Welcome everyone.
Sorry, just checking some sound things.
I'm going to turn it up a little bit.
Okay, I think we're good. Maybe?
Potentially? Sorry, give me a second.
Alright, well, welcome everyone to Elden Ring.
I'm super super excited to play this.
I have been waiting...
I think I've been waiting since March to play this and stream this.
So I guess I
should talk a little bit about why I'm playing this. So if
you have played
Elden Ring you already know the DLC is coming out soon and
it's meant to be a
really big expansion to the game. I think it's supposed to
be its own
entire game pretty much and that drops I believe June 21st.
So we have a little
bit of time up until June 21st and I have played so much Elden Ring.
I thought, you know to prepare for the DLC I kind of want to
play an entire new
playthrough and stream it just so I can have it recorded
and documented.
So that's what we're doing.
Now I've already played this game
countless times.
I think I have on Steam I think I have like 400-500 hours in
this game. I started
playing in 2022 two weeks after launch and then I kept
playing through half of
2023. I played a bunch of randomizers, played with Paul and
then I kind of
dropped it mostly because I didn't want to play anymore
because I was too over
exposed to it. But I think it'll be fun because I haven't
really touched in the
while. I've been trying to keep myself away from all
spoilers regarding the DLC
and any gameplay just so I can have a clean slate whenever
I play it again for
this playthrough. I also don't remember where most of the
items are because I
played a bunch of randomizers so it'll be like a fresh
experience. Obviously I'll
have already seen all the bosses and all the areas but
it'll still be fun to
play. Yeah so I will probably be streaming once a week,
maybe twice a week if I
have the time. And yeah I think that's all I have to say.
So this is my main save. My first save. My name was Derek.
I looked like a nerd.
This isn't the mask I was using. I was actually using the
Blaidd face if you know what I'm
talking about. The Blaidd head and then after I beat the game I
basically just went
through and just got a bunch of new items and completed all
the extra dungeons.
Catacombs? Caves? I don't remember what they're called.
And then I tried playing as a mage called Gandalf then I tried
playing a fist-fighting
build called Vengeance because of Batman and then
this is another mage
build that I tried. Cool well let's jump into it. I'm going
to try to be quiet
during the cutscenes and everything just because I want
this to be like a
fresh experience for me so let's start a new game.
Now in terms of build I have a few ideas so my first build
with Derek I did two
heavy weapons. I think I did colossal swords. I can't quite
remember. And I've
tried a bunch of different weapons over time but I think the
one that I'm looking
for that I want to try this time is I actually want to be a
samurai. I've
never used any katanas I don't think ever. And I was kind
of thinking for this
playthrough I want to use a katana and then I think it's
called... it's called
a "wakizashi" but it's like that small little short sword
along with a katana.
I feel like the moveset looks really cool and obviously I've seen
plenty of videos of
people using Rivers of Blood and I really want to try that
out. I know it's like
super nerfed at this point but just want to try it because
it looks like a lot of
fun. So that or you know I could go with Wretch. I don't know
if that's a good idea.
I'm just gonna suffer either way. Confessor does look very
cool but I don't
really want to do magic. It's just not my kind of thing.
I think I'm gonna try samurai.
Oh, what should our name be?
Okay I'll come back to it.
Keep in mind too I haven't played this in so long so I
think the controls are
kind of rusty. I think I'm actually doing pretty well in
navigating these menus
but I think whenever we actually play I'm gonna really
struggle.
Let's first make our character. So I want to make someone
really silly looking.
I'm gonna make him. Let's see. Oh, skin color. Here we go.
This is white. Let's do... let's make him yellow.
Looks like I'm like neon yellow. He has to be brighter than
the sun. Oh I know.
Let's do that. Oh gosh. Well.
He's needs to be like a really handsome... Should I make him
really pudgy-faced or
really bloated?
I want him to look really really sad.
Facial aesthetic?
Sure. Okay I'm just gonna keep changing sliders until I
feel like it looks
funny enough.
Nose forehead ratio...
Vert face ratio.
Okay. Ooh, eyes. Gonna have really big eyes.
Eye slant?
He's gonna be like a prehistoric like bird.
Aw, now he looks really sad.
Aw, I'm making him look so sad. He looks so depressed.
He kind of looks like - I think it's really funny. His skin
is yellow but he kind of
looks like he just ate a lemon.
So maybe I should make him a lemon man?
No he's gonna be really sad. He's depressed.
I kind of want his eyes to be a little bigger.
I don't think I can though.
And now he looks angry. Let's make him sad again.
We need him to be sad.
Ew, gross, he can have yellow hair too.
Um... what kind of hair would a lemon have?
This is like Trevor from GTA hair.
Oh no we can't have any hair over that beautiful face.
I like that his cheeks jut out so far that it clips through
his hair.
With this gray hair he looks like an old granny.
Oh man what kind of hair should we have?
I feel like he's definitely the kind to dye his hair.
Blue.
No luster. We want plenty of white hairs. Oh wait that's
too much.
That's pretty good. So they're really stressed. It's a
really stressed lemon granny.
Oh wait this one's perfect.
Wow I'm going to do black.
No, it's not as good as blue.
Eyes.
We need the eyes to be blue too.
Really stressed.
Maybe not that much.
I can barely even see it.
Oh yeah we need lipstick too.
Ooh a tattoo!
Let's do.
This.
I can do an eye patch too. Totally forgot.
No we need to see those beautiful eyes.
All right let me let me go ahead and save this.
Actually wait, let me change this to be...
[completely unnecessary groaning lol]
All right this is an old granny. I'm sticking with the old
granny.
A huge head. She's really smart but you know.
Oh wait, I'm not really too concerned about her body.
Pretty good. Pretty normal. Oh she - she definitely lifts.
We're going to save this. All right. Name is going to be
granny. No, we'll call it "Lemon Granny". How's that?
Young? No, we're definitely aged. Let me just check really
quick.
Oh yeah here we go. Oh yeah lemon granny is looking worse
for wear.
It's okay she's a cool progressive granny.
Um because she has the blue hair of course.
So I think that's it. So we want to go with samurai.
Do we want a keepsake? Let's get a
let's get a golden seed. You can't really go wrong
with golden seed and
it doesn't hurt to have an extra one.
All right let's let's go with it. Let's roll.
Lemon granny.
Lemon granny's adventure begins.
So cool.
Getting goosebumps.
A granny.
A progressive granny.
The Elden Granny.
Well that was cool.
Alrighty we are in the game.
Elden Ring, okay how do you praise? Wait no.
Sorry, so for - clarity all the buttons that it
shows they're not what
matches my controller. I'm playing with a PS controller so
I kind of have to
think extra hard about which button I'm pressing. It says
"Y", press "Y" but I actually have to
press triangle.
Okay um let's look at what we have.
So I have a bow, a shield, an uchigatana, and then of
course armor.
I'm going to take off the helmet because we need to see
granny's face.
This is running.
There's some bots in the channel - sorry, in the chat.
I'm just going to ignore them.
That's using.
Okay this is using.
I really forgot how to play. I think it's coming back to me though.
[reading message]
Thank you very much! You know, I'm going to do that.
"Wrath required ahead"? I don't even know what that means.
The Chapel of Anticipation.
Are there people who died here?
[laughing] Flawless playthrough.
So to explain what these are, these are blood stains and
you can touch blood stains to see how
other people have died online. So this is showing like the
last like I think five or six
seconds before they die. You can see all these people here
they died because they just jumped
off the cliff. So pretty anticlimactic.
I'm going to keep moving along.
I also want to read a lot of the messages. So these are
user submitted messages and the way
these work is you have a word bank and you can just choose
words in those word banks
to construct a sentence. And a lot of people make really
really funny messages. So I want to
look at them. "Sadness ahead". "if only I had a head".
These aren't really bad funny but we'll get to some
that are really funny.
"Death ahead", "monstrosity ahead, try skill". Well I already
know I'm going to die,
I'm not even going to try to fight them.
I don't know, look at how my... is it this? It's skill.
Ooh it's very cool.
Man, well now I know everyone's playing the samurai.
The moves are so cool.
All right, um this is a scripted death. I'm not going to
try to fight him.
I'm just going to fall off the cliff.
I died.
I've never actually died like that.
For a second I thought it was just going to make
me start over. And I'm also so glad I took off my
helmet so you can see my lovely granny face.
Come on granny, get up. You've fallen but you can still get up, okay?
All right, now we're in this little cave.
Let's go down. So it's time to go down here and
do this cave knowledge.
I am going to do so because the hardest boss lives down
here.
So you can rest at the sites of grace to restart our HP,
MP, and everything else.
And so here's where that extra golded seed comes in handy.
So we can already add a charge to our flask.
It says use one golden seed to increase your
number of flask uses.
We're going to say yes. And it basically just means we have
an extra health potion,
which is pretty useful early on.
"could this be a rump?" All right, okay, thanks.
"could this be a weak foe?"
Let me see. I don't know how to use a bow. Do I... is it
left trigger or right trigger?
Okay, can I just put away the little thing here?
Okay, so here's guard.
Oh, I should have backstabbed. I totally forget we can backstab.
Man, does it feel good. The combat in this game feels so good.
Wow.
And surprise attack.
"Behold, jumping!". I see you up there.
We have rowa fruit, which does almost nothing, but we'll
take it anyways.
I should also mention in all my playthrough, I haven't really
used items that much.
I've only used the occasional item to
get rid of status effects, but I haven't really used items
too much.
Although I didn't try to make like a bomb build, which was
cool.
All right.
Can I backstab you?
There we go.
All right, so I'm slowly remembering how to play.
All right, so this is how to lock on, change targets.
Is there an item back here?
"Praise the message! and then behold, something incredible!"
Sure, I'll praise it. This is what I mean. People just leave
random messages,
trying to be funny. "try parrying".
I don't think I will. Granny's too agile.
Nice, nice.
Okay, let's move on.
Skills - so we already talked about this, or we already used
this before.
This is the Unsheathe scale.
It looks so cool.
Wow, and you can also see like a little
little animation where you like flick your sword off to get
rid of all the blood.
So cool.
Okay, crouch. Okay.
That was embarrassing.
All right, we can jump attack.
[more unnecessary groaning]
[reading message]
So these are these stake things.
I don't know how, but the first playthrough I did of this
game,
I totally missed this message, and I just didn't realize
that these things were respawning to me.
And I was like, "how am I respawning back closer?"
All right, the hardest boss of the game, let's go.
Taste my steel!
Oh.
That was anticlimactic.
Sorry, I meant to make it more dramatic.
But that's good too.
We killed him.
It's all good.
Ooh, how do I do the emotes? Here we go.
Wait, how do I swap them out?
Let's do jump for joy.
Then we'll do dejection.
Let's put the bow here.
So I can bow before I do an epic duel.
How did they die?
Oh, I see.
Oh, actually, honestly, I should have got a fanged imp key.
Or sorry, a stone sword key so I can unlock this.
We're probably not going to do any multiplayer.
Well, we might do...
If I get invaded, that's fine, I don't care.
The invasions are kind of fun.
Welcome to Limgrave.
Wow, the graphics are so good in this game.
I love it.
Let's talk to our good old buddy Varre.
Well, thanks, I guess.
Well that's cool, I'm going to keep going.
I'll just pretend I didn't hear what you said in that last sentence.
This is the [map].
Okay, let's go.
Alright, I can do that, but that's fine, sure.
So, I don't really want to fight that guy.
I'm going to hold off on it.
Not particularly looking for a fight.
So we're just going to walk our way past him.
Sorry.
I'm just going to hop over here real quick.
Let's talk to santa claus.
Do- do I really look tarnished?
Thanks.
Alright, so... sure. Why not, let's get it.
I don't think I'll use it, but, we'll get it anyways.
And now, we're off to explore wherever the heck we want.
So, I'm just going to walk in a direction that I want to go in.
Let's go over here.
Actually, let's just proceed onwards.
I'm going to go along the main path.
Nothing can stand in the way of Lemon Granny.
Kneel before my blade.
Unsheathe is so cool!
Okay, can you do like another attack? Ooh, okay.
You can do a top attack, and then, a side attack.
I'm just going to kill a bunch of people here.
Should we go in this cave? I don't really care.
Let's continue on. I want to get to this little encampment
up here,
because it's a great place to farm.
Get a bunch of materials.
I'm going to take down the whole village.
Ow!
All right, come and get me.
This poor man. His shield disappeared... and his spear!
We're going to run in and grab that map.
I forgot how to pick up items.
Let me attract all of them at once. Why not?
Just drag them all over here for no reason.
I'm feeling confident. Let's kill them all.
Oh, no, I don't think I can take on the plume guy just yet.
I'm not that confident.
Should I try to take him on?
Oh no.
Come hither.
What? How do I hit me? All right, I give up. I give up.
Just kidding. I'm going into your base.
Let me grab this down here.
[reading message]
That's right. So our skill right now is Unsheathe, which
is pretty cool.
I don't think it'll be our final one, but it's pretty cool.
Let's dodge out of the way of everyone.
I had a feeling he was waiting right there.
That's why I ran out immediately.
We'll just grab this thing.
Sorry, dude.
Oh.
No, I can't say that I have.
Uh, sure, I'll take you to the foot of the Erdtree.
Spectral Steed Whistle.
All right. Yes, please.
Oh, I can't even level up. Okay.
Well, this wasn't that long of a stream,
but I'm going to stop there. Wait, well, actually, let me
put Torrent here in
in the bottom slot.
All right, well, I think that's a good place to stop.
We didn't get through that much. It was mostly a lot of
story and a lot of
prelude, pretense. We will pick it back up maybe tomorrow,
if I have time.
Probably not. And we're just going to keep playing until we
finish the game.
Or get close to finishing the game, and then at
which point we can get to the DLC from
a place that we'll see later. Yeah, that's it. I hope you
enjoyed.
I will see you next time.
Oh, let me wave with granny.
Let's do jump for joy. Every time we complete episode, we're
going to do a jump for joy.
Say bye, granny.