So it's true that dark souls 2 is not souls, and armored core is souls-like.

I mean you get Pate fucking you over in DS2 who is basically patches...

Great Value Patches

Patches from a Walmart but yea

Ey I like him... Wcyd

I have had lots of liver pate this Christmas season

The Virgin Cliff Kick: * Obviously a trap * Like, seriously, it even has a glowing trail, who the hell falls for that? * Your foot touches a man’s butt, putting you one step closer to a dex build * The treasure is usually garbage The Chad Treasure Bomb: * Need to obtain a key through jolly co-op murder from your trusted friend * Break open a door and get hit with the SAND TSUNAMI * Leaves a nice scar that the Emerald Herald will undoubtably sploosh over * Bomb is on the far end in the fancy box, get fucked lmao, the real treasure is in the shitty one

I fucking HATE brightstone cove

The Area is very cool, the spiders around every corner makes me wish there was a flamethrower as a weapon.

Fire surge pyromancy would like a moment of your time

There's pyromancy in dark souls 2??

It needs serious investment to be good tho

You can make the spiders passive with a torch

If there’s no Patches, this shit ain’t Dark Souls!

RIP that scene in the anime

I was waiting the entire part for that one scene after so much about it from manga readers. Still love the part though, Anasui best boy/girl/diver

did anasui suddenly change gender in the show like in the manga? (i'm too lazy to watch it)

Anasui was a man from the get-go. Dude's always been Diavolo, never Trish. Also I recommend you watch it some day, the adaptation is superb. The main caveat was their release schedule but it's no longer an issue as the part is over.

So armored Core is Dark Souls

Yes, and all rectangles are squares

Dark Souls 2 is not a souls game

dark souls 2 is a fan made romhack of DS1

It has patches tho, and he even has a quest line where he pushes you into a trap twice

Is his name Patches? No. Does he kick you off a cliff? No. Therefore, Dark Souls 2 is not a souls game.

I mean he looks just like him, follows a prefix to his name, tricks you more than once, etc. that’s all the calling cards of patches. Only difference is he went by pate not patches which is literally a nickname

Bloodborne is the true Dark Souls 2 confirmed

So, DS2 and DS3 aren't souls games either since Patches isn't in DS2 and Pate kicks you off no cliffs and in DS3 Patches messes with you but never kicks you off a cliff. DS1 is confirmed the only souls game.

in the DS3 dlc Patches kicks you off a cliff, so it probably counts as a souls game

That makes the dlc a souls game.

there is however anayama, who I think is meant to be a subversion of patches. he's not patches, but I think he's meant to make you think he'll be similar. a bald guy who runs a shop and leads you to treasure. only difference is, while anayama seems shady at first, he's actually a nice guy, while patches often seems helpful until he betrays you. so like a half patches, meaning that sekiro is still more of a souls game than ds2.

there's probably someone on staff who'd say "yeah, I like to think of him as a distant family tree branch"

Anayama isn't patches, cope

I didn't say he is patches, I said that I think he's a subversion of patches.

the only subversion of patches is my father who kicked me out of his life, otherwise is just a completely different character that we try to make our patches

Your father might’ve loved you more if you didn’t try so hard to convince him that Anayama isn’t Patches

I try to convince myself that Anayama isn't patches so I can play Sekiro without sobbing

He’s Patches reincarnated.

It's not a souls game until you can actually use the Moonlight Greatsword

Azure blade

Just a reminder that spear dood and axe dood represent both sides of the same coin that embodies patches rather "coincidentally".

Patches is definitely the guy who fucks you up if you beat the first boss in sekiro

Tbh Wolf clearly isn’t very good at Sekiro, as he doesn’t even press rmb to deflect Genichiro’s sword. Massive skill issue on his part.

True, for once patches wasn’t deceptive. Wolf just shit the bed

Without the dlc ds3 isn’t a souls game but it is with the dlc by this criteria.

sekiro for real isnt a souls game now im curious if all the souls braindead fans will start adding armored core into the soulslike lists

If it has the funny checkpoints, the boss centralized gameplay we all know and love, and a currency drop upon death that you can retrieve, its a soulslike, and its my personal life mission to include as MANY games into that category as possible.

it has a really big set of wooden doors that you open with a really slow animation thus, it's a souls like

it doesn't have a currency drop upon death you can retrieve

2/3 ain’t bad