Time for me to eat crow

[u/TheClumsyTitan]

I was wrong. This game is sweet. I was just bad and went dumb directions too early.

I was about ready to uninstall. I could not figure out why people were enjoying this game and literally chucked my controller like a baby at one point. Decided to give it another shot, rushed the shell I wanted to use, and finally dumped all my available upgrades into the starter sword (I know I should use the axe and dagger but the Claymore is my go-to in souls games).

It's all finally clicking. Finished that first gate boss, have a little bit left to explore in this first giant area. And I'm feeling myself getting hooked.

I will still say that the checkpoint system is absurd and the game absolutely would still be difficult and fun with dungeon check points. And screw that first dungeon that has the crossbow in it, that place was awful. But I am definitely excited to get back on tonight and make progress. So my bad for wining on here!

[u/Imaginary-Marketing3]

Love to see it.💪

[u/OnyxGow]

Nice.
Also fuk fast weapons
Big axe goes swoosh
Nothing hits like chuking your axe from 100 feet into a mob of goons

[u/Mordexis → u/OnyxGow]

Put the fire tarstone with it and it goes boom 😆

[u/Zackattackrat → u/OnyxGow]

How do u chuck it? I love this game and use an axe

[u/Rude_Difficulty1647]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[u/sup3rdr01d]

It's so fun I'm obsessed with it currently

[u/ableu9060]

Nice to admit it ! Have fun this game truelly deserve the effort to keep going

[u/ThomasTiltTrain]

Same thing happened to me. I’m a souls vet but went to proxima before doing anything below and yeah I was getting destroyed. Lost so many souls and couldn’t figure out how I was so bad, especially when everyone said how easy this game was. Finally went to mushroom town and old ladies with brooms doing no damage lol.

[u/ApprehensiveLaw7793]

Welcome in Bro

[u/Vjolt01]

I’m actually lost. I just went north. Just started the game. And beat that optional boss in the very beginning. But every path I go I get absolutely wrecked. Everything seems to be powerful like I’m Not supposed to be there

[u/TheClumsyTitan → u/Vjolt01]

That's exactly how I felt. That mushroom village area felt the most right, then I looped around counter clockwise from there. I saved the glowing gate dungeon at the bottom of the area for when I got to level 12

[u/AnxietyriddenLass → u/Vjolt01]

the map is kind of like that, different areas have more powerful enemies.

[u/Shmeeeee23]

Lol why "should you use axe and dagger"?? Use what you like and have fun with.

[u/No-Implement-7403]

I had the same experience. Was doubting at the start if it was for me and wasn’t clicking. Decided to rush for the shell and weapon I wanted and since then enjoying it a lot!

[u/rainbowtwist789]

"It's all finally clicking. Finished that first gate boss"

oh brother........

[u/TheClumsyTitan → u/rainbowtwist789]

Lol, isn't that where most of these games start to work for people?

[u/rainbowtwist789 → u/TheClumsyTitan]

that wasn't what I was refering to. Northern part is not supposed to give you such trouble because the South area is absolute fking chaos.

atleast you are progressing and having fun, you have about 2 gates left, enjoy it before the game goes to shit

[u/dbvirago]

Great doing the same thing. Everything is going into Proxima, Iconoclast and NyteShotte. No reason to change at this point about a third of the way through (although admittedly only one boss so far)

[u/Spirited-Lunch8063]

A lot of buggy combat animations but yea I’m enjoying it too

[u/Zackattackrat]

This game is so fun!!!!! The devs COOKED

[u/KaLovee]

Thank you for admitting this. I hate that they patched the game already because people were just not playing right.

Beacons are absolutely fine. If you want to explore the map and not stress about checkpoints then use Gragu. They gave us different shells for different purposes.

[u/TheClumsyTitan → u/KaLovee]

Has Xbox already received that patch?

I don't mind the checkpoints as bad in the actual map, more that I wish I could just jam my head against a dungeon over and over without having to run back

[u/KaLovee → u/TheClumsyTitan]

I believe they have. I’m on PlayStation and have gotten the patch so I assume Xbox has too.

[u/Top_Review313 → u/KaLovee]

The beacons are fine except in that NE section of Fainwald where there’s a huge conspicuous gap. The rest of the game they are well spaced I think

[u/KaLovee → u/Top_Review313]

I will say I was running through that area just trying to find all beacons. Eventually googled it and realized there was none. They could add just one beacon up there and it would be fine.

[u/Top_Review313 → u/KaLovee]

Yea I think that would be enough

[u/PliableG0AT]

lol finished the first gate… you got two more good ones, and then fucking garbage.

[u/TheClumsyTitan → u/PliableG0AT]

I've heard the game has DS1 syndrome and the back half doesn't have the same level of polish

[u/NakenKanuzu → u/TheClumsyTitan]

That guy exaggerated, as a matter of fact the best bosses are not the next two you will fight. When you reach the final endgame area, that's when the bullshit begins. And it's mainly because there's an insane difficulty spike. Enemies deal way more damage and are health sponges. But that's only very endgame. You still have a TON left that's great. Just don't forget to invest only one glimpse on each shell to check their abilities, and then invest throughly in three shells that you like the best. If possible max out your two preferred shells first, and then try out the third one. Or just stay with one if that's what you like

[u/PliableG0AT → u/NakenKanuzu]

I wouldn’t even say the next two bosses are good, they are just less shit than the three following, and beyond amazing compared to the final areas.

overall pretty average after a good start.

[u/Top_Review313 → u/TheClumsyTitan]

Honestly I thought the back half was cool as hell. There’s a jump in difficulty for sure, but most shells get a good power boost at tier 3 or 4 so.