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@Ayanelixer8518

Жыл бұрын

Bro got sponsored nice bro,your growing fast

Idea for a video: best side quest in every souls game

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Love that!! Ty ⚔️

@zachfiranski2515

Жыл бұрын

This is a really good idea!

@calebwells6215

Жыл бұрын

I swear if Solaire isn’t the best in ds1.

@zelighty8994

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean: best side quest in every souls game (including Elden Ring)

@TheSodaShop

Жыл бұрын

That's freakin brilliant

Hard to believe that Shrine of Amata didnt get a mention. More lock on ranged attacks than an Ace Combat ground attack mission.

@darkjackl999

Жыл бұрын

And it's nearly impossible to skip the enemies for the fog wall, god that area is cancer, however it did make me realize how damn good bows n crossbows are in ds2

@spaghetticondo.m9116

Жыл бұрын

@@darkjackl999 Reminded how binoculars and sorcery are a good combo

@Take_this_please

Жыл бұрын

Pre patch Amana was crazy hard, even in SOTFS, the Dragon Shrine is way easier than the revised version of Amana

@maboilaurence8227

Жыл бұрын

Want to take out those witches before they spot you with your bow? Too bad Dark Souls 2 takes the cake for having the worst hitboxes for any fucking game i've ever played, good luck hitting anything even though you are standing 10 feet away from a wall.

@jonesdan85

Жыл бұрын

Im playing that area now. Its bullshit. Its not the lock on, its the near infinite range and them little bleed attack creatures can do one.

The ringed city is one of my favorite areas in the series, and Midir oh Midir. That mixed feeling of dread and excitement i felt in every playthrough before facing him is unrivaled to this date

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Sameeeeee

@Hevvvyyy

Жыл бұрын

Do u think midir is harder than Placidusax

@Sollisen

Жыл бұрын

@@Hevvvyyy Yes, I beat placidusax on like my second or third try. Midir is on a whole different level

@galaxyvulture6649

Жыл бұрын

​@@SollisenMidir took me an unhealthy amount of tries and it takes so long fight it. Sister freide and midir just bodied me.

@tayrexcanavar7570

Жыл бұрын

Double sellswords + Lightning buff in Faith makes Midir managable

I definitely would have picked an area like Shrine of Amana over Dragon Shrine.

@davormiho

Жыл бұрын

I hated that place on my first playthrough, it felt impossible.

@anstorner

Жыл бұрын

@@davormiho It took me over 6 hours and pure unfiltered rage, not even all other souls an area or boss aside Iron Keep and Iron Passage took me around that time, Frigid outskirts also

@dylandavis6144

Жыл бұрын

Sir Alonne took me less time

@yorshka2344

Жыл бұрын

Man fuck that area it was nightmare on first playthrough

Dragon Shrine is really easy when you just kill the big dudes. Then, the knights won‘t attack you

@serhii_himself

Жыл бұрын

I even had to Google why those guys aren't attacking me xD

@k1ler4m

Жыл бұрын

I was scartching my head because I remember that part being just a walk lmao. They just watched me pass by

@Tarnishedwarrior1958

Жыл бұрын

I grind many souls by killing the dragon knights after the big bois

@AleK0451

Жыл бұрын

if you die to ancient dragon running back to him is a pain in the ass but if you don't fight him and you just kill the knights its a chill area

@Avaruusmurkku

Жыл бұрын

What is funny is that the code is such a mess that the knights are barely kept in leash and prevented from attacking you. Whenever knights are about to go offscreen they turn towards you and are about the attack before they are stopped by the script.

Shoutouts to Archdragon Peak in DS3 for an honorable mention. The area houses some of the more annoying enemies in the game with the Serpent-men, especially the large ones with the axe and chains. I just run past them when I "fight" the Ancient Wyvern because of how many of them you're bombarded with at times.

@conraddejongh3898

Жыл бұрын

Bro the axe wielding ones. I feel physically ill when I get to Archdragon Peak 👌🏻

@Hevvvyyy

Жыл бұрын

Serpent men 🤝 beast men

@SolaScientia

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I actually didn't fully clear that area of its items because of how annoyed I got. I'm glad I had to do the run to the plunging attack on the Ancient Wyvern just the once. When I was headed toward the peak for the twinkling dragon torso stone I embered up to summon Hawkwood to help me clear the area. Well worth the ember for his help with that annoying section.

@LordNNero

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's my vote for the hardest area. Even Havel alone is a big challenge for a new player. Not to mention Nameless king and the Axe dudes also the chained axe dudes. Even if we consider normal enemies, there are rock lizards, fireball spamming man-serpent and that one dagger wielding man serpent. Bro, he is all over the place and spams quick attacks.

Dukes archive is a really crazy choice for ds1. Honestly always considered it really easy, so I would hit it first after anor londo. Tomb of giants is the definite choice for me personally and dukes archive wouldn't be top 5

@argeniside1015

11 ай бұрын

Tomb of giants/the catacombs in general is pretty hard

@firstkill8413

11 ай бұрын

Yeah this man is tripping with that choice, one of the easiest and most relaxing locations in ds1 unronically

@NotoriousWalkerz

10 ай бұрын

honestly all of his choices were shit

@michaelcarst6958

8 ай бұрын

I agree. Never would i put Dukes Archive in my top 3. For me, after multiple playthroughs, it's gotta be Blighttown. What a horrendous pathing, small and narrow places to fight in, the mosquitos, just everything is annoying there

@Mattthecricketbat1

8 ай бұрын

Blightown??

The Dragon Shrine was super easy as long as you have enough ADP. Just fight an honorable duel and the little guys won't bother you.

@dexterhopkins5267

Жыл бұрын

Level adp 🤓 lmao nah I agree though

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Yaaaaa i think this one was biased cuz i didnt level adp for my first couple playthroughs lmao

@oliverhendrix8176

Жыл бұрын

Except for the Hammer Drakekeeper Knight

@aleksanderzaremba9695

Жыл бұрын

@@EmberPlays I'm surprised that amana shrine wasn't mentioned

For DS2, I understand the difficulty of the hammer duel but that area has four total enemies you have to fight and the last one doesn't spawn back in when you die. Too many people just disrespect the duels so they whine about getting ganged up on. Surprised you didn't use any of the DLCs areas as the temple in Sunken King or the Brume tower (with massive beefed up enemies) are harder to get through than dealing with a few one on one fights.

@viggosav6316

Жыл бұрын

I literally ran past the big knights and the other guys didn’t bother attacking me.

@godgus1863

Жыл бұрын

Sunken King DLC isn't really that hard. Brume tower, however, has one of the worst enemy placements in the game IMO. Also it houses Iron Passage. Enough said.

@LordNNero

11 ай бұрын

​@@viggosav6316 That happens usually if you have already talked to the dragon once.

@LordNNero

11 ай бұрын

​@@godgus1863 Yes yes I completely agree. Brume Tower is one area, I fear every playthrough. Those Giant dudes with Hammer are so intimidating. Thankfully they can be blasted with barrels.

@LordNNero

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, I think there's not enough mention of Nadalia, the bride of ash, in Brume Tower. They are can make the place so much harder if people don't dispose them quickly.

Frigid outskirts on it's way 💀

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Lmao just wait

Personally I don't think a boss needs to be mandatory to be controversial. Malenia can be controversial either way because you can still think the fight is bad without actively doing it all the time. Also, the strategy of just avoiding her is pretty unusable for a first playthrough especially because it feels terrible to have that one thing just left out and not done

@SJ-di5zu

11 ай бұрын

“It’s a great boss! Just don’t fight it.” Yeah, doesn’t really sound like a great boss to me. Fact is Waterfowl is grossly overtuned. It’s cool-looking and I love the idea, but there’s a million ways FromSoft could’ve fixed it yet they took none of them. Let me list some: Make the first flurry shorter so that the player can roll through it with good reflexes. This would make the attack feel badass to dodge while still being very challenging. Running away from it just looks stupid and weak. Allow us to use our shield without Malenia healing. No-brainer. Just take away the heal effect all together. She’s hard enough as is. Have her hang in the air for about one full second longer to give us more time to run away. The way it is now, if you’re in her face and she activates the attack, you have no chance to run away in time. Make it do less damage. It would still be unfair, but at least it wouldn’t instantly kill you. Literally any of these changes would make Malenia a great boss, but no.

Bro your channel is so underrated Keep up the amazing work!

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

thank you!!!!

frigid outskirts is one of the most difficult areas in videogame history, its just unfair and annoying

To be honest I found the Research Hall to be more difficult than the Hamlet. But I can see why most people had more difficulty getting through the Hamlet than myself.

@SolaScientia

Жыл бұрын

Same! The Research Hall was a major wall for me. Enough of a wall that I completely blocked it from memory when typing my own comment. I got so stuck against all those stupid patients that I went off and completed all of the main part of DS3 (just have the 2 DLC left to complete now) before returning there. It was so frustrating. One time I managed to fall off an upper level down to a lower one that I shouldn't have had access to yet. I aggroed that hunter there, died to him while carrying over 40k in echoes, then died to the first patient up the stairs on the way back, because I'm a dumbass. I honestly went to farm and level up just once to make up for losing those echoes.

@michelecais4111

10 ай бұрын

Research Hall had lots of traps and felt like a labyrinth when I first visited it, but there weren't many dangerous enemies (aside the group of npcs guarding the elevator after Ludwig)

Hardest area in Elden Ring was definitely the platforming section in Leyndell sewers that leads to the 3 fingers. Change my mind.

@taragnor

Жыл бұрын

Yeah without a doubt. That place was rage inducing.

@yavantii3615

Жыл бұрын

Fuck you're right, Leyndell Sewers were absolute nightmare, I mean the entire fucking section.

I have to say, I was really scared to go to Miquellas Haligtree, but when I finally got there, it felt really easy compared to what people have been saying online. I took my 138 str build there, so I definitely wasnt overleveled either I think

@Sohelanthropus

Жыл бұрын

Ppl tend to be stupid and over exaggerate difficulty in these games; plus ER is by far the easiest game they've done so anyone who complains about it being too hard shouldn't be taken seriously at all

@dustypaladin9216

Жыл бұрын

In terms of simple stats and stuff, elden ring late game is the hardest. But he game is longer and there are more ways to get stronger, so it’s easier

@Sohelanthropus

Жыл бұрын

@@dustypaladin9216 nah it's easy af anyway, Malenia and Maliketh are the only decently challenging enemies in that damn game

@yeet-kd8wd

Жыл бұрын

Even when your on the recomended level for it calid is still a hellhole and to me 100x more difficult then the haligtree as you can pretty mutch run through everything there

@Ghorda9

Жыл бұрын

@@Sohelanthropus the game has harder main bosses compared to the souls series if you don't use summons or spam ashes of war.

The interesting thing about the Soulsborne series is the different experiences people have, even going through the more linear games. For me I wouldnt say any of these are the hardest areas in their games. Some of them I understand but its kind of a head scratcher seeing Dragon Shrine in there when places like Shrine of Amana or most areas of the DLC's exist.

The fishing hamlet has been my favorite area ever since the first footage i Saw of it. It is just perfect imo.

As someone who played the Bloodborne DLC on NG+ first I can say that the Fishing Hamlet was definitely very funny. For real tho, I think it’s actually better on NG+ because it felt like you got so many more more Blood Echoes than when I replayed it on New Game.

I love the visual design of fountainhead palace but i struggled hard with nobles just like you in my first playthrough.

I agree with Duke's Archives but for me in DS2 I got just two words "Undead Purgatory" for the sole reason of that run to the Executioners Chariot fight, the ringed city gave me about several different inoperable diseases due to the fact I need to git gud too. Great video as always and I hope that watchmojo joke never leaves, your content is always great :)

Sekiro should have gone to the 2nd Hirata Estate memory. Holy shit, that place is HELL ON EARTH. Ninjas everywhere, bandits who can spot you from a mile away, and a duo boss within eyesight of said enemies, with even more bandits around you. Nothing else comes close to being as difficult as that place.

love these types of vids, keep doing what you do!

you're one of my favourite youtubers atm, love these souls vids

For sekiro I still think fountain head palace is the hardest, the last area has many hard enemies but because there are different factions fighting each other so the chaos makes things easier

I just love how the shark well is so damn scary that even mentioning it, he didn't dare go down there to get footage and just used the solitary shark instead. Very understandable

My vote for hardest area ( on a first playthrough) in Elden ring is the subterranean shunjing grounds. If you take the time to explore everything, you are guaranteed to run into some nonsense. They put a lot of the bs enemies in one labyrinth of an area and called it good. The boss in the area is way more forgiving than the area itself. In subsequent playthroughs, once you know your way around, you can run past 90 percent of things in here and unlock doors and gates in case you die. I also would say mohgwen palace is awful on a blind run. The haligtree, while difficult, isn’t too bad as long as you avoid the revenants and ganking

@jessegauthier6985

Жыл бұрын

I loved the shunning grounds, though they were very difficult.

@tygrandchamp1660

Жыл бұрын

The birds in moghs palace were so irritating

war torn ashina is easily my favorite area in all soulsborne, seeing the enemies that used to give you trouble, the generals, duelists, samurai, all of them desperate against the red guard really shows how ashina is in deep and the inside of ashina tower is so fun to fight in as the shinobi bust through walls and totally school the duelists

@leonardoscheffer

Жыл бұрын

"How Ashina os in deep" what?

This was your first video Ive seen. The dunk on mojo and the outro were top tier.

I got stuck in the Swamp of Sorrow on black world tendency in NG+, and took a break out of frustration. Came back to it several months later and quickly remembered why I put the game down 😆

Going blind into Blighttown was A NIGHTMARE. Especially when you're not used to that annoying poison mechanic. Hell, playing on the Xbox 360 made it even more difficult- remember when the framerate went to single digits in Blighttown?

I like how the Roundtable hold Music plays during the Elden Ring part of the video

Beginning to realize that the difficulty of dark souls 1 is entirely based on how quickly you like to play your souls games

@razeik5.088

Жыл бұрын

i never played ds 1 but why would you say that is do enemys just attack to slow so you can just run past everything?

fun fact, i messed up and got thrown into NG+ before actually completing the DLC, so when i had to go back and try it the first time i was already on the difficulty increase. was a bit letdown on the area, in part due to me beating Orphan of Kos on 2nd attempt

Fishing hamlet has never been hard for me. Its really easy to run by all the enemies and, besides for the sharks, the enemies are easy enough. The Research Hall has always been the hardest area for me, especially in my recent strength playthrough. I was around level 65 when i went through it on my strength playthrough.

@shurik121

Жыл бұрын

Both fishing hamlet and research hall are fair for the level you're supposed to do them at. For me, the most difficult area for the level I was supposed to do it was either the forbidden woods or the nightmare of mensis.

@SolaScientia

Жыл бұрын

Research Hall was definitely harder for me than the Fishing Hamlet by a mile. I had trouble and I was in the 80s level-wise with a quality build.

Doing another play through of Dark Souls Remastered right now. Loving every minute of it.

@NewGen7988

Жыл бұрын

Same

@firetitan1978

Жыл бұрын

same

I leveled up a lot at haligtree from continuously falling and recollecting runes. It was my favorite area in the game

Shrine of Amana for sure the toughest in ds2, far range magic spam with spam of enemies in a tight area of water where you can’t see the floor was tough. Props for not being basic and putting blighttown for ds1

It’s like every video I’m like okay this guy had to run out of ideas but bro can’t run out he always has the best ideas that I don’t even think of

hands down hardest Bloodborne area is Central Yharnam, I can't count how many times I died there when I first started playing it as a first souls game. Even though i don't have trouble anymore i bet it's very memorable to a lot of us 😂

@FlightX101

Жыл бұрын

BB was my first as hell and the 1st level was hell lol

I would say from my elden ring experience, when taking my time I was able to kill almost every enemy (except the tree spirit lmao) in the haligtree as long as I took my time on the ballista section. The low vis part of snowfield tho I have never cleared once. So much out there is brutal and I think it’s probably harder than than Halig in my book

Bloodborne hardest area for me: Challice dungeons with double bell maidens. An army of never-ending gank spiders in a narrow hallway is very frustrating. When you finally get to the bell maidens, they are protected by mobs hiding in smoke who are waiting to backstab you

Have you ever noticed how Frigid Outskirts, Cave of the Dead and Iron Passage start with the same weird statues that are also in front of the DLC doors where they have a developer message stating that summoning signs placed here are getting channeled far away? That's because they are coop challenges with an increased summoning limit that allow you to summon players that don't even own the DLC. In coop Iron Passage also makes a lot more sense as one player can pull the lever to let others through the gate so they can take care of the Astrologers on the upper path. They are raid dungeons that were designed to be done as a group. It's not hard if you play it as intended as summon people.

The decent thing about the swamp of sorrow is how slow the poison actually hurts you. The problem for me is thinking im on ground then do that half ass stutter only to be stun locked

I love the outro, amazing edit

The first section of the haligtree is probably the hardest imo. I still find myself running through to the grace at haligtree town

@Salmon_Toastie

9 ай бұрын

I can’t the fucking ants, big insects freak me the fuck out.

Insane vid keep up the good work

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

thanks!!

For bloodborne its the poison swamp place where you eventually fight amygdala, im doing ng plus and the only problem are the big guys in fishing hamlet

I had been waiting for something of the sort! Nice

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Aye good to hear!!

Miquellas Haligtree: -It just feels way too big sometimes. Especially for an optional area and if you're already tired from working on 100%ing the game -That street at the very bottom where they put 6 Revenants. They let you summon down there but like...Just why? -Crystallian knights are always put in the WORST places in GROUPS to make stunning them a bitch. It wasn't a problem for me with the moonlight greatsword weapon art, but it would be for anyone who doesn't do tons of stagger dmg -Malenia would be one of my favorite boss fights in the entire series if she 1) Didn't heal on hit or at least not on shield hits. 2) Had waterfowl removed or adjusted. There are LITERAL GUIDES on how to dodge waterfowl. You shouldn't need to use a guide to learn how to avoid a single attack. I don't care about the people who say it looks "too anime" or whatever bs. I care about how it's fundamentally broken.

im fairly new to the souls series and finished ds1 about a month ago, and i actually liked dukes archives while slowly moving through rather than running through. i thought it had pretty cool design and i was doing decent damage at the time

@spaghetticondo.m9116

Жыл бұрын

Yeah i did not find it very difficult if you take your time actually i think most areas are easier if you take it slow imo

The “watch mojo of souls games” is actually perfect

nice outro bro 😇 blight town in DS1 need some mentioning i think :)

@Elliot-no4ri

11 күн бұрын

Glad somebody said it was looking for someone to mention blight town i have nightmares about that place

Ember, you should make a best boss weapons tier list.

The Big Knight in Dragon Shrine (DS2) with the hammer is actually bugged, since he doesn't run out of stamina. That's not intentional.

The Channelers buff the skellies in Duke's Archive. That's why they seem so rough. Unbuffed they're still strong, but not frighteningly so.

Miquella Haligtree and the shunned ground tunnels and mazes are challenging too

6:20 When I played Bloodborne for the first time, I made the mistake of fighting the final boss before the DLC so I locked myself into doing it in NG+ (My first souls was DS3 so I just assumed it wouldn't send me straight to the next cycle). Needless to say, I had a rough time

About Demon’s 5-2. People can say whatever they want about the remake. But NG+ GIGACHADS WILL ALL PRAISE THE NORMAL MOVEMENT ON POISON RING! A remake exclusive that technically a DS1 ring.

best outro, really like it!

when I first played the bloodborne dlc I played it on NG+ and beat all the bosses up until Orphan of Kos, I always had to wait until I stayed over at my cousins to play because I failed 8th grade and had no ps4 so I never ever got to beat him.

Shrine of amana is definitely the hardest one besides frozen outskirts, god that area is a nightmare i hated going thru it in ng+ for ng++ to 100% the game (theres spells you can only get thru getting high lv in 2 pvp covenants or ng++ from the ghost chancellor in drangleic castle)

The drakekeeper with the mace made me fail my no death run, i wasnt even mad, just a bit dissapointed but also relieved.

In my first ds2 playthrough, i did it blind, and I spent hours on the damn Heide knights. I knew I was way under leveled but I kept trying, that was probably the greatest test of my willpower. I’m still a bit confused though because after finally clearing this area I was able to kill the boss in 2 tries

@popsbruh7472

11 ай бұрын

had just about the same experience especially after hitting one of the sitting knights but dragon slayer was a breeze 💀

I love Fountainhead Palace! I’m a stealth junkie and use it here.

3:21 definitely looking for the broken pendant here

I haven't even seen this yet but i know this is another banger

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 😭⚔️

I got the Bloodborne DLC after I entered NG+ and I didn’t want to start over. I found it rather intense

You know it's s good day when ember uploads

Dragon shrine is such a cool area as long as you don't aggro the knights. I would've picked the shrine of amana or the undead crypt instead

Getting so close to 100k subs, you love to see it.

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Almost there!!

The only thing that makes the dukes archives annoying is that the channelers buff the enemies with no way of stopping it

I had high ADP when I did my run through Dark Souls 2 for the first time, I basically ran a glass cannon build with the greatsword, the hardest place for me I would've said was the Iron Keep, but it wasnt really hard, I was just impatient and kept thinking I could run past every enemy, but if you take your time it's easy, frigid outskirts though is hard, genuinely, you could take your time in the snow to fight the horse, then another one shows up and almost one shots you, (in my case cuz dual greatsword and default armor) definitely not that bad though, took me 3 tries

5:35 For me the those gank sharks weren't too bad. But that one shark with the anchor afterwards got me so many times...

@SolaScientia

Жыл бұрын

I ended up running past that to get inside the hut for the lamp and hoping I could do it in time without the shark killing Simon before I got to speak with him. I got to lamp, lit it, and got to the Dream just barely in time. I really thought Simon would be dead when I returned, because I was sure I saw the shark get him through the wall. Probably the worst place to stick an NPC, but at least that's the end of his quest and the only thing the player loses is dialogue with him. The shark on the surface by that well also gave me more trouble than the 2 well sharks.

Fun trick For the last area of the dragon shrine [with the elite dragon warriors]... use the dragon stones to transform into a dragon, the enemies won't bother u👍🏻

I get hyped every time I see a video upload

I remember duke's archive was a mean place from my first play through back in i dont know when, long time ago, recently I played ds1 again, and visited archives with a havel, that place was still brought me to my knees. I tanked catacombs like a joke, but not this place.

I personally found the Duke’s Archives to be a breeze compared to the Catacombs, The Great Hollow, Blighttown, or New Londo Ruins

4:49 wow i never realized they put an elden ring reference in dark souls 2

I didnt have difficulty with dukes archives but i had to watch to guides to finally complete tomb of giants

Best side quests could be a awesome video!

Idea for a video: Difficulty of doing the same challenge run in each game. Which games are the easiest to do SL1 runs in?

God Tier Outro I subbed just for that GGWP.

Based on my experience with my previous Bloodborne character, the Fishing Hamlet was the Frigid Outskirts of the game.

Really didn't expect Duke's Archives!

ive been waiting for this!!

@EmberPlays

Жыл бұрын

Ayyyy u got it

Have you done a tier list of weapons/ armor designs?

Stormveil Castle in your first playthrough and Crumbling Farum Azula are really close seconds to the Haligtree.

The “Watch Mojo of Soulsborne Games” is hilarious 😂 the difference being we love your content.

we had the same idea with smoughs armor with thrall hood for the curse resist in the ringed city

I was looking for a different video to watch when i got called out so outta spite imma finish this

The dragon shrine has a trick to it. Youre supposed to honorably duel the enemy that comes at you. If you do so, the little guys leave you alone. If you run through uou get swarmed.

liked just for the outro gag

Loved the outro

I’m surprised you chose duke’s archives, sure the enemies do a lot of damage but I found it pretty easy to run past all of them. Maybe it would be harder fighting them straight up.

haligtree is basically hell if you ain't around 120+ on your build. You are expected to have your setup basically complete by then which makes it easier

Best outtro on YT hands down

I think Shrine of Amana is DS2's equivalent of Duke's Archive... But I agree with the atrocity that is Dragon Shrine

I get why everyone says blight town bur the duke's Archives is why I still haven't beaten Ds1 yet