Natalie

Is that the one where you can have a really large mallet as your weapon? I feel like that was a different game

does "giant pinball bridge you can lure a miniboss into", "dungeon elevators that push you into spike ceilings", "skeleton sailor with much large giant skeleton summon", and "fight two horseback knights at once" not put elden ring into serious contention? i haven't played DS2 myself, only watched an LP, so i don't actually know.

i think DS2 takes the crown for sure but bloodborne has a lot of contributions to the looney tunes soulslike vibe. that's a big wheel you smack guys with. what's more running into a tunnel wall than the Insight stat

One time, I was running into that horrible little grotto garden in the Forest of Fallen Giants, and needed to run past the skeletons in the hallway there for some reason. I ran passed them, and they kept chasing me, so I just... closed the door to the hallway. Later, when I had got what I came for and tried to run back, they were still there.

"Oh, hey, guys," I said, as they murdered me.

We all had a hearty, hearty chuckle.

dark souls 2 let me pump enough strength to dual wield demon's great hammers and then terrorize the iron keep. almost all of my opponents just consumed me with forbidden sun.

i got to use giant seeds at no man's wharf to flip all of the Awful Spider Guys on invaders while i watched from a house two floors off the ground.

just......... yeah. ooooooooooooh yeah.

edit: i feel the need to clarify that i played DS1 a few times and enjoyed it a lot, but DS2 consumed me for whatever reason. i can't speak to DS3 or ER. my bar is fairly low

golfswinging another player into lava from the designated PvP bridge over in Iron Keep, with their body just being in the "lying down" pose before plummeting at mach 5 downwards because of the nonsensical way gravity works in ds2 because of how weird and jank its physics are is, in fact, comedy gold.

You know what firelink shrine was missing? 30-50 feral hogs.

I remember an area that was like a large body of water with lots of pits where skeletons kept knocking me into the pits or off the edge. It certainly made me feel like a Looney Tune

i will defend dark souls 2 until my dying breath. it's goofy, it's weird, it's haphazard, it's dangerous, and its just straight up bullshit sometimes. it's what having dementia is like.

also sotfs has smol-dia (smol aldia), and he ACME TNT blows you up several times when you least expect it.

ds2 probably takes the crown for Most looney tunes, tho I will always fondly remember the time in which a hollow in ds3 left a comically large handprint on my character's ass after swiping at me (causing the physics engine to smear me in blood/dirt)

Will forever remember Pate/Creighton "Rigs a chest with a trap used literally once in the entire game and laughs at you from the floor above" Horrible disaster boyfriends

i havent played Dark Souls 2 yet but apparently I need to.

Counterpoint: Dark Souls II is Hanna-barabara in all relevant respects, from perceived quality to the texture of its humor.

This is not DS2, but I had a very Looney Tunes moment in DS3 when a summoned rando playing as Jesus Christ helped me beat a boss and genuflected afterwards. Could not stop laughing: https://twitter.com/ryan_reeh/status/1502111748886872074?t=VvrplOGsTuUojEGbh-bz2g&s=19