Ken on Godfrey's punishment: "I like the idea that... you need to suffer a bit in life."
Beth: "That's the part that you like??"
Ken likes being punished, confirmed. Beth is still on the fence about it though.

In my opinion, Marika sending Godfrey away was a more loving thing to do than to keep him in the capital… the game does a great job at showing us that he’s still very much Hoarah Loux, a battle-lusting bloodthirsty warrior; it’s almost like a mercy for him to be sent away to die in battle, keeping him trapped in the capital was essentially an eternal prison.

YES! More Vaati Reactions!
It's like watching with friends, except these friends ARE paying attention to what he's saying

The "Spoilers" you saw aren't really Spoilers, since the game isn't Narrative heavy. You could get spoiled about how a boss might look like or maybe how an ending is, but the story is so rich and hidden that VaatiVidya's videos enhance the gaming experience, since now you would know: "Hey, this is that dude's castle! I wonder why he has this painting in his throne room"!

YEAH! Vaati is a lore master of all souls games to say the least.

Now im waiting for Vaati's "Prepare to cry" reaction

A good thing to know, Miyazaki loves Berserk the manga. A huge theme of that manga is the idea of the sufferer, to struggle is a part of life, and through overcoming that struggle, you enlighten yourself. If you understand that huge aspect, then you understand how he plays that into the story. I think the take away we are supposed to understand, is that Queen Marika found out that removing death from the world, also removed struggling, and thus growth. Which is why she sent Godfrey away, to struggle and die with the tarnished, and become powerful enough to challenge a God (The Greater Will) and become arbiters of their own fate.

Vaati Is the lord of soul game lore, you definitely have to react to the video about the "frenzied flame" lore he made

This was a very fun game. The lore and gameplay is incredible. Hope it wins something tonight at the Game Awards

Yeah those sniper lobsters aim are insane. You never run in a straight away from them.  Zig zag for your life!

We all love pope turtle

holy shit, so the shattering is essentially a divorce battle after losing a kid. i f we take that elden ring - marriage ring theory to heart

I think Radagon was his own person once, but since he was so loyal to the Golden Order he followed every command the Elden Beast would give, the highest authority in the Lands Between. Once Marika started to question the Golden order the Elden Beast would surely call its most loyal subjects back to the Erdtree in order to stop her. But how can you stop the only being capable of forging and destroying the Elden Ring from destroying it? Well, you must become that being. So the Elden Beast merged the two of them so that Radagon would be capable of repairing the Elden Ring at the same time as Marika is trying to destroy it.
If Radagon was just a disguise of Marika then why would he work against her?

There is also the thing Vaati mentioned in the video. Marika and Radagon represent different parts of the fundementals of the Golden Order. Maybe Marika created Radagon by seperating the Law of Regression from herself. That would explain why he is in direct oppsotion to her while still being so loyal to the Golden Order. He would then technically always have been Marika but he would also be so different that he would be like his own person with his own goals. That also explains why he left his Great Rune with Rennala when he left her. I don't see why Marika would do that so Radagon probably did it out of sentiment before "sacrificing" himself in order to become Marikas correction.

This will be my new favorite series you do. The big twist with Radagon and Marika shouldn't be that upsetting, tbh most people would probably miss it because you have to find the statue, the pose to strike in front of the statue to trigger it, and the dialogue from the turtle that gives you the idea to try it in the first place, and these all happen hours upon hours apart from each other when you play the game. Even if the average player found all these things, they probably wouldn't remember it by the time they reach the hidden statue.

All turtles are dogs and all watch dogs are cats.... such is the way of Elden Ring

Fun fact:
All of the bosses/important fights have a "Stake of Marika" near them, so that when you die, you can "respawn" there and try again.
For Rennala's fight, there's isn't one, since her husband dumped her for Marika, so she ordered to remove all Marika's stakes. If you die fighting her, you have to run all the way back from the last grace, instead of being able to just retry the fight, making it the only fight were you have to do that.
Really cool way to tie-in lore and gameplay.

You defiantly need to react to more Vaati. He’s the lore master. If you wanna learn more about souls he’s the one to go to.

You ever hear the saying "History is written by the victors."? That is basically the easiest way to sum up Elden Ring and the Dark Souls games. You enter a world of conflict where one order had already been established and the people within all repeat the history and knowledge that they were taught. Which isn't necessarily the truth. Because of this the story is really told through the items, the characters, and the enemy placement in the world (Enemy placement in these games is intentional; they're not just there to be something to fight but they are often there for a story reason.). How much you wish to learn is up to the players own autonomy, and a very devoted and loving community, to discover; and, just like real history some of that truth may be lost to time forever.

Ohhh, you should really watch Vaati's other lore videos of Fromsoftware games. My favorite is Bloodborne's story explained

Beth thinks Marika was condescending because of this? Melina says: ''In Marika's own words: My children, make thyselves whatever thy desire, be it as a Lord, be it as a God, but should you fail, you will only ammount to sacrifice''. Basically Marika told her children to become Lords or Gods but if they failed in any point, they would die and make people die and suffer in the process
Also, there are many version theories wether Marika and Radagon were different people that became together, the same entity that split and then reunited or if they change like in the game being 2 personalities like 2 sides of the same coin. Whatever you believe nobody can really say if you're right nor wrong