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From a shields-only play of Dark Souls I did with a friend.

We got past the first area, and it was was my turn to face off against the Taurus Demon. I was nervous since would the bash be prohibitively short range? How much damage would it do?

Ultimately it didn't matter.

November 19th, 2017 at 9:16 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

Finished Dark Souls III: The Ringed City DLC (PS4)

With a heavy heart, playing the supposed the last game in the series. From's Hidetaka Miyazaki confirmed that the franchise was done.

Now I have played Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1+2+3. All DLCs. Play time on average 200 hours per game, on average 3 playthroughs per game. I intend to play some multiplayer on Ringed City while there is still life on online. Other than that, that's it.

It has been a large part of my life since playing the Chinese pre-order of Demon's Souls back in the summer 2009, on a CRT, when I was living in Santa Clara CA. Demon's Souls was not well marketed. Found out about it through random word of mouth. At first I thought it would be a very typical character-driven fantasy ARPG. But, everything about this game was surprising. It was created in the golden age of quest markers and in-game explanations, of which there were none. It is a fantasy RPGs and those tend to be character based, but the focus was totally on gameplay and environment. It is Japanese, but plays like a WRPG.

I understand the game a bit better if it's contextualized against King's Field for the PSX, understood as a spiritual predecessor to the franchise. I didn't play King's Field until just a few years ago, but when it came out it would have been received much the same as Dark Souls today. It's an RPG that is so finicky and brooding with barely any background music.

Ringed City was a good time. At the same time I think they have chosen a good place to end it.

November 12th, 2017 at 1:16 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

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Every texture in Dark Souls replaced with Nicolas Cage

August 2nd, 2016 at 10:18 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink

DARK SOULS III
The Dark Soul(Platinum)
Acquire all trophies.

June 12th, 2016 at 2:27 am | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink