Fromsoft's Best & Worst Dragons
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
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Folks, if there's one thing I know, it's that dragons are freakin awesome. We all love 'em, and we all love to fight 'em, and indeed, Fromsoft games feature a LOT of dragons; some amazing ones; plenty of great ones; and a few stinkers. I hope ya like my wee video here highlighting some of the best and worst from each game.
0:00 - Intro
1:52 - Demon's Souls
8:04 - Dark Souls
17:05 - Dark Souls 2
23:35 - Dark Souls 3
30:53 - Sekiro
35:41 - Elden Ring
44:11 - Closing Words - เกม
Correction: That's not Tomoe before the Divine Dragon fight - it's some priestess. Whoops!
It's tomoe now
I subscribed 😅
Had me absolutely baffled when you said it was Tomoe, thinking I missed some insane lore
Maybe it is her. She was a okami and it seems like the lightning comes from the divine realm.
A Scottish man talking about dragons makes me happy thank you for the video man. I think the reason why the dragon God is so different is because it was actually dead and was revived using a demon soul which is why it looks like a demon dragon hybrid. I still love the look of it though it's by far my favorite looking dragon in the soulsborne franchise. I also like the fact that you have to use large ballistas to actually be able to defeat him, he's just that powerful.
R u Scottish too?
@@Silly_Illidan No, although I think I have some scotts Irish ancestors.
I’m Irish
Yo, what’s up Caleb? Fancy seeing you here.
@@totallynotkavak7128 If it involves dark souls and a Scottish man I'll always be here.
Here's a fun fact about the Ancient Dragons in ER:
They are literally made of stone and gold. Their scales are made out of stone and their "flesh" is made from gold.
DS ancient dragons were literally primordial elemental forces and they were also made of stone.
@@ganjacomo2005 okay?
Cool! Many sources in the game contain information that the scales of dragons are made of stone. And where is it written that their flesh is made of gold?
@@danieli-st5144It's visible from their models, Placidusax in particular has a bunch of wounds and you can see the gold flesh underneath very clearly.
@@X-Vidar You can see it on Lansseax and Fortisax as well. Both of their wings are made of gold(implying that they're made of a softer form of flesh than stone scales), and Fortissax's body is riddled with open wounds where you can see the gold flesh beneath his rotting scales.
Midir's animations are fantastic, really does feel like an angry abyssal consuming dragon. Sick fight
Hated midir until I learned to attack the head
it's funny how the Ancient Dragon almost feels like the perfect punishment for picking a fight with one of the only peaceful dragons in the series.
"Oh, you wanna kill him? Guess we'll make it the worst experience ever then."
Sound track is fire though.
They should’ve made him not have the thing that makes vendrick easier then.
@@erckupazo They really shouldn't have. Vendrick is an awfully designed boss tbh.
Placidusax's spectacle and reveal made me absolutely speechless, never felt It as much as I did with him.
Every time I listen to those first three notes in his theme it gives me chills, its just so otherworldly and ethereal
the music always perfectly syncing into second phase with his first dive bomb gives me chills
Darkeater Midr went from being the most annoying boss in the whole trilogy to my favorite in a few hours. Nothing beat the feeling of getting to know his every move, truly feels like a dance - I'm always looking forward to my fight with Midr whenever I make a new DS3 playthrough.
Nice video as always friend, seeing your Patreon list getting bigger every video is heartwarming - Get that bread bro!
Same here with elden ring Secret dragon lord
Yep, Midir's a beast, he's so aggressive lol.
And thanks man, all started with you - pretty sure you were my first ever Patron! Thanks for liking my stuff and sticking around bru 🤜🤛
So true, I hated him for months, then I upgraded my flask and killed him in few tries
Fortissax has my favourite theme from the entire Elden Ring OST
Fortissax has my heart, it's such a fun fight (even underlevelled)
I just wish we could hear the whole theme when fighting, but it's 5+ minutes and either Fortissax dies too fast or we get deathblighted very fast XD
There's is nothing fun about the ancient dragons in elden ring especially one that annoys with lightning every two seconds.
@@dvdivine1962skill issue
@@jeremykeelermusic3153 average fromsot meat muncher when you don't enjoy unceremoniously smacking the legs of a giant boss you can't see:
Midir is better than the sorry excuse of dragons in this game.
@@jeremykeelermusic3153I mean to be fair not everyone is going to have fun with fighting the ancient dragons, some might have fun with them and some might not, it’s personal preferences and there’s no shame in not liking dragon fights.
I think the scariest thing about Placidusax is that his entire moveset is purely defensive. Everything he does is to keep you from going near him. Even the temporal claw swipes keep you from tracking him. Imagine then, if he actually wanted to kill you.
Perhaps in his prime he'd be far more aggressive. Terrifying to imagine heh.
This is my favorite breakdown of different types of "Dragons":
2 back legs, wings that double as front arms = Wyverns
4 Legs but no wings, stocky = Drake
No wings, multiple limbs, snakelike but can fly = Long/Ryu
2 Huge wings, No legs, feathered = Quetzalcoatl
2 Front legs, no wings, snakelike body behind legs, can't fly = Lindwurm
Bipedal and upright = Dragonoid
Snakelike body with no limbs/wings = Wyrm
4 legs, 2 wings = Dragon
An important thing about wyverns: The distinction between wyverns and dragons is not based on mythology. It originally came about from British Heraldry, and then was formalized in D&D when Gygax was looking for sources. If you look at medieval art, dragons often had two legs and two wings, or four legs and no wings, or pretty much any arrangement of wings and legs the artist liked. So if a modern setting has dragons with two legs and two wings, it's not really doing anything wrong (unless it's explicitly based on D&D). There's nothing wrong if they want to, D&D is absolutely a valid source of inspiration, but no setting is obligated to follow that definition.
No, it came from old french standards adapted by the Normans into middle British heraldry and a BIT of British mythology outside of heraldry. D&D did NOT formalize it, but modern times formalized the usage of the word "Dragon" to mean anything we want to lazily apply it to. D&D had dragons like the og shadow dragon as a "wyvern" and og gold dragon depicted as a "lóng" which people who simply echo the cause without doing research don't usually know.
Back then, those wyverns in art and heraldry were NOT directly translated as "dragon" as we do modernly. They were at best "draco" which back then was read as "large serpent". While dragon does DERIVED from draco & ancient Greek "drakón" the meaning of dragon at the time was more narrowed to the creature the British would adopt into things like British heraldry.
Of course modernly in fiction no artist is wrong in what they call a "dragon" just like we can whatever we want a "unicorn" and it be right.
No one ever follows d&d, nor uses d&d as a basis. And it's funny many who claim to play d&d don't actually know a lot about d&d which I find funny.
Who says they aren't following said British heraldry?
Plus sometimes when you want to emphasize something in your world, having dragon separated like it was from the other dragon beasts who already have their own name seems like the sane & logic choice to do, no?
I wouldn’t say I felt terrible for killing greyal, though it was pretty sad, I consider it a mercy killing. Think about it, you’re cursed with longevity with little strength to move to the point you’re basically fused to the ground by crusty fungus. That’s not living; that’s a hell.
Sometimes I get frustrated when people complain that dragons fly too much. Like, yo, why would a flying creature spend a lot of time on the ground where it keeps getting injured instead of trying to fly up and kill you from the air?
to be fun to fight
@@Hostefar💀
@@Hostefar why would a flying creature that's not flying be fun to fight?
@@assgardiano how would a flying creture that constantly in the air in a melee based game be fun to fight
@@HostefarLiving nerd emoji
I love that Elder Dragon Greyoll is a massive dragon just laying on the land. It looks so majestic and it's the one reason y I don't ever wanna kill her due to how ancient and mysterious she is. But I really wish she could fly and attack u. It would be so cool to see her just dominating the sky with her size. A shame that Malenia's ego got hurt so she nuked the entire place. I wish there was another elden dragon that could've been in the game and maybe a hidden boss that could actually attack u.
Malenia’s ego wasn’t injured. More like she lost control.
@@Humorousfellow Lost control because her ego was hurt, yes?
@@asdergold1 True. Millicent kind of makes it clear at the end of her quest line.
@@Humorousfellow We don't know that. It's more likely that it's her ego, as she keeps harping on about how she never lost, which is arguable, given that the rot isn't actually her power.
@@TrueNamelessOne 1. The reason she nuked radahn is because they were in a stalemate. Something malenia cannot win due to her body literally falling apart. 2. She was never defeated before her boss fight. She is absolutely correct about that. (honorable or not she did survive the fight and basically sealed radahns fate) 3. It is her power she inherited it from the outer god of rot but it belongs to her now.
Huge W for including Valstrax in the beginning montage. Monster Hunter does dragon-like creatures like nobody else.
Agheel is pretty high up there for me. Riding at it on Torrent in the middle of this lake gave me huge high fantasy vibes and I loved it.
The part in the Placidusax boss fight where the music stops and he calls forth the huge bolt of lightning was genuinely awe inspiring. one of my fave moments in any FromSoft boss fight
Found your channel recently man, and I'm really enjoying your content. Keep it going!
I’m glad your videos got recommended to me bcuz you are by far my favorite soulsborne channel, keep up the great content bro🙏🏽
Yessssss!!! Recently found your channel and I love it!!! Lmk if you ever need artwork
Thanks man, and I'll keep you in mind for artwork!
So glad TH-cam recommended your content. Very good Soulsborne content!
The Aqua Teen insert just got you a sub, freakin love that show! Also cool vid.
As always, cheers for your videos, really enjoy watching them and for sure keep them coming🙂
Thank you buddy, I appreciate the support!
The nameless king's wyvern is pretty sick. Also, I kind of liked the ancient dragon as well. The divine dragon from sekiro is absolutely memorable and all of Elden Ring's dragons are pretty wonderful; I just wish Placidisax had a better boss run. Dark Soul's 1 dragons were pretty meh for me and I am not up to the Dragon Eerie yet. Just started DS2 last week. Great video man!
Placi's boss run isn't actually that bad if you get the site just beneath the bridge to Maliketh's fight. The parkour path to Placidusax is right outside of the building you go into to get to the elevator that leads to that grace.
@@snazzyjovialwyrm3314its not bad compared to other souls games but compared to other ER run backs it sucks. You gotta pass through 4 shitty beastmen and i find i always use at least 1 flask doing it. Not terrible, just annoying
@@___AVARICE___ It really isn't that annoying, though.
43:01 I always interpreted it as her dying from heartbreak after watching you kill her children in front of her one by one.
Great content bro! Easy sub
love your videos man
Honestly I'd even sit down and hear you talking about the best & worst staircases or sth.
Really just love the accent.
Sinh is the Slumbering Dragon from the DS2 DLC was my favorite dragon fight for a long time. At the time, it really felt like you were fighting a real dragon. From the time you enter when he rises up and spews flame everywhere to when he’s soaring through the air and landing at various places in the area. Sinh just felt like he moved and acted like a real dragon would. Epic fight
Wait, so what dragon is your favorite now?
0:10 DRAKENGARD ACKNOWLEDGED! Good vid already
*Another* one?? I meant what I said last time, about the prodigious rate at which you’re producing these videos, but this is just bananas. Given the speed that you’re turning them around, there is *no way* they have a right to be anywhere near this good.
You’re just a seriously impressive individual, my friend. I don’t know how you do it, but it’s truly incredible, regardless.
Aw thanks man, you're too kind! I actually have another vid already made too haha, but gonna wait until next Friday to drop that!
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And I don’t know if I can think of a more sincere compliment than that.
Also, I find your accent thoroughly soothing to listen to - I’d love to hear more cameos from your sister as well :D
All the best, and congratulations on your continued growth and progress. Keep ‘em coming!
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Thanks so much man, you've put a big smile on my face and it mans a lot to me when I see people liking my stuff this much. Top guy!
@@candletype1a447 Trust me, the pleasure was all mine haha! I can’t wait to see what else you come up with!
Really thinks he's DJKhaled making anotha one after anotha one
I watched "Dragonworld" when I was a kid, and hearing a Scottsman talk about dragons just brought back so much nostalgia.❤
Dragon God part was my favorite part of Demons minues Storm King boss. On PS5 those 2 fights were pure terror!
DS3's and ER's dragons have been outstanding experiences (except Ancient Wyvern ofc). Can't wait to see what Miyazaki and his companions cook up for the next one!
I have kinda fond memories of Midir. He took me a whole weekend to beat, constantly tossing my controller either which way of my room and inevitably made me break something (that being my school laptop). But, eventually, he went down with that mighty riposte and I could have not been happier. The challenge of these games are spectacularly rewarding. I dunno how my life would have been like without these masterpieces of game design.
Your life without those games would be at least including a working laptop ☑️
Looking forward to see if we get any great dragons in Shadow of the Erdtree DLC in June.
Whats more disturbing about Oceiros 's design is that it's character model is actually carrying its child Ocelotte which was turned invisible and at the beginning of the first phase he crushes his own child and screams 'Ocelotte'
Fun fact! You can kill the red dragon with the dragon bone smasher by timing an r2 to hit the dragon right before it passes over the first section of bridge in 1-2. Ive only ever played original demons souls so idk if this works in the remake.
Way cooler than shooting it with arrows.
Great video ps witch soulsborne world would you rank
Ooo who would I pick as my favourite, Fortissax or Midir... I think I'd go for Fortissax but it's a damn close one. Kalameet is worth a mention too.
The Hellkite Drake will leave the bridge if you run into the gatehouse with the bonfire and won't come back until you reset the area and run over its spawn trigger near the bridge entrance on the other side again. You also can't kill it with ranged weapons as long as its perched, once it hits half health it'll just regenerate back to full HP.
I was NOT expecting drakengard in the first 15 seconds
Just in time for work
I don't know if you can count king of the storm as a dragon boss but his design and him helping nameless king with his moves that make it look like he is helping his master is a really cool idea.
i hope that in the elden ring dlc we get to fight gransax it would be amazing to see how they manage to include such a large dragon while still making it a fun fight in elden ring style
It's impossible to adapt such a big enemy as a boss.
I wish there were some small drake enemies in the souls game other than the blue ones in dark souls. Those things were so cool to learn how to fight and eventually farm. They were reasonably tough, smaller enemies that gave u a decent amount of souls and occasionally a dragon scale
I love you CANDLE Type 1a
The secret to DS1 red dragon on the bridge is this: it attacks when there’s enemies on the bridge, if you kill the enemies with a bow before you step onto the bridge, red dragon doesn’t attack when you cross. But only if you’re coming from behind, if you kill all the enemies with a bow from door to the lower Undead, it’s attack is delayed a bit, you can manage to get to the stairs on the bridge before it attacks.
TLDR; kill enemies before going on bridge, behind or head on
Signh the slumbering dragon is one of my favourite dragons in the series, definitely the most underrated
Funny thing about Sinh, I never had issues with him. I even 1st tried him.
Placidusax also used to have 4 wings but it might have been six I can’t remember
Midir is like an early example of an Elden Ring boss fight
Not true at all. From a gameplay standpoint Midir is purely a DS boss with a clear moveset, moderate aggressiveness and telegraphed attacks. Elden Ring bosses are more distintic for being faster, more agressive and using cheesy delayed attacks.
What's true is that Midir moveset became the baseline ER dragon. Than they added the three things mentioned above on top of it.
@@ganjacomo2005 None of the ER dragons have cheesy delayed attacks or are any more aggressive or faster than Midir, pal.
@@Al-ji4gdthey were talking about bosses in general not dragons specifically
@@ganjacomo2005 How are delayed attacks "cheesy"? And im fairly certain delayed attacks are not a new thing to ER.
@@raptorxrise5386they are, and by cheesy I think he means just cheap difficulty with no substance
I love ancient dragon, it’s HUGE and it hits like it, I always felt that it was the pinnacle of what a dragon ought to be, and fighting one on a battlefield would be intense!!
Just beat Granblue fantasy relink. The devs definitely had a conversation about “should we have an awesome dragon fight or an awesome human fight for the final boss” “why not both.”
Placidusax is always such a fun fight for me.
My favorite is the nameless king's dragon mount... not really its fortissax lol.
While Adula looks very much like the other non-ancient dragons, there's nothing quite like seeing her cast Moonblade at you for the first time and the sheer panic as you try to figure out what the fuck is about to happen to you.
Theres a theory i really like. If you look at the pre-human animals, like way way back, the biggest predators were big birds, big cats, and snakes. In more modern, human times, we combined all three into a mega beast. A creature with the body of a big cat, the head and scales of a serpant, and can fly like the big birds too. Add fire in too, because fire is scary
I remember before finding him, I had a grace named "dragonlord placidausax" and telelported to it, then without warning he just fell on my head 😂
I find cutting off Kalameet’s tail more challenging than the fight itself. Not to say Kalameet is easy, he’s challenging enough but getting that tail is a nightmare solo.
the art direction in fromsoft games is like, more than half the appeal for me. i dont even like dragons like that but i will never forget seeing seethe the scaleless the first time or even kalameet and going YOOOOOO
Anyone know the name of the dragon and/or game at the 18 second mark? The large long-necked white one with 3 people standing in front of it?
The name of the game is The Legend of Dragoon
@@user-FrankD.Hall1986 yep, just looked it up, that's the divine dragon from legend of dragon, thank you
@@CamdenSilcox Glad to help
Bolt of Placidusax has got to be the coolest looking boss move, 2 headed dragon god just dropping a lightning nuke
the elder dragon boss fight in ER i feel isn't a true boss fight; i feel it's us as a player giving her one last fight so that she doesn't suffer from the rot but dies a warriors death like all the other dragons; it's a gift of mercy that only we can do.
The worst dragon in Elden Ring is the first one you fight in Farum Azula. The one where you cant lock onto their legs, unlike every other dragon in the game.
Wanna know what else is iconic but underrated in the FromSoft games:
Spiders!
Best and Worst Spiders when?
Hmm, now there's an idea!
I love Sinh and the lore behind him being a peaceful dragon worshipped in Shulva but then the Drakeblood knights show up trying to steal its blood to gain immortality. But during the battle Sinh gets pierced by that giant spear and his body shoots out tonnes of poison that destroys shulva and infects everyone there
Hopefully the DLC gives us more dragons and more information about Placidusax
Placidusax is the best King Ghidorah boss fight we have had in any game
2:13 I mean to be fair every wyvern is a dragon, but not every dragon is a wyvern, at least as far as I know.
every ape is a monkey but not every monkey is an ape
or something like that
31:59 Btw that’s not Tomoe
Ah shit, who is it?
@@candletype1a447 Nobody knows. It’s just someone lady. Tomoe body is rested in Ashina Castle so it can’t be her.
I could probably Google it, but I want to hear it from the Candle's mouth, or, wick or something. What is a Candle Type 1a?
It's taken from the lyrics to a song called "Interstellar Boredom" from an awesome German metal band called Alkaloid! The song is part of a series of songs about building a Dyson Sphere, and I thought the term Candle Type 1a was extremely cool sounding when I heard it come up in the song. I think it's a type of supernova or somethin. Don't exactly know though haha
Greyoll best dragon tho, thank you for the runes ❤❤❤
This is entirely limmys fault but I cant help but hear the "purple burgler alarm" clip every time you say purple, and cant help but notice you using the the limit breakers helmet in your ds3 clips. Back on topic I love all of the elden ring ancient dragons they are so amazing, I love how they all grab lightning bolts from the sky for their attacks or lightning strikes them and coats their scales.
ahahahaha the frog at "robot" x)
A part of me feels robbed we never got to fight placidusax in his prime. Still my favorite fight in elden ring so far though.
Kalameet also has a banger theme let's not forget that
Thank you for putting the frog in...all I heard was ribbet lolol
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while technically you dont HAVE to use stealth, the Old Hero fight is much easier if you silence your character as he is blind and relies on hearing to guide his attacks.
Holy shit, Legend of Dragoon reference.
as you decided to not include a distinction between different dragons which is fair the ones that appear are wyverns which have 4 limbs being 2 legs 2 wings, dragons have 6 limbs being 4 legs 2 wings, drakes have 4 limbs only legs and can't fly, wyrms have no limbs but can still fly, lung dragons have 4 limbs are snakelike and can fly
I'd pick ekzykes for my worst dragon in Elden Ring. While there are a lot of cool thematic things about its design, its arena and the way it attacks . it loses a lot of points because you either melt it because you fight it when you've leveled up a ton, or its just unfun to fight. The worst part is the attack where it just breaths rot down and floods what feels like a square mile up with rot cloud. The tell for the attack is reletively easy to notice, but if you are under it when it starts, good luck getting out. If torrent decides to not want to do the running start, good luck getting out. It wouldnt be so bad if it A) Spread a little slower B) didnt spread as far, or C) didnt melt your healthbar on its own before afflicting the rot on you (Kinda like the valiant gargoyle poison).
If you have any good fire/bleed attacks, he goes down pretty easily though, especially if you can get around his head being so high off the ground.
32:00 Never realized that woman was supposed to be Tomoe. How’d you figure that out?
It's not.
@@asdergold1 Figures
A note on ds3 dragons in general, their heads are their weak points, which makes fighting them far more interesting, as it promotes fighting the dragon head on instead of just hacking the legs
Love the Mooninites.
My guess is Placidusax cut off two of its own heads with his beam attack.
Was there any dragon's in kings field
I hate Midirs fight almost primarily because it feels like you’re supposed to fight it with friends. I’ve beaten him twice, once with summons on my first attempt, and the second by myself after several hours of attempts. When I had people with me he was really fun, this rampaging behemoth being taken on by a party and finally being put to rest after millennium of servitude. My second attempt was hell, his moves don’t feel fun, his range is awful, his constant jumping around was cancer inducing, the only part of him that takes decent damage being his head made positioning actual ass to pull off. I enjoyed 0 seconds of all of the attempts it took me to beat him the second time.
Drakengard 1 jumpscare... Horrifying..
"Darkeater Mahdick- uh Midir"
If Elden ring DLC is a memory i hope we get a prime placi to fight (or atleast try)
My personal favorite dragon in the series is Seath the Scaleless.
While his fight isn't anything to wrote home about, especially after his curse build-up nerf.
However his actions and presence can be felt throughout the entire trilogy, despite him being slain in the first game. So he gets a 10/10 for lore factor from me.
I’m just a simple guy who is a fan of slaying dragons makes me feel like a legendary dragon slayer like the Norse hero Sigurd and Saint George.
I bet shadow of the erdtree will give us an even better dragon than Plasidusax. Dont quote me but I would put money on it.
I would have picked the first unnamed ancient dragon you fight at Farum Azula as the worst. For all the cool visuals and spectacle, the fight itself is a miserable one where it seems to have endless poise, it often keeps its head out of melee distance, and focusing on its legs really hinders your ability to anticipate its next attack because Fromsoft camera 😂
Honorable mention for nameless king's dragon from ds3? Definitely not one of the best dragons but it has a pretty unique look and I think it's cool as a first stage of a great boss fight.
Have to be honest, I forgot all about the Nameless King's Wyvern!
Midirs boss fight arena is also literally where rhe pigmy inherited the flame. That one intro cutscene from ds1? Thts the one, your beating a giant fucking dragons ass in the cavern in which the first humans arose
I love how you put more stank on that accent than smoughtown
personally I count the giant serpents in sekiro as a type of dragon, or wyrm
Fuck me why is it I'm only now realizing how much I want to fight a mecha dragon in AC 6?