They hit gold with Father Ariandels VA. The amount of emotion in his voice when he's asking for Friede and his flail, not to mention his blood curdling scream when she dies is outstanding.
I think it's thematically interesting that the Age of Fire is rotting because they won't let a Flame go out, while the painted world of Ariandel is rotting because they won't let a Flame be lit.
Most definitely! Both worlds are trying their damndest to keep things as they are, fighting against nature taking its course; against change. They have halted the cycle of death and rebirth. And as a result, both worlds are rotting away and descending into madness.
@@neoson690 despite watching this channel so much, this is what finally made me understand what the broad stroke narrative of DS3 and the DLC is. I realized that while I know a lot about the characters now I actually understand everything lol
"I Wonder if Uncle Gael has found it. The Dark Soul of Man." Oh, Uncle Gael has found what he was looking for and boy is this gonna be awkward to tell you...
basically he found it then died. I didnt killed him (but my sword is another story) and i simply took his blood cuz he didnt said that the blood was the blood of the dark soul at all. not once. i took it cuz it was black
Gael was tasked to bring the blood of the dark soul to his niece, meaning the vivid blood from the body of a carrier of the dark soul. When he arrived at the ringed city he found that all of this blood had dried up. In order for that kind of blood to reapear, he had to engulf the dark soul he found to revitalize it in his own vains as so to deliver it his niece. But oh no. He knew he could not tame the dark soul. He knew he would fall under it's influence. He knew he would not be able to fulfill his task by himself. He sacrificed himself, having complete knowledge of what was to come, with the hope that someone else would kill him and take his now darkened blood to the painting lady. He had planed this all along
Was wondering if anyone knew whether Father Ariandel's scream was an actual scream or were some effects added to it? Because if so the VA is fucking amazing!
@@Cptsuccess a quote from another game spoken by one of my favourite videogame characters Tom Redwood "It is only through pain that we know we are alive and this time my friend, the pain must end"
When I defeated the second phase of the boss(es), I started celebrating with one of the other Phantoms I summoned, throwing some 'Praise the Sun!'s and 'Joy's at each other. The third guy just lore-walked up to us, then slowly pointed behind. I turned around just as Blackfire Friede emerged right behind me. Great moment.
I was like “fuck yeah, took me some good 8 tries but they’re finally down” and then someone starts speaking and she’s starting to get embraced by black flames and I’m like “oh god not this please not like this”
If I had such an ungodly amount of charisma that I could convert a man from his previous beliefs that he had been taught for his entire life and make him eternally strapped to a chair and beat himself so that the outside world could continue to be infested with musqiutos that are gigantic and nest everywhere on earth and he would STILL happily fight by my side and sacrifice himself for me if his beliefs were challenged in any way... I would probably have ended world hunger by now to be honest.
"How incredible is the 3 phase boss fight where you empty a full health bar each time? It's unheard of and completely demoralizing" FromSoftware: "Hold my sake I'm making Sekiro"
1st play through kills Freide no sweat, dies to 2nd phase. Summons Gael gets to 3rd phase.. is about to kill Freide only to get one shot by the cut throat finisher. I was like, FromSoft wtf no even Fume Knight was this BS with the RNG and spam. (I've killed this mf twice already- talk about undead vs undead) 2v1 is fine(ha Smough and Ornestein and The Kings Pets are worse) but not even Soul of Cinder could one shot me with a grapple cmon.
Since I played ds3 after sekiro, I found myself unknowingly saving estuses in boss fights because of seikro's habit for the second phase which ofcourse barely ever came in ds3. But that did help out in this fight, obviously I died so bad from the third phase when I first made it there but I had estuses to spare.
@@amauriherrera6022 *Players when they can't win and need something to blame:* "iT's RnGeE bUlLsHiT" Shut up. Freide is no different from The Abyss Watchers or Isshin the Sword Saint.
@@littlemoth4956 can we all agree that Isshin's title is bullshit? Name like that I was expecting an EPIC sword duel.. and then he pulled out a motherfucking machine gun
@@dkdc7938 ayo i just read isshin's title from the comment above and think "Isshin the sword saint... How fucking badass is that" and then i read your comment lmfao thats true though, mf bring a fucking spear and a gun, oh also the other mortal blade and a literal fuckin lightning. I guess in the end he's the sword saint after all
@@xshullaw Personally I think Dark Souls 1 should have the same Titanite Slab to be the max upgrade, seriously, I spend half the time completing a playthrough and the other half farming for materials
Spiral Haze I thought it was one of the most epic moments in DS3. She is such a badass. So confident that she will kill you that she didn’t even bother to put on fucking shoes! Lol
Fromsoft is so damn good with imagery and themes. When she dies and the blood pool comes down to the Father, exactly the same as the eclipsed sun with the vertical beam of light - which symbolises the ending of the flame.
(Video and game spoilers ahead) Did anyone happen to see the images on the partitions surrounding Father Ariandel? After you kill Friede the first time and he uses the fire to bring her back, those partitions are shown burning away, so you have to look before you talk to the good Father. The images depict two towering, shadowy figures looming down on a field of bones--and two serpents. One of the shadowy giants has reached down and caught one of the snakes in his/her hand (possibly killing it--it looks wounded, or bleeding from the mouth to me), while the other serpent seems to be fleeing. My personal thoughts? Frampt and Kaathe, of course, especially with the Japanese translation of Yuria's dying words indicating that Kaathe is dead. Whether or not that's canon, I don't know, but that's what immediately came to mind. I'd really like to hear thoughts from others, and if I may, request a thumbs up. I'd really like Vaati to be aware of this, in case it holds any decent relevance for a lore video.
...and just to add something else, the way Ariandel dies. He buries his head in his bowl. I wonder if he does that because he continues to fear the flame, and tries to smother it with his blood before he dies? Or, maybe, he has a change of heart at his last moment, reaching for the fire to end his life, rather than give in to the rot? I dunno. I just thought his death animation was a bit interesting.
VaatiVidya I enjoy spoiling stuff for myself though. I can't afford it yet. But for some reason I still get excited in playing it when I can instead of upset.
VaatiVidya could the white haired girl be the peculiar doll from dark souls 1 the description says A strange doll in strange dress. There once was an abomination who had no place in this world. She clutched this doll tightly, and eventually was drawn into a cold and lonely painted world Or it could be someone else
Actually saying it now Friede could be that doll. She has black flame that is considered a heretic in dark souls, maybe she was banned for using such witchcraft or escaped her execution by those she call ashen or the flame and turned the painted world to rot instead of fire
Vaati, if you achieve the Lord of Hollows ending and then in NG+ you arrive to the Painted World of Ariandel, the dialogues change and Londor gets mentioned a lot. Just letting you know ;)
I have all 8 dark sigils so maybe her dialogue about Londor is triggered by making sure the questline isn't broken (ex. don't kill yoel, yuria, or heal the dark sigils/ get all 8 of them).
I also got refered to the Lord of Londor even though I finished the game without going for the usurper of fire's ending instead going with the end of fire ending. However, I had completed all requirements for the usurper ending which is likely what triggers the lord of londor dialogues. At the moment of my walkthrough through teh dlc, I was refered to as lord of londor yet Yuria was dead at that point(killed her after the ending)
16:30 I applaud the voice actor of Father Ariandel with the utmost sincerity! That scream is just so raw and powerful, it completes the dramatic atmosphere of the scene.
You can actually see Priscilla's tower if you look off the cliff near Ariandel's chapel, far below. It's low placement sort of physically shows how that world was painted over, with this new world on top. I love those kinds of details.
You can get to the actual Priscilla fight arena even, through an illusory wall in the big flymen pit. There's a stupidly levelled NPC mad phantom there that gives you the new pyro spell, as a reference to the yellow pyro invader in DS1 I guess.
tomhchamp Yep. It's easy to miss though because any signs you try to place there are obscured by the water. I'm pretty proud I looked over at the arena and worked out where the door would have to be to access the roots leading down to it by myself :)
PAUSE, PAUSE, PAUSE... Wait! O' girl says, "I presume it visible to you, the bonfire in this room." Is that to imply... That the bonfire isn't a physical thing? But some sort of metaphysical checkpoint, only visible to the player?
"bring Friede to me" ... well "bring peace to me" ... I somehow doubt that this line of dialogue was intended to shape with the german "Friede" but still awesome ^^
That scream the father makes is bone chilling,it really represents that all this time he thought himself dependent of friede,and when she dies his rage is unparalleled
The dialogue is sometimes different when you have done the Dark Lord ending! One of the differences is that they actually address you as Lord, I haven't experienced that with any of the NPC's outside of the painted world... And I was pleasantly surprised to actually be recognised for doing the nightmare quest that is Yuria's questline
When you are German and hear "Friede" and think about how much of a pain she is to fight.... It's adds another level of Irony.... Friede = Peace Friede sei mit dir = Peace be with you
It's an interesting thought because i read a theory somewhere where that the Firtive(did i spell that right?) Pygmy took on the dark soul and eventually became Manus Father of the Abyss when the Dark soul Corrupted. She said she needed the Dark soul didn't she? So that's an interesting touch. If i'm correct the millwood knights were in DS1's DLC and the dragon that forced them out was Kalameet.
Me: Ah yes, quarantine time. The perfect time to watch long videos of the lore of a game I've never played. (great videos, they get me through the long days)
15:20 All Unkindle are related to a Lord of Cinder, in order to defeat them and return them to their thrones. Siegward - Yhorm Anri - Aldrich Hawkwood - Abyss Watchers Ashen One - Lothric If Sister Friede is an Unkindle, who is the Lord of Cinder related to her? Ariandel? So Ariandel is a Lord of Cinder?
Sir Vilhems knows very well the effect of the toll of the Bell of Awakening. Thats the reason why all the bells are down in Painted World: To prevent a new Unkindled to awake and try to vanquish the Lord of Cinder. The only thing that tells us Ariandel is a Lord of Cinder is his relation with Elfriede, an Unkindle. But also I think Ariandel could be a very weird Lord of Cinder because of this facts: - Sister Friede and Ariandel shares the same boss bar. The only boss that has that trait is Abyss Watchers. So it means both of them have the same soul? - When you defeat Ariandel, there is no message of "Lord of Cinder Fallen". The only message you receive is "Heir of Fire Destroyed" after you defeated Blackflame Friede. - The way Sister Friede rise to her second and third forms reminds me the Lords of Cinders catching fire. Ariandel doesnt have a second form. He just bites the dust when you defeat him. Ariandel is not a Lord of Cinder, but maybe he was. And because Ariandel looks like a hollow, I believe the vessel of his soul is Sister Friede. Maybe both souls are joined together: Sister Friede has powers like a Lord of Cinder, and Ariandel is just a hollow with some reasoning and masochistic tendencies. Very weird.
maybe she was ment to strike down the soul of Cinder after all the lords are slain by their ashen ones? I'm sure as the eldest of the three sisters known to be very able in swordplay would be able to defeat it.
...right. the eldest. no, i bet she was meant to be the lord of londor, and usurp the fire. but, when the time came to actually do so (this might've been before the bell rang, so the lords of cinder hadn't awoken...) she tried to link the fire instead, betraying londor. she failed, and became unkindled ash.
Also, weird. The white haired girl didn't say that to me when I talked to her after. She just said that she will be painting soon and it will be a peaceful home for people. Interesting.
VaatiVidya Huh, well that's interesting. Still, it makes me wonder if they might tie into the next DLC or not with what she says. Or maybe it's just to leave us wondering. Anyways, amazing video as always! Can't wait for more! ^_^
VaatiVidya I'll just assume since she's been referred to as the "white haired girl" that she has no confirmed name. How bothersome. I really wonder if she was related to Friede by blood in some way. They LOOK similar, after all, but then again, she calls Gael her uncle. I dunno, this DLC is great though, and does raise quite a few questions. Thanks for the videos, Vaati. :)
She's unlikely to be related to Friede, I think it's more likely for her to be related to priscilla. If you look closely at the white haired girl's face, you can see her eyes are that of a snake or some other reptile and she has scales at the base of her neck. This makes her likely to be similar to Priscilla in that she may also be a crossbreed. Also, I'm not sure of friede's hair since I haven't paid enough attention to it, but it doesn't seem white, however, Priscilla has white hair. Furthermore, the blanket she has over her when we find her after killing Vilhelm seems, to me, very similar to the white robe of Priscilla. This might be wrong though sa I doubt she'd throw it away and I couldn't find it anymore after she moved to the chapel.
VaatiVidya do you think that the white haired girl is the half snake half human behind the father because she has the eyes of a snake and scales on the back of her neck making her somewhat of a cross - breed
That Corvian Settlement was the best part easily. Exactly what I want from my Dark Souls games, an area where I feel like it's not about hordes of enemies or difficulty, but about making me think "wait why are these dudes not even fighting back? the hell is this? am I colossal jerkass for killing these poor guys?". Then throw in some Bloodborne enemies in there to remind me about that difficulty part. Then unveil the lore slowly to make me understand wtf is going on with the area. Then you see the poor things try to desperately fight you with clumsy plunge attacks. The guys who tried to be sorcerers were awesome, seeing them pewpew slowly with their wands then pop out homing soulmass that made a total of 3 orbs, suggesting that they absolutely suck at sorcery. Glorious. If only the part after that with the hundred followers in the cliffs wasn't just straight padding. Hated that area with passion. Just felt completely unnecessary to trudge through endless supply of the same spear and torch dudes I saw at the beginning of the DLC until the next interesting area came along.
apa123APA yeah me too, too many enemies, how am I supposed to kill 3 crabs while 2 archers are shooting at me? Or 10 fucking wolfs ganking me plus the trees shooting at me piromancies... It was a nightmare. But that village has the souls essence, the dark comes, and the poor people getting infected...
Fun fact: you can blatantly say "fuck this shit" and mega-cheese bypass most of the DLC's non-boss combat content with Hidden Body + Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring (Lingering Dragoncrest Ring also recommended to not have Hidden Body wear off right in front of a few certain knife throwing assholes). That cliff section pissed me off enough to do this JUST to see how lazily bloated with enemies that section was and i have i say is: "This is DkS2 Frigid Outskirts 2.0"
The hills still weren't as bad as the areas leading to the wolf boss. Whoever thought "2-3 giant crabs with inflated health pools and potentially a guy raining AoE arrows on you" was a good gameplay challenge should be flogged.
apa123APA Yeah but this way is funnier and a bigger middle finger to the PvE. Plus it removes the risk of some random bullshit hitbox lag screwing you over.
Official Goose Studios Elfriede refers to you as "Lord of Hollows" and tells you you have your own people to look after if you die to her. If you go to Yuria with her soul, she says,"That soul....Nay, Nevermind. It is from a woman of Londor. She should be honored to grant succor to a Lord of Hollows." I might be paraphrasing
Man I'm rewatching this video like THREE YEARS later and I still remember how awesome it was when me and my friend first fought against this boss. We wanted to do it together. 3rd phase was absolutely fantastic!
Wrong, Manus was the pygmy, and he absorbed it. When his tomb was disturbed, the Dark Soul (or Shadow, or Dark Flame if you wish) reacted to the Fire, light and life that intruded on it's concealment and grew to match it. Manus himself got roused and controlled by it, but he held a good chunk of it's essence in him. The Flame of Izalith was trying to feed and grow but a fraction of the original flame back to full, but since that would break the balance, it mutated into an abomination.
Wooohh! Just recently went through all this and now I can watch this. I few dialogue difference I think. When I first talked to Friede's knight in front of cathedral, he recognized me as Yuria's lord. Friede also said to me "leave us be ashen one. Thou art the lord of Londor and have thine own subjects to guide". And when she killed me in boss fight "...Yuria is sure to be waiting".
When she says 'The Dark Soul of Man' that is a moment that gives you shivers. I was wondering how DLC was going to work with this game, and after finishing it I was wondering where else it had to go seeing as I only ever did the default ending. But, it seems that this world is far from over. Soon we'll go to Londor, and hopefully, not all, but most of our questions are answered. I don't want this series to ever answer EVERY question because that would take the fun out of it!
The amezing Mr p 3 huge amazing boss fights, 1 covenant, a shitload of awesome rings, several relatively diverse areas, a few new NPCs, a shitload of new enemies, and the only satisfying ending to any souls game? Maybe my standards are just too low, but I'd say the Ringed City did pretty well.
Seeing the father after he sees Freide dead gives me chills every time he literally set the painting on fire to bring her back the first time, the fact he covered his eyes when she told him to shows that he is a very peaceful and almost shy vibe, like he wouldn't hurt anyone, then he goes ballistic. I think the dlc of this was a very grueling dark souls story for sure, come and destroy a world and kill two peaceful leaders simply to set the painting on fire. Haha
Vaati! You DEFINETLY should play the dlc with a Lord of Hollows character (where you are ready to finish the game with the usurper ending)!! There is lots of new dialog, Yuria and you being the lord of hollows is mentioned countless times! And Yuria herself gets other dialog too! I think she has 2 new dialog where she recognizes you went to the painting, and when you bring her the soul of her sister, Elfriede.
He does not walk around, first he is found sitting in a house and he tells you you should burn the world. Then after you finish the dlc, you go to the building he was in and he stays outside of the house, looking to the sky. When you talk to him, he thanks you and gives you the slab. Braidz MC
"I will snuff out these ashes for good" - and she has done a fine job of that. I am still unable to send this bloody nun with a scythe packing. I'm at attempt number 50 or something now.
Cobalt360Degrees Artorias got the same dialogue(?) treatment, as his ending scream was human. It's really raises the neck hairs when From does small things like this, like giving that colossal mass of hair and fire known as Ariandel a HUMAN voice.
Cobalt360Degrees its literally the same scream that several bosses in bloodborne have ( vicar amelia, cleric beast, and im pretty sure paarl (dont quote me on this one))
it would be great if the other DLC would follow that but she cant be the DLC entrance because i think you would have to be able to acess it without buying the first DLC.
It probably will, kinda like the Crown DLC's in Dark Souls 2 continued each other in a way. However they can't lock one DLC behind another. So the entrance can't be inside a DLC area for people who only bought the second one.
It is going to be a continuation, but I highly doubt they'd force people to buy both DLC in order to play the second one otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy the season and the DLC separetly unless they force you to possess ashes of ariandel to purchase the next DLC.
I always assumed the white-haired girl was drawing something in the dust on the table, as a captive artist might if they had no other materials to produce art with. I really loved that detail, as it tells us so much about her even before she speaks a single word.
The Freide fight was incredible. I somehow managed to luck my way through by spamming pyromancies on my first attempt. I guess to show her flame really is the best way
Feels like this dlc was purposely designed to be so short so that the next one will complete it and the entire Souls series. That last reference to 'the dark soul of man' as her pigment screams the creation of a new world where the cycle of fire no longer holds, what we've been waiting for since DSII. How cool would it be if Uncle Gael actually brings the lost Undead from DSII as the final boss and ultimately everything makes sense. Unbelievable storytelling from From Software, color me impressed in a million hues! Fantastic work Vaati, thou shalt in all temerity receive a like and unending praise for thine outstanding work! Can't wait for the next dlc!!!!!!!
I would love that- only Fromsoft has ignored everything from DS2, both the good and the bad :( Which is kinda sad, because DS2 has some great lore about how humans actually got crap done, unlike DS1 and DS3 where it's about descendants of Gods, undead, unkindled, angles, and immortal snakes (I'm referring to the Ivory King here, as a human who got crap done). Not to say that any of it's bad, but for some reason I can sympathize with Humans easier :)
They haven't ignored EVERYTHING about DS2, the statues of what most people say is Aldia in Lothric Castle, the paintings of Nashandra.....actually....other than that stuff I can't think of anything else DS2 related in game
The biggest fuck you in the final boss fight is that they give you a titanite slab after phase 2. They actively try to trick you into thinking it's over, I absolutely love it.
Well she could be somewhat similar to Shannalotte. The white haired girl has reptilian features which could mean that, like Priscilla, she could be in part dragon and, as Shannalotte tells us after revealing her name, she is born of dragon, so it could be that all three of them share a connection through all of them having at least one dragon parent. The white haired girl also has the same white hair as Priscilla which is a rare hair color in the dark souls universe with, as far as I know, only these two possessing it.
did anyone notice that if you did the usurp the flame ending, didn't kill or lose yuria and go to the painted world, you'll be acknowledged as the lord of londor, also if you see yuria after receiving the onyx blade she'll have her own unique dialogue, sadly i can't remember exactly what she said as i didn't record it like a dumb ass, but if you go as the lord of londor you hear all kinds of new shit.
~I'm guessing Two Things, I feel the Final DLC, might tie in with this One seeing as we met the Eldest Sister of the Sable Church Founders, I assume we'll meet Lillian the Youngest in the Next DLC. (Similar to Nashandra and her Sisters in DS 2, Minus Karla for some reason). ~If Uncle Gael is looking for the Dark Soul of Man itself, and we had that Odd Statue at the End, I'm calling it. The Final DLC will either be in Londor or -perhaps it shall be a second Painted World if Miyazaki wants to do Painted Inception...- ~Maybe that Statute with the Lower Snake Body, is either a Reincarnation of Kaathe or if going the Extra Mile, The Furutive Pygmy, the Lord who created Humanity. Honestly that would be the perfect Way to end the Series, if we're still ignoring The Bearer of the Curse or Aldia from Dark Souls 2. *~Ariandel really was a Great DLC, when it came to Lore and Story, but I feel unless the Other DLC answers it, we might have Unanswered Questions for the Overall Lore of Dark Souls 3, such as Who were the Angels, who'm which Gertrude Met, What is the Deep that Aldrich foresaw, What is the Profaned Flame, if it isn't another Chaos Flame, Is the Untended Graves in the Future or The Past, and what the Hell are Pilgrim Butterflies?* *Great Vid Vaati, Keep up the Good Work, also don't feel Bad,Ariandel wasn't Father Lloyd XD*
Trevor Williams Or may Miyazaki releases a DLC that raises more questions and answers none. Then proceeds to ride into the sunset on a horse, raising even more questions...
When lorediving, i read on reddit this theory. It stated that the Deep may be some form of the soul of Death, just like the Abyss is some form of the soul of Dark and the Chaos is some form of the soul of Life.
Yes it is shorter than 3 hours you got it right and one of the bosses (obviously the one not in this video) is garbage, it's so bad that it could've been a DS2 boss.
La Nausée the dlc is very short because they pushed the pvp element more - so your idea of waiting for the next one and playing both together is a good idea
I just played this for the first time a few days ago after getting the Lord of Hollows ending, and it is absolutely incredible how they found a way to tie that ending into the dialogue in this DLC.
For me, the white haired girl doesn't give me the "dark soul of man" dialogue, instead she says "My thanks, Ashen One. I will finish this painting. of a cold, dark, and very gentle place. So that it might make a home for someone, someday."
I don't know about you guys, but I got goosebumps and chills all over my body throughout this DLC especially at the end when she says "the dark soul of man...". Just goes to show that even though it was a short DLC they made up for it with incredible game design and once again, compelling and invigorating story
i've never played darksouls, or bloodborne, but i've just spent the last few hours going through your videos and i just wanted to say that they're incredibly made. just by watching i feel like i've experienced these boss fights, their dialogue, and the story of the game. they're very comforting. it's nice to see someone who's so interested in a game, just for the sake of being interested. just- good work and thank you.
Interesting fact: The souls you can pick up in the painted hand of Ariandel in NG+ are called "soul of an old hand" , "soul of a venerable old hand", and maybe others. From Soft are dropping hints all over the place^^
Vaati, the corpse at the end doesnt have the lower body of a snake, thats a decomposing tail, if you also use binoculars you can see its a somewhat feminine face. Could this be the remains of Priscilla?
Now that I finally had time to finish the DLC, I could FINALLY watch this video! Had no idea the white-haired girl was upstairs... didn't occur to me despite my curiosity of that lone canvas. The boss fight definitely caught me off guard but I can't help but feel that it was 'technically' quite easy to beat, but going through the first phase over and over weakened my resolve; you start to become lazy and that's where you lose. Second phase was definitely the easiest, as I think Friede softens up to allow Ariandel to attack you, but I found him to really be 'out of the way' as I solely focused on her. The third phase was simple, but often I'd die due to not fully knowing an attack pattern... after some trial and error, it was a breeze. I'd admit it's the best part of the DLC though, and that little graveyard area behind the settlement... those warriors know how to lay down a beating! I can't help but feel that there's something else left to do in this DLC, but according to the guides, I've done it all.
lets be real here... seeing father arindel's cutscene when you beat the 1st stage of the boss fight really struck me hard I mean seeing that head shake and sudden scream of terror just stuck me with "I feel bad that I just did that" and "he's going to make me regret doing that" to the point where I went for her over attacking him which made the fight harder than it should of been considering slashing at him takes off way more health the psychological fear just made the fight harder
Best way to keep track of where Freide is in her first form is to toss a few throwing daggers at her. They'll still be visible when she turns invisible.
When Lady Friede kills you, she says sometimes that "surely yuria is waiting for you" - which I find interesting. I mean, you've explained their relation but not that piece of dialog which seems to hint that she knows about the events outside the painting??? Also, Phase 2 of the boss fight is much much easier if you just use a bow. It is super easy to keep distance in the fight and then easy to dodge the flame. Just have to interrupt Friede if she casts what appears to be a heal.
also, the "sane" friendly corvian in the settlement moves and has new dialogue after you beat the boss, talking about burning this world away for the sake of the next.
She was a big part of the sable church. No doubt she'd know what their goal is and that yuria wanted an unkindled lord of hollows. That's basically the entire point of the church
Although this DLC had some amazing moments, and delivered to us a lot of cool lore and gave more depth to what was already present, it was horrendously short. I truly hope the next DLC will be a bit more... Lengthy. No, A LOT... More lengthy. Still made my season pass worth it though. 8/10 would stand estus-less in phase 3 against a NG+ Blackflame Friede as my petty Oscar-build again.
Daniel Bellcaster Midir was a fat dick to beat, even after being over leveled cause whenever I had enough souls I would go back and level up my guy, he still took several hours to beat...
@@yummybutter8707 whooped his ass in ng+ with sl 125 ( I'll stay at pvp meta) and dragonslayer greataxe +5. Easy actually. Face his head, stay close, this provokes his predictable 3 or 6 hit combo with a recovery that let's you land a weapon art (1300 damage) or 2 r1s or 1 r2. I needed 4 tries this way
Damn Ariandel's scottish accent is on a Groundskeeper Willy level. Seriously, that and the deep echoing voice make him very difficult to understand without subs.
That boss fight was absolutely amazing. It took my 15 different attempts to win. when I say 15 DIFFERENT attempts I mean different. 15 different combinations of buffs, armour, weapons, shields. What I finally won with was Ubadachi and onikiri, wolf knight armour, no shield, and carthus rouge. I don't remember what rings I used, though I do remember the fire stoneplate and the frostbite ring being a must.That fight and the ice cavern were the highlights of the DLC for me.
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"Behold its size. This is my canvas." *throws hands into the air*
AHHHH SHE'S SO CUTE
BEHOLD ITS SIZE
@@meedogh9378 LOL
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She's probably really old tho
The Jingo probably
They hit gold with Father Ariandels VA. The amount of emotion in his voice when he's asking for Friede and his flail, not to mention his blood curdling scream when she dies is outstanding.
Haldos Prime I felt the same way. The camera shot of his Friede’s lifeless body as he screams...it hit me so hard
my f l a i l 😥
Mah fleel
Matthew Gonzalez hits the heart very harshly
His yell is seriously incredible. It gives me chills every time.
I think it's thematically interesting that the Age of Fire is rotting because they won't let a Flame go out, while the painted world of Ariandel is rotting because they won't let a Flame be lit.
Most definitely! Both worlds are trying their damndest to keep things as they are, fighting against nature taking its course; against change. They have halted the cycle of death and rebirth. And as a result, both worlds are rotting away and descending into madness.
@@neoson690 despite watching this channel so much, this is what finally made me understand what the broad stroke narrative of DS3 and the DLC is. I realized that while I know a lot about the characters now I actually understand everything lol
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Dark Souls is a depressing universe.
@@neoson690 maybe mizaki is also saying that let go of the dark soul series as maybe there never going to br a dark soul 4
@@sarcasticsage984 are you saying by never letting go and always holding on to hope for dark souls 4 we’ll eventually go hollow?! 😭😭😭
"I Wonder if Uncle Gael has found it. The Dark Soul of Man." Oh, Uncle Gael has found what he was looking for and boy is this gonna be awkward to tell you...
"Yeah I had to murder him, the Dark Soul Blood, its his blood, also he was devouring bodies when I found him"
basically he found it then died. I didnt killed him (but my sword is another story) and i simply took his blood cuz he didnt said that the blood was the blood of the dark soul at all. not once.
i took it cuz it was black
Gael was tasked to bring the blood of the dark soul to his niece, meaning the vivid blood from the body of a carrier of the dark soul. When he arrived at the ringed city he found that all of this blood had dried up. In order for that kind of blood to reapear, he had to engulf the dark soul he found to revitalize it in his own vains as so to deliver it his niece. But oh no. He knew he could not tame the dark soul. He knew he would fall under it's influence. He knew he would not be able to fulfill his task by himself. He sacrificed himself, having complete knowledge of what was to come, with the hope that someone else would kill him and take his now darkened blood to the painting lady. He had planed this all along
@@ΚωνσταντίνοςΔημητρίου-θ7δ Είσαι μεγάλος ρε φίλε, κατάλαβα επιτέλους την φάση με τον Gael. Ευχαριστώ !!
I was the 666th like 😀
Him breaking down and bringing the flame back to the painting JUST to revive Friede is.. heartbreaking.
She is Ash.
Ash seeketh Ember.
That part was actually scary. The first time the 2nd phase began for me I was like "I'm... sorry?"
"Ours is a chance encounter, to be sure, but perhaps it was meant to be"
"a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one"
coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!!
Was wondering if anyone knew whether Father Ariandel's scream was an actual scream or were some effects added to it? Because if so the VA is fucking amazing!
exactly man, I had literal chills from his screams
If you talk to Friede after becoming the Lord of Londor, her dialogue will change and reference instead that you have your own subjects to guide.
crzymn246
But, after an ending you can only continue by going to the world state before the ending. Are you sure you're not full of shit?
No. That's how I did the dlc first. After I set up the usurpation ending her dialogue does change
Yeah sorry, I was super wrong. You're definitely not full of shit.
LukeSparow lmao
@@LukeSparrow221 good on u bro, usually people would get salty as fuck but u good bro
"Every fleeing man must be caught. Every secret must be unearthed."
Wow, this is right through the fourth wall talking to the gamer. Really cool.
"you dont know me" - me, a gamer that just spent two days in a row doing exactly what he said I was doing.
They kinda did the same in The Old Hunters DLC
“Such is the conceit of the self-proclaimed seeker of truth. But in the end, you lack the stomach for the agony that you’ll bring upon yourself.”
No. I bear the pain. For it is the one thing that let's me know I still live.
@@Cptsuccess a quote from another game spoken by one of my favourite videogame characters Tom Redwood "It is only through pain that we know we are alive and this time my friend, the pain must end"
When I defeated the second phase of the boss(es), I started celebrating with one of the other Phantoms I summoned, throwing some 'Praise the Sun!'s and 'Joy's at each other.
The third guy just lore-walked up to us, then slowly pointed behind. I turned around just as Blackfire Friede emerged right behind me.
Great moment.
"hey, dumbasses, she ain't down yet"
My reaction was oh fuck as she raped my health bar
I was like “fuck yeah, took me some good 8 tries but they’re finally down” and then someone starts speaking and she’s starting to get embraced by black flames and I’m like “oh god not this please not like this”
If I had such an ungodly amount of charisma that I could convert a man from his previous beliefs that he had been taught for his entire life and make him eternally strapped to a chair and beat himself so that the outside world could continue to be infested with musqiutos that are gigantic and nest everywhere on earth and he would STILL happily fight by my side and sacrifice himself for me if his beliefs were challenged in any way...
I would probably have ended world hunger by now to be honest.
summoning phantoms OMEGALUL what a fcking looser
"I wonder if uncle has found it. The Dark Soul-"
Roll Credits!
*Video Ends*
lol
Exactly what I thought. lol
I'm new to DS, what does that mean? What is a "dark soul of man"?
i don't even Personally, I think she's referring to Manus.
Chris Hill oooh now I get it. I just need to replay DS1 with more attention to item descriptions...
Friede: Why does everyone keep stabbing me in the back?
People who fought her before: Because It's easy, and it does a lot of damage.
Woman ahead therefore try stabbing in the back
I see what you did there
But I think it's hard to backstab her.
I did it a few times but it was all luck. When I tried it I just got damage
Happy souls!
stab in the back 😉
@@cayniner No
"How incredible is the 3 phase boss fight where you empty a full health bar each time? It's unheard of and completely demoralizing"
FromSoftware: "Hold my sake I'm making Sekiro"
1st play through kills Freide no sweat, dies to 2nd phase. Summons Gael gets to 3rd phase.. is about to kill Freide only to get one shot by the cut throat finisher.
I was like, FromSoft wtf no even Fume Knight was this BS with the RNG and spam. (I've killed this mf twice already- talk about undead vs undead)
2v1 is fine(ha Smough and Ornestein and The Kings Pets are worse) but not even Soul of Cinder could one shot me with a grapple cmon.
Since I played ds3 after sekiro, I found myself unknowingly saving estuses in boss fights because of seikro's habit for the second phase which ofcourse barely ever came in ds3. But that did help out in this fight, obviously I died so bad from the third phase when I first made it there but I had estuses to spare.
@@amauriherrera6022 *Players when they can't win and need something to blame:* "iT's RnGeE bUlLsHiT"
Shut up. Freide is no different from The Abyss Watchers or Isshin the Sword Saint.
@@littlemoth4956 can we all agree that Isshin's title is bullshit? Name like that I was expecting an EPIC sword duel.. and then he pulled out a motherfucking machine gun
@@dkdc7938 ayo i just read isshin's title from the comment above and think "Isshin the sword saint... How fucking badass is that" and then i read your comment lmfao thats true though, mf bring a fucking spear and a gun, oh also the other mortal blade and a literal fuckin lightning. I guess in the end he's the sword saint after all
You didn’t mention it but I think it’s nice how Frieda’s blood sought the flame even thought she rejected it. And how it embered her.
If you'll talk with the friendly bird you've seen before after bossfight he'll give you another Titanite Slab.
Really!
This game just freaking throws them at you! No complaints, it's a lot less trouble than Dark Souls 1, where you had to really go looking for them.
waaaaaaaaaaat
@@xshullaw Personally I think Dark Souls 1 should have the same Titanite Slab to be the max upgrade, seriously, I spend half the time completing a playthrough and the other half farming for materials
Dkdndnekxjc Yxjdjdnfn how could you do such a thing bro😂he was so nice
The way Elfriede entered the room behind you and traced her fingers across her scythe actually reminded me a lot about Nashandra in DS2.
Spiral Haze I thought it was one of the most epic moments in DS3. She is such a badass. So confident that she will kill you that she didn’t even bother to put on fucking shoes! Lol
True, ds3 is a soulsborne tribute game first and foremost and elfriede shares many similarities with her for sure. Good link.
Probably since they’re both seductresses, friede convinced father to suppress the flame, and nashandra seduced her king
YUP I was thinking that
@@Yeetbc good point
Black flame... a giant "father..." THE LEGEND NEVER DIES
Well, What is it?
@@metametang7628 Manus, you casual -_-
metametang The Giant Dad from DS1 ( it was a meme build that people used in PVP )
@@milesdye1962 Did any of you actually not realized what he meant with “Well, what is it“?
@@jinkisaragi874 a good reference for sure.
Fromsoft is so damn good with imagery and themes. When she dies and the blood pool comes down to the Father, exactly the same as the eclipsed sun with the vertical beam of light - which symbolises the ending of the flame.
insane reach
Bruh i wasn't scared for shit when she was invisible, I rolled around everywhere thinking, "Bitch aint gonna get me"
She becomes visible if you go to where she landed. You can tell by listening, or by watching her if you're close when she jumps.
***** All I got to do is roll and I liveeeed. Ng+7 too
+Derek Maldonado damn im about to start ng+4 and she was hell for me
Fo' Twenty Quick tip all the Poise went to the npc's in NG+ anything
dude, the invisible attack is a free backstab, the last thing you should do is rolling.
Hearing Father Ariendel’s screams always gives me chills, that pain is exclusive only to those who’ve lost someone truly dear and you can feel it.
(Video and game spoilers ahead)
Did anyone happen to see the images on the partitions surrounding Father Ariandel? After you kill Friede the first time and he uses the fire to bring her back, those partitions are shown burning away, so you have to look before you talk to the good Father.
The images depict two towering, shadowy figures looming down on a field of bones--and two serpents. One of the shadowy giants has reached down and caught one of the snakes in his/her hand (possibly killing it--it looks wounded, or bleeding from the mouth to me), while the other serpent seems to be fleeing.
My personal thoughts? Frampt and Kaathe, of course, especially with the Japanese translation of Yuria's dying words indicating that Kaathe is dead. Whether or not that's canon, I don't know, but that's what immediately came to mind.
I'd really like to hear thoughts from others, and if I may, request a thumbs up. I'd really like Vaati to be aware of this, in case it holds any decent relevance for a lore video.
...and just to add something else, the way Ariandel dies. He buries his head in his bowl. I wonder if he does that because he continues to fear the flame, and tries to smother it with his blood before he dies? Or, maybe, he has a change of heart at his last moment, reaching for the fire to end his life, rather than give in to the rot? I dunno. I just thought his death animation was a bit interesting.
7Zealot I think he sticks his head down to see through the flame or something. If I remember correctly he said something about it
7Zealot
You know what I like about dark souls? The voices, to hear the voices of this people makes me feel like I’m there.
On god. The VA and sounds are chilling to the point where u literally feel like you are your chracter.
I'm late, but yeah. From Software always gets the BEST voice actors. All the way from Demon Souls to Eldin Ring: top notch actors 💯
I hope that the next dlc allows you to go into her painting inside ariendel's painting and achieve paintception.
*DUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNN*
James 1137 nice hentai profile pic. Btw where is the full picture of you profile picture?
Kerry Petersen naaah ringed city bitches :3
Shiny Espurr That you tried to catch you're fucking disgusting
Shiny Espurr That you tried to catch you're weird as fuck and why do you want that picture?... wait... don't answer that. We all know you sick fuck.
If you haven't finished the DLC yet, don't watch this!
It'll be much more enjoyable if you watch it afterwards.
VaatiVidya I enjoy spoiling stuff for myself though. I can't afford it yet. But for some reason I still get excited in playing it when I can instead of upset.
VaatiVidya could the white haired girl be the peculiar doll from dark souls 1 the description says
A strange doll in strange dress.
There once was an abomination who had no place in this world. She clutched this doll tightly, and eventually was drawn into a cold and lonely painted world
Or it could be someone else
Actually saying it now Friede could be that doll. She has black flame that is considered a heretic in dark souls, maybe she was banned for using such witchcraft or escaped her execution by those she call ashen or the flame and turned the painted world to rot instead of fire
Lady Frieda and Vilhelm both have special dialogue if you have become the Lord of Hollows.
Another possibility is that Aldrich saw her and not Priscilla she could have a life hunt scythe
Vaati, if you achieve the Lord of Hollows ending and then in NG+ you arrive to the Painted World of Ariandel, the dialogues change and Londor gets mentioned a lot. Just letting you know ;)
Delfador999 yup. Bitch told me to go look after my subjects as I'm the lord of Hollows
KimJongWins Same here. I wonder what she says if you get one of the other endings?
You don't have to be in ng+ or get the lord of hollows ending, you just have to have spoken to Yuria after Yoel dies.
I have all 8 dark sigils so maybe her dialogue about Londor is triggered by making sure the questline isn't broken (ex. don't kill yoel, yuria, or heal the dark sigils/ get all 8 of them).
I also got refered to the Lord of Londor even though I finished the game without going for the usurper of fire's ending instead going with the end of fire ending. However, I had completed all requirements for the usurper ending which is likely what triggers the lord of londor dialogues.
At the moment of my walkthrough through teh dlc, I was refered to as lord of londor yet Yuria was dead at that point(killed her after the ending)
16:30 I applaud the voice actor of Father Ariandel with the utmost sincerity! That scream is just so raw and powerful, it completes the dramatic atmosphere of the scene.
11:37 Vilhelm wins the no-bell prize
Walrus king damn
I was looking for this comment. Thanks
LMFAO
You can actually see Priscilla's tower if you look off the cliff near Ariandel's chapel, far below. It's low placement sort of physically shows how that world was painted over, with this new world on top. I love those kinds of details.
You can even descend down there.
If you destroy the bridge you can climb down and go there.
You can get to the actual Priscilla fight arena even, through an illusory wall in the big flymen pit. There's a stupidly levelled NPC mad phantom there that gives you the new pyro spell, as a reference to the yellow pyro invader in DS1 I guess.
HammerspaceCreature seriously?? I totally missed that. Is the illusory wall in the bottom part of the fly pit?
tomhchamp Yep. It's easy to miss though because any signs you try to place there are obscured by the water. I'm pretty proud I looked over at the arena and worked out where the door would have to be to access the roots leading down to it by myself :)
Vilhelm’s voice is so cool that it single-handedly makes the dlc worth it
PAUSE, PAUSE, PAUSE... Wait!
O' girl says, "I presume it visible to you, the bonfire in this room."
Is that to imply... That the bonfire isn't a physical thing? But some sort of metaphysical checkpoint, only visible to the player?
I think she’s just saying, “You see that there? Use it”
@@nexradio143 hundred percent she is just saying, "what are you blind feck off"
She is ash as well, she has access to the bonfires
I suppose that since indead are the only ones that can use it then they are also the only ones who an see it
@@nicolasmouzakis650 Its a physical object. A coiled sword and the bones and ashes of undeads prior.
"Friede" is german for peace, so I guess this land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind ?
Sure looks that way...
Max Mustermann good meme
*twitch
Thou must returneth, whence thou came, this land is peaceful, it's inhabitants kind...
"bring Friede to me" ... well "bring peace to me" ... I somehow doubt that this line of dialogue was intended to shape with the german "Friede" but still awesome ^^
Dunno if anyone else noticed it, but the thing father is holding looks extremely like a lord's vessel =)
Also lke the vessel in Profaned Capital
Or any vessel to be exact
@@xsnaky1578 That actually got me wondering if it's like another Profaned Flame
The voice acting in From's games are just outstandingly done, from content to delivery.
Everybody gangsta till the waifu start showing her toes
she’s like 10 bruh
@@quentinmobley1032 I meant friede
YEETMAN 123 yikes for you to assume 😂
@@josebocanegra8720 lmao
@@quentinmobley1032 She probably is 2357489494004 years old, all the people in dark souls are kind of inmortal.
That scream the father makes is bone chilling,it really represents that all this time he thought himself dependent of friede,and when she dies his rage is unparalleled
The dialogue is sometimes different when you have done the Dark Lord ending! One of the differences is that they actually address you as Lord, I haven't experienced that with any of the NPC's outside of the painted world... And I was pleasantly surprised to actually be recognised for doing the nightmare quest that is Yuria's questline
Vaati: Mill-wood Knights have a "really tragic story"
Also Vaati: makes bowman commit suicide :/
When you are German and hear "Friede" and think about how much of a pain she is to fight.... It's adds another level of Irony.... Friede = Peace
Friede sei mit dir = Peace be with you
Ohh never though about that.
I just read her name as a name.
Not as Friede(n)
So you are german the first hubter
I have seen Japanese animé use German words sometimes as well. I think it might be a trend in the industry in that country.
Was labersch du
@@daboy8107 Ganz äfach. De Name basst zum Charakter.
I sense a more direct storyline this time round. She's gonna paint the abyss...
This theory is amazing.
Had the same thought when she mentioned what she was going to paint.
Almost makes me wonder if it'll be the sea envisioned by Aldrich.
+Northcote4 it's like she ends up painting Bloodbornes world....
first thing that came to mind
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_(painting)
It's an interesting thought because i read a theory somewhere where that the Firtive(did i spell that right?) Pygmy took on the dark soul and eventually became Manus Father of the Abyss when the Dark soul Corrupted. She said she needed the Dark soul didn't she? So that's an interesting touch. If i'm correct the millwood knights were in DS1's DLC and the dragon that forced them out was Kalameet.
Me: Ah yes, quarantine time. The perfect time to watch long videos of the lore of a game I've never played.
(great videos, they get me through the long days)
Hopefully dark souls has piqued your interest now!
I watched Vaati videos for abour 3 years before picking up DS3 finally. Just finished my first playthough!
wait..... what the hell are you doing here go play the game! NOW
I would start with ds1 to get the story
Ds1 is iconic
15:20 All Unkindle are related to a Lord of Cinder, in order to defeat them and return them to their thrones.
Siegward - Yhorm
Anri - Aldrich
Hawkwood - Abyss Watchers
Ashen One - Lothric
If Sister Friede is an Unkindle, who is the Lord of Cinder related to her? Ariandel?
So Ariandel is a Lord of Cinder?
that's all the unkindled awoken by the bell. it'd be strange if yulia's elder sister was time displaced to that extent.
Juan Augusto Villacorta Fuentes I had the same question in my mind
Sir Vilhems knows very well the effect of the toll of the Bell of Awakening. Thats the reason why all the bells are down in Painted World: To prevent a new Unkindled to awake and try to vanquish the Lord of Cinder.
The only thing that tells us Ariandel is a Lord of Cinder is his relation with Elfriede, an Unkindle. But also I think Ariandel could be a very weird Lord of Cinder because of this facts:
- Sister Friede and Ariandel shares the same boss bar. The only boss that has that trait is Abyss Watchers. So it means both of them have the same soul?
- When you defeat Ariandel, there is no message of "Lord of Cinder Fallen". The only message you receive is "Heir of Fire Destroyed" after you defeated Blackflame Friede.
- The way Sister Friede rise to her second and third forms reminds me the Lords of Cinders catching fire. Ariandel doesnt have a second form. He just bites the dust when you defeat him.
Ariandel is not a Lord of Cinder, but maybe he was. And because Ariandel looks like a hollow, I believe the vessel of his soul is Sister Friede. Maybe both souls are joined together: Sister Friede has powers like a Lord of Cinder, and Ariandel is just a hollow with some reasoning and masochistic tendencies.
Very weird.
maybe she was ment to strike down the soul of Cinder after all the lords are slain by their ashen ones? I'm sure as the eldest of the three sisters known to be very able in swordplay would be able to defeat it.
...right. the eldest. no, i bet she was meant to be the lord of londor, and usurp the fire. but, when the time came to actually do so (this might've been before the bell rang, so the lords of cinder hadn't awoken...) she tried to link the fire instead, betraying londor. she failed, and became unkindled ash.
"I wonder if uncle has found it. The DARK SOULS™ III Deluxe Edition"
The new DLC spell talks about how Pontiff Sulyvhan was born in the painted world
Ahad Zeb yah I saw that to, I've been wondering about that, I hope he makes a video about it
I wouldn't doubt it
that's why he's such a cold-hearted bastard
He was born there but soon left as he had not yet experienced loss.
I hate the pontiff
Also, weird. The white haired girl didn't say that to me when I talked to her after. She just said that she will be painting soon and it will be a peaceful home for people. Interesting.
You have to reload the world - it's weird
VaatiVidya Huh, well that's interesting. Still, it makes me wonder if they might tie into the next DLC or not with what she says. Or maybe it's just to leave us wondering.
Anyways, amazing video as always! Can't wait for more! ^_^
VaatiVidya I'll just assume since she's been referred to as the "white haired girl" that she has no confirmed name. How bothersome. I really wonder if she was related to Friede by blood in some way. They LOOK similar, after all, but then again, she calls Gael her uncle. I dunno, this DLC is great though, and does raise quite a few questions.
Thanks for the videos, Vaati. :)
She's unlikely to be related to Friede, I think it's more likely for her to be related to priscilla. If you look closely at the white haired girl's face, you can see her eyes are that of a snake or some other reptile and she has scales at the base of her neck. This makes her likely to be similar to Priscilla in that she may also be a crossbreed.
Also, I'm not sure of friede's hair since I haven't paid enough attention to it, but it doesn't seem white, however, Priscilla has white hair.
Furthermore, the blanket she has over her when we find her after killing Vilhelm seems, to me, very similar to the white robe of Priscilla. This might be wrong though sa I doubt she'd throw it away and I couldn't find it anymore after she moved to the chapel.
VaatiVidya do you think that the white haired girl is the half snake half human behind the father because she has the eyes of a snake and scales on the back of her neck making her somewhat of a cross - breed
Hope the next DLC will feature more eastern stuff, or atleast something new that isn't a fucking cathedral...
True, you did have to make a german explode in one before. I can see how they might be a bit traumatic for you
JC Denton I want a volcanic level
+The_Milkman_Returns Lol that was perfect.
yeah the corvian must have a lot of royal weddings xD
New eastern armor would be nice
Im from the distant year of 2019...And boi are you in for a ride.
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@@dane1317 General Kenobi!
Stiùbhart Svein Çiftçi you are a bold one
That Corvian Settlement was the best part easily. Exactly what I want from my Dark Souls games, an area where I feel like it's not about hordes of enemies or difficulty, but about making me think "wait why are these dudes not even fighting back? the hell is this? am I colossal jerkass for killing these poor guys?". Then throw in some Bloodborne enemies in there to remind me about that difficulty part. Then unveil the lore slowly to make me understand wtf is going on with the area. Then you see the poor things try to desperately fight you with clumsy plunge attacks. The guys who tried to be sorcerers were awesome, seeing them pewpew slowly with their wands then pop out homing soulmass that made a total of 3 orbs, suggesting that they absolutely suck at sorcery. Glorious.
If only the part after that with the hundred followers in the cliffs wasn't just straight padding. Hated that area with passion. Just felt completely unnecessary to trudge through endless supply of the same spear and torch dudes I saw at the beginning of the DLC until the next interesting area came along.
apa123APA yeah me too, too many enemies, how am I supposed to kill 3 crabs while 2 archers are shooting at me?
Or 10 fucking wolfs ganking me plus the trees shooting at me piromancies... It was a nightmare.
But that village has the souls essence, the dark comes, and the poor people getting infected...
Fun fact: you can blatantly say "fuck this shit" and mega-cheese bypass most of the DLC's non-boss combat content with Hidden Body + Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring (Lingering Dragoncrest Ring also recommended to not have Hidden Body wear off right in front of a few certain knife throwing assholes).
That cliff section pissed me off enough to do this JUST to see how lazily bloated with enemies that section was and i have i say is: "This is DkS2 Frigid Outskirts 2.0"
The hills still weren't as bad as the areas leading to the wolf boss.
Whoever thought "2-3 giant crabs with inflated health pools and potentially a guy raining AoE arrows on you" was a good gameplay challenge should be flogged.
joshua kim Don't even need that really, you can usually just run and roll through 95% of the game. Rolls OP, needs more stamina cost to balance game.
apa123APA
Yeah but this way is funnier and a bigger middle finger to the PvE. Plus it removes the risk of some random bullshit hitbox lag screwing you over.
Interesting, the dialogue is slightly different if you do the Hollow ending.
Well, Elfriede IS Yuria's older sister, Yuria has different dialogue if you speak to her with Elfriede's Soul in your inventory
Someguy1357 What do both of them say about one another?
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Elfriede refers to you as "Lord of Hollows" and tells you you have your own people to look after if you die to her. If you go to Yuria with her soul, she says,"That soul....Nay, Nevermind. It is from a woman of Londor. She should be honored to grant succor to a Lord of Hollows." I might be paraphrasing
Ah! Cool! Thank you kind sir!
Regikickass22 "she should be honored to grant succor to the lord of hollows." if you know what I mean.
Man I'm rewatching this video like THREE YEARS later and I still remember how awesome it was when me and my friend first fought against this boss. We wanted to do it together. 3rd phase was absolutely fantastic!
21:15 Boy the way she executed him... savage
the way he stabs us is way more savage
She fucking decapited him!
I found something intresting - The Painter Girl has orange demonic eyea, almost identical like Primordial Serpent eyes.
Robso98 not only that, but get as close up as you can and you can see her face (cheeks) are scaley or charred
perhaps a half breed?
Perhaps a quarter?
perhaps an eighth?
Perhaps a ninety-sixth?
The dark soul of man? Vaati, you cant just cliffhanger us like this :(
Yep. Though, they did say the next DLC will continue this story, so we will likely get some answers then.
Is she painting Manus???
+TheWerdna SERIOUSLY hoping it's londor
nope nope and nope he was a dick to kill then and he is going to be a bigger dick to kill now. so nope nope and nope
Wrong, Manus was the pygmy, and he absorbed it. When his tomb was disturbed, the Dark Soul (or Shadow, or Dark Flame if you wish) reacted to the Fire, light and life that intruded on it's concealment and grew to match it. Manus himself got roused and controlled by it, but he held a good chunk of it's essence in him.
The Flame of Izalith was trying to feed and grow but a fraction of the original flame back to full, but since that would break the balance, it mutated into an abomination.
Wooohh! Just recently went through all this and now I can watch this.
I few dialogue difference I think. When I first talked to Friede's knight in front of cathedral, he recognized me as Yuria's lord. Friede also said to me "leave us be ashen one. Thou art the lord of Londor and have thine own subjects to guide". And when she killed me in boss fight "...Yuria is sure to be waiting".
So difficult a game. 😢
Mr. Mystery I also had the same thing, pretty sure it had to do with the Usurpation ending and going to the DLC later
When she says 'The Dark Soul of Man' that is a moment that gives you shivers. I was wondering how DLC was going to work with this game, and after finishing it I was wondering where else it had to go seeing as I only ever did the default ending. But, it seems that this world is far from over. Soon we'll go to Londor, and hopefully, not all, but most of our questions are answered. I don't want this series to ever answer EVERY question because that would take the fun out of it!
i have a feeling that the second dlc is going to be fairly large
We can only hope, i feel like this dlc is arming you for the next
The amezing Mr p
3 huge amazing boss fights, 1 covenant, a shitload of awesome rings, several relatively diverse areas, a few new NPCs, a shitload of new enemies, and the only satisfying ending to any souls game? Maybe my standards are just too low, but I'd say the Ringed City did pretty well.
+The amezing Mr p I bet you're a dark sword user.
Seeing the father after he sees Freide dead gives me chills every time he literally set the painting on fire to bring her back the first time, the fact he covered his eyes when she told him to shows that he is a very peaceful and almost shy vibe, like he wouldn't hurt anyone, then he goes ballistic. I think the dlc of this was a very grueling dark souls story for sure, come and destroy a world and kill two peaceful leaders simply to set the painting on fire. Haha
Vaati! You DEFINETLY should play the dlc with a Lord of Hollows character (where you are ready to finish the game with the usurper ending)!!
There is lots of new dialog, Yuria and you being the lord of hollows is mentioned countless times! And Yuria herself gets other dialog too! I think she has 2 new dialog where she recognizes you went to the painting, and when you bring her the soul of her sister, Elfriede.
There is also new dialogue if you go back to the crow creature in the corvian settlement.
Oh yeah, free slab
Hakan Büyüktopçu
Braidz MC you have to go out of the building he was in, you can watch vaati's new video its in there somewhere
He does not walk around, first he is found sitting in a house and he tells you you should burn the world. Then after you finish the dlc, you go to the building he was in and he stays outside of the house, looking to the sky. When you talk to him, he thanks you and gives you the slab. Braidz MC
"I will snuff out these ashes for good" - and she has done a fine job of that. I am still unable to send this bloody nun with a scythe packing. I'm at attempt number 50 or something now.
16:28 THAT.
That is scary as shit.
Holy.
It's scary because you can hear that it's an actual human scream and not a computer-generated sound.
Cobalt360Degrees Artorias got the same dialogue(?) treatment, as his ending scream was human. It's really raises the neck hairs when From does small things like this, like giving that colossal mass of hair and fire known as Ariandel a HUMAN voice.
Artorilaus Laucardius He's got a pretty nice accent too.
Cobalt360Degrees its literally the same scream that several bosses in bloodborne have ( vicar amelia, cleric beast, and im pretty sure paarl (dont quote me on this one))
pussies
My reaction to the intro (IDC that this is an old video): "Oh look, it's the Ashen One, toucher of things and ruiner of lifes." O_O
"The Dark Soul of man" that's very ominous... Also she could even be the entrance to the next dlc.
it would be great if the other DLC would follow that but she cant be the DLC entrance because i think you would have to be able to acess it without buying the first DLC.
Raphi Müller
Really I thought miyazaki confirmed that the second DLC was gonna be a continuation of this DLC.
It probably will, kinda like the Crown DLC's in Dark Souls 2 continued each other in a way. However they can't lock one DLC behind another. So the entrance can't be inside a DLC area for people who only bought the second one.
It is going to be a continuation, but I highly doubt they'd force people to buy both DLC in order to play the second one otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy the season and the DLC separetly unless they force you to possess ashes of ariandel to purchase the next DLC.
Frédérique Gervais
It's just a speculation... but you do bring up a good point.
I always assumed the white-haired girl was drawing something in the dust on the table, as a captive artist might if they had no other materials to produce art with. I really loved that detail, as it tells us so much about her even before she speaks a single word.
At first when I saw the bell, the thing on top made me think about the iron golem more than anything else.
The firelink bell has that as well, I believe. But yeah good point
old men still fucking us in games
"You must be the other Ash, I suppose?"
No, I'm not Ash. I'm Michael.
*starts chucking pokeballs at her*
Ketchum, Ash Ketchum, in fact.
@@davecullins1606 Ash Ketchup
"When she says I will snuff out these ashes for good" watch her lips. She's actually using them
The Freide fight was incredible. I somehow managed to luck my way through by spamming pyromancies on my first attempt. I guess to show her flame really is the best way
This is actually hilarious both lore wise and otherwise
A Painting in a Painting painting Paintings
with blood :3
HYEOL IT WAS WRITTEN (PAINTED) IN BLOOD!
Paintception.
IT'S BLUUUUUD.
painted blood :)
Feels like this dlc was purposely designed to be so short so that the next one will complete it and the entire Souls series. That last reference to 'the dark soul of man' as her pigment screams the creation of a new world where the cycle of fire no longer holds, what we've been waiting for since DSII. How cool would it be if Uncle Gael actually brings the lost Undead from DSII as the final boss and ultimately everything makes sense. Unbelievable storytelling from From Software, color me impressed in a million hues! Fantastic work Vaati, thou shalt in all temerity receive a like and unending praise for thine outstanding work! Can't wait for the next dlc!!!!!!!
Christos Koumpanis Ds2? In Ds3? Ha, impossible, Miyazaki would never do such a thing
I would love that- only Fromsoft has ignored everything from DS2, both the good and the bad :(
Which is kinda sad, because DS2 has some great lore about how humans actually got crap done, unlike DS1 and DS3 where it's about descendants of Gods, undead, unkindled, angles, and immortal snakes (I'm referring to the Ivory King here, as a human who got crap done).
Not to say that any of it's bad, but for some reason I can sympathize with Humans easier :)
^thanks captain obvious, because you are a human duh...
***** I think that is for the best because no one have the time to add the mess of the SotFS lore into the game
They haven't ignored EVERYTHING about DS2, the statues of what most people say is Aldia in Lothric Castle, the paintings of Nashandra.....actually....other than that stuff I can't think of anything else DS2 related in game
as soon as i realized you had to fight both i was like "OH GOD NOT ANOTHER ORNSTEIN AND SMOUGH"
O&S with what....3 fuckin phases.
"Thou shalt leaveth this video a liketh."
"But, what if I-"
"THOU SHALT LEAVETH THIS VIDEO A LIKETH."
"O-Okay..."
*Leaves video a liketh*
The biggest fuck you in the final boss fight is that they give you a titanite slab after phase 2. They actively try to trick you into thinking it's over, I absolutely love it.
Never clicked so fast in my life.
OhWolfsy same here!!!!!
OhWolfsy I use an xbox360 controller and even i agree.... my poor finger xD
RISE ASHEN ONE!
NO! *punches* five more minutes!
Anyone else notice at 22:09 the way the white haired girl is kicking her feet makers her look like shannalotte
True dat
Adorable.
ultra-cute
theawesomesausage wat u mean
Well she could be somewhat similar to Shannalotte. The white haired girl has reptilian features which could mean that, like Priscilla, she could be in part dragon and, as Shannalotte tells us after revealing her name, she is born of dragon, so it could be that all three of them share a connection through all of them having at least one dragon parent. The white haired girl also has the same white hair as Priscilla which is a rare hair color in the dark souls universe with, as far as I know, only these two possessing it.
“the match swings in your favor“
Match = tool to do fire
THIS CAN'T BE A COINCIDENCE
did anyone notice that if you did the usurp the flame ending, didn't kill or lose yuria and go to the painted world, you'll be acknowledged as the lord of londor, also if you see yuria after receiving the onyx blade she'll have her own unique dialogue, sadly i can't remember exactly what she said as i didn't record it like a dumb ass, but if you go as the lord of londor you hear all kinds of new shit.
Yeah it's interesting how Yuria obviously still shows that she still kind of cares for her sister but she wants a lord of hollows more.
Oh. I killed Yuria, after the usurpation ending but before the dlc, and still got that unique dialogue.
Sir Vilhelm, Knight of Skinnyjeans.
but he got a badass voice tho
A bit late of a reply but: He sounds like he smokes a pack of cigarettes every day.
"...this world has a bell as well"
Good work detective.
what armor is he wearing at 8:07 i need to know!
Dancer or outrider knight set
Abyss watchers armor and the helm of soul of cinder
“How incredible was this moment?”
Incredibly frustrating, but rewarding to win
- Dark Souls in a nutshell. :D
~I'm guessing Two Things, I feel the Final DLC, might tie in with this One seeing as we met the Eldest Sister of the Sable Church Founders, I assume we'll meet Lillian the Youngest in the Next DLC. (Similar to Nashandra and her Sisters in DS 2, Minus Karla for some reason).
~If Uncle Gael is looking for the Dark Soul of Man itself, and we had that Odd Statue at the End, I'm calling it. The Final DLC will either be in Londor or -perhaps it shall be a second Painted World if Miyazaki wants to do Painted Inception...-
~Maybe that Statute with the Lower Snake Body, is either a Reincarnation of Kaathe or if going the Extra Mile, The Furutive Pygmy, the Lord who created Humanity. Honestly that would be the perfect Way to end the Series, if we're still ignoring The Bearer of the Curse or Aldia from Dark Souls 2.
*~Ariandel really was a Great DLC, when it came to Lore and Story, but I feel unless the Other DLC answers it, we might have Unanswered Questions for the Overall Lore of Dark Souls 3, such as Who were the Angels, who'm which Gertrude Met, What is the Deep that Aldrich foresaw, What is the Profaned Flame, if it isn't another Chaos Flame, Is the Untended Graves in the Future or The Past, and what the Hell are Pilgrim Butterflies?*
*Great Vid Vaati, Keep up the Good Work, also don't feel Bad,Ariandel wasn't Father Lloyd XD*
Trevor Williams Or may Miyazaki releases a DLC that raises more questions and answers none. Then proceeds to ride into the sunset on a horse, raising even more questions...
Trevor Williams the pilgrim butterflies are the pilgrims of Londor the deep is most likely to be the abyss and the profaned flame is the chaos flame
You kind of just disregarded everything from Dark Souls 1 and 2 to make your assumptions seem feasible.
John Smith I didn't disregard ds2 I mentioned that only one of the 3 dlc was long and towards ds1 Forgot about it because it wasn't brought up
When lorediving, i read on reddit this theory. It stated that the Deep may be some form of the soul of Death, just like the Abyss is some form of the soul of Dark and the Chaos is some form of the soul of Life.
You know what you guys need? To renounce the fire and embrace the rot!
harry vrentas and kill all your crow brothers and all the ashen ones that came here
*cue ariendel residents screaming and kaathes jizz face*
"Let the galaxy rot away, and all come to Nurgle."
masterofThardus Nurgle's a feeble asthmatic, Khorne is bae! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Sid Natividad Khorn is merely one of the many pawns that will learn their place once Tzeench rebuilds his staff.
the DLC is about as long as this video
Herrkekkington made my day
I'd like to see you fully clear the DLC in 20 minutes on your first run.
PhoenixWarrior he's trying to make a point about how short the dlc is... just accept the joke and move on bro
Yes it is shorter than 3 hours you got it right and one of the bosses (obviously the one not in this video) is garbage, it's so bad that it could've been a DS2 boss.
La Nausée the dlc is very short because they pushed the pvp element more - so your idea of waiting for the next one and playing both together is a good idea
I just played this for the first time a few days ago after getting the Lord of Hollows ending, and it is absolutely incredible how they found a way to tie that ending into the dialogue in this DLC.
For me, the white haired girl doesn't give me the "dark soul of man" dialogue, instead she says "My thanks, Ashen One. I will finish this painting. of a cold, dark, and very gentle place. So that it might make a home for someone, someday."
yes
Oh maybe I just had to leave the area and come back
yea u have to leave the area. Lost my shit when I heard the new dialogue here lol
You must have skipped it already at this point.
That dialogue is just her fixed dialogue after exhausting everything.
Rip
I don't know about you guys, but I got goosebumps and chills all over my body throughout this DLC especially at the end when she says "the dark soul of man...". Just goes to show that even though it was a short DLC they made up for it with incredible game design and once again, compelling and invigorating story
"Friede" the short version of Elfriede he uses also means "Peace" in German :)
Well this name, just doesn't represent her at ALL
Catalyst
But when Ariandel says "Bring me Friede" it kinda fits for a second haha
irgendwelchedinge Yeah but she just tryies to reap you when you approach the "Father". Wich is not very peaceful
Catalyst it's ironic
It actually sounded like he was talking german for a second to me. Like if he was saying "bringt mir Friede".
i've never played darksouls, or bloodborne, but i've just spent the last few hours going through your videos and i just wanted to say that they're incredibly made. just by watching i feel like i've experienced these boss fights, their dialogue, and the story of the game. they're very comforting. it's nice to see someone who's so interested in a game, just for the sake of being interested. just- good work and thank you.
Man in Manus is surely no coincidence
Kokosnuss anus, too.
Manus is a latin word, nothing to do with man.
Kokosnuss Man(us)
Manus is Latin for "Hand".
Interesting fact: The souls you can pick up in the painted hand of Ariandel in NG+ are called "soul of an old hand" , "soul of a venerable old hand", and maybe others. From Soft are dropping hints all over the place^^
Vaati, the corpse at the end doesnt have the lower body of a snake, thats a decomposing tail, if you also use binoculars you can see its a somewhat feminine face. Could this be the remains of Priscilla?
If you looked at the tail you'd see Wood running under the "skin" so I think it's a doll. Probably of Priscilla.
Watch you tongue, young man! Only a savage would even think about cutting a Lady's tail! This is definitely a topic not suited for civilized society!
the face is also mad eof wood..
Its looks more like a wooden doll.
Looks like mummified skin to me. With the thing in the tail being bone.
Guess you were wrong about Father Ariandel being Lloyd!
xMinteee i still rhink he is Lloyd
Well your an idiot. It literally said Father Ariendel in the game.
again idiot
Tobofonobo you're not making any sense.
to Andras Csanad Schmidt
Friede's blood pool is shaped a lot like the dark sign in the sky around the kiln, a big circle with a line going down from it.
Now that I finally had time to finish the DLC, I could FINALLY watch this video! Had no idea the white-haired girl was upstairs... didn't occur to me despite my curiosity of that lone canvas.
The boss fight definitely caught me off guard but I can't help but feel that it was 'technically' quite easy to beat, but going through the first phase over and over weakened my resolve; you start to become lazy and that's where you lose. Second phase was definitely the easiest, as I think Friede softens up to allow Ariandel to attack you, but I found him to really be 'out of the way' as I solely focused on her. The third phase was simple, but often I'd die due to not fully knowing an attack pattern... after some trial and error, it was a breeze. I'd admit it's the best part of the DLC though, and that little graveyard area behind the settlement... those warriors know how to lay down a beating!
I can't help but feel that there's something else left to do in this DLC, but according to the guides, I've done it all.
lets be real here... seeing father arindel's cutscene when you beat the 1st stage of the boss fight really struck me hard I mean seeing that head shake and sudden scream of terror just stuck me with "I feel bad that I just did that" and "he's going to make me regret doing that" to the point where I went for her over attacking him which made the fight harder than it should of been considering slashing at him takes off way more health
the psychological fear just made the fight harder
Father Ariandel sounds like Benhart of Jugo...
CISsuperdroid and the painter girl sounds like the pyro chick from DS2
17:36 - 18:03 was the funniest thing I've seen you do! that's amazing
Best way to keep track of where Freide is in her first form is to toss a few throwing daggers at her. They'll still be visible when she turns invisible.
Yes. Or great arrows.
When Lady Friede kills you, she says sometimes that "surely yuria is waiting for you" - which I find interesting. I mean, you've explained their relation but not that piece of dialog which seems to hint that she knows about the events outside the painting???
Also, Phase 2 of the boss fight is much much easier if you just use a bow. It is super easy to keep distance in the fight and then easy to dodge the flame. Just have to interrupt Friede if she casts what appears to be a heal.
also, the "sane" friendly corvian in the settlement moves and has new dialogue after you beat the boss, talking about burning this world away for the sake of the next.
You also get a slap from him. EEEHHHMMM Titanit Slab. ;)
She was a big part of the sable church. No doubt she'd know what their goal is and that yuria wanted an unkindled lord of hollows. That's basically the entire point of the church
Although this DLC had some amazing moments, and delivered to us a lot of cool lore and gave more depth to what was already present, it was horrendously short. I truly hope the next DLC will be a bit more... Lengthy. No, A LOT... More lengthy.
Still made my season pass worth it though. 8/10 would stand estus-less in phase 3 against a NG+ Blackflame Friede as my petty Oscar-build again.
Daniel Bellcaster Midir was a fat dick to beat, even after being over leveled cause whenever I had enough souls I would go back and level up my guy, he still took several hours to beat...
@@yummybutter8707 whooped his ass in ng+ with sl 125 ( I'll stay at pvp meta) and dragonslayer greataxe +5. Easy actually. Face his head, stay close, this provokes his predictable 3 or 6 hit combo with a recovery that let's you land a weapon art (1300 damage) or 2 r1s or 1 r2. I needed 4 tries this way
@@RoxxSerm flexing although nobody asked you.
it's people like you that gave us that FUCKING angel lolol totally kidding, they dont haunt my nightmares at all years later
@David Assébof yep!
Say 'Crawling-Crow-Like-Corvians" five times fast.
Damn Ariandel's scottish accent is on a Groundskeeper Willy level. Seriously, that and the deep echoing voice make him very difficult to understand without subs.
Foken Benhart once again...
Subscribers give you the ability to listen to very confusing accents? 0_o I needs me some subs.
JackofCookieJars lol your stupid
Groundskeeper Ariandel , he's going to torch those pesky weeds with his lordvessel
That boss fight was absolutely amazing. It took my 15 different attempts to win. when I say 15 DIFFERENT attempts I mean different. 15 different combinations of buffs, armour, weapons, shields. What I finally won with was Ubadachi and onikiri, wolf knight armour, no shield, and carthus rouge. I don't remember what rings I used, though I do remember the fire stoneplate and the frostbite ring being a must.That fight and the ice cavern were the highlights of the DLC for me.
Theory: Elden ring is the painting we help create in Dark souls 3.
Thanks to you and whatever team you have for taking the time to makes these! Your entire channel is incredibly entertaining and informative