This may be something that people have brought up already, Lapp in Scandinavian languages (deviations in spellings exist) means patch, so there's a possibility that Patches remembers who he is, he just lies to the player (which fits the character).
The one thing I love about him is in Darksouls 3 is that when you aid him in remembering who he was is that you can find his sign one last time and summon him to bring down the last vestiges of a church order. Even at the end of the world with nothing left he held that grudge to the last while also helping you. Its just icing on the cake.
@@geoshark12 :3 Yeah patches may be a jerk most of the time. But he has his own moral code that he follows. He just has a lot of trust issues. Despite his name lol. He believes most "heroes" are just fakes who glorify themselves and become corrupt one way or another, so he believes he's doing the world a favor by killing them. His hate for the church is justified too. It's all lies, corruption, and glorification of beings who have done nothing but entice and opress humans into living a lie and abandoning their real origin just to prolong a curse that was caused by gwyn who wanted to seal away the dark using the dark sign which was made from the first flame.
@@smolchild1057 that actually wasn't why he despised the way of white. He despised them because they were fakes even in the name of worship. They didn't worship the current gods, or past ones. It's run by crooks at best, and evil people taking advantage of the unfortunate at worst.
The way I like to look at it, Patches is the embodiment of all those player messages saying "treasure ahead, try jumping" on the edge of a cliff. He's a trickster, a troll. And there's a little bit of Patches in all of us.
Patches is both the 99 messages that say: "Treasure ahead, try jumping" that end up being fake and he is also the 1 message saying the same thing ends up being true. Patches will tell you 99 lies and 1 truth!
Patches is in Sekiro, too, under the name Anayama (which is japanese for Patches), featuring a vest full of patches and an eye patch too, just to drive home the point. He's still voiced by the same voice actor, too, and will send you to almost certain doom if you follow his letter. Lapp is Swedish for Patch, too.
You forgot the most important part: If you fail to get the titanite slab too many times, in what I think is the most unbelievable and hilarious inversion of his character, Lapp will ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD on what he said, and get it for you himself, no problemo.
“Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. ... The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel”. Weird Miyazaki waited until the final dlc of the final game he didn’t want to make to show us this.
Patches is also now a boss in Elden Ring, when he gets to half health he'll surrender and become a merchant, he offers you a chest that is a trap that leads you to a ruinbear den in mistywoods, he can also be summoned in General Radahn's fight but he leaves imminently after seeing Radahn himself.
He also pushes you off a cliff on Mt. Gelmir in classic Patches fashion, and then joins Volcano Manor, a den of assassins, but tries to trick you into doing his assassination missions for him.
I love how they manage to give a sense of closure to a character that you should reasonably dislike and in the end when he boots you over the small ledge for the last time it's like his way of saying goodbye. Awesome video.
"reasonably dislike" only holds true for people that killed him in dks1 from pettiness. talking to him as a merchant, where hes literally the sole NPC in the entire game to offer completely true and open information on the sins and evils of every asshole npc in firelink, its extremely difficult not to feel that maybe he's a fairly deep character right from the start. patches and i, we've been jolly undead outcasts together since day one.
@@XcaptainXobliviousX patches is just like the lovable annoying character where he keeps trying to get you into trouble, but you can never stay mad at him. i honestly got really happy when i realised it was him in dark souls 3, right after he lowered me into a pit with a giant lmao
@@XcaptainXobliviousX Well, he is also the only character in DS1 that acknowledges Solaire‘s existence and calls him out on his reckless optimism. Patches is the only undead that manages to have an easily attainable goal in the souls universe, namely punishing greed. Which according to From Soft taints every age of man, only driving Patches to hollowing after no men are left at the end of the world. From Day one till the end of time.
@@mahmud7645 Honestly, my only complaint about Patches is how he keeps accusing me of being greedy when I'm really just doing my due diligence in an Soulsborne game and checking EVERY corner, EVERY rock, EVERY cliffside, and, indeed, collecting EVERY shiny object in case the description contains some significant lore information. Curious, certainly, but greedy? How dare you!
It makes absolute sense that Patches would befriend Greirat. Patches hates human greed. While Greirat is a thief, he steals things to support villagers from Undead Settlement, and (according to Patches himself) helped him out in Lothric dungeon. No wonder Patches has a soft spot for him - he even becomes hostile if you murder Greirat!
Hadn’t even known about that for such a long time relative to everything else hidden in the game’s interactions. He doesn’t even sneer against you in the usual boisterous or sarcastic tone. He just calls you a scumbag in the most deadpan serious voice he ever used.
@Kurotetsu the littered corpse still have their treasure, he most likely takes their souls for survival and not their equipement, in his point of view if you fall for his tricks and die you deserve it, this very fact is why he's made to the end of ds3
I actually thanked patches for kicking me down that cliff because i actually wanted to go there being lost on how to get down from up there. And seeing the basilisks below just made me notalgic of DS1. I just left a message down below "Praise the Friendship, and, seems familiar."
In Dark souls 3's final DLC he actually helps you by kicking you down a path you needed to go, even willing to help you on a boss fight. He in my opinion is the very embodiment of a true neutral. He does everything in a selfish way, but is willing to help others.
@Ornithocheirus I always like to imagine his last trick is just a playful farewell to the player, almost like he's saying "Force of habit. You know you like it, this has been fun." Kind of like he's the Joker to your Batman.
@Ornithocheirus Yeah there's definitely something more to Patches than just a loveable scamp you want to punch in the face if you analyze his dialogue. I can't claim anything specific about his motives though.
@@wilymuppet8941 He's also kicking you toward your goal. Not really punishing your greed this time around almost like his own way of helping you along.
I love how Patches returns once again in Elden Ring. Still doing the same thing as always. I love it. As one fine meme said... Patches Detected. Betrayal Tolerated and Forgiven.
Elden patches “Yo, this iron maiden filled with snakes is actually a teleporter.” Me “Haha ya good one old buddy, I’m gona try it just to progress your dialogue cuz your my oldest friend in this series.” Also me Visible shock that the iron maiden is actually a teleportation device and patches didn’t lie to my face completely. “Patches ‘sniff’ I love you man”
@@kingambrosius9125 I wasn’t expecting the full truth, just shocked I even got the partial truth, not like I’m the ashen one who has known and helped him for centuries, I’m just a random tarnished
Sometimes he is Patches the Villain Other times he becomes Patches the Trickster Truly he lives as Patches the Unbreakable But in my heart he will remain Patches my Friend.
As soon as his heath reaches a certain threshold he dips. It's really funny considering he wouldn't """die""" technically since he's your summon but he's still too cowardly to commit entirely to the fight
@@SoulwaxHD iirc, Patches can only be summoned in DS3 and ER right? It'd make sense that Patches wouldn't have the obligation and courage to help you through the entire battle in ER while in DS3, he's doing you a favor because you helped him cure his amnesia.
@@PyroFTB yeah you can't summon him in DS1 or 2, i can't vouch for Demon's Souls since I've never gotten to play it but yeah that's a pretty good theory
i think it's so weird that patches willingfully makes enemies of undead. Like he knows they will come back, he knows he might make enemies for literal eternity yet he still does it
It might also be that he knows they won't truly die, so he knows at most he's simply temporarily inconveniencing them, and not truly screwing them over permanently. It would seem that he banks on their eternal nature to count on their eventual forgiveness.
@@quirkychap killing them could make them go hollow in which case hes damning them to an eternity of madness until someone comes by capable of putting them out of their misery so its not an entirely meaningless to kill an undead
I don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome setting in or not, but I genuinely really like Patches, in any of his forms. He's like a comforting presence in the games, reminding the player that there'll always be that special someone waiting for them somewhere in the game. He's bad, but in a mischievous puppy kind of way, you can't stay mad at him for long (and if you do stay mad at him and take him out, you'll likely lose a valuable merchant). I can't wait to find him in Elden Ring. EDIT: I found him in Elden Ring. He's just as beautiful as the day I lost him, and I even called him potentially becoming a merchant!
Completely agree. Love the guy, he's a near-perfect fit for these games. Lapp in particular was a really cool moment for me, it felt like a true ending to his character. I'm really excited for his Elden Ring appearance. Also, fair warning - try to avoid spoilers for Elden Ring. I know, obvious, but many characters have had their roles/dialogue/events leaked/revealed through datamined assets from the Network Test. One of these characters has certain events that I really wish I would've been able to experience blind. Don't make the same mistake I did. Hint hint. Nudge nudge.
I can confidently say that i'm not dissapointed with Patches appearence in Elden Ring I won't say anything about it incase of spoiling anyone but this was probably his most surprising reveal yet!
What I love about Patches as a character is that he potentially exposes the weakness of everyone who interacts with him. In Demon's Soul: he tricks you twice, but both situations are clearly screaming "this is a trap!", but the player will still fall for it because really, are you going to leave a shiny object alone? Hell, in the pit in the Shrine of Storms you find Sage Urban, a holy man on a pilgrimage... who just like you was tricked with the prospect of riches down a hole. What a holy man! Between this and the description of the Talisman of Beast, DeS loves picking on clerics. In Dark Souls and Bloodborne he uses the same trick once again, and the fact that you keep falling for the same tactic implies a lot about your greed. And again a cleric is exposed as a greedy person tricked by the prospect of riches. In Dark Souls 3 he becomes a bit wittier, but at that point he was kind of a meme anyway. And in every game, you have the choice of killing him once you get out of the hairy situation he put you in, but really: if you kill him, you're letting out your darkest side, lowering yourself to his level; and if you don't, it's probably because you didn't want to miss out on his wares... which makes you a greedy sort. There really is no winning with him, and that's why you have to love him. Ps: we need a spin off game where Patches is your primal quest giver, as he sends you in increasingly deadlier situations in order to kill you, but for you it's the usual RPG progression
The only reason why Patches went hollow at the end of time, is because there's no greedy human to trick. That's how you keep hollowing at bay, a clear goal. Patches don't want any trinkets he wants to punish greed, or most likely That's his sole purpose.
Not to mention how, despite what going Hollow means usually, all it did was give him another goal, which ultimately saved him from going completely mad. It’s the reason I subscribe to the theory that, like Gael, and possibly Andre, Patches was also one of the first humans. This would explain his complete loathing of the gods - he saw them in the beginning, back when they where just powerful individuals, and saw how they inflated their successes, how they grew their empires on the great mounds of corpses of the lowly they sacrificed along the way. It *ENRAGED* him, so much so that he made it his life‘s work to punish such behavior.
And what does he do as soon as he remembers who he is? Trick you, and boot you into a pit. Not even maliciously, this time... just because it's what he does.
I like to think that Patches used to be a pretty stand up guy, like he is as Lapp, but at some point got screwed over by a greedy cleric (or multiple clerics/or the church). Which led to his hatred for all clerics and his tricking and punishing of greedy people. Edit: At least in Dark Souls.
for me the name “unbreakable patches” is the most fitting of all his pseudonyms. for one, regardless of whether or not all these patches are the same man, the ideology of patches has sustained through all the different games, by the time we get to ds3 his resolve to trick and mislead is truly unbreakable. secondly, and the real big reason i love his name, is how its an oxymoron. anything “patched” or requiring patches is certainly not unbreakable, the name entirely contradicts itself, not unlike how patches constantly insists to be a good friend to the player, but still kicks the player down a hole. however he still aids the player via selling items and interacting with other npcs, being both a friend and nemesis. i really love how his moniker in the third game kind of encapsulates his entire character, in regards to his relationship with the player and his history in the series as a whole
In the DS3 Ring City where he kicks you down is the only way to progress forward, you have to drop down there to go forward. He helps you without you realizing it just like he does for Greirat if you don't take the armor from him. Cant have people thinking he's gone soft.
EDIT: Untethered now, huh? i guess he’s definitely untethered from the franchises hes in, moving between them freely as he so pleases. maybe Untethered also refers the the new open world in Elden Ring. idk i havent made up my mind on this one quite yet.
@@shellmirror Untethered by Greed. He doesnt spawn unless you try to 'steal from him', his second trick is only activated if you try to steal from him, he becomes a reliable merchant, he tells you to help out the lady who got robbed. He's who he always was: A Man Who Hates Greed. In Demon's Souls, the Clerics are selfish zealots who snob those who seek the truth of the world and who don't bow to their religion/god, which secretly is worship of The Old One. In Dark Souls he hates the clerics who seek to create more fire maidens and prolong the age of fire for their own benefit. In Dark Souls 3 he helps the selfless Greirat and once he realizes you're a good guy, he helps you too. He's just a good, if cynical, man, through and through, and we just happen to meet him in the wrong ways.
In my headcannon i always love to think that the Patches from DS1 is the same one as in DS3. In all the cycles of fire and rebirth the world undergoes, with the lands being near unrecognisable and not a single person having continuity through the ages he remains and survives reaching the dreg heap at the end of the world and the ringed city beyond that, he truly is Unbreakable Patches.
In all of the darksouls games Patches is the only one not to go hollow and lose his mind. Almost all of the NPC's who have a questline in the souls games goes hollow, even Gwyn hollowed but not Patches, never Patches. Patches is the one unstoppable thing in the Dark Souls series.
@@s4ty-s4t Gwynn literally couldn't go hollow hollowing is caused by the undead curse Gwynn caused the curse by sealing the abyss, the gods were not the victims of this curse as they were not linked to the abyss
@@jar-of-bees They weren't referring to Gwyn hollowing as someone affected by the undead curse. They were referring to his mental and physical state being that of a hollow.
I really don't know how to express in words how much I love this. You're hitting all the nails on the head when it comes to not only the characters but in your analysis of them as well. A stream of videos like this and you'll hit it big, I swear.
Every time I encountered him for the first time in a new Fromsoft game after playing Demons Souls it always went like: "Is...is that..is that fucking Patches?" *I hear Patches speak* "IT'S FUCKING PATCHES!!!!" "Please show me to your ledge my old friend."
Same! It was funny because I was reading the little signs other players left and one said friend ahead, another said lover ahead and I’m like “I wonder who this is” Then I walk in and loot the chest and I’m like “ah…now I see”
He keep himself until the very end of the world, in Souls universe. He might be petty, but he has absolutely no doubt about what kind of person himself is. What a great guy.
Makes sense that patches, after "weaving his webs of deception" is eventually portrayed as a spider lol. I still feel like most of the souls games can be connected in the same universe, but across various worlds, hence their specific and differing lore. But there has to one day be some kind of connection to explain the franchise as a whole.
There's enough lore to interpret Patches as the furtive pygmy from the intro to ds1, not only has he hated clerics (those who bound the fire to humanity, foregoing the age of man) but in dark souls 3 the ringed city, we see that after he regained his memory, that he was the only character to explicitly mention the dark soul (when he kicks you down the short drop) and to use it as a friendly send off. other things such as selling coins that increase luck (a thing that is said to be a distinctly human characteristic, as noted by anri's straight sword description)
@UA-cam Sucks Completely unnecessary comment. The whole point of the way Dark Souls presents its lore, straight from Miyazaki, is to piece the details together and come up with your own theories. Kaaz has done so, and has some good points too.
@@yurifairy2969 I personally don't think Manus is the Pygmy, or that the pygmy indeed still lives in any capacity. Because unlike the other inheritors of grand souls, the Pygmy didn't hoard the majority share, he spread out all of it, to create the race of humanity, more numerous than the gods, the giants or the witches, weaker for it, but consummate survivors, it was this egalitarian spirit that made him an easy target for political assassination, and in turn left his people vulnerable to being leashed by the gods. The Pygmy Lords were the successors to the original Pygmy, the ones who actually started hoarding Humanity into themselves, repeating the mistakes of the other lords. As such it seems far more likely that Manus was one of those Pygmy lords, occupying a similar role as the 4 kings under Gwyn did, and those who were either complicit with the brand of fire bringing the Humanity-corrupting curse of undeath to humanity, or powerless to stop it. With all that in mind... Patches the Pygmy, stripped of all grand lifedraining power and left with merely the capacity to endure... ironically making use of the curse of the gods to keep going through all indignity. living as a humble, almost pathetic figure in the world the gods broke, it has a certain poetry to it.
I love when you meet Lapp he sounds very optimistic and wholesome. Kind of like a mix of siegward and greirat. But as soon as he gets his memory back that old familiar and sneering voice comes back.
I love the way you pointed out that even though we know he is shady, even on our first encounter with him, our curiosity gets the best of us and we go for the item anyway. Patches doesn’t necessarily prey on the oblivious player, but the super curious one. :)
This man is a legend. In elden ring you summon him against one of the literally hardest boss of souls games, and what does this man do..... He runs away. HE FKING RUNS AWAY. This man is the literall definition of lovable asshole.
It's as said in the video, at the end of the day Patches is a survivor. Radahn's great rune is a heck of a treasure, but no need to risk his own neck over it when the Tarnished and their friends have the fight covered, right?
For his last encounter I have to add this. The ledge where he kicks you down to, is the easiest shortcut out of that place. So, maybe he did repay you, in his own "masqueraded" way.
In elden ring you can summon him to join you in a fight against one of the biggest threats in the game, Radahn. As soon as he arrives though, he turns around and peaces the hell out 😂
Patches isn't a villain, he's the best of boys. Patches exists in all the games in my opinion because of the old saying, the good die young, or the worst ones will outlive us all.
Maybe Patches kicking us down holes is symbolic in a way. Showing us wealth, power, and greed makes us think we are on top until something strips us of all of that; and only when we look back that we realize just how far we've fallen.
You should have shown the item description on his ashes if you kill him as Lapp. That little tidbit sums him up better than anything else I have seen. "Patches never lost heart, and never looked back. He marched in one direction, and that direction was dead ahead. Did you see him passing by?"
Patches being last surviving character along side with Champion Of Ash at the end of the world He lived up to his name being Unbreakable, no matter what happens he would stay the same and as himself But that last moment with Patches was melancholy He actually helped you forward but his way Moment he was squading like in the old days i knew what he was going to do, i said to my self- Ok buddy, one last kick to the back, for the good old days. I had tear on my eye when it was last time i saw Patches
Yes. Patches is not evil. Let us recap: In Demon's Souls, he is refferred to as Patches the Hyena. You will probably know beforehand, through the loading Screen, that this Guy shouldn't be trusted. When you encounter him in the Stonefang Tunnel he doesn't tell you to get the Treasure. He simply says that you can take it. You can clearly see the huge Bearbug and choose not to get the Item. This is a Test. If you do not try, the Quests ends without any more encounters of Patches, trying to lure you into Traps. In Dark Souls we get to know that he is cooperating with Petrus of Thorolund, despite him being a "Rotten Cleric" as Patches refers to them there. He also does not urge you to look down the hole, before kicking you into it. It is again your choice to "fall" for your own curiosity and Greed, In Bloodborne it is also your own Choice to seek for the "Divine Power", instead of believing in yourself and your abilities. You also get punished for your Greed here. Dark Souls 3 makes clear that Patches is indeed a good Person, who only punishes the Greedy and does value other people's lifes, if they have certain qualities. - He does not Kill Siegward and knows that he will get out of the Well eventually. He could have murdered him easily when he was unconcious, but chose not to. - He is concerned about Greirat's wellbeing. He also mentions that Greirat is a good Person, who always puts others before himself and is even willing to face serious Danger to rescue him. He does this in Disguise. Why? Let us assume he is the same Patches from Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. This man must have lived for ages already and you can be sure that he was not always as he is right now and had some Comrades by his side. The reason he became a lone Wolf is simply because he is very afraid of "Loss". It is an aspect of Greed many people forget. Patches whole Theme is designed around Greed and to be afraid of losing something that is important to you. So it would make sense that he does not want to loose anything important to him anymore. He does not care about Riches and he even mentions this. If you would live as long as him and see the World as he sees it, you would probably end up just like him. - When he remembers about his Past, he also remembers about everything you have done and who you are. He stays true to his Words and helps you by "kicking" you into the right direction and helps you in a Bossfight. Another Fact is that he never lied about the Treasures, as they are really there and he lets you keep it. Not because you would be a dangerous and strong foe he would have to face in Combat, but also as some kind of "Reward". You have earned it after all. He also appears in Elden Ring and even there you can see that he does indeed possess humanity and is able to care for others instead of only himself. He also has the same Voice Actor^^ Patches is a fantastic Character that I love to meet in the Fromsoftware Games. I am sorry for grammatical Issues or Typos. Truth is I am from Germany, saw the Video and liked it so much that I had to write this very long Comment. It was important to me. Maybe someone who does not know much about these Games might read it and trys for themselves to find out about the Characters and Lore we all love. Have a nice day, Umbasa, may the Flames guide thee and may your Journey be full of Joy.
Dont also forget that you can actually summon him to help you fight of the adjudicator of the church and i think if i recall from memory his name changes to unbreakable patches instead of lapp
Realizing fromsoftware made armored core was a like getting struck by lighting and finally understanding why I immediately love dark souls. Obviously very different games but damn all the memories just came flooding back
One thing that I love about Patches the Spider is Patches is known for kicking you into holes and Patches the Spider is nothing but legs. Also maybe a bit of a stretch but some spiders live in holes and crevices adding more to the connection/parallel of the essence of Patches.
What I like about patches is that, even if he tricks you, he'll always be there at fire link, selling you items, and chatting with, you even discover he is actually good guy in the dlc, giving you items and even helping you in the pvp boss fight
I love his laugh so much, it's so. Forced, fake, a "I understand the point of laughing, but I prefer to chuckle to myself. Though in the presence of others, I shall try my best to laugh. Even if I shall sound slightly crazy"
I like to think in some far off land, long ago or yet to come, a man named Patches wielding a Moonlight greatsword would be shattered on an astral level, flinging their fragments across time and space.
Its a 'Commedia dell'arte' style character. A "masked" character that has the same name and archetype in different stories and events. Its actually VERY fitting for the "Souls" environment. Its not so much "the same person" but an element that when you see it/hear the name, you know that character's motivations, attitude, and personality on sight - a character for the audience to already know and expect their actions, but the fun comes from seeing how this same 'character' acts and reacts in wildly different scenarios. Its kind of like how you always know how the character in a shonen or isakai is going to act and think, but its interesting to watch the different worlds and scenarios they get placed in.
I've never discovered the Lapp questline. I never even knew it was in the game. I'm quite upset that I missed out on something so huge from one of my favourite characters in the series, but it's kind of reassuring to know that I'll never stop learning things about these games.
You probably missed him because you walk through a church and then later a tower falls down and breaks a hole through the wall of the church and you have to go back there and go through it. There's no reason to go back if you make it to the next bonfire without dying, and many people would never think to.
Thank you for the video. My first thought when I clicked on this video was, "Joke's on you Patches, I wanted to go to random places I haven't been yet, and you just pushed me down a hole I probably wouldn't have jumped down otherwise!" and after watching the video to the end, my thoughts are, "Thank you patches, for sending me to these new places I wanted to investigate, but you're still an a**hole."
After the first game we know exactly what’s going to happen, yet we seek it anyway. What better metaphor for playing Soulsborne? In several ways, the series has turned us into gluttons for punishment 😝
Another interesting thing about Patches is his incredibly close ties with memory. As The Spider, his object of worship is a creature named after the Amygdala, the part of your brain that helps regulate emotions and create memories. Especially highly emotional memories. You keep getting the feeling that something happened in his past, something involving religions that had a *massive* impact on him and effectively turned him into the man he is today. Entirely in line with the general theme of the Soulsborne games that the big heroes and important battles already happened long ago. What you're seeing is a man more or less reduced to a set of iron-clad principles. And that's what I think makes him so endearing. Because his principles really are unbreakable. Not millennia nor the hop between entirely separate games manages to bend him in the slightest. Even when you help Lapp regain his memories, that last kick down the ledge is such a good encapsulation, even when he's sworn to be your friend, he still punishes your greed, even if it's little more than a kick and a fall.
Patches has been a favorite character of mine since Demon’s Souls on PS3, loved his performance in Ringed City, first time doing the Lapp/Patches quest line made appreciate him even more! I’m glad he’s in Elden Ring too nyah haha hah hah haa!
Patches inspired me to find the most viable way to make an overpowered fist build, just so I can punch his face to kingdom come So I guess as any good villain he brings out the best of the hero
Call it silly but I like to imagine patches as some kind of dimension hopping deity punishing greed for shits and giggles. But I think, at least for me anyway, he’s just that character where you go “oh you” after he kicks you off a ledge
I just realized, Patches DOES still hate clerics in Bloodborne. The hunters, after all, were organized by the church. He's automatically hostile to you because you are so clearly, undeniably, Bloodborne's version of a cleric. He had to ask you in previous titles, but not here.
Patches is my favorite character in the franchise due to who he is and what he represents. Patches is Dark Souls incarnate, punishing reckless greed that results in a loss of resources or death, and that nothing can truely be trusted. Patches' greed is a facade to punish those who are actually greedy, his last lines are him saying that he is devoid of all worldly wants.
the most fun part about patches is I find is that his traps do somewhat help you: in ds1 if you traverse the darkness after pinwheel not only do his prism stones light the way the pit he kicks you down into has the lantern as 1 of the shiny drops making him one of the reasons you can continue exploring the place. and in ds3 not only does he actually get you the titanite slab if you reload the area but also at the end of his questline kicks you down the path of progress but is summonable at the halflight fight, a fight against clerics. Hell at the cathedral he doesnt even lie about the treasure since the path through the rafters to get to rosarias chambers leads you past one of the spellslot rings of the game, as well as away from rosarias fingers the PVP covenant.
A thing about the Lapp storyline. I always thought of it something like... Patches was a good soul. His heart in the right place. But, seeing all the villainy, betrayal, greed, and fiendishness in the world. (other players, invaders, ect) It jaded him, and he sort of gave up on humanity. As Lapp... he had forgotten all those experiences that jaded him, and who he used to be, deep down, his core values, remained. We got to see a hint of what he was like as a new adventurer.
You make really good content. You have a good voice, speaking rhythm/tonality, editing, sequencing, & music selection, even in the intros. It really comes off like an authentic passion project instead of someone grinding away trying to make a living. Well done, lad
Patches is a really fucking powerful soul, fact alone that he shows up at the end of the universe and only then starts losing his mind proves that. If It isn't the exact same person/being, I assume he's more like a 'constant' of the universe, like how in DS there is always a kingdom, there is always 4 great souls, there's a knight of Catharina...and there's always patches. One of, if not the strongest undead we meet in those games.
Honestly I think that him "losing his mind at the end of the world" is actually just him playing us again. The fact he 'forgets' his name yet somehow comes up with the name Lapp, which translates to Patch in one of the Scandinavian languages (sorry I don't remember which one exactly) tells me he is having another laugh at our expense
@@donogoodatgames This time around I'm not so sure - compared to every single (!) one of his prior appearances, this one is the first one where I genuinely get the feeling that he's being truthful. He tells us there's treasure ahead, and doesn't stab us in the back; if we don't get it, he actually retrieves it and gifts it to us. His voice, too, sounds a lot more somber and... well, genuine. He's actually forgotten who he is/was; he forgot his wicked tendencies and the reasons he had to exercise them, he presumably even forgot his deep-set hatred for clerics. I wonder what patches' actual origin story is, where he came from and why he acts, thinks and does things the way he does. By the looks of it, he wasn't outright born to be wicked. And about his name, well... that's a point, though who knows how or where/when he actually came up with that new name. Perhaps it's what's left of his memories, a faint notion of what his name might have been like, not in sound but meaning. Just my 2c though haha, I love this character. Seeing him the way he is in Ringed City, figuring out who it is underneath that armour, hits pretty hard.
On the name Patches, it is likely a reference to the medieval harlequin trope. A trickster character usually wearing clothes with colorful patches on them
What I find interesting about the Lapp quest line is that deep down patches is a good person it just seems that he got taken advantage of so many times that he became hardened and Cynical about it and decided to use that to take advantage of others instead
In my country(Romania)there is a fairy tale that features a character very similar to Patches from a physical standpoint as well as in his behaviour.He is called "Spînul" and tricks the main character to go down a well only to trick him and enslave him for the rest of the story,until he gets kicked to death by the main character's horse. What i'm trying to say is Miazaki is an immortal vampire who writes Patches into every story.
Patches is a dick but mild mannered Pate and Lapp were two of my better friends. I always had a soft spot for Patches because of that, even before that. He's a decent enough sort.
Pardon the muted audio at 23:13, it was once a JoJo reference using Roundabout by Yes, but the copyright heroes came to claim what was theirs.
Good man. Where was the JoJo reference? I want to make sure I fully enjoy it, since it cost you
Bro i cant believe you didn't talk about shadow tower abyss he shows up there before demon souls
This may be something that people have brought up already, Lapp in Scandinavian languages (deviations in spellings exist) means patch, so there's a possibility that Patches remembers who he is, he just lies to the player (which fits the character).
Damn :/
Imagine your 34 minutes video is demonetized for a 30s clip of music
The one thing I love about him is in Darksouls 3 is that when you aid him in remembering who he was is that you can find his sign one last time and summon him to bring down the last vestiges of a church order. Even at the end of the world with nothing left he held that grudge to the last while also helping you. Its just icing on the cake.
I never knew you could summon "Lapp" for Halflight! Then again it took me 3 NG cycles to actually get the Pale Shade to spawn in...
You summon him as patches, but this time he has lapp's shield and the splitleaf
The other thing this time he kicks you to help you upholding his promise of being your friend
@@geoshark12 :3
Yeah patches may be a jerk most of the time. But he has his own moral code that he follows. He just has a lot of trust issues. Despite his name lol. He believes most "heroes" are just fakes who glorify themselves and become corrupt one way or another, so he believes he's doing the world a favor by killing them. His hate for the church is justified too. It's all lies, corruption, and glorification of beings who have done nothing but entice and opress humans into living a lie and abandoning their real origin just to prolong a curse that was caused by gwyn who wanted to seal away the dark using the dark sign which was made from the first flame.
@@smolchild1057 that actually wasn't why he despised the way of white. He despised them because they were fakes even in the name of worship. They didn't worship the current gods, or past ones. It's run by crooks at best, and evil people taking advantage of the unfortunate at worst.
The way I like to look at it, Patches is the embodiment of all those player messages saying "treasure ahead, try jumping" on the edge of a cliff. He's a trickster, a troll. And there's a little bit of Patches in all of us.
Patches is both the 99 messages that say: "Treasure ahead, try jumping" that end up being fake and he is also the 1 message saying the same thing ends up being true. Patches will tell you 99 lies and 1 truth!
thats pretty crazy for an Armored Core character
@@pcbangbros8350 so he is literally the embodiment of the Dark Souls community. Makes sense
@@dnte666it’s possibly why it also seems like people don’t get upset about it. The community messages make up a large percentage of the fun.
No, that's just you and people of your ilk. Don't project your flaws onto me.
Patches is the embodiment of "maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way"
everyone who read this read it in patches' voice, i guarentee it
I want him to use this dialogue so bad in his elden ring incarnation
@@Orthanderis moddin' time, baby
*enemies
patches is the best man ever
Patches is in Sekiro, too, under the name Anayama (which is japanese for Patches), featuring a vest full of patches and an eye patch too, just to drive home the point. He's still voiced by the same voice actor, too, and will send you to almost certain doom if you follow his letter. Lapp is Swedish for Patch, too.
Anayama is the saddest patches. Also didn't know it was the same VA because English Sekiro is a war crime.
@@themightymcb7310?
@@themightymcb7310cry more Tienshen.
Patches glutes must be fucking adamantium, given he's constantly on a deep squat while carrying a spear and shield.
Some how, he out squats slavic squatters
How else is he gonna have the leg strength for all that kicking? That, and he does have a magic ring that boosts kicking strength.
Patches the Unbreakable after all
he has been squatting through over a decade
Interesting that Spider Patches would say "plain as a pikestaff" when you consider that in his other appearances he would use a pike as his weapon.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this man has outlived multiple gods and survived to the end of the fucking world
patches IS god
@@matthewlenz3013 no lie, hes an avatar of Myazaki and throws you into a few sticky situations.
Best way to live is to be some chaotic neutral bald guy and to not be around gods
Cockroaches tend to do that.
Multiple ends of the world mind you
If you die enough times after Lapp tells you about the treasure he'll actually get the slab for you.
You forgot the most important part: If you fail to get the titanite slab too many times, in what I think is the most unbelievable and hilarious inversion of his character, Lapp will ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD on what he said, and get it for you himself, no problemo.
holy shit thats so funny🤣
All is forgiven Patches.
“Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. ... The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel”. Weird Miyazaki waited until the final dlc of the final game he didn’t want to make to show us this.
Damn Miyazaki really went that detailed? Man you gotta love this guy, the shit he does is incredible
he actually gets it for you under the assumption you couldnt find it aswell
Patches is also now a boss in Elden Ring, when he gets to half health he'll surrender and become a merchant, he offers you a chest that is a trap that leads you to a ruinbear den in mistywoods, he can also be summoned in General Radahn's fight but he leaves imminently after seeing Radahn himself.
He also pushes you off a cliff on Mt. Gelmir in classic Patches fashion, and then joins Volcano Manor, a den of assassins, but tries to trick you into doing his assassination missions for him.
he's got his own quest line in the volcano manor with lady catelina
LMFAOOO patches
I love how they manage to give a sense of closure to a character that you should reasonably dislike and in the end when he boots you over the small ledge for the last time it's like his way of saying goodbye. Awesome video.
"reasonably dislike" only holds true for people that killed him in dks1 from pettiness. talking to him as a merchant, where hes literally the sole NPC in the entire game to offer completely true and open information on the sins and evils of every asshole npc in firelink, its extremely difficult not to feel that maybe he's a fairly deep character right from the start. patches and i, we've been jolly undead outcasts together since day one.
@@XcaptainXobliviousX
patches is just like the lovable annoying character where he keeps trying to get you into trouble, but you can never stay mad at him. i honestly got really happy when i realised it was him in dark souls 3, right after he lowered me into a pit with a giant lmao
@@XcaptainXobliviousX Well, he is also the only character in DS1 that acknowledges Solaire‘s existence and calls him out on his reckless optimism.
Patches is the only undead that manages to have an easily attainable goal in the souls universe, namely punishing greed. Which according to From Soft taints every age of man, only driving Patches to hollowing after no men are left at the end of the world. From Day one till the end of time.
@@mahmud7645 Honestly, my only complaint about Patches is how he keeps accusing me of being greedy when I'm really just doing my due diligence in an Soulsborne game and checking EVERY corner, EVERY rock, EVERY cliffside, and, indeed, collecting EVERY shiny object in case the description contains some significant lore information.
Curious, certainly, but greedy? How dare you!
@@Arkalidor That curiosity is also a form of greed. A greed for knowledge.
Cool fact: Lapp in swedish and multiple northern languages translates to Patch
It makes absolute sense that Patches would befriend Greirat.
Patches hates human greed. While Greirat is a thief, he steals things to support villagers from Undead Settlement, and (according to Patches himself) helped him out in Lothric dungeon. No wonder Patches has a soft spot for him - he even becomes hostile if you murder Greirat!
Hadn’t even known about that for such a long time relative to everything else hidden in the game’s interactions. He doesn’t even sneer against you in the usual boisterous or sarcastic tone. He just calls you a scumbag in the most deadpan serious voice he ever used.
Must’ve taken forever to figure that out, I mean who would kill Greirat?
@@tactic4795 sick bastards
@Kurotetsu the littered corpse still have their treasure, he most likely takes their souls for survival and not their equipement, in his point of view if you fall for his tricks and die you deserve it, this very fact is why he's made to the end of ds3
@@Mecceldorf he says rot in hell
Notice how every time he shoves you off a cliff, it would usually kill you, but due to him doing it you don't die.
He's a good buddy for exploration.
That's why I don't kill him in Elden Ring, I realized he puts me in odd places to get out. odd shortcuts.
I actually thanked patches for kicking me down that cliff because i actually wanted to go there being lost on how to get down from up there. And seeing the basilisks below just made me notalgic of DS1. I just left a message down below "Praise the Friendship, and, seems familiar."
In Dark souls 3's final DLC he actually helps you by kicking you down a path you needed to go, even willing to help you on a boss fight. He in my opinion is the very embodiment of a true neutral. He does everything in a selfish way, but is willing to help others.
@@amielpines6603 I REMEMBER THAT MESSAGE!
@@constantin-adrianprisecari5379 if only there is no big eyes toad jusst make you become a black tree
Patches is like your old drinking buddy. You're glad to see him, somebody's gonna fall down, maybe you'll fight, but then you're cool again later
Wait, people are happy to see him? I must really be in a minority.
@Ornithocheirus I always like to imagine his last trick is just a playful farewell to the player, almost like he's saying "Force of habit. You know you like it, this has been fun." Kind of like he's the Joker to your Batman.
@Ornithocheirus Yeah there's definitely something more to Patches than just a loveable scamp you want to punch in the face if you analyze his dialogue. I can't claim anything specific about his motives though.
Sounds like a Space Wolf
@@wilymuppet8941
He's also kicking you toward your goal. Not really punishing your greed this time around almost like his own way of helping you along.
I love how Patches returns once again in Elden Ring. Still doing the same thing as always. I love it. As one fine meme said... Patches Detected. Betrayal Tolerated and Forgiven.
but he died at the end lel
nah. He's hanging out back in the cave.
@@mrbones9332 IN THE BATCAVE
@@GSWoof The Patcave!*
Aye, he's not a villain, he's just ahead of the curve.
Elden patches
“Yo, this iron maiden filled with snakes is actually a teleporter.”
Me
“Haha ya good one old buddy, I’m gona try it just to progress your dialogue cuz your my oldest friend in this series.”
Also me
Visible shock that the iron maiden is actually a teleportation device and patches didn’t lie to my face completely. “Patches ‘sniff’ I love you man”
Still lied though. He said it went to the base of the erdtree.
@@kingambrosius9125 I wasn’t expecting the full truth, just shocked I even got the partial truth, not like I’m the ashen one who has known and helped him for centuries, I’m just a random tarnished
WHAT
Odd, it didn't teleport me when I got grabbed.
@@Battleguild it needs to be the one at the bottom, and it needs to kill you with the grab
Sometimes he is Patches the Villain
Other times he becomes Patches the Trickster
Truly he lives as Patches the Unbreakable
But in my heart he will remain Patches my Friend.
And sometimes he turns into a Spider
Casper the ruin knight.
Now he’s Patches the untethered in Elden Ring
Patches my lover
Now hes part of a blasphemous cult that lives in a boujie estate in a FUCKING MT DOOM ESQUE CRATER. Truly Patches gets around!
Patches has a great interaction in Elden Ring. You can summon him for General Rahdan's boss fight, but he very quickly peaces out.
As soon as his heath reaches a certain threshold he dips. It's really funny considering he wouldn't """die""" technically since he's your summon but he's still too cowardly to commit entirely to the fight
@@SoulwaxHD iirc, Patches can only be summoned in DS3 and ER right? It'd make sense that Patches wouldn't have the obligation and courage to help you through the entire battle in ER while in DS3, he's doing you a favor because you helped him cure his amnesia.
@@PyroFTB yeah you can't summon him in DS1 or 2, i can't vouch for Demon's Souls since I've never gotten to play it but yeah that's a pretty good theory
At this point I let Patches "trick" me because I know it makes my homie happy 🙂
homiesexual activity detected
@@mrnoname5172 no sex involved, i just want my homies to be happy
And all souls fans are firekeepersexual
This. I feel this.
@@kookykoruc1827 na I'm patchessexual
Yes
i think it's so weird that patches willingfully makes enemies of undead. Like he knows they will come back, he knows he might make enemies for literal eternity yet he still does it
It might also be that he knows they won't truly die, so he knows at most he's simply temporarily inconveniencing them, and not truly screwing them over permanently. It would seem that he banks on their eternal nature to count on their eventual forgiveness.
@@quirkychap killing them could make them go hollow in which case hes damning them to an eternity of madness until someone comes by capable of putting them out of their misery so its not an entirely meaningless to kill an undead
it's because at least on Dark Souls 3 he is also undead.
I don't know if it's Stockholm Syndrome setting in or not, but I genuinely really like Patches, in any of his forms. He's like a comforting presence in the games, reminding the player that there'll always be that special someone waiting for them somewhere in the game. He's bad, but in a mischievous puppy kind of way, you can't stay mad at him for long (and if you do stay mad at him and take him out, you'll likely lose a valuable merchant).
I can't wait to find him in Elden Ring.
EDIT: I found him in Elden Ring. He's just as beautiful as the day I lost him, and I even called him potentially becoming a merchant!
Completely agree. Love the guy, he's a near-perfect fit for these games. Lapp in particular was a really cool moment for me, it felt like a true ending to his character. I'm really excited for his Elden Ring appearance.
Also, fair warning - try to avoid spoilers for Elden Ring. I know, obvious, but many characters have had their roles/dialogue/events leaked/revealed through datamined assets from the Network Test. One of these characters has certain events that I really wish I would've been able to experience blind. Don't make the same mistake I did. Hint hint. Nudge nudge.
@@altarf2582 i think i just experienced that moment (i normally ignore data miners lol so yay me)
just in case spoilers below
RAGE FOR HIS TRAPS lol
I can confidently say that i'm not dissapointed with Patches appearence in Elden Ring I won't say anything about it incase of spoiling anyone but this was probably his most surprising reveal yet!
@@mighty_spirit8532 Agreed that thing he did with the bell and those ropes. I swear he almost had me swooning. Or maybe it's just the swamp gases?
@@hossdelgado626
The teleportation trap got me. Those bears, man. I actually laughed out loud. Classic Patches.
What I love about Patches as a character is that he potentially exposes the weakness of everyone who interacts with him.
In Demon's Soul: he tricks you twice, but both situations are clearly screaming "this is a trap!", but the player will still fall for it because really, are you going to leave a shiny object alone? Hell, in the pit in the Shrine of Storms you find Sage Urban, a holy man on a pilgrimage... who just like you was tricked with the prospect of riches down a hole. What a holy man! Between this and the description of the Talisman of Beast, DeS loves picking on clerics.
In Dark Souls and Bloodborne he uses the same trick once again, and the fact that you keep falling for the same tactic implies a lot about your greed. And again a cleric is exposed as a greedy person tricked by the prospect of riches. In Dark Souls 3 he becomes a bit wittier, but at that point he was kind of a meme anyway.
And in every game, you have the choice of killing him once you get out of the hairy situation he put you in, but really: if you kill him, you're letting out your darkest side, lowering yourself to his level; and if you don't, it's probably because you didn't want to miss out on his wares... which makes you a greedy sort.
There really is no winning with him, and that's why you have to love him.
Ps: we need a spin off game where Patches is your primal quest giver, as he sends you in increasingly deadlier situations in order to kill you, but for you it's the usual RPG progression
I always killed him immediately. Nothing in the tomb of giants is meant to live.
The only reason why Patches went hollow at the end of time, is because there's no greedy human to trick.
That's how you keep hollowing at bay, a clear goal.
Patches don't want any trinkets he wants to punish greed, or most likely That's his sole purpose.
Not to mention how, despite what going Hollow means usually, all it did was give him another goal, which ultimately saved him from going completely mad.
It’s the reason I subscribe to the theory that, like Gael, and possibly Andre, Patches was also one of the first humans. This would explain his complete loathing of the gods - he saw them in the beginning, back when they where just powerful individuals, and saw how they inflated their successes, how they grew their empires on the great mounds of corpses of the lowly they sacrificed along the way. It *ENRAGED* him, so much so that he made it his life‘s work to punish such behavior.
I'd argue he hollows because greirat, pretty much his only friend, inevitably dies.
And what does he do as soon as he remembers who he is? Trick you, and boot you into a pit. Not even maliciously, this time... just because it's what he does.
@@somejerk5662 the pit is where you need to go so he literally kicks your ass in the right direction.
@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 Yes. He doesn't do it to hurt you this time... just because it's what he does. He could have just told you where to go.
I love how he's called the Hyena both because he's a scavenger and for his laugh
ANY CLERICS HERE? asking for a friend
aye sir right here!
I'm not a cleric can I be your friend patches? What you doing you kick me down this pit I thought we were friends
I hate clerics
"thought you could outwit an onion"
*killed Giant before cutscene*
_"damn damn damn damn damn damn"_
*favourite part of Dark Souls 3*
I like to think that Patches used to be a pretty stand up guy, like he is as Lapp, but at some point got screwed over by a greedy cleric (or multiple clerics/or the church). Which led to his hatred for all clerics and his tricking and punishing of greedy people.
Edit: At least in Dark Souls.
Is patches and Lapp the same person😵💫🤯
@@ynotds6205 yeah if you complete lapps questline unhollowing him he becomes patches again
i was so happy to see Patches in Elden Ring. When his voice and health bar came up, i just smiled so damn hard.
for me the name “unbreakable patches” is the most fitting of all his pseudonyms. for one, regardless of whether or not all these patches are the same man, the ideology of patches has sustained through all the different games, by the time we get to ds3 his resolve to trick and mislead is truly unbreakable. secondly, and the real big reason i love his name, is how its an oxymoron. anything “patched” or requiring patches is certainly not unbreakable, the name entirely contradicts itself, not unlike how patches constantly insists to be a good friend to the player, but still kicks the player down a hole. however he still aids the player via selling items and interacting with other npcs, being both a friend and nemesis. i really love how his moniker in the third game kind of encapsulates his entire character, in regards to his relationship with the player and his history in the series as a whole
In the DS3 Ring City where he kicks you down is the only way to progress forward, you have to drop down there to go forward. He helps you without you realizing it just like he does for Greirat if you don't take the armor from him. Cant have people thinking he's gone soft.
We can all agree that's he a survivor, hence the moniker "The Unbreakable" is perfect
EDIT: Untethered now, huh? i guess he’s definitely untethered from the franchises hes in, moving between them freely as he so pleases. maybe Untethered also refers the the new open world in Elden Ring. idk i havent made up my mind on this one quite yet.
@@shellmirror Untethered by Greed. He doesnt spawn unless you try to 'steal from him', his second trick is only activated if you try to steal from him, he becomes a reliable merchant, he tells you to help out the lady who got robbed. He's who he always was: A Man Who Hates Greed. In Demon's Souls, the Clerics are selfish zealots who snob those who seek the truth of the world and who don't bow to their religion/god, which secretly is worship of The Old One. In Dark Souls he hates the clerics who seek to create more fire maidens and prolong the age of fire for their own benefit. In Dark Souls 3 he helps the selfless Greirat and once he realizes you're a good guy, he helps you too. He's just a good, if cynical, man, through and through, and we just happen to meet him in the wrong ways.
@@King_Of_Midgard nice i like this ^^
He's no thief... He's just, self employed.
i still SCREAM laugh every time at the fact that he literally says "a fine dark soul to you." top tier writing
In my headcannon i always love to think that the Patches from DS1 is the same one as in DS3. In all the cycles of fire and rebirth the world undergoes, with the lands being near unrecognisable and not a single person having continuity through the ages he remains and survives reaching the dreg heap at the end of the world and the ringed city beyond that, he truly is Unbreakable Patches.
In all of the darksouls games Patches is the only one not to go hollow and lose his mind. Almost all of the NPC's who have a questline in the souls games goes hollow, even Gwyn hollowed but not Patches, never Patches. Patches is the one unstoppable thing in the Dark Souls series.
Gwyn doesn't hollow but ye
You could almost say he is.... unbreakable
@@juter1122 you literally fight gwyn when he's hollowed
@@s4ty-s4t Gwynn literally couldn't go hollow
hollowing is caused by the undead curse
Gwynn caused the curse by sealing the abyss, the gods were not the victims of this curse as they were not linked to the abyss
@@jar-of-bees They weren't referring to Gwyn hollowing as someone affected by the undead curse. They were referring to his mental and physical state being that of a hollow.
3:03
"These are key traits that would endure into the future."
And endure they did.
I really don't know how to express in words how much I love this. You're hitting all the nails on the head when it comes to not only the characters but in your analysis of them as well. A stream of videos like this and you'll hit it big, I swear.
thanks for always showing up buddy. means a lot
Every time I encountered him for the first time in a new Fromsoft game after playing Demons Souls it always went like: "Is...is that..is that fucking Patches?" *I hear Patches speak* "IT'S FUCKING PATCHES!!!!" "Please show me to your ledge my old friend."
I can confirm that Patches makes an apperance in Elden Ring! I was so stoked when i found him!!
Same
Did you propose him with your elden ring.
@@ChampionPlagueNexus he divorces you and takes the kids and half your stuff.
@@evanmarogen A true trickster.
Same! It was funny because I was reading the little signs other players left and one said friend ahead, another said lover ahead and I’m like “I wonder who this is”
Then I walk in and loot the chest and I’m like “ah…now I see”
FYI
"Lapp" which is his name in the ds3 dlc is a swedish word and can be directly translated to "Patch"
He keep himself until the very end of the world, in Souls universe. He might be petty, but he has absolutely no doubt about what kind of person himself is. What a great guy.
You're the type of person that he would've kicked off the cliff and who's corpse would've been looted if you think he's a great guy
@@thehylianloach9473 You're the type of person who kills him for kicking you and misses out on a great vendor.
@@IYPITWL lmao fr
@@thehylianloach9473 Just because he’s a great guy doesn’t mean he’s a good guy.
@@IYPITWL You're the type of person to tell someone that they're the type of person to miss out on a great vendor.
Makes sense that patches, after "weaving his webs of deception" is eventually portrayed as a spider lol. I still feel like most of the souls games can be connected in the same universe, but across various worlds, hence their specific and differing lore. But there has to one day be some kind of connection to explain the franchise as a whole.
There's enough lore to interpret Patches as the furtive pygmy from the intro to ds1, not only has he hated clerics (those who bound the fire to humanity, foregoing the age of man) but in dark souls 3 the ringed city, we see that after he regained his memory, that he was the only character to explicitly mention the dark soul (when he kicks you down the short drop) and to use it as a friendly send off. other things such as selling coins that increase luck (a thing that is said to be a distinctly human characteristic, as noted by anri's straight sword description)
@UA-cam Sucks rude lol
@UA-cam Sucks Completely unnecessary comment. The whole point of the way Dark Souls presents its lore, straight from Miyazaki, is to piece the details together and come up with your own theories. Kaaz has done so, and has some good points too.
I can't make up my mind as to weather I love this or not...
Manus is probably the furtive pygmy, but Patches is certainly one of the earliest humans in existance
@@yurifairy2969 I personally don't think Manus is the Pygmy, or that the pygmy indeed still lives in any capacity. Because unlike the other inheritors of grand souls, the Pygmy didn't hoard the majority share, he spread out all of it, to create the race of humanity, more numerous than the gods, the giants or the witches, weaker for it, but consummate survivors, it was this egalitarian spirit that made him an easy target for political assassination, and in turn left his people vulnerable to being leashed by the gods.
The Pygmy Lords were the successors to the original Pygmy, the ones who actually started hoarding Humanity into themselves, repeating the mistakes of the other lords. As such it seems far more likely that Manus was one of those Pygmy lords, occupying a similar role as the 4 kings under Gwyn did, and those who were either complicit with the brand of fire bringing the Humanity-corrupting curse of undeath to humanity, or powerless to stop it.
With all that in mind... Patches the Pygmy, stripped of all grand lifedraining power and left with merely the capacity to endure... ironically making use of the curse of the gods to keep going through all indignity. living as a humble, almost pathetic figure in the world the gods broke, it has a certain poetry to it.
I love when you meet Lapp he sounds very optimistic and wholesome. Kind of like a mix of siegward and greirat. But as soon as he gets his memory back that old familiar and sneering voice comes back.
I love the way you pointed out that even though we know he is shady, even on our first encounter with him, our curiosity gets the best of us and we go for the item anyway. Patches doesn’t necessarily prey on the oblivious player, but the super curious one. :)
All except Elden ring and BB don't want to spoil ER for you but getting pushed in a poison swamp in BB for just following shiny coins sucked.
This man is a legend. In elden ring you summon him against one of the literally hardest boss of souls games, and what does this man do..... He runs away.
HE FKING RUNS AWAY. This man is the literall definition of lovable asshole.
"don't worry buddy, I'll tactically flee in order to help you later down the line. Good luck -fucker, what a damn sucker-
It's as said in the video, at the end of the day Patches is a survivor. Radahn's great rune is a heck of a treasure, but no need to risk his own neck over it when the Tarnished and their friends have the fight covered, right?
I tried resisting the urge to stroke my ego but RADHAN IS NOWHERE NEAR THE HARDEST BOSS EVEN IN ELDEN RING ITSELF
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In his defence, this was around the time ER released. A time when Radahn was far more powerful (and arguably better)
@@Clarity_Control Definitly. Fought against ihm day one and got wrecked. After the patch he was not even a Boss.
For his last encounter I have to add this. The ledge where he kicks you down to, is the easiest shortcut out of that place. So, maybe he did repay you, in his own "masqueraded" way.
In elden ring you can summon him to join you in a fight against one of the biggest threats in the game, Radahn. As soon as he arrives though, he turns around and peaces the hell out 😂
Patches isn't a villain, he's the best of boys.
Patches exists in all the games in my opinion because of the old saying, the good die young, or the worst ones will outlive us all.
well well well, now hes in elden ring
he is tarnished soo ''immortal'', they live in a world where its cycle and history repeat itself. the erdtree might be the first bonfire
Since armored core for answer he existed
Maybe Patches kicking us down holes is symbolic in a way. Showing us wealth, power, and greed makes us think we are on top until something strips us of all of that; and only when we look back that we realize just how far we've fallen.
You should have shown the item description on his ashes if you kill him as Lapp. That little tidbit sums him up better than anything else I have seen.
"Patches never lost heart, and never looked back. He marched in one direction, and that direction was dead ahead. Did you see him passing by?"
Patches being last surviving character along side with Champion Of Ash at the end of the world
He lived up to his name being Unbreakable, no matter what happens he would stay the same and as himself
But that last moment with Patches was melancholy
He actually helped you forward but his way
Moment he was squading like in the old days i knew what he was going to do, i said to my self- Ok buddy, one last kick to the back, for the good old days.
I had tear on my eye when it was last time i saw Patches
Yes. Patches is not evil.
Let us recap:
In Demon's Souls, he is refferred to as Patches the Hyena. You will probably know beforehand, through the loading Screen, that this Guy shouldn't be trusted. When you encounter him in the Stonefang Tunnel he doesn't tell you to get the Treasure. He simply says that you can take it. You can clearly see the huge Bearbug and choose not to get the Item. This is a Test.
If you do not try, the Quests ends without any more encounters of Patches, trying to lure you into Traps.
In Dark Souls we get to know that he is cooperating with Petrus of Thorolund, despite him being a "Rotten Cleric" as Patches refers to them there. He also does not urge you to look down the hole, before kicking you into it. It is again your choice to "fall" for your own curiosity and Greed,
In Bloodborne it is also your own Choice to seek for the "Divine Power", instead of believing in yourself and your abilities.
You also get punished for your Greed here.
Dark Souls 3 makes clear that Patches is indeed a good Person, who only punishes the Greedy and does value other people's lifes, if they have certain qualities.
- He does not Kill Siegward and knows that he will get out of the Well eventually. He could have murdered him easily when he was unconcious, but chose not to.
- He is concerned about Greirat's wellbeing. He also mentions that Greirat is a good Person, who always puts others before himself and is even willing to face serious Danger to rescue him. He does this in Disguise. Why? Let us assume he is the same Patches from Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. This man must have lived for ages already and you can be sure that he was not always as he is right now and had some Comrades by his side. The reason he became a lone Wolf is simply because he is very afraid of "Loss". It is an aspect of Greed many people forget. Patches whole Theme is designed around Greed and to be afraid of losing something that is important to you. So it would make sense that he does not want to loose anything important to him anymore. He does not care about Riches and he even mentions this. If you would live as long as him and see the World as he sees it, you would probably end up just like him.
- When he remembers about his Past, he also remembers about everything you have done and who you are.
He stays true to his Words and helps you by "kicking" you into the right direction and helps you in a Bossfight.
Another Fact is that he never lied about the Treasures, as they are really there and he lets you keep it.
Not because you would be a dangerous and strong foe he would have to face in Combat, but also as some kind of "Reward".
You have earned it after all.
He also appears in Elden Ring and even there you can see that he does indeed possess humanity and is able to care for others instead of only himself. He also has the same Voice Actor^^
Patches is a fantastic Character that I love to meet in the Fromsoftware Games.
I am sorry for grammatical Issues or Typos. Truth is I am from Germany, saw the Video and liked it so much that I had to write this very long Comment. It was important to me. Maybe someone who does not know much about these Games might read it and trys for themselves to find out about the Characters and Lore we all love.
Have a nice day, Umbasa, may the Flames guide thee and may your Journey be full of Joy.
Yeah, I'd argue he only hollows because greirat inevitably dies in ds3
Man I never got the elden ring questline cause I magma guillotined his ass to hell boutta hollow ending because of it
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Except there are victims of him, as he acts surprised 'you' got out. He is a practical fellow, but doesn't feel sorry of you die because of him.
The funniest thing is that Patches leaves halfway if you summon him to fight Radahn
Dont also forget that you can actually summon him to help you fight of the adjudicator of the church and i think if i recall from memory his name changes to unbreakable patches instead of lapp
Realizing fromsoftware made armored core was a like getting struck by lighting and finally understanding why I immediately love dark souls. Obviously very different games but damn all the memories just came flooding back
One thing that I love about Patches the Spider is Patches is known for kicking you into holes and Patches the Spider is nothing but legs. Also maybe a bit of a stretch but some spiders live in holes and crevices adding more to the connection/parallel of the essence of Patches.
I first met Patches in Dark Souls 1, when he spartan kicks you into that pit.
What I like about patches is that, even if he tricks you, he'll always be there at fire link, selling you items, and chatting with, you even discover he is actually good guy in the dlc, giving you items and even helping you in the pvp boss fight
I love his laugh so much, it's so. Forced, fake, a "I understand the point of laughing, but I prefer to chuckle to myself. Though in the presence of others, I shall try my best to laugh. Even if I shall sound slightly crazy"
I killed the giants before I even met him in dark souls 3 and his reaction to it was just hilarious to me
Stewie-pilled.
I like to think in some far off land, long ago or yet to come, a man named Patches wielding a Moonlight greatsword would be shattered on an astral level, flinging their fragments across time and space.
Its a 'Commedia dell'arte' style character. A "masked" character that has the same name and archetype in different stories and events. Its actually VERY fitting for the "Souls" environment.
Its not so much "the same person" but an element that when you see it/hear the name, you know that character's motivations, attitude, and personality on sight - a character for the audience to already know and expect their actions, but the fun comes from seeing how this same 'character' acts and reacts in wildly different scenarios.
Its kind of like how you always know how the character in a shonen or isakai is going to act and think, but its interesting to watch the different worlds and scenarios they get placed in.
He's survived the birth and death of eras completely unscathed, you've got to admire that physical and mental fortitude!
Hear patches's va in AC sends me into a spiral on contradiction cause hearing that and Ragna the Bloodedge throws me for quite the loop
As an Armorer Core fan I completely forgot about that encounter, amazing. Also I hope you have a follow up video for Elden Ring
I've never discovered the Lapp questline. I never even knew it was in the game. I'm quite upset that I missed out on something so huge from one of my favourite characters in the series, but it's kind of reassuring to know that I'll never stop learning things about these games.
You probably missed him because you walk through a church and then later a tower falls down and breaks a hole through the wall of the church and you have to go back there and go through it. There's no reason to go back if you make it to the next bonfire without dying, and many people would never think to.
I like that patches is in almost every fs game it feels like an alternative universe thing
Thank you for the video. My first thought when I clicked on this video was, "Joke's on you Patches, I wanted to go to random places I haven't been yet, and you just pushed me down a hole I probably wouldn't have jumped down otherwise!" and after watching the video to the end, my thoughts are, "Thank you patches, for sending me to these new places I wanted to investigate, but you're still an a**hole."
After the first game we know exactly what’s going to happen, yet we seek it anyway.
What better metaphor for playing Soulsborne?
In several ways, the series has turned us into gluttons for punishment 😝
Another interesting thing about Patches is his incredibly close ties with memory. As The Spider, his object of worship is a creature named after the Amygdala, the part of your brain that helps regulate emotions and create memories. Especially highly emotional memories. You keep getting the feeling that something happened in his past, something involving religions that had a *massive* impact on him and effectively turned him into the man he is today. Entirely in line with the general theme of the Soulsborne games that the big heroes and important battles already happened long ago. What you're seeing is a man more or less reduced to a set of iron-clad principles. And that's what I think makes him so endearing. Because his principles really are unbreakable. Not millennia nor the hop between entirely separate games manages to bend him in the slightest. Even when you help Lapp regain his memories, that last kick down the ledge is such a good encapsulation, even when he's sworn to be your friend, he still punishes your greed, even if it's little more than a kick and a fall.
All your videos are so good. Found this yesterday and just binged a lot of ur videos. Good luck with your channel, and a fine dark soul to you.
thanks stranger, I appreciate the kind words and welcome to the family
This is one of those comfy videos that you can just keep coming back to
Loved this shit. The voice actor shout out I’m sure made that dudes ears turn red. Cozy ass videos
Patches has been a favorite character of mine since Demon’s Souls on PS3, loved his performance in Ringed City, first time doing the Lapp/Patches quest line made appreciate him even more! I’m glad he’s in Elden Ring too nyah haha hah hah haa!
Love this guy, Patches is one of my favorite characters.
Patches inspired me to find the most viable way to make an overpowered fist build, just so I can punch his face to kingdom come
So I guess as any good villain he brings out the best of the hero
Balls ass
legendary, love this character and I love that you covered him. You deserve a million subs man, cheers 👍
Oh sure, when patches kicks you into a pit, he's a lovable scamp. But when I do it, it's "attempted murder", and "going to jail for ten years"
Man, I can’t wait to meet the Patches variation in Elden Ring. It’ll be quite the kick in the back if I do say so myself.
Call it silly but I like to imagine patches as some kind of dimension hopping deity punishing greed for shits and giggles. But I think, at least for me anyway, he’s just that character where you go “oh you” after he kicks you off a ledge
He's a little bit like Hoid from Brandon Sanderson's novels
And this man is once again reincarnated in Elden Ring, to protect his stuff from you "stealing" it. Quite a good continuation of his character i say.
I just realized, Patches DOES still hate clerics in Bloodborne. The hunters, after all, were organized by the church. He's automatically hostile to you because you are so clearly, undeniably, Bloodborne's version of a cleric. He had to ask you in previous titles, but not here.
I'm simply impressed anyone could make a video that lasts half an hour about Patches.
Patches is most beloved of Tarnished, of Undead and all else. He's just too fun not to trust every time.
Patches is my favorite character in the franchise due to who he is and what he represents. Patches is Dark Souls incarnate, punishing reckless greed that results in a loss of resources or death, and that nothing can truely be trusted. Patches' greed is a facade to punish those who are actually greedy, his last lines are him saying that he is devoid of all worldly wants.
the most fun part about patches is I find is that his traps do somewhat help you: in ds1 if you traverse the darkness after pinwheel not only do his prism stones light the way the pit he kicks you down into has the lantern as 1 of the shiny drops making him one of the reasons you can continue exploring the place. and in ds3 not only does he actually get you the titanite slab if you reload the area but also at the end of his questline kicks you down the path of progress but is summonable at the halflight fight, a fight against clerics. Hell at the cathedral he doesnt even lie about the treasure since the path through the rafters to get to rosarias chambers leads you past one of the spellslot rings of the game, as well as away from rosarias fingers the PVP covenant.
Another incredible Villainpedia Ghost. You nailed his character and covered a lot of stuff that most people miss. Patches doesnt' get enough love
A thing about the Lapp storyline. I always thought of it something like... Patches was a good soul. His heart in the right place. But, seeing all the villainy, betrayal, greed, and fiendishness in the world. (other players, invaders, ect) It jaded him, and he sort of gave up on humanity. As Lapp... he had forgotten all those experiences that jaded him, and who he used to be, deep down, his core values, remained. We got to see a hint of what he was like as a new adventurer.
You make really good content. You have a good voice, speaking rhythm/tonality, editing, sequencing, & music selection, even in the intros. It really comes off like an authentic passion project instead of someone grinding away trying to make a living. Well done, lad
patches is probably one of my favorite Souls characters, and I'm so glad he's in elden ring
Patches is a really fucking powerful soul, fact alone that he shows up at the end of the universe and only then starts losing his mind proves that.
If It isn't the exact same person/being, I assume he's more like a 'constant' of the universe, like how in DS there is always a kingdom, there is always 4 great souls, there's a knight of Catharina...and there's always patches. One of, if not the strongest undead we meet in those games.
Honestly I think that him "losing his mind at the end of the world" is actually just him playing us again.
The fact he 'forgets' his name yet somehow comes up with the name Lapp, which translates to Patch in one of the Scandinavian languages (sorry I don't remember which one exactly) tells me he is having another laugh at our expense
@@donogoodatgames This time around I'm not so sure - compared to every single (!) one of his prior appearances, this one is the first one where I genuinely get the feeling that he's being truthful. He tells us there's treasure ahead, and doesn't stab us in the back; if we don't get it, he actually retrieves it and gifts it to us. His voice, too, sounds a lot more somber and... well, genuine. He's actually forgotten who he is/was; he forgot his wicked tendencies and the reasons he had to exercise them, he presumably even forgot his deep-set hatred for clerics.
I wonder what patches' actual origin story is, where he came from and why he acts, thinks and does things the way he does. By the looks of it, he wasn't outright born to be wicked.
And about his name, well... that's a point, though who knows how or where/when he actually came up with that new name. Perhaps it's what's left of his memories, a faint notion of what his name might have been like, not in sound but meaning. Just my 2c though haha, I love this character. Seeing him the way he is in Ringed City, figuring out who it is underneath that armour, hits pretty hard.
On the name Patches, it is likely a reference to the medieval harlequin trope. A trickster character usually wearing clothes with colorful patches on them
What I find interesting about the Lapp quest line is that deep down patches is a good person it just seems that he got taken advantage of so many times that he became hardened and Cynical about it and decided to use that to take advantage of others instead
Still waiting on that Pate and Creighton video.
And now, Patches appears again in Elden Ring, up to his old 'hey touch that treasure' tricks.
In my country(Romania)there is a fairy tale that features a character very similar to Patches from a physical standpoint as well as in his behaviour.He is called "Spînul" and tricks the main character to go down a well only to trick him and enslave him for the rest of the story,until he gets kicked to death by the main character's horse.
What i'm trying to say is Miazaki is an immortal vampire who writes Patches into every story.
Patches is the Gaunter O’Dimm of the soulborne metaverse! He is everywhere and nowhere all at the same time!
They are both bald, both oddly immortal, and both lovable assholes
I believe you meant to say Walter
Patches is a dick but mild mannered Pate and Lapp were two of my better friends. I always had a soft spot for Patches because of that, even before that. He's a decent enough sort.