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Reading that review and it's complaints about signposting feels like From Soft's direct response to people complaining about the beginning of ER and the lack of signposting for the tutorial. I mean I dunno what to say here, damned if you do right?

Also most of not all of their DLC is difficult. Am I wrong here?

Artorias, Manus, Fume Knight, Sir Alonne, Friede, Gael, Lady Maria, Orphan of Kos... No you've just about got it right I think

40 hrs for DLC is bloody nuts. But then I guess so is the price tag. Cannot wait.

Wasn't sure about the 5 stars for Goodbye Volcano High tbh. I really didn't get that essential experience from playing that game.

Part of my feeling is that many a film critic believes they could do a better job and while snobbery is found in all critics I've seen it less in the games industry, it feels way more supportive as a whole.

Hmm, yeah that stopped with the whole Harry Knowles saga.

My other half is on holiday next week from Wednesday until Saturday.

I was going to (finally) start Pikmin 4 and hold off on this. Not so sure now...

I'm a bit worried, heard a rumour that people with plus game characters are getting smashed hard.

Hmm, all this talk about dlc being harder - I'll be shit at it then. I struggle with base game souls. But I'm still intrigued, if not just for the extra items, weapons and areas to explore.

I must check my level

I heard rumours that there are cliffs, cliffs that you can fall to your doom!

But yeah all from software dlc is nails.

Pc gamer gave it 95/100 saying once again they show the industry how to do dlc.

I think the theory is that at the recommended level, each level gain is so slight anyway that it would never make enough difference. Therefore there’s a way to increase damage of you and your ashes separately in the DLC area so you can feel the types of gains normally reserved for early game levelling and weapon upgrading.

Turns out I'm level 115. It's taken me half an hour to get used to it and lots of deaths etc. Anyway, I can get mohg to about 50% if I'm lucky and then everything goes pear shaped.

So i followed a guide to get mohgs shackle. Yeah, that didn't end well - subterranean shunning grounds appears to be full of complete bastards. And I lost my way.

Still, have to say, whilst I got my arse handed to me plenty of times, it was actually a good laugh as I haven't played for months and months.

Where is his fucking shackle though, anyone know?

Not that far into the shunning grounds, there's a big room with pipes you can run along, high above the floor...and loads of those annoying gargoyles so be careful. Down on the floor there are two (or three?) giant lobsters / crayfish and it's around there somewhere (I think there may be a few items down there, can't remember). It's somewhere near an entrance to a catacombs so that's worth making a beeline for as there's a safe site of lost grace just there before you enter the catacombs, which gives you a good position to suicide run and hoover up all the items on the floor behind you. Unless you have a good way of taking on the lobsters in which case do that.  

As Nanocrystal says, the shackle is of fairly limited use against Mohg, but no harm in finding it. 

Finally reached Mohg (the real one). Well, his area at least, still need to get to the actual boss arena. Gives me a couple of evenings to repeatedly get torn apart by him.

How essential is the physick considered for this fight? I don't have it and not sure if I'm going to be able to do that quest line now. To be honest, I've somehow managed to miss pretty much all the NPC quests in this play through.