Started: 2/28. Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
I haven't played an official Souls game really since Dark Souls, but since magic is apparently good and since there's some nice QoL features here I decided to give it a shot. I'm enjoying it so far! Basically all I did was make a character, play through the tutorial, and then clear out that camp between the two bonfires.
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Played: 2/28. Late Evening.
Unlocked the spell vendor.
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Played: 3/1. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/2. Midnight.
Did a lot of exploring. The world is very dense. Ended at the roundtable.
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Played: 3/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/3. Midnight.
Got to the island. It's cool. Can't use that magic since I'm not faith/arcane, but it's cool. Then just went exploring and found a big tree and then went further and found a guy at the top of a tower with a dang blood sword thing that one shot me.
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Played: 3/3. Evening.
Tried to fight the dragon in the swamp and almost beat it!! Got it down to like 25%. If I didn't use so much of my magic on nothing dude I think I would have.
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Played: 3/3. Late Evening.
Got the S scaling staff and now I just need to get out hell place.
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Played: 3/3. Late Evening.
Beat the dragon, beat Margit (first try), and then died a against that knight right by the starting area.
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Played: 3/4. Evening.
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Played: 3/4. Late Evening.
Mostly just explored!
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Played: 3/5. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/5. Early Evening.
Explored pretty much the entirety of the southern area. A little disappointed how little is there to be honest. I keep finding things that make the flasks stronger, but no golden seeds, which is really what I want. I want more flasks.
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Played: 3/5. Evening.
Started into Stormveil Castle. Got to the lift. Hopefully the big hand creature doesn't respawn.
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Played: 3/5. Late Evening.
Took down Godrick. Met the Two Finger, which is a very silly looking thing. Then explored to the north a bunch.
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Played: 3/6. Early Evening.
Went to the tower to unlock Godrick's rune. It was kinda a pain to get there.
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Played: 3/6. Late Evening.
Mostly just did some clean up/exploration. I started just using the map on the wiki. I don't really care too much about spoilers at this point. Looks like I need to go to the lake area as the next main quest thing.
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Played: 3/8. Evening.
Just explored the lake area. Got all of or most of the map there. Might the Turtle Pope. I think the game is directing me to fight a dragon?
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Played: 3/9. Late Evening.
Beat that dragon and then tried to get into the magic school, but the two guards keep killing me. I can't get to them and survive.
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Played: 3/11. Evening.
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Played: 3/11. Late Evening.
Looked up the grinding spot and got to the point where I can start doing it. It's pretty good, but I think there's probably a better way in that same area once I have the big spells.
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Played: 3/12. Afternoon.
I grinded up to level 78 and then went exploring in the second zone. Found a mine that lead me to the plateau so I tried to get to the volcano area's map location since I know there's a quest for the mage lady you meet early in the game there, but I could not figure out a direct route to it. Looks like there must be a teleporter or cave or something that gets you up there. Very annoying.
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Played: 3/12. Evening.
Got to the top of the manor and started Ranni the Witch's quests. I think I want to do Hyetta's quest next.
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Played: 3/13. Afternoon.
Did the side quests to the point where I wanted/can't progress anymore and decided to start on the Academy. As a mage this area is fucking trash. haha. The Night Maiden's Mist spell does do wonders on the folks strong to magic though.
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Played: 3/13. Early Evening.
Went and got the Meteor spell since I wanted to see if its any good. Doesn't seem to be to be honest since there is no tracking on it. Then I went back to the academy and got to the next bonfire.
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Played: 3/13. Evening.
Got some cool sorcery gear from the roof top area. Now I gotta go through the rest of the Academy.
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Played: 3/13. Late Evening.
Beat Rennala and got her outfit. Should probably figure out how to get into the tower to unlock her rune, but whatever, I always forget that great runes are a thing you can use. Probably going to go to Caelid next.
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Played: 3/14. Evening.
started Radahn's fight but he keeps killing me literally once I get into the arena haha.
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Played: 3/14. Late Evening.
Beat Radahn and am now exploring the Eternal City and just beat the mimic.
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Played: 3/17. Evening.
Explored more of the Nokron and that place sucks actually. I did get the item for Ranni's quest and continued that. Unfortunately I didn't do Sellen's quest and she was killed. BOOO. I'm kinda getting a little annoyed with this game and have been having some trouble with my controller.
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Played: 3/18. Evening.
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Played: 3/18. Late Evening.
GB was down when I did these sessions. I mostly just did clean up and did two great rune towers.
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Played: 3/19. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/19. Early Evening.
Continued with Caelid clean up. Got the Moonveil, but I don't think I like the attack animations on it over Rogier's Rapier despite the stats eventually being better.
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Played: 3/19. Late Evening.
Did more clean up and beat the Gargoyles fight with co-op. Then went back and helped someone else. Then went to take out that Frenzy orb thing just cause it was bugging me. Now I'm back on Ranni's quest for the time being.
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Played: 3/20. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/20. Early Evening.
Explored the area near the lake of Rot and got a lot of cool things. Now I have a really sick dragonfly wing sword that works well with my INT build. I am at level 101, which feels about right for the area.
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Played: 3/20. Evening.
Finished Ranni's questline. Wish all the NPCs don't just die at the end of the quests, geez. RIP to Wolf-man.
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Played: 3/22. Evening.
Started my way to the capital after doing a tiny bit of clean up.
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Played: 3/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/25. Midnight.
Tried to explore the capital while listening to to a podcast and this is not a podcast game. So I instead went and grinded until I got my INT to 65 and my MND up a bit more. Not really impressed with either moon spells, but apparently they are quite long range. Wish the AOE on them was bigger.
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Played: 3/26. Early Evening. Mixed
Going through the capital and it seems like a pain in the ass. I'm sure there's tons of items I've missed, but probably nothing major. I finally found the 2nd bonfire.
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Played: 3/27. Afternoon.
Fucked off from the capital to do some stuff around the Altus Plateau, but it's not progress and I didn't really find anything other than Sacred Tears that would help me. Maybe the invisibility spell. Then going back to the capital and those gold knights are just such a pain in the ass. Grumble. I kinda just want this game to be done. It's too long.
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Played: 3/27. Early Evening.
Beat Morgott second try. I think I'm pretty overleveled since I could not be summoned by anyone afterwards. Now that the Capital is more or less done I have a renewed vigor in this game. It was really cool how there's a Round Table Hold in the capital.
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Played: 3/27. Evening.
Now exploring the snowy area to the north. I never went to Volcano Manor, but it seems like that's optional?
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Played: 3/30. Evening.
Got through the snowy area. Fought that big terrible Fire Giant boss fight. That sucked. Now I'm in the crumbling area and it seems whatever. I just want this game to be over to be honest. I think I could get through it within one or two sessions though. I'm really trying to mainline it to the end.
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Played: 3/31. Evening.
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Played: 3/31. Late Evening.
I am literally at the final boss. Could no get passed the first phase at all. Even with help. Gonna try again later.
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Played: 4/1. Evening.
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Played: 4/1. Late Evening.
Spent two hours trying to defeat the final boss. Mainly as a summon and oof. I made decent-ish progress though.
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Played: 4/2. Late Morning.
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Played: 4/2. Afternoon.
Got myself up to 40 vigor and maxed out both my weapons. I was able to beat the final boss as a co-op partner but have not had any luck as the host.
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Played: 4/2. Late Evening.
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Finished: 4/3. Midnight.
DONE WITH THIS GAME! I had two co-op partners basically carry me through the 2nd phase of the final boss since I just could not get close to it at all. That fight feels really weird since the arena is so massive, but maybe you can use your horse if you haven't summoned? I did end up enjoying co-oping and summoning though. I wish it was more friendly mechanically, but I had eventually was having fun with it for that fight.
Regardless, this game is too long. I wish it was half the length with less repeated content. I don't think I"m going to play it again or even check out any future DLC. I might not play a sequel either.
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