[PREVIEW] Bonfireside Chat 188: Ashen (Part 2)
Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast
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🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This week we continue our discussion of Ashen, the indie Souls-like that's open world, made for co-op, built around side quests, and has terrible, terrible dungeons. Our frustration runneth over as we head toward the second major boss, Amiren, in the Seat of the Matriarch, on our guest to reassemble the Heart that will tell us where to find the bird that will restart the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Some of our landings were desperate adventures. We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence. I'm My name is Gary. My name is Gary Butterfield. |
| 0:42.3 | My name is Cole Ross. |
| 0:43.9 | You're listening to Bonfire Side Chat. |
| 0:45.7 | It is a tedious unending favorite. |
| 0:49.1 | It is a checkpointless favorite. |
| 0:51.6 | That's right. |
| 0:52.2 | If you pause this at any time, you've got to go all the way back to the beginning of Bonfire side chat. |
| 0:58.1 | So we'll see you in a couple hundred hours. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, just run back and forth. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.7 | You've done the Gary Quest. |
| 1:04.2 | And you can't, you can do the Cole Quest, but you have to go back before you get the reward. |
| 1:10.2 | And you walk on back or you fly the skyworm or... |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:15.5 | What are those things are, catbirds? |
| 1:17.6 | It's, there's a, there's a name for it that has been, that has been Teflon to me. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, this kind of falls apart. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.9 | I, you know, like the last episode of recorded, I was very careful to be like, yeah, this is like not, you know, super great, but I'm really enjoying it. You know, like, I think this platform is kind of dumb, but yeah, I'm so enjoying it. And it just, it shits the bed. I, like, I'm cranky for other reasons in real life so put everybody who's listening put this through that filter you know but boy am i sick and mediocre 3d souls likes yeah |
| 1:51.9 | you guys got to do better than this i'm not this is not like the worst thing in the world |
| 1:56.9 | that i ever played or anything like that but like we can just expect more from our games yeah |
| 2:02.2 | we we really we really can and you know I want to surface things that you said in the Twitter thread last |
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