Bonfireside Chat 251: Volcano Manor, Part 1
🕑 Added 2023-03-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTCFinally! Magma Mansion!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, this video is obligatory:
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Peter Solomonides
I'm saving the Elden Ring episodes until I finish at least one playthrough, but I couldn't resist mentioning, I genuinely thought Volcano Manor was a joke name (a la "look, it's a hilarious lava level" lololol). Imagine how much I laughed when this title card popped up on my screen
Holly Johnson
I’m super late to this episode, but I had to say how much I loved the season 6 Community reference. It fits Dialos well. I always do the Volcano Manor quests bc I love the Taker’s Cameo. It makes every weapon the Blasphemous Blade.
JC
I always feel the From Software games have more in common with the Wild 70s Fantasy books (both Martin and Miyazaki have cited influences from that era of fantasy) than post-generification era.
Karl Germ
I hope the DLC includes the Inquisitor Rhiza and the Inquisitor Ghostface Killah
Kalem Wedemyer
His name is Rykard because he makes you rock hard when you meet him. That's my pun and I'm sorry I couldn't help it.
Griffin Post
The Scale Set is so good!
Kay Francis
My second run through I was able to sequence break from the Abductor Virgins area into Volcano Manor by jumping to a cliff side and running into it far enough that I got past the fall instadeath part of the lava when you eventually fall off.
Charlie Frame
Volcano Manor was the point where I really learnt to pay attention to the environmental storytelling of this game. I love the atmosphere of the manor itself, the deep red hues and the warmly sinister cello theme. It's unlike any of the rest of the game. Also the whole Rykard thing has to be the best and most messed up part of the game. Tanith being so Rykard-pilled after you kill him that she literally starts to eat him is something else!
Aidan fleming
For the record I did NOT watch the other shitty Star Wars shows, and Andor is incredible. Best Star Wars thing since Disney bought it.
Duckfeed.tv
I do at least think that giving him a sweet lie to believe on his death bed is the correct thing to do. -GB
Joshua Valverde
Oof! I had actually had quite a bit of sympathy for Dialos. But your arguments do cast him in a more pathetic light.
Daniel K
Lady Tanith is voiced by Gemma Whelan, who played Yara Greyjoy on the Game of Thrones show, just another fun little connection between GoT and Elden Ring.
T
The serpentbone katana and scale set you get from the first volcano manor mission carried me through so much of the game! That set looks so cool and the special poison the sword inflicts is really good against a lot of enimes.
M Kroupa
Tanith Lee is an absolute recommend. Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee is good if you can get ahold of it.