I’ve been rambling about FromSoft games for the past several posts, and I’m currently musing about what they mean to me. I’m also deciding whether or not I’m going to continue playing them after Elden Ring.
As to the latter, it’s not a question of whether I want to continue playing them or not, but of whether my abilities will allow me ta play them much longer. I already can’t play some of them, well, one of them for sure (Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon) and one I’m pretty sure I can only play with great difficulty (Sekiro). I may not be able to play it at all. I could list all my issues with it, but I’ve done plenty of posts about that. (And remember, I still rate it above a 9 if I had to give it a number.)
Here’s my latest post about my time with the original Dark Souls. I’m musing about it because I’m playing the remaster again for the first time in a while. I play it the same way every time, and I marvel at how much easier it is now. I can traipse through it fairly easily, and I get indignant if scrubs kill me (because it’s embarrassing when it used to be just normal).
You’ll never guess how much easier it is when you know the game like the back of your hand. Orders of magnitude easier. It’s funny to watch people play these games with people who don’t play these games because the people who don’t play the games are always amazed at how much the people who do play the games know said games. In the video I included below, Rosie (the one guiding) is the resident FromSoft expert. She is guiding Ash (under ridiculous circumstances) and Robert S. Pearson (the host of the series) is pompous, grandiose, and comes up with difficult tasks for the others to do in various video games.
The main gist of this challenge was for Ash to make it to the first boss, Phalanx, in a certain amount of time on a fresh save. If she saw an enemy, she had to fight them. If she ate a grass, she had to put on a jumper (sweater), and there were nine of them. If she died, a minute was taken off the time (which I think was 45 minutes).
She hadn’t played the game because she was told not to (probably for this challenge). It was going to be her Christmas game, so she found it especially painful that she had to play it for this challenge.
It was hilarious beacuse by the end, she was wearing all nine jumpers. She looked like she should have been rolled out of the studio because she was so round.