Why Blighttown Really Matters (Dark Souls) - Writing on Games 

"Ash lake, wait what?"

you 🥫 what you mean there is furter down? What do you mean “the abyse”

I find hollow knight has a similar feeling

we want to know what is the bottomest place in dark souls, hehe

@@haroldomiyaura912 ash lake

Ugh, tell me about it. I can't really support it!

Someone didn't listen to the video~

Least rewarding? Once you reach the swamp Blighttown isn't even hard anymore. It is also the best place to farm Large and Green titanite shards to crank your weapon until +10. It would be more rewarding if you are a pyromancer because you could buy the best spells there. Being able to get a +10 weapon itself is very rewarding.

@@muruganr4581 oh yeah, forgot to mention about loads of Titanite chunks in Great Hollow.

@mk43_GUNNER SHOCK Not to mention that the pyromancer is *perfectly* equipped for Blighttown. Poison resistant starting gear, a way to deal fire damage to easily farm Purple Moss from the evil shrubberies in the forest... ...and most of your high tier pyromancies, all within a short walk of each other.

at least they dont fucking respawn

Deniz S. i was so relieved(not a shielder so they gave me hell)

@@Kkimishim Shields don't even help much, either. If you block the dart, it still does a huge amount of toxic damage.

@@LauncherSpiderMk7 you should use the spider shield from The Depths , it give you100% resistance to toxic darts

😂😂😂😂

Ornstein and Smough: are we a joke to you?

And getting trapped in a corner

More the camera

And the camera

No amount of stats can face that son of a

Oh man, the skeleton dogs.

Merovyn Kellion Holy fuck, the Tomb of Giants is fucking horrid. Maybe I could handle it if it were bright, but it just feels horrible having to attack things in the dark. You feel much deeper in the earth while in the Tomb of Giants versus Blighttown, not to mention the giant skeletons and the archers

Merovyn Kellion the tomb and catacombs were probably my favorite areas. they were really challenging, but not in a random way like blighttown were you die from bullshit. it was harder than blighttown and less artificially difficult. more actually challenging and rewarding. they were also perhaps my favorite areas aesthetically after anor Londo.

yuore idiet But is the tomb really free of random attacks? You have bone pillars popping up, skeletons that constantly bombard you with arrows and skeleton hounds that do massive damage to you. It has similar platforming as Blighttown in that you are often walking narrow paths while fighting enemies. You not only have to know where to go, but you also need to pick your fights. I found Blighttown to be fairly systematic in that you can take a scan around the area and pick out the hazards whereas tombs...you can't really do that.

Yeah those damn skeleton dogs. By the time I went into TotG, I was able to one-shot them with a forward R2 (Black Knight Sword +5 ftw), and I generally had no trouble with them until I ran into the NPC phantom prior to Nito. The phantom caught me off guard and killed me, so I swore to get revenge and reversed-hollowed at the bonfire. But now, the skeleton dogs were giving me a TON of trouble, and any time I missed an attack they'd instakill me regardless of my armor or HP, especially since there were three at this point. I blew through all my humanity just trying to get down to the guy, and eventually just said "fuck it" and took my anger out on that endless mob of skeleton babies (who, luckily, dropped Humanity, yay!).

Kevin O'Connell I killed Lautrec after talking to him and he said "I've had my use for the fire keeper" or some bullshit like that

and got that awesome ring, right? Fuck that guy, i always have pleasure killing him in my playthroughs.

JeanBaptisteGrenouille I feel like I'll never end up using the ring. I'm on my first playthrough, and I'd hate to end up finding a better ring later on and having to break that ring taking it off

That's why you *always* kill him when you meet him :) At least I always did. OGRE SMASH.

Yeah, that's where I started a new game and killed the fucker.

If he gat gut he need no Jolly Coop. Look at those darkwraiths from New Londo: They have Straight swords.

“Oh no, someone wanted to play a mage character and used a mechanic common in the game so they could cast from a safe distance. Burn the heretic! He has not got gud!”

@@cole4783 Its true tbh. If you go into the game knowing about the melee vs mage differences, why would you ever choose mage? the whole point of the game is the melee experience

See i am of the opinion that From software meant to build a challenging and engaging rpg, not a pure slasher

I used Solaire in every fight I could just because I liked him.

imo Anor Londo is easier than Blighttown AND Sen's Fortress. Don't get me wrong, the Batwing Demons and the archers fucking suck but 1. the atmosphere is so much less oppressive than the previous two areas and 2. it's pretty easy in my opinion once you get get to the bonfire inside the cathedral as long as you know how to parry

@@strangething7379 I overcame Anor Londo without parrying once so parrying isn't really necessary

Tomb of Giants and Sen’s Fortress were worse.

I've only played bloodborne first then ds3, without parrying on either game. Is parrying really that important for ds1?

Yes...

I don't put too much emotion into video games. As much as I love the Soul games, the only game that actually made me feel genuine emotion is Witcher 3. Dark Souls is just an Adult Zelda game to me, and I love it.

True Chaos Servants make sure to play through NG+7 to make sure she gets 600 humanity

Cosmic - Chris are you undead? This series has given me almost every emotion known lol

Yea and you also kill her only companion because you think it will hurt you. #BreastWaifu

Vinny Balzano Nope, simply just human. I don't attach emotions to fiction unless I'm the one writing. There is a difference with experiencing a situation and then placing yourself into it. Though the game you simply experience the world trying to kill you.Never do you logically get a emotional response out of this in mind. Now... Placing yourself into it is where you actively feel for it. That is the biggest difference.

Just, yes.

and the importance of projectiles

Very well stated.

+Razi Ex Give this man/woman a medal

Or be like me; just bumbling though, activating all the traps, accidentally dodging, and wondering how I suddenly got these new souls and why is there a dead lizardman here?

Right! I used to just call it hobbitville

"DOWN DOWN TO GOBLIN TOWN" I always make that joke anytime I go to deeper place

Ethan Hudson oh yeah. I only just realised that upon seeing your comment.

I just got through it and I think it’s aesthetically amazing

YES YES YES AND YES!!

I had a melee char. with only 1 ranged miracle. Just summoned Beatrice and watched

Y-you only died 7 times?

Trevor Sharp nah that was a lie, I died more like 17 times

@@roidell5140 To be fair, Moonlight Butterfly is not needed to beat the game as far as I remember.

moonlight butterfly is extremely challenging for melee only builds

Yeah, I felt like the game truly only opened up to you after you defeat Ornstein and Smoug and realized you still had a long way to go. They even give you the fast travel at this point, 'cause you're going to need it.

... All I can think of is a song. _Ohh! A graveyard to explore._ _HAHA! DENIED!_ Anor Londo is a fake out, and you could say that about any place. Finally gotten through Undead Asylum? You're now a Dark Souls player. Bested the entirety of Undead Burg and Parish? You're now a Dark Souls player. Found Ash Lake without any help or tip, purely by accident? You're now a Dark Souls player. Can run Tomb of the Giants without any lights? You're now a Dark Souls player. No, let me tell you when it happens; When you've screamed from the top of your lungs at the game, When you've died non-stop for five hours yet still not given up and on the verge of tears from frustration of the unfairness and pure hatred of it all, When you laughed for doing a silly thing that ended up in your favor, All that conflict and strife from invaders that clearly were just trolling with +15 weapons or such, When all is said and done and you've played for enough hours For hate to turn into love, That's when. - It took me over 200 hours before I developed a Stockholm Syndrome for the game. I hate it, yet I love it. That's, when you are a Dark Souls player.

Zeithri Yet the moment where most people give up is the O&S fight. So even when we've been through all of that gotta admit that was con a totally diferent level. Cause there was no easy solution like a plunging attack or an easy-to-kill method unless you spent a weekend farming for ascended flame+5 and even then you required sharpened skills not to get slam dunked. And even before O&S we have to face the infamous archers, the plattforming with the painted guardians and the castle filled with silver knights. If anything, Anor Londo is the place where you put in practice the experience gathered from all that you said

juanjo gomez Honestly, it's not that difficult. Not even the first time through. And my first time through the game was as a pure caster character, without a shield, and never leveling Vitality. The hardest part for me, was Oolacile. Seath's Library was also a challenge that's frustrating but due to my love of Occult libraries, it's still acceptable. But yeah yeah, no, Anor Londo isn't that hard personally. So I disagree.

Zeithri Pure caster? ...like ...Sorcerer? Pls don't talk to me or my Sun ever again

Yes, beautiful indeed.

"The Depths" was the sewer area you reference and one of my favourite spots both for pve and pvp.

That was definitely a point at which I thought I was doing OK with the game (I had just beaten the Capra Demon) and after wandering around the Depths for aaages, in a matter of seconds that all came undone with the curse system. I knew I was nowhere near done with the learning process.

The depths served to remind me, that you have to keep a lookout even when you have already spotted one kind of the traps of the game. I had no problems with the oozes on the ceiling. And then this acursed rat fought with me across a gap which I then believed to be some sort of grit... I walked without caution and fell, only to be instantly cursed by that frog motherfucker. Good news were, however, that I knew this creepy guy in the belltower sold a cure. I just thought one of those stones cost 30.000 Souls. Yep, i memorized it ten times more expensive than it actually was. Needless to say, I spent quite some time farming souls in the Darkroot garden at those stonesoldiers.

I recently played the game for the first time, having watched a playthrough of it that left me with the impression that those bug-eyed twats are not to be trifled with. Curse sucks early on when removal is hard to come by. What happens when I do play? I get a bit careless and fall down one of the holes. So imprinted with the fear of these critters am I that I don't try to put up a fight, I run for it. I don't know my around it and end up going further into their area, falling into another hole which puts me at the end of it, by the Ring of the Evil Eye. My back is to the wall, flight is no longer an option, so I fight. There's either two or three of them packed in that space with me and, somehow, I thought, I killed them without getting cursed, even though my performance was almost a sort of panic-induced _faceroll_. Turns out they can sprint and leap, but aren't actually agile and their puffing is rather slow. Turns out, I realized, they're easy to outmaneuver. Just don't hold your ground, dart around. They do no damage, so you can two-hand whatever you're using and don't need to time rolls precisely. Just move around and force them to turn. After vanquishing the lot of them unscathed, my fear of them was greatly diminished. I still felt proud about my achievement and, in sight of that, didn't want to convince myself that they're actually piss. But as I fought more and more of them after that, my fear of them all but evaporated. I was only ever near being cursed once and that's when I was panicking in my first encounter. I think it was when I first fought back against multiple in that cell. I was lucky not to get cursed, but if those circumstances are what it took to come close, then they are indeed piss-easy. In NG+, I went down there knowing I didn't need to, because I like covering most ground and because I found them that non-threatening. The more I killed, the less respect I had for them as a threat. Unlike with just about everything else in the game, I've not been punished for taking the piss. At this point, I'm only less careful with the unarmed Hollows; you know, the neutral ones. I suppose that farming them a bit for Eyes of Death after my first encounter didn't help preserve the dread of them I came into it with. Bottom line for me is that they look far more dangerous than they are.

lol I did not even knew that the basilisks could curse you until I looked the area up after beating it -I always moved away from their fog breath because I saw how the curse meter increased, had no intention of finding out what consequences a full meter would have.

@@qinn1996 Same I've never been cursed once in the Depths.

Hahahaha, really?? I don't have a single problem dealing with Basilisks. They are so easy to me.

@@utisti4976 the problem is that if you just make one mistake or don't notice a basilisk approaching you are absolutely fucked.

I had a halberd, so maybe the long reach made it easy.

😂😂😂

Lol I share this sentiment. I can't stay away from this series more than a few months, and it's been that way since I first played these games in 2014.

in for a penny, in for a pound.

I know right, Stockholm syndrome at its peak

"What is our reward?" Quelaag the Spider Waifu

@@caprademon7787 #wouldbang #justiceforQeulag only kill I wish I could have avoided. Not even the amazing chest or sisters make up for the crime of murdering best girl.

Queelag's fury sword is worth it so is seigmeyer. Onion bro is best bro (yes even solaire fite me m8y)

"What is our reward?" SOLAIRE

Doober McFly hell yeah

And what's great is that afterwards you go into Sen's Fortress. Which is much quicker, much easier and, dare I say, slapstick. Seeing enemies get crushed by boulders or giant swinging pendulums catching you by your pants and flinging you off the narrow platforms.

Ularg the baptism metaphor is an interesting one, especially considering the ideas of verticality and ascension. You only have the chance to become a deitic figure within the world once you descend to the lowest point. Also yeah, slapstick is the right word for Sen's Fortress. It's why I think Blighttown is the true turning point for players - it's more representative of the Dark Souls experience than what is essentially a comedy level.

I’m currently on them. I got sooo close to defeating super Ornstein in phase 2 yesterday. The tricky part is what to prioritize... speed or heavy armor? Massive damage output or quick strikes? I know I can do it I just have to be patient and I will persevere

Madeleine Johansen It took me about 30 tries, The finally method that worked for me was using gear with high poise and my Black Knight Halberd. Heavily geared I walk in and start standing near the entrance swinging Attacks to take down Ornstein. Then when Smough was left I striped all my armor quickly and used a hit & run method.

@@saphireleine I remember cheesing Ornstein with toxic on my first playthru. I was not going to get slammed by that fatass.

Yup that was the point at which I gave up, despite liking so much about the game. I just ran out of will. But on the plus side I did get past that narrow bridge and killed those fucking archers on the way in so I feel I'm the real winner here.

I remeber killing them after i took a one year break

Well, until you get the Lord Vessel that is, then most players just warp whenever and wherever they can. But that's only obtained after being drenched over and over in the atmosphere of playing without warps, of course.

the lord vessel is extremely important to progress through the game, not because it open a lot of doors for new areas, but because after all that the game forced you though, to force you to backtrack everything would be just annoying and not rewarding at all... it would even waste all those feeling the areas gave you as it forces you to look at it again from another angle that you were not supposed to

And due to lack of Dark.

I don't know, The Gutter came fairly close to evoking the same feeling Blighttown did in addition to having a pretty good amount of TotG peppered in there due to the darkness. It was really rewarding carrying a torch through there and lighting all the sconces you could find yourself. Exploration was super important in that area as well because it was so labyrinthine. I agree that DS2 and DS3's level design doesn't come close to DS1's, but they've got their merits. (But I'm also biased towards DS2 so that's my stance.)

I disagree.

Nathan Forrest you should play bloodborne

@@Ape8658 Bloodborne is good but dark souls is still king

The Febo nAh the other way around

@@Ape8658 Bloodborne has a interesting setting but beside that it makes nothing better. Level Design, Heal System, NPCs, Variations all better in Dark Souls/Demons Souls

The Febo nope, you clearly never played bloodborne or played all these souls game first. Bloodborne was my first souls game and then I played the rest of the souls games, and even then, bloodborne was best

Oh yeah the Great Hollow can be super annoying. Random twig nudges me off of a branch and I fall to my doom. Or a branch throws off my camera angle and makes me walk off the edge. or I jump down to what looks like a perfectly reasonable landing spot, and slide off instead. *Splat.*

Just gotta get the curse bite ring and the basilisks are a breeze to deal with. Just dont fall ._

Yeah man , you can easily fall off of the tree roots and have to start from thr top again lol

luna violet especially when you find the gang of giant slugs at the bottom.

luna violet i just went through blight yesterday and holy shit fuck frame rate

luna violet Anything over Tomb of the Giants!! that's hard.

Nathan Forrest tomb of giants is really difficult especially if you try to complete it without a lantern, which i did and it's not easy.

"Anyone know how to sort out the framerate issues in Blighttown?!?!" "Git gud."

I farmed *all* of the souls I needed to fully upgrade my pyromancy flame before realizing that I couldn't just _leave_ the Painted World. What followed was the most stressful, careful progression through an area that I have ever done.

I once accidentally entered the painted world out of curiosity and i wasn't ready at all, immedieately tried to find the easiest way out after getting fucked by engorged hollows and bonewheels

Ano Londo was easier than Sens Ano Londo is most dangerous due to pvp invaders Other than that, the only two challenges imo were the rafters and giant sentinels

I always get lost on that dang wood maze/frotress and if i try to find route to the swamp i cant find it but when i dont try to find it i always accidentally go there-_-

@@tomi9562 Same here. Took me a couple hours to find out how to descend to the swamp area, and I did so by accident. Had to use a map later since I didn't want to spend anymore time down there.

I know this is so late,but i feel the same i just randomly drop here and there and i got to the bottom not knowing the way to go back up there

iCresp yeah, tomb of the Giants sucks, but you never forget how grueling it was 300 leagues below the undead burg.

Blight town is sort of the inoculation.of a dark souls player, ironically.

Agreed. Once I learned what to expect from Blighttown it was just sort of an annoying chore. But the Tomb of Giants remains a place I'm always very reluctant to go.

nop once you get light source.. it is piece of cake. it is short too

Invasions in Tomb of the Giants is the worst.

same as blightown really, move downwards

Get the skull lantern, and you'll be good ... And get yourself a massive shield if you're not used to the game.

ian icao go to lost izalith first and kill the headbug or whatever it is and you can equip it on your head to provide light.

Crysos Is back where do i get it?

Jonáš Přibyl dont know where that is but i'll probably be heading there. Just found out i should be going to the Depths first after the gargoyles

Hot Shotgun I hate the swamp period!

Hot Shotgun I hate swamp levels

Especially this, Valey of Defilement and the swamp from DkS 3 :)

This is MY swamp... ;o

I love blighttown even more than farron keep

where you get the beast taim of yeur leif

fashion souls #1

Connor Tyler He is using the Black Knight Greatsword

Nope, wrong moveset. That's the (Cursed) Greatsword of Artorias, based on the coloration.

Connor Tyler That is the "I look so cool and die so easily" set.

EpicoLirico which doesn’t matter at all in PvE, if you’re any good.

In my first playthrough I saw Lautrec sitting in front of the firekeeper before he killed her and went to talk to him (i didnt realize he was the guy I saw in the cage up above, and I didnt have the key so I hadnt freed him) and he said something along the lines of I dont want to deal with you, go away. So i was like "oh okay its like that then," and killed him then and there, accidently saving the fire keepers life. It was only in new game plus that i realized that was even a thing that happened

farrex0 DSFix is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Its not required to beat the game though so its less of a rite of passage compared to Blighttown.

rob bob But you don't need to go down Blighttown either, just go through New Londo and Valley of the Drakes to get to Quelaag.

still goes through blighttown just a shorter route.

But without all the unnecessary falling to your doom.

Aidan Ratnage I cant say i ever fell off when i did the area the "proper" way. That said i got toxic and poisoned a lot. Also the fast way was not something new players knew about. They followed progression by going through the depths.

Currently on these fricking headaches.

@@saphireleine took me more than 4-5 hour straight and the help of solarus to beat them.

fox 01 i got so close the other day it was just me and super Ornstein and his health was under a quarter but he stabbed me in the butt

_Ryan_ I just killed them! Used stone armor and black knight great sword +5. Finally!

@@saphireleine ornstein and smough are a masterpiece

Except Deepnest is waaaaaaaaay scarier

Deepnest is worse. You can barely see in that area, even when you've got the lantern.

It’s more on par with ToG

Kain Motthasmews what's your point that his video's too long? Your comments too long!

Kain Motthasmews and then you realize you made it all the way to that door to find out that it's locked and have to Trek all the way back through Blighttown

Basically a less pretentious summary of Blighttown than the video

ye I only read clifs notes, less pretentious than actual books

The OP didn't use an oxford comma. 0/10

Ryan Nelson How so..?

Evanz111 you cant neglect the wives, my dude. :) I mean, probably put 300 hours into Dark Souls 1.

Sorry to hear...

Dr Manhattan Nah. It's always women. Anyway you still have Sunbro.

but he dies

EquinoxIV the firelink music also makes it so much better when you finally get back.

Firelink shrine in Ds1 in the best hub area in all of these games, such calmness and peace with sad music, that place felt almost like home to me. Majula didn't get even close and i hate using teleport in DeS and Ds3 every time i want to level up. Never played Bloodborne yet so can't have an opinion about it.

Bloodborne is like DKS3 in that manner. You get to the Hunter's Dream just to level up your shit and move along.

***** Shame, i think Ds1 had the best system for leveling, the bonfires were really welcome when you found them for the first time and there was no need to have loading screens for something that takes less than a minute to do.

mustekkala I think so too

That's really nice of you to say. Thanks a lot!

Blight town was dreary and all, but the catacombs instilled crippling fear into me. I wandered in to early thinking I could save the girl. The enemies were overpowered, my attacks barely did damage, and before I knew it I was fighting pinwheel. Then I spent hours trying the tomb of the giants, then I spent hours trying to leave the catacombs but the skeletons kept regenerating.

@@charlesgauthier8287 Stupid wheel skeletons... ;-;

@@joaquinperez4830 Whenever I'm far away from the surface and need to get somewhere, I just switch out my armor for something much lighter and sprint right through everything and fast roll past the enemies until I reach a bonfire. I keep doing this until I reach the place I need to be. When I decide to explore underneath the surface, I put on my heavy armor and slowly take my time to get myself back to where I was. This approach really helped with the skeletons for me.

It's funny I got every feeling he described in this video from the catacombs and Tomb of Giants. Literalyl every step through catacombs was hell but I powered through because I thought I'd find the bell down there since I didnt discover the Depths. Inching my forawrd till I got past Pinwheel and it the ToG without a lantern. I must have died 30 times just brute forcing my through till the end and I discovered I couldnt progress because the Bell wasnt down here and I had to go back. Then I had to power through literally everything I just overcame just to get back to Firelink. That was my bend or break point with the game and I made it through so nothing could stop me now

@@able6542 I've been playing over the game with the Remaster pretty recently, and even with performance lag due to my outdated desktop I still got through Blighttown haha, also with context, when I posted my comment, I was playing the OG release with keyboard and mouse. I'm currently going through the Tombs/Catacombs to fight Nito and I feel that place is rather poorly designed because of how it implements lighting in a game with a weak lighting engine, how I got through it without using a lantern those two years ago is beyond me.

Preach

Being able to roll in the swamp alone makes Blighttown a cakewalk in comparison.

XioniX17 The bosses were total cakewalks, though

oh jesus christ yes

Separi Tilhinen But those Giant Depraved guys... on Ng+...

For me it was at Blighttown that i became a fan. At first i just played ds 1 because people said it was good. But i found everything before Blighttown boring when i entered through the gates from the Depths and the lighting changed everything turned upside down for me. For the first time in my playthrough i felt scared and intrigued. As i delved deeper the more i got scared but when i got to the platforms i got so fascinated with the architecture. i tried mapping them all out and it took me 5 hours to see how they all connected and at that moment i realised this game was gonna be one of my favorite games of all time. After finishing Blighttown i realised how much detail went into the level design. Everytime i would get to new areas i would explore everything first before going with the objective and i think i would have never fallen in love with this game without Blighttown.

I was disappointed of how easy the game was until I reached blighttown

Crystal Cave is the biggest troll from gamedevs by far IMO. You have these orange messages informing you that you can walk through invisible platforms and then you get the the platform on which dev-message states "Imminent fall" which is WRONG and you have to move along to proceed through level. Not to mention the bullshit you have to go through to get to the Blue Titanite Slab and how many Prism Stones you have to drop to actually move.

lol the first time round I just kept stepping forward little by little to see where the edges were and where they weren't.

Totally. The Crystal Cave feels like one big joke on the developer's part, which is especially bad considering it's 100% required. "Let's make this big cave with lots of long drops, right? Oh, and let's make the paths FUCKING INVISIBLE!" "Oh, remember that boss from earlier? How about fighting several of them? Oh but don't worry, they're optional. We're not THAT evil!" "There's the boss room! Almost there! Oh no, you got stampeded by a herd of GODDAMN CLAMS! Well, ain't that just a bitch?"

I never found Crystal Caves to be hard at all. You just have to have some patience to watch where the flakes drop. You can also mark your path with prism stones if you intend to do some backtracking. Easy. I actually kinda like the area.

ManiaMac1613 Oh and I forgot mention that you can also shoot arrows if you are not patient enough to observe the flakes. I personally enjoy areas that require a bit more ingenuity than just swinging your sword, since for me they're often a nice change of pace. I think the Crystal Cave falls into that category. Especially when compared to other areas after receiving the Lorvessel, I think it is actually rather decent along with the Duke's Archives. When it comes down to the gameplay, sometimes you have to have some kind of small gimmicks to make each area feel a bit different from each other. Most of the time when people have problems with gimmicky areas in Souls games, they don't usually fully utilize the tools the developers have included in the game.

Yes! I just finished Anor Londo. God dam for the first time I thought it was almost impossible. Those 2 javel guys were instantly knocking me off the building everytime. I tried everything. You cant block them, you can't out run them, you can't use your bow lol. Then one time I made the perfect dodge roll and both the front and the back javelins missed me. Right after i went to attack the guy blocking the path and he fell off before the other javel guy could snipe me from behind again. Also the boss duo was fun 😉

Higher Level Poker Good luck with the catacombs 😢

@@PythonPlusPlus😯 is that next? Not sure where to go yet. I think 3 doors opened after I placed the lord's vessel

Higher Level Poker There’s the library, the catacombs and the area below the shrine bonfire. I’ve done the library, but rage-quite in the catacombs. Haven’t played in months.

@@PythonPlusPlus oh no that bad eh 😟

Johnny Elkazar but who out of the chaff you know made it past sen's castle?

I know right? Those are the easiest bosses in the game. They are legit easier to kill than most trash mobs. Has anyone actually stopped playing because of asylum demon?

I almost quit because of the Taurus Demon. Took me over a hundred attempts to beat it. Finally beat it, made rapid progress, decided Dark Souls was probably my favourite game of all time. Then I reached Ornstein and Smough and ran right into a brick wall. My excuse is that the fight itself isn't so bad, even for a beginner, if you summon, but summoning means beating the sentinels outside, who have far too much health and heal themselves.

The thing is though, for most new players, those are hard bosses. The first boss you beat is gonna take noobs at least a couple tries, and the gargoyles were really the first fight that just seemed completely unfair. They aren't at all the hardest bosses, but they really sorta showed you if you had what it takes to take on the harder ones. Once you get to O&S, or Sen's Fortress, you're basically committed. Even if they're hard, you've chosen to push through them. The Asylum Demon and Gargoyles didn't test your resolve as much as give you a taste of the resolve you would need to muster further into the game. I'd bet that the majority of players who quit Dark Souls and never came back probably did so around those points, more so than later bosses.

@@kalebhawke1091 I played Demon's Souls and Darks Souls 2 before the good one, so i was clearly not representative of the average first time player, but i literally laughed out loud at how fast the gargoyle fight ended. I think i went in there with a +5 longsword and lightning pine resin. I know, probably overkill, but i was expecting a real boss lol. It's like they looked at the Maneater fight from DeS and thought "What if instead of being unfair to the player, we made this unfair to the boss?"

dssaas the Blighttown bonfire? I did mention that, yeah.

Skylitze Oh god, you reminded me about my first playthrough. Tomb of giants is hell. Especially if you don't know about lantern or maggot. I went there after pinwheel fight and didn't found exit near first bonfire, so I thinked I needed to complete area first. It was my worst mistake. After I finally beat it, I found barrier that blocked my way. I finally said nah fuck it, and looked online how to escape the Tomb of Giants. It was worst area.

I know that feeling. That was the make or break point. They either continued on and played it for hours on end or quit and said the game was bad/too hard haha.

Personally I always saw the Bell Gargoyles as less of a test of will and more as a simple tutorial on summoning. Even a game as challenging as Dark Souls wouldn't expect you to be able beat two tough enemies on your own so early in the game without hours of practice and dozens of failed attempts, so it gives you the option to summon Solaire, which makes the fight a total cakewalk, thereby teaching you a useful mechanic. I always thought of Quelaag as the boss who serves as the baptism for newbies. With her, you can't afford to fuck up even once or you're basically toast. Plus, once you get past her you can access multiple new areas you previously couldn't. If you want to get to the real meat of the game, you have to get past her.

ManiaMac1613 Lautrec and Solaire can be summoned.

Ärnust for sure, but once you get better at the game it's hard to see them as any kind of challenge. what I should have said in the video was that Blighttown tests my resolve every time I play through the game.

Writing on Games I see it more as about 1 minute of my life speed running down to the ground haha

PJB Rown I agree. it was the hardest area for me and it actually made me feel uneasy going through it. games never really have that effect on me that area did, which is good in a way. that area is the biggest fuck you to players who don't know what they're doing, since its impossible to complete without other steps being taken first, even though you can get there early. and the 4 kings fight is easily the hardest if you're a light build

four kings is a cakewalk with a decent shield and beatrice witch summon. i literally just tanked them smacked them a couple of time dodged the big purple ball of nope and that was it. (if you circle them they wont do the big explosion as often)

I dislike the upper half with the ghosts more than the flooded bottom. Darkwraiths are badass and they can dent you hard, but you can make it backstab central. They're relatively few and can be pulled individually. No bonfire, but you can shortcut the Hell out of it -- just drop down by the first stairway. Also mind I only disliked the upper bit in NG+, when the ghosts are still frail but hurt a heckuva lot more. And it may be my impression, but they seemed to number more and aggro from farther away, which is particularly bad when the foe clips through walls and surrounds you in a place with little room to maneuver in, aside from the very start.

Fucking 5-2 was hell.

I remember giving up on that area pretty much immediately. Though that was before I had hardly any experience, and I'm sure I could handle it and the game in general considerably better now.

Valley of defilement is true king to make you want to smash a controller, the bosses where cake but that area so tough and I don't care about the unlimited health supply best believe I ate more grass than a cow in that area

Then it ends with a great boss fight that never gets old for me. Actually, I'm going to listen to the song from that fight right now.

I never had trouble with it, in fact you can get through 5-2 only fighting one shaman, the enemies on the wood platforms at the end, and one slug with the gold armor before that. You can get through 5-1 with the shortcut jump into the nest in a few minutes. The only part that's objectively hard about that area is the big dudes on the small bridges with more little dudes to clusterfuck you on that tiny little walkway. I do like the 5-3 boss though, and Dirty Colossus had the cool burn mechanic.

Not to mention the ease of falling to your death. Even as an experienced player I've had more embarrassing fall deaths in Blighttown than anywhere.

I guess I'm kind of weirdo, cuz I fell in love at first sight with blighttown. When I picked DS1 for the first time I was already DS2&DS3 veteran, and when I arrived there I thought to myself "this is what Dark Souls is about".

Piotr Mittag i played through dsl a few weeks ago (after ds3 and ds2) and i gotta admit i felt the same. I felt the nostalgia of the game even tho i never played it (only watched as my brother played through it as i was younger

...and ugly as sin.

I never really felt this way. For me, even on my first playthrough, the only horrible thing about Blighttown was the Toxic blow darts. It was, quite frankly, disappointing.

Absolutely - it's like basking in the sun... I had to take a moment to soak up the sunshine (and cover my eyes literally for a few moments).

Big Boss for sure! the way the game handles light/dark and bright/muted colours in terms of its reward structure is utterly fascinating.

rareroe305 Dude, I understand if you disliked Anor Londo, but Sen's Fortress is one the best areas in the whole series.

Oh no, I didn't mean I disliked the area. I meant it sucked to playthrough. As in it kicked my ass.

Oh, okay, my bad. I was wondering if you really thought that O&S was a bad part of the game. The part where I struggled the most during my first playthrough was definitely Tomb Of The Giants (I didn't realize that the Skull Lantern was literally a lantern)

No problem, I wasn't very clear. Anor Londo is my second favourite part of the game. So you went through without being able to see? That's insane!

rareroe305 Well, I know it sounds hardcore but it took me literally like 40 hours, probably 1/3 of the time that took me to complete the whole game on the first time.

Funnily enough it only took me 5 tries, just keep running and wait for ornstein to charge at you. Gives you time to get 2 hits in then run away before smough charges at you. Honestly artorias was the only boss that I got annoyed with and as soon as I 2 handed my weapon instead of using a shield i did it without dying again lol

Great, they are the next boss for me, cant wait to rage quit

TBH Ornstein and Smough are not that hard, I don’t want to say this to be edgy but you really need to just get good periods.

@@misterpunishedfoxamandenie5825 The Silver Knight Archers before them are much harder in my opinion.

@Bence Varga So fkn true but there’s a way to cheese them with Poison arrow.

Writing on Games This video makes me appreciate the original dark souls, I enjoyed the video so much I wanted to leave a like, too bad I liked the video before I even watched it.

Those graphics are amazing. Is that a PC version of them game you were playing?

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Most likely the Durante DSFix upscaler.

it makes you feel like you can best anything...... until you fight artorias lol

true story and good advice

+xdan more fps is all you need :D

The bad port was in PC.

xdan+ Haven't seen any. If you unlock your fps with Dsfix, you can set the fps cap to 30. It makes the framerate more stable (haven't had any problems in Blighttown ever since), but you won't have bugs like falling through the ground when sliding down ladders which can happen at 60fps. Also your jumping distance isn't reduced.

xdan I actually thought you were referring to some other bugs, since the framerate unlock -option is completely optional and it isn't enabled by default. Dsfix does many other things besides unlocking the framerate. Also the bugs caused by higher framerates are fault of the game and there's nothing Durante could do to fix them. But yeah, I'm well aware of the bugs that may occur when you unlock your framerate, but I personally haven't experienced any of them, because, as I said, I run the game capped at 30fps.

if only you knew what was coming my guy hahaha. im glad you got what you wanted

Granted but more giant dads and dragon builds exist also Smough armour plus lightning Uchigatana

Stop using the word toxic. Its such a shitty word for basic people.

Lol, strange comment. Im the blue guy, ill help when your in dire straights but dont expect me to always be very useful or always come to your aid. I got my own shit to do.

None. Im the guy that plays online but just wants to get through my world. When someone invades i beat their ass and give them the finger (point down finger)

@@jasonhymes3382 this ain't Demon's no more we can't say Plague

The heck is toxic about red's and invaders? There supposed to be there to pose a challenge and if you win that challenge than congrats you get the satisfaction of beating a real person rather than an AI. If everybody's going to help each other then life's gonna be boring.

I really hope they re-release Demon's Souls for the next gen machines one day. I would love to play it.

SteveDave Steve Minuse BS like item burden and the inability to rest at bonfires. Also they should add the Land of Giants, should they re-release it.

FilthyFrankVEVO Yes. They could definitely tweak the game mechanics to make it similar to the others... I do like the idea of being able to warp between Bonfires... but maybe not at the start like in DS1

SteveDave Steve I agree, interconnected world is best. They should get rid of world tendency, and change to 4 ring slots.

FilthyFrankVEVO Yess 4 Rings are so much better. Also I do like the extra quick item slots they use in Bloodborne... it's quite handy!

argh, those cursing basilisks!

@@grahaampetterson As long as you move away from their breaths they really aren't that troublesome

@@akiraigarashi2874 I'll be fine with them if the curse is easier to lift

Just farm some purging stones from the maneater clams at ash lake