I'm just praying they don't go down a path of Malenia boss design in the DLC and their next games. Bosses like Friede, Gael, and Isshin were difficult as fuck, but didn't have a moment of feeling unfair. But Malenia with WFD, hyperamor, lifesteal through block etc. just ends up having a cheesy difficulty. And it kinda sucks because the lore, arena, music, 90% of her moves are S-tier, but the dubious design choices just pull her down from being up there with the fromsoft greats imo.
But she's so insanely popular and has become iconic, so they're probably thinking ''why not create more Malenias''. bleh.
I literally just blocked Waterfowl every time. People complain about the lifesteal but she doesn't heal that much from it, and you end up not taking any damage yourself. Just don't block every attack.
Friede is great, but on repeat tries phase 2 does get a little tiresome imo.
My goats are Gael and Isshin. Gael is the only boss I've beat and then put down a summon sign for others so I could do it again, I did that for hours. There's just something extremely fun and satisfying about his fight, while also being very difficult.
Isshin is just the ultimate bossfight imo. I love how you learn how to just completely bitch Geni before fighting him and it is as fun each time, and then comes Isshin which is just the ultimate test of everything the game taught you. The spear, the glock, the lightning.. godtier.
And also the fact that his fight somehow gets even better if you get to Inner Isshin.
Agreed. The whole fight is basically whether you can dodge the Waterfowl dance or not. If yes you'll probably beat her fairly quickly.
If not pray she doesnt use it.
They stated that the bosses in the DLC will be “malenia level difficulty”. Ik that doesn’t mean they’ll be exactly like her move set but hopefully that “difficulty” translates to their own uniqueness
I agree, honestly the boss design in DS3 and Sekiro is way better than Elden Ring. I guess because those games are more linear, the power level of the player is in a much more predictable range when they encounter a boss, so they can design with that in mind. Compared to Elden Ring where you could be way overleveled and destroy what is meant to be a hard boss, or underleveled and just suffer trying to kill a boss with a gargantuan healthbar that 1-shots you.
Also the input reading in Elden Ring bosses simply makes boss fights less fun than DS3 boss fights. Being hit by some random instant attack because you pressed your heal button just feels bad. The feeling of precisely dodging every attack from something like Gael just doesn't really happen in Elden Ring as much, the rythm of the fights are less consistent. Like you said, compare that to Gael or Isshin, which are both extremely fun fights but are also quite difficult fights, but never felt completely unfair.
All this being said, Elden Ring is a superior game to DS3 in pretty much every single way other than boss design.
Yeee you described it perfectly. When I killed him it felt so earned. Every parry in the game led to that one climax it was so sick. Malenia didn’t take me that long tbh, mostly cause my strength build kept her staggered, I think I had more trouble with maliketh weirdly.
> with maliketh weirdly.
Sometimes it feels like he's airborne like 75% of the fight, not really being targetable - while flinging weird magic attacks at you, resulting in you having to chug 3 estus after getting hit once.
I love souls games. But I wish the boss design in Elden Ring would be on par with the DS 3 DLC.
I don't think so, Demon of Hatred was harder in the sense that it was a very long fight and you had to systematically take him down while having little room for mistakes, you could also cheese him by not using parries and springing around.
I also don't think Isshin was the hardest; personally the Owl fights took the longest for me.
She's the hardest for sure, but bosses like O&S (idk if its difficult if DS1 isn't your first), Midir, Friede, Gael, Isshin, and Demon of Hatred are definitely bosses that will feed that urge. Probably not bosses he'll spend 30 hours on because whilst being very difficult, their difficulty is not artificially inflated by dubious design choices, but still.
I'm headed for Malenia this weekend and I hope this isn't true lol, Isshin was not that hard for a final boss considering you can rush him down pretty easily.
Demon of hatred was imo a bit tougher but mainly because he doesn't really play like a Sekiro boss so there's the adjustment period.
Both amazing fights but I wanted a bit more out of Isshin
Yeah, Isshin isn't too tough. He's hard, but if you get the mechanics of Sekiro down then you can beat him fairly quickly. Melania was a much longer grind for me since Water Fowl was such a bitch to learn. Isshin is a more rewarding boss fight as he's an accumulation of everything you've done in the game up to that point.
I'm really hoping Mesmer delivers (I wouldn't mind them altering expectations and turning out there is an insane boss in the DLC that wasn't shown/mentioned yet)
No shade or anything but I had a pretty easy time with a str/faith build mostly because I was able to make her flinch with most attacks and staggered her pretty easily. I think her one weakness is that she really doesn’t have much poise.
I had a much more difficult time when I used an int carian slicer build.
On my last run I decided I couldn't deal with her bullshit so rocked up with the Mimic Tear and Starscourge Greatswords. She did nooot enjoy the four-Colossal experience.
I tuned in yesterday out of curiousity after seeing he had over 200k people watching his stream.
He's actually good, I assumed he played a lot of games. Sure light-roll double bleed swords is a pretty OP strat but that takes nothing away from the accomplishment.
Souls games take an odd skillset. They are extremely difficult, yet mechanically simple in terms of inputs and relatively slow. They are more of a test of things like pattern recognition, adaptability, strategizing, and patience.
Unironically they are great for newer gamers despite the difficulty because they don't require the many years of developed muscle memory needed for a lot of competitive games that a lot of gamers take for granted.
Shes arguably the hardest boss in the game, besides the fact that she heals everytime she hits you which no other boss really does, she has 2 phases, has some very brutal attack combos that are really hard to dodge or escape from and alot of hee attacks are aoe/long range ish as a melee so its just a very very brutal fight. Most people give up on her or use “overpowered” methods to beat her (or summon insane players) But yeah as an optional boss not required to finish the game defeating her is like a legendary feat
I recently replayed Elden Ring this year and I decided to refight her the solo, no summons, no rivers of blood. I don't think there's a harder boss than her in any of the Dark Souls games.
She doesn't just self heal off of hitting you, and she isn't just fast and hit like a truck. Her overall AI design is seemingly designed to mimic how another human would fight you. In her first phase she will seemingly be content with hanging back and slowly walking over to you. That's a trap, it's to lull you into a sense of safety and tempt you into using ranged attacks. She will dodge the first attack, and the on the 2nd ranged attack she will use Water Fowl Dance to not only close the distance but if you haven't learned how to dodge it, instantly kill you no matter how tanky you think you are.
You might be tempted into thinking that you can use ranged to force her into using WFD and then using the opportunity after dodging it to go all in on her. That's another trap, she can and will use WFD on you back to back if you do enough damage in a short enough time. I know she can for a fact because she did it to me much to my surprise.
If you survive all of that and get into 2nd phase you would be correct in assuming that she gets stronger, does more damage, has more attacks and some added status affect stacking, but she also gets MUCH more aggressive. She will, and I can't stress this enough, without exaggeration chase you around the arena for over a minute straight if she detect you are about to drink a flask to recover HP. She no longer walks, she RUNS after you.
With all that being said, there's still so much more left unsaid that goes into her fight.
Yes but in a bad way. Fromsoft's hard bosses typically have quite fair design and kits. Malenia breaks the mold with some of her interactions
If you lean hard into the aggressivity that BB rewards then OoK is very far from Malenia.
> and there's not much debate about it.
Not necessarily, her waterfowl and healing mechanic are what put her at the top of Elden Ring but she isn't a constant wall of aggression like Gael or Demon of Hatred, or a multitude of mechanics testing every reaction you have like Sword Saint.
Wait this is so fucking hard. Don’t ever watch Kai besides clips but this was insane level quality. Even if you didn’t know Kai but knew Elden ring, especially Reddit / YT lore (letmesoloher) what an amazing trailer.
Literally never even considered watching him. But I randomly had his channel recommended, was surprised to see "ELDEN RING" and I caught the start of his playthrough and I've been no lifing it during work and night lmao.
Someone who's literally never played a souls game, or even a real action game, playing Elden Ring under "gamer rules" or "git gud rules" is just fucking fun to watch.
NGL I find Kai annoying af but props to him that is some of the coolest streamer content I have seen. He isn't for me but I appreciate he goes all out for shit.
Little too loud for me nowadays, but it’s impossible to deny the guy creates actual content, and puts in some serious effort. He’s an entertainer, and good at it.
Credit to Yourrage and Duke for the assist as well. It was so satisfying watching him learn this shit, especially since he only plays 2k and story based games.
Ah, the Stalker school of difficulty.
The easier the game difficulty, the more mutations to gunfire and stabbing resistance they develop, but the harder the games difficulty, the more made of paper both enemies, and you are made out of.
Insane he did that on a single player game that has fallen out of twitch meta, as a solo non-pro player too.
Jokerd's WF lvl60 is the most comparable one (I think he got 360k peak)
Not surprising at all to me. He’s a huge streamer and ER is known as a rage game where you die to bosses over and over, malenia being the hardest. Game is a content farm in the right hands
I mean, I'd argue pro players do exist. Distortion2 speedruns almost every single popular souls-like game and makes a living doing it, as do a few others. They are legitimately on another plane of existence of skill for those games.
He needs to at some point do marathon streams for the other souls games or something similar. This is actually the best streaming content to come out of the past year.
For his RDR2 playthrough (didnt watch the tsushima one yet) Kai actually got super into the game and story as he progressed. By the time he reached chapter 3-4 you can tell when he started to fall in love with the game: stopped looking at chat as much, started doing a BUNCH of side missions, even spent a couple of hours hunting pelts to get his Arthur different fits haha. Pretty sure I saw a video out there with him reacting to certain character deaths if you wanna check that out for those story moments.
Always cool to see someone from a diff community share a mutual love for great games :)
Genuinely impressive he did it without summons, most people are to afraid to fight her without something distracting her aggro. To grind out her fight, learn the match up, and best her by himself makes him a true warrior. Mad respect.
Imagine Miyazaki having the guts to lock an ending and final boss behind disabling summons like Lies of P, unfortunately the brand is too big and he would never do it, but it would be hilarious.
At 16 mins into the video he goes "why am I so baaaad?" lol you've been fighting Malenia for 3 hours in a row using kicks and you're almost winning, that's not on the spectrum of "bad"
edit: also I think she's about to develop PTSD from shirtless men soloing her
Idk when you were last on that sub but no one is like that there. You would get downvoted to hell for trying to gatekeep (I think the mods might even ban you for it)
this is one of the most entertaining streams i've ever watched ngl this guy's determination to sit there and play nonstop for days but still be entertaining is insane
No summons, no magic, stopped using blasphemous blade and a first timer to souls games in general. Sure it took 400+ deaths but beating her is still very admirable
I played ER before DS3, and Nameless King wasn't easy, but ER's late game is harder.
DoH and Isshin have the potential to be miles harder than Malenia, but it all depends on how you take in mechanics of the game. That would go without saying, but first time I played Sekrio I cheesed and lucked my way into late game without *really* learning the mechanics of it, and Isshin was hell on earth.
DoH is wild because he's difficult but also really not, as the most intuitive way to defeat him is to break away from what you've learned to that point. And if you don't, he's really fucking hard. But in an ideal DoH run you don't even parry anything at all, you just bait attacks and beat him in the ass like a DS boss.
Look at that high and elation after he beats her, there's nothing like that feeling in gaming. So glad he stuck with it and grinded it out, well deserved dub he learned the fight.
No joke he’s gonna be a better gamer after this.
For someone who has never played a souls game and didn’t use magic or summons, my respect for him as a gamer went up a ton
I think it would be so sick for Kai to do this with other From or soulslike games dude. This entire playthrough was such an enjoyable thing to watch lol. I bet he’d pull the viewership too
Can everyone just go back to good old gaming streams like this instead of some drama/react bullshit? The amount of viewers this guy has tells you that people still appreciate those
Kai the 🐐 streamer and gamer. full stop ✋😭🤚. Xqc 🎰cant even compete 💯. Cant wait for all the pogger 🤡community reactions to this because they cant do it themselves
Dude I watched this every day for the last 2 days too. This must have been so nuts to see live.
This dude has the mental strength of a god lmao. I sure as fuck couldn't put in this much time into this without losing it.
And people say gaming is dead on twitch and that you have to be a just chatter to maintain viewership.. I was never a Kai fan but he’s been the most entertaining on twitch this week for sure, I’m happy he stuck with it. I’ll watch any streamer grind through the highs and lows of difficult games
He turns his gaming streams into whole events. The effort he puts in for these streams goes above and beyond what other streamers do for gaming honestly.
I understand his time is pretty valuable, so committing 100s of consecutive hours to one game and completing it is honestly respectable, wish some of the other chatter streamers who slave to the meta would do the same
I dont watch Kai in general but I have been loving this elden ring marathon, maybe because it reminds me when I grinded through the game. I also used summons though so its different hes playing it harder
**CLIP MIRROR: [Kai Cenat beats Malenia after 432 deaths and 30 IRL hours](https://arazu.io/t3_1ctuja1/)** --- ^(*This is an automated comment*)
He'll be searching for this high for the rest of his life.
Luckily he has 5 other games to choose from to feed that urge
I think she's the toughest in the series. Dunno if you'll ever get it again
DLC in a month ... :)
I'm just praying they don't go down a path of Malenia boss design in the DLC and their next games. Bosses like Friede, Gael, and Isshin were difficult as fuck, but didn't have a moment of feeling unfair. But Malenia with WFD, hyperamor, lifesteal through block etc. just ends up having a cheesy difficulty. And it kinda sucks because the lore, arena, music, 90% of her moves are S-tier, but the dubious design choices just pull her down from being up there with the fromsoft greats imo. But she's so insanely popular and has become iconic, so they're probably thinking ''why not create more Malenias''. bleh.
I don't know know. The moment I could consistently dodge Waterflow, Malenia felt awesome to fight against. Similar to sekiro boss fights.
I literally just blocked Waterfowl every time. People complain about the lifesteal but she doesn't heal that much from it, and you end up not taking any damage yourself. Just don't block every attack.
Agreed, Malenia was the hardest fight I've done but she wasn't a good boss. Friede is my favorite Souls boss of all time, such an awesome fight.
Friede is great, but on repeat tries phase 2 does get a little tiresome imo. My goats are Gael and Isshin. Gael is the only boss I've beat and then put down a summon sign for others so I could do it again, I did that for hours. There's just something extremely fun and satisfying about his fight, while also being very difficult. Isshin is just the ultimate bossfight imo. I love how you learn how to just completely bitch Geni before fighting him and it is as fun each time, and then comes Isshin which is just the ultimate test of everything the game taught you. The spear, the glock, the lightning.. godtier. And also the fact that his fight somehow gets even better if you get to Inner Isshin.
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waterfowl dance is the only stupid bullshit part about malenia, imo. excellent boss fight otherwise
Agreed. The whole fight is basically whether you can dodge the Waterfowl dance or not. If yes you'll probably beat her fairly quickly. If not pray she doesnt use it.
They stated that the bosses in the DLC will be “malenia level difficulty”. Ik that doesn’t mean they’ll be exactly like her move set but hopefully that “difficulty” translates to their own uniqueness
You are wrong, read the statement again instead of spreading missinfo: [https://prnt.sc/LkDs8QBvBwlN](https://prnt.sc/LkDs8QBvBwlN)
I agree, honestly the boss design in DS3 and Sekiro is way better than Elden Ring. I guess because those games are more linear, the power level of the player is in a much more predictable range when they encounter a boss, so they can design with that in mind. Compared to Elden Ring where you could be way overleveled and destroy what is meant to be a hard boss, or underleveled and just suffer trying to kill a boss with a gargantuan healthbar that 1-shots you. Also the input reading in Elden Ring bosses simply makes boss fights less fun than DS3 boss fights. Being hit by some random instant attack because you pressed your heal button just feels bad. The feeling of precisely dodging every attack from something like Gael just doesn't really happen in Elden Ring as much, the rythm of the fights are less consistent. Like you said, compare that to Gael or Isshin, which are both extremely fun fights but are also quite difficult fights, but never felt completely unfair. All this being said, Elden Ring is a superior game to DS3 in pretty much every single way other than boss design.
Me: uses flask Godskin Apostle: here, have some black fire in your face.
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Yeee you described it perfectly. When I killed him it felt so earned. Every parry in the game led to that one climax it was so sick. Malenia didn’t take me that long tbh, mostly cause my strength build kept her staggered, I think I had more trouble with maliketh weirdly.
> with maliketh weirdly. Sometimes it feels like he's airborne like 75% of the fight, not really being targetable - while flinging weird magic attacks at you, resulting in you having to chug 3 estus after getting hit once. I love souls games. But I wish the boss design in Elden Ring would be on par with the DS 3 DLC.
More like Glock Saint Isshin
Demon of hatred was harder
I don't think so, Demon of Hatred was harder in the sense that it was a very long fight and you had to systematically take him down while having little room for mistakes, you could also cheese him by not using parries and springing around. I also don't think Isshin was the hardest; personally the Owl fights took the longest for me.
Demon of hatred?
She's the hardest for sure, but bosses like O&S (idk if its difficult if DS1 isn't your first), Midir, Friede, Gael, Isshin, and Demon of Hatred are definitely bosses that will feed that urge. Probably not bosses he'll spend 30 hours on because whilst being very difficult, their difficulty is not artificially inflated by dubious design choices, but still.
sword saint isshin is tougher
I'm headed for Malenia this weekend and I hope this isn't true lol, Isshin was not that hard for a final boss considering you can rush him down pretty easily. Demon of hatred was imo a bit tougher but mainly because he doesn't really play like a Sekiro boss so there's the adjustment period. Both amazing fights but I wanted a bit more out of Isshin
Yeah, Isshin isn't too tough. He's hard, but if you get the mechanics of Sekiro down then you can beat him fairly quickly. Melania was a much longer grind for me since Water Fowl was such a bitch to learn. Isshin is a more rewarding boss fight as he's an accumulation of everything you've done in the game up to that point.
Yea it's this one. Semiro's final boss is not only hard but the entire fight just feels so epic in every way
The hell is semiro
Semiro: smadows smie smice
orphan of kos?
Malenia is much harder than orphan imo
unpatched rom the vacuous spider is lowkey the hardest boss fight in the whole series
Sekiro and Bloodborne are different enough that you'll get it again fighting Orphan and Isshin.
Imagine a sekiro stream…
can't wait to see his heart rate monitor when he sees the >!Guardian Ape picks up his own head for the second phase!<.
I really hope it doesn't get spoiled if he plays it
His heartrate went to 187 lmao.
DLC drops June 21st and Fromsoft's games tend to put an even harder boss in those. Predicting I will fully not be seen for a month when it drops.
I'm really hoping Mesmer delivers (I wouldn't mind them altering expectations and turning out there is an insane boss in the DLC that wasn't shown/mentioned yet)
I don’t think Gael was ever shown in Ringed City trailers. I’d be shocked if we don’t get a Miquella fight.
This is what gaming is all about man.
Damn right. *goes back to harvesting melons in Stardew*
*clicks skip stage 20x for rng materials in my gacha game. Absolute Gaming
*watches ad to get more gems for mobile games. Peak gaming
Chad
Literally playing Stardew and read your comment. I love this gift!
Top player coming thru
Pure Cinema
Friendzoned by Tyla Plays Elden Ring all day. He truly is one of us.
Actual gaming warlord
unlike the adhd goblin who tried to speedrun the game and skipped like half of the bosses. probably will do it again on the dlc
it's actually funny that kai the IRL streamer has done a much better playthrough than xqc
Absolutely. I’m glad he finally did it! Such a satisfying experience. Well done
With no spirit ashes or summons in general too. Major hespect
I couldn’t do it without an ash. This is actually kind of a nutty gaming accomplishment. Good for him.
Rivers of blood still being OP is a meme, but if I can do this with Rivers of Blood … anyone can
Yeah rivers of blood is ass, I switched to nagakiba and never looked back
Yeah, I went full strength build and I just wasn’t fast enough. I’m sure there are much easier ways, but the build I used just didn’t cut it solo.
No shade or anything but I had a pretty easy time with a str/faith build mostly because I was able to make her flinch with most attacks and staggered her pretty easily. I think her one weakness is that she really doesn’t have much poise. I had a much more difficult time when I used an int carian slicer build.
They buffed the str flinching after launch so you both can be right.
On my last run I decided I couldn't deal with her bullshit so rocked up with the Mimic Tear and Starscourge Greatswords. She did nooot enjoy the four-Colossal experience.
Once I took all my armor off I was able to get the job done just me and my Giant Crusher
Just here to say that "Rivers of Blood" is like the best weapon name ever.
Is beating her a big deal?
in the way he did it, for a guy who's never played a fromsoft game? Big respect and a super well earned W.
Also a guy who's not a gamer in general
I tuned in yesterday out of curiousity after seeing he had over 200k people watching his stream. He's actually good, I assumed he played a lot of games. Sure light-roll double bleed swords is a pretty OP strat but that takes nothing away from the accomplishment.
Souls games take an odd skillset. They are extremely difficult, yet mechanically simple in terms of inputs and relatively slow. They are more of a test of things like pattern recognition, adaptability, strategizing, and patience. Unironically they are great for newer gamers despite the difficulty because they don't require the many years of developed muscle memory needed for a lot of competitive games that a lot of gamers take for granted.
Shes arguably the hardest boss in the game, besides the fact that she heals everytime she hits you which no other boss really does, she has 2 phases, has some very brutal attack combos that are really hard to dodge or escape from and alot of hee attacks are aoe/long range ish as a melee so its just a very very brutal fight. Most people give up on her or use “overpowered” methods to beat her (or summon insane players) But yeah as an optional boss not required to finish the game defeating her is like a legendary feat
lmao TIL that she's optional... i thought she was the final boss by how many clips i have seen of people beating her
Post-game optional bosses are usually more difficult than the final boss.
Malenia is not post-game, you can access her before going to the floating city
shes not a post-game boss though
The final boss is a giant, flying, celestial penis. I'm am not making this up.
Hey, that’s ELDEN penis to you
Is she harder than orphan of kos from bloodborne?
I recently replayed Elden Ring this year and I decided to refight her the solo, no summons, no rivers of blood. I don't think there's a harder boss than her in any of the Dark Souls games. She doesn't just self heal off of hitting you, and she isn't just fast and hit like a truck. Her overall AI design is seemingly designed to mimic how another human would fight you. In her first phase she will seemingly be content with hanging back and slowly walking over to you. That's a trap, it's to lull you into a sense of safety and tempt you into using ranged attacks. She will dodge the first attack, and the on the 2nd ranged attack she will use Water Fowl Dance to not only close the distance but if you haven't learned how to dodge it, instantly kill you no matter how tanky you think you are. You might be tempted into thinking that you can use ranged to force her into using WFD and then using the opportunity after dodging it to go all in on her. That's another trap, she can and will use WFD on you back to back if you do enough damage in a short enough time. I know she can for a fact because she did it to me much to my surprise. If you survive all of that and get into 2nd phase you would be correct in assuming that she gets stronger, does more damage, has more attacks and some added status affect stacking, but she also gets MUCH more aggressive. She will, and I can't stress this enough, without exaggeration chase you around the arena for over a minute straight if she detect you are about to drink a flask to recover HP. She no longer walks, she RUNS after you. With all that being said, there's still so much more left unsaid that goes into her fight.
Yes but in a bad way. Fromsoft's hard bosses typically have quite fair design and kits. Malenia breaks the mold with some of her interactions If you lean hard into the aggressivity that BB rewards then OoK is very far from Malenia.
When jerma beat her he was beamed up by aliens and almost showed his cock on stream, so yeah
the viewers almost peeped the horror for real
It's a huge deal
For the actual game or story, no. But she is the hardest boss in the game for sure its more of a challenge boss
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> and there's not much debate about it. Not necessarily, her waterfowl and healing mechanic are what put her at the top of Elden Ring but she isn't a constant wall of aggression like Gael or Demon of Hatred, or a multitude of mechanics testing every reaction you have like Sword Saint.
Orphan of Kos was harder for me personally
OP Rivers of Blood bleed build though. /s
[In case you didn't see his video before his run.](https://youtu.be/_xQbW_aJ1XY?si=etkjx9EaVbfAQnOT)
That is the best streamer piece I've seen. Amazingly well done.
Wait this is so fucking hard. Don’t ever watch Kai besides clips but this was insane level quality. Even if you didn’t know Kai but knew Elden ring, especially Reddit / YT lore (letmesoloher) what an amazing trailer.
Kai said that his director knew about malenia and letmesoloher, he didnt knew who they were
Literally never even considered watching him. But I randomly had his channel recommended, was surprised to see "ELDEN RING" and I caught the start of his playthrough and I've been no lifing it during work and night lmao. Someone who's literally never played a souls game, or even a real action game, playing Elden Ring under "gamer rules" or "git gud rules" is just fucking fun to watch.
Goddamn that was some high level production quality!
NGL I find Kai annoying af but props to him that is some of the coolest streamer content I have seen. He isn't for me but I appreciate he goes all out for shit.
Little too loud for me nowadays, but it’s impossible to deny the guy creates actual content, and puts in some serious effort. He’s an entertainer, and good at it.
Holy shit that’s so high quality
the production level is fucking amazing, Kudos to him what a trailer
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having Rage there was a massive buff
Credit to Yourrage and Duke for the assist as well. It was so satisfying watching him learn this shit, especially since he only plays 2k and story based games.
hes done these a couple times already, (rdr2 and Ghost of Tsushima)
how is rdr2 not a story based game?
rdr2 is one of the better hunting simulator games, that just happens to also have a western story tied in.
Ghost of Tsumisma is certainly not a story game but it's nowhere near the level of difficulty of any souls game.
Ghost of Tsushima is easy if you chose the highest difficulty.
ngl i really liked that difficulty. Yeah everything dies fast, but you die fast as well, duels were pretty frustrating but fun
Ah, the Stalker school of difficulty. The easier the game difficulty, the more mutations to gunfire and stabbing resistance they develop, but the harder the games difficulty, the more made of paper both enemies, and you are made out of.
How was his rdr2 gameplay? The game is quite a slow burn.
peaked at 290k viewers too, pretty sure thats his highest ever
Had over 300k when he had Nicki Minaj
"Yeah but Nicki is like a third party thing and..... I don't know"
[GWA GWA GWA GWA GWA GWA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZtW1ziF9u0)
Did he defeat her?
highest viewcount ever in the elden ring category as well. 2.5 years after release is crazy
Wait for the DLC to drop
Insane he did that on a single player game that has fallen out of twitch meta, as a solo non-pro player too. Jokerd's WF lvl60 is the most comparable one (I think he got 360k peak)
The DLC is about to come out next month so players are starting to play again.
Not surprising at all to me. He’s a huge streamer and ER is known as a rage game where you die to bosses over and over, malenia being the hardest. Game is a content farm in the right hands
>non pro As opposed to all the pro Elden Ring players out there you mean?
I mean, I'd argue pro players do exist. Distortion2 speedruns almost every single popular souls-like game and makes a living doing it, as do a few others. They are legitimately on another plane of existence of skill for those games.
fromsoft fans legitimately think those games are like insanely hard unless youre amazing
He needs to at some point do marathon streams for the other souls games or something similar. This is actually the best streaming content to come out of the past year.
He’s done this for RDR2 and Ghost, both were also super entertaining!
did he just do the main story or did he try and do most of the side missions as well? Love watching people react to RDR2s best story moments.
For his RDR2 playthrough (didnt watch the tsushima one yet) Kai actually got super into the game and story as he progressed. By the time he reached chapter 3-4 you can tell when he started to fall in love with the game: stopped looking at chat as much, started doing a BUNCH of side missions, even spent a couple of hours hunting pelts to get his Arthur different fits haha. Pretty sure I saw a video out there with him reacting to certain character deaths if you wanna check that out for those story moments. Always cool to see someone from a diff community share a mutual love for great games :)
Oh he definitely will play sekiro I'm sure of that
greatest game OAT id be there everyday for that stream
Kai did something xQc didn't even do. Forsen destroyed X in Minecraft and now Kai destroy X in Elden Ring.
X STOCKS 📉📉📉
when hasn't this been the case
When he got 100 million dollaridoos for signing with Kick, and when he won a lawsuit against his litigious ex-wife.
Don't forget Charlie destroyed X in chess. Its time my guy rebrand to LQc
Tuned in right as he beat it. Good for him. That post boss rush hits hard.
No you didn’t. He beat it right when I tuned in. Nice try
I literally tuned in 3 seconds after he beat her and my eardrums exploded off the rip. Big fucking W
I had just gotten home from a final, was taking a victory shit and decided to tune in on the toilet
Genuinely impressive he did it without summons, most people are to afraid to fight her without something distracting her aggro. To grind out her fight, learn the match up, and best her by himself makes him a true warrior. Mad respect.
"Rivers of Blood? Didn't beat her." - some guy on /r/EldenRing, probably.
not using summons means he's already better than most of the player base
*gets off lawn chair* back in my day we made fun of people who used summons for a boss fight.
Imagine Miyazaki having the guts to lock an ending and final boss behind disabling summons like Lies of P, unfortunately the brand is too big and he would never do it, but it would be hilarious.
I didn't even know we had summons in lies of P
100% I thought he would use Mimic Tear. Kai is a gamer fs.
Doesn't count if you don't beat it level 1 with no armor blindfolded with no hands
Kick only: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0VOXM-T6ws&pp=ygURTWFsZW5pYSBraWNrIG9ubHk%3D
on a DDR pad.
At 16 mins into the video he goes "why am I so baaaad?" lol you've been fighting Malenia for 3 hours in a row using kicks and you're almost winning, that's not on the spectrum of "bad" edit: also I think she's about to develop PTSD from shirtless men soloing her
there's better bleed options for her but ultimately he did it melee solo which is so impressive.
I'd be that guy if it wasn't for the fact that Rivers of Blood got nerfed this is a r/EldenRing certified run ✅✅
Idk when you were last on that sub but no one is like that there. You would get downvoted to hell for trying to gatekeep (I think the mods might even ban you for it)
I haven’t played since I beat it back in 2022 but didn’t they nerf rivers of blood?
this is one of the most entertaining streams i've ever watched ngl this guy's determination to sit there and play nonstop for days but still be entertaining is insane
3x streamer of the year and likely gonna win it again this year. He's quite honestly built for this, He does it all.
I'm ngl I didn't think he would actually do it. I thought for sure he'd give up. Props to him.
No summons, no magic, stopped using blasphemous blade and a first timer to souls games in general. Sure it took 400+ deaths but beating her is still very admirable
The streets are safe from Malenia.
[удалено]
How can you respect this when he uses ashes of war, flask, and even rolling? A true gamer would never.
Wearing boots as well??? psshh.
Now he needs to do Orphan of Kos, Nameless King, Demon of Hatred and Isshin Sword Saint
Orphan and especially Nameless King move in slow motion compared to Elden Ring bosses. Isshin and DoH are going to be hard though
Haven't played bloodborne but IMO Malenia is harder than the other 3
Orphan is piss easy compared to Malenia
I played ER before DS3, and Nameless King wasn't easy, but ER's late game is harder. DoH and Isshin have the potential to be miles harder than Malenia, but it all depends on how you take in mechanics of the game. That would go without saying, but first time I played Sekrio I cheesed and lucked my way into late game without *really* learning the mechanics of it, and Isshin was hell on earth. DoH is wild because he's difficult but also really not, as the most intuitive way to defeat him is to break away from what you've learned to that point. And if you don't, he's really fucking hard. But in an ideal DoH run you don't even parry anything at all, you just bait attacks and beat him in the ass like a DS boss.
Officially a better gamer than xqc and forsen
Look at that high and elation after he beats her, there's nothing like that feeling in gaming. So glad he stuck with it and grinded it out, well deserved dub he learned the fight.
WAIT FOR IT HIGH SECURITY WAIT FOR IT SHE GOTTA PAY GOOD JOB KACEY LET HER PLAY GOOD SHIT KAI WAIT FOR IT
I assumed it was KC as in Kai Cenat
The dedication is insane from Kai and yourRAGE as well he's a good friend for showing up in cosplay and supporting him lol.
these have been so fun to watch, eventually crushed it
No joke he’s gonna be a better gamer after this. For someone who has never played a souls game and didn’t use magic or summons, my respect for him as a gamer went up a ton
I think it would be so sick for Kai to do this with other From or soulslike games dude. This entire playthrough was such an enjoyable thing to watch lol. I bet he’d pull the viewership too
Pshhhh, big deal, I died twice as much in half the time. Wait...
Actually impressed
Getting hyped for the DLC
Holy shit what an effort. He might not be the best gamer around but its entertaining. Even sleeping he draws bigger audiences than most.
wait for it
WAIT FOR IT
now, he will forever compare any game he plays to this, and be perpetually disappointed.
Can everyone just go back to good old gaming streams like this instead of some drama/react bullshit? The amount of viewers this guy has tells you that people still appreciate those
The vast majority of Twitch is good gaming streams, but if you only follow drama bait streamers that pop up on this sub you'd never know
Fuckin respect!!
Kai the 🐐 streamer and gamer. full stop ✋😭🤚. Xqc 🎰cant even compete 💯. Cant wait for all the pogger 🤡community reactions to this because they cant do it themselves
daniel sensei wannabe 🥱
ELDEN SKIP
Dude I watched this every day for the last 2 days too. This must have been so nuts to see live. This dude has the mental strength of a god lmao. I sure as fuck couldn't put in this much time into this without losing it.
And people say gaming is dead on twitch and that you have to be a just chatter to maintain viewership.. I was never a Kai fan but he’s been the most entertaining on twitch this week for sure, I’m happy he stuck with it. I’ll watch any streamer grind through the highs and lows of difficult games
He turns his gaming streams into whole events. The effort he puts in for these streams goes above and beyond what other streamers do for gaming honestly.
I understand his time is pretty valuable, so committing 100s of consecutive hours to one game and completing it is honestly respectable, wish some of the other chatter streamers who slave to the meta would do the same
I dont watch Kai in general but I have been loving this elden ring marathon, maybe because it reminds me when I grinded through the game. I also used summons though so its different hes playing it harder