In my last post, I was talking about how you are playing Dark Souls wrong. It doesn’t matter how you play it–you’re wrong. You’re a caster? WRONG. You’re Haveling it up? WRONG. You’re so dex, you’re rolling all over the place? WRONG. Drake sword? Wrong. Zwei? Wrong. Over-leveling? Wrong. The only right way to play it, apparently, is to one-bro it up. That is, starting as the Pyro (level one) and never leveling up. Not your character nor your armor nor your weapon. Wait. I’m not sure it’s verboten to level up your armor. Huh. At any rate, though, not your character or your weapon.
I have never done a one-bro because I need my magic tricks (literally) to get the job done. I was fighting an NPC in PvP in Elden Ring (for a quest) who drops my favorite talisman (Crepus’s Vial, muffles your footsteps) much earlier than I normally do. I did not have my powerful magicks, so it was a chore because this particular NPC (Rileigh the Idle) is a quick assassin-type who will Scarlet Rot you to death with successive jabs of their dagger. They also have a crossbow with scarlet rot bolts.
I never had a problem with them in my other playthroughs because I foughtthem near the end of the playthrough. That mean I had powerful magicks that could kill them in a few zaps. THis early on, I needed four flasks of cerulean tears along with one measly flask of crimson tears (flasks get halved when you invade) just to get them deaded. Ginstone Stars fired off with the aid of Radagon Icon, a talisman that shortens casting time. A time before the last time, I had them down to a pixel, but ran out of blue juice. I could not get one measly melee hit on them.
I called them several bad names on my way to killing them (well, actually one bad name several times), and now I have to go fetch the Hidden Body spell (called Unseen Form in this game) in order to have my beloved Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring/Hidden Body combo.
As I was looking up Dark Souls trailers, I came across the one below which I had never seen. Or at least, I don’t remember ever having seen it. It could be because I truly have not seen it, but it could also be that my brain damage wiped it from my memory. I love that I can blame everything on my brain damage! In actuality, there was very little that was actually damaged during my medical crisis–which makes it more surprising when something actually is because of it.