Sword Master Reacts to MORE Elden Ring Weapons

[@IrregularDave]

Hey hey! I appreciate you watching the second part of our Elden Ring breakdown. If you want David to check out some of the more outlandish weapons of the game, be sure to like the video, subscribe and let me know in the comments what weapons you’d want to see. And of course, and other games that you want to see us cover, leave those below too! Thanks for watching!

[@williambigbills-9665]

Should have David react to swords and weapons from Assassin Creed games.

[@limitnil]

Get David to check out For Honor!

[@davesthrowawayacc1162]

Can we get his views on the practicality of the giant finger, herald horns and gransax bolt?

[@crazytaco2zday496]

Seeing how often David mentioned the "effectiveness" of hitting metal armor with a blade, I'd like to see his thoughts on "Exanima." It has many combat features around locational armor, bladed/blunt types of defensive/offensive approaches. The game might have an unwieldy control style but it allows the player to more or less engage in "advanced" combat. (it's just a silly physics based dungeon crawler. That being said it really does have the involved mechanics mentioned above.)

[@forevercursedlucifer113]

What about Chivalry Two as it does have some variation in weapon’s.

[@MajorSmurf]

Honestly I hope you take up his suggestion of getting an expert in historical armour as that would be quite fun to watch. The armour in this game is amazing to look at and very detailed. Of course you can always scar the expert for life by showing him the Godskin's armour sets.

[@grifkiller]

Expert reacts to Elden Bling.

[@ShadowHybrid92]

@@grifkiller better experts react to fashion souls

[@samfivedot]

On one hand you have armor that looks reasonably functional and practical like the basic Knight set, the various enemy soldiers, Blaidd's armor, etc. On the other hand you have characters like D and Tragoth

[@ZaakTheAbyssal]

Let’s call up the resident Elden Bling master himself, because certain sets like Banished Knight look like they came straight out of a medieval museum. Would be very interesting

[@BRBMrSoul]

Like said in first video tho, armour isn’t realistic at all in ER, like slashing attacks should do nothing to mail/plate armours. Now I wish FROM would hire an expert haha, imagine how cool be in a sequel to have armour be more than just fashion/stat block, ie war picks etc have utility purpose to help break stance of heavily armoured foes, could be good, could be terrible for gameplay and why FROM doesnt do that too though xD

[@FlowKio]

I think he should review the enemies move sets he seemed really interested

[@bellystraw]

Yes!

[@rompicoglioni8573]

the rot knights pleaseeeee

[@FlowKio]

Get Zullie the witch or any modder to set some enemies up to do some stuff on command

[@duffstrodamus3233]

Def played

[@andreschavez6141]

Really wish they’d show some of the weapons with unique movesets. The Partisan is a spear that can do sweeps because of the blade, the Knight’s Greatsword and Banished Knight’s Greatsword have very stylized and less exaggerated swings.

[@ryano4784]

FOR REAL.

[@ilaj3542]

This please I love the animation set for those swords I wanna know if it's actually accurate.

[@WadWizard]

Also the carian knight's sword which has block frames in the heavy attack

[@ريّان-ذ4ت]

I'd also love to see his takes on the more crazy looking weapons like wing of astel and maliketh's black blade

[@jamierodel5420]

The Knight's and Banished Knight's Greatswords are the only two-handed swords in the game that are wielded with some measure of competency by the player (with proper point control and without slamming the edge down into the ground after every swing), and I think it's a tragedy that they aren't touched on by Rawlings in this video.

[@R3TR0J4N]

Next: "Trumpet Player reacts to Elden ring Envoy's horn"

[@Fyrmer]

Honestly though, I'd kinda love to see an expert musician react to musical instruments in video games. Like the various playable instruments in the Zelda series, the electric guitars in Brutal Legend, or Nevan from Devil May Cry 3. Then if you wanted to make their eyes bleed, you could show them the Hunting Horns from Monster Hunter.

[@brady_boi]

Trumpet *Master

[@smugmorgana8528]

The horn from monster hunter 😂

[@iota-09]

I mean, there's the trumpets, the flutes of the perfumers and pages, the merchant's... Whatever it is they play, the harp bow...

[@Spike-hl2mw]

Really hope this becomes a long-term series like the ones with Jonathan. And you also absolutely have to get Toby Capwell to look at armor in Elden Ring the very least.

[@Tacti_cat]

Yes! I really like Mr. Rawlings personality

[@solidpat221]

Definitely wanna see him check out more games. Really love this dudes takes.

[@chiefbeef5906]

Using an anchor to fight is just taking a Morningstar to it's logical drug fueled conclusion. RIP to the brave sailors that gave up their brakes to gift that weapon.

[@SeAsombije]

Literally May from guilty gear lol

[@chiefbeef5906]

@@SeAsombije O_O Oh my God, you're right xD

[@lborlet5204]

In lore the boat it was attached to was beached and abandoned by those coming to the land

[@Ajehy]

I love how he went into the “grizzled sailor” routine because he can totally look like one!

[@robynhood3983]

10:09 this is actually a thing in game to a degree. Enemies in armor or made of hard materials like enchanted stone or metal are highly resilient to slashing weapons and are weaker to more blunt weapons.

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

yeah, but even the regular steel armor should stop cuts no problem

[@Joe-ve9xz]

I’d love to hear their thoughts on elden rings armor, I noticed while playing a lot of the sets are jousting armor so there’s no armor plating on the back thighs so the wearer can ride a horse.

[@Specter_1125]

That’s not necessarily jousting armor. Some of the armor is, because they have the jousting shields, but the leg armor doesn’t necessarily mean it is. Jousting is specifically a sport/training. You are right that the opening on the back of the legs makes it easier to ride a horse.

[@colbunkmust]

Pretty much all cavalry armor doesn't have armor on the back of the thighs. Most leg armor seen on the battlefield didn't included fully enclosed cuisse, and the only surviving pieces are for tournament foot-combat armor

[@twosheds7105]

@@colbunkmust It wasn't only a tournament thing. Many knights/men at arms had fully encompassed leg plates if they knew they were going to fight on foot. The English were famous for often fighting on foot.

[@colbunkmust]

@@twosheds7105 I wouldn't say "many". It's pretty much only a uniquely English thing for a relatively short period in the mid 15th century and there are no surviving examples aside from what we can see from effigies. I will edit my statement though.

[@asimovstarling8806]

Imagine his take on dual wielding the face shaped great shields with flamethrowers built in.

[@KleanShots]

1:31 Not the Dog

[@douggaudiosi14]

Praise the dog

[@un1d]

I don’t know how David can say that the academy can be LGBTQ+ friendly when they’re clearly all using *straight* swords

[@InSanic13]

I was going to make some pedantic comment about how they use dussacks, so not all of their swords are straight, but it does look from their website that all of their standard classes are actually in straight swords. Still, I know from his videos that Dave Rawlings does use the dussack sometimes at his club, so I guess they train curved swords on a more private basis.

[@kirbyis4ever]

*Ba dum tss*

[@nangsanbhalangblah333]

He should get some of those blades from Hammerfell.

[@huntergoth]

Have you seen those warriors from Hammerfell? They've got CURVED SWORDS!

[@Tibblewinkles]

@@InSanic13 David usually focuses on treatises that build good foundations to fencing, and they somehow almost exclusively favour straight blades. From time to time I've seen him teach Sickle, but that's far less frequent than his sabre and dussack sessions.

[@AdamPortier]

I have seen David on a few expert review channels, and he is very entertaining. I would absolutely support this being a regular thing.

[@TheDanmanimal]

I’m sorry if anyone has mentioned it before in the past, but I feel like this guy might get a kick out of Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s combat. When he got to the topic of thrusting with the pointed head of an ax, it instantly came to mind. It’s a fantastic combat system in my opinion, and I think it’d be a bit of a realistic refresher for the expert.

[@GhostEye31]

You should really have him react to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Probably the most realistic fighting system in a game with what are real moves from fencing from the period

[@RageBearer]

There is one already with two master swordsmen cant remember if david did for KCD but there is also "a making of" doc of behind the scenes mocap of actual HEMA fighters preforming the moves...however alot of that film is in polish so best of luck

[@matthewbreytenbach4483]

Another good game to look at is Soul Reaver 2, there aren't many weapons in that game but the way the npcs fight with them is really great.

[@TiberiusPruinae]

You really should bring someone in to review the various armour sets, the design in this game is very inspired from a lot of sources, particularly the Banished Knight set is very similar to a real piece.

[@kthyress1861]

I'd like to see him react on some of the Ash of Wars, also the unique weapon arts of some weapons. There are some interesting Ash of Wars and a surprising number of swing weapon/move body sort of weapon arts to savor in Elden Ring.

[@gargantula3274]

I've seen the overhead helicopter-of-death type thing referenced in group combat context where you'd be hidden behind a row of shields so you're free to snipe at your opponents with something like a longer polearm. It's also worth mentioning that people tend to assume that battle axes are similar to fire axes or felling axes when in reality, the blades are actually very thin, so they're really a lot less weighty than you'd expect. The dual shields reminded me of a quote from Fiore (famous historical longsword master); "offense without defense is foolish, but defense without offense is suicide", although to be fair, many historical treatises do stress the fact that you can - and should - hit people with your shield.

[@RedZeroInferno]

Whoever smashed that poor dog with the morning star must be punished. How dare you.

[@foodforthegods]

Love these videos! +1 for David's suggestion about the armor person. Also, could you have David talk about some Ashes of War specifically? Those that look and/or feel like a legit technique, like Square Off, Double Slash, Spinning Slash, Wild Strikes etc.

[@Tobascodagama]

He does mention Unsheathe in the first video, but yeah I'd love to hear his thoughts on Square Off.

[@alexlasher2525]

They should do one where they bring in a magic expert to analyze how realistic the magic is.

[@MisterTingles]

Got it. Instead of a screwdriver taped to a stick, think of a spear more as a box cutter taped to a stick. This will help me in the impending apocalypse, since we all know this is the darkest timeline...

[@colbunkmust]

I mean, box cutters are pretty lousy at stabbing, you got a spare kitchen knife?

[@MisterTingles]

@@colbunkmust i guess i could use this bowie knife that was gonna go to waste otherwise, but that's gonna require one more roll of blue tape and two batteries for some reason...

[@2Beasty]

Hahaha the health and safety part with the anchor caught me off guard. Good stuff

[@danghostman2814]

I thought for sure the H&S was going to be that you'd inevitably stab yourself in the shoulder at some point. The boat was just pure unexpected joy.

[@jwe2378]

1:33 Dark souls 1 actually this detail for the Morningstar and the halberd, where your character staggers forward if they miss, and it leaves you open for longer. (maybe a couple other weapons)

[@inoli3164]

i think it was the great axe that said it would be unwieldy and leaves big openings if you miss

[@kylebowen7177]

Get this guy to do some bloodbourne reviews, those were always my favorite fromsoft weapons

[@BRBMrSoul]

Ya, good point on spears. I have one from cold steel, but actually sold as a two piece item. Obviously, assembled it’s a spear but tip is entirely meant to be handled by itself too as a “survival” knife or last resort should haft break. It’s a good sized “knife” at that too and double edged, thrusting gives the reach but easily slash with it too

[@drunkenhyena3121]

Love these videos! Hearing David's insights is always great.

[@Dis_Dis]

The mustache really nails the fact that he is indeed a sword master.

[@jessicaslater4243]

The whole "poke from behind a shield" tactic is frowned upon as a cheap/cheesy tactic by many Elden Ring players, and the funny thing is that's also one of the most viable fighting methods in the game as it translates to real life, because in reality, you would almost ALWAYS try to keep your shield up while attacking, whether it be with a thrusting weapon, or swinging a sword, or an axe, or a mace. In real life, fighters would keep their shield up as much as possible, but video games tend to balance things out by making you drop your guard to attack with most weapons (just look at how Link traditionally throws his shield to the side when attacking with his sword, for example.)

[@diablica8134]

I think it would be cool to see him react to Bloodborne weapons

[@rayr.1813]

He seems like such a chill person, I would love to have a beer with this dude would be awesome to hear about all those weapons

[@davesthrowawayacc1162]

I'd like to see David Rawlin's review of the Giant finger

[@WadWizard]

Id like to see him react to the knights greatsword(or the banished knights greatsword)and the carian knight sword, particularly the heavy attacks, they seem a bit more real particularly the knights greatsword, also the heavy attacks on rogers rapier

[@jcaod777]

The Estoc heavy attack is a cut as well so not all the "thrusting" swords are only used for thusting only haha

[@nexsusarchon5358]

This guy is like if king Bradley and Armstrong where the same person. Frikin awesome my dude

[@YetiCoolBrother]

I think the element of the player character having super human strength plays a factor into atleast some of why you use weapons how you do in Elden Ring. For example, the enormous Berserk-reference Greatsword requires 31 strength to wield and the description says it requires "inhuman strength use effectively" or something along those lines. So once you've invested just 31 points into Strength your character is already super humanly strong, and all stats max out at 99.

[@kiwi3085]

I would really like to see him cover either of the Vermintide games. Their weapons are a bit stylised but things like the Bretonnian Longsword and Halberd I think are pretty good.

[@purplehaze557]

1:31 that dog didn't deserve that

[@kes-3d]

This was absolutely fantastic! I would love to see Capwell have a look at the armour in Elden Ring. If anyone is unfamiliar with him, do look him up, he has an incredible suit of black plate armour. It is stunning. And its well worth visiting the Wallace Collection in London (which he curates for) some incredible armour/weaponry on display.

[@TooLateForIeago]

1:30: we found the one player that kills the dogs!

[@shnorbles]

It would be really interesting to see him react to some of the weapons that have unique animations separate from the rest in their category. Like some of the greatswords (knights greatsword comes to mind) that have a unique r1 combo that looks a lot more elegant than just smashing the thing into the ground

[@jcaod777]

To be fair there are cutting actions with spears, not all of them have it but for example the heavy movement set for the Partisan is cutting, in addition to the light hits animation that are only thusts...

[@incius8341]

Wish they showed a couple weapons per class in the montage because some of the alternate moveset's for weapons cover what he's talking about. Like the Partizan having the some slashing attacks to at least talk about.

[@GenLiu]

One thing that I love with Fromsoft is this mixture of weapons that are historically accurate (such as the claymore or the Zeihander) and others that are completely ridiculous...Like the anchor or the Game of throne ultra great sword (that man probably had a good laugh when he saw it). About shields used as weapons, there was an enemy in Dark souls 2 who fought with a couple of giant shields which were so meant to be dual-wielded that each of them depicted one half of the full picture that was planned to appear once you put them next to each other. XD

[@lautaroonorato7505]

Would be cool to see a reaction to For Honor's weapons and armor

[@staLkerhu]

A half chinese dude did a great reaction about it.

[@lautaroonorato7505]

@@staLkerhu yeah I saw him, tho he only did it on the chinese faction. Would be cool to see how accurate the other factions are

[@BigManStix]

Let’s see him breakdown the witcher, chivalry or kingdom come. Great vid, look forward to more.

[@madisonseyfried9298]

"In my many years of hunting the kraken..." lol I'd argue that anything can be a weapon in the right hands, but he's probably right about the anchor. I wouldn't use one long term.

[@jippy33]

"You have failed me generic footsoldier 935. I sentence you to...Gatefront Ruins". "Nooooooooo!"

[@chrisruskin6189]

It’d be interesting to see what he thought of Devil May Cry’s weapons

[@ObeyCamp]

1:25 I can't believe you killed that poor dog.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

5:30 I once saw a rendered fight where an axe user hooked his opponents sword, pulled back, yanking the sword out of their hand, and then thrusted forward with point on the axe. That was the clip that made me truly realize that these weapons (all weapons) have far more uses than the average viewer may think.

[@celtic8600]

Vermintide 2 could be a cool game to cover. First person perspective on medieval weapon use and they apparently did a good amount of research on how they're used

[@jackofalltrades3450]

11:11 "you've got shields that look like someone welded two cellos and some spears together" we need him back to talk about the spear shield once the Shadow of the Erdtree dlc come out

[@deltazero7262]

I trust this man Due to his Stache and he Appreciates the comical nature of the anchor And Calling the Double blades the Darth mail sword

[@CJWII]

Well as far as how heavy weapons are, I would've loved to hear his take factoring in that Tarnished are basically built like Captain America and can handle 2 handed weapons in 1 hand just the same. So basically, everything we know about using certain weapons one way would have to change and adapt.

[@cixelsyd40]

I would be interested to see this guy breakdown the weapons in Kingdom Come: Deliverance

[@USTragen]

Would love to see David react to Warframe weapons, there is a huge variety of different weapons, some ones that aren't as common in games as well as being able to change up stances to produce different results. Really hope he gets a long terms series because David is awesome

[@Boromir95]

I think for armour realism it's good to take a look at Kingdom come deliverance. That game was really realistic.

[@TheWildSlayer]

1:29, turn away, maidenless behavior

[@subject8776]

Can't wait for him to talk about the Giant-Crusher, Prelate's Inferno Crozier or Ruins Greatsword. 🙂

[@josephisafan]

would love to see this guy look at chivalry 2, mordhau and kingdom come deliverance (particularly KCD)

[@SuperSky9]

Next up, Horrifying Monsters with 50 limbs react to Bosses in Elden Ring.

[@afish8883]

If youre looking at unique weapons I recommend the nox flwing sword. As a master swordsman, the one dressed in blue, used it.

[@DarKKnightt07]

There is so many weapons in Elden Ring, this needs to be its own series, please make it happen.

[@jimbobbigknob2718]

I would love to see experts react to powerstanced movesets, especially the rapiers, straight swords, and axes, all of the animations are very thorough and deliberate so I feel like it'd be a lot easier to point out and critique and shed light on

[@roberthelmsen6961]

“You get some shields that look like someone has welded two cellos and some spears together” might be my new favorite sentence ever.

[@shagaru1234]

i hope he reacts to the more outlandish weapons such as the royal greatsword and reduvia

[@inoli3164]

or astel’s wing

[@cosmic2750]

Idk if he specializes in Japanese weapons but if he does then you should show him some Sekiro! Especially since some of his spear concerns are actually well implemented in the way Isshin uses his spear, he thrusts as well as cuts with his spear. So perhaps seeing some Sekiro might make him happy.

[@OnlyForThePriceOf999]

I think it would be very very neat to see him react to kingdom come deliverance, I want to see how accurate they actually got the game, as it strives for accuracy.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

6:40 This is how I use spears in blade and sorcery, and also how I use many pole type tools in real life.

[@graemechapman7078]

This would be a great series! Games like Kingdom Come Deliverance or even some of the wack crafting you can do in Bannerlord would be really cool.

[@matthewbreytenbach4483]

Ooh! Bannerlord would be great for this.

[@Platinum-db8rc]

Absolutely need to show this guy some Chivalry gameplay! I'd be very interested in seeing something like that!

[@lankyGigantic]

What would absolutely amazing, would him having a look at the fighting styles of Kingdom Come: Deliverance

[@EinCh]

I'd like to see this guy do a breakdown on melee weapons in Vermintide tbh. I've always thought they were really well represented.

[@un1d]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance needs to be on here ASAP, both the weapons and the armor system.

[@paulchilds1893]

Oh look, it's acoustic Jonathan Ferguson!

[@jingleding9002]

The shortspear and cleanrot spear have a sliding 2 handed heavy attack that does two pokes each attack

[@crabscycle988]

I imagine the lore reason for the player character not using their weaponry as proficiently as say, the soldier enemies, is due to your player being nowhere near as experienced with these weapons, and in some cases, having literally no clue how to properly use them, hence the frequent use of the 'big sword is club' strategy.

[@pro_moriarty]

I'd like to see Anchors joining the ranks of weapon training at David's Longsword Academy :D

[@opencirclefleettrains]

I would like to see David check out Mordhau and the melee weapons (especially the Mantis Blades) from Cyberpunk 2077.

[@Gomezio]

I must say that the "I think you're going to die, though" when talking about using a shield as a weapon really got me 😂

[@davidhorton6283]

Have David check out Dark and Darker! The weapons and fighting style seem super realistic (maybe) could be cool! Might have to wait for next playtest unless you have footage.

[@DiggyDougSauce94]

1:25 is absolutely without a doubt the most heinous act I have EVER seen.

[@willgilbertuk]

Poor dog

[@Hirotoro4692]

@@willgilbertuk interesting breed of dog

[@captain_noodle9350]

i cant believe he kills a dog at 1:25

[@hashen_chamal]

More of this sort of videos would be great.

[@pepgast22959]

Doing one of these videos for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would be amazing, there's a lot of variety in the melee weapons there, with some real oddballs, and I wonder how realistic the weapons and the movements would be.

[@VerluxUA]

I adore this

[@samwhary5498]

I'd want a dual spiked pavis. That seems like the best way to dual wield shields.

[@LZEP332]

This man has to see the DS1 animations for the halberd. Those one handed stumble pokes xD

[@timvenus5186]

The R2's have good cut animations for the spear

[@jackshapiro4668]

While a lot of his ideas for weapon move sets are great, I think the biggest issue is implementation, and the time it would take to make them. His point about taking unique weapons into account is something Bloodborne does really well, but it becomes a problem when in Elden Ring you have HUNDREDS of weapons. Another problem is that even if it was realistic to make semi-unique move sets for every weapon, how would you implement it in the way he’s talking about it? Would you integrate it into the normal moveset, or have combos that you have to perform by imputing specific buttons?

[@DissedRedEngie]

Monster hunter is a must now.

[@TurboThunderbolt]

I kinda want him to react to the sword of night and flame

[@raoulduke2924]

I mean, it would be cooler to see whoevers capturing the footage try to go through an entire weapon's moveset. I'm not saying David needs to comment on it all, but there's the rolling attacks, jumping attacks, the backstep attacks, the guard counters, plus the 1 handed and 2 handed movesets.

[@BrainOfStone]

It would be cool if an expert reacted to the fighting style of in-game enemies, see how good they may or may not be

[@thealgerian3285]

8:18 I mean, obviously the ship's been either sunk or decomissionned a long time ago, judging by the rust.

[@djbeema]

What kind of monster murders a turtle

[@Lomi311]

I’d love to see an armor reaction video! Thanks!

[@kruko8200]

It would be interesting if he reacted to the most crazy weapons in elden ring, the ones with unique weapon arts

[@wmita4520]

I think I fought this guy in Murkwater Cave. He was pretty good with a spear, but I still made him beg.