@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 That's not Dark Souls, that's Only World Game Design. For some reason having overly giant spaces regularly and evenly filled with recycled content in an attempt to justify the massive play area is something people just accept as part of the experience, again for some reason. Fromsoft didn't add Torrent as a fun new addition to spice up gameplay, it's a band aid to make traversal less painful, which it doesn't even fully succeed at because Upgrade Materials, people just skip 90% of open world content to beeline for Upgrade Materials, and Torrent (and the bland and stale world design) basically enables that. It's like they don't even want you to play the game, just ride around on your horse while looking at pseudo-interesting vistas while you avoid fighting anything that doesn't give you a bajillion runes and is cheesable at a low level. You want to beeline for Upgrade Materials in DS3? Not as easy when you don't have a horse and the linear game design bottlenecks you in doing at least _some_ of the content to get those upgrades. You want to do to Lothric Castle early to get some Titanite Chunks? Better buck up and beat the Dancer at a low level, as in actually fighting it unlike using Poison Mist to stealth kill the Draconic Tree Sentinel. People will ruin their own fun if you give them the opportunity to do so. "Meta" is a word you may have heard of before. I'm not saying that there aren't people who might like that kind of gameplay and find the "meta" progression of Elden Ring to be enjoyable, but that's not Dark Souls. That's Open World. That's Elden Ring, which is why it's not Dark Souls 4. This is just a single aspect under analysis, but it is of my opinion that the open world is the singular aspect that makes Elden Ring not Dark Souls 4. And that's okay, it's just not to my personal preference.
@@michaelbowman6684 I think youre just complaining about open world games...letting you skip content to get items. Which is the point of an open world game
Well now you have to do a Solaire run With the horse and spirits because of jolly cooperation of course. Can't wait to imagine... Solaire...in Fort Haight
Another cool under the hood addition is always on UI, which in elden ring is set to turn off on default, to increase immersion when exploring the environment.
Tbh, I've been playing a lot of Dark Souls 2 recently, the heads-up display in default is set to auto-hide like in Elden Ring too, so I expect DS3 to be similar. Perhaps always on hud must be limited to DS1 and original Demon's Souls
11:30 "looks at all the *golden* runes in my inventory." Hmm, I wonder why the *golden* scarab gives a rune boost? Maybe there's a lore video on it. Love the run as always man
@@dontmisunderstand6041 I think for status builds that wanna keep up the pressure it can make sense, but if youre going for raw damage, alex all the way.
@@minerman60101 That's a lot of risk. If giant hits the horse once you're as good as dead, and both the act of summoning and jumping off the horse have periods of vulnerability where you can do nothing to save yourself. Horse is bait specifically because you'd be tempted to use it the way you describe. Staying on the horse the entire time is actually safer than on-off-on-off.
So, I just have to say that I like this idea partly because it's not too limiting. I don't like watching frustration, I like watching creativity. Some of your runs were a little too frustrated by their limitations. Keep creative ones like this coming! =D
I have always wondered why the people who hate on spirit ashes have no issue with the physick. They both make the game easier and making the game easier cheats not only the game but yourself as well. Also, keep being pro people. Based that you don't apologize or tiptoe when it comes to human rights.
Because they can delude themselves into believing the physick's performance is just their own skill. It's harder to do that when the game has AI characters help you. The game is literally balanced AROUND spirit ashes, while it's very clearly NOT balanced around the physick. So in reality, the physick is actively giving you an advantage you shouldn't have, while the spirit ashes just make the game fair.
I've been playing through Elden Ring with some friends using the seamless co-op mod and i keep making Tulok & Mango references that they don't get. For Biden lands, Ignorealus, etc... when they ask me wtf I'm talking about, I tell them to watch the videos I've shared with them!
i appreciate the demon's souls references. good jokes. Also, Bert and Ernie and Elmo for the nameless fia champs. Elmo for twinblade, Bert for twinned axes, Ernie for spell and shield.
elden ring gameplay info varies from me saying "uhh of course you can skip Radahn's arrow rain by sprinting away from him, isn't that obvious?" to me being absolutely shocked that you can use Torrent on Regal Ancestor Spirit.
Watching your Maliketh fight here, and how you're doing it, made me think of how fun it is to learn the movesets of the various enemies. Then eventually snapping them! SO rewarding and that's why we play these games. Awesome channel and content sir. Also: I finally learned the Royal Revenant moveset last night. The hard way.
It's exactly the frist ever gameplay of many Souls players, palying Elden ring the first time. You'll forget you have a horse, you'll forget so many thing, cause this world is massive... and mid run you'll remember : Oh, Gosh, it's not Dark Souls! And what sells that it is no a souls : CAN'T PARRY !
Now just hang on. How are you going to give Yhorm points for the Storm Ruler being optional when the Storm King is literally easier with magic than with the Storm Ruler?
Bro wasn't spitting in general. Stormruler is only a bit more "optional" for the fight because you don't take the constant lava chip. Still no damage otherwise, lmao At least Serpent Hunter has an actual moveset as opposed to just having to stand there for five minutes, charging, verrrryyy slowly, until his stance is broken, aaand then you repeat the process, four times. Very fun, interactive, thank you, Hayao. Like, is it fair to judge a fight by the way it wasn't even meant to be played? They literally give you the darn sticker and poker and it's the coolest one of all.
I felt the need to comment for one reason alone: it is *technically* possible to knock Margit off the cliff. It's definitely a glitch, and it's very difficult to get it to happen, but it's possible
There are sort of… what.. 5 open world on top of each other? Different sizes, Lower Continent (Limgrave/Weeping/Caelid), Altus, Deeproot, Mountaintops of the Giants, and Nokron/Nokstella/Ancestral Woods/Siofra (all kind of one)
Oh, I made a tiktok explaining this a few days ago. A possible reason for the color association in elden ring are the keys of heaven/saint peter. The gold key represents spiritual/heavenly authority and silver represents temporal/material authority. Ironically, since the runes can be lost, but not the items, "temporal" describes runes more. Given that souls are more commonly viewed as silver, this would justify the association of the same concept in dark souls, although likely influenced by myazaki's old passion for english fantasy books.
You should do a Charles-Henri Sanson (executioner of the last king of France and called the Great executioner for his kill count of 200+)run where you use weapons like the executioners greataxe, godslayer executioners blade, and Marais executioners sword
I always forget you can attune and change weapon arts, I almost exclusively use somber weapons so I just forget normal that sure is a sword weapons exist
Yo Tulok my fellow! When the Moongrum starting class drops dude? The guy has the dripy armor, the dripy shield, the dripy sword and even the flashy ash of war
Great video as always my guy! Just gotta say the new thing with you coming up in the middle of the screen is a bit jarring. But hey, I’m just 1 opinion, maybe others like it. Keep up the creative play throughs!
We can't change rogier since he's in the plot, so let's rename the other 4 to "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." in honour of Gwen Stefani's first solo album (and lowkey half masterpiece) from 2004. Fia is Gwen and the champions are her Harajuku girls. PS: also, I'm a bit sad now that we won't have an olivia rodrigo run tbh, now that the joke about the sword has already been done 😢
I'd like to see a weapon lock. You can only use the first weapon you find in each area. If you die the weapon has to be destroyed. Same with spells and incantations. You loose the run when you are in able to get a new weapon and die with your fists
No no no no. Dark Souls is Demons Souls 2, Dark Souls 3 is Dark Souls 2 (or Demons Souls 3), Dark Souls 2 is Elden Ring 0, and Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2: 2
Phil, I loved this episode and the jokes. I never knew women can knock up Renala with a big sword😂. Also I am so sorry you had to run from Mississippi to Canada by foot😢
Ah, the genre of video I like to file under “we enjoy his suffering for 40 minutes”
Hey how bad could it be?
"How bad could it possibly be? Let's see"
Mittensquad and this guy should do a crossover runs.
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Finally a reason to use the serpent hunter that doesn't mess with the run rules.
99% of the reason we did it
I love how this video is just "let's take away all the things that make this game more convenient and less unnecessarily painful" run
Thats Dark Souls baby
No spirit ashes isn't even that painful, I feel 😅
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 That's not Dark Souls, that's Only World Game Design. For some reason having overly giant spaces regularly and evenly filled with recycled content in an attempt to justify the massive play area is something people just accept as part of the experience, again for some reason. Fromsoft didn't add Torrent as a fun new addition to spice up gameplay, it's a band aid to make traversal less painful, which it doesn't even fully succeed at because Upgrade Materials, people just skip 90% of open world content to beeline for Upgrade Materials, and Torrent (and the bland and stale world design) basically enables that. It's like they don't even want you to play the game, just ride around on your horse while looking at pseudo-interesting vistas while you avoid fighting anything that doesn't give you a bajillion runes and is cheesable at a low level.
You want to beeline for Upgrade Materials in DS3? Not as easy when you don't have a horse and the linear game design bottlenecks you in doing at least _some_ of the content to get those upgrades. You want to do to Lothric Castle early to get some Titanite Chunks? Better buck up and beat the Dancer at a low level, as in actually fighting it unlike using Poison Mist to stealth kill the Draconic Tree Sentinel.
People will ruin their own fun if you give them the opportunity to do so. "Meta" is a word you may have heard of before. I'm not saying that there aren't people who might like that kind of gameplay and find the "meta" progression of Elden Ring to be enjoyable, but that's not Dark Souls. That's Open World. That's Elden Ring, which is why it's not Dark Souls 4. This is just a single aspect under analysis, but it is of my opinion that the open world is the singular aspect that makes Elden Ring not Dark Souls 4. And that's okay, it's just not to my personal preference.
@@michaelbowman6684 I think youre just complaining about open world games...letting you skip content to get items. Which is the point of an open world game
Well now you have to do a Solaire run
With the horse and spirits because of jolly cooperation of course. Can't wait to imagine... Solaire...in Fort Haight
The Regal Ancestor bit actually got me at first. I was like "Wait... you can use the horse in this fight.....?"
Same lol
Another cool under the hood addition is always on UI, which in elden ring is set to turn off on default, to increase immersion when exploring the environment.
Yeah, I'm a UI enjoyer, so mine is always on haha
Tbh, I've been playing a lot of Dark Souls 2 recently, the heads-up display in default is set to auto-hide like in Elden Ring too, so I expect DS3 to be similar. Perhaps always on hud must be limited to DS1 and original Demon's Souls
I propose that we name Fia’s Champions Violet, Klaus, and Sunny
They do oft befall a series of unfortunate events
Nice. All I could think was Virgin sorcerer, Mad chad (cause he uses a mad pumpkin head) and Dad Lionel, cause he's Fia adoptive dad
This comment is a stroke of genius , a phrase which here means "Tulok should call them that in his next challenge run."
I always call the unnamed Fia's champions Homer and Marge, they are after all the Simps.. Ons.
You're in early contention for the winner of the naming contest
11:30 "looks at all the *golden* runes in my inventory."
Hmm, I wonder why the *golden* scarab gives a rune boost? Maybe there's a lore video on it.
Love the run as always man
I'm more talking about how DS3 Silver snake boosts runes, but Gold boosts item discovery and it switched. I get why. But like... hwy
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033souls are silver runes are gold, I guess
Fire giant is actually easier without the horse, imo. Iron Fist Alexander is such a cool guy, and super durable.
Yeah, we really love Alex, kinda wish I went to pick him up
Agreed. Horse is bait, it just makes the fire giant hit you more often.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 I think for status builds that wanna keep up the pressure it can make sense, but if youre going for raw damage, alex all the way.
Just use the horse to do specific things within the fight. You don't need to stay completely on or completely off of it
@@minerman60101 That's a lot of risk. If giant hits the horse once you're as good as dead, and both the act of summoning and jumping off the horse have periods of vulnerability where you can do nothing to save yourself. Horse is bait specifically because you'd be tempted to use it the way you describe. Staying on the horse the entire time is actually safer than on-off-on-off.
So, I just have to say that I like this idea partly because it's not too limiting. I don't like watching frustration, I like watching creativity. Some of your runs were a little too frustrated by their limitations. Keep creative ones like this coming! =D
Next run is just us steamrolling the whole game. Haven't even started streaming it yet, I'm just confident.
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 confidence is key
I have always wondered why the people who hate on spirit ashes have no issue with the physick. They both make the game easier and making the game easier cheats not only the game but yourself as well.
Also, keep being pro people. Based that you don't apologize or tiptoe when it comes to human rights.
Because they can delude themselves into believing the physick's performance is just their own skill. It's harder to do that when the game has AI characters help you. The game is literally balanced AROUND spirit ashes, while it's very clearly NOT balanced around the physick. So in reality, the physick is actively giving you an advantage you shouldn't have, while the spirit ashes just make the game fair.
The old Apharad intro for the Not series at the stat hit me like a truck. Shame he doesn't do that anymore;
Big Alpharad fan here, I will "borrow" their style as much as I can
This is what no DLC makes a man do...
Maybe next month :(
I've been playing through Elden Ring with some friends using the seamless co-op mod and i keep making Tulok & Mango references that they don't get. For Biden lands, Ignorealus, etc... when they ask me wtf I'm talking about, I tell them to watch the videos I've shared with them!
Tell them to watch his videos on their work computer :)
Big tulok scares me
Big tulok can't hurt you
18:12 for anger to grant haste you need to control a mountain, so you shoulda beaten Mt Gelmir before fighting him
I was hesitating so subscribe to your channel, but this one definetively conviced me. Great job boss
Hell yeah
why would you hesitate hes arguably the best elden ring youtuber out there
@@Rocky_Mort it was a joke, I've been subscribed for a while now. I agree he makes really great content
i appreciate the demon's souls references. good jokes.
Also, Bert and Ernie and Elmo for the nameless fia champs. Elmo for twinblade, Bert for twinned axes, Ernie for spell and shield.
Oh no I can't play Dark Ring Borne yet, I've only played Dark Souls 1
Dark Ring Borne: Cores Die Twice
I never thought I’d see the day where we can have Greg Jennings and a MTG joke in the same video. What a time to be alive 😂
To hell with Dark Souls II’s equipment, I’d love to see you do a run through actual Dark Souls II.
20:30 I laughed out loud, a Rocky & Bullwinkle reference in 2024 is powerful.
elden ring gameplay info varies from me saying "uhh of course you can skip Radahn's arrow rain by sprinting away from him, isn't that obvious?" to me being absolutely shocked that you can use Torrent on Regal Ancestor Spirit.
You cant lol are you deaf
I hope you know every time you ask for something else in the dlc is another month Miyazaki doesn’t release it out of spite.
God all of your content is amazing, keep up the great work
We literally can't stop
Watching your Maliketh fight here, and how you're doing it, made me think of how fun it is to learn the movesets of the various enemies. Then eventually snapping them! SO rewarding and that's why we play these games. Awesome channel and content sir.
Also: I finally learned the Royal Revenant moveset last night. The hard way.
18:10 Was not expecting this deep MTG cut.
I have fully functional eyeballs and never realized before this video that the artillery on the approach to Caria Manor is Loretta.
Very inventive video. Also props for calling them the Two Kings and not making a Tenacious D reference. Keep us guessing.
The only time “Back in my day” is acceptable
Boomer Tulok activated
Baaaaaaaaaaaaabe
I got the popcorn going as we speak!
Midday popcorn? Sick. Rent a theater for next thursday watch it on big screen
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 tulok marathon? I'm here for it. I'd also be down for a barbrarian film 😂
Babe wake up, new Tulok and Mango challenge run
We never miss
Normally I wait until the end to upvote. I had to pause to vote with the invisible basilisks joke. That was funny.
It's exactly the frist ever gameplay of many Souls players, palying Elden ring the first time. You'll forget you have a horse, you'll forget so many thing, cause this world is massive... and mid run you'll remember : Oh, Gosh, it's not Dark Souls! And what sells that it is no a souls : CAN'T PARRY !
Now just hang on. How are you going to give Yhorm points for the Storm Ruler being optional when the Storm King is literally easier with magic than with the Storm Ruler?
Easier? Sure. But less hype. And Yhorm wins for having Seigward
Bro wasn't spitting in general.
Stormruler is only a bit more "optional" for the fight because you don't take the constant lava chip. Still no damage otherwise, lmao
At least Serpent Hunter has an actual moveset as opposed to just having to stand there for five minutes, charging, verrrryyy slowly, until his stance is broken, aaand then you repeat the process, four times. Very fun, interactive, thank you, Hayao.
Like, is it fair to judge a fight by the way it wasn't even meant to be played? They literally give you the darn sticker and poker and it's the coolest one of all.
don't worry I'm old af and remember that reference and every other youtube video from over a decade ago ugh
UA-cam elders unite
I felt the need to comment for one reason alone: it is *technically* possible to knock Margit off the cliff. It's definitely a glitch, and it's very difficult to get it to happen, but it's possible
I enjoy the silly little interjections every so often. Quite humerus and comical. Love you man
Love the idea of making a 45 minute video to spite the people who hate spirit ashes
Ahhh! Unexpected greenscreen!
Surprise
1:41 I honestly did not have Big & Rich on my 2024 bingo card, wow what a call back LOL
There are sort of… what.. 5 open world on top of each other? Different sizes, Lower Continent (Limgrave/Weeping/Caelid), Altus, Deeproot, Mountaintops of the Giants, and Nokron/Nokstella/Ancestral Woods/Siofra (all kind of one)
i was literally thinking about this yesterday lmao. "is there a mod that turns elden ring into dark souls like map or something?"
Theres a few on PC that cut out the open world I think
My only problem with this video is the assertion that Ornstien is a top. He's a cat boy. That man was receiving the sword-spear
Ds3 Challenge runs would be sooo fun. I just started playing it again because it's a masterpiece
Loved this fun twist on elden ring!
Fia's Pumpkinhead champion is a champion to the Deathbed companion. So. Pumpkinbed. I have spoken.
My dog runs in circles for a minute before laying down, perfect reference
Fia's champions are obviously named Joe, Billiam and Reginald Alberto Rousseau IV, not sure how anyone isn't aware of that by now
Was not expecting the ZZ Top reference
ah yes, the great UA-camr has once again uploaded
We never miss
Hey pookie. I love ur videos. Watch them all as soon as they come out. They’re not getting old for me ❤
As a person who plays with 30 vigor on NG7, you live by using the smallest weight load possible and prayers
I had no idea how many boss fights you can summon Torrent for. I just took them all on by foot. Like an idiot!
Crazy how you ran right past Ohga when they’re one of the most hardest hitting safeties in the league!
The person with a pumpkin on their head should be called Hank
I like Pauly Poise
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 That is probably better.
This just makes me feel better at the game lol. I regularly play with very close to ds3 rules (not nearly this strict) and die a lot because of it
don't worry i got your "he's got a broken fuckin leg" GJ reference.
Oh, I made a tiktok explaining this a few days ago. A possible reason for the color association in elden ring are the keys of heaven/saint peter. The gold key represents spiritual/heavenly authority and silver represents temporal/material authority.
Ironically, since the runes can be lost, but not the items, "temporal" describes runes more. Given that souls are more commonly viewed as silver, this would justify the association of the same concept in dark souls, although likely influenced by myazaki's old passion for english fantasy books.
Or its just that runes be gold and souls be silver
I didn't expect a reference to a Greg Jennings breaking his leg but stilll scoring a TD as time expired to protect a 4 score lead
If you use the big saw blade for a bloodborne theme, you have to make an Ash Williams for it
Now i aint gay, but Tulok sure is one handsome bro🙊🙈🙉
Twist: he's bi
Also, if you use the beast repellant torch in your offhand, basilisks will ignore you.
And yay, I watched rocky and bowinkle as a kid! :D
have read through all the comments and i'm surprised by how few people are complaning that a fin you did wasn't actually in ds3
Oh no it’s Darren Sharper, one of the most hardest hitting safeties in the league, fuck it, I put the team on my back DOE! 😂😂
“However, I am not going to walk all the way to the top of a volcano. That’s Halfling shit.” This totally cracked me up!
Bro had me convinced I was fighting the Regal Ancestor wrong this entire time 😂😂😂
I was not expecting tom Cardy in this video
Love me a Cardy Party
Love it! Definitely continue the series. Any excuse to talk more about DS2 is worth it!
Lol, the Dark Souls of Elden Ring runs.
Finally, Elden Ring can be like Dark Souls
Scarlet is liquid basilisk confirmed?!
Loving all the recent Magic jokes!
You should do a Charles-Henri Sanson (executioner of the last king of France and called the Great executioner for his kill count of 200+)run where you use weapons like the executioners greataxe, godslayer executioners blade, and Marais executioners sword
I always forget you can attune and change weapon arts, I almost exclusively use somber weapons so I just forget normal that sure is a sword weapons exist
I cant believe Greg Jennings caught that shit with a broken leg.
That Olivia Rodrigo joke was so funny. It also caused me physical pain... Good job!
Yo Tulok my fellow! When the Moongrum starting class drops dude? The guy has the dripy armor, the dripy shield, the dripy sword and even the flashy ash of war
Long live the mtg reference king
We're working on some MTG content for the other channel, should be a good time!
Holy hell, ive never been this early
Hit that bell and make sure it happens again
Greg Jennings WITH A BROKEN LEG
I came to check the channel and saw I wasn’t subscribed anymore. Had to resubscribe
Brother that knight shooting you even tho he can’t see you shows you that radahn ain’t nothing to fuck with
Great video as always my guy!
Just gotta say the new thing with you coming up in the middle of the screen is a bit jarring.
But hey, I’m just 1 opinion, maybe others like it.
Keep up the creative play throughs!
Love the Tom Cardy in the Part 3 title card
Doing a spirit ash only run is like... Hard a.f. though
We can't change rogier since he's in the plot, so let's rename the other 4 to "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." in honour of Gwen Stefani's first solo album (and lowkey half masterpiece) from 2004.
Fia is Gwen and the champions are her Harajuku girls.
PS: also, I'm a bit sad now that we won't have an olivia rodrigo run tbh, now that the joke about the sword has already been done 😢
That Nameless King and Ornstein bit had me rotflmao
Took me two whole plays to start using jump attacks. Old habits
I'd like to see a weapon lock.
You can only use the first weapon you find in each area.
If you die the weapon has to be destroyed. Same with spells and incantations. You loose the run when you are in able to get a new weapon and die with your fists
God I love the Greg Jennings reference
The Tom Cardy reference got you a sub.
21:43 is every strength players strat
let’s go! another tulok and mango video
I reached new game plus 4 and have 6 other playthroughs, but i didnt know you could use the horse on ancestor spirit
Couldn't watch this video, too many Tulok jumpscares.
(The extra editing is always appreciated)
How could it be Dark Souls 4? Dark Souls 3 was Demon Souls 4.
No no no no. Dark Souls is Demons Souls 2, Dark Souls 3 is Dark Souls 2 (or Demons Souls 3), Dark Souls 2 is Elden Ring 0, and Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2: 2
@@tulokthebarbrarian2033 Fair enough, though maybe Demon Souls is actually Kings Field 5...
Phil, I loved this episode and the jokes. I never knew women can knock up Renala with a big sword😂. Also I am so sorry you had to run from Mississippi to Canada by foot😢
Who cares about a god slaying beam of magic when you have chunky sword 🗿🗡️
11:35, pretty sure they switched them because runes are golden
GREG JENNINGS WITH THE BROKEN LEG