I’m doing a dex/int build. I put Carian Greatsword on my estoc and I can’t fucking hit anything with it
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I am also impressed with the crabbage in this game.
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The opening cutscene of this game is so good. Highly intense Miyazaki vibes. I know they worked with GRRM or whatever but some part of me is just wondering if that was just marketing, because so far everything in this game is just a very honed and impressive version of the core soulsborne bullshit and 0% horny politics stuff. I love core soulsborne bullshit so much
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I am on PS5 and this is my experience too yeah. Wonder if it’s a platform issue
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I remember hearing SO much about the GRRM collab and then nobody make any of his work on it public, there were afaik zero interviews about it and they just stopped talking about it. It’s really unclear what, if anything, he contributed
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Oh yeah I can’t get the bloodstains working either. I’m on PC. I assumed there was an item I was missing or something
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Managing relationships with “famous” and in-demand creatives is super hard particularly when they kind of exist outside the core dev team. I would not be surprised if they just had him on as like a narrative stakeholder to tell them whether their content was cool and fun or not haha. My projects at work have very senior stakeholders like that who just are on call to look at our stuff and say whether it rocks yet or not.
Because yeah, this feels more like an evolution of the studio’s core narrative fascinations and strengths than it does like a collaboration. It’s so focused on the exact same preoccupations and themes, and it even seems to be doing some commentary on that in the early game. “what do you mean you don’t have a waifish lady of your own yet?? EVERYONE in this world has a mysterious maiden who does their level up rituals” really felt this way to me, haha.
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Yeah bloodstains are busted.
I found the mines, at the north of the swamp east of the starting area. It’s like World 2 in Demon’s Souls, which is rad as hell. Also tons of Smithing Stones in there. When I found the entrance, a hidden crab jumped out of the water and smashed into the mine entrance as I rolled through it, it was cinematic as hell.
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this castle geometry is soooooo generous. there are so many level design callbacks to demon’s and they all rule
it gets much harder to level up after 30 though
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ya really getting the vibes that starting class actually matters in this game, which is a first. I’m about 7 hours in and have upgraded my estoc to +2 and have found like two pieces of armor. I am level 22
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There’s definitely a lot less armor and weapons in this game! I found my first new weapon in the world like 5 hours in–the giant club just sitting on a cliff at the east side of the map
I’ve been too cheap to buy a bow but I could probably use one. I’ve found a lot of shields though and am switching between the bloodhound’s fang and the misericord for melee
I’ve found a few other dex weapons. Namely the vega claws and hawk talon sword, both found in stormveil castle. They are both Extremely Cool but sadly do not do as much damage as my magic estoc which is my only usable weapon with Carian Greatsword ash so I have no reason to switch
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this is even more miserable than any of the previous souls games cause I can’t even skate through on summoning help
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I found a big friendly turtle NPC in a ruined church and tried to jump on its back from a nearby ledge, but I got the instant slip-off physics, boo
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The bows are super useful. They don’t quite “pay for themselves” in bones for me but they do make it a lot easier to hunt animals, and they make it much easier to lure enemies into safe places than the thrown darts do
Margit is the only major boss I’ve beaten so far and I got really lucky with the number of spells I managed to hit him with. I’ve just been exploring as many world map locations as I can and picking up things from minor dungeons and landmarks without actually finishing the areas. I get the feeling that this game is encouraging me to just be listless and not worry about the main story for now
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Yeah the horse has been further enabling my pathological habit of running past everything with the briefest possible pauses to pick up items I see.
Most of my deaths in the overworld have been either from fall damage, or when my greed gets the better of me and I try to open a treasure chest real quick in the middle of an enemy camp
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does anybody know where to find senna after the initial church cutscene? i have a sorcery scroll to give her
Grave Warden Duelist is fucking tight as fuck, just swinging around giant hammers on chains. I love these mini dungeons with mini bosses
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