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I'm the opposite I find dual wielding both katanas gets more hits and the jump attack is great.

Some are hidden but the vast majority just come through natural exploring and progressing. Most are obvious along your path playing the game.

Yeah true! But it does give a damage boost but for more importantly it wrecks poise and shields where duel wielding doesn’t. I find most enemies just ignore getting hit when duel wield and hit you through it. Two handed mostly stops them and the charge attack gets critical staggers.

The benefit of duel is your get the bleed to trigger faster. But I’m either using rivers that triggers it fast anyway or hand of melania that stun locks most enemies.

Not too far, scraping around the tower settlement area. Do agree that there are bosses which take the mick. In earlier games it's like avoiding one area clearing attack from a boss made you feel invincible. Dodging all those lightning attacks for the 4th time in a row from the Dancing Lion and in my head I was thinking about what to get for dinner tomorrow. Some of the bosses back in the day with these multi hit combos felt special because it was an anomoly, they were different from anything else in the game. Now Im getting my shit kicked in by a heavily armored no name enemy that just launched himself across 30ft in one second to kick me out of healing. To that end I think Darkgaol Knight was the most "fair" so far? Limited moves but hits like a brick, keeping you on your toes.

Still, one of the big realisations I had going back in was having to approach the new setting like I did the first time playing ER again. I got interested seeing an abandoned settlement in the distance and seeing what's there. Feels like they even did a better job bringing in layered Dark Souls level design to locations in the open world too. The village you come across at the start with its little traversal path to find hidden items. Nice to have that level of detail and intrigue show up more across the map. And so far, the side/smaller dungeons are so much more interesting than the ones in the base game. The exploration still remains my favourite aspect about the series, even found a hidden dungeon underneath the first castle and I'm itching to get back to it.

The art direction in this is incredible. Its concept art come to life.

With the fire giant its basically get in Torrent, wack it's feet a bunch, it'll eventually collapse to the ground and you HAVE to get to it's face, get off Torrent and attack the big glow point on its face. Does the critical hit animation and half it's health comes off. Just do it twice and it's over. It's just staying alive that matters.

Ha. I just this second met them. Fucking hell talk about infinite stamina. I did him first go but I never like the inconsistencies between you and enemies who don't seem to follow the same rules in gameplay mechanics, it's essentially cheating on the game's part.

Huh. Surely there's some method then because that is just too stupid.

Also, I’m back to using my nightrider flail. Because it’s a fucking beast.

I witnessed boss fight through DadFE's playthrough...

I think it did but honestly can’t remember as I swapped it out ages ago.

Hate to see how high this goes once I'm maxed on the skibidi blessings



Don't really love the system though. I get that it's meant to help emulate that feeling of being able to go elsewhere to get more powerful then come back for bosses despite being late game where stat increases are more marginal, but the power bumps from each level up are so huge that a lot of things just feel pointless even tackling without hunting for these things first, rather than being an optional traipse.

Re: number of scadutree blessing levels:
Last night I explored a forest of cocks and found a large chilli pepper hanging out to dry. Seems like I need to get something else first to activate it. Then found one of those teleporter things and got beamed half way across the map into an entirely new area.


Great video here on the importance of blessing level and why damage negation and talismans have a bigger effect than you think (this vid has only minor spoilers for first DLC area, just listen to the audio only for no spoilers at all):