I’ve finally played a soulslike again in what must have been months! Gotten the itch to play a little Elden Ring again - partially because seamless co-op looks to be fun and I’d like to get back into the game before participating in some jolly cooperation (you know who you are 🤗) and also because my fiancée really enjoys watching me play the game a lot, and it’s a bit of a disservice to her that I’m so vehemently against playing the game again. At its core, it’s objectively a good game and the DLC is also really good. Might as well finish that and then I can lay it to rest for a while, I think.
Turns out, Messmer isn’t the only thing for us to do right now, so we looked up a couple locations of Scadutree fragments and found that an entire section of the map was gated behind the tiniest of caves tucked in the bottom-right corner of the map. After dispatching the Ancient Dragon-Man and wiping out the entire dragon population of the map in epic duels, we fought Senessax who proved to be a bit more of a challenge than first anticipated. I used the sword that the Dragon-Man dropped upgraded to +10 for some really good damage to the head (like 3k, NG) and with some good positioning, I got the W eventually. We’re on our way to hunt Moby Dick now. :]
For me, it would probably be a toss-up between Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Lies of P. I’ve played all of them for roughly the same amount of time and have finished numerous playthroughs in all of them. The initial confusion I felt when I first played these games in terms of where to go, when and why is mostly gone except for some minor hiccups here and there for some obscure part of a quest or map where I usually just rush through. Sekiro helps here with the traversal to streamline rushing through the game somewhat, but I sometimes forget where I need to go after I defeat Genichiro and have 3 different paths to pursue for different items needed to progress the story.
How about you? :)
I keep thinking about replaying Bloodborne or DS3. I’ve done a full playthrough and then some in each, but kept thinking about trying out different builds. A dex build for Bloodborne, some kind of caster for DS3. But I have a huge backlog so I have not started either.
I probably know hollow Knight’s map the best, if that counts? Mostly because of the Metroidvania nature of it, but also because the limited nature of the fast travel. Similarly I got pretty familiar with DSR’s map, but that was a long time ago. I was not that big on the game, so I never replayed it.