Gary Butterfield
Co-Host of Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast
Gary Butterfield has hosted 483 Episodes.
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307: Shadow Keep
November 10th, 2024 | Season 12 | 45 mins 44 secs
For this entire season we’ve been walking in the wake of Messmer’s works, a fiery genocide of the Hornsent people. But now it’s time to visit the home of Messmer himself and breach the Shadow Keep which looms large over landscape. We talk about the level’s intricate design, and advance some quests related to Needle Knight Leda and her treachery about treachery.
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306: Charo's Hidden Grave
November 5th, 2024 | Season 12 | 48 mins 36 secs
Charo’s Hidden Grave is a region that is true to its name, resting above, but out of reach from, the Cerulean Coast. But once you get up there, you learn a little bit more about this cosmology’s relationship with death, and find a dirty little secret that the Hornsent tried to hide away from themselves.
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305: Stone Coffin Fissure
October 27th, 2024 | Season 12 | 53 mins 35 secs
Miquella threw something away which he should not have, and we’re going deep into the Stone Coffin Fissure to find it. So dress appropriately for wading through hip-deep putrescence, and let your least secure friend know where you’re headed, and come with!
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304: Cerulean Coast
October 20th, 2024 | Season 12 | 54 mins 14 secs
Having broken a Great Rune somewhere in the Shadow Realm, we now head south toward the Cerulean Coast, a beautiful region littered with gigantic stone coffin ships. But the path leading there is anything but obvious.
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303: Roundtable Roundtable Scadu Altus (feat. Jeremy Greer)
October 13th, 2024 | Season 12 | 57 mins 28 secs
This week we speak with Jeremy Greer, of Days of Future Cast and many other shows, about his experiences with the Shadow of the Erdtree. We also read your responses to Castle Ensis and Scadu Altus!
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302: Rauh Base
October 6th, 2024 | Season 12 | 48 mins 35 secs
This week we head deep into the Scorpion River valley to explore the base of the Rauh Ruins, a.k.a. that one very hidden map marker. No, not that one. The other one. We end up hitting our final forge dungeon, and exploring a catacomb with a very goofy and deadly threat.
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301: Scadu Altus
September 29th, 2024 | Season 12 | 46 mins 10 secs
This week we turn our attention to Scadu Altus, the region north of Castle Ensis which Messmer’s armies call their home. This region is less populated with notable landmarks than its non-shadow counterpart, but we end up finding something pretty important in the grisly fort where the Crusade executed those who failed it.
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300: Castle Ensis
September 22nd, 2024 | Season 12 | 53 mins 43 secs
This week we tackle a Legacy-ish Dungeon, Castle Ensis. Don’t get us wrong, the boss fight here is very good… but the level design and lore here are both threadbare. They can’t all be winners, but the good news is that every other dungeon is better than this one.
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299: Across the Great Ellac Bridge (Part 2)
September 15th, 2024 | Season 12 | 52 mins 7 secs
Before we attack Castle Ensis, there’s more ground we need to cover on the far side of the Great Ellac Bridge. This week’s episode introduces a brand new kind of mini dungeon, the Ruined Forge, full of big goofy golems with obvious weak points on their butts. We also meet sleepy, insecure Thiollier before ascending the Suppressing Tower and speculating about what exactly is going on with that thing.
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298: Across the Great Ellac Bridge
September 8th, 2024 | Season 12 | 53 mins 8 secs
The Great Ellac Bridge crosses a dividing line in the Gravesite Plain, a large canyon that stands between the ground we’ve already covered and Castle Ensis. The far side is fortified and narrow, but has many mysteries to explore before we head into the castle itself. This week we tackle castle-front encampment before heading north into a misty valley to delve into the Fog Rift Catacombs, where Godwyn and his forces are working toward mysterious ends.
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297: Roundtable Roundtable Belurat (feat. Noah Caldwell-Gervais)
September 1st, 2024 | Season 12 | 1 hr 34 mins
This week, for the first Roundtable Roundtable of the DLC season, we invited the excellent YouTube video essayist Noah Caldwell-Gervais to join us to talk about Elden Ring, the Shadows of the Erdtree DLC, and his travelogue approach to analyzing games. Then we read your responses to the Gravesite Plain region and the Belurat, Tower Settlement legacy dungeon.
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296: Belurat, Tower Settlement (Part 2)
August 25th, 2024 | Season 12 | 47 mins 26 secs
This podcast was actually puppet shaped like a podcast this entire time. Had you fooled.