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Does the 3 hit margit combo suggest jumping over his attacks is the right way to dodge? They are low sweeps and you have more IFrames available during a jump.

My problem with the delayed attacks is that Elden Ring has some really bad input lag, so you end up needing to predict the enemy’s attack in order to dodge it effectively. That’s hard when the timing is unnatural.

I honestly love fighting crucible knights for many of the reasons you outlined idk they just feel so flow-state-y for me

Morgott showing up in that field made his reappearance at the capital thrones feel more like Team Rocket showing up yet again rather than the intense rematch it clearly was supposed to be.

Nope. Sorry.

I think Elden Ring should have shrunk its scope a bit. I was getting pretty burnt out when I was in Miquella’s Haligtree, and then I ran into the fire giant and the stupid fucking floating castle.

Elden Ring punishes you for exploring. It might be the only open world game to do that. You went to that area too early, too bad now you missed several quests and items, oh no you rested at that site of grace more content locked. The game is absolutely awful to play after you learn how much content you miss simply by entering some place too early. Contrast this to Breath of the Wild which has ZERO missable things...ZERO!

Elden Ring's bosses feel like real time QTE simulators. Some of the older games had difficult and aggressive bosses that also didn't feel so lazy in their design. Personally, Elden Ring does have some of the most fun Fromsoft bosses, but they also easily have the worst.

>repeatedly calling malenia “he” yeah I mean I don’t know what I expected, the average andy audience getting into souls games is going to kill the franchise

I'm not sure if the the input-buffering was better before Elden Ring. I just finished DS3 a week ago before finally beating Malenia (yes, it took me 2 years to defeat that nasty hag) - and I noticed that input-buffering in DS3 was as atrocious as it is in Elden Ring. It was exceptionally painful during the Dancer and Friede fights. I think receiving a hit that staggers you should clear your input buffer. And if it already does it - it definitely doesn't feel that way. Also - oh boy did Fromsoft go hard on the dlc bosses.

Interesting how I really liked the Haligtree because the envoy enemies were a new enemy type to me. As I was playing an older version, where there was no envoy in Lyendell but imps instead!

I'm really glad you brought up the insane roll buffering of this game. The past Souls game had understandable windows for it, but the fact they extended it in Elden Ring AND made attack patterns to punish it left a terrible taste after a lot of fights in here.

Great critique. I honestly hate all of the bosses in the main game. Having played a lot of Sekiro and DS3. Messmer is the first boss in Elden Ring that feels very reminiscent of DS3. I don't know why, but they nailed the boss design for him and literally none of the others. Promised Consort Radahn isn't a souls boss. It's a Tekken boss. And you're stuck using an archaic combat system.

Yeah something did not feel right with the bosses… one thing is to not have parry system but no parry system and also bosses that attack all the time which is like 80 percent of all bosses. No windows to attack

As soon as you said you won't be using summons all your analysis became a lot less valid to be honest. The game balances around them, that's just it.

I did everything in this game then just stopped at the elden beast. Never beat it, the boss was so bad I just stopped giving a shit about the game lol.

I think you’re right on your takes. Whether it was intentional or not, it’s harder to notice bosses flaws in this game when you can go explore and come back with a broken build. Such a positive and natural way to promote exploration in a beautiful open world. The problem is you can’t get away with get broken or strong builds as easily, so spiking the difficulty in the dlc really shows the flaws in the game, leading to many people being upset that it’s “too hard”.

I feel like a solid way to understand where they went wrong with a lot of bosses is to realize how much better and more enjoyable they would have been with sekiro mechanics.

Please, make a video on the dlc.

What I find really interesting is how much the evolution of Souls games mirrors what happened with the PS2 Armored Core titles. This gradual arms race of From vs the players. Staple weapons being nerfed until by the time we reach Last Raven, the signature Karasawa, a staple in Armored Core 2 and 3, isn't even worth equipping most of the time. Implementing systems like booster heat to reduce our mobility, the gradual removal of Human Plus, once a system given to the players who are failing, then made an unlockable post game challenge, finally fully removed from us, but not the AI. Giving them a distinct edge that we can't replicate. Much like how I don't enjoy playing Last Raven, not because it's a super hard game, it just feels bad because of how much has been stripped away from the player, Elden Ring's boss designs do something similar. I just beat the DLC, so many amazing weapons with great ashes of war were given to us, and it feels almost impossible to use any of them against the bosses in the DLC because of how aggressive they are. Commander Gaius in particular.

elden ring was my first souls game n i kinda feel the complaints here... i rarely felt like i could actually learn a boss well enough to reliably know what it was gonna do. so i had to use all kindsa op bullshit. and by the end i just had to use mimic tear for the last couple bosses... everyone in the comments says the game is actually easy tho so uhh it seems like i just cant play these games. that being said i dotn really agree with the attitude this video seems to have where the game should just be "wait for the boss to twitch and then press invincibility button and get your free hits" so actually i guess i just dont know what i think. i hope you all like my coherent and very well formulated comment

Some bosses have so many moves that beating them is almost just rng as to what move they spam While some have only one move which you can hit them on with a slow weapon making fights take years

Fromsoft improved their boss design by adding openings to almost every combo of every boss in the DLC, but doesn't solve the core issue since they are still clinging onto the bloated design philosophy.

After playing the dlc, I think most of the bosses are an improvement but still have the Elden ring staples, like attacks you have to see first before dodging, a flurry of attacks that you get hit in the middle of no matter what, and a bunch of other things

"The bosses are way too aggressive" just wait until you see the dlc...😰

every single boss in the base game is braindead easy, most have several second walking up to the player and forced animations enabling comet azure builds to clear the base game with easy.

The red guard fatty is unique in that he has armor you can strip with the spear.

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Crazy how many people don’t think that these bosses have problems. It’s also crazy how most, if not all of the problems are amplified in the dlc

Imagine calling Godfrey, First Elden Lord (probably one of From Soft's best) the best of the bad bosses, couldn't be me. LMAOO

I’m so thankful you touched on the valiant gargoyle fight. Easily the worst fight in the game for me. They’re ugly and boring looking too and they prevent you from getting to a major area. Just horrible in every aspect.

play lies of p

not another hour long video just crying that they didn't pay attention to boss attack patterns or use their billion items and tools at hand to beat the boss ergo the game is flawed at a fundemental level.

Wait till bro plays the dlc lol

One thing which i think should have been mentioned is that some fights are incredibly visually noisy. The biggest culprits are Mohg and Malenia's second phase. In case of Mohg, the amount of red particles and the wings just make it difficult to see. Malenia has the same particle problem with butterfly, but whats worse is that her wings make it very difficult to see which attack she is using up close

You can also air deathblow the Shichemen.

The ape surprise caught me off guard totally. The spear tip wasn't intuitive at all.

In defense of Rennala, it is probably one of the best mage fights, maybe the best one in the series. There is no better mage fight in ds 1 or 2, and i think its better than Aldritch as well

Subnautica is so good, Below Zero remains untouched and unopened to this day.

wah wah wah i refuse to use summons so i complain about a game because i’m not good or patient enough to learn it

Not tryna shit on you but like? This games bosses are really easy?? Souls games aren’t supposed to be “mind numbingly difficult” or “hard but fair” The game is totally easy, once you figure out how the weapon upgrading and damage scaling works. For me to have any difficulty completing this game, I intentionally did not level up my character. By the time your character is level 50, you can pretty much shit on any boss the game has. Souls games are just a puzzle, where you need to find out how to upgrade your shit and once you do the challenge pretty much falls apart. Like I said I’m not trying to shit on you but frankly it just seems like you’re not very good at videos games and it shows. That’s perfectly fine but please don’t claim the game is “overtuned” and “mind numbingly difficult” when you’re struggling to take down easy bosses with fully upgraded weapons and leveled up characters

29:50 the axe actually was an MVP vs a final boss bc of its posture breaking/interrupting property.

This is even more relevant now with the DLC... holy shit they really lost the plot.

To all the people saying "Skill Issue" How can you call people not enjoying these boss fights a "skill issue" when they and I have cleared all the bosses in the game including the DLC? It actually hurts my brain. The Fun to Frustration ratio is completely lopsided and even finishing the final DLC boss did not leave me feeling like it was a fun boss fight. I did not even cheese it like many others resorted to. This community has literally one defense and its "Get good". Well I just finished all the game's and DLC content. Am I good enough to have a valid opinion? Apparently not and it never will be enough for these people.

1:13:36 you can, just hit her during the endlag of a move and it should stun her 100% of the time, hitting her while shes just standing there is simply a mistake.

I know this video is subjective and all, but I find the delayed attacks to not be a problem? If not, dare i say, fun? Maybe im a small minority but they're really not that hard to dodge and it spices up the flow of boss fights making me have to think about when im dodging instead of spam dodging all the time. Sure, maybe the first or second time you see the attack its gunna be a little confusing to dodge, but thats like, what 5 minutes of gameplay until you understand when you should try to dodge? That and the moves that purposly hit you when you spam dodge, that feels like the game telling me "nu uh, you have to actually try to time these dodges, dont just spam a button." I dont wanna be the guy to say "skill issue" but if delayed attacks and spam dodge traps are still consistsntly getting you... Again its fair if just dont like them but they're not that hard to learn.

I just wanna say, your insistence on not using summons is totally arbitrary and I think it really cheapens a lot of your complaints. They werent put in the game by accident. A lot of fromsoft criticism seems to treat summons like some sort of mistake the devs made and didnt catch, which is obviously false. These systems require deliberate work, the coding of unique friendly NPC AI behavior does not happen by accident. Similar things have been said about the entire magic systems, and even *shields*, in previous games. If a mechanic exists in the game, your decision not to use it makes it a self-imposed challenge run, not the "intended experience".

Sir, you are once again needed. The dlc has released.

Hmmm... lets hear his criticism of the bosses in elden ring, im sure theyre fair criticisms -Opens video and sees him fighting late game boss with 20 vigor Nvm.

I just can't wait to see the next video about dlc bosses. It will be hilarious.