Best part of the chapter imo. Besides overall blandness, the most prone-to-criticism aspect of Imu was how much WG fucked up despite this 800+ year uber capable dude being seemingly at the helm, and how he didn't seem to give much of a shit. This panel openly acknowledges this fact by framing it...
Broke: Placidusax is the best ER dragon.
Woke: Bayle is the best ER dragon.
Bespoke: Fortissax is the best ER dragon.
I'll go even further and say that, while not approaching the legendary status of Kalameet, 40 sex is pretty positively distinguished amongst ER's assful of dragon mediocrity in...
content. A couple peeps initially tried to reupload and preserve some of the deleted vids to an extent, but over the years even that got lost to time. Now I just have the memories of listening to that comfy stuff all those years ago.
Man, I truly deplore the fact that the sheer multilayered complexity of the internet is still not a foolproof guarantee of even recent-ish stuff not becoming lost media. Roughly a decade ago there was a particular dude on YT who narrated a 100+ generally solid-to-great horror short stories. His...
Eh, what's effectively porcupine quills that lead to no narratively emphasised moment of physical debilitation ≠ being stated to be significantly wounded to such an extent that it warrants being put into animation and highlighted by WoG. Not that Radahn was 100% HP ofc, but it'd be weird to say...
Ngl, while the most prolific piece of le Fraudahn slander will always be that pic of him vs the walking cane goat, it's crazy how that pales in comparison to Fromsoft animation supervisors saying that Malenia was already grievously injured by the time she actually started fighting him lmao.
So NR has actual legit lore?! Thought it was some cobbled together fanfic-tier trite after that asset reuse galore of an announcement trailer. Saw it once and didn't look back lmao.
When you encounter Radahn and Malenia, they're both far from a sound state of mind and fail to show anything engaging character-wise. Lmao, Radahn is fought as an empty husk TWICE. You can ofc argue that it feeds into the theme of his tragic predicament / fate (as you've pointed out), but it...
manage to make their onscreen presence worthwhile. You *hear* the gleeful, almost child-like joy when Godrick grafts a dragon head to himself and gets high on his illusions of grandeur. It tells you so much about him. With Messmer you get to *personally witness* his pent-up grievances with the...
Fromsoft’s storytelling, especially when it's delegated to beyond-textual stuff, is very minimalistic. Thus they have the incentive to make every cutscene and line count in order for the character you face to leave a strong impression. And that's something that they've been doing more...
Radahn is cool enough, but I have issues with how he's supposedly this le uber kind dude judging by Miquella’s obsession with him hinging on this trait, a trait that comes out of left field and isn't alluded to.
Also, another issue with Radahn, and Melania too, is that their in-game presence...
Malenia is unfortunately a flat character. They don't do anything interesting with her resilience and single-minded loyalty. The cut content with her / Millicent would've made her a good deal more compelling.
The concept of Miquella sounds cool on paper. His role in the story is pretty unique as this pseudo-pure Messiah figure. What's unfortunate is how From made his charm ability kinda undermine most of his potential for interesting character relations and interactions imo.
Yea, I sorta remember the Godwyn controversy. At the time I thought less of it as a lore fumble and more as a gameplay fumble to not have a wholly unique foe as THE final boss.
I dunno, I feel a bit more indifferent about all three than I would've liked.
Curious to hear your thoughts on the whole Miquella / Radahn / Malenia shenanigans in terms of whether you find these characters & the dynamics between them interestingly written.
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