To my surprise, when you play NG+ it doesn't want the first seeker token you found in total, only the first one you got during the NG+ run. I was so frustrated because i only remembered the original first one, so i attacked her and she left because i didn't deal enough damage
@@Ronam0451 i found like 3 tokens in NG+ before visiting her. Issue was that i went through half of vermond already and didnt remember where i found any lol
I think it would've been interesting if she would attack us if we got any of these riddles wrong, since the Sphinx would devour those who got her riddles incorrect.
@@2HandHangerDunksOnly I wish I knew this at first. I was so frustrated because my game bugged a few times while I was answering her riddles in Bhattal. I was so fed up and just started to google what to do because I didn't want to waste time after I had to load save a couple times due to a bug. Ruined the experience for me. Used a maker's finger on her.
@@neatnomercy1918 The correct way to fight a sphinx is hidden in plain sight, you might've seen it and not realized it was a hint on how to fight against the sphinx without the sphinx throwing a hissyfit and flying off. Sphinx is a part monster, part lady and you dont go around hitting ladies :)
Genuinely cant believe I actually managed to figure out its riddles (in Vermund) without any help. *Except* for a Seeker’s token map because there was no way I was gonna be able to do that on my own.
The only one i had to take help was the parent part - i genuinely never interacted with the required riftstone so i never knew pawns with that name existed
even with a map of all seeker token i had to give up on that because i just couldn't remember where the heck i had found that first one and i got sick of searching.
I remember rushing the entire map remembering each location; felt like i was an old man remembering good times lmao, i was lucky and found my first one; it was the most Tedious and fun Riddle i had on the game :)
you absolutely did not do them without looking up a guide the parent riddle is proof of this as like @Elyrium42 said there is no way to know that at all and the fact that it was revealed on a JP exclusive PV and then mentioned in a post by itsuno because nobody could figure it out is even further proof
@@garadak7. It's possible though. I got 7/10, sorta 8/10 riddles without help. I looked up a guide to find Seeker Tokens in the early game, but that's hardly a riddle. Beyond that, I got them all myself. Only thing I looked up was where to find Vergil (since I know DMC and could see that Dante's scar was wrong, I knew he must have a brother the Sphinx was after), and the Sphinx moniker pawns, because I remembered finding them before and guessed that's what she wanted since she put quotations around the word ''parent'', which to me suggested Capcom was her ''parent'' since they created her. And the only Capcom influence in the game, are Capcom pawns. Been that way since DD1. It's really not that crazy. I also figured out how to beat her, though I just used the Unmaking Arrow since I figured that's what I needed considering she gave it to me.
That means you failed the riddle that is her fight. You can't attack her chest or head. Dismiss pawns if you have to, because they will hit the head and chest.
@@Geerterig wait, there's a rule during the fight according to which you can attack only her ass? How the hell should I know about if there wasn't a single word about it?) I suppose it's mentioned somewhere god knows where with no context and 0 explanation of purpose? Why of all the examples they could take to make puzzle-like things they took fromsoft's one? I understand why devs make something that requires additional thinking and most of those riddles are pretty good but things like this and that "remember what you've been doing a week ago" with time limit on it should never exist.
@@Geerterig I checked the wall near the guy that we had to deliver the amfora to (or as I did - deliver the guy himself to the sphinx because game doesn't care how to do most of quests). And I checked the paint on the amfora itself. Nope, these things don't tell anything about the fight. Sphinx himself doesn't mention it even slightly either. So I have 0 thoughts on how player should know about this rule)
@@Sargatas The sphinx' riddles were designed to be solved by players as a community, not on your own. Obviously it's unfair for one person to figure out all these riddles on their own without fail, because of how cryptic some of them are, though it's definitely possible with trial and error. In the case of the fight, it was expected players would eventually catch on that the sphinx only flies away when you attack the head or chest. I don't get what fromsoft has to do with any of this but it's true that they did the same thing with the towers in elden ring. Fromsoft didn't invent community driven puzzles though, even in single player games.
