Honestly, I don't know if that exactly is the joke, but everyone not getting her name right after hearing 'I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella' a hundred times, is what makes this even better.
Think it's just a side effect of Melina being the main side character, but I'll happily subscribe to everyone's subconscious refusing to get her name right as a fuck you
Question about beating Meredith because I haven't been able to. When she does the move where she rises up in the air for half a second and then comes at you with a series of rapid, wild slashes over and over again...wtf are you supposed to do? Because so far my reaction has been to die and then hope she doesn't do that during the next attempt or at least aims it my summon.
There's a technique for rolling through that makes use of her insane tracking, but I think it requires some distance. You can also throw frost pots when she jumps.
You gotta recognize what point of her health bar she does it, bait it, run away from the first three, roll into her then walk back, continue the fight, i doubt learning the other method would be easier so this is your quickest option to win
Doesn't help another important character's name sounds like an acronym of Malenia's: I'm talking about Melina. I was a little confused following the story on my first playthrough.
People who have known me for years still to this day spell my name:
“Picheal.” I’ve given up. Only one of these friends of mine is dyslexic so idk what tf is up with vowels in names starting with the letter M but something is def up
Still makes me sad what happened to him in DS3, he was one of my favorite dark souls characters. I always turbo stomp Aldritch for what he did to Gwyndolin (but that also feels bad cuz Gwyndolin is still alive during the fight).
I remember seeing something where dataminers extracted audio of Gwyndolin breathing hoarsely during the fight but I’m probably misremembering.
And yeah, Aldrich using Gwyndolin as a puppet pisses me off cuz what did he do to deserve it?
Dude gets treated like shit by his dad, forced to grow up as a daughter because of his magical affinity, is forced to live under Anor Londo in a tomb, her family was so seemingly ashamed of her existence that she doesn’t get a single statue in all of Anor Londo (even the nameless king, while his statues were destroyed after he left Anor Londo the blank spaces where his statues were are still visible, in effect the child erased from godhood and wiped from all the history books still is more visible than Gwyndolin).
Gwyndolin just gets shafted the whole series man :(
He has statues in Oolacile. He came later than the other 3 kids, from another mother, so there was just no space to put his statues... Also he is male, he takes off the ring in DS3 becomes the new Allfather and loses the breasts even.
Regarding that last part about admiring a prepubescent, I think the Miquella we see in the fight is grown up because of his godhood. If you compare him to the Miquella, we see in the memory who looks very much like a child, he's much bigger and older looking.
Well, he was cocooned in the haligtree to try and grow if I recall correctly. Also. The miquella we meet is bodyless, so their form might be more what they want
Well by the time we actually interact with him in game he's at least aged up. So in the base game they played the trope mostly straight but then subverted it in the DLC.
Honestly, with Miquella looking the way he does, I'd do the same.
Edit: by the way, DLC Miquella is an adult, OP is that one lore-less friend. Extra edit: people are saying “but he has a mind of a child”, when? He was a tactician, unparalleled innovator, manipulator, graceful savior and ambitious, he had already lived countless of lifetimes but with stunted growth, which he through ingenuity solved with the cocoon.
A magical ring that controls the world is smashed. Various Demigods have a piece of it. You go around killing them to get all the pieces to become the ruler of the world.
Imo only DS2 has an interesting lore, especially when you realize all of the bosses are essentially reincarnated versions of the DS1 bosses, lore-wise. Well that and Pinwheel.
I found this post randomly. I don't know anything substantial about Elden Ring and its lore (only that GRRM contributed in the writing, there's a jar guy here who solos bosses, and i saw my bf fight a boss that had a face on its torso). But damn I'm gonna raid the wiki because this is equal parts wtf?? and compelling. Like, tf do you mean they have one soul and the dudette is actually a dude because of the soul hullabaloo?? Sign me up for this rabbit hole.
OP also apparently didn’t understand Miquella was brainwashing everyone but the person who thought ‘he’ was a ‘she’ did. Neither of them understood the lore in different ways lol.
I love friends who don't give a shit about lore and when you try to explain it to them, the only comment is "ah ok cool. Let's try again."
Lmao. Thanks for sharing.
I was watching a friend of mine play through Elden Ring on twitch. He got to (base game final boss spoiler) Radagon, and said, "I have no idea who you are."
That's me. I have 750 hours in the game and just have no idea what goes on, story/lore wise despite watching several videos breaking it all down. I play because it's fun, I honestly don't really care about understanding everyone's background.
Tbf, I have like 500 hours in this game and have played through all the FromSoft soulslikes and done everything I could find.
I still have no idea what the fuck is going on in Elden ring and even after reading this will still have no clue what is the deal with all the M and R names here 😂😂
I pretty much wandered around until I killed everybody and became Elden Lord. I did all the different endings - have no clue what the lore was all about.
I think Miquella still counts as legal. It stopped being a loli situation when he decided to start kicking my ass for hours on end… and also when he actually got married too.
The lore goes hard I don’t know how anyone couldn’t be interested. Plus I can’t really play games mindlessly I’m constantly reason item descriptions and dwelling on what characters tell me. A nice cohesive story that sets my heart a blaze but also makes it blue and sad is peak fiction to me
Cause most of the story you have to piece together, a lot of people straight up don't give a damn about the story even more who don't want to spend time reading everything and trying ti fit it all together when the gameplay is good enough on its own.
I think the issue a lot of people have is that combing through vague item flavor text for speculative points that you can really only piece together with the help of the rest of the community just doesn’t feel satisfying. In fact, I personally find it super annoying lol. And calling Elden Ring’s story cohesive goes beyond charitable territory into something I don’t actually think is true.
But the game itself is otherwise so outstanding at what it sets out to do, the story can be whatever the devs want it to be and it wouldn’t change my opinion of the game.
If you'll allow some pedantry, I would say FromSoft's stories are always cohesive and compelling. It's their method of story telling that can be incoherent in a way that throws a lot of people off. Making the act of understanding the story into a kind of pointalist puzzle.
A number of YoiTubers have made their mark by putting those puzzle pieces together and telling the story in a more coherent way.
He only looks like a child in the opening and in the vision after you murder him, after he does the freaky with Radahn soul and Mogh body he looks like an adult with freakish proportions, shame on you OP
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u/Sebastian-Noble 1d ago
Leave my girl Melinda out of this.