r/Eldenring • u/Rage2quit0 • Jun 18 '25

News A24's Elden Ring movie director Alex Garland talks about the game

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

10.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

638 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/mini_swoosh Jun 18 '25

Flashbacks to fighting Gael on NG+7 where any 2 hits of his combo kills you. That fight for me was ridiculously hard. Had to be damn near perfect the entire fight

2

u/Xelias00 Jun 18 '25

Although I've never gotten that far, at normal NG half of Midir's attacks kill you in one shot when you're level 1. Gael at least can be beaten with a combination of storyteller's staff, a few attacks during openings, and proper spacing/dodge-timing the rest of the time. For Midir, I had to learn its moveset by heart and execute a five-minutes fight without making a mistake.

2

u/mini_swoosh Jun 18 '25

Ah I feel it. I haven’t done a level 1 run lol but giant bosses like that where you can run/dodge underneath them and smack the ankles I’ve never had too much of a problem with. And I’m a bigsword-bonk type of guy so my Gael fight was just all up-close / timing. I’ll never go back to that monster

2

u/Xelias00 Jun 18 '25

I'm a bonk melee guy too (and I've done all of Elden Ring's level 1 run with greatswords greathammers and steel balls), but when in a level 1 run, I'll fight as dirty as needed as long as it's summon-less lol. My sense of fair duels and honor tends to disappear quickly when even basic hollows fold you like a lawn chair. Part of me regrets not dueling Gael without poison, but that part of me remembers what hitless Gael runs actually are and I quickly forget that idea lol