So is this referring to the downing of Darkeater Midir? If so…try again in NG+, I dare!
Because the health boost makes it a true nightmare.
Kolbex
2043
You’d have to pay me. Now that I’ve wrapped up 3, it’s on to…1! xD
But I’ll leave it installed for now for multiplayer stuff.
That last fight was good. So good. No bullshit, no camera issues, just an old-school throwdown. I saw a few summon signs, but I had made up my mind I was gonna do this one alone, and I’m glad I did.
Well congrats anyways. Dark Souls is in many ways more interesting. NPC quests lines are at least easy to encounter…at their peril!
Kolbex
2045
Yes, I thought many, maybe even most/all of the minor NPC questlines in this game were far too obtuse. I didn’t even encounter the one in TRC. However, I will say that with only a bit of curiosity Yoel’s is extremely easy to follow, no walkthrough required. In fact, without help from other players (in the form of signs if nothing else), I think you would have a hard time breaking it. In the end, though, I kind of wish I had chosen to use those eyes I found.
It’s still far from clear to me when/where the Dreg Heap is supposed to be.
Oh the despair of being so far behind everyone else.
Speaking of player messages, there were at least 4 areas around the Church that I would have missed if it wasn’t for the signs from players. It really makes me think back to Bloodborne, which didn’t have signs for me (it requires PS+), and I wonder if I missed a lot of hidden bits and corners and areas in that game as a result. It’s so idiotic that they require a $40 to $50 membership for me to be able to see player messages.
Kolbex
2047
Well, if nothing else, not having PS+ meant I had to tackle every boss alone. No tapping out for sunbros on Orphan (which I probably enjoyed a bit less than I might have as a result).
This is why I think when we do this next summer with Dark Souls 2 (hehe) or Sekiro (?) we should set a goal of an area per week, like I mentioned above, with the remainder of any playtime that week if you just can’t get enough spent co-oping or invading. Well, no co-op or invasions in Sekiro, but still.
I mean, I know this game sucked me in so much I played it way more than I should have. I started a month ago and have almost 50 hours in. Yikes!
Scuzz
2049
The fire keeper should implore you to light the flame, or something like that. You then use the bonfire to go to the Kiln of the Final Flame…I think. Once there you have the option of two bonfires, one is for the final boss and one takes you to the Dreg Heep. That is the DLC.
I think the fire keeper asks you to take a vow or something. You then approach the bonfire and a prompt should appear.
Scuzz
2050
Anri’s is fairly easy to follow, but the others are not. Even though Siegward’s starts obvious it soon breaksdown into a lucky encounter or the player just being an exploration freak. Without reading about it somewhere you would never be able to finish Sirris or Hawkwood’s story.
Kolbex
2051
Yes, but hers is intertwined with Yoel’s, in a way. There’s really only one way I could see you fucking up that whole thing (other than the way you can do it if you follow player signs blindly…which I sometimes do), and it would require some uncharacteristic (for a Souls player) inaction on your part. In fact, given the way that one of the ending triggers is quite hidden and the other seems like a booby prize, I have to imagine that the Yoel questline is how From intended the game to be ended.
My problem with Siegward’s (and, good lord, Sirris’s) is that there is no reason for the “exploration” to take place, because in both cases they advance by your going back through areas you’ve already been through! In Sirris’s case it seems particularly egregious.
Trouble is it’s hard to know if you actually finished any of the quests or just missed something and screwed it up at some point. The last I saw of Siegward was with Yhorm the giant who he helped me defeat. That felt very much like the end of his story but who knows. He was pretty easy to find but yeah, I do a lot of exploring. Anri I haven’t seen since the bonfire in Irithyl before the Cathedral. Sirris I haven’t seen since we fought the phantom on the Irithyl bridge. Hawkmoon is still going, I just found his sign near the Nameless King and we fought our way up the hill (that was fucking epic!) but honestly that was a complete fluke to find his sign by the wall.
Trouble is I’d often avoid being embered up particularly earlier in the game, because a)I’d get invaded and killed when I just wanted to keep exploring and b)I didn’t want to keep running out of ember. Now I’m in the late game I have plenty of them so I’ve been using them as health buffs for harder sections. So I suspect I missed signs for things like helping Anri / Sirris out earlier on.
I have absolutely no idea who Yoel is! I totally missed that one. How many more did I totally miss I wonder? We seem to have all had quite different experiences with these quests.
I’d be up for a Bloodborne or Sekiro playthrough in the future, yes, and perhaps you’re right that it’s best to set goals each week. Don’t factor me into your plans though, I’ll take part if I can, because it’s unusual for me to have this long a stretch at home writing papers and finishing off stuff. That’s why I’m plowing through it, might have to head off later this month.
In game apparently I’m nearly the 70 hour mark. In Steam I’m nearing the 90 hour mark, but I can’t possibly imagine that I’ve left it running in the background for 20 whole hours…!?
Kolbex
2053
Siegward died during our Yhorm fight so that was definitely the end of his quest for me! Favorite boss for me is Nameless King, hands down. So much spectacle. Not sure I really have a favorite are. Maybe Irithyll.
I visited Andre and he gave me a message from Hawkmoon which doesn’t sound like it’s going to end well! So I know his quest is still going.
Kolbex
2055
You didn’t explorminate enough, son.
Ok, I googled Yoel. So I did find Yoel, I’d forgotten all about him. He gave me a few levels and dark sign, but then I found him dead. That was it? I’m guessing not.
Right, bugger it, I read a bit more. Apparently I screwed up by not getting 5 levels out of him, I only got as far as 4 and then the next time I visited he had died, so wasn’t replaced by Yuria and that was that. Oh well.
Scuzz
2057
Yoel and Yuria are tied into the Anri story line. Although Anri isn’t aware of it. I usually follow her story line to the end, just for the early look at Aldritch. Her story is a poignant one and it seems wrong to have it end any other way.
Siegward’s story ends with the boss fight.
He is waiting for you in a certain boss arena that he has a connection to. As fro Sirrus, check the Handmaidens inventory and if she has a somewhat special flower bundle, then Sirrus is waiting somewhere as well. That one is a little harder to figure out. Look for her summon sign outside where the tree boss was.
I did something wrong, not sure what as I have never had a problem with it before, but Lapp’s storyline in the DLC somehow got cut off.
So the Nameless King is dead. A Sunbro and I took him down. However I have had more trouble than I expected with the summons boss fight in the DLC.
So I should do this? I got some pretty strong hints from the old king on the chair that this could be really, really bad, so I didn’t do it!
No wonder I haven’t seen Anri again then. That’s a shame, I really wanted to see how that played out, she seemed such a tragic, sad figure after losing Horace.
Scuzz
2060
FROM does seemingly make most story lines almost impossible to follow. For instance, Anri’s end. There is nothing in the game that I am aware of that would tell you were to find her after she foes hollow. It is on the road to the Cathedral.
If Yuria doesn’t get her way, Anri does eventually fulfill her and Horace’s mission, with your help.
Kolbex
2061
Yes, actually I guess you could bugger up Yoel’s story by being too good and not dying enough. On my first character I progressed too far without sucking up all the aid he offered, having been spooked by my ch-ch-changes, which was a determining factor in my running with Kolbeast instead. This game is very addicting. Today I was tempted to pick up the twinblades again…
Oh there was no chance of that! I guess I didn’t realise that the trigger for the next level was just dying. Every so often when I visited Greirat I’d remember to keep going and check him out, but being hidden away back there I’d completely forget about him.
