Marika's body appears afterwards, maybe the blade reformed back into Marika/Radagon after you kill Elden Beast, or maybe it only took the Radagon half.

[@I_am_a_cat_]

This cutscene and the music was INCREDIBLE the first time i saw it. The music is so powerful. Gives me chills just thinking about it. The elden beasts music is beautiful

[@denzellrice6450]

Why after all this time am I just noticing the hair turn red?

[@drewhammond5203]

I honestly wish Radagon just had a proper second phase. That cutscene and the way he's inspiring, pitiable, and at the same time effortlessly imposing as the music explodes into being is really very inspiring and truly "epic" it's a shame you have to fight a fishdragon in a pool of dreams or whatever right afterwards. Fromsoft kinda fumbled the second half of this badboy.

[@angelfire9094]

Seriously radagon/marika don’t say a word??

[@TheSleepingSeer]

Radagon is likely just a brain-dead husk being piloted by the Elden Beast. Despite founding Golden Order Fundamentalism, he never uses any affiliated incantations. Nor does he use any glintstone sorcery, despite learning the magic during his marriage to Rennala. Additionally, the Elden Beast emerges from his corpse after he is defeated and turns his body into a sword, as if to further cement that Radagon is just its plaything.

[@angelfire9094]

@@TheSleepingSeer what if Radagon married Rennala because the greater will viewed rennalas outer gods as a threat to their dynasty!!!!

[@kasairan8492]

@@angelfire9094 afaik rennala and the carians don’t have an outer god, they use the primeval current which is essentially star energy. Its why ranni isn’t affiliated with a god either, just the moon/stars

[@connors2388]

​@@kasairan8492 there is a theory that the "Dark Moon" is a different Outer God.

[@inkboi2053]

Am i the onlynone who thinks elden beast looks like the attack on titan ()))))spoiler))))))

[@inkboi2053]

That spine slug thing.

[@SleepingChimes]

for sure, couldn’t help but wonder if Miyazaki got inspiration from that or perhaps from another spine entity

[@greatshinobi-owl3120]

Spoilers

[@thedeependschanger1089]

Only Ymir knows

[@hotox23-56]

@@SleepingChimesnah it’s a very popular design. I think it’s what people theorize the very first fish to look like but I’ve seen that design way before AOT

[@tobybll]

So when Radagon was hanging there he/she had breasts but when you fight him/her its a male chest. What is this thing now lmao. Very good fight tho

[@Art-rq6yr]

The one hanging was Marika. In leyndell you learn that radagon is marika, by using law of regression on the statue of radagon. You can see the change when marika picks up the hammer, and radagons features emerge (hair, body)

[@noahsmith28]

Marika and Radagon are the same person. But when Marika split Radagon off of herself, she let him be his own person technically

[@Art-rq6yr]

my take is theyre contained within the same body. you never explicitly see either of them individually, instead marika "morphs" into radagon. still dont understand how they had kids lmao

[@noahsmith28]

@@Art-rq6yr They were separate at one point in time

[@probablywrong3816]

Marika splits herself into two separate entities at some point to go through with her master plan ™️. They were two separate people for a while, but eventually came back together to make babies and then formed into one being (Marika) to shatter the Elden Ring. However, Radeon ended up having his own consciousness so it causes them to look different when the two swap forms.

[@daltonmichalik7848]

Omg nooo i wanted leave a meme

[@_Tzer]

genderbending the cutscene.

[@y.abuwatfa]

....

[@Lolidied71]

The pose with the main theme starting was kind of an emotional experience. I haven't been that hyped for a finally boss in so long. Miyazaki said the FromSoft team wanted to deliver a game beyond our expectations and they sure did deliver. 🥹 What an experience.