Before the malenia fight it was obvious he read guides and watched videos but he was so adamant about portraying that this was an area he had never seen and the boss was fresh and mot spoiled for him.
I will give some examples.
1) When he was approaching the point of grace before malenia he was like "that's a boss room there" and later after entering the fog wall he named Malenia specifically before it showed her on the screen.
2) during fighting her he was like "I wonder if it's the same in phase two ...err ..I mean obviously this would be a 2 phase fight"
3) for most bosses Phil has rushed in and tried to spam jump attack but he started this fight off, and every attempt, keeping a lot of distance which a lot of guides suggest doing this to avoid taking damage.
He has admitted to watching streamers and to seeing guides. Why, for this one, is he acting like he has seen nothing on her?
Also he is so fucking overlevelled. I'm honestly surprised he just doesn't go bleed with rivers of blood and just demolish her.
As a side note he thinks he has less than 9 hours of gameplay (he said 2 or 3 more streams to beat it) yet he hasnt beaten Malenia, hasn't done crumbling farum azula, and still needs to do Lyndell again after.
Crumbling forum azula alone will probably take him that long assuming he fights all bosses. Then 2 more bosses at Lyndell. At his pace he is looking at 20 more streams.
Judging by the completely dent headed way he goes about guides and using them, I can see him saying "I should really respec for this fight" spec into a rivers of blood build. Jump attack spam...
IF he doesn't have it he'll miraculously want to explore more and just happen upon Okina and think the RoB is a neat weapon he should try out. Then he'll just jump+r1 with it. Not have read patch notes for 1.04 the weapon skill which won't matter "gotta go J+r1"
I mean the guy had BB and never used Taker's Flame claiming the sword sucked compared to his spear because the fire based weapon didn't do damage against a boss with high fire resistance. dude made fun of someone who told him not to use a fire based weapon against a fire-resistant boss because it wasn't in the queen's English
He was complaining he had no way to do ranged in an int build with no magic main handing the darkmoon great sword. Spoiler! Push R2, get projectile.
He's 149 and doesn't know weapons have move sets or that ashes of war can be applied to weapons often adding or changing a weapon type. People complain ER doesn't have an easy mode, well I present to you DSP plays ER.
This fucker could summon "let me solo her" and he'd still fuck it up somehow.
This playthrough cemented for me that he has an actual mental disability, nothing about skill but how he processes information even using a guide.
The don't use fire on a fire-resistant enemy getting a "what are you talking about" at first I thought was ego but this inability to NOT jump attack, he claims he has a new build (mostly just swapping weapons) and doesn't use the weapon ability or ash of war the "build" would be based on.
He read the fextralife guide as he made the dark knight build and literally fucked it up to the point of where he's the kind of person who would burn down his house trying to wipe his ass.
He's 149 and knows nothing about the mechanics of the game, he used poise like people who want to talk shop with designers use font and he'll brag about how he's a soul vet and doesn't know he can just not level.
Anywho, phil, your review. No one is going to care about it. The uninformed delusional "hot take truth of the matter" has already been done by black DSP and some sperg who reviewed the game based on the community, the "beat the game taking your time and to take everything in" review, Max beat you to that. Gave it a 10/10 but not as good as bloodborne, phil, a 10/10 but not as good as bloodborne...HOW AM THAT BE! Damn shill..
Phil is upset that those mentally brain dead fucking morons are uploading his pre-stream podcasts to Spotify. He knew about this, but he's screaming about it because it's "illegal.". No, Phil; it's not! If you want to copyright your work, it cost $45 to file with the U.S. Copyright office. Here's the link to back that up. Also, big ups to Sunspot for quoting the roach on saying that he "cannot afford copyright.". $45 is too much, dood! That's one meal of DoorDash, dood!
Source, copyright fees:
https://www.copyright.gov/about/fees.html
I find it funny that QuantiumDSP actually has more balls then Vanilla DSP. Phil sits there and delusional keyboard warrior'ing people "stealing" his content Black DSP, while a complete cunt, used DMCA claims to take down videos using his clips. DSP can't even DSP correctly anymore.