His intro and death dialogues still giving me chills damn i love that dude so much even tho i hate his guts at the same time i do still need to read his remembrance and his armor to empathize with him

Still stuck at the final boss, lol. I had a good flow, but dodged to heal, got hit by an AoE, stunted, then the boss started one his combos and…yeah. I’m out for the night.

I held off on this cause I was unsure about difficulty. Decided to get it. Watched some guides to help early on. Having a great time. Wish I got it last year

Agreed, they need to revamp the combat system for the next title - especially if they’re gonna keep throwing bosses with that level of speed and mobility at us. Obviously things have evolved over time but this combat is still based on the scaffolding provided by demons souls, it’s time to expand things in a more substantial way

We just need deflecting, to be honest.

Idk if deflecting is the answer unless it's only given through a talisman. If you add sekiro like deflection then it essentially becomes sekiro-lite and your build means less since you can just git gud and deflect everything

to be fair people already do this with parries in the game lol

i don't think it would devolve into sekiro because there would still be so much variety in builds

Boss movesets have definitely outpaced default player abilities, hope they figure out some way to buff the player and let us keep up without being op or relying on summons

Honestly if they can get their next games running as smooth as Lies of P that would help a ton as well

Lowkey want to do a new game + I haven’t played with other weapons . Wanted to do a boss rush

Used up all my heals to get him to radahn second phase

Feels like I’m always getting combo’d into oblivion without summons

They did do this. They locked like half of them behind bosses. There was only 5 directly behind a minor boss but still

Dark souls already did this. You’re the final boss

I just can’t fathom how to beat the final boss???

Literally impossible to dodge so I just gave to take damage with my shield

OoK was tough for sure but bad game design? Don't know how anyone could say that tbh

Same, I just used the Fingerprint Great Shield which has high holy resistance and the golden braid which has max holy resistance for a talisman

What were they thinking with Golden Hippo

The outrage wasnt as terrible as midir or sister friede if I rememember correctly (altho its been years) but back then it was pretty much a Ludwig = good, Orphan of Kos = bad type of situation

I remember people being mad about Laurence

Continuously strafe and dodge left to avoid the holy beams, that worked for me

Still mad shouldve been a completely new boss

finally beat the main story at 104 hours
all time classic, definitely in my top 10 games ever made

this game feels like an unending nightmare but also a 10/10 at the same time, not sure if I just hate myself or if Miyazaki is a genius, maybe both.

Am I the only one who finds this game harder with magic?

Less healing flasks bc you need so many FP flasks. Also cycling between different spells during a fight. Most bosses having some way to counter your ranged attacks

Easiest run for me was my strength build abusing jumping attacks and posture breaking everything

I miss Melina