I will always love how much of the original concept art they keep in the final designs. That’s probably why they are always so good
@lexmarovsky66678 ай бұрын
Sometimes I think they draw the art after models
@KamilMalach8 ай бұрын
I guess the twin working with Undead Legion has bad memories with his barber
@alyseleem26928 ай бұрын
"Crystal catalyst presented as a gift from the Crystal Sages to their favorite pupil, Kriemhild. Crystal spheres devour the will of the user, and this staff increases the potency of sorceries at the cost of increased FP consumption by Skills." The orb swirling in his hand... Does it contain all that's left of this once great Sage's will? Is that why it's surface swirls with inconstant shapes? Is that why the mask is fully fused to his face?
@Blizzard-IAD8 ай бұрын
Amazing bosss design
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Too bad the fights doodoo.
@desmondcoppin5918 ай бұрын
@@draw2death421 Fights pretty good, honestly. As far as mage bosses go, it’s nice. It’s not elden ring, but it’s good for dark souls.
@aellseiann9568 ай бұрын
@@desmondcoppin591 imo dark souls 3 bosses are better than most elden ring bosses
@Noizzed8 ай бұрын
The art design is amazing, the boss not so much.
@Noizzed8 ай бұрын
@@aellseiann956 I agree, (even if we only compare main story bosses) I feel that From strayed away from the design philosophy that guided them throughout the making of their previous games. Elden Ring feels a lot less coherent and less polished and well-rounded, it's a very flawed masterpiece.
@whatever3912-h7e8 ай бұрын
Interesting that the crow mask seems to be directly attached to the head. Damn, it must have hurt. He's undead though, I don't know how much pain they can feel.
@FoolOfDust940328 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure the undead still feel pain, especially the messed up ones like Aldia's experiments.
@trevordillon19218 ай бұрын
Judging by how often the player grunts in pain, especially when they die? I’m going to go with alot.
@davidhong19348 ай бұрын
I mean, the Crystal Sages could always be Corvians or some other weird bird demon with a debilitating rash
@GamerDude3228 ай бұрын
Legit, I've fought this boss probably over 50 times and never knew it had a plague doctor bird mask. Knowing this now, I have a new appreciation for the design.
@sigmamaverick92158 ай бұрын
You...never bought the hat either?
@GamerDude3228 ай бұрын
@@sigmamaverick9215 I just never wore it and in the icon, it just shows the big ol’ hat. Also how I always saw the boss, I’d only see the hat and when the sage lifts its head up, its face would be obscured by the crystal ball. 🤷♂️
@umukzusgelos48348 ай бұрын
The concept art reminds me so much of Rakshas from Berserk with all the swirling cloth flailing about the Bird Mask gives them a rather creepy appearance
@KamilMalach8 ай бұрын
Never made that connection before, cool
@thugkermit99998 ай бұрын
Ngl I never noticed the corvian head I always just had it in my head that the sage was just an assortment of cloth in human shape
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
You never bought the head piece from hand maiden? It has the Corvian head on it aswell.
@Lenn8698 ай бұрын
i always thought it was just ye olden plague doctore...
@LawfulBased8 ай бұрын
2:05 So glad you didn't just rendered the mask out with a jumpscare, exposing the hole where a face should be cause we would normally never see this part. 😅
@ONshowON8 ай бұрын
Man dark souls 3 was (is) so good!
@KKKuma8 ай бұрын
The crystal texture look like a water melon spinning
@tangramman8 ай бұрын
Is the mask cauterized onto its face? 2:00
@Darth_Melek8 ай бұрын
It looks like it and I am curious as for why. What power might have caused or if it was self done. Seeth’s crystal sorcery will drive you mad. It drove Big Hat Logan mad. So perhaps the Crystal Sage going mad cauterized the mask onto his face. The mask itself could potentially have roots to the world of the Forlorn as you find more of them in the hidden capital potentially coming with Pontiff Sulyvan from the Painted World.
@MilesMods8 ай бұрын
No, it's just floating in front its face. I don't even think the face is modeled.
@cheesecheese64597 ай бұрын
Looks like it is with the added burn marks tho
@jhonaraya87048 ай бұрын
For a moment I thought I was going to take off his mask pwq
@The-Almighty7758 ай бұрын
1:20 Wait a minute since when he can do that!?
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
I believe its a Cut Attack.
@robertoberto93858 ай бұрын
Same for 01:36, i never seen that
@Αστερίων138 ай бұрын
Underrated boss and ost
@talharawat5928 ай бұрын
😂nah it was just SHITE
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Ost mayby but the boss is just Slightly better fools idol from demon souls. And that boss was not very liked either. People also tend to put crystal sage as the 3rd or 4th worse boss in their ds3 boss tier lists.
@KrypandeNej18 ай бұрын
Well its just remastered pinwheel
@NisseDood8 ай бұрын
@@KrypandeNej1 But pinwheel got better song.
@uzn85458 ай бұрын
I sense the pestilence in you Do not be afraid. I am the cure
@paulocarvalho64808 ай бұрын
That damn sword still gives me nightmares. I never noticed it until a few months ago. 😂
@Snuffy27277 ай бұрын
Not gonna lie, I love how this thing talks, the mumbled almost whisper like tones
@Megacaillou8 ай бұрын
That's one ripe watermelon.
@SleepyMatt-zzz8 ай бұрын
I own all the art books myself, Its very impressive how the game models manage to maintain the spirit of the art.
@namang25135 ай бұрын
love how they look like typical casters but once you got close they dont hesitate to punch the humanity out of you
@underplague63448 ай бұрын
he jus like me fr fr
@Capn_Obed_Marsh8 ай бұрын
Something, something. Gangsta's Paradise.
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Doesent have a cane sadly.
@Mare_Man8 ай бұрын
@@draw2death421 They gave it to Kriemhild
@Crestfallen_Warrior8 ай бұрын
Been spending most my life living in a gangstas paradise
@veardinflarin28528 ай бұрын
Therapist: Crystal Sage with no brim doesn't exist, he can't hurt you. Brimless Crystal Sage:
@minespatch8 ай бұрын
No one uploaded the model on Models Resource yet, so thanks for making this.
@fromthegamethrone8 ай бұрын
1. I don't think I knew the Crystal Sage even did melee attacks. 2. I wanna go to the wizard school where the better of a wizard you are the bigger the hat they give you on graduation day.
@Zanemob8 ай бұрын
It started from Big Hat Logan. He was “Famously Antisocial” and hid his face to focus on his thoughts. According to his hats description. The Crystal Sages are canonically inspired by him so they too have overly wide brimmed hats. Thats why if you were wondering.
@fronatomy62808 ай бұрын
Are some of those attacks shown here, like that floating sword thing, cut content? If not, goddamn, I never seen them do this before. Probably cause I just go out and charge at these motherfuckers first chance I get. All I ever get are they're crystal spellcasting when far away and melee attacks whenever I get too close. That grab attack is completely new to me.
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
They are cut Content. The grab ive seen before in a mod i believe where it was given back to her. Ive played the game for 2000+ hours and ive done 20+ playthrows, not counting NG+. And in none of em have i seen any of these attacks shown (other than the grab wich again was in a mod)
@Zanemob8 ай бұрын
@@draw2death421I’ve been grabbed once. Its very rare and situational. Only saw it once after 7k hours or so.
@sigmamaverick92158 ай бұрын
@@draw2death421 they do the melee and grab if you stand directly in front of them when they have the crystal soulmass up. The best strategy to one cycle the sages is to keep circling around them and stunlocking, and never giving time for their soulmasses to lock on to you and fire. As long as they have them up, they can't teleport.
@NisseDood8 ай бұрын
@@Zanemob Hard to get grabbed when the boss is busy getting staggered to death. :V
@embargovenom99488 ай бұрын
Huh. I never noticed he had a beaked mask before.
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Wha... how?! Dis you just never buy the hat from hand maiden? It has the mask on it too.
@最強撒旦靈魂8 ай бұрын
Still one of my favorites boss
@10hawell8 ай бұрын
He has so many attacks yet we never see most of them
@CrowSkeleton8 ай бұрын
I hate that he looks like Freddy Krueger up close, but I love his crystal.
@thecandlemaker13298 ай бұрын
I thought that he was a corvian, but it turns out he's just a corvaboo.
@sdgkh094 ай бұрын
Ceileen the Sage, cousin to a hoonter
@SwitchFeathers8 ай бұрын
always loved these weird dudes, one of my fave boss designs, shame so many of their moves never get used in-game, appreciate the closer look!
@rigorm1368 ай бұрын
This guy’s harder than abyss watchers when using sorcery
@AwfulWeather56848 ай бұрын
I always thought it’d be cool if her orb was a catalyst that the player could use to cast crystal spells
@mistertuinkabouter8 ай бұрын
DO A VIDEO ON THE ONE REBORN
@Pygmy_Warrior8 ай бұрын
That is some arsenal of special magic and crystal power. Wonder where it learned them.
@ogorekcyfrowywdupiekota8 ай бұрын
Ahhh yes, the Walter White sage (thx Matthew Sheezmen now it's burnt into my memory)
@dyamondX8 ай бұрын
Waltuh
@aitoralvarez12128 ай бұрын
I had no idea they even have a sword
@Crabriri8 ай бұрын
Double the orb, twice the pondering
@Yoshyguy218 ай бұрын
For whatever reason this is always the boss that kills me the most on my DS3 runs. It's not even hard, but I always get a couple of fights where the clones decide to shoot me at just the most inconvenient moment possible and they get me
@Zanemob8 ай бұрын
As long as you are moving they really can’t hit you aside from the homing crystal orb attack you need to deal with that. There are walls and pillars everywhere. I never understood how people die to him. My first play through I was like, “Oh, so Pinwheel but with walls now! Cool.”.
@GunRunner1068 ай бұрын
never seen that single magic dagger like attack....
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Its a Cut Attack as are the other 2 shown.
@sigmamaverick92158 ай бұрын
@@draw2death421 the melee isn't. Nor is the grab.
@Cactar88 ай бұрын
their clothes remind me of yubaba from spirited away
@santasangre9968 ай бұрын
Third rate sorcerer with a fourth rate orb
@Deflamed_Sphere8 ай бұрын
YES! The Crystal Sage been wondering what you find for the Sage
@ulfbjerregaard41148 ай бұрын
Great video!
@keylor518 ай бұрын
Eileen the crown at home
@mida05g8 ай бұрын
Bloodborne Cut content be like
@quindecim5778 ай бұрын
Reminds me of big hat logan. It has a big hat too.
@iboofer8 ай бұрын
Basically they're inspired by him as crystal sorcerers, I think, as that's ultimately where Logan ends up at the end of his questline.
@supsquark5058 ай бұрын
2:02 Got the tyler1 skull configuration
@vrex8 ай бұрын
Woah! Slow! Wuba luba dub dub...
@chrometheus88988 ай бұрын
golly gosh im early !
@SCHIZO1D-4208 ай бұрын
Congrats!
@NisseDood8 ай бұрын
Pinwheel but with more hp.
@Coffin19878 ай бұрын
Damn dude what the hell
@ArbiterEx8 ай бұрын
🎶Been spending most their lives living the *sage's* paradise🎶 🎶Been spending most their lives living in the *sage's* paradise🎶
@MauricioOsuna-et8et8 ай бұрын
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WAS A PLAGUE DOCTOR ALL THIS TIME??????
@des0latedive8 ай бұрын
Walter White
@TheIdealofGreed5 ай бұрын
You're not showing the unclothed design like usual? Or was this before you started doing that?
@Foxcoder8 ай бұрын
i have a feeling, the concept borrowed a bit from bloodborne in certain degree.
@vlodlukyanov73188 ай бұрын
He has a grab attack???
@Amaladenfer6668 ай бұрын
I want their mask :(
@ixflqr8 ай бұрын
I don’t recognize some of these attacks- like the AoE
@lyssandrefinge47218 ай бұрын
Is this Big Hat Logan ?
@rigorm1368 ай бұрын
One of his many followers
@lyssandrefinge47217 ай бұрын
@@rigorm136thanks ! I'm just at the start of dark souls 3. I'm blocked on the blue dancer boss. I don't know why but her pattern is at the same time slow like a snail and speedy. I don't get the good timing to dodge her attacks. I know she is optionnal but i like to beat every boss before going in the next zone. So i don't have all the story parts. I was thinking maybe the crystal sage would be a sort of persistance of Big Hat Logan will. Like if his research made transcend even death but at the price of making him a monster
@leviathantb40148 ай бұрын
No legs?
@eldiegosinesi79086 ай бұрын
Es el scp 049
@danprentice70738 ай бұрын
On one hand it is really cool seeing these bosses and enemies up close and seeing all their cool details, but on the other hand I regret looking at these things up close, did not know the mask didn't cover the whole face creepy.
@robertoberto93858 ай бұрын
Have you done these type of videos with other Dark Souls 3 bosses?
@Zanemob8 ай бұрын
You can just check his channel yourself. Also yes.
@spyrotikus8 ай бұрын
I literally never noticed the corvian head, and Ive beaten the game 6 times and gotten 100%
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Never looked under sages big hat Headpiece you can buy from Handmaiden? You can see it pretty clearly under it.
@monsieurdorgat68648 ай бұрын
One of the few mechanically unique bosses in this game. Not a popular one, but I appreciate that they actually did something besides "Artorias again"
@Voice_of_p8 ай бұрын
When you go Mage this guy sucks to fight.
@kazuistikbelge17338 ай бұрын
ı though she/he is corwian
@Soulute3678 ай бұрын
It's not my proudest moments in playing ds3 but I have died in game to these dudes. Shits sad but what are you gonna do?
@embargovenom99488 ай бұрын
I die to this boss almost every time I replay the game. He's tough for how early he shows up.
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
Imo the worst boss in DS3. Yes even over Ancient wyvern, Greatwood, Gravetender and Spear of the church. Theyre annoying af. Tho this unused attack is neat 1:20 And if its not unused then ive been very unlucky in my 2000+ hours of ds3.
@Mare_Man8 ай бұрын
Easily better than the lazy invader bosses
@draw2death4218 ай бұрын
@@Mare_Man atleast Spear of The Church and Gravetender have amazing Osts.
@kimlee66438 ай бұрын
The cloth behavior/layering/physics here are probably the very worst implementation/adaptation of the concept art in Souls design. You literally can't tell what it's communicating until you see the concept art and realize it's supposed to be long swirling cloth. Which is weird considering what we see in BB with beast hair. Or not, I don't know how hard it is to pull off. But looking at the clipping mess with ended up with... it has to be hard.
@desmondcoppin5918 ай бұрын
Wdym? It was always obviously a cloak and honestly looks pretty cool. I don’t see anything wrong with it.
@kimlee66438 ай бұрын
@@desmondcoppin591 I don't know what to say. It always looked like jumbled rags clipping into one another to me, and it's by far the worst-looking boss in DS3 because of it. The concept art shows the idea was to make long, swirling robes that probably sustained the apparent weight of the body as it moved, which is likely hard to accomplish considering the actual result we got.
@desmondcoppin5918 ай бұрын
@@kimlee6643 Yeah, it was different, but I think that most people thought it still looked cool. Agree to disagree I guess.
@talharawat5928 ай бұрын
😂 I HATED THIS BOSS FIGHT! GOOD DESIGN CRAP BOSS 👏