Raphael made me cry :) | Baldur's Gate 3 - Ep.51 | First Playthrough [Tactician]

I LOVE THIS GAME 😭 Can it never end please thank you The song?! The song. THE SONG. Anyways, hope you like the video! Chapters 0:00 intro 0:39 recap 6:53 Speak with dead Haarlep 10:54 Raphael boss fight (featuring the best song ever) 1:08:40 that RPing though! 1:09:16 the worst glitch in history 1:18:10 please standby 1:20:32 OKAY we're back 1:33:49 thoughts & outr

the fact that raphael sings his own boss theme is just a level of genius only larian is capable of.

The game only glitched so you could hear the song again. :_whimsySideEye: Raphael's actor Andrew Wincott made a surprise appearance at the BG3 concert and sang the song! Great episode.:_whimsyHype:

This fight is the best piece of computer gaming ever, I'm 44 yo and the emotion and joy of this theme and fight for the 1st time was AMAZING! I wish all main bosses had this level of design! It's a joy seeing other people enjoy it! Keep it up Whimsy!

Was waiting for you to reach this fight since I heard the song on my play through. Was immediately thinking, “Oh, Whimsy is going to love this.” Best song in the game.

LOVE this reaction, so similar to my experience. So fricking epic. Your party is a riot, so fun watching Karlak throw Raphael into his minions.

La Maison de l'espoir! J'aime tellement ce donjon la, j'avais tellement hâte que tu te rende la :D

Yurgir fought with me, because I already talked to him in Act 2 and could convince him that I'm powerful enough to kill Raphael. With Raphael singing while fighting you makes him even more of a Disney villain. 😂 Game can't handle your strategic mastery. Breaks at every opportunity! :_whimsyOmg: Could've tried throwing Shadowheart at something. Helped last time. :_whimsyPog: Fun episode! Good job on killing Raphael! Have a nice rest of your day, Whimsy! :_whimsyLove: PS: Is there a nerd restaurant called "Hard Lock Café"? Would be an idea...

hey whimsy! since i've began watching your playthrough i've been waiting for this moment! this song in this battle is amazing. the thing with the difficulty: i think this fight has reasonable difficulty when you are level 10... and since you can do it just as you arrive on the lower city, you have a challenge there. but once you reach level 12 almost nothing is a challenge anymore with your skills... i think the most difficult fight ever is against ansur... after that if you are careful you are good... thanks!

I don't know how you end up with these awful glitches Whimsy, I'm so sorry D: I feel really lucky now that I've never faced these glitches haha, personally on my first try this was the third most difficult fight, you haven't faced that no1 and no2 enemy yet though! Looking forward to the next episode every week!

The House of Hope is such an amazing location, and fighting Raph is sooo cathartic! My Pally was itching to smite him the whole game, lol. It was great to see you explore and enjoy it, despite the bugs. I agree with your observation on the difficulty unfortunately, if you understand the mechanics and items well enough to have a decent build and synergy for your characters plus intelligent tactics and item usage, most of the enemies towards the end feel a little easier than some of those in earlier acts. Also just because you have so many more tools. Still tons of fun though! BTW, I didn't realize at first when I found it, but the actual best property of the Helldusk armor you got is the proficiency, which means ANYONE can use it, even squishy casters like Lilith.

sometimes games leave a mark of pleasant surprise, the song being absolute FIRE is one thing but actually hearing the voice actor slaying it on his characters personal battle song is just such a awesome move.

Wow my fight with him was not this easy!! Was so great to see him fearful and thrown around :_whimsyHype:

This has been another wonderful lets play episode with you. Your presentation is just wonderful. And you have progressed quite a lot in your playthrough and built a very solid team. Thats also the reason that you did not struggle that much in the fight. Also you did the fight quite late (after Orin, Ansur) which is another reason for it to feel relatively easy. People could potentially arrive there a lot sooner, almost immediately after coming to the city.

That song alone made this one of the most memorable encounters in gaming for me and the design of house of hope and its questline was fantastic. Couldn't believe they did all that for a fight that was technically optional and not even the final boss. Agree that some bosses can feel a bit too easy on tactician if you are familiar with the mechanics. In act 3 my party was so overpowered that I can't remember dying to any bosses at all, even all the "main" ones. I do have a lot of experience with crpgs though. Most friends that I know of found balanced difficulty fairly challenging already. I think you are just ahead of the curve :)

Larian put a built-in mod in the game called 'Honour' that you can enable with BG3MM. It won't make the game an honour mode run, but it will enable all of the bosses to use their special honour mode abilities on tactical difficulty.

great episode again! I think it is impossible for Larian to make the main act 3 fights really difficult for good players with very good equipment and max level, op builds like Karlach , using potions etc. they have to balance it somewhat to also work for players that do those fights at level 10, without all the combat skills and knowledge of d&d game mechanics , without very good equipment and without optimized builds.

I’m here for a Whimsy Honour Mode playthrough! I’m in Act 3 of my first Honour mode campaign and big bosses get extra legendary actions and resistances that really up the danger!

Once again, congrats on finishing a fight on tactician on a first blind playthrough, you’re a better gamer than me (or at least a lot braver, ‘cause of my first playthrough I kept it on balanced the whole way). That said, I also thought the Raphael fight was more theatrics and less life and death stakes. Dang, frustrating glitch, glad that didn’t happen to me on my honor run! And I agree, Ansur fight was tougher for me as well, he left my whole party a smoldering ruin on my first attempt…and I seriously considered skipping him on my first honor run, but glad I didn’t, as it really gave me a sense of accomplishment when I finally finished him off. My favorite Raphael fight was with Astarion redone as open hand monk and Karlach as berserker barbarian—kept Raphael stunned and prone for most of the fight, which was over very quickly lol

I wish that cazador had his own song as well!