
Sidebar: Remember the old NES game Wizards and Warriors (by Rare, incidentally - yes, that Rare)? Indulge me. And all the keystone From Software themes take their bow: the obscure narrator, the melodramatic auguring, the sense that someone shook a box of Boschian refrigerator sentence-magnets to cobble together what passes for a story. That gothic opening sequence might be a riff on Poe’s House of Usher (only here the protagonist leaps into the tarn-vortex of his own volition, poor fool). Year or so later got Dark Souls for PC and figured it out.So far series newcomers Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura have recaptured most of what makes Dark Souls feel like Dark Souls, scaffolding to foundation, the world swathed in plaintive John Barry-ish piano strains, melancholy lighting and baffling alien architecture. Pretty sure I was trying to find out how to open the door to New Londo at the drakes until I quit. I think and then wanderd Lordran wondering where I was suppost to be going and just leveling up instead of upgrading gear. I remember beating the gaping dragon and going to blighttown and then back up to the valley of drakes totally missing Quelaags domain at around Lv.30. I believe he was Lv.60 and never saw Quelaag. I looked back on my first character on Xbox360 and it was awful! He was using a Zweihander with only 18 strength so he was two handing it always and had like 38 endurance because for whatever reason I thought having 1 more swing of my weapon was better then doing any damage. Spoliers! Dont read if you want your first playthough to be blind! This for everyone else to read.



Half the fun of playing a new game is going in blind. Perhaps its your weapons and armour that are poor choices or upgrades. If you feel that you've picked that poorly and you aren't that far into the game you could consider restarting. There isnt any offical way of reseting a characters stats.
