Demon's Souls

I know where she means, both ways are drops, right takes you down to the boss chamber. if you go left through a tunnel (with the exploding minecart things) you'll end up on some ledges and if you get to the bottom youll end up going in some tunnels that have been bored by some rocky fire creatures. They're pretty much immune to physical, so take an age to kill but they don't really do much just slowly move back and forth. If you get through the tunnels (they're a bit mazey) you'll come out at the bottom of the shortcut drops if you had gone right at the start.

Memory is a bit hazy, but that's generally it.

It's a bit cheaty but you can use photomode to free cam a bit and see where the drops are. It used to pause the game too, but that might have been patched.

Yeah I'm visualising patches area where it's kind of outside

And yeah the bug things take a fucking age to kill without magic

Yeah, 2-2 is horrid. I couldn't workout my way around the tunnels, so it was a relief you can get to the boss fairly easily by heading to the right.

As already mentioned, the enemies being so tanky against anything besides magic damage makes that whole world a bit of a chore.

Yeah it's a slog and I'm always relieved when I get out intact. Though I've never got the balls to run across the lava to get those juicy dragon stones in the lake area near the dragon sword.

But also yeah, it's not 5-2 at least. That's a proper endurance test!

4-2, for me. Its just long enough to tempt you to speed run it but there are OHKs around every corner, those fucking rays sniping you unless put on the thief ring and the rolly skellingtons that block your path on the cliff edge.

I dont think many of the boss runs are that bad apart from 4-2. It genuinely tested my sanity because it doesnt so much kill you as make you repeatedly kill yourself.

That ledge was fucking horrible. IIRC there is some short cut isn’t there where you kind of roll over a section of turret wall much earlier on at the top of wide stair case which takes you to the other side of that fucking ledge.

Is Bichi2 not Bichi?

Oh god 4-2 was a nightmare. I actually found the game reasonable straightforward and one of the easier From Software games. 4-2 is probably where I had more than half my deaths though.

Fortunately the boss wasn't too bad, so only took me a couple of attempts, maybe 3, but getting there was hell.

Some of my builds had real trouble with Alan. Normally as a melee he's fine though as he's only got about 3 attacks.

well I am confused as user Bichii has IIRC played al the From games to death over the years (I thought) or was DemonS one she / he had never played? Also why the name change. 

5-2 can get in the bin. Definitely my least favourite area - possibly of all From's games.

I think I'd rather slog through Blight Town and Farron Keep back-to-back than do 5-2 again anytime soon.

I've been trying to do that roll on the ps5 version but I couldn't do it. Not saying you can't, but it seems fucking harder to do now

I don't mind the path with the skeletons. I can do them ok. It's when you get *inside* that I start wibbling and generally fuck it up 100 times

It still works, but it took a fair few goes, whereas I could do it upside-down with my eyes closed on the PS3 version

Odd, i did it first time on PS5 then pretty much constantly after, just from copying in a vid online of where to roll from.