☠ Souls Series Symposium ☠

[Xeogred]

Hope it helps! I think you got this man. Only major roadblock I see ahead is the final boss, but he is easy for some people apparently.

I'd like to beat the game, just to say I have if nothing else.

Which area would you recommend I try first? I got my ass kicked in New Londo. But I have made some progress in the catacombs...

Also, I've read that I need to kill a giant wolf in Darkroot. Is that right?

You haven't killed the wolf yet? I thought that was required by the point you're at, hmm...


New Londo leads to Four Kings, which some have trouble with. I think even I did, so he was the last of the big four for me.

I think I did Duke's Archives first. Which is basically an extension of Anor Londo. But it then leads to the Crystal Cave, which holy crap man... it was the craziest level gimmick I've ever seen in these games. It's outrageous and laughable, but you'll never forget it. I recall Seath getting me a few times, but wasn't too bad once I really went in prepared.

Demon Ruins I don't recall being too hard, but it's a longer route. A lot of early game bosses are normal enemies here haha, but they are much easier with a lot more space to utilize. Towards the end of this path, there's a huge lava lake area with tons of literal giant enemies which aren't that hard and they don't respawn. I recommend taking out a few of them because the main boss here Bed of Chaos is kind of a puzzle boss. So if you take out these enemies the run back to the boss won't be as bad. A LOT of people hate Bed of Chaos and it took me some trial and error, but I didn't think it was too bad.

Catacombs sucks, but it's kind of short. Maybe knock that one out first to get that crap over with haha. I don't think I really had anything to light up the area when I played, so it was a real pain. The dinosaur-esque skeleton enemies here that jump out at you were the scariest enemies in the game to me.

Maybe that helps a little? Honestly I wish I could say. Maybe isiolia can elaborate more since he just replayed it again I think. I would say just try to tackle them one at a time, but if you get stuck don't be afraid to back out and try another route, like I did to mop up the Four Kings in the end.

[marlowe221]

You haven't killed the wolf yet? I thought that was required by the point you're at.

It must not be required. I had no idea there even was a giant wolf.

But I never bought that symbol from the blacksmith to unlock the door in the forest. I never had 20k souls all at one time.

[MrPopo]

You need to do the wolf to get an item to be able to do the Four Kings.

[marlowe221]

You need to do the wolf to get an item to be able to do the Four Kings.

Thanks!

I'm not sure I would have ever figured that out on my own.

[MrPopo]

You would have instantly died several times upon trying to fight them, then either rage quit again or moved on to somewhere else (and in the latter case hopefully eventually do the wolf).

[marlowe221]

You would have instantly died several times upon trying to fight them, then either rage quit again or moved on to somewhere else (and in the latter case hopefully eventually do the wolf).

The item you get for killing the wolf - is it obvious what it's supposed to be used for?

[isiolia]

The item you get for killing the wolf - is it obvious what it's supposed to be used for?

You're steered towards it in general by talking to an NPC that you typically would talk to in order to get to the Four Kings arena in the first place (technically, you can kill him at range instead and still get the key he gives you).
In turn, when you do get it, the item description spells out what it's used for.

[PartridgeSenpai]

Ahhh, the shield you can make with the Wolf's soul is one of the fondest memories I have of that game. Using that with medium armor with less than 50% armor capacity was difficult to level around, but I DID IT

[Forlorn Drifter]

I'm running through on Bloodborne again and smashing up some coop as I go, so feel free to let me know if you want to try and match up.

I also think I'll be picking up DS3 soon, so I might be looking for some jolly cooperation there also.

[marlowe221]

Well, I am deep in the Tomb of the Giant.

The sooner I get out of here the better.

I may have to take a little break though. I have played a LOT of Dark Souls the past few days. Gotta come up for air.