Phase Two (Elden Ring - Shadow of the Erdtree Critique)

[@razbuten]

now I can finally tell people that they are wrong about the dlc because joseph said so

[@craylik5589]

Nuh uh, git gud Gottem!

[@literallyjustgrass]

havent watched the video yet but if he liked the DLC i'm gonna feel so fucking vindicated

[@biocta]

@@literallyjustgrass You might want to sit down for this...

[@Stanzbey69]

@@literallyjustgrass it’s his favorite fromsoft dlc lmao. No idea where this came from, since it’s more of elden ring (i ain’t complaining, base game was amazing). I think joe should give base ER another chance if he loved the dlc so much

[@PenultimatePenPen]

@@Stanzbey69 I mean he says in the video he replayed the base game before playing the dlc so....he did give base ER another shot?

[@RTGame]

Hello Satan, its so good to see you upload again

[@enderking5177]

It’s 2026 already???

[@nanashi7779]

Daniel's here

[@ACESContent]

The drift king comes to welcome the weeb king

[@takeyourheart1]

RT don’t give this loser attention please.

[@boltfantasticated9705]

Aw fuck yeah RTgame is a Joseph Anderson fan? Best streamer.

[@xvct2661]

This witcher footage looks kind of fuck up i think you should check obs joe

[@suburbanking9148]

he has to be waiting for the show to end to wrap everything up nicely

[@Maebi_not]

@@suburbanking9148massive copium

[@kylecunningham9793]

​@@suburbanking9148bro, literally no one cares about the show haha. That's wild

[@JosephAndersonChannel]

It does? I'll replay it for fresh footage then. Thanks for letting me know!

[@normalmixo]

the witcher review runs on half life 3 rules, where every joke about it adds a day onto the release date

[@ThatBoyAqua]

Finally, my opinion of the dlc has arrived

[@457Deniz457]

The dlc was very good. Its possible to become as usual extremly overpowered. So if u cant kill the bosses just get the new spells/weapons. Thats the point of a real dlc. Not finishing it with all the skills and weapons u already had at the start...

[@peterfox1380]

I feel the exact same, as a person who hasn't played a single FromSoft game. I was looking forward to this video so I'll have an opinion on the dlc

[@457Deniz457]

@@peterfox1380 Why start with the end? Start with Dark souls 1 then 2 and and. This Elden Ring DLC is nothing for a beginner.

[@thebuddah1253]

​@@457Deniz457 if you like ds2 your iq is like 80 at best

[@457Deniz457]

@@thebuddah1253 I dont like d2, i love it ;) Now what? You command what my iq is? Funny Maybe u got influenced to much from buddah.

[@APlayfulLittleBlend]

I can't even describe how funny it would be if the Witcher 3 retrospective was like an exactly 10 minute long video with a midroll me undies sponsorship

[@MathewWithOne_T]

10 minute video: 2 minute intro, 2 minutes talking about the game, 3 minute sponsor read, 3 minute sub begging outro/patron list

[@justsmartkev2046]

@@MathewWithOne_Tthere is no Patreon anymore

[@TheMasterUnity]

@@justsmartkev2046You would say that

[@thnkr-jl7hw]

He should do that for April Fools 2025

[@sry4head]

Im a Witcher

[@tobiasbehnke939]

I'm a Witcher.

[@somaeleric3456]

I'm a Witcher

[@danieladamczyk4024]

Jestem Wiedźminem

[@deez0690]

I’m a Witcher

[@RaphaëlAmbrosiusCosteau-n4s]

@@danieladamczyk4024 3 Witcher 3?

[@Stonesands]

“Mr. President, a second Joseph Anderson video has hit the Elden Ring community.”

[@quirinoguy8665]

Based

[@Imperial_Squid]

+2(nd video)

[@midirams2205]

LMAO

[@HellonearthlABB]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@HellonearthlABB]

Mr president: git gud and deal with it by yourself, I'm having a barbeque

[@soulslasher7890]

Hello Anderson-san. This is John From Software. Unfortunately, you made the grave error of referring to our glorious leader as Miyazaki-SAN instead of his rightful title of Miyazaki-sama. Consider our agreement voided. Your children will be placed in our unpaid QA team, forced to play Elden Ring Colosseum PVP for the remainder of their life in an effort to restore game balance. Good day.

[@idot4531]

Mister john I think playing Pvp Colosseum is too harsh for a punishment

[@j0nnyism]

I shall make a prayer tonight to my Miyazaki sama shrine for his children. God willing they will play pvp for eternity

[@ilikevideogames4331]

"restore game balance" You cannot bring back something that never was.

[@drewmonfort6691]

This comment is a shattered masterpiece

[@Aerolfoz]

Streamer Joe has breached containment into the world of Video Joe.

[@misteral9045]

I knew he was a weeb from his first dark souls video. There's a reason he only showed his face once.

[@freshlymemed5680]

@@misteral9045 The anime games arc really mellowed him out.

[@misteral9045]

@@freshlymemed5680 Yeah he LOVED that. Lily said she's never heard him laugh so often or so hard. Though of course she's a weeb too.

[@metaljessmax18]

@@misteral9045 Orb says he's a weeb.

[@NFS0038]

I really enjoyed watching replays and supercuts of his streams on games like Outer Wilds. But I still think it was a net negative because time was spent there instead of on curated content which is his obvious strength. I said the same thing when he first announced his streams too. Like he implies in the video about Elden Ring, I'm not prophetic, I just made a prediction based on observed trends.

[@kisaragi-hiu]

I'm legitimately happy to see you upload twice in a year, a sign of getting out of a sort of production hell.

[@teleitda8805]

Plus the last one was lies of p. Joe enjoyers suffering from overeating rn

[@pabloarias9734]

HAVEN'T PLAYED A PROPER VIDEO GAME SINCE DECEMBER HE SAYS. HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH. HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW WHO HE REALLY IS. WATCH THE STREAMS WATCH THE VOD CHANNELS

[@Aerolfoz]

It's not a gaaaame~

[@Gungrave123]

He deleted all the vods

[@bruhcoin2361]

Vods are deleted automatically on twitch​ after some time, you can find his streams on youtube@@Gungrave123

[@DarthMizaru]

He is taking an awful lot of time to read Umineko, still the "Umineko Story Critique" is going to be an awesome video.

[@heckhound3623]

"Proper" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here

[@Meese12]

"You thought you were going to get a real final DLC boss, but it was me, Godefroy the Grafted!"

[@Troller971]

Still would have been a better experience than The Miquellester

[@bumberquest3031]

A pokemon called "Git Gud" that evolves into "Skill Issue" is the funniest analogy I've ever heard for the current state of the fan base.

[@michaelbecker7288]

I even love the way he pronounced it, because "Skeleshrew" totally sounds like a valid pokemon name. Like some kind of Skeleton Shrew.

[@Eolri]

@@michaelbecker7288 Just grab a Skeledirge (final evolution of the fire starter in Gen 9) and mash it with a Sandshrew and you're already there. Top notch delivery.

[@normalguycap]

It's pretty excellent.

[@Iqdeficient]

Quad weak to grass.

[@herobrineyoko8676]

​@@Iqdeficient Make it a poison type bevause it never showers!

[@roramdin]

get a load of this shattered masterpiece

[@Smongu]

Nice seeing you here :3

[@Layer.14]

Why do you consistently have the best taste in KZbin videos?

[@teddyfrozevelt]

i think i could smoke this whole masterpiece by myself

[@greenbrickbox3392]

the DLC truly is a Jagged Peak

[@j0nnyism]

Shat my pants masterpiece

[@Trio3224]

Only an hour and a half? This is basically a KZbin short by Joseph Anderson standards.

[@LostLargeCats]

It's just a sign of the shortened attention spans of modern viewers. We used to watch a 7 hour Oblivion long cut and be happy. But now no one can last more than 2 hours without a pee and snack break.

[@corn_Burns]

@@LostLargeCats hoping youre baiting cause you sound unbelievably silly if not

[@Outplayedqt]

@@corn_BurnsI’m sure the dude’s kidding around but I truly enjoyed the perfect trifecta of JA-NoahCG-Matthewmatosis’ 3-4+ long video game analyses and retrospectives that first simmered and began what feels like almost a decade ago. It’s unfortunate that Matthew has left the platform, but I’m glad others have taken inspiration and pushed their own long-form thoughts on YT (though the vast, **vast** majority don’t remotely come close in the realm of quality and eloquence of writing).

[@corn_Burns]

@@Outplayedqt true but if anything I feel like a lot of content creators took the wrong approach by mimicking the runtime with 20% of the analysis or need for such a long video. Maybe its an algorithm thing idk

[@Zamibia]

@@Outplayedqt I quite like the length of Yourfavouriteson's videos but sadly they play out more like a commentary from beginning to end than an actual analysis. Got any tips to scratch the itch?

[@miragebarrage9748]

Never ask a man his wage. Never ask a woman her age. Never ask an Elden Ring player what the developer intended way to dodge waterfowl dance is.

[@closetdwight2450]

Who needs to dodge, just hold l1 with a shield

[@viljamtheninja]

The developer intended way is that there are a bunch of different ways to deal with it. Hitless runs isn't developer intended, that's a challenge run. You CAN hitless it, you CAN perfectly dodge it, but there are countless other ways to handle it.

[@Suikunexiii]

​@@closetdwight2450She can heal off of shield attacks, This was said in the first video.

[@hithere5553]

@@viljamtheninjaI like how you can’t even say how to dodge ONE ATTACK and instead strawman it into a hitless run.

[@TheTriforceDragon]

Freezing Pot to the face! Is my go to "dodge" ... Alternatively, if I am really not feeling Malenia, I have a chain poise break setup that basically lets me skip a phase.

[@emdee7733]

"i think this is the best dlc fromsoft has made. because sekiro didn't get one" he's so gigantic brained

[@blackmanwithcomputer]

All Sekiro fans are still pissed that the game didn't get an expansion, while DS2 got 3...

[@ZeroDarkMidnight]

@@blackmanwithcomputer Sekiro was already a complete experience. If there was any game that badly needed some kind of redemption arc, it was DS 2. The DLCs took it from a black sheep to a respectable, if not entirely worthy part of the Souls franchise.

[@Terron29]

@@blackmanwithcomputer I prefer dark souls 2 to sekiro. Come at me brah!

[@valentin8797]

@@Terron29 It's fine. You have the right to be completely and objectively wrong.

[@matteoziegler7632]

this surely means its gonna get a full blown sequel 🥲

[@Laphi_desu]

I knew that reddit post was fake when it didn't start with something like "Am I the only one"

[@oggelicious2716]

Am I the only one actually enjoying the game? There has been so much negativity in this community, I for one am loving this game and am so glad that I preordered the ultrasuperduper deluxe edition. The game is fantastic and I don't understand the criticism at all. I swear I am not having a severe case of sunk cost fallacy and am definitely not just making this post as an desparate attempt trying to find other people to validate my overpriced purchase of a garbage game that I secretly hate but can't admit to myself

[@deadmetalbr]

It's fake? Thank God. I was worried I was using too many bananas.

[@KeijoAmbersson]

@@Laphi_desu Another trend in replies is the "Just because you x, doesn't mean y". Mostly used by the pokemons who retained their ability to speak, usually to shift blame to player. It's like a message template from the game itself. "Just because you edge, doesn't mean you don't have the right."

[@CuT7yFlaM]

"This."

[@shan_2933]

Btw, it's actually a real post

[@meccuterrin]

"You Deserve To Live in Moncton For What You Have Done" is such a strong expression of hatred.

[@siralexander3359]

I live in Moncton he's not wrong.

[@skipjacks85]

You can tell how long it’s been since he’s played the game - the way he powerstance’s EVERY weapon class he uses lol. Even Colossal’s. He has no clue how recent and some not recent, 1.07 is almost two years old now, patches have changed and re-balanced the game… Two-hand one Colossal homie and use charge heavies.

[@farhaxai9948]

@@skipjacks85 ikr, maybe that way he'll be able to actually finish the dlc. What an idiot

[@ahbh4348]

@@skipjacks85 IMAGINE playting a single player game as if it were wow lol!!!!!!!!!

[@ozzy1154]

@@skipjacks85wow this video flew about 3000 feet over your head huh

[@Boball345]

Video Title: Phase 2 Joseph Anderson profile picture: Dragon Introduction music: Phase 2 of Bayle I smile

[@epsilon1372]

Favorite dlc boss is Bayle too lol

[@alexanderbyrnes915]

Joe, the writing and editing in this video are at a whole other level, it really feels like you've found a perfect groove of snark, puns, and good pacing, and really distilled your voice as a creator into its best form. Good shit

[@ShenaniganSync]

Genuinely, it's incredibly well made. He feels a lot lighter here without abandoning the concentration of actual arguments

[@timandfin]

This is the essay style I want. KZbin is a platform full of pratfalls and people screaming at the camera to make sure you didn't miss a joke. Joe serves it up fast, dry as jerky, and is already moving onto the next thing by the time your brain figures out what just happened.

[@cycy8699]

You know they know theyre good when they dont even need to add background music/game sfx

[@tomhastoast9513]

yeah if we keep this level for the witcher 3 (and book discussion) we are in for a real treat when it releases in 2053

[@someoneontheinternet4518]

​@@tomhastoast9513I'm sorry what? Book discussion?

[@wraith3156]

1:00:51 I like that you showed footage of picking up Milady while talking about reddit. In general the visual humor of this video is pretty good.

[@vincenthuebner2110]

Didn't even notice that. Love the subtle jabs he does

[@concrete_dog]

I'm pausing/rewining this video like every ten seconds because of some interesting wordplay or editing joke. I love it

[@samueliam7693]

I don’t understand the joke. Milady was my favorite weapon in the dlc and it carried me 😭

[@snowouroboros9250]

​@@samueliam7693allow me to enlighten you, *tips fedora* milady

[@snowouroboros9250]

I scorn this day.

[@unnoticed9988]

You took to long and I ended up making my own opinion on the DLC

[@rogalcorn734]

😂

[@jl5262]

+2

[@RokketterCouncil]

Its almost like Joseph uploading a video causes his opinion to become everyone’s opinion

[@JPJonesBSc]

Your place in the jar

[@Phoenix_The_Wolf]

I made a Reddit post about having issues with performance and the god awful camera and I just got responses of “get good” and “skill issue” and “It’s not that big of an issue, your just butt hurt”.

[@Prismatic-Player]

oh don't remind me of the camera it is one of the worst i have seen in any game and the lock on is also awful

[@faizshaikh5658]

1. Your first mistake was going on reddit 2. This is why I never want to associate with the community, a bunch of randos that think beating a game makes them special and that their perfect studio can literally do nothing wrong

[@jonahbrown5669]

Maybe the Witcher 3 video were the friends we made along the way

[@corereject5796]

the videos that had spliced witcher 3 footage he made along the way*

[@FatalFatalisFtFts]

The TW3 video has been split and scattered between multiple videos and we need to piece them together to get the whole thing. Now THAT's a shattered masterpiece.

[@JaeTsunFFXIV]

This might be the first time I've ever seen a KZbin account have a second health bar appear

[@markshamp3699]

My opinion of the final boss is that he's super cool, amazing awesome and i never want to see anything like it again for the rest of my fucking life.

[@Daggertail777]

Very impressive experimental fight! I hope Fromsoft never does one like that again!

[@MohamednacerKhelifi]

Bed of chaos still the gaot

[@android19willpwn]

I'm glad they did one, but positioning that one anywhere except "the true final superboss of Elden Ring, Specifically" would be a mistake.

[@uyeah1234]

I think it fits reqlly being the final boss of the final souls content we will get for the series for years. Like how gael or midir was for ds3. After years of playing other games and coming back to it I would find it nostgilic. However if the next game they make is every boss is on the same level of Radhan, I would quit and play games that are actually made for that kind combat, like black myth wukong. Or my 80th playthrough of dmc 5. Or ninga gaiden.

[@rainbowkrampus]

I can guarantee that you weren't jumping enough. Think about the other DLC bosses, hell, think about the Furnace Golems. What did they teach you? They taught you that jumping is an important skill for the DLC. Every boss has multiple jumpable moves and Consort is no different. Once you figure out what those moves are, every boss becomes a full factor easier. Take what you learned in the DLC back into the base game and you'll be laughing at how painfully easy the base game is once you start using all of the tools available to you. The Consort fight is and always will be hard. But it's actually a lot of fun once you stop handicapping yourself by ungluing your finger from the dodge button.

[@Niakra]

Concerning the last bit, I was reminded of the first few opinion pieces and reviews that came out shortly after the DLC released and how they basically all had the same little speech. "To be clear, I think this is the best DLC ever, at least a 10/10 and I worship it daily. I do have some minor nitpicks with it though, like [list of points that may or may not be valid], but as I said this is just my irrelevant little opinion and the DLC is the greatest thing ever. Please don't murder me." I find it a bit worrisome even if toxic behavior is obviously not confined to Fromsoft games. And that's the part where we remember that reading out negative game reviews is "content", as there can only ever be hyperbole. Flawless masterpiece or worst thing ever, nothing inbetween.

[@austin0_bandit05]

I was actually thinking similarly recently. It was after IGN gave another game a 7/10 and I realized it was because it was the most beneficial thing to do. They give a score high enough to appease people who loved the game but low enough that haters can swallow it without too much uproar. I've seen people in comments lambasting reviewers for opinions before the game even comes out -before they can even find out for themselves! And I watched a critique of the DLC recently where he gave it a 7/10 which is still a good score but the comments absolutely cooked him. People say they like diversity of opinions but really they come to these videos to have their opinions validated or to shut them down if their opinion doesnt match theirs. IGN is literally the product of the gaming community. This isnt a defense of them I hate IGN too. But I've come to realize people are just not able to hear dissenting opinions without being angry. Im guilty of it too. This is worrisome because look at Tears of the Kingdom. A decent enough game but it had legit criticisms. But the fanbase is rabid and wouldnt hear it. And if they receive bo criticism why should they ever change the formula or make adjustments? The game sold like crazy and had good reviews. The state of Pokémon or Assassin's Creed is where we'll end up

[@Niakra]

Oh dear, so much stuff there, eh? I had to think of Jim Sterling right now who gave Tears (or was it BotW? Both?) a 7/10 if I recall correctly "despite" applauding it. They get a lot of hate anyways, but at those moments, the fans seem to go especially rabid. Memes are actually interesting here. Think of the "videogame journalist difficulty" one, which has been intensely lapped up and repeated in Fromsoft fandoms. And then look at how Shadow of the Erdtree was discussed early on - suddenly it's all about difficulty again, with one half saying there's something off and another more elitist half saying git gud, except parts of the former belonged to the latter when another thing was "too difficult". If it happens to validate your opinions, you can point out that "even video game journalists get it, hahaha" or whatever. Look how all those video essays agree with me! And if you don't agree? Maybe you'll find somebody who shares your point of view and now you've got validation anyways. It should go without saying that the whole meme about video game journalists is the usual manchild bullshit but it also ties in with what JA said about feeling accomplished for beating video game X and one's general approach. Like, I don't know if I even agree with the whole sentiment about early playthroughs, but I get the idea. How much playtime is enough to be a viable critic? What if you have a deadline and other things to do, like, say, a video game journalist? Isn't it a flaw in game design to force you through a dozen playthroughs first until you Stockholm syndrome yourself into liking things? For instance, I still hate Malenia's waterfowl dance (I think I agree with JA that it's "undodgeable" and people just figured something out instead), but I don't hate it as much as I did when Elden Ring had just released. On the other hand, I found myself facepalming when yet another Dark Souls 2 critique showed up in my feed with the creator claiming to be very in-depth and veteran-like. Look, all the achievements (like that means anything)... and then he proves himself to not understand basic stuff like counter damage, making the whole thing "expert" thing fall apart immediately. And the weird thing is, that's technically fine. One doesn't need to have the ultimate understanding and present a flawless dissertation on the thing, but that's what is expected. Instead of a discussion it's about absolutes. Nevermind the discussion after the fact, it's the opening post in a forum thread everybody looks at. The absolute, the hyperbole.

[@blkhailink5963]

He gets funnier after each weeb game he plays

[@youtubeenjoyer1743]

not gonna lie, he sounds more and more like a redditor

[@heepispeepis]

It’s jarring how different he speaks if you compare his old streams to his new ones 😭 All the references are crazy

[@TheOrian34]

SOM NI UM SOM NI UM

[@jakobsylvester7449]

Just noticed that after reading your comment. I rather like this new style of his.

[@Sarydormi]

@@jakobsylvester7449 with the pacing like this 2-3 years later he'll be on the Max0r's level of unhinged, and hope the editing will become similar as well.

[@zdrav4o2]

Okay, I'll cancel my plans for tonight

[@vincent4013]

Be honest - you had no plans.

[@joeljs9778]

@@vincent4013Mate I had a packed evening. Reruns of Witcher 1 AND 2 is not nothing

[@SpecShadow]

@@joeljs9778 watching those after cancellation of Witcher 3 analysis might not be a good idea, but that's me

[@boudicajones6524]

@@vincent4013having no plans WAS my plan

[@vasilasasimakopoulos9201]

The red john profile though

[@alltimelowly9913]

At this point, I'm going to name my firstborn "Joseph Anderson's Witcher 3 review" just so I can finally look at something with that name.

[@johnnywakeup5515]

Bro, buy a fish or something. Cheaper & quicker than a baby, though I suppose less meaningful.

[@Katiedid2040]

If you do that and they’re born on the same day it comes out will you get free Joseph Anderson Witcher reviews for life?

[@BruhMomentum-fe1kj]

​@@Katiedid2040so just one more?

[@trust_me-im_trusting8589]

I'm gonna explode

[@ivizgames320]

Hey Joe, my mother has passed recently and this video has brought me some joy throughout these trying times. Watching bits and pieces of it in the little free time after taking intensive care of my mother in her last days had brought some joy to my heart. I can't wait to watch the next review.

[@jordangoh4775]

He used to love your mom tho

[@mickeyzhou9863]

It's not input reading! The game just instantly reponds to the animation... that you inputed. Some people on Reddit legitmately think that's a gotcha and that the game is beyond any criticsim.

[@ilieschamkar6767]

Every time I read comments like those it feels like I'm taking the piss

[@grayestrat]

I won't argue that the bosses don't "input read" but I will argue that it's not bad they do.

[@leaffinite2001]

​@grayestrat i think its case by case. Theres a couple in ds3 i think are horseshit, haventnplayed elden ring tho

[@SiphonRayzar]

@@grayestrat Input reading isn't inherently bad. But they take it a bit too far IMO in Elden Ring, and the DLC.

[@anonisnoone6125]

@@grayestrat No it's definitely bullshit. Getting punished for healing or starting an animation just as u do is a trash way of adding difficulty. It's not fun and sadly, some dlc bosses have this problem as well. Gaius is the worst fucking culprit of this.

[@JDizzle785]

“Even the lore people seem to be disappointed in the DLC’s ending because there was nothing there, and they’re usually the champions of seeing so much when there’s nothing” 😂

[@LordBackuro]

True Being a Lore Whore, the DLC was somewhat weak on some aspects of the Lore. Where the main game, was somewhat better at.

[@underera]

If only From actually committed to a story instead of relying on half-arsed lore and included actual characters that got good development.

[@devinport.]

Facts

[@creamboyfuengshwei]

​@@LordBackuro I mean tbf imo it recontextualizes a lot of the base game. We find out what's the deal with Miquella and The Greater Will, the history of the Golden Order, Crucible and even Marika herself. I think the fact there's not a big cutscene after Radahn is what sets """"lore""" people off.

[@goreycarousel9689]

The issue with From's story telling is that it makes no sense contextually how our characters just happens to know about these things. We pick up a shoe and by somehow 'reading it' we telepathically know the tragic backstory of the guy we just looted it off. I love these games mechanically but their stories are all build up and no pay-off, their reliance on lore has gotten stale.

[@FearTheCaboose1337]

The nonlinear joke had me literally say "that bastard" at the screen, but it's not in a bad way. Good to know you ain't dead.

[@xBrakit]

I honestly think a better motto for the series/fandom than "Git Gud" that would express the same sentiment but without the air of asshole-ish elitism would be Laurentius' "Don't You Dare Go Hollow" from DS1, an acknowledgement that the journey can be grueling, but that perseverance is key, and that you're not alone in your struggle. Less gatekeeping, more camaraderie. Maybe there are circles that already do this, I (thankfully) am not 100% immersed in the discourse from the fandom, but I felt like tossing that into the ring.

[@FROZENbender]

the ds1 community does this, so does the ds3 and most parts of the elden ring community. besides that I also don't think 'git gud' is as mean as people make it out to be. sure it's snarky and slightly elitist but it's also a challenge. get your head down and LEARN. get good. and once you beat the boss or the game or whatever you can look back and see that it was encouragement. These games are hard but the satisfaction of beating a boss only works if they're hard. Git gud is encouragement to face the intimidating challenge. It's not like these people are saying saying 'you're a shitter at the game'.

[@aidancohen6244]

We got Joseph Anderson dual yearly uploads before Silksong

[@xcbzxv194]

still optimistic, huh

[@kindlingking]

This review was intentionally delayed so Miyazaki couldn't dodge criticism it presents on reaction.

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

only the chosen got this joke

[@ViperJoe]

Insert that one gif of Margit delaying his attack by 10 years at least

[@ManlyTear]

He'll just use the top strat vs Consort Radahn tho' - greatshield & poke. Don't need to dodge when you have a large cult eating up everything you do standing between you & any critique.

[@Romapolitan]

I find it a bit weird to act like Miyazaki doesn't take criticism​. Like sure fans can be annoying, but that doesn't mean he himself doesn't listen. It's also true that not every critique is as constructive or reasonable as some might think it is and sometimes it can interfere with the creators own vision. @@ManlyTear

[@ManlyTear]

​@@Romapolitan He prolly takes it less than one would expect tho'. I mean, him & FromSoft, have been conditioned by the fandom to be praised for everything they do and every issue fell on to the player to "git gud" and overcome it - it became a genius formula in that sense. Doesn't matter how broken and awkward something felt, u just had to "git gud" and overcome it. Not sure I can think of other studios who have this luxury cause I can think of many who'd have gotten absolutely roasted for even some of the flaws base game ER has, and they certainly wouldn't have gotten things like 10/10 storytelling or quest design with what they did - at this point for instance, I rly think they should hire some decent quest design & writer teams. Reading item descriptions for lore is nice, but come on ,games like Dragon Age did that and way more in 2009. And they're not a small budget studio anymore, they can more than afford it now.

[@pabloarias9734]

Joseph Anderson videos have become increasingly hilarious and its because of the weeb streams. The idea that comedy comes from a life of suffering has never been more true due to the observable increase is hilarity after chat has put joe through suffering

[@metaljessmax18]

LOVES weeb games!

[@cokeMONSTERps3]

AYAYA

[@sirrys]

Is it true that he hasn’t been playing any games since last year?

[@eldonhill4840]

@@sirrys that's right, he's been on a hiatus since december to work on the witcher 3 video

[@nacho2920]

he LOVES it

[@turquoise7817]

possibly your funniest AND clearest video yet, great work miyazak- i mean joseph.

[@Umezete]

The most vexing thing about "git gud," is it just started as a joke because quite frankly, alot of problems new people had with the souls combat is just not being used to the souls combat. So the meme started because any advice was basically "I mean... you suck, you're supposed to suck, you just started playing. Play more, you learn more, you stop sucking. You get good." I think the reason it got so insufferable in elden ring was the community grew and the old hats who used it ironically were divided into people who dropped it or people who trolled with it and the new smug bastards that picked it up did so cause "they got good" and like being able to put people down. Either way the meme has evolved into something meaner and it's sad. It used to be a little community in-joke and now it's actually just a plain old insult.

[@Amaror2]

Nah, don't blame new players. Fromsoft fans were a toxic cesspool even before Elden Rings release. They spent the entire week before Elden Rings release doing nothing but shitting on another game because it dared to release within one week of Elden Ring.

[@Simon200o]

​@@Amaror2Kind of ironic pointing out that x is toxic.... by being toxic.

[@YaBoiBigNutz]

souls fans are kinda the reason I didnt play any til 2019 and my first was Bloodborne, the community and particularly some friends were always harping on about how its hard and it wants you to have a bad time but you just gotta git gud. I was like why would I ever want to play something like that? the answer 99% of the time to that question was literally 'git gud' I had technically played a bit, a friend made me complete the DS1 intro and at his request I chose firebombs and after figuring out the controls legit beat Asylum Demon first try, like the speedrun strat basically. but stopped after that because I was like "I thought this was supposed to be hard, its just kinda obtuse, feels like im playing a solo mmo im good." then I kept trying to figure out why people liked it so much (this was before i found the mountain of essays on the series) wanted to engage but so often I was told "well if its too hard for you git gud" when that wasnt even really my issue, i just wanted to know why I should bother with a game that from what it sounds like; doesnt want to be played. motherfucker explain to me why I should play it?!

[@JoseViktor4099]

Regarding toxicity: ​​ I never seen an effort so Big for Some people to disregard not only a Fromsoft Game, but their fans as well, with Elden Ring. Saying masterpieces like that if you prefer ER bosses over other bosses, Idk, DS3 is the biggest example you get A: You have never played another Fromsoft Game before B: You were playing with overpowered bs and that doesn't let you know the "truth". C: You are a fanboy without any criteria. This obviously come with an unpleasant back and forth for people Who actually enjoyed ER as well. Personally, fighting over which Game is better (spoilers: is subjective) is one of the lamest things anybody can do, and is painfully common to see after ER release, from both old and new players. Regarding git gud, yes, this is very annoying. You can dislike a Boss fight and is not always because you find It difficult and you need to get better. Specially with the Radahn debate. There are things that genuely needs to be addressed, and things that needs to be called out. In order to give feedback, nothing else. No Jhonny, receiving an attack using my exact same roll timing roll as before because I was on an arena bump is not an skill issue.

[@nickoliekeyov746]

@JoseViktor4099 I totally agree (t. Dark Souls II stan)

[@mizel101]

Oh shit, this reminds me that I haven't read the pinned comment on the Lies of P video in a while! I'm sorry I fell asleep on my guard.

[@frist4478]

You are a horrible person, what have you made me done?

[@PurePancakes113]

Bro has single handedly sent the Witcher 3 video back another century

[@raven75257]

Thank you for your service

[@rayvon7534]

"Reddit DM's, the worst kind" I cannot agree with this more

[@leaffinite2001]

Honestly i think district managers are the worst dms

[@sirrys]

I’m still waiting for my very first reddit message even after having an account for five years😭

[@sammyboi8938]

Holy shit...yeah, you're right. I'm afraid FromSoft would become Bathesda one day. We need to keep those trolls and "git gud" folks down and let people offer proper criticisms. FromSoft is a good dev team but they can be BETTER!! So we don't need FromSoft to keep the level they are right now and let them improve!

[@StephenOwen]

I feel like we don’t need to worry about that, as they’re making so many different styles of games and have explored new avenues , like the combat of bloodbourne and sekiro Whereas Bethesda has been making the same game since 2008

[@iheartblock3792]

@@StephenOwenthey’re not Bethesda, you’re missing the point. Bethesda DIDNT keep remaking the same game before 2008, because they had to be creative. Constructive criticism encourages creativity, blind hate AND blind praise do not.

[@xyves6327]

The last Witcher 3 critique was the best video on this channel!

[@HaloFilms8]

Your point about Bethesda being on top of the world post-Skyrim and insulated from all criticism is crucial. It can happen to any studio, including From, and zealous fanboys contribute to it by shutting down nuanced discussion. Good video.

[@okagron]

Even before Skyrim they were already insulating themselves from criticism to games like Oblivion and Fallout 3. Those games were already showing massive cracks because of all of the dumbing down and simplication. Oblivion is just a much worse Morrowind, a lot of stuff removed or oversimplified from the latter. Fallout 3 is a genuine horrendous game: awful shooting mechanics, atrocious writing, abysmal main quest, shallow RPG elements, mostly bad quests with no depth, and the complete lack of care with the lore and rules from the previous two games. Skyrim went even further in the dumbing down and oversimplification, it has more in common with a fucking Call of Duty game than an actual RPG. People claiming that Bethesda started going bad with Fallout 4 are genuinely wrong. People only have appreciation from the games post-Morrowind and pre-Fallout 4 because of massive nostalgia goggles and the fact they had no context and framework to understand why those games were significantly worse than previous titles. To many people one of those games was their entry into the RPG genre and thus they have an irrational emotional attachment to that game that makes them purposely ignore all the major flaws. People need to learn to stop having nostalgia blinding them, it's fine to not like a game you played when you were a child, it doesn't make your childhood invalid or pointless. And i think New Vegas existing made them look even worse. New Vegas has its fair share of issues (horrid launch state, the gameplay is mostly bad because it's the same from Fallout 3, graphics have aged like milk), but it showed that you could make a game in the same style as Bethesda but have actual depth. Actual deep roleplaying mechanics like the dialogue system, meaningful choices during quests, and a good variety of skills and perks. The fact that New Vegas was made before Skyrim should have given at the time of its release enough reason for people to realize that Bethesda actually kind of sucks and their games are getting worse and worse. But instead people gobbled up Skyrim because of an insane amount of hype and huge marketing push, making it so that a ton of people had to force themselves into liking the game.

[@Mattev2309]

Why are we still here? Just to suffer?

[@SIGNOR-G]

The Phantom Witcher 3 review

[@vincent4013]

What are we if not slaves to this torment?

[@KurtKlassen]

Life is a wheel that turns and we are broken by it. Better to break the wheel. The Witcher 3 doesn’t exist, there is only bait

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@KurtKlassen i suspect that. What a shame considering that the first 2 videos are fenomenal.

[@KurtKlassen]

@@SIGNOR-G I’m mostly memeing. I genuinely think w3 will be out within the next six months. I could be wrong, but that would be ok. I just want Joe to get the monkey off of his back, weather that means releasing it or shelving it permanently. And selfishly, I’d like streams back.

[@dustydinoface]

Great video as always Joe but I have a couple criticisms 1 I understand the fan base might be annoying but I feel like you spent a bit too much time talking about things outside of the game. 2 I understand that you’re not into the lore but I think that you didn’t mentioned an aspect that dragged a lot of the bosses down for myself and a lot of other people: the presentation. A lot of the more mechanically interesting bosses like Rellana are a lot less memorable because you don’t know anything about them when you first step through the fog door and don’t even have cutscenes. This made the fight seem like an npc invader or dungeon boss that has a fun move set. Compare this to a base game boss like radahn who despite not being the most fun fight has an excellent set up with cutscenes, npcs talking about him and paintings of him all around the map. If you read this comment Joe, good luck with the Witcher video and thanks for considering feedback.

[@realkingofantarctica]

Joseph is like an action hero, wanting to retire but always getting pulled into one last job. Although in his case, the job is just making unpopular gaming opinions.

[@misteral9045]

Are you kidding? We go to Joe because he has all the details but normie and molded reactions to it all so it rarely gets in the way.

[@nekrovulpes]

He has to wait a few months after release for a consensus to be established, so he can more precisely contradict it.

[@janis-428]

Many Souls Fans who were Fans prior to Elden Ring have many issues with it. And it feels like even the Elden Ring only Fans have issues with some parts of the DLC, so its not really an unpopular opinion.

[@angelamengualcortinas3614]

@@janis-428 Janis, have you watched the video? He really likes the DLC. The intro is bait.

[@janis-428]

@@angelamengualcortinas3614 yes, i like it too, but its also bad

[@Omnipotentmonkey]

"I loved Shadow of the Erdtree" Fucking hell, that got me, after all that build up, this fucking killed me.

[@Crumsie]

I'm literally pissing and shitting myself

[@the-golden-duck]

@@Crumsie Same

[@metroidsuperfan17]

I had the donkey kong seeing banjo in the smash reveal reaction since i felt the same about how much better the dlc was versus the base game

[@nanashi7779]

​@@Crumsie you should get that checked out bro

[@Gabriel_Oliver]

Edward Elric PFP goes hard

[@davidpowell2886]

"I haven't played a proper video game since December." DID UMINEKO MEAN NOTHING TO YOU?!?!

[@milkishealthy9662]

It's not a gaaame

[@drinks_menu]

he read umineko?

[@JameboHayabusa]

​@@drinks_menui mean, technically.

[@Benisbucker]

@@JameboHayabusa Did he get filtered by Umineko? Lmao

[@zerosuitfalcon]

@@Benisbucker​​⁠​⁠​⁠no, he stood strong but it will only continue as a leap year tradition unless…

[@Lucax97]

The ending where you draw comparisons to Bethesda is so pertinent. When the game came out, people ignored or faintly praised the obtuse quests, only for the complete quest lines for multiple characters to be patched in a week later. There was little discussion about this and I realised then that these games are currently impenetrable to talk about. Fanboys have constructed something which is inscrutable, there's always an excuse, even if the game doesn't need them.

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

The most egregious example of this imo is discussion about a pause button. There’s absolutely no reason to not have one unless you genuinely have no self control and want to break your immersion.

[@Lucax97]

​@@christopherlyndsay8611Exactly. When you start hearing 'Its a [insert studio] game!' run for cover, because the next games will be built upon excuses and failures to learn.

[@SirGofres]

​@@christopherlyndsay8611Why do you guys keep repeating this? Is not as easy, think. You cannot pause the game if you are playing multiplayer, that's is mom's level videogame knowledge here.

[@SirGofres]

​@@christopherlyndsay8611No reason at all huh? What about multiplayer?

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

@@SirGofres first of all you can play the game offline. So obviously there should be a pause button for that. Secondly you only get invaded online if you’re doing co op or using a specific item. Messages and bloodstains should still allow a pause button as Sekiro has online messages, and still has a pause button. There’s no excuse not to have a pause button if you’re not actively looking for multiplayer. You clearly don’t know how the game works.

[@GBlockbreaker]

Rellana: -cool boss -important in lore -sexy -awesome moves -good music -no cutscene Random Bridge in Volcano Manor: -not a boss -not important in lore -not sexy -no moves -no music -cutscene

[@kekcrocgod6731]

Hey don’t insult the bridge’s appearance like that

[@mum-your]

im sorry but in that cutscene the bridge was way HOTTER than rellana can ever get

[@Markus-8Muireg]

Ah, come on, the bridge is pretty hot.

[@TheMarkoSeke]

It has to be a cutscene because it has to load in a different chunk of the map. Same reason the Carian Study Hall inverted statue has a cutscene.

[@galax12370]

@@TheMarkoSeke atleast its not a lore reason

[@medi6892]

The post credit scene is so fucking funny especially watching the premiere it got me for a second

[@chuckin6823]

metal gear solid ending

[@ramimansi8511]

- So here is the entire miyazaki convo: Don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare, don't you dare. Don't EVEN THINK ABOUT IT George R R Martin's Deal Still Stands You Know Top Selling On Steam Today :) :) :) You Know What Maybe You Don't Need To Delete it Hope You Like Rellana Twin Moon Knight. Especially Her Last Move :P CURSE YOU BAYLE LOL You're Probabably Stuck on Blackgaol Knight Are you playing it? You're not playing it. Don't play. Are you going to play it? DLC is out today. This has gone on long enough. Delete the video. It's time. Delete. Delete. Tomorrow is the day I stop asking nicely. CURSE YOU ANDERSON DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT DELETE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It Wasn't I Had A Dream You Deleted The Video And Now I'm Too Scared To Check If It's True DIESREGARD THAT WE DON'T WANT YOU TO PLAY SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE - unless you delete the video first? Please? I MEAN--MAYBE WE DID. YOU'LL HAVE TO CHECK IT TO FIND OUT YOURSELF. DON'T LEAK THAT. Just Watched It Again. I Have To Admit The Carriage Mimic Was A Good Idea And We Should Have Done It In The DLC Team Cherry Is Now Also On Board And Will Not Release Silksong Until You Delete Your Elden Ring "Critique". You Are The Reason There's No Silksong. My Phone Call With George R R Martin Just Ended And He Has Agreed To Postpone The Release Of Winds of Winter Until You Delete Your Video. You Are The Reason There's No More Game Of Thrones Books. That's It. I'm Calling Big G About This Tomorrow. Now You're In For It PLEASE JUST DELETE IT ALREADY ISN'T 3 MILLION VIEWS ENOUGH? ONLY 1 MILLION OF THEM HAVE COME FROM OUR OFFICES. 2 MILLION OUTSIDE VIEWS IS 2 MILLION TOO MANY Geoff Keighly Just Called. He Asked Seven Times Where We Keep Our Game of the Year Award. Did You Talk To Him? Did You Send Him Your Video? Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 Where is Witcher 3 You Liked the Radahn Fight Right? I Sure Hope So. :^) Hey Joe. Missing some hard drives? Want Your Witcher 3 Footage Back? THEN GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING DOG YOU PIECE OF SHIT. NO DOG NO FOOTAGE. Real Talk Thank You For Recommending Outer Wilds In The Video. It's A True Masterpiece. Would That Be A Good Title For Your Video On It? How About You Use It And Delete ER Critique In Exchange? Quarterly Budget Just Cam In. We Spent 8.5 Billion Yen On Therapy Costs Through HR For Employees Exposed To Your Video. We Should Really Stop Doing Group Watches. Okay Look You Were Right About Torrent On The Elden Beast Fight Okay???? We Admit It. We'll Change It. Will You Take The Video Down Now? How About Triss? Or Shani? I Have Great Connections, Anderson. How About You Own State Of The Art Life-Sized Yennefer Doll? I Expect An Answer Within The Hour DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! DELETE IT!!!!!!! Editch Finch Video Was Pretty Good You Get: We Remove Maliketh From The Game. We Get: You Remove Your "Critique" From Youtoube. Do We Have A Deal? Here Are My Five Shabiri Gripes With YOU: 1) You Suck 2) You Don't Use Summons LMAO 3) Your Video Sucks 4) You Didn't take It Down 5) You Haven't Streamed Persona 3 Yet I'd Offer You True Lore Secrets In Exchange For The Video But I Don't Know It Either. Great Vegetables, Great Vegetables. Haven't Done This In A While. Great Vegetables Did you Really Pause The Video To Read All This? Was It Worth It? Gonna Type It All Out Now For An Easy Top Comment And The Top Reply Will Be "Not All Heroes Wear Capes" ? Yes :) You Are The Loathsome Dung Eater Of KZbin Critics. And Also The Loathsome Dung Spewer. Because You Talk So Much Shit LMAO This is The Last Time I Am Asking This. DELETE. THE. VIDEO. NOW. TAKE IT DOWN. You Deserve To Live in Moncton For What You Have Done Hello Joe 😎

[@nathaniel817]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@jackoski__19]

Joe needs to pin this

[@EndersupremE]

Actual comment of the year

[@JameboHayabusa]

I heard Joe got a dog pregnant through IVF

[@karhu7581]

"you deserve to live in Moncton" is too fucking far

[@hugooliveira2104]

Just saw the patch 1.14 note and some of your complaints about radahn have been addressed, they are great changes

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

I still think they over nerfed him in terms of dumb slow behavior and stamina/ but the cross slash and the annoying holy blinding system lagging crapp was game breaking. The game is still kinda broken af but it's whatever lulz. For example From will never satisfy the pvp crowd haha. Still no lan, no leader boards, no map editor level creator mode, no custom matches full of creativity, no survival tower defense type mode, as good as elden ring is, it's got some issues lolz. Still a decent game. Even if the ladder climbing and elevators are boring af to get through. Damn you myazaki and your goo we have to walk through! What is up with this man and feet he's such a weirdo! But we luv him because game hard/fun for the most part lol. I do dig the guy though. He's a good kinda weird. He was asked in a interview why his games are so... DARK haha. He said he wants to make them feel like real life relatable stories. People die. People get sick. People transform. People barely survive... At least for a time... Life is sad. So... shut the f up and play this kool game instead haha. That's the vibe I got from him at least. Kool guy. Weird... in a good way like a lot of us are haha... But very kool guy. Everyone who meets him says he's super nice and just loves to talk about hobbies and gets along with everyone. The VC who did the wonderful Igon. He said he showed up all casual not caring too much about the gig and then soon realized how big of a deal he was going to be. Said that Myazaki was well respected by everyone on the team. Myazaki also recently said he's not firing the crap out of his team like sooo many other big studioz. Sounds like the koolest guy in AAA gaming if you ask me. And TG because AAA gaming be sucking hard these days. I'm lucky if I buy more than 1 or 2 AAA games a year now haha. Whatever this guy makes next though... It will probably be worth buying so always keep this man in mind. He's prolly made one of your favorite video games by now haha. Sorry. I got off on a rant praising the mans work haha. Still myazaki! Games not perfect please address some of this stuff lolz. What from fans? Hey lol I'm allowed to talk to the man like that. He got his friend patches to kick me in the azz sooo... Come on lolz.

[@BlazeStorm]

I fought and beat Radahn last week (so well after the patch) and I had a great time. I still agree that the phase 2 'runback' takes ages and dying to a near instakill move makes it quite tough, I had no issues with the crossslash of the flashing lights. Still was the hardest DLC boss for me

[@bobbemis8911]

it would be so funny if this was actually the witcher 3 video

[@pHDinSnowcones]

This is far and away the best critique you've ever produced. I think you're at your worst when you start dissecting the asinine minutia of a game and miss the forest for the trees. But for the most part this review got to the core of FromSoft, Elden Ring, and the fan bases strengths and glaring issues. IMO the most important and challening job of a critic is turning often hard to grasp sentiments into well-thought out ideas and critiques. I think you killed it here. Good shit dude.

[@DeusVault]

Torrent was not intended for 2 years, and now it is. Your feeble mind does not comprehend the mind of Miyazaki. Get gud lol. *rides away on torrent, gets knocked off from a pebble* 10…out…of..10. *dies* *game crashes*

[@jacksonn5240]

i’m like 78% sure this is irony

[@DeusVault]

@@jacksonn5240 I'm 78% sure this comment is unfinished.

[@anonisnoone6125]

Torrent genuinely pisses me off cos of how trash he. Wtf is the point of having ashes that "benefit" him in the dlc yet he doesn't change at all He doesn't stun less, u still get stunlocked into an animation that's way too long as well.

[@DawnwalkerUK]

Miyazaki waited to nerf Radahn until Joe's video came out. Joe was right again, as he always is.

[@literallyjustgrass]

Holy shit, that ending rant just vented my 10+ year built up frustration from attempting to discuss these games on the internet, thanks

[@Account81658]

4:42 "Sekiro was still better part two" is my favourite

[@rando843]

It’s so true too (but ER is a comfortable second place)

[@animalpenn-q5c]

@@rando843 nah it goes like this: 1- Sekiro 2- Dark Souls 1 3 - Elden Ring

[@soundywaivy]

​@@rando843ER cannot be better than Demon's Souls...

[@beanbeater]

sekiro is the worst one easily, i would take demon's souls over it any day.

[@Account81658]

@@beanbeater When you eventually reach the pearly gates of heaven, Saint Peter will read this one comment to you before pulling a lever, opening the trap door below your feet

[@CadetSF]

Excited to hear your new self-deprecating comment about witcher 3 video timeline, but in all honestly excited to watch this video.

[@jacklucy8745]

As a Souls-Vet…… But really, the last 10 minutes of this video constitute some of the tightest game (industry/culture) criticism ever produced. This is important stuff Joseph, thank you.

[@noahlarson3670]

Oh man okay you outdid yourself with this one, this is quite possibly my favourite video out of you. Phenomenal. It might be the "new video high" so I do have to give it a few more listens but everything was super well said (as always) and that last bit about the state of criticism around these games was my absolute favourite, especially as a fellow creative.

[@abyssalleviathan5148]

“The DLC has FromSoft’s best boss roster, even better than DS3’s.” This take from Joseph was even more surprising than Radahn being the final boss.

[@Jbswe]

It’s the truth imo ds3 bosses are overrated in 2024 I beat almost every one first try on my replay and felt nothing, elden ring bosses will always challenge me and I know difficulty doesn’t = good bosses but what’s so impressive about the ds3 boss line up especially the base game is alright at best

[@SlippySouls]

44:15 and next 15 seconds were the most unexpected things he could say LOL

[@TheFuzzician]

I assume he ignored Sekiro, because there is no way any boss in Elden Ring can content with Isshin, Owl, and Genichiro. But that's a different combat system, so make Joe just meant "best roster from the "souls-like" combat games".

[@Sephirothkingdom782]

That wasn't his full statement. He said, if you included friede and the ringed city, ds3 was still better.

[@Sephirothkingdom782]

@@Jbswe You're getting too far ahead with what he said. Ds3 bosses are still excellent. It doesn't matter if they're easy or hard because they were well designed, and that's the MAIN thing that matters. Ds3 bosses are great because they are mostly all mechanically satisfying. They all have a flow to them that's consistent and that game has the best hitboxes in any souls game. Demon prince is the best duo boss they've ever made and gael is still arguably the best humanoid fight they've made.

[@Nipah.Auauau]

There's nothing more cathartic then telling a Fromdrone that X boss is bad because Y, have them go on a tirade about how you just don't "get" Fromsoft's "genius" and how you need to "git gud", only for Fromsoft to update the exact changes you suggested several months afterword.

[@firstnamelastname6601]

woah

[@Nipah.Auauau]

@@firstnamelastname6601 Greetings, fellow Rika appreciator.

[@thedisastrouslife6622]

@@firstnamelastname6601iiuuu

[@tobythecat7439]

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.”

[@shatteredakuma]

Clutch ratatouille reference

[@EtherealMystic]

0:37 Did you really pause the video to read all of this? Was it worth it? Gonna type it all out now for an easy top comment and the top reply will be “not all heroes wear capes.”

[@Decatron76]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@DamionLionheart]

I just gotta say, I'm glad I'm not the only one who threw a stone on the roof in the catacombs and promptly died when it lied to me. What the actual fuck 😂

[@shquankinket8068]

Same I stepped away from the game and slowly drank some ice water in the kitchen. Left my phone in my room and everything, needed a breather

[@shankypanky8879]

The best part was looking at the live chat when the toxic part of Joseph's fanbase, waiting desperately for Joseph to hate on the DLC, heard him saying that he loved the DLC.

[@biocta]

Or the mfs who really come to a fucking video premier to hate on Joe. It's crazy

[@Zythryl]

@@bioctaa tale of two extremes

[@trevordillon1921]

@@Zythrylaren’t those the same extreme, just in different chats?

[@leaffinite2001]

​@@trevordillon1921 turns out all extremes are like too much or something. We gotta come up with a word for that

[@Username-wj8pz]

​@@leaffinite2001centrists

[@mimickz4653]

so happy to have another video from you!! really miss you're content!! hope there is more to come in the future

[@UncleSalad]

the last chapter is extremely well said. it was really hard to watch valid criticisms of the dlc get publicly executed.

[@evilfungas]

@@UncleSalad there is far more long form criticism of the DLC on KZbin than there is praise.

[@Strazz217]

@@evilfungas yup hating these games have become the new nerd face "uhm akshully" to these snarky mfs lol

[@sewnmind1786]

name one.All I'm getting is half thought garbage is that is easily fixed by just understanding the game properly. If I have to hear one more idiot on the internet say the words "objective" or "intuitive" I can honestly say that game criticism on the internet has gone the way of games journalism. Anderson is an empty headed hack the deserves a swift smack for the shear self-importance he exudes while talking about things he never even tried to understand.

[@xBINARYGODx]

@@Strazz217 you likely played into the SF hate, which went post-truth REAL fast, so you are just as much as to blame since influencers don't influence without an audience to regurgitate the prescribed opinion.

[@saltyshrimppasta]

“Sir Joseph Anderson just released another Elden Ring video.” “There’ll be no Witcher 3 then, I’ll tell the children.”

[@saltyshrimppasta]

(This is a joke for those who can’t tell I know there’s a lot of hate being thrown around with this topic)

[@Phoenix_The_Wolf]

@@saltyshrimppastalove the Simpsons reference

[@Soudrah]

They speaked like pokemon called "get good" that evolve into "skill issue" is my new favorite line to steal

[@MohamednacerKhelifi]

I don't understand the joke

[@literallyjustgrass]

@@MohamednacerKhelifi you should consider yourself lucky, i don't think being in a position to understand that joke has made my life any better😂

[@MohamednacerKhelifi]

Please explain it to me ​@@literallyjustgrass

[@sct77]

​@@MohamednacerKhelifi The only words pokemon can say are their own names, Pikachu will only say "Pika" or "Pikachu". He's mocking the part of playerbase who constantly repeat those two comments.

[@macnamaryb7773]

MR. ANDERSON, A NERF JUST HIT THE SECOND RADAHN

[@biocta]

The absolute madman. He thought he was being a contrarian by criticizing Elden Ring, realized he accidentally agreed with the fanbase, so he went back to contrarianism with Shadow of the Erdtree by defending it from the angry fanbase.

[@TheOrian34]

How is it being a contrarian to enjoy the DLC?

[@johnguy7178]

He defended it, but then went on to criticize the game for most of the video, the whiplash was crazy

[@nanashi7779]

​@@johnguy7178 standard joseph anderson experience as he alludes to multiple times in the video

[@literallyjustgrass]

​@@TheOrian34 just checked and it seems steam reviews are up to Mostly Positive now, but they were on Mixed for a good amount of time. Well that, and for a while you couldn't find a comment section about this game without someone mentioning a list of boss design critiques that could literally have been made against BloodBorne a decade ago.

[@johnguy7178]

@@nanashi7779 it just makes the statement “i love shadow of the ertee” weird. Thinking about it now, it seems like he was being contrarian with that statement. The rest of the video is criticizing the game and the ending part is about how fromsoft needs to “get gud”

[@neoman289151]

This aint the GeraltXDandelion fanfic review

[@michaeldelacruzhofer]

Bro went through puberty at 1:04:42 holy crap

[@samuraibeck]

I think fans and devs alike need like a 2 year break from soulslike's.

[@MustafaMohammed-f3b]

But it's been 2 years break form souls games

[@Fingolfin7455]

@@MustafaMohammed-f3b na, we need BB for pc

[@mattys_room]

That line about fanboys never having real authority figures in their lives, and the game becoming their “surrogate parent” was so scathing. You really popped off with that one. Great video

[@ingeniousclown]

my favorite line in a video full of good quotes. laughed way too hard at that

[@literallyjustgrass]

I felt my 13 year old self reeling back ready to defend itself at any cost lmao, that one cut deep

[@tomas60952]

He plays anime loli games, he is a joke

[@anonisnoone6125]

@@tomas60952 Which games exactly?

[@Aleksandr011]

@@tomas60952 lmao looks like you took a direct hit

[@Cybershroom]

The biggest crime of this DLC was to blueball me from getting another ending when going back to the base game.

[@selah6778]

it sucks how disconnected it is from the base game. like why can't i burn the scadu tree with the frenzied flame? why doesn't leda recognize you're working with ranni or the freznied flame or whatever.

[@Cybershroom]

@@selah6778 Leda wouldn't have recognized it regardles due to being under the influence of Miquella, but I get your point..

[@maxs.6517]

Has a fromsoft dlc ever effected the main game?

[@Modie]

@@maxs.6517 Not big, but in some ways. Dark Souls 1 - New cutscene for Sif if you did the DLC early Dark Souls 2 - New ending when collecting all the three crowns (though not sure if they added that to the game or just the Scholar version that already has the three DLCs) Dark Souls 3 - New dialogue when the lady for the Dark Lord ending is still around Of course, not big changes (except for Dark Souls 2), but still small changes. A few lines of dialogue would already be enough. Then again, Elden Ring is a lot more open so it's probably harder to do that. Main thing I felt lacking was that you could be the Lord of Frenzied Flame and it has no effect on Midra.

[@Gwynblaith]

Joseph is basically George rr Martin when it comes to finishing that Witcher video… but this will suffice

[@sunbleachedangel]

It's gonna be 20 hours long, mark my words

[@Oblivion9873]

Im refusing to watch any of his videos until he drops it.

[@Ω3103ζ]

this is his equivalent of the fire and blood book

[@SleepyPengu1n]

@@Ω3103ζtrue altough that is now also 6 years old, so at least Joe is a bit more productive than GRRM

[@leaffinite2001]

Cant complain, ive never paid him anything

[@logank9177]

1:21:52 is a super important message for any fan and game dev interaction honestly.

[@tuno_ow9010]

I’m at this part while reading this lmao

[@Stanzbey69]

No it isn’t. It’s an arrogance filled rant by a critic who received way too much praise for his halfbaked videos in the past, which leads to this ego filled rant

[@lingricen8077]

Its kind of common sense

[@andomitor8]

Man. That last chapter could apply to so many games at the moment. Helldivers 2's devs and community seem to be going through exactly what you've described almost exactly as you've desceibed.

[@TheHalogen131]

Yes. The insane cope is unnerving. The devs are taking away all the fun and the players keep lapping it up. Helldivers 2 should have been a barren wasteland after the Sony fiasco, but it's haemorrhaging players anyway. I've seen a very informative video on how almost every weapon requires you to overkill because the damage is 5 under the threshold. or how the damage dropoff starts the second the bullet leaves the barrel, so if an enemy has 60 HP and your base damage is 60 HP it's mathematically impossible to kill the enemy in a single shot.

[@alexanderquant7478]

I wouldn’t say Helldiver’s 2 is going through the same thing. The fans and the overwhelming negative reviews on steam do show that the community doesn’t like what the devs have done to the game.

[@raven75257]

So many games, it's not even funny. It's like standards have been consistently lowering due to people being used to the new status quo. It's wild to think that 15 years or so ago people were absolutely pissed at horse armour dlc, and now there are people defending pre-order practices just because "this developer is different"

[@Flameclaw123]

@@raven75257 I still can't believe that back then I was sure that all the outrage over preorder incentives (and a slew of games that overpromised and underdelivered, making people regret those incentivized preorders) would have pushed the practice out of the industry within a few years. Guess that was naive of me given how much money industry execs stand to make from them, ensuring they would stick around. Now even studios I otherwise enjoy are adopting stuff like cutting content out of the base game and turning it into day one preorder/super special bonus addition DLC - and while I'm sure it's a directive from the higher ups in many cases, it's still a shame how normalized it's become

[@DIABETOR]

It can even apply to Joe himself!

[@pigeonade.]

this is by far joseph's funniest video

[@iseeyou1312]

One day The Witcher 3 review will be uploaded, but it is not this day.

[@andrzejoojh462]

Probably not even tomorrow

[@yahyatavakoli1481]

​@@andrzejoojh462or the day after that...

[@spiralistichope9216]

As someone who doesn't know about this meme, doesn't he have like a four hour TW3 video on his channel? Have not seen it yet, but is that not a review?

[@tjhooker1215]

​@@spiralistichope9216He has reviews for The Witcher and the Witcher 2, but not the 3rd

[@caden8255]

@@spiralistichope9216 he has uploaded tw1 and tw2 but its been a good while and tw3 isnt out yet, its become a bit of a meme

[@henrygonzalez6518]

Who's here after watching the gred glinstone video?

[@alcor7416]

Hello there

[@thewolfking3054]

So it wasn't just me then...

[@clairedex]

this time for sure

[@brasil2907]

This time for sure

[@electrum5579]

This timeth f'r sure!

[@DarthMizaru]

Daijobu.

[@Nyahahameha]

That was...poorly judged.

[@mothgoth0]

I see you, Daniil.

[@leoforzeth]

Wow, so he just admits it!

[@schlangpoofa]

1:23:48 Joseph Anderson FINALLY shows his true colors?? Fromsoft puppet confirmed?? Lies of P reference??

[@kyeseo12IZ]

Love the video as always, that last 20-30 minutes was hella satisfying to listen to

[@agitated.tachyon]

It’s obvious jumping attacks need telegraphing, because they included telegraphing the first time round in Sekiro, and people incorporated jumps into their combat, while many still rely exclusively on rolling in Elden Ring. With no clear indicator in Elden Ring, your options are either trial and error, meaning you’ll take damage and die multiple times just to be absolutely sure an attack isn’t jumpable, or go watch a video rote teaching you which attacks are jumpable. The saddest part about the lack of clear telegraphing for jumpable attacks is that the game already has the perfect aesthetic motif to seamlessly communicate this information in an immersive way. Grace. Grace guides us on our journey, Grace encourages Godfrey to fight us, Grace is something that basically only our Tarnished can see at this point. Grace could have played a far more active role in the game, swimming through the air alongside us, or even quickly flickering into existence to warn us as much as guide us. Grace could have swirled towards an enemy’s critical hit spot when we down them, and it could have manifested as a clear prompt that we should jump the next attack. Instead, we are told TEXTUALLY that Grace is THE thing that will be there difference between our Tarnished succeeding rather than failing like so many others before, and yet MECHANICALLY, it is basically non-existent save for making my map look ugly as hell by the time I finish the game, long after the fights it was pointing me to have been won.

[@Arfadoz]

There are fights where almost every single attack is jumpable (like Rellana: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX_dkp2obpWlf5o). You can't have an indicator popping up every 2 seconds. Being able to learn on your own the openings without the game telling you is cool.

[@Sekiro_lover]

​@@Arfadozsekiro has attacks that can be jumped but don't have signs because those aren't meant to be objectively correct response to those attacks and there are also straight up attacks that can be mikiri countered but don't have a sign

[@Arfadoz]

@@Sekiro_lover And how you decide which jumpable attack to put a sign on? Not all of them are punishable with every weapon. And you tend to get hit more often while trying to jump with low stance weapon like daggers or whips thanks to the hurtbox of your hands. And what I said still stands. You can jump 90% of Rellana's and Midra's movesets. That's not a thing for most Sekiro bosses.

[@Sekiro_lover]

@@Arfadoz that's a design flaw in elden ring in pursuit of making jump dodges harder in elden ring than sekiro they made them unreliable instead sekiro sweeps basically guaranteed dodges if u jump while they happen

[@customersupportdeer6150]

Yup, it's even already there, showing us enemy critical spots.

[@lukemorris2221]

Brilliant stuff. You're rapidly becoming my favorite video essayist. Thanks for all your hard work, Joseph.

[@NightDocs]

Excellent and necessary final section. Enjoy how you want and ignore the toxic cope or hate on Twitter and Reddit

[@misteral9045]

"Horror doesn't scare me."

[@raven75257]

I lose my brain cells every time I happen to stumble in there for one reason or the other. That quote of how 50% of all people are even stupider than you suspect is true

[@jonathangiese5727]

Agreed! His thoughts about the role this mindset has played in insulating FromSoftware's developers from constructive criticism and how it hurts these games by dominating the discourse around them felt exceptionally insightful.

[@phantomleaves]

Missed opportunity to call the video Shadow of the Erdtree: A Jagged Peak

[@dotanuki3371]

I'd like to add in a point to the some bosses being too frustrating to learn argument: I think the healing flasks stop scaling too soon. It feels like they stop scaling for around 40 vigor, while 60 seems right for endgame. Meanwhile damage just keeps scaling. The result of this is that you know have to heal twice for every fuckup, and effectively your error quota is cut in half compared to midgame. It honestly feels like they just adopted the scaling cap from DS3 where damage is more modest, and never adapted it properly to ER.

[@Sekiro_lover]

Ya i always felt that healing flasks heal too little like half the health bar should be the norm like it is in sekiro we can still achieve that by using talismans but that shouldnt be excepted

[@evilfungas]

Funny, I feel like the game gives you far too many flasks by the late game.

[@ManlyTear]

@@evilfungas I could deal with less, half as less even, if they'd also halve the time it takes to use them, because as it is it rly feels pretty outdatted where the bosses keep getting dialed up, and build/tool/fancy new stuff wise, you can also dial up so in that sense it's fair but the base core movements & mechanics like... healing? These just have remained that way, and they're struggling to keep up while feeling satisfying to use, or learn with. No worse feeling than chugging during what you THOUGHT was an opening, or waited too long to be sure it's safe then realize u well... waited too long to safely heal, only to be caught in the "chug > get hut > back to square 0 > chug > get hit > back to 0". This shit drains your flask supply like crazy anyway, while feeling absolutely awful, so might as well have it usable less, but more effective.

[@duvetboa]

Damage negation effectively boosts your max HP. The Ritual Talisman specifically is a great option to negate hard hitting attacks.

[@evilfungas]

@@ManlyTear I don’t really think this is any different from having to know whether you have a safe attack window. Generally speaking, if you can attack and it’s not mid combo, you can drink.

[@wboyajian]

Its funny because as someone who absolutely loves the base game bosses, Consort Radahn lacks basically everything that makes them fun to me. He has almost no combo variation or mixups, very few positioning based attacks, and such extreme tracking that rolling is basically the only way to avoid damage. All the difficulty just comes from extremely obtuse and punishing attacks. Its like a pure memorization test of the exact way to dodge every move and then execute that for 5 minutes with no flexibility. The skill floor was super high but the skill ceiling was just barely above that so the boss already felt tedious and repetitive on a second playthrough.

[@shredgordon3240]

That was my main problem with the dlc, many of the bosses felt like memorization was the main way to beat them, not smart reactions and positioning.

[@RieBec-K]

​@@shredgordon3240 Just like pre-bloodborne games, it's still nice tho

[@kindlingking]

​@@RieBec-Kpre-bloodbourne souls weren't about bosses, they were about world exploration. Somehow nowadays "fans" forget this and call DS1 bad because "bosses too easy" (despite Miyazaki claiming that apparently difficulty wasn't even the main goal with his games).

[@RieBec-K]

@@kindlingking I was just saying that from Bloodborne and afterwards bosses were more about reaction and positioning, Dark Souls 1 is still a masterpiece for me at least. And sometimes the dlc feels like they go back to it with yknow, fucking Radahn

[@literallyjustgrass]

@@kindlingking Hey look, we've found each other. I think we're the anti-thesis of the kind of poster at 1:00:54. "No actually, I'm the real Souls vet, all the other Souls vets are wrong and have missed the point since the beginning"

[@Cinnacal]

Those Skyrim mods are getting crazy now. I almost thought Joe’s footage of Nintendo games were ACTUALLY from Nintendo games. That’d be weird.

[@Diskhate]

The final rant was goddamn perfect.. even the parallel with Bethesda's past is something i thought about and hoped for long to not see happen. Luckily i don't think we're quite there yet, and overall (despite the still present toxicity) nowadays the atmosphere in general seems to be less hostile toward criticisms, unlike during the Oblivion/Skyrim days when...it was legitimately almost unheard of to find people with a decently big platform willing to criticize the company, and most of the criticisms would come from a handful of posts on the official game-dedicated forums. In general, however, i think that the main issue that we don't see is that...Fromsoftware has never been super comunicative/responsive to feedback when it comes to the western audience, and that may be a consequence of them having barely any fandom outside of Japan before the Des/Ds1 days. From the little i've heard they tend to comunicate/engage quite a bit more with Japanese influencers and comunity members..we just don't really hear it on this side of the comunity tho, and i can only hope that the people they are in contact with give as good a feedback as this, and don't delve into just ass kissing.