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I might pop my summon sign down and give folks a help now I know how to do him. Fairly confident I can stay alive.

People are scarily good at him already though. When I was learning him and summoning randoms there was a guy with the bog standard gold traingle godrick soldier shield that went toe to toe with him well into phase 2. Parrying him and just rolling through everything.

Yeah. All these mausoleum bosses are bloody tricky. Some of them just outright cheat as well. (I'm looking at you )

Just lost 100k runes to him cos the game wouldn't cancel a lock on or pick up the runes no matter what I pressed.

There's a skibidi fragment that way as well.

Right, enough mucking around in the main game.

Starting the dlc proper now. Using a l150 arcane bleed build with Mohg's giant candlestick.

Mimic Tear on standby.

Always something magical about exploring a new Fromsoft map, this looks like a good one.

We who are about to die salute you, O Caesar/Miyazaki.

If that's the Euporia (or Euphoria, depending on who/what you read) one, yes, you need to go back there and find it

Yeah, cheers ; it was the Euphoria and it’s mine, with a Scooby Shard. Took a jump into a poison swamp at the bottom and found another mini boss, together with a locked gate I couldn’t open.

There’s another door in Shaded Keep I’ve not found the correct side to open it from. Every time I think I’ve 100% explored it, I keep seeing a purple loot on another floor. That Thorns spell is a good example, completely missed that staircase as just concentrating on getting to the boss.

How much are people loving this now that the casuals have been weeded out?

Due to watching my son I found the hole and then the area and the boss. I did find that hole on my own but did not notice the drop down part. The boss took a few tries as my turtle build wasn’t suited for it.

Anyway I’ve respec to play as the blood borne character pledged to the bile bloods. The weapon seems to hit like a truck and unless I’m mistaken it has the fastest blood build up in the game at 78.

Bloodfiends arm is the best bleed weapon now.

I’m reconciled with just having a slower pace at this game now - I get too wound up if I spend an entire evening just on Erdtree, so I’m breaking it into 1-2 hour chunks. Currently only done the first obvious castle with Lion boss, and then stumbled East to a map I haven’t uncovered and another castle.

It’s bloody brilliant, just not un-put-downable like a Dark Souls or the opening third of Elden Ring.

Team ninja have some god awful bosses as well to be fair.

Some definitely move a bit quicker than the camera can cope with. The camera could definitely do with some modernising at some point as it's had the same issues since Demons and that was a long time ago!

Eh?
I’m sure they very much care about every aspect of their games.

They have a phenomenal output rate generally releasing a classic game every two years.

Demons was the original flawed gem
Ds1 they refined this formula and greatly improved it to one of the best games ever.
Ds2 I believe was a different director but is still a great 9/10 game.
Blood borne a reinvention of the formula that made it feel very different and is also one of the best games ever and pretty much universally loved.
Ds3 a greatest hits if you will with many classic moments
Sekiro, again like bb they reinvent their own formula again and create another fresh classic.
Elden ring. Their first open world attempt and nailed it first try.

Then add to that excellent dlc for most of these titles a year later so every year we either get an incredible game or excellent dlc.




Yeah I think they care.

Also the bosses need to get faster and harder as we have improved. Pretty much all demon souls and dark souls 1 bosses are ridiculously easy now. At the time I found them incredibly difficult.