I think it could of worked if they dropped the king consort angle. Considering it's the land of shadows, they could of had a some sort of facsimile to Castle Redmane where you encounter his spirit or his lingering desire to fight. They could of called him 'Shadow of the Lion' and I think it would of fit fine.
I'd rather have us and Ansbach, and Thoiller thwarth his resurrection plan than fight Miquella on his own instead of fighting Radahn or Godwyn.
Knight build is extremely good in every Souls game. It's just a little dull and not very flashy.
Yeah I can see why ppl would find it dull, but I'm having way more fun with it than my previous Darkmoon Greatsword build because of how its forcing me to square up with the bosses and directly engage them. But the build is definitely very vanilla, kinda like playing Ryu in street fighter.
Going for more simplistic builds can be fun on replays because you're familiar enough with everything to make them work a lot more effectively than you'd think possible relative to all the more convoluted shit you might do to min/max damage by the end of a normal playthrough. Like I'll resort to cheesy bullshit like the marais executioner's sword with just the right talismans to max its skill damage out if I just want to fastforward through certain bosses on a standard playthrough, but doing something wacky like playing through most of the game in a full godrick soldier cosplay (including only using lordwsworn swords or lordsworn greatswords for melee) was fun on one of the cycles I did.
Making everyone gay for Miquella was cringe but I found the bit where Ymir's items say he wanted to become a "mother" more actively faggy somehow. Even Mohg and the Dung Eater somehow managed to be less retroactively gay than this dlc.
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It's weird, right? The rational part of me thinks it's because they were rebalancing the DLC ashes because they were horrible due to the lack of sacred spirit ash buff, so they gave the other ashes a touch up. The skeptic part thinks they tweaked a few numbers for base game ashes before adding every other ash they could under the guise of 'increasing poise', because players were complaining about 14 seconds of attack spam with a window for one counterattack while ignoring spirit ashes as a whole because of mimic tear, hence why it dodged the buffs except for a nonspecific bugfix, possibly even to encourage more spirit ash arena PvP because that's a ghost town from what I've heard.
Dark Souls and even Demon's Souls had more ambiguity, or intrigue with its antagonists. Especially with Demon's Souls and Dark Souls II (most innovative or fun to replay with mod fixes that remove the gay controller joystick nonsense)
I would disagree. Although people argue over the details those details are mostly unimportant and aren't brought up outside of item descriptions, while the actual conflict is usually pretty straightforward and self explanatory.
If Elden Ring wanted to use its bigger backstory then it should have just gone with gay Final Fantasy cutscenes than just stick to item descriptions and missable character dialogue that is hours apart. When the overall consensus of your game plot is "I'll just wait for some guy to explain it on YT" then your story sucks balls.
I disagree, they shouldn't have tried using it at all. But ultimately this comes from Miyazaki working with GRRM and not wanting to basically throw away the contributions from an author he likes, so Miyazaki should also stay away from collaboration of the same sort, working with GRRM was a mistake in the first place.
That's basically all From souls games, and I don't care for a more involved story.
I think you mean the misbegottem, the demi-humans are the monkey people who were taught magic by Lusat and the Carians. Kenneth also seems to think working with them is perfectly fine and says it's permitted under the Erdtree, they're just a bit busy being tribals right not.