It's definitely nice to have, although you can easily play around not having it. The game doesn't force you to engage anything in that part of Blighttown, and there's really only one enemy type where fast maneuverability is all that important anyway.
Something I never noticed on the trip from Sen's to Anor Londo is that you can see the exterior to the Duke's Archive on top of a hill.
The sense of scale in this game is really something else. It was so great standing atop Sen's Funhouse and looking at the Parish bell tower. In the Parish itself it looks like a skybox, but nope. See that fortress? You can climb it™.Something I never noticed on the trip from Sen's to Anor Londo is that you can see the exterior to the Duke's Archive on top of a hill.
The areas are all obligatory to some degree or another, but you won't be cut off from them later. Sen's is the main direction of game progression, but do what you feel like doing.
You'll visit them all eventually. For now your next destination is Sen's Funhouse, but feel free to explore Darkroot Garden and the Catacombs if you like. The former has some nice weapons and a great armor set hidden in it. New Londo Ruins and Demon Ruins are possible as well, but may be a bit too hard at this point if this is your first time exploring them.
I went to darkroot garden , feeling a little relief that you have to go to all places eventually, but now im colecting soul to buy the crest for artorya.
Boom!
The sense of scale in this game is really something else. It was so great standing atop Sen's Funhouse and looking at the Parish bell tower. In the Parish itself it looks like a skybox, but nope. See that fortress? You can climb it™.
In fact, you can even see the Duke's Archives from the church roof.
Boom!
The sense of scale in this game is really something else. It was so great standing atop Sen's Funhouse and looking at the Parish bell tower. In the Parish itself it looks like a skybox, but nope. See that fortress? You can climb it™.
In fact, you can even see the Duke's Archives from the church roof.
Crest of Artorias is expensive, but well worth it since you can farm for souls behind the door. Just be warned they will present a challenge at this point, so make sure to unlock the bonfire directly to the left of the door, hidden beind an illusionary wall, to reduce backtrack time.
Humanity (whether 'soft' in hollow form or 'hard' in human form) raises item droprate, to a maximum of 210 at with 10 humanity. It also raises defense and curse resistance up to a poin, though the increase isn't very big (50 defense at 99 humanity).
Soft humanity is the one in the top left counter whether you are hollow or human. Hard humanity is the item that can be consumed.
You can see Duke's Archives from even before that. This is from the Undead Parish bridge (where the hellkite drake was):Something I never noticed on the trip from Sen's to Anor Londo is that you can see the exterior to the Duke's Archive on top of a hill.
Really cool. I don't think I'd have ever placed that building as the archive from that perspective.You can see Duke's Archives from even before that. This is from the Undead Parish bridge (where the hellkite drake was):
Other levels-you-can-see-from-other-levels are Demon Ruins/Lost Izalith and even Ash Lake from the Tomb of the Giants, and of course the Parish from the top of Sen's, and the Undead Burg from the Lower Burg (pan the camera up and you can see exactly the bridge, structures etc. that you were on just a bit earlier in the game).
You can see Duke's Archives from even before that. This is from the Undead Parish bridge (where the hellkite drake was):
Other levels-you-can-see-from-other-levels are Demon Ruins/Lost Izalith and even Ash Lake from the Tomb of the Giants, and of course the Parish from the top of Sen's, and the Undead Burg from the Lower Burg (pan the camera up and you can see exactly the bridge, structures etc. that you were on just a bit earlier in the game).
There is no such thing as cheese with Capra. Kill that bitch any way you can.
You're right. My bad.
You can see Duke's Archives from even before that. This is from the Undead Parish bridge (where the hellkite drake was):
Other levels-you-can-see-from-other-levels are Demon Ruins/Lost Izalith and even Ash Lake from the Tomb of the Giants, and of course the Parish from the top of Sen's, and the Undead Burg from the Lower Burg (pan the camera up and you can see exactly the bridge, structures etc. that you were on just a bit earlier in the game).
One thing I absolutely love about the interconnected world in this game in particular, isn't just the interconnectedness itself, but the sheer feeling of progressive descent. You start the game in the brightly lit, sunny Burg. It's dilapidated and crumbling and swarming with hollows, but it's still pretty cheery by Souls standards. Then you go in the slightly darker and shaded lower Burg. Then you go in the gloomy, creepy Depths. Then the festering swamp of Blighttown. The further you descend, the more fucked up, creepy and hellish the landscape turns, with all the lava and demons and grotesque creatures (like the worms and centipede demon etc. ) and ruins of an epic ancient lost civilization, until you are in the very bowels of the Earth itself.
Yes it works. You can also farm gargoyle gear at the bell gargoyles by killing one and quitting and killing them again quitting until you have all you want.
Is Ash Lake actually the lowest point? Considering that the Witch of Izalith seems to have been the Witch of Izalith before the old world was laid to waste, and the way that the Demon Ruins shows tree roots rolling down onto the old structures from above, Lost Izalith feels just as low to me.
Boom!
The sense of scale in this game is really something else. It was so great standing atop Sen's Funhouse and looking at the Parish bell tower. In the Parish itself it looks like a skybox, but nope. See that fortress? You can climb it™.
In fact, you can even see the Duke's Archives from the church roof.
Also note you can initially kindle bonfires once but the Rite of Kindling (which you got from Pinwheel) enables you two kindle an additional two times for a total of twenty estus flasks. While each bonfire has to be kindled individually, this does carry over into NG+.
Eh, she reconsiders, but it sounds more like a half-hearted attempt to convince herself. Because surely the Chosen Undead couldn't have traveled back in time...
