BlackPhantom

I saw this post quite late. I finished my game just yesterday and I missed some important bits like killing all NPC's, optional boss before the painted world and kindling some other bonfires using upto the max (managed to kindle only the fire link one to the max 20) and did not explored the great hollow (never realised that there is another door behind another one, you know which one I'm referring!!!). It happened with Demon's souls too, where I didn't made use of the two lord souls (Demon Brandt and Soul Brandt) to make some weapon. Bummer, the guilt is unexplainable, it is gut wrenching to see that after spending soo many hours & days in finishing the game, then, realising that I should have done some pretty easy killings for a nice loot or upgrades. Having said that, I did enjoyed my spoiler free (most of the game) first play-through!!!!! I got my collectors edition for Dark Souls and did not go through the art book just to experience the first-hand look of the monsters and bosses while playing. Anyway, I'm on NG+...and no problems so far killing bosses without breaking a sweat (Taurus Demon, Bell tower gargoyles, Grey Wolf sith, Hydra in Dark Root basin, Moonlight butterfly, Stray demon (the one under the crumbling roof) in northern asylum...all are done in just a day!!) I dread to fight with Smough & Ornstein though!!! I'm playing NG+ primarily to get a complete understanding of how the areas are all connected. This is such an awesome game. I'm really proud to finish Demon's souls game as well. However, in NG+ got killed repeatedly by the Armored Spider and so I gave up!! For both these games there are many days when I'm in office and searching online for possible upgrades to weapons, stone farming, talking strategies to kill bosses..etc.

PS: Finished my NG at soul level 94 and my weapons are reasonably good at the moment (Have one Divine weapon +9, Silver knight sword +5, Chaos weapon whip (fully upgraded), Queelag's fury sword, Magic Zweisingher (or something similar name) +5, Great shield of Artoras). My silver knight sword and queelag's fury sword deal with almost all situations in NG+ so far.