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No way i just watched all that

For me it felt way way way too big. They could've easily shrunk the map 5 times smaller.

I don't know if someone has mentioned this, but the flower girls in Elden Ring have the exact same movesets as the villagers from Undead Settlement from ds3.

iron golems also a call back to tower knight

I’m not surprised the remake didn’t get as many patches as the other souls games consider the original NA version never got any, helps keep things as close to the og as possible

One of the worst things in the duo boss fights in ER hasn't been discussed in the video: the fact that bosses can clip into each other, which is against any intuition of how the collision physics should be like. Example: if you fight against the Watchdog duo in Caelid (which is one of the 'worst' duo bosses in the game) it can happen that you get hit by an attack of the second Watchdog EVEN if he is behind his companion. You CAN'T see this and you DO NOT expect this to happen. It is truly one of the most unfair mechanics in the game and is a problem in basically any boss fight with multiple enemies. In case of the Godskin duo I had it a number of times that I got hit by a fire ball which the Noble or Apostle threw THROUGH his partner. To be fair, this bad design is not new in ER and has been used in previous Fromsoft games, too. In the Friede and Ariandel duo fight (which is the best duo boss by Fromsoft imo) it can happen that Friede is clipped inside Ariandel and then you will be unable to see her attack coming (or it will be very difficult to see). However, this duo boss is still fine, because Friede is mostly stationary during this phase while Ariandel is chasing you. So the bad clipping desing is balanced by the fact that the two bosses behave differently in their movement, so that it doesn't happen too often that one needs to deal with this problem. The same is true also with many other Fromsoft duo bosses prior to Elden Ring. But, as mentioned in the video, ER duo bosses are mostly different from previous Souls bosses, because their AI has not been properly adjusted and then you are forced to deal with the bad design all the time. Which means: you have to assume that you will get attacked from a boss who is behind his companion at any time.

Thank you for this video!

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Heres what really happened with all of elden ring: Miyazakis philosophy hasn't adapted since 2009, and he has to keep pushing the bullshit in order to "challenge" people. Thays literally it. Hes great at doing exactly one thing, and so far hasn't really evolved.

*Yes Satan, feed me more content shitting on Elden Ring*

Am i the only one that was a bit unimpressed by ornstien and smough, like all my friends said how it was the greatest duo fight/ best fight in the game but it was kinda just alright😅 And obviously it’s unfair to compare them but ds3 just did duo fights the best. Abyss watchers; friede; and demon prince!! Like it’s not a terrible fight but I think it another thing i don’t like about some ds1 meat riders i guess. 😅😂

Unpopular opinion i guess, but fromsoft was always bad at making duo bosses. The only time they actually made a good duo boss is the demon princes. They are so much above any other boss. Other good boss is darklurker, but the reason why hes a good boss is because they kinda got lucky. Even O&S which was praised as the best boss duo is honestly trash, and if you disagree try to beat them without taking a hit and youll see that they dont move at different speeds, both have gap closers, and have many overlaping attacks (also pillars dont help much) And not just O&S 90% of duo fights are just trash

I’m probably the only person who enjoyed the Godskin Duo fight. I found that if you use all the summons available the fight turns into a giant brawl & it’s not too difficult. If you’re playing without summons, I completely understand the frustration though.

I don’t think Godskin duo is as egregious as some people make it out to be. However Valiant Gargoyles is down right hateful.

ok Imma say it, if they weren't joke enemies, Miranda Flower and Omenkiller is peak duo fight because one is stationary crowd control and the other is an aggro brawler. All other Elden Ring gank fights were neutered into being multiple 1v1s one after the other after that big patch, which at that point, why have a multiple boss fight anyway.

The word that I was thinking was "Balance"

Good duo fights are at their best when they are asymmetric in my opinion.

This was a good video, high quality, enjoyable, thanks I needed a good video like this today

I think in the godskin duo fight you are expected to have more or less mastered fighting the godskins on their own, because you can fight them alone in earlier bossfights. Anyway, go summons go!

Imo the only good duo fight of every souls game + elden ring + sekiro is Lorian/Lothric. Their usual duo boss design sucks donkey ass. There's nothing more lazy and stupid then throwing two independant autonomic bosses in one arena. No joint skills, no combined mechanics, nothing. Just two bodies that unleash endless attack spam on you. What's the point of making a duo fight if no one will want to fight both of them? They could've make two separate consecutive 1v1 fights and nothing would change. Elden Ring became faster then previous games and bosses became more aggressive. This problem wasn't so noticable earlier just because bosses were passive and slow in general. But overall this duo boss design is lazy and bad and it must be stopped.

A Demon's Souls fan trying to understand duo bosses, the irony

O&S is not a good boss fight

I like both the old games and this one

People don't like the mountaintops of the giants?! I love that area. And I like that the area feels like it never ends.

I personally don't mind it at all. I think its fun to explore and find things that you didn't necessarily have to find.

The only duo boss thats objectively bad imo is the gargoyles. Even the godskins weren't that bad

Honestly Duo would be fine if it weren’t for both Apostle and Noble having very tricky and goofy attacks (Apostle quick double swipe, Noble quick belly bump p1 and roll in p2). And with Gargoyles, the fight is diminished by poison breath, but otherwise they’d be fine

It's a bit sad how the Abyss Watchers are never brought up and only one Dark Souls 1 boss is the main one that people point to even if it wasn't the first duo encounter not the only in the souls series. I really hope that someone one day makes a video going over every single duo boss in the series of games ngl because just one, two, or three examples from past games being used when talking about the entirety of Elden Ring's duo bosses in the same breath feels really unbalanced. Also fingers crossed for a good duo fight in the DLC as a side note.

Using light armor and uninfused weapons at Godskins. I motion to have this argument dismissed.

The only thing about the dlc that i didn't see anybody talk about is the dlc gonna have a good gank boss

This argument is so outplayed. In fact, I think I'm going to repeat my argument I made in that very same video you mentioned talking about multiple-boss fights in Elden Ring. Fighting multiple opponents at once is just too much? It's almost like the last several games Fromsoft has made is about overcoming adversity against the odds. I would leave it at that, but I'll just highlight the most common illegitimate complaint: Godskin Duo. You have no less than 5 opportunities to fight the God Skin Noble and Apostle 1v1, with one these encounters being one after the other, in Spirit form so they have no weaknesses (can you sleep Spirits? I never really experimented with that, anyway...), so you can understand all their moves and know what to do, before fighting them together at the same time. If you can't figure out how either of these bosses work by then, it's mostly your fault for not exploring, making you more prepared when the unavoidable fight happens. The only other example is the Gargoyles fight. The only issue with this one, is that they have this very powerful poison AOE attack that damages you in addition to building up the poison status. If you don't know after the first death that standing in the big green stinky cloud kills you, and how to avoid it, that's on you. Other than that, I'm fairly certain 80% of complaints about these bosses come from people that play the whole game without leveling up Vigor, and play the whole game with only about 1000 HP or less. That's an argument in and if itself, but it's especially pertinent here because almost all bosses have some kind of knock down attack. The AI will virtually always wait for you to get up, then calculate a few extra seconds again, giving you time to heal. So if you have *barely enough health to survive one of these harder hitting stun attacks, and then literally any second enemy is nearby that hasn't already attacked you, whether its a second boss or not, will be primed up to hit you immediately if you aren't anticipating another attack to dodge, or try to heal in the middle of it. I'm not some kind of elitist either, use Spirit Ash summons, summon another player, hell, go ahead and look up a guide even. Imagine, there are people that read online that this entire fight is trivialized by a single Sleep Pot: an item that requires no stats, and you've probably already gathered dozens of crafting materials for by accident, not even intentionally picked up because you thought you might need it later, and STILL complaining that the Godskin Duo is too hard or poorly designed. Even worse if they're already using a bleed build. Elden Ring is by far the easiest, most acessible to newcomers Fromsoft game yet. It's very difficult at times, but all these same people would cry and quit the game if they fought Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls as their first game. That's what I did, I even quit the game for over a year, came back with a whole new character and beat them. I was wrong, not the boss fight Unlike the Godskin Duos or Gargoyles, there are no obvious weaknesses to exploit in O&S, you just have to get good. Me complaining about O&S did nothing to help me, and I would be wrong in saying it's a bad boss fight that makes the game look bad.

They're not failures, you're simply not supposed to fight them alone. None of them have rememberance boss level of production value, these are not even proper bosses, they're small scale fantasy skirmishes

Still works tysm

you should had mention how many of these bosses specially the crucible and godskins got AI changes with game updates

The best duo fight in Elden Ring is the Miranda Omen killer duo and I am not even joking. The Flower is quite tanky and is passively attacking you with poison and the holy rain attack. You can ignore the flower and fight the omen killer, but you will have to be constantly on the move to avoid the holy rain, or you can try to kill the flower which cant move, but the omen killer will be attacking you as you try to kill it

I feel your last point is a painfully flawed perspective, because *the game gives you **_absurd amounts_** of crowd control.* It has a veritable cornucopia of Incantations, Sorceries, Spirit Ashes, Ashes of War, & craftable Items that ALL do _exactly that._ Whether you're putting points into Vitality, Mind, Faith, Int, or just making simple throwables - there are nearly endless crowd control options viable for ANY build. This is why the fights are less choreographed for the duos, because you HAVE the ability to control the pacing FAR more than in any other *_Souls_* game. The open world nature of the game itself is already always forcing you to take charge of doing that. It's a core part of the problem solving challenge of the game's combat encounters that supports WHY it gives you SO MANY different tools to do that, as well as why there are Trio and other numerically oppressive boss encounters like Niall & O'Neil, or Millicent's four sisters. YOU have to control that, which is also tied to the core theme of the story about becoming Elden Lord and enforcing your own new order for everyone else in the Lands Between to follow. There are status effects, elemental weaknesses, flinching, & poise breaking which all give a VAST range of approaches for a single player dealing with multiple bosses. The fact that the game's most passive summon, the Finger Maiden Therolina Puppet who only throws Holy Pots or AoE heals is a hard counter to the game's most aggressively oppressive Royal Revenants really emphasizes how an EXTREMELY simple change to your tools can make all the difference to trivialize something that attempts to forcibly remove that from you - just like Sleep Pots and the Godskin Duo make that an absolute cake walk. The fact that a tiny subset of the player base _chooses_ not to utilize ANY of these tools when playing, but instead focus only on a Str/Dex-centric approach for just using weapons & parrying like it's still an early *_Souls_* game with restricted resources & versatility doesn't make the game itself lacking by not providing even MORE alternatives in the level design - that undercuts the core utility of all the aforementioned tools. Summoning isn't done at the cost of Insight or a limited resources like in *_Bloodborne_* but is limited only PER ENCOUNTER, because it's a tool balanced to that utility, as a reflection of a different combat emphasis than other *_Souls_* games. It's even more of a magical fantasy world than any other and the combat reflects that even while the underlying framework still makes a *_Souls_* minimalist approach still viable, it has larger challenges to overcome because the things that approach is not using are a larger component of the core game design than in other *_Souls_* games. There's no reason to accommodate players who refuse to engage with the countless options the game provides, _because they're not actually playing the game on its own terms._ They're expecting the game to be conformant to theirs, *_which is… not how game design works._* Intentionally embracing a self-enforced handicap and then judging the remaining aspects of the game for not accommodating that isn't really objectively accurate or even useful as critical feedback - _even though it likely VERY STRONGLY resonates with that subset of players who embrace that approach BECAUSE …they actually just want it to be another game that it isn't._ That's what this criticism feels like. It's criticizing *_Elden Ring_* for not being a game it emphatically and very obviously isn't. Don't get me wrong, the duo/trio Boss fights are often a more obnoxious challenge but that's just the nature of having exponentially more possible outcomes and overlaps of factors to face. They're not bad, they're just a challenge for how well YOU deal with crowd control. Anecdotally, the only ones of these bosses I've really ever struggled with is the multi-Erdtree Burial Watchdogs, because they can get into some really oppressive patterns (but also because the very first time I encountered them was at a low level and an early build bug meant I was locked INSIDE the catacombs until I beat them). The duo Pumpkin Heads are utterly trivial if you just… ride Torrent. None of those duo fights LACK crowd control options, because _you can literally have as many or as few as you want, that are as strong or as weak as you want them to be._

To answer your question at 0:30, Spirit Ashes is what happened.

On the issue of not knowing what's in Shadow of the Erdtree, I've heard leaks and rumors that their is going to be a gameplay preview on either the 4th or the 7th. Knowing Bandai Namco, at least one of those is true.

I got better at the game and these bosses are a breeze now

Yeah, the duo fights in ER are pretty poor, though I feel like godskin duo had potential with some tweaking. Now to be fair, nearly all duo fights in every souls game are poor. People seem to like O&S but I think that fight is mediocre at BEST. The only good duo fight I can think of (at the moment) in the series is the demon princes in the ringed city DLC.

Its worth mentioning that a handful of the game's duo fights were shadow nerfed in patch 1.04 to make the enemy AI be less likely to attack together. This specirically impacted the Crystalian duo fights found thoughout the game, the Pumkin Head Duo fight in Caelid, the Abductor Vergin Duo fight in Mt. Gelmnir, the Erdtree Avatar in the Mountaintops, and the Crucible Knight Duo in Altus. All of these bosses were way worse about both bosses being super aggressive and attacking at the same time originally, which definitely left a sour taste in players mouths if they played at launch

I'm glad you gave credit to the Crucible Knight duo. Even when I fought them before the AI adjustment, I found them to be a fun and fair boss fight. Valient Gargoyles is a a complete disaster of a boss fight. I'd go as far as to say its worse than Godskin duo. The Gargoyles simply have too much speed, range, and moveset complexity to work as a gank fight. The only way this could have been good is if the second Gargoyle came in after the first died.

There are some bad duo fights, but most are manageable if you prepare correctly. Even the mad pumpkin duo, as you can use torrent in that arena to begin with, and a strengh build or caster (magic or incant) build melts them like butter. Another exemple is when the crucible duo decided to go balistic on me and both became agressive at the same time, it was still manageable as I prepared my set for them when I lost the first time, and I easely won the second time I fought them despite that, never had a problem with them since, even in +7, with giant's hunt. Same with godskin duo, once you understand Sleep=win, they are pushovers (which is not the case of Maliketh that follows right after, even with the blasphemous claw :/) However, the TRIO fights (and more sometimes because why not), those are just absurd. Three rot crystalians, which you discover through Selen's quest, meaning your level is around early to mid Gelmir, and now you have three Dragonbarrow scaled rot crystalians to fight. As for my favorite duo fight in elden ring, it would probably be the omenkiller + Miranda blighted bloom duo. Although It felt like the Miranda could have been a Madness variant instead to spice things up, especilly with how rare they are, some people would never have encountered them at all before the fight and be very surprised when they burn it and it went haywire. So either this one or Perfumer Tricia + Misbegotten warrior A point I disagreed heavily with however is the watchdog duo, those guys in higher ng+ have incredible poise, hit very hard and the timing of their attacks if very odd, especially when you are trying to fight two, whith both being agressive. I usually resort to crystal darts for those two. Also, the boss + multiple tiny enemies is a no for me. Whoever thought Edgar needed two bleed dogs, and that that one cemetary shade needed skeletons on top can eat nails by the spoonfull for all I care. And then there's the spiritcaller cave, which I will dread for all eternity. Between the Okina disciple that despawn if they want, the wolf galore and the ghostskin duo, I just want to skip it every time I enter it.

I would take any of the Elden ring gank fights over bosses like the Gapra Demon or the Gank Squad any day

Those dou bosses aren’t the only dous who failed in life

Man-Eaters is the worst demon’s souls boss and the worst duo fight in all souls games, it has only gone up in terms of quality since. O&S is iconic, Throne Watcher and Throne Defender is the true final boss, and demon in pain and demon from below are a great multiphase duo fight, these are all the standout duo fights in their respective games. Elden Ring just kinda copy and pasted enemies you already fight solo and just made them duo fights. Perhaps the DLC will made a true duo fight with different enemies.

Jokes aside, I always seen these bosses as filler, Im sure that Fromsoft could still do much better and interesting Duo boss fights than the Elden Ring and Sekiro renditions. They just have to make a boss fight that is explicitily designed to make a Duo, like the Demon Prince.

Well, at least the deaths never lacked.