Just put the Dark Souls Remaster to bed. Don't want to be longwinded so in a word, I reckon it's masterful for its time. I see in so many works that followed drinkings from this creative spring. It's iconic and lived up to its rep. Honoured to have again linked the fire.
Spoilers follow.
Most hated moment for me was tackling for hours on end the Catacombs and Tomb of Giants; fighting zergs in circles, cliffside, and underlevelled in pitch black…really? "Yeah, really," I hear Miyazaki saying. The archaeologist in me had me leaving no stone unearthed and my head hurting. Icing on the cake was not yet even having the Lordvessel and needing trek back. stallonefacepalm.gif
Honourable mentions for tediousness incarnate were the channellers in Duke's Archives – drove me mad, couldn't even pop my head about a corner without getting almost tagged; in Blighttown, those miserable oompa-loompa strawmen, blowdarting me with toxin from afar; locking horns with titanite demons in insufferably cramped quarters; and lastly, trying to fight Kalameet in Oolacile land-to-air dozens of times, not knowing I am to enlist the help of that whittling Giant in the crested Tower above Artorias' arena. Derp. Well, got plenty of bow practice in, lol.
Trickiest showdowns for me were (1) Ornstein & Smough (2) Manus, and (3) Sif. Sif has a wonderful moveset with a back-stepping, upward slash that winds up similar to her cyclone-swing and tricked me every darn time. Manus' tank HP was rough, almost Midir-lite if I may say, but his cast out-reel in dark magic 'net' was a guaranteed HP knock for me and I never did figure out how to dodge it; he got spammy with it as his vitality waned and, boy, did it sting to die at his feet when he'd but a whack or two left in him.
Killing Lord Gywn, no – fighting Gywn – was a surprise. I journeyed as his successor, inheritor of the flame, trying ever to live up to his name. Cue heart-wrenching piano and the fight feels more a son killing his father. I had no anger every time our steel met...but I knew it was him or me.
RIP, brave slayer.
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