[PREVIEW] Bonfireside Chat 187: Ashen (Part 1)

Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We begin our new series on Ashen by talking about the game's generalities, and fighting through the first boss. Most Soulslikes concern themselves with the end of the world, but this one has us midwifing a world's rebirth, and we're going to do that with combat and systems that are very familiar to Souls veterans.

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0:00.0	Some of our landings were desperate adventures.
0:05.0	We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence.
0:12.0	This is Gary Butterfield.
0:25.5	This is Cole Ross.
0:27.5	You'll listen to Bonfire Side chat.
0:29.1	It is an eerily faceless favorite.
0:31.8	And this week we're beginning our discussion of Ashen,
0:35.9	which is a Souls-like game game made by A44, published by
0:40.8	Anna Perna for the PC and contemporary consoles in 2018.
0:45.9	Ashen from the remnants.
0:48.2	Yeah.
0:49.1	This is the one we needed a punt for, and even with the punt, I still didn't unlock all the stuff no yeah I did
0:56.8	the second I got to the second boss and I was looking at the wiki and there's like eight bosses or
1:00.5	something so yeah theoretically a quarter of the way through the game but I still can't make potions
1:05.2	right so I I don't know second boss amongst your fast travel yeah yeah I got Ilocks your fast travel.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:12.1	Yeah, I got, yeah, I just unlocked fast travel.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:14.3	So, yeah, it's a weird game.
1:16.4	Mm-hmm.
1:17.7	You play as an unnamed character with no face, who is overseeing the rebirth of the
1:22.9	Ashen, which is a giant mythical bird that once brought light to the world.
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