Ok so, I just want to say something to everyone who clicked on this video. First of all, thank you all for the 100k views, I seriously never expected to see such an high number under one my videos, I’m so happy to see that so much people enjoy this series as much as I do. Second of all, I’ve noticed that a part of the comments here are people who say “If someone who wants to purchase this game asks you why you like you don’t show him the very final boss of the series”, so let me explain : the idea of calling this video “If someone asks you why you like Soulsborne games, show ‘em this video” came out literally 2 seconds after I finished recording it, my initial intention was just to post Gael bossfight in order to rewatch how I played whenever I wanted, but I didn’t want to just call it “Slave Knight Gael Bossfight ITA”, so I thought “Well, if someone asks me to show what I like of DS3 I would just fight Gael, so let’s call this video like this”, and here we are. I guess the title influenced on the views of this video, just like some sort of clickbait, but, as I said before, making thousands of views was not expected, so sorry if you have been fooled by the title :( In the end (IT HAS TO BE THIS WAAAAAY….sorry) I thank again all of you for have spent a fraction of your free time watching something I did and for being still here like Gael after 7 years from the release of this masterpiece ❤
@@sakura368He's the final boss of the DLC who came out after the base game. Spiritually and chronologically, he is the final boss of the Dark Souls trilogy.
i never got to the end. when i had this game my console broke and i upgraded to xbox one and never got it again but ive played eldin ring alot and seeimg this video has reignited my love for it great video im guna have to go back and get through this game. ❤
You fight a legion of Undeads dedicated to fighting the abyss. You fight a lonely giant who was hated by his people. You fight the self proclaimed Pontiff that took control over the gods. You fight the cursed twinned princes who wished to be left alone. You fight an amalgamation of all warriors and lords that have sacrificed themselves, including the first god that has done it, for a duty they didn’t completely understand. You fight the last demons standing and the pride of their prince. You fight the last breathing dragon that has succumbed to the dark. You fight the last line of defense of the last god alive. And your final fight? An undead, whose gone hollow and was a mere slave knight, who lasted everyone at the end of time. What an amazing series.
He's mechanically the pinnacle of fromsoft boss design, but it's the lore aspect that really gets me. Such a perfect conclusion to the Dark Souls trilogy. Two nobodies, the last two living beings, who through determintation and purpose alone surpassed the strength of the very gods, fighting in the middle of nowhere with no one to witness and remember it, for something that hardly even matters anymore. If that doesn't scream Dark Souls, I don't know what does.
the only negative thing I can say aobut him is the lightning that hits randomly. I am still angry over me nearly beating him and then a bolt stunlocks me into a combo while he had 50 hp left.....
@@alkair422 I also thought this way at the beginning, but after watching other people fighting him, notice how they occur. The homing souls he spreads out in phase 3 land on the ground and create holes, which produce the lightnings. So beware every time Gael uses an attack with homing souls then you should be good (Apparently he can also damage himself with it, but I'd have to check on that)
Of all the Gods, kings and mighty beasts you meet along the way, it all comes down to two undead nobodies duking it out at the end of the world. After all we've been through to get there, this idea is so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye.
@@stefanosormani8245 idk about being unkindled, but being undead doesnt have anything to do with race. anything can die, resurect and become undead, and eventually go hollow. being unkindled so far only seems to affect human-like people.
@@TK-7193 not really. Undead Is a curse bestowed Upon humans. Then other things can go hollow in other ways, like Gwyn did, but never actually becoming undead.
In their world no one will remember their names, let alone that this battle ever took place. They're just two "failures" fighting, willing, and bleeding to the fullest - and in doing so they outlasted all the pantheons of gods, the dragons they scorned, and even the very reality they were forced to endure. The poignancy of ending Dark Souls this way is such a perfect closing note for the series. I don't know of many stories, books, movies, games, etc., that ended with such a perfect closing message: these "nothings" were the ones to have the final, greatest battle, because their determination and sense of honor compelled them to do so.
Kinda like hollow knight ending, the knight just returns back to the void like nothing ever happened, it may have "saved" the world, but nearly everybody is dead.
The most beautiful and intense fight in any souls, the desperate fight between the two last souls in the world at the edge of time. The farewell duel of the whole franchise. A piece of art
Art is a perfect description. Ending a trilogy as hugely impactful as dark souls with a flash of brilliance and then soothing nothing. Almost like a representation of the flame itself
Meanwhile Shira and the Last Ringed Knight (Both of whom also appear in this arena) munching on popcorn in the background spectating the last major throwdown.
I love how this boss has no real gimmick. He hits hard and punishes the player for dodging away from his attacks. His second phase is more aggressive with a more hazardous battlefield. It’s just everything a souls boss should be. Strong, beautiful, but ultimately fair.
@@davidebrindisi925Not after Elden Ring. At least in the Souls Games you didn’t have to have 60 points in your health stat just to survive the near unavoidable poke from a boss with 1 hp left.
@@davidebrindisi925 as they say in the language of the gods: "git gud" jokes aside, the bad camera, and lousy input method can be a bit janky, but dark souls game are not unfair. the gameplay loop is simple: die -> retry. no room for any unfairness here.
It sure is in my top 3, I don’t know if he’s my fav because some bosses like Alatreon from Monster Hunter World or Bahamut from Final Fantasy 16 are awesome, but he’s my favourite soulsborne fight alongside Ludwig
@@cast3r_mh Bahamut? I mean it looks nice but it's scripted, all cinematic within bare minimum gameplay. Not something I'd pair up with actual boss fights.
Gael and Ludwig are 2 of the best fights ever conceived in videogame history, interestingly enough they both share the same style, a first phase were the boss is more akin to a beast than man,feral attacks with just the intent to kill. While the second phase shows how they recovered a but of their sanity and it shows in how the fight becomes more complex
What's interesting is Gael is actually kinda the exact opposite of Ludwig, Gael in his first phase is actually still himself. He's just become a savage monster while in his phase 2, Gael has finally gone hollow with his mind leaving completely in contrast to Ludwig regaining his humanity. It's actually really interesting to compare the two because they both have what does extra damage to them changed based on the phase. Ludwig becomes no longer classified as a beast so the saw cleaver and the like don't do extra damage to him anymore, while Gael gets classified as a hollow so the hollow slayer great sword actually does do extra damage.
@@nathancurnutt8074Gael is more than a hollow in phase 2, he is the embodiement of the dark souls which want to be complete. Proof is, like the hollow slayer, artorias' greatword does extra damages to him (it does extra damages to abyss creatures if I reckon correctly)
@@EdgeOfDarknezzI learnt to fight Gael pretty well because I wanted to do it in NG+7, at that level he literally kills you in 2 hits, so I had to learn precisely how to dodge every single attack to kill him…if you don’t want to go insane please, never do what I did 🫠🫠🫠
I will say For all the spectacle of Gael, he's nowhere near the hardest. If anything, Gael is the shining counter example that a truly great boss has to be insanely difficult. He's... moderately difficult. Not the hardest boss in DS3, or even his own DLC. Certainly not the hardest boss in Soulsborne, probably not even top 5, and top 10 might be contentious. But he's not good because he's supremely hard, he's good because of the unparalleled flow, and dance to the fight.
When I first experienced this masterpiece, when I first witnessed him finish a series of attacks with a leap, throwing in even the crossbow, I just yelled in excitement and awe. The programmers wrote fire.
A story that ends on the worlds last day, A slave knight of no renown seeking to help his lady make a painting, a world she and others can be safe in, a world free of the decay other painted worlds suffer. For this he first needs to find flame, unkindled ash. Finding you he brings them to the painting, the rot is burned away. Then needing the blood of the dark soul the slave knight seeks where it has been locked up in almost since the dawn of time. All the way to the end of the world he searched, followed by ash. Finally the ash dispels the illusion, revealing the bearers of the dark soul, but here the search seems to of been futile. Their blood is so old it has gone dry, useless. Slave knight Gael refuses to admit defeat, refuses to hollow in failure. The blood may be dry but its still the dark soul. Gael hunts the bearers, and begins devouring them. Gael needs a new vessel for the dark soul, fresh blood imbued with the dark soul. He must know that his mind will fail, he cannot carry out the final step even with this. But the unkindled ash can. They are capable of ending him and delivering the blood of the dark soul, crucial pigment. His mission will succeed, but he will never know that the painter his lady only wanted to give him a good home. A tale of three actors, two without names while the third's is only of meaning to the other two.
"oh....fillienore, help me....please.....the red hood is here, to eat our dark souls" you can really feel the desperation in his voice, that combined with the state of the world paint such a bleak picture but at the same time it's incredibly beautiful...two great warriors at the end of time doing what they do best
I love Slave Knight Gael, both gameplay and lore. In a nutshell, Gael was a slave knight since even during or before the Advent of Fire. After who knows many years has it been, Gael stumbles upon the Painted World of Ariandel. Once the First Flame almost faded, Gael sought out the Dark Soul to be used as a pigment for his lady to paint a new word. I know everyone talked about his gameplay and his lore, but I liked him for the fact that, out of all the characters we've encountered during the entire Souls series, he resembles us the most. We have barely anything to start off with in each of our journeys, and who else starts off with barely anything? Garl. We will never be remembered for deeds, no matter how noble. Who else is just like that? Gael. But in a sense, Gael is the peak of what a player can be, what a Chosen Undead/Bearer of the Curse/Ashen One or a Tarnished can be. Progression for the hope of a good ending, no matter what it was. And to progress, not to care how will it be done, whether through skill, willpower or just straight brute force. But we the player are unsure if whatever ending we chose is good. So when the end comes, what will we choose? Gael however, lets us do the work with him as he chooses the ending, a new world. A new everything. He'll do all the work. All we had to do was follow him to 'the end' and defeat him. Now, character. We already know Gael can be considered a hero. But usually, a hero has something 'special' about them. Whether having a special weapon, skill and anything else. But Gael? No bullshit royal lineage, destiny nor some 'One-of-a-Kind' potential. He straight up has nothing. (If you don't count his weapons, armor and gun, hehe.) Artorias had Sif, a ring and an amulet meant to defeat the Abyss. He had a greatsword, shield and a fighting technique that he probably got a lot amount of time to master. And yet, he failed. He even failed against ONE manifestation of Abyss. He lost to some weakass looking Abyss monsters and mage casters. I died to Artorias many times, yet I could literally reach Manus from Oolacile Township bonfire without dying once using a greatsword only. Meanwhile, Gael literally has none of the luxuries Artorias had. And he had to fight the Abyss at it's very strongest for who knows how long? And better yet, he SUCCEEDED. The Ashen One is used to having fight either successful monsters of evil or heroes of honor that failed. Hell, the Ashen One didn't even flinch at the sight of Aldrich devouring Gwyndolin, even at the fact that they heard a lot from Anri. Yet, the Ashen One shows a tad bit of fear in the cutscene before fighting Slave Knight Gael, backing away for a bit. And finally so, he may have been the only one to have a proper answer to Aldia's question. What to do with the cycle? End it or let it prolong? And Gael chose to let all of what remains to go beyond the cycle and escape instead of either options. By creating a new world.
Now that I think of it... Artorias is kinda lame ngl. -Has a part of Gwyn's Light Soul bequeathed to him (according to Ornstein' Soul) -Has special weaponry, ring, shield and amulet to face against the Abyss -Special swordplay technique -Had Sif to back him in battle And is only useful against cannon fodder of the Abyss. For a guy named Abysswalker, he sure failed against the Four Kings and Manus.
Since it's "any gaming cutscene" i have to disagree, Gough shooting down Kalameet is peak, especially because of how well it's written, the dialogue is pristine.
If the tragedy of Dark Souls is losing oneself, as seen with Artorias and Gwyn, then Gael is the triumph at the very end, The gods, immortal, they lose themselves, and only humanity, the dark souls remain, even after becoming beasts, they can remember themselves, and stand up as noble warriors to fight for their causes. Dark Souls is ephemerality; it all fades. Dark Souls is memory; fitting that the painting of a new world is out of the blood of all of humanity. Dark Souls is acceptance; that which is broken can be whole again. Dark Souls is humanity; that fragile thing that so easily corrupts, the hand placed on top of hand that grasps the heavens fully, the struggle toward a goal that could never be achieved by oneself. We are all Dark Souls. That is what being human is, after all.
We all know how great this is because of what he have seen throughout the game(s). Not sure if someone who sees the video blind can appreciate what is being done here
Imho anyone, even people who never played a videogame, would enjoy seeing this fight because it’s scenically awesome, if you know the context behind it obviously you’d enjoy it more, but art is always art
Never played this game in my life. Tearing up over here. Though, being fair, I have beaten the ever-living-shit outta Bloodborne. I think I understand based on that alone.
@@cast3r_mh They would enjoy seeing the fight, sure, but this video would not have convinced me of how great this series is if I had seen it without context. What we see here is good on the surface, yeah, but the level of appreciation you have after actually playing the games... it's different. This fight isn't a good reason to play the series, but it's the *best* reason to remember it.
a reason that this boss is so outstanding is that up until recently, gael was the one of the few bosses to have developed closely to the player (the others being gehrman, but getting to know gehrman is almost completely optional, and owl if you go shura). we know what his intentions are, we see his journey, and he guides and helps us. the same can’t be said about gwyn, isshin, or radagon, and i still feel that soul of cinders would be an even more incredible fight if it started with our loadout from the last cycle, being the soul of everyone that linked the fire and all. this same reason that made gael a special boss is also what made every final boss in armored core 6 memorable too
I love how this boss has everything From excellent lore to an overall excellent boss fight Hard but fair, the essence of dark souls It even has some obscure mechanics such as phase hollowing, which makes some weapons do extra damage to it Hell, even the artorias reference fits pretty well, specially since they are basically the first boss from the first dlc in all the games to the final boss of the last game dlc
gael really is the coolest, and greatest spectacle fight of the entire series the concept of the 2 final people alive killing eachother as the world crashes and perishes around them is insanely epic, the music and atmosphere really helps too ESPECIALLY the 2nd-3rd phase music and the mf LIGHTNING man
Between the massive size, smooth player movement, top tier voice acting, incredible soundtrack + fx, beautiful artwork + animations & so much more.. NOBODY can do it like FromSoftware 🏆
I kept a character specifically to help others with this fight, back on PC. I ran an Alva cosplay and did Darkmoon Loyalty to anyone who summoned me. To those to did, thanks for letting me keep coming back to fight Gael. Praise the sun.
One of my top 3 in Soulsborne, my ONLY issue is the phase 3 is too static. Like it’s set patterns, he’s always gonna do the same explosion, jump, lightning combo and that’s 80% of the fight. Wish it was more like phase 2 where he can do any move by itself and combo it into more. I’ve seen a mod where he could do that and it looked really hard/fun. aside from that he’s perfect. My first time ever playing him I was drunk and FREAKING out because I swear on max volume with my headset I could hear the individual souls in his cape screaming for help.
I love how every Fromsoft boss gets pissed off and attacks you as soon as you take a drink of your flask like they’re offended by your healing factor 😂
I mean I would too as well if I were the boss.. You worked your a$$ trying to beat someone who for no reason wake you up and tried to take your soul away and he just pulled a no-bullshit flask that regens his hp in an instant while you have to chew that hp you lost and keep fighting.. Oh and also don't forget the boss cannot even lose once while you yourself can die infinitely.
And then you get into the lore and you can appreciate who he is and the beautiful tragedy of the two survivors fighting to the death at the end of the world, ending such a brutal and incredible trilogy with the peaceful promise of a new world.
the thing that Gael uses lightning attacks in the 2nd phase maybe shows that lightning may have originally belonged to the furtive pygmy and not Gwyn andGwyn kind of stole that power from the pygmys and that maybe another reason why he banished them to the ringed city, apart from him fearing humanity( as gael is slave knight and maybe not all related to gwyn and we know only gwyn's heir or chosen people can yield lightning )
Gael use Crossbow with lightning/sunlight bolt. His faith build and name 'Slave Knight' implying he's part of the original Gwyn ranks albeit serving as lower status. In that context he's a nameless surviving champion just like the rest of Dark Souls series protagonist.
@@justfun5479 the sunlight/lightning bolt has a lore implying it is created for warrior of Gwyn era. Dark Souls or pygmy derived lord soul isn't incompatible to Sunlight/fire age rather they're perfect fuel to link the fire. Humans implied to be pygmy descendants can master miracles and pyromancy just fine.
BB/DS3 was peak soulsborne, I am usually a full on PvP player, but DS3 bosses really did it to me so I went and completed a fist only run. All game I was hyped for the Gael fight as its just the best boss fight out of all the Fromsoft games. The successful fight was 24min long and I enjoyed every single minute of it.
I miss this game so much so many memories I’ll never forget… at least we were able to beat ds3 before my homie pasted away I have to get a tattoo in his memory
How far would you go to keep a promise? even though a complete nobody, Gael went further than any knight or hero ever dreamed of going total respect to the boss who ended this series with a flourish!👑💪
Beautifully done, as a fellow Gael enthusiast I just love absolutely everything about this fight, it’s just utter perfection, when he starts phase 3 and the music changes and his move set gets a million times cooler it just brings chills to me everytime, well done my friend, you have inspired me to boot DS3 back up just to make it to Gael again
I remember the impact this fight had on me. The dlc had just dropped. My friend and I got on out level 500 characters and decided our first dlc2 experience was gonna be a tough one. We died tens, if not a hundred times. Trying 12 times a day until we got it. I remember the erratic chaos unfolding before us, backed by the swelling orcestra. Every passing phase adding a layer of certain doom. It makes me shake just thinking about the thrill this boss brings to the table. Two titans fighting at the end of existence, the only beings left. No gods, no men, no anything. Ill never not hold such a warm spot in my heart for Fromsoft.
I remember the first time I face Gael, is been really sad because is the last dark souls boss , but really exciting the perfect one for the last dark souls 😊
My man has his brightness jacked soo high you can see during the fade to black to phase 2 ! Favourite fight in all 3 souls games. An absolutely awesome conclusion to an absolutely awesome series.
Till this day this fight gives me goosebumps and shivers, like I’m really at the end of the world fighting an old friend to think one day it will be Michael looking at Lucifer or maybe the other way around we may never know lol Jk. but would be cool to imagine the final battle being like this brother against brother but most of all and old friend against an old friend
I had no idea the Ringed Knight straight sword was that good. I used the Irythyll straight sword because according to the wiki, frost is one of his weaknesses.
I advice you to use that weapons, which you really like I’m playing these games every time with this scheme and also without wiki (only after beating game 1 time) and this really great experience
Ringed knight straight sword is pretty meh. Just about average damage. Bundles and resins are just too good to go without, so if you’re going to use a weapon that can’t use them it needs to be pretty extraordinary. I forget which weapon I used but I used poison resins first because he’s very weak to poison, and then switched to lightning resin after he had been poisoned.
This fight is so fucking good, its really hard to explain how good it is: It nails ALL the aspects of how a boss fight should be: Lore, music, theme and even the difficult
The thematics of this fight are so deep and fascinating that I could just go on and on about them. Who are the strongest beings in the Dark Souls universe? Humans. Humanity and the undead outlast everything. Despite the horrors and the gods and the monsters and everything, through all three games it is always us, a nobody undead being that defeats them all, through trial and error, and the ever growing strength of the souls we collect. Gael has been around for so long at this point that he is practically bursting with souls. He must have claimed the strength of so many others before us
I saw a comment in another video that summarises the story of the Dark Soul of Man perfectly: 'Slave Knight ended up becoming everything that Gwyn feared.' Gwyn went to so much trouble to lock away the Dark Soul, even offering up his own daughter to make sure it never grew in power and that no one could use it.
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A fight agaist a nobody, that nobody ever saw, and nobody will ever remember.
Lord Gywn, a great king, was the one who brought about the age of fire and sacrificed himself to prolong it. And now, here stands a slave of no renown, sacrificing himself, for the sake of a new age.
Really hoping Elden ring dlc has good bosses. Wasn’t too happy with most main games fights compared to last titles. Major bosses were mostly good but everything else felt like throwaways
@wr5488 well in retrospect Shadow of the Erdtree did have some extremely good contenders (Messmer, Midra, Bayle, Radahn) but I still don't think any of them topped Gael
I have played this boss fight many times, and watched dozens of videos of it, but I've only now noticed the skull faces and bones in Gael's red-brown trailing aura, perhaps representing the countless souls he has consumed over the years.
Absolutely incredible makes me want to go back and replay dark souls 3 after all this time. All of us that love the souls games all got to experience this. Gives me goosebumps every time.
The entire Ringed City DLC was amazing! Every boss fight was epic! Twin demons, A black dragon and a warrior spawned of the darkest depths of the dark soul itself?! 😱.
As much as I love this fight and how you played, nothing can sum up how this fight _feels_ (lots of babbling ahead) The shock when you touch Filianore's egg and you see the dying world. The realization where you are and who these miserable, desperately crawling souls are. And another when you recognize an old friend, who you thought to be merely another soldier. The confusion when you see his state of decay. The fight hasn't even started yet. The way he moves is feral, but still with an efficient purpose. When you break him down Gael becomes an incredible force to be reckoned with. His movements are more calculated, and you see a glimmer of who he once was. Miracles, crossbow, there's that familiar face who helped you take down the nun and painter. His soul is mangled with the Dark Soul and it's pouring out of him and moves his cloak like an extension of his own will. Finding myself holding my breath when his aerial barrage of bolts rain from above, his form is perfect. The souls that explode from his body and leave behind pillars of lightning give him an incredible backdrop as he walks towards us. Gael's become a beatifully dangerous spectacle. "Dancing" with Gael felt like the perfect way to end the series, undead versus undead, both no one special, fighting together in a way that feels so rhythmically natural. You're not only amazed by his grandeur, but also amazed at yourself for keeping up with his every step, amazed that you came so far. You feel powerful.
My only regret was I did this fight before fighting the Nameless king (I did a whole story playthrough before going over optional bosses). When I fought the king he went down easy and I was all like "That's it?".
For me it was perfect to fight the nameless king before Gael. The King wiped the floor with me, over and over again. He's in my personal top 5 of the hardest Soulsborne bosses. And then Gael was the cherry on top. Such an awesome experience but I found it relatively easy compared to the King. Even let him kill me two times when he was nearly done to do that fight again. One thing I could never imagine with that nameless lightning nightmare 😅
8:30 you got him to do my favorite attack in the entire soulsborne series twice in a row!! in some fights for me he wont even bother doing his crossbow flip once :( but u got it like 3 or four times!!!! blessed fight lol its so cinematic.
My personal headcannon is Gael is the Chosen Undead of DS1 who allowed Solar to link the fire and the lived through DS2 combining the 3 crowns to cure his curse but after living a life without a purpose and watching everyone around him hollow he gave it up becoming a slave knight until he met the painter and only finally allowed himself to hollow knowing it was necessary to create the Dark Soul for her to paint a new world potentially free of the curse for everyone. Literally the last hope at the end of 2 worlds.
Gael has the best soundtrack and the most enjoyable combat style to play against man, when the second fase starts it’s devastating. It makes you wanna loose the fight just to experience it all over again.
Il fatto che sia così viva probabilmente è anche merito di Sabaku, sono in pochissimi a trattare i Souls con così tanto amore come fa Mike, penso che guardare i suoi video sia un rito di passaggio per chiunque voglia iniziare a giocare ai Souls
With a Lucatiel build he melts pretty fast in the first phase since hes techincally hollow, byt phase two he turns human again and you lose the damage bonus. I should know as i noticee my damage drop a fair bit on that fight lol
You have it mixed up. He turns hollow in the second phase, right after witnessing the blood of the dark soul, since that was what he was after, so his only goal is fulfilled and he immediately hollows.
Ok so, I just want to say something to everyone who clicked on this video.
First of all, thank you all for the 100k views, I seriously never expected to see such an high number under one my videos, I’m so happy to see that so much people enjoy this series as much as I do.
Second of all, I’ve noticed that a part of the comments here are people who say “If someone who wants to purchase this game asks you why you like you don’t show him the very final boss of the series”, so let me explain : the idea of calling this video “If someone asks you why you like Soulsborne games, show ‘em this video” came out literally 2 seconds after I finished recording it, my initial intention was just to post Gael bossfight in order to rewatch how I played whenever I wanted, but I didn’t want to just call it “Slave Knight Gael Bossfight ITA”, so I thought “Well, if someone asks me to show what I like of DS3 I would just fight Gael, so let’s call this video like this”, and here we are.
I guess the title influenced on the views of this video, just like some sort of clickbait, but, as I said before, making thousands of views was not expected, so sorry if you have been fooled by the title :(
In the end (IT HAS TO BE THIS WAAAAAY….sorry) I thank again all of you for have spent a fraction of your free time watching something I did and for being still here like Gael after 7 years from the release of this masterpiece ❤
Great vid man. Now do one for Elden Ring 😂
but uncle gael isn't the very final boss, he's a DLC boss
@@sakura368He's the final boss of the DLC who came out after the base game.
Spiritually and chronologically, he is the final boss of the Dark Souls trilogy.
I did the same for my Sword Saint video (private) now I know lol. Ironically, they both pull out glocks out of their ass lol
i never got to the end. when i had this game my console broke and i upgraded to xbox one and never got it again but ive played eldin ring alot and seeimg this video has reignited my love for it great video im guna have to go back and get through this game. ❤
You fight a legion of Undeads dedicated to fighting the abyss.
You fight a lonely giant who was hated by his people.
You fight the self proclaimed Pontiff that took control over the gods.
You fight the cursed twinned princes who wished to be left alone.
You fight an amalgamation of all warriors and lords that have sacrificed themselves, including the first god that has done it, for a duty they didn’t completely understand.
You fight the last demons standing and the pride of their prince.
You fight the last breathing dragon that has succumbed to the dark.
You fight the last line of defense of the last god alive.
And your final fight?
An undead, whose gone hollow and was a mere slave knight, who lasted everyone at the end of time.
What an amazing series.
What is the last line of defense of the last god alive?
@@rainergeis I assume it's referring to the nameless king
@@rainergeis spears of the church are the guardians of Filianore aka last bastion of last god, Nameless King was stripped off his godhood by Gwyn
Bro didn’t even mention Aldrich
@@larkinpulsifer5644 I didn’t even mention Sister Friede and Father Ariendel as well
He's mechanically the pinnacle of fromsoft boss design, but it's the lore aspect that really gets me. Such a perfect conclusion to the Dark Souls trilogy. Two nobodies, the last two living beings, who through determintation and purpose alone surpassed the strength of the very gods, fighting in the middle of nowhere with no one to witness and remember it, for something that hardly even matters anymore. If that doesn't scream Dark Souls, I don't know what does.
If Orphan of Kos was fun to fight and wasn’t just a coward jumping from one side of the map to the other and then one shotting me with lightning.
That one ringed knight at the corner 👁️👄👁️
the only negative thing I can say aobut him is the lightning that hits randomly. I am still angry over me nearly beating him and then a bolt stunlocks me into a combo while he had 50 hp left.....
@@alkair422 I also thought this way at the beginning, but after watching other people fighting him, notice how they occur. The homing souls he spreads out in phase 3 land on the ground and create holes, which produce the lightnings. So beware every time Gael uses an attack with homing souls then you should be good (Apparently he can also damage himself with it, but I'd have to check on that)
@@TurnersTea what's in your opinion the best one??
Of all the Gods, kings and mighty beasts you meet along the way, it all comes down to two undead nobodies duking it out at the end of the world. After all we've been through to get there, this idea is so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye.
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Sorry to be that guy, but actually unkindled aren't undead. They're a completely new race.
@@stefanosormani8245 idk about being unkindled, but being undead doesnt have anything to do with race. anything can die, resurect and become undead, and eventually go hollow. being unkindled so far only seems to affect human-like people.
@@TK-7193 not really. Undead Is a curse bestowed Upon humans. Then other things can go hollow in other ways, like Gwyn did, but never actually becoming undead.
had the samee feelingg at that time
Maybe the real Dark Soul were the friends that went hollow along the way
Best comment I’ve seen so far 🤣🤣
That’s deep bro😮
In an alternate reality, dark souls is owned by marvel or disney
@ghoulsvshumansuser7326
Cosmic beings would be ruling a darker dc or marvel universe.
🎵Over
The
Top!!🎵😂
In their world no one will remember their names, let alone that this battle ever took place. They're just two "failures" fighting, willing, and bleeding to the fullest - and in doing so they outlasted all the pantheons of gods, the dragons they scorned, and even the very reality they were forced to endure.
The poignancy of ending Dark Souls this way is such a perfect closing note for the series. I don't know of many stories, books, movies, games, etc., that ended with such a perfect closing message: these "nothings" were the ones to have the final, greatest battle, because their determination and sense of honor compelled them to do so.
There's no one else left to remember
@@jpxfrdwatersonthethrd9772 The task is placed on us alone.
Kinda like hollow knight ending, the knight just returns back to the void like nothing ever happened, it may have "saved" the world, but nearly everybody is dead.
@@idkman3210 "Honor itself is worth the world"
The most beautiful and intense fight in any souls, the desperate fight between the two last souls in the world at the edge of time. The farewell duel of the whole franchise. A piece of art
facts, poetic facts
Art is a perfect description. Ending a trilogy as hugely impactful as dark souls with a flash of brilliance and then soothing nothing. Almost like a representation of the flame itself
Wish it would had been more into the ds1/2 lore
Goya's "Duel with Cudgels"
Meanwhile Shira and the Last Ringed Knight (Both of whom also appear in this arena) munching on popcorn in the background spectating the last major throwdown.
This boss fight is so good that when I’m about to win i purposely die just to fight him again
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same
I know, right? It's so bloody good
Same
Thought I was the only one doing this.
I love how this boss has no real gimmick. He hits hard and punishes the player for dodging away from his attacks. His second phase is more aggressive with a more hazardous battlefield. It’s just everything a souls boss should be. Strong, beautiful, but ultimately fair.
souls games and fair cannot exist in the same sentence
@@davidebrindisi925Not after Elden Ring. At least in the Souls Games you didn’t have to have 60 points in your health stat just to survive the near unavoidable poke from a boss with 1 hp left.
@@blankname2445souls veterans when they hear of defense talismans.
@@davidebrindisi925 it was a major draw of the games before elden ring. the fairness of the fight was always maintained.
@@davidebrindisi925 as they say in the language of the gods: "git gud"
jokes aside, the bad camera, and lousy input method can be a bit janky, but dark souls game are not unfair. the gameplay loop is simple: die -> retry. no room for any unfairness here.
Literally one of, if not the best boss fight ever.
It sure is in my top 3, I don’t know if he’s my fav because some bosses like Alatreon from Monster Hunter World or Bahamut from Final Fantasy 16 are awesome, but he’s my favourite soulsborne fight alongside Ludwig
@cast3r_mh I love the Bahamut fight but personally it's not repeatable to me. But I can understand Alatreon for sure.
@@dakelpoandgames2593 so much chadness in this comment 🗿
@@cast3r_mh 🦅🦅🦅🦅🗣🗣🗣
@@cast3r_mh Bahamut? I mean it looks nice but it's scripted, all cinematic within bare minimum gameplay. Not something I'd pair up with actual boss fights.
Gael and Ludwig are 2 of the best fights ever conceived in videogame history, interestingly enough they both share the same style, a first phase were the boss is more akin to a beast than man,feral attacks with just the intent to kill.
While the second phase shows how they recovered a but of their sanity and it shows in how the fight becomes more complex
What's interesting is Gael is actually kinda the exact opposite of Ludwig, Gael in his first phase is actually still himself. He's just become a savage monster while in his phase 2, Gael has finally gone hollow with his mind leaving completely in contrast to Ludwig regaining his humanity.
It's actually really interesting to compare the two because they both have what does extra damage to them changed based on the phase. Ludwig becomes no longer classified as a beast so the saw cleaver and the like don't do extra damage to him anymore, while Gael gets classified as a hollow so the hollow slayer great sword actually does do extra damage.
@@nathancurnutt8074 Oh yeah, I was just talking about the style of combat paralleled in both fight's phase transitions becoming more refined
you literally beat some sense into them xD
@@nathancurnutt8074Gael is more than a hollow in phase 2, he is the embodiement of the dark souls which want to be complete. Proof is, like the hollow slayer, artorias' greatword does extra damages to him (it does extra damages to abyss creatures if I reckon correctly)
Erm... How about Inner Isshin/Inner Father? Or Nightmare King Grimm/Absolute Radiance? All of them are better "video game fights" IMO.
showed this to my friend, he said that it looks very easy
oh boy...
It is always like that when somebody good does something pretty effortless. Dude haven't used even half of estus, well done by him!
@@EdgeOfDarknezzI learnt to fight Gael pretty well because I wanted to do it in NG+7, at that level he literally kills you in 2 hits, so I had to learn precisely how to dodge every single attack to kill him…if you don’t want to go insane please, never do what I did 🫠🫠🫠
I will say
For all the spectacle of Gael, he's nowhere near the hardest.
If anything, Gael is the shining counter example that a truly great boss has to be insanely difficult.
He's... moderately difficult. Not the hardest boss in DS3, or even his own DLC. Certainly not the hardest boss in Soulsborne, probably not even top 5, and top 10 might be contentious.
But he's not good because he's supremely hard, he's good because of the unparalleled flow, and dance to the fight.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290
The arena, the ost, the design, lore. This boss is the perfection...
And if it’s no other than Midir himself to say it 🤣🤣
@@cast3r_mh we can agree too that midir Is by far the best dragon fight. Just... Ringed city Is perfect
@@salimmansuri2347 its pretty a subjective thing, however the majority of people Say SoC or Gael
Friede betta
yep everything is there except the difficulty
When I first experienced this masterpiece, when I first witnessed him finish a series of attacks with a leap, throwing in even the crossbow, I just yelled in excitement and awe. The programmers wrote fire.
A story that ends on the worlds last day,
A slave knight of no renown seeking to help his lady make a painting, a world she and others can be safe in, a world free of the decay other painted worlds suffer.
For this he first needs to find flame, unkindled ash. Finding you he brings them to the painting, the rot is burned away.
Then needing the blood of the dark soul the slave knight seeks where it has been locked up in almost since the dawn of time.
All the way to the end of the world he searched, followed by ash.
Finally the ash dispels the illusion, revealing the bearers of the dark soul, but here the search seems to of been futile. Their blood is so old it has gone dry, useless.
Slave knight Gael refuses to admit defeat, refuses to hollow in failure.
The blood may be dry but its still the dark soul. Gael hunts the bearers, and begins devouring them.
Gael needs a new vessel for the dark soul, fresh blood imbued with the dark soul.
He must know that his mind will fail, he cannot carry out the final step even with this.
But the unkindled ash can. They are capable of ending him and delivering the blood of the dark soul, crucial pigment.
His mission will succeed, but he will never know that the painter his lady only wanted to give him a good home.
A tale of three actors, two without names while the third's is only of meaning to the other two.
The Ringed City has so much spectacle. What a perfect DLC and send off for my favourite series of all time.
"oh....fillienore, help me....please.....the red hood is here, to eat our dark souls" you can really feel the desperation in his voice, that combined with the state of the world paint such a bleak picture but at the same time it's incredibly beautiful...two great warriors at the end of time doing what they do best
I love Slave Knight Gael, both gameplay and lore.
In a nutshell, Gael was a slave knight since even during or before the Advent of Fire. After who knows many years has it been, Gael stumbles upon the Painted World of Ariandel. Once the First Flame almost faded, Gael sought out the Dark Soul to be used as a pigment for his lady to paint a new word.
I know everyone talked about his gameplay and his lore, but I liked him for the fact that, out of all the characters we've encountered during the entire Souls series, he resembles us the most.
We have barely anything to start off with in each of our journeys, and who else starts off with barely anything? Garl.
We will never be remembered for deeds, no matter how noble. Who else is just like that? Gael.
But in a sense, Gael is the peak of what a player can be, what a Chosen Undead/Bearer of the Curse/Ashen One or a Tarnished can be.
Progression for the hope of a good ending, no matter what it was. And to progress, not to care how will it be done, whether through skill, willpower or just straight brute force.
But we the player are unsure if whatever ending we chose is good. So when the end comes, what will we choose?
Gael however, lets us do the work with him as he chooses the ending, a new world. A new everything. He'll do all the work. All we had to do was follow him to 'the end' and defeat him.
Now, character. We already know Gael can be considered a hero.
But usually, a hero has something 'special' about them. Whether having a special weapon, skill and anything else. But Gael? No bullshit royal lineage, destiny nor some 'One-of-a-Kind' potential. He straight up has nothing. (If you don't count his weapons, armor and gun, hehe.) Artorias had Sif, a ring and an amulet meant to defeat the Abyss. He had a greatsword, shield and a fighting technique that he probably got a lot amount of time to master. And yet, he failed. He even failed against ONE manifestation of Abyss. He lost to some weakass looking Abyss monsters and mage casters. I died to Artorias many times, yet I could literally reach Manus from Oolacile Township bonfire without dying once using a greatsword only.
Meanwhile, Gael literally has none of the luxuries Artorias had. And he had to fight the Abyss at it's very strongest for who knows how long? And better yet, he SUCCEEDED. The Ashen One is used to having fight either successful monsters of evil or heroes of honor that failed. Hell, the Ashen One didn't even flinch at the sight of Aldrich devouring Gwyndolin, even at the fact that they heard a lot from Anri. Yet, the Ashen One shows a tad bit of fear in the cutscene before fighting Slave Knight Gael, backing away for a bit.
And finally so, he may have been the only one to have a proper answer to Aldia's question. What to do with the cycle? End it or let it prolong? And Gael chose to let all of what remains to go beyond the cycle and escape instead of either options.
By creating a new world.
This, THIS is the perfect response 😭
@@eyyy2271 not gonna lie, i was drinking coffee, so i guess i went full plus ultra on my take of Slave Knight Gael
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Now that I think of it... Artorias is kinda lame ngl.
-Has a part of Gwyn's Light Soul bequeathed to him (according to Ornstein' Soul)
-Has special weaponry, ring, shield and amulet to face against the Abyss
-Special swordplay technique
-Had Sif to back him in battle
And is only useful against cannon fodder of the Abyss. For a guy named Abysswalker, he sure failed against the Four Kings and Manus.
tarnished doesn't fit in this. Elden ring has hope. Dark souls has no escape.
Gael's phase transition is still the best cutscene in any video game ever.
Ludwig from bloodborne has a better phase transition but gael is amazing too
@@manuellamanna8776 just what I wanted to say man totally agree there mate Ludwig cutscene is the best cutscene in any from game ever
@@manuellamanna8776 it's great, but personally I prefer Gael's because of the the build up, and the ambience of the fight was perfect.
Since it's "any gaming cutscene" i have to disagree, Gough shooting down Kalameet is peak, especially because of how well it's written, the dialogue is pristine.
@@uzzionpathak2637 while I disagree with you, I can't deny that kalameet's cutscene is a classic.
I honestly love how long of a fight Slave Knight Gael is, I brings true justice to Dark Soule conclusion. Something I rarely ever see with a DLC.
If the tragedy of Dark Souls is losing oneself, as seen with Artorias and Gwyn, then Gael is the triumph at the very end, The gods, immortal, they lose themselves, and only humanity, the dark souls remain, even after becoming beasts, they can remember themselves, and stand up as noble warriors to fight for their causes.
Dark Souls is ephemerality; it all fades.
Dark Souls is memory; fitting that the painting of a new world is out of the blood of all of humanity.
Dark Souls is acceptance; that which is broken can be whole again.
Dark Souls is humanity; that fragile thing that so easily corrupts, the hand placed on top of hand that grasps the heavens fully, the struggle toward a goal that could never be achieved by oneself.
We are all Dark Souls. That is what being human is, after all.
Hands down my favorite sound track from the souls games
We all know how great this is because of what he have seen throughout the game(s). Not sure if someone who sees the video blind can appreciate what is being done here
Imho anyone, even people who never played a videogame, would enjoy seeing this fight because it’s scenically awesome, if you know the context behind it obviously you’d enjoy it more, but art is always art
Never played this game in my life. Tearing up over here. Though, being fair, I have beaten the ever-living-shit outta Bloodborne. I think I understand based on that alone.
@@cast3r_mh They would enjoy seeing the fight, sure, but this video would not have convinced me of how great this series is if I had seen it without context. What we see here is good on the surface, yeah, but the level of appreciation you have after actually playing the games... it's different. This fight isn't a good reason to play the series, but it's the *best* reason to remember it.
Of course they can. For the spectacle, the music, the weirdness... You know you're seeing something well made.
Sorry that I can't appreciate this to the fullest
a reason that this boss is so outstanding is that up until recently, gael was the one of the few bosses to have developed closely to the player (the others being gehrman, but getting to know gehrman is almost completely optional, and owl if you go shura). we know what his intentions are, we see his journey, and he guides and helps us. the same can’t be said about gwyn, isshin, or radagon, and i still feel that soul of cinders would be an even more incredible fight if it started with our loadout from the last cycle, being the soul of everyone that linked the fire and all.
this same reason that made gael a special boss is also what made every final boss in armored core 6 memorable too
I love how this boss has everything
From excellent lore to an overall excellent boss fight
Hard but fair, the essence of dark souls
It even has some obscure mechanics such as phase hollowing, which makes some weapons do extra damage to it
Hell, even the artorias reference fits pretty well, specially since they are basically the first boss from the first dlc in all the games to the final boss of the last game dlc
What a fight. I played dark
Souls 3 for the first time after beating Elden ring and it absolutely blew me away
Me too, Elden ring was my first fromsoft game. I am disgusted in myself for coming to the series so late
@@DanPlayingGames Dont be! Most of us also took our time to discover this gem of a series, welcome to the community :)
What did you think? For me Dark Souls is definitely more creepy; but, it’s more intense for it. Elden Ring is epic and damn right jolly at times.
gael really is the coolest, and greatest spectacle fight of the entire series
the concept of the 2 final people alive killing eachother as the world crashes and perishes around them is insanely epic, the music and atmosphere really helps too
ESPECIALLY the 2nd-3rd phase music and the mf LIGHTNING man
"Is this the blood of the *Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition?"*
Artorias walked so Gael could run
Between the massive size, smooth player movement, top tier voice acting, incredible soundtrack + fx, beautiful artwork + animations & so much more..
NOBODY can do it like FromSoftware 🏆
I kept a character specifically to help others with this fight, back on PC. I ran an Alva cosplay and did Darkmoon Loyalty to anyone who summoned me. To those to did, thanks for letting me keep coming back to fight Gael. Praise the sun.
If they still don't get it after seeing one of the greatest video game boss fights of all time, then they'll never get it
5:21 ok that was actually sick
The badass walk with the lightning strike right behind you at the end... incredible
The boss, the fight, the lore, the arena, the OST, the cutscenes, all in this boss fight is so fucking good
The idea of Gael single-handedly gets me hyped for Elden Ring's DLC
The best boss of the entire souls series, hands down. I literally play DS3 just to get to here
One of my top 3 in Soulsborne, my ONLY issue is the phase 3 is too static.
Like it’s set patterns, he’s always gonna do the same explosion, jump, lightning combo and that’s 80% of the fight. Wish it was more like phase 2 where he can do any move by itself and combo it into more.
I’ve seen a mod where he could do that and it looked really hard/fun.
aside from that he’s perfect. My first time ever playing him I was drunk and FREAKING out because I swear on max volume with my headset I could hear the individual souls in his cape screaming for help.
I love how every Fromsoft boss gets pissed off and attacks you as soon as you take a drink of your flask like they’re offended by your healing factor 😂
That's input reading
I mean I would too as well if I were the boss.. You worked your a$$ trying to beat someone who for no reason wake you up and tried to take your soul away and he just pulled a no-bullshit flask that regens his hp in an instant while you have to chew that hp you lost and keep fighting.. Oh and also don't forget the boss cannot even lose once while you yourself can die infinitely.
We do the same to Gideon
"oh..is this the blood...the blood of the Dark Soul?... 🔥
And then you get into the lore and you can appreciate who he is and the beautiful tragedy of the two survivors fighting to the death at the end of the world, ending such a brutal and incredible trilogy with the peaceful promise of a new world.
the thing that Gael uses lightning attacks in the 2nd phase maybe shows that lightning may have originally belonged to the furtive pygmy and not Gwyn andGwyn kind of stole that power from the pygmys and that maybe another reason why he banished them to the ringed city, apart from him fearing humanity( as gael is slave knight and maybe not all related to gwyn and we know only gwyn's heir or chosen people can yield lightning )
Gael doesn't use lightning 🤦
Gael use Crossbow with lightning/sunlight bolt. His faith build and name 'Slave Knight' implying he's part of the original Gwyn ranks albeit serving as lower status.
In that context he's a nameless surviving champion just like the rest of Dark Souls series protagonist.
@@sys3248 if the weapon has lightning attributes, it doesn't mean Gael can use it 🤦
The story is correct tho
@@justfun5479 the sunlight/lightning bolt has a lore implying it is created for warrior of Gwyn era.
Dark Souls or pygmy derived lord soul isn't incompatible to Sunlight/fire age rather they're perfect fuel to link the fire.
Humans implied to be pygmy descendants can master miracles and pyromancy just fine.
But those attacks hurt him too. Not really control there.
This is peak gaming.
No,this was gaming at still it's peak
BB/DS3 was peak soulsborne, I am usually a full on PvP player, but DS3 bosses really did it to me so I went and completed a fist only run. All game I was hyped for the Gael fight as its just the best boss fight out of all the Fromsoft games. The successful fight was 24min long and I enjoyed every single minute of it.
It's a shame FromSoft are not what they once were. First Sekiro, then Elden Ring... I miss the proper soulsborne games.
I miss this game so much so many memories I’ll never forget… at least we were able to beat ds3 before my homie pasted away I have to get a tattoo in his memory
Rip
How far would you go to keep a promise?
even though a complete nobody, Gael went further than any knight or hero ever dreamed of going
total respect to the boss who ended this series with a flourish!👑💪
Beautifully done, as a fellow Gael enthusiast I just love absolutely everything about this fight, it’s just utter perfection, when he starts phase 3 and the music changes and his move set gets a million times cooler it just brings chills to me everytime, well done my friend, you have inspired me to boot DS3 back up just to make it to Gael again
I remember the impact this fight had on me. The dlc had just dropped. My friend and I got on out level 500 characters and decided our first dlc2 experience was gonna be a tough one. We died tens, if not a hundred times. Trying 12 times a day until we got it. I remember the erratic chaos unfolding before us, backed by the swelling orcestra. Every passing phase adding a layer of certain doom. It makes me shake just thinking about the thrill this boss brings to the table. Two titans fighting at the end of existence, the only beings left. No gods, no men, no anything. Ill never not hold such a warm spot in my heart for Fromsoft.
I remember the first time I face Gael, is been really sad because is the last dark souls boss , but really exciting the perfect one for the last dark souls 😊
Gayle is DLC Radahn done right
@@doge_69 So true 🛐
My man has his brightness jacked soo high you can see during the fade to black to phase 2 !
Favourite fight in all 3 souls games. An absolutely awesome conclusion to an absolutely awesome series.
Till this day this fight gives me goosebumps and shivers, like I’m really at the end of the world fighting an old friend to think one day it will be Michael looking at Lucifer or maybe the other way around we may never know lol Jk. but would be cool to imagine the final battle being like this brother against brother but most of all and old friend against an old friend
One of the greatest boss fights ever made.
My friend’s only mistake was thinking that these games were gonna be a cakewalk.
“Who’s this girl ? Friede ? Pfff, she will totally die in 2 minutes”
45970 tries later :
Love the resemblence to Radahn; a red being cursed to roam the endless desert feeding on corpses.
I had no idea the Ringed Knight straight sword was that good. I used the Irythyll straight sword because according to the wiki, frost is one of his weaknesses.
I advice you to use that weapons, which you really like
I’m playing these games every time with this scheme and also without wiki (only after beating game 1 time) and this really great experience
Ringed knight straight sword is pretty meh. Just about average damage. Bundles and resins are just too good to go without, so if you’re going to use a weapon that can’t use them it needs to be pretty extraordinary.
I forget which weapon I used but I used poison resins first because he’s very weak to poison, and then switched to lightning resin after he had been poisoned.
@@Apathetic2624 not bad
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There surely are way better straight swords, but I wanted to do a Ringed Knight cosplay so fuck big damages, embrace fashion souls
@@cast3r_mh yeeeeeeeeeeeeah
I respect this
🤝
Gael is fair and one of the most fun boss fights ever..
I remember this guy. I poisoned him and ran away for 30 minutes until he died. I remember saying "I can't believe that worked".
This fight is so fucking good, its really hard to explain how good it is: It nails ALL the aspects of how a boss fight should be: Lore, music, theme and even the difficult
The thematics of this fight are so deep and fascinating that I could just go on and on about them.
Who are the strongest beings in the Dark Souls universe? Humans. Humanity and the undead outlast everything. Despite the horrors and the gods and the monsters and everything, through all three games it is always us, a nobody undead being that defeats them all, through trial and error, and the ever growing strength of the souls we collect. Gael has been around for so long at this point that he is practically bursting with souls. He must have claimed the strength of so many others before us
Best final boss ever for me is really between Gael and The Glock Saint. It doesn't get more peak then these two 🔥
Shadow of the Erdtree may end up being the best DLC Fromsoft has ever made, but nothing will ever top the end of the Ringed City.
According to Dark Souls, the core of humanity is avarice, violence, and sadness. I will admit that it does feel like that sometimes.
I saw a comment in another video that summarises the story of the Dark Soul of Man perfectly: 'Slave Knight ended up becoming everything that Gwyn feared.'
Gwyn went to so much trouble to lock away the Dark Soul, even offering up his own daughter to make sure it never grew in power and that no one could use it.
A fight agaist a nobody, that nobody ever saw, and nobody will ever remember.
The Anor Londo cutscene from ds1 is my favorite game cutscene of all time.
Understandable, reaching Anor Londo for the first time will always be one of the peaks of this series
Lord Gywn, a great king, was the one who brought about the age of fire and sacrificed himself to prolong it. And now, here stands a slave of no renown, sacrificing himself, for the sake of a new age.
4:08 nice Artorias reference)
the music in this fight is amazing
Probably in my top 3 soundtracks of this series with Ludwig phase 2 and Mohg phase 2
Elden Ring had some pretty good bosses, but there will never be a better souls boss than Gael
Really hoping Elden ring dlc has good bosses.
Wasn’t too happy with most main games fights compared to last titles. Major bosses were mostly good but everything else felt like throwaways
@@wr5488but the sheer amount of amazing main bosses is higher than in any of the other titles.
@@wr5488Yeah. Morgot and Horah Lux are fun to fight. Malenia too, but her "Ducky Dance" ruins everything. Radagon"s fine, I guess.
@wr5488 well in retrospect Shadow of the Erdtree did have some extremely good contenders (Messmer, Midra, Bayle, Radahn) but I still don't think any of them topped Gael
I have played this boss fight many times, and watched dozens of videos of it, but I've only now noticed the skull faces and bones in Gael's red-brown trailing aura, perhaps representing the countless souls he has consumed over the years.
The lore behind this is so depressing. All that ash from repeadetly prolonging the age fire...
Nice fight it may not be a no damage but it's clean and without greeding. And one of the most beautifully made and meaningful
Gael > Radahn
@@czowiekzlasu3740 Promised Consort Radahn is a shitty boss, one of the worst we ever had
@@cast3r_mh he actually is. I believe it’ll be first time since since dark souls 2 where I don’t really care about going back to the game 😂
@@cast3r_mh and I’ve ffs beat Gael ng+7 no healing, broken straight sword only
its carzy how aggressive he gets when he is close to dying
Absolutely incredible makes me want to go back and replay dark souls 3 after all this time. All of us that love the souls games all got to experience this. Gives me goosebumps every time.
this one was ds3?
I don't know how many times i died by his hands but i enjoyed it thank you undead dude. Beautiful game beautiful fight.
so in the end we were the dark souls all along
A reminder of how a proper boss fight should look like.
Thanks, I needed that after Elden Ring.
That game is art
Yeah this is exactly why we love these games.
Dude, and when the OST kicks in during the 2nd phase I can’t get enough of it
The entire Ringed City DLC was amazing! Every boss fight was epic! Twin demons, A black dragon and a warrior spawned of the darkest depths of the dark soul itself?! 😱.
And The Halflight! Remember him? No? Anyone? Guess I imagine it...
@@freddogrosso9835 😂 I trolled lots of people on that boss fight. Being the boss was hella fun.
As much as I love this fight and how you played,
nothing can sum up how this fight _feels_
(lots of babbling ahead)
The shock when you touch Filianore's egg and you see the dying world.
The realization where you are and who these miserable, desperately crawling souls are.
And another when you recognize an old friend, who you thought to be merely another soldier.
The confusion when you see his state of decay.
The fight hasn't even started yet.
The way he moves is feral, but still with an efficient purpose.
When you break him down Gael becomes an incredible force to be reckoned with.
His movements are more calculated, and you see a glimmer of who he once was.
Miracles, crossbow, there's that familiar face who helped you take down the nun and painter.
His soul is mangled with the Dark Soul and it's pouring out of him and moves his cloak like an extension of his own will.
Finding myself holding my breath when his aerial barrage of bolts rain from above, his form is perfect.
The souls that explode from his body and leave behind pillars of lightning give him an incredible backdrop as he walks towards us.
Gael's become a beatifully dangerous spectacle.
"Dancing" with Gael felt like the perfect way to end the series, undead versus undead, both no one special, fighting together in a way that feels so rhythmically natural. You're not only amazed by his grandeur, but also amazed at yourself for keeping up with his every step, amazed that you came so far. You feel powerful.
The Ringed City DLC was honestly miles better than the base game.
Ringed city was great. No need to downplay how good base game is to say say that tho
trc is trash
@@basiicbid8032 The base game was pretty mid ngl
@@solidsnake9898said nobody
Pontiff, Lorian, champ gundyr, soul of cinder, nameless, so many good bosses
imagine he had a second life bar. Wouldn't even be mad, this is like easily the best fight form soft has ever put out.
Fromsoft saved us from endless monetisation ,broken games and skill based matchmaking etc etc
Thanks 🙏
lol, walking toward the viewer after the death blow was perfectly done!
There is no better boss than geal fitting that the final boss of the series is someone similar to you
Anytime a mf stands back up in any Soulsborne game, you know some shits about to get real.
9:54 that end looks so edgy but badass Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
man do i love the souls games, i wish i could forget them and start again with no clue whats gonna happen
My only regret was I did this fight before fighting the Nameless king (I did a whole story playthrough before going over optional bosses). When I fought the king he went down easy and I was all like "That's it?".
For me it was perfect to fight the nameless king before Gael. The King wiped the floor with me, over and over again. He's in my personal top 5 of the hardest Soulsborne bosses. And then Gael was the cherry on top. Such an awesome experience but I found it relatively easy compared to the King. Even let him kill me two times when he was nearly done to do that fight again. One thing I could never imagine with that nameless lightning nightmare 😅
I think Gael has like double the health of Nameless. Like 15000 vs 7000 (not counting dragon) and more armor too.
8:30 you got him to do my favorite attack in the entire soulsborne series twice in a row!! in some fights for me he wont even bother doing his crossbow flip once :( but u got it like 3 or four times!!!! blessed fight lol its so cinematic.
the attempt I beat him he spammed me with that attack lmao
Greatest boss of all time
How many mechanics do you want your boss to have?
Miyazaki: YES
My personal headcannon is Gael is the Chosen Undead of DS1 who allowed Solar to link the fire and the lived through DS2 combining the 3 crowns to cure his curse but after living a life without a purpose and watching everyone around him hollow he gave it up becoming a slave knight until he met the painter and only finally allowed himself to hollow knowing it was necessary to create the Dark Soul for her to paint a new world potentially free of the curse for everyone.
Literally the last hope at the end of 2 worlds.
Nice perspective
Nah
didnt slave knights only exist during gwyn’s reign of power? how could he have become a slave knight after ds2
@@metalcl0ne Far as I know none of the items in game tie the slave knights to a specific period in time. If you know of some please let me know.
Gael has the best soundtrack and the most enjoyable combat style to play against man, when the second fase starts it’s devastating. It makes you wanna loose the fight just to experience it all over again.
Sono contento che la fandom dei soulsborne in Italia è così attiva e piena di passione per questa serie
L’Italia penso di essere la maggior fandom di Dark Souls che ho conosciuto
@@dudeyouresick4281 mi rende fiero
Il fatto che sia così viva probabilmente è anche merito di Sabaku, sono in pochissimi a trattare i Souls con così tanto amore come fa Mike, penso che guardare i suoi video sia un rito di passaggio per chiunque voglia iniziare a giocare ai Souls
Of course that egg would crumble. You put your fingers through it!
With a Lucatiel build he melts pretty fast in the first phase since hes techincally hollow, byt phase two he turns human again and you lose the damage bonus. I should know as i noticee my damage drop a fair bit on that fight lol
You have it mixed up. He turns hollow in the second phase, right after witnessing the blood of the dark soul, since that was what he was after, so his only goal is fulfilled and he immediately hollows.
@@rondamguy9999 that's why 4 years not playing ds3 does to a motherfucker
A hollow has no purpose, he had purpose up until he found the Blood, which was always his goal, even at the end of the world.
Gael is peak dark souls