Elden Ring - Boss Fight - Roundtable Knight Vyke at Mountain Top of the Giants (Gameplay Video)

Hello, Hive friends!

Another Elden Ring post -- I'm actually done playing the story mode and defeated all the bosses at least once so now I'm breezing through NG+1 or Journey 2 and dabbling in a lot of PVP. Anyway, this post isn't about all that. It's about a funny Evergaol fight that I recorded. I'm trying to get through all my best recorded fights for this game. This one might not be my best, action-wise, but I found it funny because of how relatively weak Round Table Knight Vyke was compared to my Tarnished character. No idea why such an easy side-boss was sitting around at Mountain Tops of the Giants where giant crows, giant hands, and giant furry trolls were constantly one-shotting me.

Here I am enjoying a moment of piece after running away from all the giant things trying to kill my Tarnished character in the snowy wasteland of the Mountain Tops of the Giants. It was strangely peaceful near the stone circle of the Evergaol so I sat down and enjoyed the scenery and the way the light affected my surroundings. Elden Ring is already a beautiful game on Playstation and must be even more stunning on PS5.

After enough peace, my Tarnished stood up and got ready to enter the interdimensional arena and face off whatever god-awful enemy awaited me inside the Evergaol. I can almost sense my Tarnished's hesitation in this screenshot, like maybe she would rather sit in the sun or lay in the snow just a little bit longer.

Evergaols are kind of like little artificial pocket-dimensions where enemies of different factions have been imprisoned. You find a lot of different opponents here and I like how it's a shadowy realm with floating white ghost trees.

The last Vyke Knight I fought nearly obliterated me with their Madness-status weapons and spells so it was refreshing to run into one that didn't really have any special surprises up their sleeves. I started the battle by casting the giant exploding fire-ball spell Flame of the Fell God then followed that up with a fully-charged Lightning Spear. After that, Vyke was severely staggered and at half life. The dude, or dudette, was looking at me like -- "What the f**k? Why are you so strong?" But I was cautiously stepping back but also thinking, "Goddamn, why's this guy so weak?"

Maybe someone can explain this later or I'll just find a discussion board with the answer but I can't seem to activate this incantation no matter what I equip. Perhaps it's a bug. Other than that defensive spel, I got all of Vyke's armor which is pretty cool-looking and fits my Tarnished due to her being a woman and the armor being slender.

Here's the full gameplay below!