Right. Made myself some tea, calmed down a bit popped the disc back to reinstall and had another go. Got it the first time. Then I went thru the cathedral and beat the double boss on my first try. The fat one was slower so I left him till last. We killed each other at the same time. Woke up at the bonfire and got a message saying victory achieved.
Best game ever.
That is amazing and congratulations!
Also just reminded me of how I had my first ever similar experience of dying to a boss just as I killed it.
Planned on joining the Darkwraith Covenant from the start so I had to fight the Four Kings relatively underleveled. First run was bad with how low my dps was. Got surrounded and destroyed. Tried using a gold pine resin on the next run to see if that would be better. It was but I fucked up the timing of dodging the grab attacks. Was down to one last resin and remembered I had Power Within.
So I used both on the next run and did way better. But as I got to the last king, a delivery I was expecting came, so I had to get the door! Since I was close to winning, I just started mashing R1 even though I had like a fourth of my lifebar left and my stamina was draining quick. Got the last couple of hits in and initiated the cutscene of it dying just as it swung at me. I got up the moment the cinematic started to answer the door.
Came back to my PS4 to see my character back at Firelink. Panicked for a bit, but was soon relieved upon checking my inventory for the Lord Soul. Still had to be careful running back to the abyss to get my souls and talk to Kaathe! Thankfully, nothing screwy happened.
Played all the Soulsborne games multiple times over and I don't recall having that happen to me before. Fun times.