it is also the best route for a melle warrior, since you cna get boss weapons, and dragon god really doesn't care about your level so you can do him as the first archdemon
I love how mapo has played so many souls games now but hasn't learned his lesson yet like lvling up after killing a boss instead of moving on and stopping exploration of a area where enemies have gotten strong enough to kill you in 2 hits
The upgrade stones don’t need to be on you to use them. They are the only thing that can be in your storage but get seen by blacksmiths. Little easier on you for that.
Old school Flame Lurker depression. Everyone I've seen doing a first playthrough has gotten it, like they realize that they need to examine why they're sucking and learn about upgrades and whatnot. Great episode!
an awful lot of talk about Character/world tendency and human/soul form, so to avoid ANY spoilers, I'd simply recommend rechecking the Dev messages in the Nexus and browsing the tutorial menu for those specific topics to help with the understanding. it's really nice that they added some insight for the mechanic in the remake as it's a pretty convoluted system for newcomers otherwise.
Yo dude, so glad you started playing demons souls. You’ve actually helped inspire me to record my own first playthroughs. I can’t do it for elden ring or demons souls cause I played them already, but I’m currently doing dark souls remastered. Nothings up yet but I’m downloading my vods to polish up and upload. I’m probably not as fun to watch as you nor is my mic as good as yours but anyway thanks I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen from you and keep it up. I think a lot of people here watch for you and not just the games as well. Chill guy to watch
At least theres a chance he'll find Beast Talisman if he keeps using SoEEs. Also love how he got a second chance after seeing the abysmal pickaxe damage and still went in with it again anyway. Never change Mapo!
I remember doing the exact same thing on this game back in the ps3 days, got to flamelurker and just threw myself against a wall. I gave up back then before thinking about even going the other worlds. Did not come back to play it again until after I played Dark Souls 1.
Being in a human form actually has a disadvantage, though first time players do now know about it: that is, the world tendency. Dying as a human darkens your world tendency, making enemies stronger, and changing the world itself - locking or opening certain passages, as well as spawning some monsters. Meanwhile, killing bosses makes your world tendency more pure. That sword in the Dragon God area can be aquired only in pure white tendency.
@@robso9828 it is actually explained, both character and world tendency. there is a tutorial menu that can be accessed via dev messages. LobosJr showed it during his first playthrough of the remake.
I'm not gonna spoil anything, but about where to use the boss souls: You already met the person who trades boss souls against weapons. But there are also different characters (which you haven't met yet) that trade the boss souls not against weapons but against miracles and sorceries. The character that trades boss souls against miracles would for example be interesting to you since you level faith. But one important point you should know: similar to Dark Souls 1, trading the boss souls against weapons in Demon's Souls is obscure and complicated, at least compared to Elden Ring or DS3. Hence I'd recommend you just look up online which boss souls you can trade against what weapons, because otherwise you'd most likely not find out while playing regularly through the game.
i think it was Flamelurker that hooked me on Demon's Souls (PS3) , i got my assed kicked and restarted my whole game; turned into the game i've played the most hours... fax!!!
Love your souls playthroughs, I got this on ps3 when it came out, I only beat it a few years ago, playing the other games definitely help but it was brutal back then. There was no way to send to storage, that feature definitely helps ;)
The armored spider archstone has the be the most evil one in the whole game. I stopped playing for a week after loosing 10K+ souls in that pit of suffering xD
Damn, this is what I was worried about for a follow along playthrough: way too early flamelurker. I’m not as good as Mapo! I know I know “git gud”… PS: I tried to make my character look like Mapo but it turned out more like Russell Crowe in gladiator
The Dragon God is by far my favorite boss in the game. It is so iconic, so visually stunning, and I love the lore around an ancient civilization building a temple around it, worshipping it, but also being so afraid of it, that they built ways to take it down. It seems like a very human way of dealing with unknowns; imprison them, study them, and kill them if they get out of line. Had you survived the very first boss, you would've been treated to an early sneak peek of the Dragon God. You would've entered its arena from one of the other temple structures around the cave, and after gathering your rewards, it would have punched you through the wall and sent your ass to the Nexus.
Interesting that it's your favorite boss. I find that most people hate the gimmick bosses in these games, like the Bed of Chaos. I don't hate them, but they're not my favorites, either.
@@psterud I love Bed of Chaos too, for the same reasons as this one; it's a living piece of lore, that you can behold and appreciate at your own pace. Dragon God and Bed of Chaos both have a lot of lore and theme to them, in my opinion, so I really enjoy just looking at them, taking in the atmosphere of their arena, appreciating their place in the world and how I get to be there with them, etc. Quick and dirty difficulty does not a good boss fight make, in my opinion. Difficulty can certainly help spice up a fight, but as with any spice, it should be used as careful seasoning for a meal, not as the meal itself.
Hey mapo - check out some other areas and go back and fourth between them to avoid being over/under levelled. I wish I knew this too because this game is too short!
Without spoiling anything, I would reccomend staying in soul form and avoid dying in human form levels (nexus) is ok. Also be sure to re explore levels after killing a few bosses in that world.
In the original the explosion visual effects last longer, here they don't but the hitbox is still there so there are some weird moments with explosions and fire
Hey Mapo. Been playing Demons souls while watching you play. I'll be honest, I've played DS1, Elden Ring and half of bloodborne. And Demons Souls is easily hardest for me so far
So, what happened here, is that you forgot one of the first lessons you got in the original Dark Souls; when you were fighting the miners in the Tunnel City and said like "they kill me in two hits, but it's not like I wasn't supposed to be here", turns out you kinda wasn't supposed to be here for real! You can chip away at the miners, bearbugs and at the flamelurker, sure, but all the worlds are balanced to have the first area somewhere similar in difficulty, than the second area, and so on. It would have been an easier time to do the first area of each world, so you don't waste grass and don't have to chip bosses with an unupgraded pickaxe... xD Pickaxe is the new bestoc, I guess. lol
@@orohyuno I mean, name one game that does that. Starting from Crash Bandicoot, every game has the same mechanics - you get in to one level/biome and it´s expected from you to finish it before proceeding in to the next one. And that´s just one of many things why this game isn´t good as any of the following DS/Elden Ring. This game just has too many cons, and not that much pros.
@@Christian44326 Pretty much most Megaman games. The worlds are all open right from the beginning, so they HAVE to be balanced to be the first choice. Crash I believe you open the others as you progress.
Really? i recently played through this game myself a few weeks ago and honestly Tunnel city with flamelurker I found much easier to go through then I did with the first level of tower of hope or first level of the storm area, in which I did those levels after flamelurker.
Well, Flamelurker is one of the hardest bosses in the entire game, so congratulations on your victory. I died countless times on this boss when I first played this game ages ago.
just a heads up you can keep your ore in the storage and still level up arms at the blacksmiths, you never need to carry ore, also you can send stuff to storage in your inventory at any time
Patches' dialogue at the end seemed strange. He mentioned the "shrine" and "robbing corpses," neither of which Mapo encountered. If you do things out of order do dialogues get bugged like that?
Hey mapo have you heard the rumors (same source as bioshock 4 which was true) that Bluepoint is working on Bloodborne 2? Not sure how I feel about a souls game being made by a remake studio and not fromsoft
Bluepoint is working on an original title, the rumours about Bloodborne were just wishful thinking and taking the lead dev's words out of context during the launch of Demon's Souls when he said he'd "love for us to work on Bloodborne next" when asked, which devolved into a game of telephone that's lasted to this day. A Bloodborne remake is still a possibility but Bloodborne 2 is out of the question. That would just be silly. Bluepoint's games are basically just mods, they didn't write any of the underlying code, so asking them to create a sequel from the ground up would be pretty insane. They were already super-apprehensive about changing anything for Demon's Souls, that's why they didn't restore the Giants' arch-stone either -- lol even adding omni-directional rolling was an ethical dilemma for them. Too much respect for the original work (as it should be, imo).
Dragon God might be my least favorite From boss. The whole fight just always felt so underwhelming and contrived to me, which is a shame since it definitely has the spectacle aspect down.
Its a gimmick fight, which isn't out of place considering most bosses in demons souls are gimmick fights. Once you learn the gimmick for dragon god (stealth) it becomes super easy.
Mapo go grab youself a Claymore from the dregling, upgrade it, and use a real weapon. You're using amace and a damn pickaxe against demons. Use a real weapon
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I love how everyone in a souls game recognises patches knows what will happen but does it because it's not about the outcome it's about the journey :)
Killed him straight away in Elden Ring. Knew I would be missing content but killed him anyway. Felt good.
Its awesome cause no matter what order you play the games the next version u come across you know hes up to some shit haha
Life before death strength before weakness journey before destination
@@bloodlynexz8095 I will protect those who cannot protect themselves ⚔️
You can always count on Patches for some good content.
Ahh... The classic Tower Knight - Armored Spider - Flamelurker route. Did the same in my playthrough of the original.
it is also the best route for a melle warrior, since you cna get boss weapons, and dragon god really doesn't care about your level so you can do him as the first archdemon
I love how mapo has played so many souls games now but hasn't learned his lesson yet like lvling up after killing a boss instead of moving on and stopping exploration of a area where enemies have gotten strong enough to kill you in 2 hits
I was thinking the same thing lmao!
13:57 I will henceforth be referring to Mapo by the moniker of _"the Big M"_
The upgrade stones don’t need to be on you to use them. They are the only thing that can be in your storage but get seen by blacksmiths. Little easier on you for that.
The dragon god just lives in a room that has 2 deadly harpoons pointed straight at him. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Old school Flame Lurker depression. Everyone I've seen doing a first playthrough has gotten it, like they realize that they need to examine why they're sucking and learn about upgrades and whatnot. Great episode!
an awful lot of talk about Character/world tendency and human/soul form, so to avoid ANY spoilers, I'd simply recommend rechecking the Dev messages in the Nexus and browsing the tutorial menu for those specific topics to help with the understanding. it's really nice that they added some insight for the mechanic in the remake as it's a pretty convoluted system for newcomers otherwise.
Yo dude, so glad you started playing demons souls. You’ve actually helped inspire me to record my own first playthroughs. I can’t do it for elden ring or demons souls cause I played them already, but I’m currently doing dark souls remastered. Nothings up yet but I’m downloading my vods to polish up and upload. I’m probably not as fun to watch as you nor is my mic as good as yours but anyway thanks I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen from you and keep it up. I think a lot of people here watch for you and not just the games as well. Chill guy to watch
Ill check it out man
You might want to check around the Nexus occasionally.
Flamelurker can be soooo painful but I'm glad you preserved and got through it!
At least theres a chance he'll find Beast Talisman if he keeps using SoEEs. Also love how he got a second chance after seeing the abysmal pickaxe damage and still went in with it again anyway. Never change Mapo!
I loved playing this remake. Everything from the sound design and visual reworks are amazing 🤩
i love the pain and suffering. its like your first souls playthrough all over
flamelurker is one of the best boss. the music and everything. :)
I remember doing the exact same thing on this game back in the ps3 days, got to flamelurker and just threw myself against a wall. I gave up back then before thinking about even going the other worlds. Did not come back to play it again until after I played Dark Souls 1.
Loved the hellish bosses this episode, wanna keep watching! Can't wait for the next one.
Being in a human form actually has a disadvantage, though first time players do now know about it: that is, the world tendency.
Dying as a human darkens your world tendency, making enemies stronger, and changing the world itself - locking or opening certain passages, as well as spawning some monsters. Meanwhile, killing bosses makes your world tendency more pure.
That sword in the Dragon God area can be aquired only in pure white tendency.
I thought the sword wasnt affected by tendency.
Careful on spoilers!
(You didnt but after the solaire debacle mapo is really strict!)
Lol this is a massive spoiler, im sure he'll start to figure it out on his own.
@@ForDaSquaww How's that a spoiler, the mechanic is not esxplained anywhere in the game - unless I remember incorrectly.
@@robso9828 it is actually explained, both character and world tendency. there is a tutorial menu that can be accessed via dev messages. LobosJr showed it during his first playthrough of the remake.
@@ForDaSquaww I don't consider mechanic spoilers but I know mapo asked me not to tell him.
I'm not gonna spoil anything, but about where to use the boss souls:
You already met the person who trades boss souls against weapons. But there are also different characters (which you haven't met yet) that trade the boss souls not against weapons but against miracles and sorceries. The character that trades boss souls against miracles would for example be interesting to you since you level faith.
But one important point you should know: similar to Dark Souls 1, trading the boss souls against weapons in Demon's Souls is obscure and complicated, at least compared to Elden Ring or DS3. Hence I'd recommend you just look up online which boss souls you can trade against what weapons, because otherwise you'd most likely not find out while playing regularly through the game.
i think it was Flamelurker that hooked me on Demon's Souls (PS3) , i got my assed kicked and restarted my whole game; turned into the game i've played the most hours... fax!!!
Love your souls playthroughs, I got this on ps3 when it came out, I only beat it a few years ago, playing the other games definitely help but it was brutal back then. There was no way to send to storage, that feature definitely helps ;)
The armored spider archstone has the be the most evil one in the whole game. I stopped playing for a week after loosing 10K+ souls in that pit of suffering xD
Damn, this is what I was worried about for a follow along playthrough: way too early flamelurker. I’m not as good as Mapo! I know I know “git gud”…
PS: I tried to make my character look like Mapo but it turned out more like Russell Crowe in gladiator
Russell crowe in gladiator is pretty damn good character I wouldn’t be mad at
dude is fighting flamelurker with a pickacs lol
Imagine if he would've won lol
You can give Flamelurker's soul to blacksmith Ed so he could upgrade your weapons even further
well, you killed the final boss and completed the game. GG. fastest playthrough ever! :D
The Dragon God is by far my favorite boss in the game. It is so iconic, so visually stunning, and I love the lore around an ancient civilization building a temple around it, worshipping it, but also being so afraid of it, that they built ways to take it down. It seems like a very human way of dealing with unknowns; imprison them, study them, and kill them if they get out of line.
Had you survived the very first boss, you would've been treated to an early sneak peek of the Dragon God. You would've entered its arena from one of the other temple structures around the cave, and after gathering your rewards, it would have punched you through the wall and sent your ass to the Nexus.
Interesting that it's your favorite boss. I find that most people hate the gimmick bosses in these games, like the Bed of Chaos. I don't hate them, but they're not my favorites, either.
@@psterud I love Bed of Chaos too, for the same reasons as this one; it's a living piece of lore, that you can behold and appreciate at your own pace.
Dragon God and Bed of Chaos both have a lot of lore and theme to them, in my opinion, so I really enjoy just looking at them, taking in the atmosphere of their arena, appreciating their place in the world and how I get to be there with them, etc.
Quick and dirty difficulty does not a good boss fight make, in my opinion. Difficulty can certainly help spice up a fight, but as with any spice, it should be used as careful seasoning for a meal, not as the meal itself.
Hey mapo - check out some other areas and go back and fourth between them to avoid being over/under levelled. I wish I knew this too because this game is too short!
It’s one issue with this game. Usually people like playing through a whole area even though as it progresses it gets much harder.
Great playthrough, btw for friendly reminder you should check every corner of nexus after found new archstone. And read all dev message in nexus too.
Without spoiling anything, I would reccomend staying in soul form and avoid dying in human form levels (nexus) is ok. Also be sure to re explore levels after killing a few bosses in that world.
In the original the explosion visual effects last longer, here they don't but the hitbox is still there so there are some weird moments with explosions and fire
Hey Mapo. Been playing Demons souls while watching you play. I'll be honest, I've played DS1, Elden Ring and half of bloodborne. And Demons Souls is easily hardest for me so far
So, what happened here, is that you forgot one of the first lessons you got in the original Dark Souls; when you were fighting the miners in the Tunnel City and said like "they kill me in two hits, but it's not like I wasn't supposed to be here", turns out you kinda wasn't supposed to be here for real!
You can chip away at the miners, bearbugs and at the flamelurker, sure, but all the worlds are balanced to have the first area somewhere similar in difficulty, than the second area, and so on. It would have been an easier time to do the first area of each world, so you don't waste grass and don't have to chip bosses with an unupgraded pickaxe... xD
Pickaxe is the new bestoc, I guess. lol
I blame the game for that one. It´s not intuitive to go back and forth the whole time, switching biomes. 🤷♀
@@Christian44326 funny thing, that's exactly what I expect from a game with a warping room like that. So maybe is more of a personal thing.
@@orohyuno I mean, name one game that does that. Starting from Crash Bandicoot, every game has the same mechanics - you get in to one level/biome and it´s expected from you to finish it before proceeding in to the next one.
And that´s just one of many things why this game isn´t good as any of the following DS/Elden Ring. This game just has too many cons, and not that much pros.
@@Christian44326 Pretty much most Megaman games. The worlds are all open right from the beginning, so they HAVE to be balanced to be the first choice.
Crash I believe you open the others as you progress.
Really? i recently played through this game myself a few weeks ago and honestly Tunnel city with flamelurker I found much easier to go through then I did with the first level of tower of hope or first level of the storm area, in which I did those levels after flamelurker.
Well, Flamelurker is one of the hardest bosses in the entire game, so congratulations on your victory. I died countless times on this boss when I first played this game ages ago.
All those wrong predictions of how the Dragon God fight will go :D
Big M is actually flamelurker ahahha
Dragons of Unfathomable Size? I don't think they exist.
As stated below you have all ready found the person who transposes souls but it is a tricky task unlike other games
Who wants to tell Mapo that he can send his item into storage from inside the levels : )
oh, is that?... BOOM... hahahahaha
Hahaha “miner” concerns
2:35 made me laugh so hard 😂
just a heads up you can keep your ore in the storage and still level up arms at the blacksmiths, you never need to carry ore, also you can send stuff to storage in your inventory at any time
mapo have you played nier automata? i think it would be a great playthrough
Hope you're well Mapo! :)
You received another item from killing the Dragon God. Look through your key items again, or play it back.
Yeah if you forceclose the game u just appear infront of the boss fog again, pretty handy
Also 3rd arch stone good one for your build
Patches' dialogue at the end seemed strange. He mentioned the "shrine" and "robbing corpses," neither of which Mapo encountered. If you do things out of order do dialogues get bugged like that?
2:38 ok lmao
while i'm not happy whit most of the designs in the remake, Patches is just perfection
Look at arch stone progression as stepping stones instead of 1 and done
Hitting an enemys weak spot with projectiles from a save distance (like those Rockworm heads) surely sounds like a strange concept.
1:30:39 it's wild that ur not that far off
37:26 NEVER realized this. You're smarter than me, confirmed.
I'm stuck on that fucking flamelurker boss. Just keeps snashing the ground and I die in 2 hits. I've got not heals left and I'm out of ideas.
Quick recommendation, rebind photo-mode to the touch pad.
endurance > all stats together
Hey mapo have you heard the rumors (same source as bioshock 4 which was true) that Bluepoint is working on Bloodborne 2? Not sure how I feel about a souls game being made by a remake studio and not fromsoft
Bluepoint is working on an original title, the rumours about Bloodborne were just wishful thinking and taking the lead dev's words out of context during the launch of Demon's Souls when he said he'd "love for us to work on Bloodborne next" when asked, which devolved into a game of telephone that's lasted to this day. A Bloodborne remake is still a possibility but Bloodborne 2 is out of the question. That would just be silly. Bluepoint's games are basically just mods, they didn't write any of the underlying code, so asking them to create a sequel from the ground up would be pretty insane. They were already super-apprehensive about changing anything for Demon's Souls, that's why they didn't restore the Giants' arch-stone either -- lol even adding omni-directional rolling was an ethical dilemma for them. Too much respect for the original work (as it should be, imo).
huh. I think Patches did some dialogue too early. Weird.
Mmh yeah dragon god... Maybe my least favorite boss of all, he looks great yeah but im never happy to encounter him again.
It’s already been said but take a good look around nexus
Dragon God might be my least favorite From boss. The whole fight just always felt so underwhelming and contrived to me, which is a shame since it definitely has the spectacle aspect down.
Its a gimmick fight, which isn't out of place considering most bosses in demons souls are gimmick fights. Once you learn the gimmick for dragon god (stealth) it becomes super easy.
Mapo go grab youself a Claymore from the dregling, upgrade it, and use a real weapon. You're using amace and a damn pickaxe against demons. Use a real weapon
Stop whining. Let him do what he do. He paid for the dang game
@mapocolops
So anti climactic after you....
1:32:15
13 minutes and 30 seconds later....
1:39:45
I know you were fighting longer.
your face is not in a good spot. i miss how it was in dark souls