Blinge wrote:Bruh I found Gwyn harder than the DLC... or maybe equal to Manus.
Basically, I've never quite been able to parry Gwyn without taking a hit, which i couldn't do at all in my SL1 run. So Gwyn killed me probably 50 times.
https://youtu.be/9WY6KSWT8Ro?t=2726
Still i wonder if it would've been different with full havels/stone now I've learnt the AI exploit speed runners use.
With Gwyn it's all about the parry. Just work on that timing. Once you get it down, it's a piece of cake. On a SL1 run though it does take a while. Thankfully he wasn't doing enough damage to one-shot me, otherwise my outcome would have been pretty different (I took a few hits over the course of the fight):
https://youtu.be/ViWZYAouwQQ
Blinge wrote:I was humoring myself during the battle, thinking, "Man, this is the farthest I have ever heard into this tune in-game."
..what?
The final boss tune. I had never heard the whole thing before. I always kill Gwyn about two or three times faster in a normal run of the game, so the track never has time to fully play out.
Blinge wrote:Oh yeah, I grabbed another disc-only copy of Demon's Souls to replace my smashed one.
Man, the different things people find difficult..
It
is interesting to see the differences in what others find difficult (example, your parry issues with Gwyn).
With DeS, I found it less "difficult" and more "tedious and annoying", along with a lot of lack-of-polish issues getting in the way of my enjoyment (i.e., poor framerate and camera on the Man Eater fight).
The reason I quit Demon's Souls was the same reason I decided to call it on the DS1 DLC (SL1 run anyway, a normal run I have no issues). I was burned out on the run by that point and was tired of getting two-shot by the boss, then having to do the run back repeatedly. It was pretty tiresome coming off failing at the Four Kings for two hours straight. Doing 2% of Artorias' health bar per hit wasn't doing my motivation any favors either. I figured, eh, whatever--I did the main game, I'm happy enough with that.
Although with Artorias, it didn't occur to me until after the fact that I had taken off Havel's Ring to replace it with one that gave me more attunement slots, so I was no longer fast rolling. I probably should have re-equipped it and tried again.
With DeS, in hindsight what I should have done is simply taken a break when the game really started getting to me. That's not something I'm used to doing--I always try to power through a game, even if I'm burned out or not enjoying it. Not a good way to go about things.
I'll get it done. Then maybe I'll do another run with better strategies in mind, then we'll see how I feel about it.