Elden Ring - Laskyar Ruins (Maybe 30th Attempt lol)

This is a clip from my gameplay footage of 2022's popular video game "Elden Ring" on Playstation 4.

If you're unfamiliar with "Elden Ring", here's some quick info:

[GAMEPLAY]
In Elden Ring, players control a customizable player character on a journey to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. The game is presented through a third-person perspective, with players freely roaming its interactive open world. Gameplay elements include combat using several types of weapons and magic spells, horseback riding, and crafting. (Wikipedia)

[STORY]
Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional landmass ruled over by several demigods. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested as the physical concept of order. When Marika eventually shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began warring over pieces of the Ring in an event called the Shattering. Each demigod possesses a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. As one of the Tarnished, the player must traverse the realm to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord. (Wikipedia)

• Having defeated Godric the Grafted, the main boss of Stormveil Castle, I found myself in the strange new lands of Liurnia -- It's like a giant misty lake with mountains on either side.

• I like how misty and mysterious it is, like things disappear here and never return.

• The enemies in Liurnia are different too -- there's these blue spider monk-like enemies that ride horses or cast heat-seeking spells, there's red fire monks which feels appropriate since there's blue monks. There's also crystals eveywhere and giant crawdads (lobsters?) instead of Limgrave's giant crabs.

• In this post, I was riding around some of the ruins peaking out of the water of Liurnia and encountered a terrifying sight of several blue monks with heat-seeking spells and a teleporting spider demon monster that felt like a mini-boss.

• I tried beating this area, Laskyar Ruins, ten times while not on horseback with Torrent which were diabolical catastrophic attempts that should never see the light of day.

• After which I want to optimistic and say I tried 20 (30? 40? Who's counting?) more times while on Torrent with increasingly bette results.

• The Black Flames fireball incantation has better tracking while circling but does not activate as quickly as Lightning Spear which I relied on.

• It's kind of a hauntingly beautiful battlefield, minus the blue spider monks and several spells sailing through the air toward me -- and that demonic spider person that teleports through out the water.

• In the video, not ten seconds into entering Laskyar Ruins and the demon springs out of the water with its millions of hands (maybe ten or twenty hands?) followed by its army of blue spider monks and their tracking spells.

• I pick up my fallen runes from my last attempt, my last of many many attempts.

• Thankfull I've learned to take advantage of Torren'ts double jump ability to avoid surprise air and water attacks from the demon.

• The latest addition to my strategy -- other than circling around and killing the little monsters before the big monster -- is riding in much larger circles within and around Laskyar Ruins. The spells eventually fade out so if I keep riding and dont' stop moving I can usually find a break period to ride in and attack before the next onslaught of spells.

• You can actually see the demon creating a trail of teleportation pools inside the water while trying to track me so it can ge close enough to spring out of the water and clobber me.

• Torrent was truly a trooper in this battle because eveytime I made a bad choice and stopped moving, he took on the brunt of the demon's attacks and kept on galloping.

• Another helpful feature of this battle was that the casting of the heat-seeking spells was signaled by the ringing of a bell.

• Oh did I mention that the demon spits out a fountain of poison that lingers on the water for a few seconds? Well he or she, they, or it, does :)

• Whenever I have to heal I go to the very edge of the Laskyar Ruins because it seems to be outside the demon's teleporting surprise attack range.

• There's a beautiful momen where I target a blue spider monk on the ruins and my Lightning Spear, just for the monster to move directly behind a tiny tree which I hit. But that's just good aim.

• At first I think for a moment I'm done but there's a few bells left so I search for the missing stragglers -- the little blue monks playing support for their screaming master.

• Once they're gone, I fireball that monstrosity to kingdom come, pick up the loot, and toward a transporter at the top of some stairs. Just before getting there, I hear the ringing of a bell but block it out.

• What a tough fight. Thank the Erdtree for Torrent, he's the trust MVP here. I don't know how in the world I could defeat that area without the mobility that goat-horse gives you. And that double-jump ... it's just chef's kiss perfect.

• Hope you enjoyed my crazy merry-go-round of death with a Liurnia lake monster that wasn't even a real boss -- oh boy this place might be tough haha

• Feel free to leave comments below!

• See you on the next post of my Elden Ring adventure!