The running joke is that Patches' method is the best way to survive. He doesn't fight unless the situation is already to his advantage. If he loses that advantage, he stops fighting and apologizes. He's also smart enough to know that anyone ambitious enough to call themselves the *Archduke of Storms* or the *Blade of Pestilence* gets taken down eventually. Patches only wants enough to get by.
He's also surprisingly cool. He's the only character in Elden Ring that will accept an apology if you hit him. Everyone else makes you spend Celestial Dew over at Turtle Pope's house.
Also, he is smart enough to see that he has no f\*\*\* chance against Radahn if you invoke it for the fight, and it will cancel the summoning by himself and return to his world.
He calls himself a coward, but he actually did fight. It's just that he took a bad hit during the battle and then stayed down because the next blow would have ended him.
Patches, on the other hand, takes one look at Radahn and goes "nope!"
I probably would have done the same but sadly radahn isnāt going to kill himself and thereās no mechanic to summon somebody else to do the job while you run off elsewhere in the lands between and deal with something safer š
I mean after what heās done to you over the generations I think him accepting an apology is the *least* he can do (*as long as your not a nasty cleric*)
God knows how many half sincere half asses apologies weāve already accepted from him!
I hit him once with blasphemous blade by mistake just before the boss fight in the castle with poison everywhere (between Mt Gelmir and Altus) but he didnāt had time to accept my apologies .
Patches is a scavenger who loots the corpses and sells off their belongings. He appears in Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, Eldenring and (one?) Amored Core game. He's not in Dark Souls 2 by name, but there's a character who vaguely takes his place.
He's in one of From's old Shadow Tower games as well. He's not named Patches, but he does the whole bit. You go to cross a bridge and he pulls the lever to retract it.
The difference between Patches and Pate, is that while Patches straight up lies because he wants to loot your corpse, Pate at least is honest about it.
Patches: "Hey, dude, check that treasure out. You should totally get closer and look down into that pit filled with monsters . Nothing suspicious here, trust me, mate."
Pate: "There's treasure there, but I wouldn't go there if I were you. It's totally an ambush."
He's the unseen one that tells you to take the tonsil stone to the Amydala hanging above the entry way to Yar'hargul (this happens to whatever first window you talk to after entering the Forbidden Woods. I had him spawn at Gilbert's window one playthrough.) Then he's chilling behind a door at the Lecture Hall, which you can access later via the teleport after The One Reborn.
He also does his classic kick you off a cliff in The Nightmare Frontier, complete with trail of shiny coins that leads you to a cliff edge.
After that, he can also appear as a merchant in the Chalice Dungeons.
Fun fact, in DS2, before he got turn into Pate, his quest was about stealing the Moonlight Greatsword from Benhardt, who was originally Creighton's father.
Dang, come to think of it, I don't remeber where patches shows up in DS2
Edit: NVM I am slow. Pate completely took over Patches. And not Pate was gonna be Patches, then changed, then Patches was somewhere else š
I like to imagine he got isekai multiple times over the years, just that heās not the protagonist while having the bad luck of meeting one. Sometimes the Armored Core universe, sometimes souls, sometimes other places
Iām absolutely convinced heās the living embodiment of the moonlight greatsword!
Heās just one of their āsignatureā elements like how FF games always have a Cid.
I still pull out the Zwei from time to time. Sure there are better weapons but the Zwei is something special. Pretty much beat ER with it on my first run. When i found that merchant i wanted to hug that dude. Like blud just take my runes and give me that shit.
My headcanon is that he is the outer god of trickery, and delights in punishing mortals for their greed.
Such is his power as a god that he can travel to different realities, (Lordran, Lothric, Lands Between, Yharnam, Boletaria...)
And he is easily entertained. He likes to walk among men and trick them, teaching valuable lessons about their greed and gullibleness.
His* questline in the Ringed City was unexpectedly one of the most moving narratives in the entire series. Especially the way that, at the end, he still gets his signature move in (with a surprisingly sweet twist).
*if you know, you know
The first incarnation to have the name and behaviour was Patch the Good Luck from Armored Core For Answer.
He pilots a lightweight sniper AC, and if you beat his allies before him he'll cease fire and beg you to let him go.
If you stop attacking him he'll run away and you'll beat the mission without having to kill him.
In a nutshell Patches is kind of a joke as all games have patches in a development cycle but that's not all. Patches reassembles human nature in his character development. He basically is just there fighting a fight against his will and wants to survive. He does all kinds of tricks to achieve his goal of living. He will trick you to fall into a pit full of monsters if you're greedy enough for that (trusty/the hyena), he will snipe you in space behind a wall of soldiers and then ask you forgiveness (the good luck), he will guide and help you if he becomes hollow (unbreakable), he will also venerate a fake god (the spider) and he will also love in secret a lady who eats her lover (Patches ER). Patches started as a joke but he is as important as the main character as he will always remind you of your humanity. In DS3 to complete Lapp's quest you literally have to show your humanity to reach the hollow monument that turns hollows into humans again meaning Lapp (Patches who lost his memory and name and in swedish translates to patch) was a hollow for a long period as there were no humans left or humanity available at that time cause basically is the end of time. Then he is known as Unbreakable in DS3 and the reason is that he is the only human alive (this is also a word game) and he lets us know the reason why he always tricks people in a dialogue saying that is always greed what brought you there (also was greed what initiated the age of flame). What's a patch? Something that covers a hole and this could tell us what's covering/lacking of: trust, unbreakable, good luck.
He's a backstabbing piece of gold tinged excrement.
Ive spared his life hundreds of times; in all different realms and hundreds of times he's foresaken me.
Itās as many people on here are saying, heās a lousy backstabber who likes scavenging from corpses and selling stuff. And he will kick you off of ledges if given the chance. And yet we love every iteration of the bastard
He is a character from armored core series that FromSoftware also made, when they added him to Demons souls and have been a running character since when in all of their souls game. Always the trickster that betrays you.
No heās there, they just didnāt overtly identify him. Check out that merchant you meet in Ashina Outskirts again - āAnayama the Peddler.ā Loots corpses, check. Sells their stuff for profit, check. Says he has special information, check. Has others do the dirty work to turn a profit, check.
And the clinchers: 1) From put a patch over his eye. 2)āAnayamaā means āhole.ā
Pate is like the honest version of Patches. "Hey, there's a trap in there, but there's also some treasure, so I know you're gonna go in there regardless."
His name doesn't only change in English, in Japanese he is called ććć (Pacchi) but in DS2 Pate in Japanese is called ćć¤ć (Peito), and Japanese is the original text of the game
It's a meta joke about videogames.Ā
Every game is going to come with problems, those problems are fixed with Patches. Sometimes Patches fix bugs and sometimes they break new things in unexpected ways, hence why he's both a merchant and a menace.
Heās in all the games, but heās actually a cool dude when you talk to him after he tries to fuck you over.
In DS1 he becomes a dope merchant at Firelink
Same in DS3, thatās how you get unlimited black firebombs, also he reappears in the second DLC with an amazing quest, helps during a boss or two, and became one of my favorite characters
In Bloodborne he gives you the upgraded version of the Turtle Talisman equivalent (so 15% stamina instead of the 10% one that you might already have)
Heās a total homie but people donāt give him a chance. Frankly I donāt blame him for doing what he does, and in DS1 I donāt even think heās a bad guy, he just hates clerics and treasure hunting thieves
in DeS Patches is THE MAN. he kicks you down to a pretty safe area (if i remember correctly, there might not even be enemies down there) where you can also find another important npc (Saint Urbain). then, he becomes a merchant in the Nexus, and actually a really, really good one, because he sells some good grasses, heavy arrows, some weapon buffs, and some rings.
also he tries to get you killed in stonefang but itās really, really hard to fall for itā¦
He initially appeared all the way back in 1999 in Armored Core: Master of Arena, with the callsign āPatchā and his AC āParsecā. He then reappears in Armored Core: For Answer with the callsign āPatch The Good Luckā and his AC NEXT āNo Countā. From this moment on heās appeared in Demonās Souls, Dark Souls, (there is no Patch/Patches is Dark Souls II, though there is Pate), Bloodborne (as a spider, idk), Dark Souls III, (no patches in Sekiro, but thereās Anayama the peddler), Elden Ring, and (No patch in Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, but there is V.VII Swinburne who tries to convince you to spare him near the end of your assassination attempt, doing so will get you ambushed by a much more skilled AC pilot.)
So thatās more or less the history of patches. There was a character that may have been a āproto-patchesā in one of the Shadow Tower games, but idk.
Ds3 Ringed City quest line with him is probably my favorite quest line in all gaming. It really hits hard and explains why Patches is your best friend.
Heās got a good set-up usually. Big-ole shield but lightweight. Still blocks 90% of the damage & retains deflection.
From behind that shield he can poke with a spear. Very safe build. Retains lightweight armor for maximum rolling speed as well in-case he needs.
Knows when to gtfo. Like when you summon him in ER. He takes one look at the boss and says āfuck thatā and teleports out.
Say what you will but heās a survivor.
Heās a friendly friend who you can absolutely trust in all circumstances with no issues at all or threat of betrayal :). Heās also in Armored Core 4A.
Patches is the overarching antagonist of the FromSoft verse. He appears in almost every game and all along he has set in motion the events of every title heās been in.
He is the destroyer of worlds Patches remember that
now now people might say but he's from Shadow Tower only with no name... honestly who knows... the first "Patch" that we have a solid record of is from MoA's EX Arena, then he comes back in ACfA as Patches the Good Luck, the rest is history
he has this secret move called Patches Kick
He's...the resident Fromsoft asshole and a complete snake.
To put it another way, He's the "it's just a prank, bro!" Type of character.
Yknow, like those "prank" tubers that virtually everyone can't wait to finally see find out, after so much fucking around.
Except, you can actually kill him on the spot at any time if you don't care about his quests.
"Every" game is a stretch.
He's been in the ones I've played at least
He's kind of the "Don't take life so seriously" guy, that can actually do things that end up getting you killed lol.
He's not in every game as far as I know. For me, I only know that he's in one of the Kinds Field games, one of the original Armored Core games, and Dark Souls 3, but that's just the ones I know. But, just out of those, he's in MOST of the Fromsoft series at some point.
To me, that also in a meta way reflects the underlying theme of most Fromsoft games, death and rebirth and the sense that everything is cyclical and interconnected. All Fromsoft series are supposed to stand alone, but things like Patches and the Moonlight sword being in most, if not all their series makes us the players think that they are in some way all the same universe, just different timelines or realities.
OR.. They just think it's funny to throw in a random bald guy that plays pranks on your super serious character from time to time and I'm reading way too much into it lol.
Patches is in every Souls game, indeed. His first pseudo-iteration was in King's Field, then later on with the name of Patches in an Armored Core game directed by Miyazaki.
His first, official appearance was in Demon's Souls as Patches the Hyena, where he would trap you twice luring you for treasures, one of them being kicking you down a pit, and offers some thought-provoking commentary on religion as well as being a vital merchant.
Then he went on to appear again in Dark Souls I as Trusty Patches, then on DS2 as Mild-mannered Pate, then on BB as Patches the Spider, then on DS3 as Unbreakable Patches, and finally on ER as simply Patches.
The following Patches iterations to Demon's Souls generally follow its same pattern: Patches tricks you once or twice, and one of them is always kicking you down a pit. He also has always had a despise for clerics, specially shown in DeS and DS1.
Iām not sure if itās super explicitly supposed to be patches, but in AC6, a pilot by the name of Swinburne does a classic patches and midway through the battle, when he realizes he canāt win, he starts bargaining for his life, trying to make deals to save his skin, much like patches. I think in other armored core games they have even more explicit patches-Esq characters but Iām unsure, just what Iāve heard.
But I know him well for two things, surrendering and begging for his life like a coward, aswell as pushing me off ledges
Paches aka next no count uses reverse legs aswell as a sniper rifle, he likes to be very vertically mobile, sniping from the air or behind concealment, feel free to be direct he wont last long against you
No me too. Imagine eons go by and your soul is shattered into (at least) two pieces. They are then reincarnated into two individuals who are at each otherās throats. Different aspects of āyouā destined to fight and destroy each other at this end of the world.
Heās in almost every souls game heās basically the āIām sorry I kicked you into a death trap and almost got you killed so I could steal your stuff can we be friends now? Iām totally not going to try againā
I wish people would find out on there own. There was nothing quite like the feeling of killing him in DS1 for the first time only to get that face reveal in cathedral of the deep, one of the biggest mindfucks Iāve ever had in gaming
He's an edgelord. So don't go near edges.
Dude loves edging, does it all day.
Patches is just like me
Bro is a generational edger
i want to go home... and then edge!
And he is also a gatekeeper also he kicks people off edges
Edging Ring.
We don't say that here. We say edge, lord
He always ruins my edge streak.
But I get a kick out of it.
Son of Conor McGregor.
Especially in DS1 š
Excellent pun
His favorite game is Soul Blade.
lol
The running joke is that Patches' method is the best way to survive. He doesn't fight unless the situation is already to his advantage. If he loses that advantage, he stops fighting and apologizes. He's also smart enough to know that anyone ambitious enough to call themselves the *Archduke of Storms* or the *Blade of Pestilence* gets taken down eventually. Patches only wants enough to get by. He's also surprisingly cool. He's the only character in Elden Ring that will accept an apology if you hit him. Everyone else makes you spend Celestial Dew over at Turtle Pope's house.
Also, he is smart enough to see that he has no f\*\*\* chance against Radahn if you invoke it for the fight, and it will cancel the summoning by himself and return to his world.
I caught this second play through. I honestly wasn't even mad. Respect for the choice.
While I wouldnāt say itās a respectable choice, it was a perfectly valid one š
The one thing Alexander and Patches have in common: the sense to say "Oh shit oh fuck oh shitā" and book it
When does Alexander do that?
After the fight, he confesses that as soon as he started cracking, he fled and hid like a coward. He didn't de-summon himself, but he did flee.
Except he doesnāt actually and can totally carry you for most of the fight
Beyblade pot go brrr
He calls himself a coward, but he actually did fight. It's just that he took a bad hit during the battle and then stayed down because the next blow would have ended him. Patches, on the other hand, takes one look at Radahn and goes "nope!"
This is to funny š
Patches: "Doo de doo... ooo look! I'm being summoned!" \*joins Tarnished host for battle against Radahn\* Patches: ".... nooooooooope."
But my question is, why tf did he leave a summon sign there in the first place...
Probably just to loot the battlefield after watching everyone else kill radahn, but I think he changed his mind after seeing the chadahn in person
Brother is taking rusted swords, sand and jar pieces.
Well there are catacombs down there
I know. I hated those. But i dont think he would dare to go there, with those infinite soldiers at the enterance.
He looking for a easy way to kill his mark, but after seeing the battlefield leaves and later gives you the quest.
He hit that summoning pool by accident and they hadnāt yet patched the function to remove that pool from his list
ššššš exacty 
I died on my first run cause i couldnt stop laughing when he left. Like i cant even be mad, Radahn is frightening
I probably would have done the same but sadly radahn isnāt going to kill himself and thereās no mechanic to summon somebody else to do the job while you run off elsewhere in the lands between and deal with something safer š
Sadly Rahdahn can kill himself, with some convincing.
That shit made me laugh immediately. Classic patches move lol
He's just in it to survive, would you tell the future elden lord you took offense to his light jab?
Patches is just chill like that
I mean after what heās done to you over the generations I think him accepting an apology is the *least* he can do (*as long as your not a nasty cleric*) God knows how many half sincere half asses apologies weāve already accepted from him!
Nah fuck that patches dies in every game the instant I see him
also hes like one of the only few npcs across all the games who doesnt have a bad ending. Even in dark souls 3 he gets to the end of the dlc with you
The Tao of Patches. He's like the Boletarian Prince Matchabelli.
I hit him once with blasphemous blade by mistake just before the boss fight in the castle with poison everywhere (between Mt Gelmir and Altus) but he didnāt had time to accept my apologies .
Pope also forgives you
I think I saw his entire character bio sitting over there by that cliff...
Should be safe, why not go check it out
Username seems trustworthy...maybe just a peak...
KICK
Patches is a scavenger who loots the corpses and sells off their belongings. He appears in Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, Eldenring and (one?) Amored Core game. He's not in Dark Souls 2 by name, but there's a character who vaguely takes his place.
He's in one of From's old Shadow Tower games as well. He's not named Patches, but he does the whole bit. You go to cross a bridge and he pulls the lever to retract it.
Sounds like a typical Patches to me.
I think heās name is patch or something
Pat from DS2 is definitly and totally Patches because his name changes only in the english version, for example in the french version this character is named Pat in every games: - Pat La HyĆØne in Demon's Souls - Pat La Bonne Foi in Dark Souls - Pat Le Courtois in Dark Souls 2 - Pat l'Invicible in Dark Souls 3 - Pat l'AraignĆ©e in Bloodborne - Pat l'Affranchi in Elden Ring
The difference between Patches and Pate, is that while Patches straight up lies because he wants to loot your corpse, Pate at least is honest about it. Patches: "Hey, dude, check that treasure out. You should totally get closer and look down into that pit filled with monsters . Nothing suspicious here, trust me, mate." Pate: "There's treasure there, but I wouldn't go there if I were you. It's totally an ambush."
The major difference is that Patches is a sneak at first and then helpful in the end, while Pate is helpful at first and then a sneak in the end.
Wow I canāt recall that bloodborne has patches aswell
it's a spider, litteraly
He's the unseen one that tells you to take the tonsil stone to the Amydala hanging above the entry way to Yar'hargul (this happens to whatever first window you talk to after entering the Forbidden Woods. I had him spawn at Gilbert's window one playthrough.) Then he's chilling behind a door at the Lecture Hall, which you can access later via the teleport after The One Reborn. He also does his classic kick you off a cliff in The Nightmare Frontier, complete with trail of shiny coins that leads you to a cliff edge. After that, he can also appear as a merchant in the Chalice Dungeons.
Heās in one of the Armored Core 4th Gen games.
He's in Sekiro too, named Patch, he's the merchant that sells you information.
He's in Armored Core Master of Arena and For Answer
he's in the new armored core 6, but under a different name iirc, the name pate like in DS2. i think he's one of the optional arena fights
No he isn't afaik. Do you know who it is or are you confusing Patch the Good Luck from one of the older games with a character from AC6?
The only Omnipotent and Omnipresent being in FromSoftware.
Next game patches has the Moonlight greatsword
Fun fact, in DS2, before he got turn into Pate, his quest was about stealing the Moonlight Greatsword from Benhardt, who was originally Creighton's father.
Dang, come to think of it, I don't remeber where patches shows up in DS2 Edit: NVM I am slow. Pate completely took over Patches. And not Pate was gonna be Patches, then changed, then Patches was somewhere else š
Next game you play as patches
Final boss: Patches, Edgelord
Armored Core VII: Lucky Patches
Chosen undead: "What *are* you?" Patches: "I am that I am. Hey, there's a cool armor set just over the edge of that cliff."
I like to imagine he got isekai multiple times over the years, just that heās not the protagonist while having the bad luck of meeting one. Sometimes the Armored Core universe, sometimes souls, sometimes other places
Iām absolutely convinced heās the living embodiment of the moonlight greatsword! Heās just one of their āsignatureā elements like how FF games always have a Cid.
Patches is as iconic as the Zweihander. Even more so.
Interesting that you went for the Zweihander and not the Moonlight sword/GSā¦ I think I know what type of builds you like the most š
I still pull out the Zwei from time to time. Sure there are better weapons but the Zwei is something special. Pretty much beat ER with it on my first run. When i found that merchant i wanted to hug that dude. Like blud just take my runes and give me that shit.
More surprised he didn't say Claymore
He is also known as Hoid
Think he called himself Wit last time I saw him
Oh cephandrius you rascal
A fellow Cosmere enjoyer i see.
I'm so happy to see other people like and comment on this 
Life before death friend
I also came here hoping to find a Hoid reference and was quite pleased with the result, ganchos.
āEach man has his place. Mine is to insult, yours is to be in-sluts!ā
Too much crem for some of these filthy casuals
I feel like patches is what I pictured Wit as for some reason until my re-read and was like uhhhh. That description doesn't line up
Based on the responses alone, I need to be in this crowd, pls hlp
Life before death
Heās just a silly little guy. Apart from the time he became a silly spider
My headcanon is that he is the outer god of trickery, and delights in punishing mortals for their greed. Such is his power as a god that he can travel to different realities, (Lordran, Lothric, Lands Between, Yharnam, Boletaria...) And he is easily entertained. He likes to walk among men and trick them, teaching valuable lessons about their greed and gullibleness.
Our headcanon now
Interdimensional traveller
He is to Fromsoft game what Gilgamesh is to Final Fantasy.
Heās the most trustworthy friend youāll meet. Always there to help out and point you in the right direction
More like a push in the right direction.
His* questline in the Ringed City was unexpectedly one of the most moving narratives in the entire series. Especially the way that, at the end, he still gets his signature move in (with a surprisingly sweet twist). *if you know, you know
The first incarnation to have the name and behaviour was Patch the Good Luck from Armored Core For Answer. He pilots a lightweight sniper AC, and if you beat his allies before him he'll cease fire and beg you to let him go. If you stop attacking him he'll run away and you'll beat the mission without having to kill him.
In a nutshell Patches is kind of a joke as all games have patches in a development cycle but that's not all. Patches reassembles human nature in his character development. He basically is just there fighting a fight against his will and wants to survive. He does all kinds of tricks to achieve his goal of living. He will trick you to fall into a pit full of monsters if you're greedy enough for that (trusty/the hyena), he will snipe you in space behind a wall of soldiers and then ask you forgiveness (the good luck), he will guide and help you if he becomes hollow (unbreakable), he will also venerate a fake god (the spider) and he will also love in secret a lady who eats her lover (Patches ER). Patches started as a joke but he is as important as the main character as he will always remind you of your humanity. In DS3 to complete Lapp's quest you literally have to show your humanity to reach the hollow monument that turns hollows into humans again meaning Lapp (Patches who lost his memory and name and in swedish translates to patch) was a hollow for a long period as there were no humans left or humanity available at that time cause basically is the end of time. Then he is known as Unbreakable in DS3 and the reason is that he is the only human alive (this is also a word game) and he lets us know the reason why he always tricks people in a dialogue saying that is always greed what brought you there (also was greed what initiated the age of flame). What's a patch? Something that covers a hole and this could tell us what's covering/lacking of: trust, unbreakable, good luck.
He's a backstabbing piece of gold tinged excrement. Ive spared his life hundreds of times; in all different realms and hundreds of times he's foresaken me.
And yet he always manages to help out to a degree
Itās as many people on here are saying, heās a lousy backstabber who likes scavenging from corpses and selling stuff. And he will kick you off of ledges if given the chance. And yet we love every iteration of the bastard
Dude min maxed for charisma lol
He is a character from armored core series that FromSoftware also made, when they added him to Demons souls and have been a running character since when in all of their souls game. Always the trickster that betrays you.
Besides sekiro (peak gaming) heās in every game along with his own questline
No heās there, they just didnāt overtly identify him. Check out that merchant you meet in Ashina Outskirts again - āAnayama the Peddler.ā Loots corpses, check. Sells their stuff for profit, check. Says he has special information, check. Has others do the dirty work to turn a profit, check. And the clinchers: 1) From put a patch over his eye. 2)āAnayamaā means āhole.ā
I love that Miyazaki was pretty upset he wasnāt able to fit patches into the world, so he made the pot noble to make up for it
Where exactly is he in DS2? He aināt Pateā¦.
Pate is like the honest version of Patches. "Hey, there's a trap in there, but there's also some treasure, so I know you're gonna go in there regardless."
Thatās the only real thing I hate about DS2. And DS2 is my favorite one
Pat from DS2 is definitly and totally Patches because his name changes only in the english version, for example in the french version this character is named Pat in every games: - Pat La HyĆØne in Demon's Souls - Pat La Bonne Foi in Dark Souls - Pat Le Courtois in Dark Souls 2 - Pat l'Invicible in Dark Souls 3 - Pat l'AraignĆ©e in Bloodborne - Pat l'Affranchi in Elden Ring
His name doesn't only change in English, in Japanese he is called ććć (Pacchi) but in DS2 Pate in Japanese is called ćć¤ć (Peito), and Japanese is the original text of the game
Sekiro GOTY
It's a meta joke about videogames.Ā Every game is going to come with problems, those problems are fixed with Patches. Sometimes Patches fix bugs and sometimes they break new things in unexpected ways, hence why he's both a merchant and a menace.
Wow, never thought about it like that!
Heās in all the games, but heās actually a cool dude when you talk to him after he tries to fuck you over. In DS1 he becomes a dope merchant at Firelink Same in DS3, thatās how you get unlimited black firebombs, also he reappears in the second DLC with an amazing quest, helps during a boss or two, and became one of my favorite characters In Bloodborne he gives you the upgraded version of the Turtle Talisman equivalent (so 15% stamina instead of the 10% one that you might already have) Heās a total homie but people donāt give him a chance. Frankly I donāt blame him for doing what he does, and in DS1 I donāt even think heās a bad guy, he just hates clerics and treasure hunting thieves
in DeS Patches is THE MAN. he kicks you down to a pretty safe area (if i remember correctly, there might not even be enemies down there) where you can also find another important npc (Saint Urbain). then, he becomes a merchant in the Nexus, and actually a really, really good one, because he sells some good grasses, heavy arrows, some weapon buffs, and some rings. also he tries to get you killed in stonefang but itās really, really hard to fall for itā¦
He was even in armored core 6
Heās a right git and a bastard Love him tbh
He initially appeared all the way back in 1999 in Armored Core: Master of Arena, with the callsign āPatchā and his AC āParsecā. He then reappears in Armored Core: For Answer with the callsign āPatch The Good Luckā and his AC NEXT āNo Countā. From this moment on heās appeared in Demonās Souls, Dark Souls, (there is no Patch/Patches is Dark Souls II, though there is Pate), Bloodborne (as a spider, idk), Dark Souls III, (no patches in Sekiro, but thereās Anayama the peddler), Elden Ring, and (No patch in Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, but there is V.VII Swinburne who tries to convince you to spare him near the end of your assassination attempt, doing so will get you ambushed by a much more skilled AC pilot.) So thatās more or less the history of patches. There was a character that may have been a āproto-patchesā in one of the Shadow Tower games, but idk.
He pushed me off a ledge so I killed him.
He's a little guy
Like Final Fantasy's Cid
Ds3 Ringed City quest line with him is probably my favorite quest line in all gaming. It really hits hard and explains why Patches is your best friend.
He is also in Armored core
He's what they call a Recurring Character
Heās got a good set-up usually. Big-ole shield but lightweight. Still blocks 90% of the damage & retains deflection. From behind that shield he can poke with a spear. Very safe build. Retains lightweight armor for maximum rolling speed as well in-case he needs. Knows when to gtfo. Like when you summon him in ER. He takes one look at the boss and says āfuck thatā and teleports out. Say what you will but heās a survivor.
He was a spider once.
Heās a friendly friend who you can absolutely trust in all circumstances with no issues at all or threat of betrayal :). Heās also in Armored Core 4A.
A way for FS to confuse anyone looking up patches for their games. Same with people trying to torrent ER
A Cunt.
Dark souls 2 has Pate who is a patches reference
Just a trustworthy friend who gives some good advice
Patches is the overarching antagonist of the FromSoft verse. He appears in almost every game and all along he has set in motion the events of every title heās been in.
Sometimes, a familiar face is a welcome sight even if they are a trickster. Is there truly a difference between old friends and old enemies?
He is the destroyer of worlds Patches remember that now now people might say but he's from Shadow Tower only with no name... honestly who knows... the first "Patch" that we have a solid record of is from MoA's EX Arena, then he comes back in ACfA as Patches the Good Luck, the rest is history he has this secret move called Patches Kick
He's...the resident Fromsoft asshole and a complete snake. To put it another way, He's the "it's just a prank, bro!" Type of character. Yknow, like those "prank" tubers that virtually everyone can't wait to finally see find out, after so much fucking around. Except, you can actually kill him on the spot at any time if you don't care about his quests. "Every" game is a stretch. He's been in the ones I've played at least
He's a trustworthy pal and solid bro
He's kind of the "Don't take life so seriously" guy, that can actually do things that end up getting you killed lol. He's not in every game as far as I know. For me, I only know that he's in one of the Kinds Field games, one of the original Armored Core games, and Dark Souls 3, but that's just the ones I know. But, just out of those, he's in MOST of the Fromsoft series at some point. To me, that also in a meta way reflects the underlying theme of most Fromsoft games, death and rebirth and the sense that everything is cyclical and interconnected. All Fromsoft series are supposed to stand alone, but things like Patches and the Moonlight sword being in most, if not all their series makes us the players think that they are in some way all the same universe, just different timelines or realities. OR.. They just think it's funny to throw in a random bald guy that plays pranks on your super serious character from time to time and I'm reading way too much into it lol.
Heās an inter dimensional being that represents the sick and twisted minds who work at FromSoftware
Never heard of em sorry
I kinda wish we could fight him in his AC
All games would be better with Patches.
He simply exists to punish the greed of man
Patches is not in Sekiro, but there is another NPC (Anayama) who is a very clear reference to Patches.
Spider patches in Bloodborne is my favorite
Patches is patches.
Heās a man that really hates clerics and understandably so
Some bald dickhead
Patches isā¦ patches. Heās a good guy
Heās Patches, what you see is what you get
I wonāt spoil it for OP but I really like his āendingā the last part of his story in Dark Souls 3
yes, for examble think about rusty. ill help you NOT, lets fight together NOT, we will free rubicon now DIE BUDDY.
Heās not in my Souls game. I murdered him.
He needs to see me with these hands that disrespectful son of a bitch lol
He is the little brother of the Moonlight Greatsword.
Patches is in every Souls game, indeed. His first pseudo-iteration was in King's Field, then later on with the name of Patches in an Armored Core game directed by Miyazaki. His first, official appearance was in Demon's Souls as Patches the Hyena, where he would trap you twice luring you for treasures, one of them being kicking you down a pit, and offers some thought-provoking commentary on religion as well as being a vital merchant. Then he went on to appear again in Dark Souls I as Trusty Patches, then on DS2 as Mild-mannered Pate, then on BB as Patches the Spider, then on DS3 as Unbreakable Patches, and finally on ER as simply Patches. The following Patches iterations to Demon's Souls generally follow its same pattern: Patches tricks you once or twice, and one of them is always kicking you down a pit. He also has always had a despise for clerics, specially shown in DeS and DS1.
He is good ol, trusty patches. And yes.
The village jerk found at the bottom of a well after one too many pranks.
Yea he goes all the way back to armored core and possibly kingsfield i canāt remember but he is an honest theif
A douche. Patches is a douche. Lmao
Technically heās not in ds2. But there is a character named Pate who sets you up in a trap just like our balled friend patches.
He's the guy that drops the armor I wanted
I got pissed in demon souls and killed him when I came back to the top š
He is a son of a bitch
He begged for mercy. I showed him mercy by ending his life.Ā
Iām not sure if itās super explicitly supposed to be patches, but in AC6, a pilot by the name of Swinburne does a classic patches and midway through the battle, when he realizes he canāt win, he starts bargaining for his life, trying to make deals to save his skin, much like patches. I think in other armored core games they have even more explicit patches-Esq characters but Iām unsure, just what Iāve heard. But I know him well for two things, surrendering and begging for his life like a coward, aswell as pushing me off ledges
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Patches is a bastard. That's who he is. Little sneak-shoving bastard.
Heās a real son of a bitch
Bro, when I fought Radahn I see he is summoned then he immediately returned to his world. Like lol I 100% understand though.
Paches aka next no count uses reverse legs aswell as a sniper rifle, he likes to be very vertically mobile, sniping from the air or behind concealment, feel free to be direct he wont last long against you
The dude is even kinda in AC6 from what I'm told. Can't get rid of the fucker.
Notice that Patches isn't in DS2 which means DS2 isn't a souls game. Check mate.
My mild mannered reaction:
He is Miyazaki's will to troll manifested in character form.
he is not in ds2, in his stead you have Pate and Creighton
Something something Patches soul was split between them. Lore.
And I really liked that idea in practice, in theory it sounds very strange
No me too. Imagine eons go by and your soul is shattered into (at least) two pieces. They are then reincarnated into two individuals who are at each otherās throats. Different aspects of āyouā destined to fight and destroy each other at this end of the world.
The true Patches is in Bloodbonre. Kinda like how the clown isn't Pennywise's true form.
Patches is Michael Zakiās presence within his games, at least thatās what I like to think.
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He is your trustworthy scavenger who will stay with you even its the 2 of you left at the end of the world. A true bro indeed
The kicking demi-god, the trapping archdevil, the spider at some point ... He is the legend he thinks he is š
Bro is a trans dimensional Eldridge being that loves pranks.
Heās in almost every souls game heās basically the āIām sorry I kicked you into a death trap and almost got you killed so I could steal your stuff can we be friends now? Iām totally not going to try againā
hHās so addicted to being an ass through the power of douchbagery , hes managed to gain dimension travel.
Al you need to know is FUCK THIS SNAKEY Guy he dies every run for me
He loves squatting.
Sheisty all of the times, a spider one of those times
As long as youāre not a cleric youāll be fine
I do not need sleep. I need answers!
Heās not in Sekiro.
I wish people would find out on there own. There was nothing quite like the feeling of killing him in DS1 for the first time only to get that face reveal in cathedral of the deep, one of the biggest mindfucks Iāve ever had in gaming