Elden Ring - Boss Fight in Caelid - Putrified Avatar (2nd Attempt)

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)

• I find a black statue on a cliffside in Caelid that points to the base of a nearby Minor Erdtree ... so I hop down some roots and while riding around looking for the dungeon the black statues point to -- me and Torrent get clobbered out of existence.

• Respawning at the last Site of Grace I visited, I make my way back to the same Minor Erdtree in Caelid after killing some twisted gold soldiers.

• Having not experimented with it enough, I summon two ghostly Godrick Soldiers to distract Putrified Avatar while I get my fallen runes.

• It's funny to shake a bell on the battlefield and summon ghosts to fight for you, but it's also elegant -- like I'm ringing for the arrival of two violent butlers.

• I Bloodhound Step out of the way, dodging a downward swing from the decaying avatar to see how those two ghosts fair against this boss.

• They're basically tickling him so I throw a Lightning Spear to help but see that's pretty weak against this boss too.

• Putrid Avatar does a ground slam with a rot cloud that obliterates my ghosts -- note to self, find stronger ghosts.

• I rub two of my brain cells together and remember how I beat my first Erdtree Avatar, fire magic, which is perfect because I recently got a new fire spell from Liurnia.

• Launching Flame of the Fell God, a red floating sun leaves the palm of my hand and does 1000 damage to the boss in a fiery explosion!

• I bloodhoun-step away and pick up my fallen runes.

• Putting some quick distance between us with more Bloodhound Steps, I launch my 2nd giant fireball.

• For some reason I don't dodge in the opposite direction of the boss's movements and get caught on some jars where I get smashed. On a more positive note, that 2nd Flame of the Fell God did another 1000 damage.

• Somehow I get caught on a root with basically no health left and manage to dodge-roll backwards and evade his hammer staff. I've watched this clip repeatedly and think it's a glitch because he should've definitely caught me with that swing ... anyway I'm still alive.

• Both my life and magic are low so I go on the offensive and heal my magic to do a 3rd giant fireball which explodes for another 1000 damage.

• Desperate, Putrid Avatar launches his golden laser shower but I dodge it all and roll away to gift him his 4th giant fireball and he's very near death so he does the poisonous bodyslam that killed my ghosts.

• I finish the fight how I like -- with a Lightning Spear.

• For beating Putrid Avatar, I get 9000 runes and Greenburst Crystal Tear and Flame Shrouding Cracked Tear. Not sure what those last two do.

• Using Bloodhound Step was fun, makes me feel a lot faster.

• Hope you enjoyed this video and feel free to leave comments below!

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