My first run on Normal was 101 deaths. So far I'm at 20, which I think is about where I was last time. But that was three years ago and I haven't played the game at all in between. The best thing I've done so far was getting past the first demon without dying.
Once you realize how the basic demon works, he's practically easy. The Sword Arm Demon is actually even more predictable when they show up in Stage 2. The Red-Orange Demons with Spikes are the real pain, if you're not careful and rely on duck dodging too much. The 4 armed demons look intimidating, but as long as you don't disarm them of the trident, they have 1-2-3 basic swing patten that is easy to avoid and can be exploited. 4 Arms nearly made me shit myself on my first time fighting it in the electric cage match. I screamed when one random spawned barely in to Stage 5.
I have no shame in admitting I cheesed that spider with arrows from the fog gate the first couple times I fought it. Although, it certainly was way more satisfying hearing it shriek from melee attacks on the other runs.
I'm all for "Whatever works, works". My preferred method of dealing with the Capra Demon in Dark Souls is get a bunch of firebombs and lob them over the wall to kill him without ever fighting him. Because fuck him and his stupid dogs. Serves him right for not putting a roof over his
The game is really cool, but its also really short and I didn't find it that hard.
Exactly why I got it for $6.99. This game came out in 2019 at the price of $16.99. It shouldn't even be close that high at this point anymore. I'm already almost done with stage 2. I did the first stage and did the third stage second.
Mm, I feel like the very last acts of the story end too harshly and weirdly. Royal being left to a fate worse than death on the moon and the secret about the final boss feeling like a joke taken too far after everything else that happened in the game in particular rubbed me the wrong way. I'm far from being a stranger to really fucked up stories but I agree whole heartedly that Iconoclasts needed a second go over by someone to tone down the mood whiplash. You can straddle the line between goofy and grim in a story, I've seen it done before in games like Corpse Party where a brief moment of humor helps reduce the pressure of the horribleness of what's happening, but it requires restraint and good timing to do well and Iconoclasts is too gung-ho about it.
Yeah, Royal's fate is very weirdly staged. I wouldn't mind him sacrificing himself for Robin. But how it plays out is Robin is the one who sacrifices him by using him essentially as a human car jack, left behind while prying open an escape route. No hesitation and and no reaction from her part, which is unlike everything that's been established about her. It was super inhumane of her to leave the guy for dead, especially after using him to save herself.
Not sure how to help with the darkness issue, but there's a sneaky cheese technique on the Demon's Souls remake which doesn't work on any of the other games due to the way saving is handled. I've tested it and it seems to work every time. Will put this sensitive information in highly classified spoiler tags to protect the mainstream public from their own poorly managed inhibitions...
I am the same. I started replaying it like a month or 2 ago, right now its on the back burner because of Elden Ring. Although I am playing on commander. Did you get the chosen dlc?
IIRC the original DeS didn’t allow USB saves either. I think it’s publisher/game-specific. Killzone 2 was another. Almost all my other games allow USB backup though.
