After I showed her the brooch, just silence.
Did you get the key to the locked gate this time Kolbex? I forget, was there a way to get into that area without a key eventually?
I’m in Old Yarnham now, dodging incoming fire. Actually I got to a church that I don’t remember very well, cleared out most of it, then got nervous and transported myself back to home base. I didn’t want to lose 10,000 blood, in case I did decide to get the key. Or to level up. Either way.
Kolbex
1625
In the Cathedral Ward? There is definitely a way to get in there without spending 10k on the key, but I don’t remember exactly how. I may just skip Old Yharnam this time. Only reason to go in there is to get the chalice.
I thought it was my only way forward? Where else can I go? The other gates are all closed.
From the sanctuary church where I gather people, there’s two exits: One leads to a gate that doesn’t open from that side, the other leads to different paths.
The one that leads to different paths leads to two main paths, one that goes into the basement of the church that has old Yarnham, and other path leads to two paths: One is a dead end, and the other leads to the locked gate.
So if I don’t want to go to Old Yarnham, the locked gate has to be unlocked, I guess.
Kolbex
1627
Yeah, I looked it up. To get past the gate without the Sword Hunter Badge you have to go through Old Yharnham and beat the BSB, which opens that little door in Oedon Chapel which lets you (through a series of misadventures, open that gate from the other side. So I guess I either go through Djura and the ol’ BSB again (ugh) or reconcile myself to spending 10k bells.
Edit: echoes, not bells…Animal Crossing on the brain.
So yeah, skipping Old Yarnham sounded appealing, so I got the key, and the next area was great, but now instead of exploring the sides of the main building, I’m butting my head up against this:
I remember you mentioning we need to defeat someone named Amelia to get into the Expansion area and get the Whirligig Saw, so I figured I’d try.
Now watch me use all the freakin’ health potions I’ve been accumulating so far in this game. This is my 7th death to Amelia I think.
As per the usual Souls tradition, I just had to post that complaining about a boss, and I beat her on the next try.
Gosh, that was easy. This whole run has been so easy compared to Old Hunters DLC and Nightmare areas.
Edit: Hmmm, beating Amelia did not unlock the Old Hunter’s DLC tombstone.
Edit: Found it! But er… wow, I’m underpowered for the DLC enemies. I can’t even beat the first plain enemy. He has more hit points than Amelia, it feels like. Heh.
I’m following the instructions in this video to try to get the Whirligig this early in the game:
Holy shit, the ladder he somehow climbs at the 5:08 mark seems impossible to climb right now, but he says it’s possible so I’ll keep trying.
Edit: Phew, Got it. One Whirligig Saw. Time to continue the game like normal, because holy crap, even the crows in the DLC are hard to kill. I had no idea the game scaled its enemies that much.
Edit2: The Saw doesn’t just require Strength, it requires 12 Skill! So I had to level up a few times to get my Skill that high. Oops. But now I have it. One Whirligig Saw ready for duty in the second tombstone.
newbrof
1631
I think I will jump back into it. I loved it and I made it up to Amelia (not defeated yet), and some area in the woods… I stopped, because it’s so huge and every “you died” grinds at your motivation. I don’t use cheaty DLC weapons (cause I own no DLC) … I have to watch some lets plays in order to know what to do, I forgot so much
Kolbex
1632
Oh god, the woods. For a game I enjoy so much there sure are a lot of areas I kind of hate.
I went through Old Yharnum today, and got the machine gun nest and the beast. And then in the second headstone, I think I explored every nook and cranny and got to the Witches boss. But it again seems to be a dead end. I don’t get it. I must have missed something, but I have no idea where. Maybe the Grand Cathedral where I beat Amelia? I remember I haven’t been past where I beat the lightning hunter and the shotgun hunter. That’s the only place I can think of in the game where I felt like I hadn’t explored yet, so I’ll go there. The reason I didn’t go farther there is that after those two hunters, I entered an area where people were shooting pistols from above, it seemed really hard to get through.
Kolbex
1634
You best Amelia, you say? Did you touch the skull?
Of course. That’s how I unlocked the expansion. The church itself was a dead end though.
That area I was talking about on the right of the great cathedral definitely had some stuff. I can kill the snipers before I go down, but I still got killed below. And then trying to go back I got abducted to the Unseen Village and met Dark star Paarl, or something like that.
Kolbex
1636
There’s a door somewhere in the cathedral ward that wouldn’t open for you before that will now. I think it’s kinda down by where the passage to Old Yharnam is. I’m falling behind!
Kolbex
1637
I went looking for the door and couldn’t find it. It must be past the emblem gate. The door I thought it was was the fake out door to the great bridge I mentioned earlier.
Yeah it took me about two hours but I finally found it, retracing the entire game so far basically, and it was the last place I looked. Let me know when you need to find it, I can describe it well now.
Kolbex
1639
It’s off to the side of the big circular graveyard area somewhere, right?
Yes. After Sunset there’s a big guy in front of the entrance. Keep following that path all the way.
Product Review: Gentlemen and ladies of the Hunt will appreciate the Whirligig saw’s raw damage and strength, but this particular Hunter has to admit that he really got attached to the Saw blade on his first night of the Hunt. Switching to the Whirligig saw has been a tough adjustment. What it has in raw power, it lacks in precision. A hunter needs to be mobile and dodge the beasts of the night with precision and alacrity. The Saw blade provides that, and I’m sad to say the Whirligig Saw does not, unless you’re willing to use exclusively in its more primitive form in which case it is but a stick, not a weapon that exudes power and comfort to the discerning Hunter.
Kolbex
1642
I have heard so many people describe it as a kind of easy mode, but I must say I never, ever found it such. I used it to defeat Laurence and then never again afterward. Ludwig’s Holy Blade was my guiding light.
