Elden Ring - Boss Fight - Ancestral Spirit (1st Atempt)

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)

• This clip covers a boss battle I had in an underground region of the Lands Between, called Sofiara River. I could see roots from the Erdtrees high above me along with some sparkling stuff which made the ceiling of the giant cavern look like the night sky.

• The most common enemy there are the Ancestral Followers, blue glowing ogre-looking people with axes and devasating magic bows who sometimes attack you alongside frenzied rats.

• There's also a bunch of wart hogs, giant crabs, and floating balls of energy that zap you with powerful arcs of lightning if you get too close to them.

• This underground area, Sofiara River, is accesible via an elevator in a building in the South of Limgrave, and is also where I fought the Dragonkin Soldier boss from one of my previous videos.

• In order to fight this video's boss, you first set fire to bowls on eight obelisk-looking columsn spread around the map -- some of which are guarded by the blue glowing ogres.

• I rode my horse up to the weird elk or moose-like remains and things got kind of trippy from there.

• Touching the remains, teleports you to a dark cavern that ends in the largest misty boss-veil I've ever seen. You usually see these in Elden Ring when a boss fight's nearby. When I saw how massive the golden misty veil was, I started swinging my camera around looking for summonable cooperators (A.I. followers you can temporarily summon to help you) but saw no summoning marks in sight.

• I tried to check my inventory but couldn't change my magic due to no Seat of Grace being nearby.

• Going through the veil, takes you to some kind of astral arena where a giant ghostly elk jumps around in the air and tries to gore you to death with its massive antlers.

• I'm so used to fighting while quickly riding around on Torrent so losing all that mobility was a bit of a shock for me. Thankfully I was able to dodge around and fire off some long-range Lightning Spears. Black Flame fireballs would probably be a lot more effective but this was my first atempt so I wasn't exactly sure what was the best strategy yet.

• Ancestral Spirit was surprisingly one of the less aggressive bosses I've faced so far in Elden Ring and they didn't do as much damage as I expected them to.

• All this is coming from a melee/mage Confessor build that focuses on faith-based incantations so take my words with a grain of salt. I could see this battle proving quite troublesome for a more close-range player.

• This was one of the battles that kind of made me feel funny afterward. I wanted to know what this boss's story was, why it was attacking me, and why I had to kill it. If you've ever watched "Princess Mononoke," the Ancestral Spirit kind of looks like the God of the Forest from that movie -- so killing this boss made me feel like a bad guy.

• Anyway, another "great enemy" felled and more runes added to my pocket to get even stronger for this both paradiscal and nightmarish landscape of the Lands Between.

• Hope you enjoyed this post!

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• See you next time on the continuation of my Elden Ring adventure.