shirogane

I'm going to say this in case anyone else needs to know. After rescuing her you should leave the area first and then come back, or rest at a bonfire or something. It will move here next to where the other guy is, outside the area, at which point you can now activate the ambush without issue.

Oh right, the Covetous Demon thing. You want to know what it does when it eats you? It's super messed up. If you get eaten, all of your items get unequipped. ALL of them. Weapons, rings and armor.

You could check out the Warhammer 40k fiction if you havn't already, that universe is pretty interesting, and about as dark as you can get.

If you havn't seen it already you should go watch Firefly/Serenity as well, pretty good series. Though the sci-finess of that series isn't really that strong apart from being on a ship and all.

@gantrathor:

The Pursuer actually shows up in the smelter demon room if you go back there, so you can try fighting him there. I feel like he's got a lot more health in that version, pretty sure he does.

Used one at Iron Keep to try get the Blacksteel Katana, since i wiped them all out and they refused to drop one. The newer ones have more health but the general idea is the same. I just can't kill them in one combo anymore. The black phantom wasn't too bad, since he was basically a slightly buffed version of the captains.

As for screwing yourself for NG+, if t his is anything like DS1 than the start of the game should be a cakewalk anyway, and so all you're really doing is evening out the difficulty. At least, assuming this is the same.

I've died WAY too many times on bosses, but i'm not used to the new roll, combined with the fact that i've stopped using shields and just dual wield against everything. That said, some bosses, like the ruin sentinels, forced me back to a shield version. Also, i'm pretty sure i play differently from many people in that i refuse to ever put points into health. If i can't get one hit by basically everything i'm playing Dark Souls wrong, is basically how i play.

I'm in Amana right now, doens't seem so bad, but then again i'm playing somewhat opposite of you. I'm using a dual wielding fast character who dodges, so i can run up and dodge and shot then one hit the caster.

Now if you want to talk places that are messed up, the fog area is kinda evil, though you can run past it. But the area with spiders? Screw that! Though this probably has more to do with my insane fear of spiders than anything else.

Used the Drangliec Sword for a long time until i found the katanas. Now i'm dual wielding katanas, one blacksteel and one uchi. For a while though i was dual wielding greatswords, which was pretty awesome and kinda dumb. I have enough stats to dual wield ultra greatswords, but it pushes my weight up too high. I plan to get the other katanas that the load screens keep showing me. Poison katana sounds pretty awesome.

I decided to kill the ogre in the starting area, forgot how to dodge and somehow ended up pressing x instead of circle. Eaten.

Yeah,FUCK spiders,in games, especially giant spiders, especially SUPER GIANT spiders, especially boss spiders. One exception being Quelag from Dark Souls 1, she wasn't really spidery enough. Also, that whole area is just...Eff that place.