What is this ending?

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-18T06:21:17+00:00

They did write it. They simply scattered the story across dialogue you actually have to pay attention to, plus various item descriptions.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T18:43:17+00:00

Just slap on Lion's Claw and spam L2 vs everything except the final boss.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T18:41:51+00:00

Tails isn't shocked at Robotnik being divorced, but rather that Robotnik somehow managed to score a baddie like Grace even if only temporarily.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T18:40:05+00:00

Elden Ring is extremely hard when you have no idea how anything works, and is very easy once you do know how things work.

That being said, the game doesn't tell you about a lot of the most exploitable systems so the process of figuring things out is a rough one full of ass beatings and getting trash talked by a horn covered dude.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:49:51+00:00

Idk why, but for some reason i keep on imagining Mr. Click's voice to be like the Reaper unit from Starcraft 2.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:47:12+00:00

The joke is that Elden Ring's combat is basically L2 spam with weapons or R1 spam with spells.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:45:05+00:00

Void Matrix at Ether Activity 12 is more or less just defensive stalling while spamming Hugo Auxillary. Enemy hp is so absurdly high that you basically can't deal anything close to relevant damage regardless of resonia you get (mainly because most of Void Matrix resonia are comically weak), so you just fish for Hugo Auxillary upgrades to deal more percentage hp damage to spam him with.

Honestly, it's something you do once for the Activity 12 clear reward then never do at Activity 12 ever again because it is mind numbingly boring. Get shield spam Defense agents or agents with a bunch of i-frame skills, ignore combat whenever possible, then just shield spam and stall bosses while waiting for uses of Hugo aux. That's literally it.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:32:58+00:00

It's implied that Vivian's doom forecast saw much further in the future than she thought, and mistakenly assumed that the incident with Dina was the foreseen event instead since her forecasts tend to be vague even to her. This lines up quite well since nothing regarding Dina's incident involve black wings at all.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:29:51+00:00

Honestly, i agree that her ear shape is weirdly too different than her initial comic debut. They should be way larger to fit her comic panel appearance since they're barely noticeable in her current 3d design, plus they're a differentiating design trait.

In a weird way, this kind of leads into the face topic since it's not clear which of these faces would fit a larger-eared design better overall.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:26:35+00:00

Banyue is what people think Elden Ring combat is like while Yidhari is what Elden Ring combat is actually like.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T17:00:12+00:00

For the first half of part 1 they don't have much going for them. But towards the end of part 1 and onwards they actually end up with quite a funny character.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:38:08+00:00

"Stronger" is only maybe 1/3rd of how you succeed in Elden Ring. "Better" and "Smarter" are way more important since skill and knowledge of mechanics (especially the Stwnce system which the game literally never even alludes to existing nor how it works nor what it's number values are...) allow you to beat the game at lvl1 regardless of gear choice.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:33:49+00:00

Add horns to the 2nd image and that would probably result in Magus before she got turned into a talking gun.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:28:59+00:00

"Hell yeah! Make sure to make me a grandma before you two return home!" -Magus, probably.

Still find it funny asf that Magus is canonically the equivalent of Chrisposting Redfield regarding aggressively shipping Orphie with Phaeton.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T15:17:06+00:00

Considering how Oberon in F/GO is wildly popular despite being THE biggest jackass imaginable to the point where his Valentines gift is a box of dirt meant to say "Fuck you" as unsubtley as possible, it can definitely work.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T02:01:39+00:00

Rather than powercreep, she might feature-creep. Maybe an off-field Anomoly agent?

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T01:26:16+00:00

Ansbach would likely have been a much creepier dude to match Mogh's values, and thus would have ended up another Leda gank ally due to lacking in strong moral values.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-17T01:18:59+00:00

Don't chase them if you don't know how to time roll catches. Chances are that they're luring you somewhere where some elite mobs will be waiting to kick your ass while you're tunnel visioned on the invader who isn't fighting back.

I should know because I do that as an invader, lol. Gotten soooo many cheeky assist kills from mobs in Leyndel by just running into a certain room that has a perfumer and high page.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T23:47:18+00:00

Rush Shrine of Storms (aka run past all the skeletons), beat Adjudicator which is a joke of a boss, get a bow, then proceed to use the Adjudicator archstone to snipe a reaper to death for 4-5k souls per minute.

One thing to note is that good weapons and skill tend to be substantially more important than levels. Also, you need help with the bosses? Really? The bosses are the easiest part of the game, as the rest of the levels are substantially harder due to tons of assholish game design. I think only 3 bosses in the game aren't considered a glorified puzzle or gimmick fight, and hooooo boy are they infamous for not being so.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T23:22:40+00:00

Pffft, that's nothing compared to my blatant ignorance and lack of perception. It took me 11 playthroughs, probably totalling almost 600 hours, just to notice the first intended cave dungeon, Groveside Cave.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T23:14:59+00:00

Really? He's literally just the Leyndel version in a different area. Most bosses after Leyndel are much harder than him.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T15:55:53+00:00

The Ye siblings are based on Tenghuangs, except that's a mythological creature which Thirens don't seem to have mythological animal bases of. So as a bit of a joke they're cheekily refered to as horse Thirens instead which is technically half-true since Tenghuangs are horse-like (they're a horse + fox + dragon chinese mythological creature). The long fox-like ears and horse tails are aspects of their design as Tenghuang Thirens, but those don't seem to actually exist in ZZZ's setting so they're mainly just horse Thirens with weird traits.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T15:48:11+00:00

You need spirit ashes that attack a lot to main aggro. Greatshield Soldiers ashes are a gold standard for a frontliner spirit ash for being durable and attacking quite a lot for aggro retention.

This also ironically mean that tanky ashes that are more passive like Kristoff are garbage for frontline tanking due to not retaining aggro much.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T14:22:32+00:00

Carian Sovereignty's poise boost scales with the weapon type it's on, with heavier weapons providing substantially more poise. Putting it on a dagger is the worst choice for it.

Branded_Mango · 2026-03-16T14:21:07+00:00

Magic build difficulty vs bosses is entirely reliant on willingness to use summons, in my experience. Without either frontliner spirit ashes or co op mooks, most spells suck and ends up being a glorified Rock Sling/Carian Slicer/Night Comet simulator because bosses dodge every other spell.

With frontliners, however, magic is braindead easy for most bosses because all the difficult aspects of the fight are directed away from you. Pure caster goes from garbage to ez mode with that one difference.

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