I made a comment response video where I kill all the enemies in every level: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLhdlJarrrWpYqs.html I made a video comparing vanilla to Scholar since vanilla is a lot better. You can watch that video with the link below. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ms16gJeAndOlqac.html I also made a video called "In Defense of Dark Souls 2" where I tried to understand why a minority of people enjoyed Scholar. It had some issues so I made it unlisted. If you wanna watch it you can use the link below. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aKdmpsKI1pOagIk.html

Hey look at the bright side, if the B team hadn't handled DS2, we wouldn't have had Bloodborne

The one reason I finished my first, and so far only, playthrough was bc an invader dropped me some good gear when I was struggling through Iron Keep. Then he left with a wave and without a fight. That act of kindness carried me frfr.

my take is that the devs genuinely believed that players would replay sections over and over until the enemies disappeared, then make it to the boss and fight it face-to-face locked on.

After replaying it again, I realized that you have to play the game the slowest out of all of them otherwise you’ll get ganked and die especially if you run past everything

You forgot about the best part of the dlcs : Reindeer-Fuckland or as some call it the frigid outskirts. How could the devs make this and think thats a good idea. Horrible place,disgusting boss run.

I liked the idea of the hollowing that happens after each death but man I died so many more times directly because of it. It didn't make the game "harder" it made it more annoying. That's honestly how I would describe the game as a whole. More annoying than difficult.

I’m so glad you mentioned undead burg. For me Undead burg and parish on my first play thru was the most fun I’ve had in a souls game. And the magic of going down that elevator for the first time and finding myself at firelink where I look up and realise I can see all of the path I had just taken while looking outward to where I might be able to go next.

wow you just didn’t burn your sublime bone dust to reinforce your estus the whole time

It's just death by a thousand cuts. Most of the issues aren't really big deals, but when they all get mushed together it just makes a bad experience. Finding a hair in your food isn't a big deal. Finding a dozen is.

Man... Every developer must have been a sorcerer. I didn't have much difficulty with the enemy numbers or ranged enemies because I fired lasers from a stick

I learned not to rely on lock on from playing demon’s souls, so that was never really an issue for me. I also think it’s neat that the level of light in an area corresponds to your lock on range.

I really never had trouble with Iron Keep.. if you don’t run the entire time, you’ll aggro 2-3 enemies at once and if you can kill them before the next group comes- it feels pretty fun

Part of my brain still remembers how enemies were set up in the OG dark souls 2. It's like they took nearly every encounter and asked themselves: is this annoying enough yet? Then we got SOTFS

Sir Alonne has a unique death animation if you kill him without taking damage, so his aggression and ability to punish heals plays into this. I agree the boss run is stupid, but trying to kill him flawless to get the unique seppuku animation made that boss very memorable for me.

Can I just say how much I love the transition skeleton? You can do it buddy. I believe in you.

covetous demon is peak of all the bosses in ds2 because he is soo cute

I'm playing DS2 and every time the game stresses me out for some objectively unfair reason, I return to this video as anger therapy Edit: Finally beat that hell with DLC's included

The best thing about DS2 was that it was the first one I played, but managed to push myself through it and had fun which made me enjoy the others even more.

If a large amount of people dont like something, is something wrong with the people, or is something wrong with the product.

I can't help but laugh when i see these forest of the fallen giants footages with the argument "too many enemies", like you're not supposed to take it slow because they're sleeping, instead of running around like a complete idiot.

In my first half an hour of playing Dark Souls II I understood completely what kind of game it was trying to be. The Covenant of Champions, the death counter, the trophy that reads: "This is Dark Souls." Put on top of that the terrible hollowing system and I realised that this game wasn't hard, it just wanted to be. DSII does not understand what made the original great nor what made it so popular. It isn't a bad game, it's just not a good Dark Souls game. The DLC is better than the base game in my opinion.

I feel ds2 overstayed its "HAH GOT YOU" moments. In DS1 if a suprise enemy spawn happens or the dragon comes, he stays there. Saying, ok, i got you once, arent we having good fun. In DS2 they dont do that. They overstay it and do the suprise every time. Leading to you having to wait till they do their suprise. One of the worst offenders are the enemys on the way to the horse boss in huntsman corpse. They are too strong to fight 2 to 1. But every time they come back they wait on sticks unreachable. So either tiptoe to trigger them ...wasting soooo much time. Or do ranged. Its just infuriating and wastes time.

I can't forget when Elden Ring came out and all the DS2 simps were "Elden Ring wouldn't happen without DS2. Look at the giant elevators as proof". Always going on about the giant elevators.

Gonna be honest... In the beginning when you're going on about the sheer number of enemies, it seems in most clips like the player is actively aggro-ing the whole group rather than trying to pick out a couple at a time. Most enemy placements I remember from the game have a couple of active enemies and then a few that aggro if you get too close. Even when I was new to the game, it was usually only bosses that tended to give me difficulty... Except for those turtle knights... And the heide knights... Aside from that, most everything else wasn't that bad... Oh wait, those guys that are in the quarry outside of the poison windmill and wave around giant sickles, those guys can go jump off a cliff because the place you fight them is bullshit and gives you practically no room to fight them in.

In my second playthrough, I found that Ds2's gank squad issue can be avoided by playing slow. I learned that if you try to run past enemies, you're going to get swamped. By taking my time, I was able to engage every enemy one at a time in even in areas like Iron Keep and Shrine of Amana with a few exceptions where there would be a ranged enemy shooting me while I was fighting another melee enemy, but in those situations I'd just backpedal to a pillar or rampart that i could kite around to avoid the ranger. There are a few exceptions to this, but there so few and far between that I don't feel like it hurts the game. I absolutely hated this game in my first playthrough but a year later I played it through it again and took each enemy encounter 1 by 1. With that in mind, I think this game has an average level of gank squads compared to the other games. In fact I think ds3 may be a little worse in some areas (Staircase before the swamp in ringed city) but at least that game allows you to actually run past things. I think the gank squad issue is less about the gank squads and more that the game forces you to slowly engage with these enemies everytime you die to the level boss because there's never a shortcut or bonfire before the fog wall.

DS2 did a lot of really cool stuff. The dual wielding "power stance" was awesome, and a lot of the areas have really cool atmosphere and variety (the "pirate level," doors of Pharos, shrine of Amana, the "rainy castle," the area with the buff mummy dudes, earthen peak, dragon aerie, the cursed woods area, etc are all really cool looking areas, and the kind of nonsensical progression makes it hard to predict what will come next on your first playthrough...

The most frustrating thing was trying to figure out how Majula leads to Heides tower of Flame

I'm surprised no one mentions that this is the only souls game that punishes you permanently for dying, if you lose the souls on your bloodstain they don't get substracted from your soul memory, meaning that new players unaware of that will be paired with higher level invaders

The fact they removed quality of life improvements like not getting hit passing through a fog or the crystal lizards itens dropping direct to your inventory, is incredible bad

he forgot the secret double cat boss fight in the snow dlc ... the true fun of dark souls 2.

Lol I love when people complain that there are to many enemies and gang squads when they obviously just ran around the entire area and aggroed every enemy just for the video. In all seriousness though, great video mate, it's really well done and you do bring up a lot of excellent points.

I've never played DS2 but seeing the Sinh fight made me laugh because I instantly thought of Elden Beast that you would have to run a fucking marathon to get to just to hit him once and for him to fly away again

I feel like in every scene where you're fighting enemies, you are fighting like every possible enemy in that room/hall/area. Would there not be a compromise between fighting every enemy whilst under archer fire and running past every enemy? I'm pretty sure that, to go along with the slow combat, you're supposed to approach levels slowly and kill off a few enemies at a time at most, by luring them and methodically clearing the area without resorting to a mega brawl.

Idk if it's because I usually play as a Ronin type character and approach all souls games like a hunter, scholar spoils everyone, or because I don't do challenge runs, but 60% of these gripes I can't relate too.

So, back in 2017 my brother bought this game, I had already heard something of it in a review of Dark Souls 1 I watched back in the day, but didnt put too much thought into it, remember thnking "oh, this game looks cool", and that was it, so when my brother showed me the box and said "Man, you have to play this game, is hard as fuck, but is really cool, if you die, your character turn into a zombie!" I was really excited. I sat down and watched him play the game for the first time, and he went straigth to the Tower of Flame... When he died the first time we laughed at the achievement poping out on the screen, saying "THIS IS DARK SOULS'', then we laughed again on the the second, third and forth time, but as he died again and again, that first old knight seemed unbeatable, and I thought to myself "Holy shit, this game really is fucking impossible!", my brother gave up after some time, and for some reason I kept thinking "Man, this cant be right, is not normal for a game to be this hard", so after some two days I went to play the game for myself, with a high level of fear, and being extremely cautious, searching the surrounding areas I´ve found some items and NPC´s my brother missed, and found the path to the forest of the fallen giants. That was my first souls experience, and it felt almost like a horror game, because of the atmosphere and how cautious and slowly I proceded, and all the enemies and characters filled my mind with questions, like: "why does this knight under the tree dont attack me?", "Why there are so many zombies?", "What are those giant green knights", as I proceded, I searched the lore, and links to the first game which, back in the day, I havent played yet. By the end of it, I thought it was one of the best games I´ve ever played. After that I played DS1 and DS3, and I was speechless to realize that both those games are even better! Thats how I came to know the franchise, and today is some of my favorite games of all time. I think people should play Dark Souls 2 first, then go to Dark Souls 1, and then Dark Souls 3. If I didnt played DS2 I would´ve never try searching for DS1, I think as a sequel it's inferior to DS1, but as an introduction is excellent!

DS2 looked at the way players overcame obstacles in DS1 that weren’t “Getting gud” and saw them as exploits. So it sought to stop them. What’s become obvious in subsequent games is that they weren’t exploits, they were intended features (or they at least became so). I think Elden Ring has proven that Miyazaki will happily allow players to find creative solutions to problems, even if they ‘break the game’ from a purists’ perspective.

I just did that area in the Forest of Fallen Giants, you can literally walk right behind each hollow and kill them right after they get up. It's like reading a message that tells you to jump off of a cliff for treasure. If you don't learn from your mistake, is that the game's fault?

It's weird how he found the insight in "locked on combat punishes me, so I need to try something else" but never made the leap to "aggroing crowds and then trying a lever/chest/door punishes me, I should try something else". So much of this video is him running through an area drawing aggro, then making himself a sitting duck. That's supposed to be a course of action that kills you. Right?

I hope the people who came up with lifegems ADP and soul memory have a bad day.

@ 1:00 i suppose you are just trying to make a point and while I agree Dark souls 2 has a lot of spam problems it does take a pretty big amount of stupid to aggro that many of them at once considering the short range and the fact they are all passive on the ground until you approach them. I think its actually one of the better spots with a large amount of enemies in the game.

I died so many times in this game because an enemy got behind me and I couldnt do the 180 swing thing you mentioned at minute 10 I almost got an aneurysm

I think that, the people who made this game leaned too much on the difficult aspect of the souls games. Miyazaki said that his intention was not making it difficult, but to make the players feel good after completing a task. The team that made this might be out of touch with this idea, hence we got this game.

I really don't think that Dark souls 2's developers intended for the game to be played without lock on. Like you mentioned, locking on is in the tutorial, not locking on isn't. The game is better played without lock on because, if I had to guess, they just designed it that way accidently.

I love Dark Souls 2, but they botched the movement so badly. The eight-way snap points and variable i-frames through ADP were a mistake. If they used the same movement mechanic as DS1, DS2 would've been much better.

I guess I did a challenge run of Dark Souls 2 because I finished the game locked on just like the other titles. Playing the game locked off is a workaround for the shitty enemy density, not an intended design choice. The fact it only works against early-game trash-mobs supports this. Fighting the ghosts in the Shaded Ruins locked off is fucking horrid since they are usually one-on-one pvp fights where being able to space and face the enemy at the same time is pretty important and FromSoft's amateur hour team decide to fuck it up because "game is hard lolz".

"There's no weight behind my attacks" proceeds to swing around one of the smallest swords in the game

I love how you mentioned playing without lock-on early. It becomes a different game when you learn to play without it.

About the topic of running past all the enemies: You could say the same thing about Elden ring. There are so many enemies in the level and a lot of them are super strong, and respawn every time, and on top of that, they barely give any souls. Elden Ring is actually the game I ran past the enemies the most.

I just started playing DS2 after nearly finishing my first DS1 playthrough, love that game. First impressions of DS2 = ambushes, ambushes everywhere

I recently just played through this game and tbh I didnt notice most of these problems

You're supposed to take the time killing each enemy 14 times to extinct them one by one throughout the entire game until you are the last living thing left in the game.

I’m playing through this for the first time right now and while I see the things that people take issue with, I’ve greatly enjoyed my time with it so far

I remember starting it 3 times. And each time i was like "It can't be that bad, it's probably just me being impatient! I can beat any DS, DS2 can't be THAT different". Man do i love my bad memory, i can easily forget everything about it and start again, just to drop it again. Like right now, i think exactly the same.

Tanimura completely missed the point of the series. What made Dark Souls the memorable game it is is the blend of level design working together with enemy placement creating many risk/reward situations, shortcuts worked as a sort of checkpoint in itself too with a balanced healing system. DS2 skips all this and just throws enemies at you, let's you warp everywhere and barely has any meaningful shortcuts, it basically butchered the whole principles set with DS. As an example If DS2 was designed like DS, imagine the hole in Majula's hub, no warping from start, an elevator shortcut in Grave of Saints that would connect you to Majula's mansion basement, and after defeating the area boss in black gulch only then you'd maybe earn the right to warp to the bonfires in that area. This would make it 10x more interesting, rewarding and challenging in the right way. Also instead of a bunch of rubble keeping you from Drangleic Castle you'd have to build a weapon with the boss souls to more easily defeat Vendric, but you could go to Drangleic early still If you wished and had others paths to do so like a shortcut in FotFG as well.

The hill I will never stop dying on is if DS2 had 1 or 3 physics it would've been the best game in the trilogy

I think dark souls 2 is fine, I have replayed all the souls games plenty of times over the years and I really don't think it sticks out as much as people make it out to. Probably wouldn't say it's the hardest souls game either.

99% sure this is how game journalists view the other souls games lol

as someone who got to round 34 knife only on co-op cod zombies, yes ds2 feels extremely similar to that.

Discouraging lock-on the majority of the time is crazy.

DS 2 is the very first souls game I've ever played and it was what got me hooked in the souls series. I agree, Shrine of Amana is so bad and it was the worst experience for me but I still had fun in the hundreds of hours I've spent playing this game. Hard, yes but still enjoyable. So when I started playing DS 3, I was shocked at how easy it was compared to DS 2. But just because it was a lot easier doesn't mean it was bad. DS 3 is the best dark souls among the three for me and the most memorable, especially the Slave Knight Gael boss fight. I understand your reasons for hating DS 2 and I know it has flaws but because it was my introduction to the souls series, it has a special place in my heart.

DS2 feels like they sat a bunch of devs straight out of game design school, asked "so what do you know about dark souls" and they said, "oh I've heard its hard" and that was all fromsoft needed to hear to hire them

I feel this so much and i can hear the pain in your voice and i remeber the 30 deathes i had in no mans wharf

I used lock-on throughout the game with the Rapier. The lock-on system was bad enough to make me whiff on enemies I had already locked on to but it would've been worse without it. I dealt with multiple enemies by trying to isolate them or only attacking multiple enemies when they were standing single-file or in recovery.

I still have fond memories of enjoying this game. I know it's bad, I agree with most every argument on why it's bad, but I still enjoyed it. Maybe it's just because there's something fun about someone asking "How do you like X? It's absolutely awful!" and responding "Yeah, I know."

This game feels like an anime that you loved but its second season was moved to a totally different studio and all feels weird and not better or not even close how the og studio made you feel. After beating dark souls remastered (One of the best gaming experiences I've ever had in my life) I bought this like 1 day ago on ps4 for 40 fucking bucks and what a disappointment this is not even close to what the original was. It feels hard because it wants to be and not because it is. And the biggest irony is that Bloodborne is basically Dark Souls 2 large horde of enemy style of combat but done right.

I know I’m super late to the party but I’ve played a lot of DS2 and I have never managed to get that many enemies on screen lol

Ds2 was my first souls game so perhaps i am a bit biased. I do acknowledge its many flaws, but it was still a fun experience. I agree with the movement and hitboxes being janky, and when my attacks take 3-5 business days to land, it gets frustrating. The best way to counter that is to be more attentive to openings which forces the player to take things too slow, taking them out of the thrill of the fight. I also must agree with the backstab mechanic being utter BS for not rewarding the player with i-frames. Levers and fog gates however should not have i-frames so the player is forced into combat which fits the theme of dark souls. Afterall, your goal isnt to rush bosses, but to fight your way through a dangerous world filled with things which want to kill you for sport. Overcoming these obstacles is the reward in itself, and dying forces you to be more careful to not repeat your mistakes which got you into that situation

Unpopular opinion: the ds2 dlcs are overrated. They are still ganky and annoying and every dlc has at least one absolute bullshit area (frigid outskirts, alonnes past and the area before gank squad) I played through ds2 a lot of times with all sorts of challenges but most of the time i just cant be bothered to push through the dlc areas just to get to the good bosses.

As someone who has never played DS 2, enemy's no longer spawning if you kill them 12 times seems like the worst design choice ever. I hate the idea of being able to brute force an area, and I feel like for some boss runs it would be almost mandatory to kill off all the enemy's 12 times before even attempting the boss

I have a bit of criticism about the Lock-On take at the beginning of the video: The reason we can't completely forego the Lock-on system is because not every weapon is made for free cam combat, the rapier and spear type weapons in particular are harder to aim while not locked on because the damage itself is concentrated in a single point, hitting only one of multiple mobs that may be ganking you. Same goes to weapons that attack vertically, in which case you most likely won't be hitting more than one enemy at a time. There's also the issue with enemies that are low to the ground (like the crystal lizards and crawling undead from Prowling Magus and the Congregation, a boss that probably has the best argument for fighting while not locked on) and your weapon will just swing over them depending on the moveset. Locking on shouldn't be considered something you shouldn't do in the game, it's one of the characteristics of a broader series of issues with the combat of the game as a whole.

If there’s one thing I can say positive for DS2 it’s their weapon design. I love how certain weapons have different move sets, sometimes unique or borrowed from other weapon types. Like how alonnes sword is both katana and halberd. Or the Sanctus mace being a great hammer or a lance. In DS3 if you have a straight sword, it’s gonna be nearly identical to all other straight swords. The weapons in this game were so unique and I wish more of their games had that kind of diversity

After beating DS1 years ago, I had a very hard time beating DS2 leading to burn out from the series for a few months. Iron Keep is the worst area in the game and it’s not even close lol. Having an agility stat is cheap to me, but learning how about it early allows the game to feel somewhat normal. Life gems makes the game a bit easy. There’s a lot of cheapness in the game due to the fact that you can’t predict what “traps” they have for you when playing for the first time. Oddly enough, I replayed it on PS4 this week and I somehow remembered a lot about the game and it was pretty easy. My first play through was on PS3 and for some reason the enemy placement seemed harder and the game overall felt harder. It’s nowhere near close to my favorite in my opinion, but the music in mejula slaps 😅

the problem with ds2 is that after the first one, the game got a reputation for being hard so the company thought people are just after a hard game

I don’t think I’ve ever hated a game this much

This dude definitely made this game harder for himself.

I've always hated how "light" this game feels. It's hard to explain, but the character never felt grounded, like I was walking on ice all over the game, making every movement I make feel like it didn't come out properly and putting me in places I didn't wanna be in. It doesn't help that the sound design is mediocre, lacks impact, and made even worse by that dumb i-frames change where your timings are completely thrown off.

The crowd around the tree, you 10000% ran around aggroing everything. You can definitely do each mob one at a time.

I went into ds2 expecting something dismal and horrible after hearing countless people complain about it. What i got instead was a pleasant surprise and it became my favourite of the series.

Best thing about dark souls 2: Rat king. Dude has a sexy voice

They should bring bonfire ascetic to elden ring

Me thinking about Ruin Sentinels: hey, DS2 had some good moments, maybe I'm being too harsh Remembering the 4 Ruin Sentinel room in Drangleic: ... nevermind

I don't think it's really intended to run past all the enemies in any souls game, this is a very online meta thing. What's the point in having such a vast amount of enemy types and environments to encounter them if you're gonna run past it all. And no you definitely don't need ranged combat to clear areas, clear enemies in cover from ranged and/or go for ranged enemies first, it's not complicated.

Homie needed to watch a KZfaq video to learn not to play with the lock on…. I think that says enough about him.

I love how the weakest soulsborne titles (DS2 and Demon's Souls) are still better than most games out there. I had a lot of fun with them.

I just have to disagree on Sir Alonne. Yes the boss run is awful but the boss itself is amazing, maybe even better than Fume Knight for me. The only questionnable move he has is the thrust grab attack which has a weird hitbox. When you get into the flow of the fight, it’s unlike any other in the game for me. The dodges feel satisfying, there are a lot of openings and healing opportunities feel fair. I don’t get the complaint of only being able to heal for 2 specific attacks, maybe I haven’t fought him enough to realise that my healing opportunities weren’t 100% safe but I took estus after most of his combos and didn’t get punished in multiple attempts. My brother actually had a lot of the same complaints as you when fighting him, so I took the controller, showed him how I fought him and kept Alonne at 1 hit then killed himself and told him to try again. He tried replicating what I did and actually beat him and completely changed his opinion on the fight. It’s one of those fights where locked on is much better imo.

Glad to hear someone with a similar opinion. Never understood why this game has such a big following. Also if you play Scholar on PS4 the lag is awful, sometimes when you hit the run or attack buttons your character won’t respond and you’ll have to repress the button and end up getting killed in the process

You complained about archers and stuff being hidden, how do you make the same mistakes over and over.... the game pays you to be observant. Just saying I never had half the issues I've heard you come up with, my only gripe is the Iframe crap and some boring bosses but man was this game a breath of fresh air after playing 1 and 3 , I liked that it was different it challenges you in a different way and if you get with that program it makes so much sense

DS2 Hater: DS2 is an awful game. Me: Yes. DS2 Lover: Fuck you, DS2 is an amazing game. Me: Yes. I get why people dislike/hate DS2, and they're for similar issues that I have with the game. It's definitely the weakest FS Soulsborne game. That said, there's still a lot I love about this game. The lore is my favorite in the series, some of the bosses (including a couple from main game, imo) are some of FS's best, the environments are interesting, and I genuinely have fun with more than half of the levels even through low points. Which is why I kind of am able to just nod my head and agree with most of this video. None of this triggers me, I'm just kind of like, "Yup. That's definitely a thing with DS2."

When you light all the torches you get an enemy that invades in the first part

theres not just more enemies, the enemies follow you accross the whole level all the way to the boss door, they also removed the thing that resets enemy placement if you quit and reload the game which is a thing in every other souls game, i know some fromsoft employee was giggling while doing that

I completely agree with everything in this video, sometimes I replay ds2 because I want to like it but I end up hating it more and more.

DS2 was always the one fromsoft game still in my backlog, and after numerous half attempts to start and get frustrated with the early game I finally got past the initial hump and have nearly cleared the base game, about to start the DLC's. The thing is every criticism of DS2 and Scholar is fairly valid, it just comes down to how much you value the asthetic, level design, lore and other creative ideas over it, the areas are nightmares, but the ascetic system and having a wider suite of weapons and ranged options, the areas are only ever hard if you try and run through them, like all Dark souls games taking it slow and methodically is all you need to do, and the game hard forces you to, which is antithetical to some of the other games but if you just accept that and appreciate the world for what it is I feel like it works. Even the flaws in combat when looked at over the evolution of combat in all fromsoft games, you can see how things have changed and been tried and if Dark souls 2 wasn't the way it was, then e great ideas that were carried over to Elden ring wouldn't be there, as a game it may have flaws, but as a piece of the genres evolution is one of the best still. In regards to the game ramping up its bullshit levels in the pursuit of "videogame hard" is as much a symptom of the community as it is a mistake by the devs, we/you did this! Sometimes I will see reddit threads from 5+years ago about ds1 or 2, and the responses to simple questions, often not even related to combat mechanics but just simple questions was "git gud scrub" over and over, and that was how the community was. I was working games retail throughout the 2010's even if I wasn't as in love with the franchise then I am now (games didn't click for me till bloodborne) but i remember the marketing, and it was pretty cringe, but it was what the community deserved.

it feels like the game wants you to run past enemies since theres so many but the enemies never stop following you, theres also million doors that you have to reopen every time you die. the enemies are so fucking fast for no reason why is this random ass skeleton faster than me

Not going to lie, I tried to play this game a few times but couldn’t hold interest I didn’t like the game. But a few months ago I made a character and played through the whole entire game and dlc’s in 3 days. Idk what happened but I really enjoyed it

51:00 pretty Sure this is just the Bad luck of the knight not sealing the gate quickly enough. No matter how good you are, you should only have one knight at the end, because when the Knights freeze the gates and stop enemies from spawning, they die in any case.

While I agree with alot of things, i just wanted to point out that at 2:52 when you had all of the enemies chasing you, you had to run around the entire area and wake them all up, dunno if you did that just for the video to explain that but you definitely do not need to fight them all at once. Theres only a few areas in the game where this happens out of your control really.

I didn't play SoTFS, I played only the OG... and I don't remember hordes of enemies a single time. EVERY place you showed I remember just fighting one guy at a time.

Shrine of Amana has lots of human effigies. Those dudes that under water drops them quite often

22:42 what I seemed to figure out is if you have just enough cash speed, you can group up a bunch of enemies and if they're not immune to poison. Then fucking hit them with toxic cloud and run after they sat in it long enough. That's really the only way you can kill a horde of enemies without having to get lucky enough to get the first hit in with a greatsword. Poison for the most part is gonna be your best friend throughout most of this game since most enemies are usually just resistant to poison. Cause resistant doesn't mean they're immune so they're gonna die anyway to it. How to deal with the archers in iron keep? Poison arrows. How to deal with groups of enemies? Toxic mist. How to deal with annoying ass bosses? Well maybe a combination of poison and bleed. and whatever else their weakness is. What ever kills them the quickest use it. Or just whatever makes your life easier