Update: I finished the Cathedral of the Deep, after a lot of craziness. Was getting serious Anor Londo Flashbacks with some of that Flying Butress Traversal.
So I don't pretend to be a theology major(particularly not of the psuedo-catholic religion in DS3) but I have visited many beatiful churches and cathedrals over the years. The Cathedral of the Deep is making a number of rookie mistakes that puts a serious hamper on their pilgramage and, more importantly, Tourism business:
1. Rather then have the doors open and easing access, prospective visitors have to run through a creepy graveyard, past armed guards, up the side of the roof, past a huge giant with a temper problem, and through a rather nasty gauntlet of all sorts of dicks.
2. There is no gift shop or donation box. Even Notre Dame de Paris has a gift shop! How do you expect to make sweet tourism money like that?
3. Rather then feel welcome, tourists and pilgrims are forced to fear for their lives to even get a glimpse of the grand interior. This is bad for the faithful and tourist alike.
4. The Cathedral seems to have some sort of drainage problem, with big ass pools of water in the Nave, which means there's also no seating.
In short, it's the worst cathedral I've ever visited. 0/5 Would not visit again.
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Seriously, yeah, that place was beautiful but man they really, really wanted to keep everyone out(which means the Road of sacrifices doesn't seem to serve a purpose anymore) The Deacons of the deep were an interesting fight and I died once because I got greedy. Still once of the less annoying gank fights in the souls series.
Also, apparently there's something hidden in the room, apparently behind an illusionary wall and maybe unlocked by a gesture but I haven't figured out what it is.
Finally, there are some levers that raise big ass gates but I have no idea what they actually do, other then keep the giants from moving around freely. I thought they might form paths but they don't.
Also more or less think I've cleared Farron Keep except for the Abyss watchers. The 3 lights are out and I found the way up to the bridge again and there's a big ass demon patrolling up there. Unless he's guarding something good in those shinies I think i'm gonna leave him alone. Oh, and I think maybe SIF or something like SIF is up in the bonfire room and it looks like I can join the watchdog covenant(or as I've also heard it called "The Furry Covenant"). I have made it to the perimeter bonfire, which is close to where I think the Abyss Watchers are because It's a big door, I can hear sword clashing from the distance and there's a darkwraith guarding the door(who is also killing the other enemies in the area, so that's "nice" of him).
On the lighter side, a while ago I invited a pilgrim to firelink shrine who keeps giving me free levels which turned me into beef jerky but other then that doesn't seem to affect my health or anything. Then he died...for reasons and a woman in black who totally doesn't come across as creepy as fuck showed up to call me lord of hollows...so yeah, I guess we're doing this.
Also, I bumped into Anri and her friend Horace. Anri seems very nice but Horace might have a serious case of the hollowing....or has literally lost his tongue(there is a faction that is all about cutting tongues considering I've found a couple out so yeah).
As a final note, I just want to say that it's kinda weird how for a while Titanite shards were kinda rare and I had to scrape around for them to upgrade my primary weapon to +3, but now that I've done that I'm finding them all over the place. Which feels like the game is mocking me....I mean it's dark souls so the game is very likely mocking me.
