Sorry for the bump! No new Demon’s Souls news, just me back on my bullshit.
Quarantine has me pining for those wonderful months last year, playing and posting about dark souls, et.al.
Picked up right where I left off after vanguard, but this time i’m playing on the private server. The messages, ghosts, bloodstains, such an improvement over playing in an “empty” world.
Slowly wound my way through Stonefang Tunnel (2-1?) and slammed my face up against the Armor Spider a dozen times. I can see how to beat it, but I just don’t have the stamina/health to do it yet. My shield negates nearly all of the fire damage, but I take quite an endurance hit, and once i’m up in its face i can take maybe two leg swipes before having to run back to heal.
Pretty hard fight as melee!
Instead of getting continually discouraged, I made my way back to 1-2 post phalanx and plowed right on through. Serious Undead Burg vibes from this level. The Tower Knight was a tricky one, and I burned way too much healing, but I managed to eek it out in one attempt.
Currently lost in the maze of the Tower of Latria.
As I may or may not have said upthread, I find this game very easy to slide right into. All of the familiar DS touchstones are there. I’m missing the jump attack a bit, but all in all I feel like i’m holding my own. There are some pretty bad framedrops at times, but nothing i’m not used to from having played Bloodborne.
I do wish I had an estus flask. I’m sooo reluctant to heal on initial passes through unfamiliar territory, something i’m trying to get better at, but it does make everything way more tense.
It’s very cool seeing the roots of all the subsequent FROM games nestled into this one.