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MrBean wrote:

Just clicking with the groove of parrying/combat and knowing to get the mikiri counter first absolutely changes how frustrating the beginning of the game is. Still died at a few points, but it didn't feel like I was bad at the game like last time.

I tried to cheese some of the bosses but most of the cheese techniques were harder for me to pull off than just learning the fights. I think I did something cheesy to the bridge boss though.

So I'm technically further than where I was last time. Still at the Guardian Ape, but have taken down O'Rin and the first Corrupted Monk, which I didn't last time.

This fudgein fight. I mean I feel I can win it (got to 1/2 health second phase), but what an exercise in focus. Haven't felt this burned out from the other bosses so far.

I struggled with the ape but eventually beat it. It was just the usual getting to know its pattern to avoid damage and getting hits in when you can. I'm sure I watched youtube videos that provided advice and encouragement.

Boss invasions for April fools, fantastic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/128t4d...

First Owl fight down, feels good. One prayer bead short of my 8th necklace. Gonna beat it this go round, I'm determined.

2nd ape fight was...a joke? Maybe hitting it so soon after the first gave me more insight, but honestly was expecting it to be harder.

Rolled credits on Sekiro. I did lock myself out of the 2nd memory unfortunately, but gave both frozen and dragon tears. Guess now that I have a PS5 Demon's Souls is next (played a good bit of the original last year, but let's be real it didn't age well)

Also, y'all thoughts on Tails of Iron? Ps+ free this month but I'm iffy on it just with the tutorials.

Tails of Iron was okay. Pretty easy from share I remember

Blasphemous 2. Sorrowful be the heart, penitent one.

New Star Wars souls soon. I don’t think I’ll play it until it’s on a service or discounted. Not looking forward to more of that honestly.

Get that Star Wars jank out of here, not souls like at all with that janky ass combat.

Not Souls Like... But FromSoft. Armored Core VI went up for prebuy with a pretty kickass collector's and premium editions! Was excited to pick it up, sold out, damn.

https://store.bandainamcoent.com/games/brands/armo...

Re opened

So, this seems ... interesting. I haven't dug too deep yet, but feels like a reason for a 3rd playthrough!

No idea when. Stupid Zelda, Diablo, and Final Fantasy getting in the way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiuOg0-1RKE&featur...

I was thinking of trying "Tails of Iron", Does anyone like that game?

bill wrote:

It's... Okay. Nothing special. Linear. Don't think it was hard at all.

A Lies of P demo dropped today, Is anyone trying it out? I will, eventually but it looks like a solid 7/10 that I will 100% drop based on gameplay I've seen already.

Kommie wrote:

I honestly thought it released a while back.

Nope. Gonna be on GamePass though, so no need to buy it.

I checked it out. Its okay. I don't like character movement/feeling. Its floaty, yet also clunky. Character has no weight to their movement. Moves like they are not connected to the ground. Yet moves very slow. Dodge has a very odd input delay which makes it almost impossible to use correctly in a fight. I hope this isn't the finished the product. Oh and it has that bad hidden mobs/jump scare attempt enemy placement going on.

Feeb wrote:

I think you are thinking of Steelrising. Another mediocre souls-clone set in a Victorian setting.

Archer wrote:

I liked that one. It was okay enough to beat. Not platinum though.

My issue with this one, from videos they've released is that there's massive mobs everywhere for that artificial difficulty and some enemies were massive sponges.

Steel rising was ok. Weird historically based story though.

Lies of P after a half hour. This is not good. There must be around 20 enemies around the first "bonfire" just to get the artificial difficulty up. Movements feel janky AF. Enemy attacks are super random and hard to gage. But mostly I feel the mob swamp of artificial difficulty.

From Software are the gold standard for a reason.

Kommie wrote:

Yeah, I couldn't get over how bad the movement was the whole time I was playing it.

Kommie wrote:

I’m with you. I didn’t even play a demo or anything to know by the early on gameplay trailers it’s immediately a let down and yet another cookie cutter SoulsBorne knock off. It stinks too cause I was kinda hoping this would be like a dark bloody action/horror esque take on Pinocchio without simply being another inferior Souls clone.

I'll see what reviews say at release but I'm expecting low 70-probably not cracking 80 for this on Meta/Open.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it landed in the low 60’s tbh.

Amazing they’ve floated it as something to anticipate for nearly 3 years- and I’m hearing the same things as I did from reveal trailers. Shouldn’t take this long for a cash grab to come to life.

Seems like a lot of From Software fans on Reddit seem to like it.... I don't get it. Maybe I'll give it another shot on release as I kinda find demos a partial waste of time.

I'm finally playing the Demon's Souls remake. It is good.

bill wrote:

I remember you being really into demons at some point. The remake is great.

The remake is amazing. Blue Point is one of the kings of remasters/remakes.

The music is so great. I listened to it in my car for a bit.

The Dark Souls games are finally on sale (haven't been on sale since Elden Ring came out) on Steam! Just forget Dark Souls 2 exists though.

I got Dark Souls for Switch when it was on sale last month. I played it a little and it seemed good. I'm hoping it will feel fresh playing it on a portable device. I want to finish Demon's Souls remake first.

Christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woqus7bKfGc&t=566s

I'm at the endgame of Dark Souls 3 (just Nameless King, Kiln of the First Flame, Ringed City left) and honestly it's fun but worse than I remember. Wanna do a second quick DS2 run next.

And Nameless King down. It's a really, really good fight. Didn't beat it on my launch playthrough, which is the only other one I've completed

I'm in New Game Plus for Demon's Souls Remake, working toward getting the platinum. I still need to beat Fool's Idol without hitting a clone (missed it the first time around, before I got serious about trophies). I have all the rings. I have to kill the Maiden in Black this endgame. Otherwise, just mopping up All Spells/Miracles (will need to finish the game and do some of the next one).

NG+ has been a bit tough, partly because I'm at pure black character tendency to get that ring. I'm getting one-shotted in Depraved Chasm (5-1) by Depraved ones, especially if they gang up on me. But, I just beat the first boss, so I'm past it for now.

Grinding hasn't been bad at all. The gold coin and pure bladestone to get a couple new rings from Sparkly went pretty fast. Maybe I got lucky... though I did invest in the Sword of Searching.

I am a shameless boss cheeser. Poisoned Flamelurker, Old Hero, Allant. Others I've mostly used ranged magic on. I was trying to do a new cheese for Allant where you sort of pass through the fog door while aiming a bow and he never activates, but I either got stuck in the wall or he was active.

theyrhere wrote:

I go back and forth on how good DS3 is. Certainly not without issues but I try not to penalize due to how a game is optimally played.

DS3 actually has the only boss I didn't beat on my first playthrough as well. But for me it was Midir.

DS2 I've actually still only done once and I don't even have it installed. I did not particularly enjoy it but I've been debating another run as the first one was the standard beat it by any means necessary which involved a lot of magic. I kinda want to see what the game feels like with all melee.