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You ready for Kuroko!!? (and Armed Hoshino)

Well, I guess that's true. Vore is so incredibly broad of a kink that even though we both enjoy it, the aspect of it is so different.
And we probably don't overlap much when it comes to other kinks either but it's all up to you whether you accept or not.
Either was it was a nice all be it short chat, you have a good one if you decide to decline <3

I am certainly into it but sadly I am pretty sure the amount of professional hentai of it is miniscule to non-existent. Unless it's a tentacle monster but that's not something I go looking for. I know there is a youtube channel that uploads clips of vore moments in movies and anime, but it's a mix bag of quality and most of it isn't very good.
When I want to look at vore content I usually just go to Eka's Portal or read stuff on writing sites like Ao3, or try to hit someone up for roleplay in rare cases.
I myself am not very into animals and creatures being involved, snakes are kind of ok but much prefer demi-humans, humans doing the eating and being eaten.

I obviously don't mind that people online know what I am into but I'd probably not go out of my way to tell someone in person and vore is a big part of my kink interests. I sent a friend request a while ago, probably around the time I sent the club invite so it should be there somewhere in your notifications.

No offense taken whatsoever. The thread is from 2018, here is a link to your post if you're curious about what you said:
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=1701283&id=53817040
I really just wanted to make a club and found that forum thread, so I invited people who said they enjoy it or are interested in it. Not a lot of people since it's such a niche kink and I guess most wouldn't want to be so public with such a topic.

Hello, this is a bit out of nowhere but I sent you a friend request and club invite some time ago.
This is mostly because I saw a very old forum post from you, in a vore thread. So I thought I'd take the chance and write.
Though you might not find that stuff appealing anymore in which case I apologies for bringing it up.

I heard that apparently China plans to come down hard on gambling mechanics in video games, but gacha games are a gigantic market over there so I'm pretty curious how well that's gonna go over. After a quick search, it seems like it might've just been a rumor or it seems like the official that proposed it got removed after a large outcry and backlash lol that's if its the same one I heard about anyway.
Fate fans have it pretty rough in one way, a lot of us start FGO while already being invested in the story/world and it's characters, so we come into it already wanting to badly summon a bunch of characters we love from the get-go lol
Yeah the summoning system in Genshin seems brutal.
Can't blame you for gunning for her. You've shown me her once before if I'm not mistaken right? Still really love her design.

TYVM. Speaking of Nitocris, I had some tickets from completing the New Year mosaic puzzle thing I think? Or maybe they became available in the shop, can't remember for sure. But I decided to just throw them at the Nitocris banner just cuz and I actually ended up getting her:
It's def safe to say that my luck is back in full swing lol
I've made a start on the Lostbelt btw although I'm not too far into it yet but I should be able to report back about it relatively soon. Unfortunately my dumbass waited too long and lost out on those quartz you get for completing so many missions in Lostbelt 7. It's not the end of the world I guess but it sucks to lose out on some easily attainable quartz.

Oh yeah good point, that was the intention for sure, could even try and switch into the ring mid-fight if you're ballsy enough. I'm pretty interested to see how they're going to update the move-sets of bosses like Centipede Demon for Elden Ring, I feel like they would definitely need to update the attack speed and lengthen some of the combo's on these older bosses to fit more in-line with Elden Ring's current level.
Marika and Radagon are the same being but have separate personalities and senses of self from my understanding, so while Marika shattered the Elden Ring and wished to end the current order, Radagon serves the Golden Order and tried repairing the Elden Ring. Which explains why Marika is seemingly restrained when we enter Radagon's boss arena. We don't know for sure if they were always the same being, of if they were one being that split in two and then later recombined. It's also hard to know if becoming two beings was Marika/Radagon's doing or perhaps The Greater Will's. This quote: “O Radagon, leal hound of the Golden Order. Thou’rt yet to become me. Thou’rt yet to become a God.” seems to maybe imply that The Greater Will had some influence in Radagon's creation from Marika but it's still far too vague to say for sure imo.

Yeah it seems to be totally disconnected from the world of Fate, Tsukihime etc according to the wiki. Cool to hear it got an 8/10, has a really cool style to it for sure and some great character designs from what I've seen. Still haven't gotten back to the new Bleach season yet but I knew Nemu was gonna get her spotlight episode this season, I think the last episode I saw was the one where Grimmjow and Nel meet up with Ichigo's team, wonder if she'll get chance to fight a bit this season or if they'll save her and Grimmjow's action for the next one. Lemme know if you come across any censorship if you do end up checking the chapters to compare.

Hmm I don't think I've heard of that one, what kinda game is it and what's it about?

You see it constantly in FPS games as well with skins and what-not but its commonly called out in those cases from what I've seen, even though the practice still persists somehow regardless. It really is crazy how gacha games are able to disguise and slip such absurd pricing under the radar like that. I would assume that people are more likely to overlook it when there's elements of gambling involved, they probably subconsciously look at it more as gambling with a fail-safe rather than an absurdly costly flat-purchase, very grimy way to camouflage it. Yeah the character designs being so appealing probably has a lot to do with it as well, gotta make them look as enticing as possible so people won't think twice about how much they'll spend to get em.

I haven't played the Lostbelt yet but that definitely seems like a strange choice from what you've described. I can't think why they'd put Nitocris on first if she wasn't even the one featured in the story yet. Maybe it was due to Kirei's birthday being the 28th December but I would've thought it would make more sense for him to have already been available when that rolled around, strange. I can happily announce that I pulled Kirei btw, only went through 10 tickets and about 4 or so 10-pulls so I have plenty of quartz leftover. I even got an extra Siegfried out of it so I'm very happy with the results.

Anyway as I mentioned, I haven't gotten round to playing the new Lostbelt yet. Been dealing with some personal shit lately unfortunately, which is why it's took me a bit longer to reply than normal as well. I'll let you know my thoughts ofc once I do get round to playing it, nice to hear its off to a good start iyo. Hope you had a decent Christmas and New Years as well.

I'm fairly sure it's a story-related item so it would be in the chest behind Frampt, which kind of makes it pointless to even get the limb-cut in the first place if you're just going to be given it anyway, it might as well just drop from the boss normally. So they accounted for it at least, but that's DSI for ya with it's archaic systems that weren't fully figured out yet.

They're so used to playing the games in only one stubborn way that they just start believing it's the regular way to play, you can't get much more default than a shield, it literally goes hand-in-hand with a weapon lol I was a Pyromancer the first time I played Dark Souls III because I wanted a good mid-range option, I guess the purists wouldn't have been fond of that approach XD
Yeah I'll definitely be trying out the shield strategy next time, and might even dabble with the ice pots as well. I might give a few attempts at dodging Waterfowl now that I have some understanding of how to do it but I certainly won't die on that hill the second time round. Getting hyper-fixated on trying to take no damage from that move seriously affected my ability to learn her general move-set the first time, so next time I just need to find something that works well enough and stick to it.
Well with the move being so rare that a majority of people don't even end up seeing it, I'd say the best strategy is just hope you're not one of the unlucky ones he does it to lol

I was super confused/oblivious to the whole Marika Radagon thing as well ngl, I think those two being the same person flew over most peoples heads tbf.

Ah yeah that's a fair point, I wasn't sure how up-scaled he would've been at that point.
True, the teleport chests are intended to be the replacements for sure but they're kind-off a let-down in comparison and easy to avoid once you know you can just immediately roll out of the gas. The chest that puts you right in the middle of bear county was pretty funny though, and the one that teleports you to the top right is a cool way to reveal just how giant the map is, so they're not without their memorable moments either I suppose. I agree that gargoyles and giants looked better in Dark Souls. Those even harder bear bosses that they added to the DLC were brutal.

Ah cool, yeah I've heard of Squid Game. Haven't seen it but pretty much know exactly what its about, would be pretty hard not to know with how popular it's became lol I got a few episodes into the new Bleach season but then fell behind due to the reasons I mentioned earlier, hopefully I'll be able to get up to date with it soon. Ah yeah I know of Canaan as well, it's a Type-Moon series but pretty far removed from Fate if I'm not mistaken unlike stuff like Tsukihime. Speaking of, did you hear that Neco-Arc appeared in FGO recently? I often wondered when they were gonna get round to giving them an appearance, it's about time.

Well yh, up to you if you want to give a try or not n yh the little sister is the main character of one of the story, but u’ll have to watch the show I’d say cuz u won’t understand what’s happening, the show is very episodic but u get familiar to her even tho she isn’t the main character of the show, u just get a glimpse of her personality n character, u really get to know her only from the last 3 eps. Since it’s a surnatural type story, there’s many exaggerated parts imo. But again, it’s up to you if u wanna watch it or not ;).
Oh 2010-11 ! I was veryy small back then lol, I was still in primary school.. I used to watch Pokémon in those years too.. Naruto a bit later, 5-6 years after I think. Oh I see, Haruhi is one of those anime that I watched but I’m still lazy to put it on mal lol, I’m trying to put them all, slowly, but yh.. tbh it was just fine as a show, didn’t like it too much nor hate it, just fine. Without being too intrusive, Can I know why did you stop your yearly rewatch ? Even tho 3 years r kinda a lot too, I’ve tried for so many anime (other than ToraDora!) but never more than two rewatches.
Yh, she does, the first time I watched it, I missed the post-credit scene, so felt so empty after watching the show.. but somehow came back a week later, n saw it n tbh, it gives a way better ending rather than just Taïga leaving cuz she has some probs to solve. Yh, I agree that it’s still very unsatisfying but it’s enough to me I’d say.
For the OVA, I totally agree with what you said, but.. it was cuteee tbh :D ! For the ending, yh there r many shows with worse endings, but even tho most of the ppl don’t like it, it’s very special to me I’d say that’s the most perfect ending to it (but it was a very rushed ending imo) n one of the reasons ppl come back to rewatch it. The post-credit scene was soo cuteee <3.
Btw, sry for my sentences’ structure n grammar related mistakes, as English is my third language (I’m French), I struggle a little bit while writing 🙏

Yh, I agree, that it makes the list more special but just like u said, having to choose which one I like better is too diff for me 😭.
Talking abt Bunny Girl Senpai, it's just a romance. Tbh, I also thought that it would be an ecchi harem, but surprisingly, it wasn't. The story is filled with surnatural stuff, and the girl on the cover is the protagonist's girlfriend, this is one of those rare anime where the protagonist doesn't struggle too much to get his feelings accepted...
I first watched ToraDora! in 2015, n I'm watching it yearly in winter with the Christmas episode on Christmas as it should be :D ans same for me, Taiga was one the first anime girl I liked ("liked" isn't strong enough imo XD), the ending was definitely beyond comprehension, I had to watch several fans posts n vids, to get over it in a positive way :).

Thanks a lot for the recommendations, will have a look one day n let you know my impressions. Thanks again !

Yh maybe, but I saw that u enjoyed most of the anime we have in common so.. yh.
Anyways, Tnx for accepting my FR !
Talking abt Taiga, she's my all-time fav character ! n abt the girl u mentioned, Mai Sakurajima, I agree she's amazingy cute :D If only mal allowed 50 fav characters, even 50 wouldn't be enough I'd say, I like SO many of them !
When I first read "Bunny Girl Senpai" I thought it would just be an ecchi anime with a lot of fan-service but yk, "don't judge an anime by its name" :D, this anime is just amazing ! The start is just fine, personally I didn't like the first 4 eps but after it was great. The movies are excellent too, I'll def recommend u to watch it :D

That's some absurd pricing, $5 for a month of 2.5x rewards is fairly reasonable but roughly $300 for a guaranteed character is ludicrous. I'm surprised they can charge such a price if 3 months of daily's is the simple alternative, seems like there's a lot of people in the Genshin player-base with more money than sense lol
Yeah as long as you've got your code and simple info like when you first started playing and such, it shouldn't really be an issue to get back into your account. Obviously just having a dated purchase makes the process even easier, and I imagine would also speed up the ordeal if they know you're a paying customer. I've had exactly the same thought about it, like if I ever did completely lose access to my account somehow, there's no fucking chance you'd catch me starting over from scratch. So I get your mentality you mentioned with Blue Archive, I'd be livid for having lost it ofc but it'd also just be like "well if it's gone, it's gone, guess I'm done".

I really like that design as well but that's sadly an OC by the looks of it, Fate Anubis is a doggo. She def would've looked right at home with the other Egyptian servants tho.

Well you get the charred ring from cutting one of the Centipede Demon's limbs off, so you would've had to have gotten it by chance if you weren't aware of it beforehand, pretty easy to miss. I've heard that when the game first came out there was a funny bug where the aggro range of the half-dragons was insanely large for some reason. So pretty much as soon as you entered the area they would all just sprint at you from like the other side of the map lmao
I feel like the titanite demons have some of the most unforgiving and disjointed hitboxes in the whole game.

Yeah I think a lot of people just wanna feel like they beat the game while being at more of a disadvantage so they can boast about it, or they didn't like shielding/some other mechanic as an option so they choose to rule it out of what they consider to be the "right" way to play the game. They probably tell streamers to ditch the shields cus they just wanna see the streamers beat the game the same way they did, I'd prefer it if people just left others to figure out their own damn playstyles, these games are all about trial and error after all. Some moves and enemies are better suited to shielding and others to rolling, the tools are there to be used in tandem and I'd say they're too multifaceted to give such a blanket statement of saying one entire defensive option is simply good or bad.
I definitely intend to keep shields in mind a lot more when I start my next playthrough of Elden Ring.

Well I do think you're definitely on to something with how good the Golden Halberd is. If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure one of the best strategies in Elden Ring for quite a while was to dual-wield halberds and use a lot of jumping attacks to inflict large amounts of stagger. And it seems the Golden Halberd is one of the highest damaging halberds in the game if what I'm reading is accurate. It'll be interesting to see if the halberd trend continues when you eventually get round to DSII+III lol I'll say you've definitely made me curious about the Golden Halberd, so maybe when I get round to that next playthrough, I'll try mainly using it and let you know the results.

I think that's where a lot of the frustration comes from for me as well, like she was so close to just being a generally great boss but then they go and ruin it by giving her that shitty regen mechanic as a way to cheaply increase the difficulty, it's a damn shame. I assume Bed of Chaos has reclaimed that crown of worst Souls boss for you then right?
I don't recall too specifically but I'm pretty sure I just gave up on shields when I realised she still healed through them. So I was trying to figure out how on earth to roll through Waterfowl Dance. So then when I made practically no progress with that endeavor after pretty much bashing my head against a wall for a while, I instead opted for trying to always be in a position to outrun it which wasn't a consistent strategy for obvious reasons. You can't exactly be playing aggressively to deplete her health quickly while also trying to play safely so you can run from that move if she uses it at a moments notice lol I obviously relied a lot on Tiche as well since she actually has the ability to dodge a lot of Malenia's moves including Waterfowl Dance, so using her to split up aggro and having Waterfowl target Tiche instead of me was a huge help from memory. It seems I probably should've gave the shield strat more of a chance. I definitely wasn't doing myself any favors with my stubborn approach to the fight and unwillingness to experiment very much back then. I haven't fought her since that first playthrough so I'm pretty interested to try fighting her again tbh and seeing if she is as bad as I remember, especially after playing Lies of P, ER DLC and Stellar Blade.
Ah yeah having the appropriate scadutree blessing level makes such a huge difference. I was fighting Rellana for quite a while with too low of a scadutree blessing level and she was pissing me off so bad lol I was trading hits with her constantly but they were always losing exchanges with how much damage I was dealing and taking, so I just couldn't see a win-con under those circumstances. She became instantly manageable once I added a couple of scadutree levels. I didn't severely out-level her or anything ofc, the fight just suddenly felt like it was at the intended difficulty level.
Crucible Knight confirmed to be the true Elden Lord.

Sounds epic, congrats on getting it first try, no better feeling than beating a boss on the first attempt by the skin of your teeth like that. Which fight did you prefer btw, Bayle or Placidusax?

Sweet, did you get to see his multi-clone grab attack?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfHzCKHk9iE
Y'know that's a very good point lmao Why'd they go through the trouble of giving you a specific tear to counter Mohg's life-drain when he's perfectly manageable without it. They even implemented the Mohg's Shackle item on top of that which lets you get a couple of free stuns on him, not that the shackle gimmick is really worth using at all, but they really put too much of their attention on the wrong end-game boss XD
Yeah Maliketh was easily hard enough to be the final boss no doubt about it.

I'm pretty sure Consort Radahn's armor is just strictly worse in every stat except weight compared to Starscourge Radahn's armor set, which doesn't really make any sense to me narratively lol
Fun fact: You actually couldn't use Torrent in the Elden Beast fight until the most recent patch, and it was a really common complaint among fans. Chasing after Elden Beast on-foot was a miserable experience, the fight always seemed as if it was designed with Torrent in mind because of the sheer amount of distance the Elden Beast covers constantly. They also nerfed that attack he does with the homing glowing orb that's constantly firing smaller beams, that was straight up one of the most insufferable attacks in the entire game pre-nerf.
I agree that Elden Beast was a bit of a let-down, cool visuals at least but I much preferred the Radagon fight. Hearing that main theme music kick-in as the boss fight starts gave me mad chills, and Radagon is just badass af. The changes they made to the Elden Beast fight improved it a shit-ton tho.

Interestingly while it's the right eye on Ranni's doll body, the ghostly face next to it that's meant to be Ranni's actual face has the same left eye closed as Melina. And Messmer also keeps his left eye closed as well. It's a pretty intriguing reoccurring theme.

Nicely done, going from DLC and the end of main-game back to Margit must've made him feel so easy in-comparison lol It feels great to go back and experience first-hand how much you've improved since you first started based on how easily you can body the early bosses now.

Oh wow, well better late than never XD

Btw I don't know about you, but I was pretty disappointed that Elden Ring didn't have any mimics. They're a staple enemy of the Dark Souls games, and one my personal favs. I was really hoping the DLC was gonna have some at least.

In other gaming news, I've been playing this game called Prey from 2017 and it keeps on constantly outdoing itself, it's honestly one of the best games I've ever played. I've also just been making my way through some of the backlogged events I have on FGO to try and get some more last minute quartz.
I'll let you know if I find out any new information on the Elden Ring game that I think you might find interesting.

This is the first time seeing a person that knows yupiel other than me.

I do like SRT Academy, both the concept and the characters. However, I wasn't really much of a fan on how they were utilized in Volume 4. Especially the FOX Squad. Hopefully, they get a chance to redeem themselves one day.

Well I think I'd like the ending a whole lot less if she really did mean what she said and their time spent together didn't end up meaning anything to her as a result, so I'll choose to keep operating under the assumption that it was merely meant to unburden Shichika with some of the grief like you said.

Some black and white art-styles can definitely benefit a lot from being in color, I've read my fair share of manga where it's hard af to decipher what's happening in some fight scenes. Emphasizing movement is understandably pretty difficult for some mangaka.

Yep that's the one. I was fully expecting to stay completely F2P as well, hadn't spent a penny of real currency in the game until that recent banner, and I'd say I've managed to get a strong majority of the servants that I seriously aimed for without having to do so. But I thought it'd be fun to do it at least once, and it thankfully wasn't very expensive as you guessed. Plus I've heard that having made a purchase in-game makes it significantly easier to recover your account should you ever need to do so, so I have a bit of extra comfort in that now. Certainly don't intend to start haphazardly spending a bunch of real money in game now, it'll be back to the F2P life-style for me. Would've been hilarious if I landed on the one servant I already had out of like 20, couldn't have even been mad if that happened.
I haven't played Voyagers event either ofc, but I know he originates from the Fate/Requiem series, Kijyo Koyo also made her first appearance in that. Seems like a pretty interesting story, I know it's got a bunch of cool-sounding servants like Anubis and Lucius Longinus.

Sucks the game didn't feel like being particularly kind as usual but congrats regardless.
Ah yeah IIRC I didn't get chance to roll for her on the banner but I luckily got her on a different banner afterwards. Yeah Melusine def seems like one of the best Lancers.

Loyal doggo deserves all the head pats.
Oh duh. Forgot about that shortcut cus I wasn't aware of it when I first played the game, so I kept running back through the dog and assassin infested alleyway XD Which tbf could still be contributing to his reputation, I'm probably far from the only person that had that oversight. But yeah Capra Demon REALLY isn't that bad in retrospect then now that you've reminded me of that.
Ah I found out about that alt route when I checked to see if there really wasn't a closer bonfire. Can't blame you for having missed the other one, it's pretty well hidden after all, gotta love them illusory wall bonfires. Having to dodge past or fight that titanite demon (which is the only one in the game that respawns) each time must've been a huge pain.

Ah yeah I had wondered how you'd adapt to the later games with them putting a lot more emphasis on rolling. I'd say DSIII is probably the most roll oriented out of all the DS games and ER, so I really wasn't in the habit of using shields too much aside from the stamina regen one. But I've eased into using them more as I've played more Souls-like content even though rolling is still my go-to option in most cases. I used a shield against Mesmer for example, shielding his rapid thrust part of his big combo was a lot more consistent than trying to roll it. It def pays to consider all of your options.

I totally understand the mentality, I pretty much did the same thing in DSIII. Got a great-sword from the soul of an early optional boss and it's range was perfect and damage was exceptional, I used it for the entire run while only switching off occasionally if I needed a quicker weapon. I guess it's because switching and getting used to a new weapon means playing worse for a while during that period, which never feels great to do when you know you can just keep using ol' reliable.

I found out at some point that you can actually dodge Nito's ground attack by simply guarding believe it or not, because apparently the change in stance and footing shifts your hurtbox enough that it causes the attack to miss. Pretty funny looking way to avoid it, I've heard it's a pretty reliable strat as well. Here's a vid of someone doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUTTVdWtV8

Ah yeah I've heard of others taking that approach to save Melina, it's an interesting work-around. It's a shame that it's the only route you can possibly take to save her and it involves her refusing to ever talk to you again. Worth it to save the waifu tho. I wonder if it's because she feels robbed of her purpose. Might also be to do with the needle only merely subduing the Frenzied Flame, rather than ridding you of it completely. So maybe she's angry that you've sorta forever made yourself susceptible to it's influence and basically risked yourself and the world for her sake, worried that one particularly bad day might come along and push you over that edge. Frenzy is the antithesis of life so in her mind it's a line that can't be crossed under any circumstances even to save a life, herself included. Can't blame her for being THAT wary of it, especially with what we saw of the Frenzy in the DLC at this point. It would've been an amazing payoff for people who saved her to see her again and reconcile in the DLC tho imo. Dunno if you heard or picked up on it yourself, but Messmer is strongly implied to be Melina's brother (Notice how we used his kindling to burn the sealing tree just like how she wanted to use herself as kindling for the Erdtree?), so it would've made even more sense for her to reappear because of that.

The time has come to finally talk about Malenia lmao I found her extremely aggravating as well, I despise her dumbass healing mechanic for all the reasons you pointed out, it's such a cheap way to make a boss difficult. Normally the boss formula in Souls-games consists of you having a set amount of heals and that basically represents the amount of mistakes you can afford to make in a boss fight, but the boss healing off of your mistakes completely throws that formula out the window. Now the fight gets reset slightly every time you make a mistake, giving you more time to make even more mistakes, wonderful. At least with things like Mohg's gimmick, it's a set-in-stone amount of damage and healing every single time that you can account for, but with Malenia it's just don't get hit I guess? And FUCK her Waterfowl Dance attack. One of the most broken and blatantly unfair moves they've ever given a boss. Its such a toxic combination with life-steal. Apparently the best way to consistently dodge that move is circle under her when she leaps into the air which supposedly causes her first flurry to go in the wrong direction, but that just isn't something that most players will figure out themselves. And because she can pretty much do that damn move at any point, including cancelling out of her stagger animation to do it for some god-forsaken reason, it heavily defines the entire encounter imo. Makes you play less aggressive than you probably should cus you're looking out for that one specific attack. Sure it's survivable with shield to a degree but that's assuming you're always in a good position to do so mid-fight, and while it debatably may be better than losing the attempt outright, having to watch her undo a substantial chunk of your progress from healing off your shield is fucking miserable and is generally why shielding that move isn't recommended. I also hate that she has multiple attacks in phase two that involve her jumping into the air, so sometimes you just can't tell if its gonna be Waterfowl or not because of the camera. Hell she even heals off your summons too, making them notably less effective against her compared to other bosses. I opted to use Black Knife Tiche because of how mobile she is, she actually has the ability to avoid Malenia a lot of the time in comparison to 99% of the other summons who only serve to be an extra first-aid kit for her. Apparently you can throw freezing pots to break her out of the Waterfowl start-up, but a boss having such an oppressive move that it forces the player to use something specifically to counter it just doesn't sit right with me. I saw from your update message that you went back and got the W on her. How did she feel going back to it after the DLC and did you switch up any tactics? Not surprised to hear she became your least favorite Souls boss btw, is that still the case now that you've finished the game? And where does she stack up difficulty wise for you? Consort Radahn is the hardest for sure imo (hell it's the hardest boss they've ever made, I don't know how they'll ever top this one tbqh), and I'd say Bayle is the second hardest. I'd also say Messmer is conventionally more difficult than Malenia as well, aka on a move-to-move basis.

Great to hear the DLC reinvigorated you after Malenia did her best to kill your enthusiasm lmao That Curseblade enemy you can bump into in the initial flower field was one hell of an introduction to the DLC, dude bodied me out of the gate.
From what I've seen, out-DPSing her is def a viable strategy that I often see people suggest. Which is why it sucks that Waterfowl is such an oppressive move, cus apparently you should be aggressive and hitting her as much as possible, but then you leave yourself open to that damn move if you're not careful, urgh.

After dealing with these kinds of enemies and bosses, you're probably gonna dog-walk most of DSII and III when you get round to em lol
Yeah you basically use what would normally be an attack window to heal instead. I wish I had internalized this a lot sooner even back in Dark Souls III, enemies like the Crucible Knights are a harsh wake-up call to stop that shit.

Ah I see, I imagine it probably doesn't stagger stronger enemies too well either. Oh interesting, well I can see from your screenshots that you did end up winning while using it so I'll be interested to hear how it performed.

Funnily enough a similar thing happened to a friend of my mine. Similar scenario where he had beaten her but was killed afterwards by a lingering summon or spell, I forget which. Luckily in his case though she died just fast enough for it to count in the nick of time, but it did make us wonder at the time if we had missed an after-boss cutscene or not because of it.

Have you fought Astel Stars of Darkness in the consecrated snowfield? It's the same fight except he's stronger and has one new intimidating af attack, although he uses it so rarely that a lot of people don't even end up seeing it. I'll say I don't really like that there's more than one Astel fight tbh, it kinda cheapens the original. Wish they had just given the extra rare move to the first Astel and kept him unique.

Yeah Maliketh is so badass. Were you aware of the Blasphemous Claw item? https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Blasphemous+Claw
I found out about it afterwards so I didn't use it myself and it's certainly not needed to beat him, but it lets you parry certain attacks he does, apparently any of his attacks that briefly glow yellow can be parried with it. Although if its anything like the usual parry timing in Souls games, I'd probably be trash at using it anyway XD I'd say Maliketh is def one of the hardest bosses of the base game. He's such a mobile & aggressive boss that it's really tough to land hits on him a lot of the time. Those are both great choices, you'll have to let me know your top 5 or something similar now that you're finished. I would struggle to give them in a concrete order but my favorites are: Astel, Godfrey, Placidusax, Divine Beast Dancing Lion, Messmer and Midra. Midra is a strong contender for being my no. 1 fav. What did you think of him and his area btw? I won't mention specifics about him in case you haven't found him yet, his area is pretty well hidden. But I adore his design, they absolutely nailed the presentation & music, and I'm really fascinated by the lore surrounding him. I'm also curious what you thought of Dancing Lion. I think it was an incredible first major boss for the DLC, using a traditional Chinese dancing lion as the basis for a boss fight was such a sick idea. Giving deathblight to that second non-boss Dancing Lion was a cruel joke tho. Thank god they didn't give it scarlet rot and frenzy while they were at it. I see you took out Placidusax as well, he was such an incredible spectacle. His nuke attack that straight up stops the music is my favorite attack in the entire game I have to say. And you couldn't ask for a more epic setting than a gigantic colosseum beyond time. I'll say tho he prob has the longest and most tedious runback in ER, but at least it's free of enemies and he's such a fantastic boss that it more than makes up for it. I love the fact that the reason we fight both Placidu and Bayle in significantly damaged states is because they had previously fought one-another in what was no doubt a battle of insane proportions, Placidusax's missing heads was a point of great interest for a while prior to that reveal. His two missing heads are even still attached to and imbedded in Bayles body around his neck area which I hadn't noticed till I saw it pointed out. Igon's amazing btw, the voice actor really gave it his all on that performance, one of the most quotable NPC's in the game.

Mohg's awesome, I dunno how anyone can compare him to Malenia as if they're at all comparable in bullshittery. I liked the way his blood attacks conditioned the player to roll into him rather than away from his attacks. I did the same thing and simply healed through his Nihil, I knew about the Purifying Crystal Tear but it really wasn't necessary to beat him.

I took out Morgott first try as well, he's quite the glass cannon. I had actually just finished properly levelling a weapon at that time, not to mention it was also the first time I tried out the Mimic Tear if I'm not mistaken, so you can probably imagine how fast Morgotts health-bar got disintegrated. Its a shame cus he seemed like a pretty cool boss but that's the strongest spirit summon in the game for ya, no wonder it ended up getting nerfed. Did you experiment with any of the other spirit summons btw or did you stick with ol' reliable Ogha throughout?
Romina Saint of the Bud in the DLC went down surprisingly easy on the first attempt for me as well. I dunno if it was because I had too many Scadutree Fragments at the time or I just got kinda lucky or maybe a mix of both. Was your experience with her something similar? I found out she had a couple of voice-lines which got cut for some reason, shame.

You must've been pretty overlevelled for Fortissax too then right? Pretty sure I was as well iirc.

Urgh, didn't that area have annoying af snipers on the rooftops as well or am I thinking of a different location? Either way yeah that area was pretty annoying. I'm fairly sure one of those invisible guys is a dungeon boss fairly early in the game as well but I don't think I ever came across him myself. How was the Godslayer btw? Something you'd recommend I use on a future playthrough?

Noice, looking badass.

Definite waifu.

Best looking headgear in the game ngl.

Ah yeah it really makes it seem like you're meant to use horse combat but it just doesn't work at all with him. And fun fact: he actually got patched to start much further away from you when you enter the boss arena. Here's where he originally started every time you'd enter his arena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbwWJ19qaKI
So it meant you had to immediately begin every attempt by rolling his charge attack basically, one of the jankiest and least forgiving hitboxes in the DLC.
They nerfed Starscourge Radahn a while back too, and tweaked a couple of things with Consort Radahn, also added something to the final boss of the main game. Speaking of, I noticed you hadn't posted a screenshot of that one yet, have you gotten round to beating it and what did you think of it if you have?

I used the Shadow Sunflower Blossom for a lil bit, pretty cool idea for a weapon.

I really like how Leda looks in that img with her helmet off as well, she's gorgeous, big shame she never removes it in-game.

You'll never guess what just got announced as I was in the process of replying to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djtsw5k_DNc
A NEW FUCKING ELDEN RING GAME AAAAAAAAAA. You picked the perfect time to start playing Souls games and Elden Ring. This new game appears to be some form of a combination of all their previous games. Bosses and characters from Dark Souls straight up make an appearance in the trailer including the Centipede Demon from DSI, one of the spiders from DSII (Some official art also showcases one of the bosses from DSII as well), the Fire Keeper as well as one of the secret bosses from Dark Souls III (People lost their minds over this reveal), what appears to either be an outfit a character or the character in question herself from Bloodborne, and they seem to have incorporated the mobility and some mechanics from Sekiro such as the run speed, ability to scale walls and the parry. It's been a bit of an overload to the senses, I'm still not sure how to properly process the implications of all of this. I'm so fucking excited to see just how many older bosses and characters are gonna make appearances. Really hope they just go full-blown fanservice with this and we get all the greatest hits from across the games. Would be great if we finally got the chance to fight Godwyn in this new game as well, since a lot of people were disappointed he didn't show up in the Shadow of the Erdtree. The release date is 2025, unexpectedly soon. I'm glad the wait isn't gonna be too agonizing.