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So this is where you went, I missed this for so long and never could find you people.

@emu its DARUDE NOT DARUBE

The script is worse since the channel change name, compare this to old honest trailer, is downgrade

Dark souls is totally fair i mean even pvp i dont normally give there servers complaints and i play heavily

Damn, that's a story worthy of an engraving on your tomb stone.

Lol nice

Lol

Bloodborne is actually the easiest of the games imo at least

@@dylanforsythe6598 all games are relatively easy except ray man band land

you sir won the internet

Shooterguy5000 Thank you my good man.

that will be 1000$

Shooterguy5000 i pay you in internet dollars.

thx hears the internet

I second this

Or they should make a movie about Artorias since that is pretty much what happened to him

isn’t this Spy Kids?

They already did but it's not what you think 🤣

Pretty much it's Oscar lol

@@frankgrimes7388 silence, fanboy

Mainly goes for DS2

every other game: lag = bad Dark Souls: lag = strategic prediction = skill = git gud

Never had any issues with bugs so I gotta disagree, just lag in blight town on the non remastered version

Do.... do people get lost? I've run around trying to find what to do next, but I don't remember ever feeling like I didn't know where I was or how to get back...

@@HalcyonSerenade Mostly had that in 3. Farron Keep and the Demon Ruins. Took me a long time to figure out both are just circles.

@@bobmcbob49 catacombs of carthus

When i played first time i didnt see the stairs to undead settlement... So i was trying to pass catacombs. Hard? I made this even harder.

HalcyonSerenade oh come on, dark souls one.. the depths, catacombs? What about meeting Seth for the first time? All these areas I got “lost” as most people did.

Ridikis as a man who's beaten dark souls on ng+6 (the highest difficulty) I can confirm this rumor to be true

Dan G Isn't ng+7 the highest difficulty ?

MrErit23 no, thats a common misconception, there are 7 difficulty levels ng, ng+ all the way to ng+6 also, yes ***** after ng+3 the difficulty jump is only like 8% or something, where as from ng to ng+ its like a 25%, and ng+ to ng+2 is another 25% or something

***** eh, I went all the way through just becuase I wanted to be able to say I did, initially it was to get all of those delicious achievements for getting everything in the game, got them all by ng+5,

Dan G NG+5? I got them all by NG+3, the main problem was just Soothing Sunlight, WotG and Great Izalith Ball, fuck killing 450 people as a blue AND a red...

Just as usual Japanese's games, hard work and masochist. LoL

this got me so hard xD

Hahaha!!

My favorite part of the video haha

My Favorite Part🤣🤣🤣

@@JumpingbitLP hard?😕..

It's painfully true hahaha

yeah that had me laughing so hard. bought the game on a steamsale a year ago without playing it yet and watching this doesnt give me any incentive haha.

Christopher Sheffield Aw man, you gotta play it! I've had the game for like a year and a half and I actually just started playing it like a month ago lol. It's for sure becoming one of my favorite games. Super hard at some points, but so rewarding when you get things done haha

Man, give it a try. It's not even so hard as they say. The thing is: everyone is accostumed to the action-rpg combat system of spam-attack-to-win, and when they approach DS on the same way they die because DS is about strategical combat. It is all about having patience, paying attention to your environment and timing your moves. Absolutely everything on DS is telegraphed, you can see it coming if you are paying attention. Everything. From traps to tougher enemies to ambushes.

Lênon Kramer Yeah, the enemy and level design is so amazing. Really the only time I die is when I get impatient or too cocky lol. It's such a great game though haha

I suddently remembered this intro today; went to look for over 5 year old video just to hear it agen...

@@Sienisota Same, it never gets old

Exactly !

I genuinely lost count around 200.

Telling* me

What annoyed me most ever was the constant big red words popping up and that irritating as f00k noise it makes all the times you fail things like combos in tony hawk 4...

Or you can use the special options. *Throw the game away*

Instructions unclear. The words "you died" are now burned into my retinas.

Someone broke the sound barrier

😂😂😂

Cristian Rios really the best advise. I can’t tell you how to get better at parrying. How to get better at dodging. How to get better at the game. But I can tell you to practice. And eventually you’ll get good.

Said me during my first time fighting Bed of Chaos. Seriously that's just about the only thing in Dark Souls that is 100% bullshit.

Do you mean, Ornstein and Smough?

Did anyone of you mentioned Manus?

JasonDoe1000 Manus was a really good fight! Definitely not unfair xD What do you mean?

Leidachinaman A fight doesn't have to be unfair, to make people curse, just hard ;)

You're not the only one. It's honestly quite a turn-off for me. :T

same for me bro ..I die every 5 minute in this game 😂

use ds fix / mouse fix ffs .. Then it's fine, so fine it's better than a controler ... The port just was shit.

+Iamyouonlydifferent i was joking xD i've never actually played the game cuz i cant buy it.

Oliver Bukor it's 5euro ( dunno if you're european or not ) , on steam sale now, better grab it, it's fucking worth it ... If you can't afford that, there're cracks of the game everywhere ! You can't miss on this game :3 !

The Black Knight weapons are the best, as you can kill most enemies with a single hit if you upgrade your parameters enough.

Then you love armored core (by fromsoftwere)

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WHERE IS ELDEN RIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGG

@Not_Ivan it's coming next year

@@J221. :)

why's there no replies

lol I actually do that a lot when I play, sadly I haven't gained that much muscle :/

Andromalius then you are not dying enough! Good for you.

+Denmark Thanks. I've mostly been doing it with Ds3, maybe I should try with dark souls 1, trying to beat Gwyn with a zweihander and no parry is pretty tough. Who knows though, I pummeled both Kalameet and Manus yesterday. :P

Andromalius Well, try blocking then ;) I beat the guy on my first try with a +15 zweihander, the havel set and the greatshield of artorias (or whatever it's called) He did NOT like my heavy attacks, and my shield blocked most of the damage he could deal, only a decent amount of fire damage got through. Ain't faced him in ng+ yet tho, I recon he'll be much harder... Most likely he ain't gonna be as hard as fat pikachu and Sir. Lance alot

Thanks for the tips. I often switch back and forth between Havel and gold hemmed set, mainly because I'm not one for heavy builds, but a lot of fights in this game are made somewhat easier tanking(at least I find it does). I just got lucky and got a black knight sword from a black knight in the kiln, and am using the dragon crest shield. This makes thing much more manageable, considering I'm much more familiar with lighter weapons and builds. Also I don't think any boss in Ds1 except for maybe artorias can compare to pikachu and snorlax lol.

It's true lmao

@@bentim7732 Dark Souls is one of my favorite games, but it's not for everyone. It's completely reasonable to hate it. It has flaws. Grow up.

@@RatchetandSly its not for everyone so others who want to "play" it properly has to ajdust to its difficulty

@@0sanitydude138 Yes, but the challenge is a stylistic choice. Enjoying the style isn't something that everyone is innately capable of. There are people who say that subjectively, Dark Souls is no fun because it's too hard, and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't agree with that opinion, but it's a valid opinion regardless.

Sooooo... dark soul is a tsundere *HUMANITY* *REGAINED*

No.

Keegan Gates ;_;

Beat it on soul level one, then you can brag.

Keegan Gates you can brag if you beat eating it on SL 1 is just that your idiot who wants e-peen or have no life... cough

By the seven kingdoms in westeroes, I Gearhead49d, First of my name, rightful king of the Andors, and the First men, give you the approval of new ruler of internet.

exactly, back from school and turn on dark souls 3 to relax and have fun

same up until death number 46

Roope Heikkinen Yeah. It's really satisfying to team up with 2 other players, and tear apart a tough Boss like soggy rice paper. Good times!

Seduce Me then it turns out they were purple and they backstab the shit out of you

Michael Vigato Come again? I've only played Dark Souls 2. That wasn't a thing! That's a thing???

And Dark Souls love fucking you

+Yoriko Arran You're goddamn right.

Damn, did not expect my slightly witty comment to get more than 100 likes, blow kisses to ya'll!

+Wael Hamza What did he said ?

+zedooncadhz I fucking love throwing my controller when Aava or the Sanctuary Guardian hits a full combo.

"Horse Butthole"

YOSHICLAN TrueEpikDuck put it into youtube-mp3.org and download. Drag-drop it into Goldwave (download and install this, is free). Cut all the excess off and adjust volume using goldwave, save as mp3, upload to phone.

YOSHICLAN TrueEpikDuck why i like honest trailer more than cinema sins

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Scott Swanby thankS!

Scott Swanby is there a way to get the woohoo part of it as well?

+eddy9524 I don't see the connection. Granted I only watched the movies and read a few of the manga but I don't really see it other than they both can have big swords.

+blayne gower well saying your not overly familiar with the material explains it, plus it would be tedious for me to spell it out for you by that extent. If you dont get it dont worry about it, your just not in the know.

eddy9524 Wow that was kind of a prickish response. I was actually curious about what connection you were making since I don't see one to Berserker other than big swords.

+blayne gower well considering theres no body language or tone from a message the "prickish"-ness is how you see not actually how im saying it :p really its not a bad thing if you dont know. you just havent dived into the source but if you want can see the connections (especially with the director of the game of his countless inspiration from the berserk series) you would have to into them yourself i wont explain to because the connections are all over the place. Even the TITLE ITSELF is taken from a passage by Griffith in volume 3 of the manga. So you can read into comments how ever you want, whatever :p.

eddy9524 Cool and apologies if I took your response wrong, Internet. Intonation, inflection and such are lost here.

Nah, we'd all die of poisoning before we run out of alcohol

Team Four Star has a stream called Drunk Souls where that's exactly what they do. It's awesome.

You would run out of alcohol in like 5 minutes when you are half into the game.

logan mcivor

Memes

Fellow falcom fan huh

Wanted you to? Sure. Expected you to? Nope.

@@CrysResan I could have cared less. I know that I wanted some of THEM to live, like Reah, but when I discovered her soul remaining at the altar, I shed zero tears as I proceeded to tear Petrus a new one.

@@CrysResan very true

@@1aundulxaldin ? She goes hollow though, doesn’t she?

@@NoOne-ju8fi In his case she was killed

If its something about Dark Souls there's Sunlightblade \\|T|// Praise the sun oh wait you can't.

***** \\[T]// praise the sun

Hahaha so true, who has really played Demon Souls? Not me xD

Praise the tatas! ;P

Sturmmantel imposter kill him!

I know right. At times I hate this game but sometimes I absolutely love it

+Sloth McSlotherson That's what makes them great, you wind up throwing your console out the window, but you're so pissed off at that boss you just have to get your battered console and beat the boss.

no, youre just shit at it

+TheFreeViper cool.

+TheFreeViper k

Playing 2 on a potato that struggles to keep it above 10fps, and *only* reaches 30fps in... Nothingness areas right now. Your past is my future.

@@AoIndigo u talking about dark souls 2 . i have i3 6th gen 4 gigs of ram with no dedicated gpu and at 1080p low i still get 30+fps everytime so what are u playing on dude?

Blighttown

How so

@@billymoxley9574 Not sure if this is a troll, but if not. THE inspiration for Dark Souls is a manga\anime Berserk. Kentaro Miura was the mind and pen responsible for Berserk, he passed away this year. If this is a legit comment and you like Dark Souls and are truly unaware of Berserk, you're life will change after this comment. Many consider Berserk the greatest Dark Fantasy story ever written. If you truly are ignorant to Berserk, you're in for a treat, enjoy.

+Steven W thumbs up

Thrano I get this.

Thrano so true :D

Same here. A lot of games make me frustrated, but rarely Dark Souls. It becomes a goal to golf club swing the smirk off whatever enemy claimed my life

+Thrano I relate on every level.

+Krono *Points down*

Let me guess, Ornstein and Smough?

It's rearly the bosses that gets me. It's more so getting through thick areas of though enemies that I KNOW how to beat easily, but because I died, I rush through it and get caught in 2 small enemies' slash attack combos and frop from full health to death without being able to move. Etcetc. But yes, that boss was a bitch x)

So you gonna get Dark souls 3? it's still a good game though people tend to think Dark souls 3 < Dark souls 1 in quality Unless you ask me but i'm weird

That requires a PS4, which I unfortunately don't have :( Yet ;) When I do, DS3 will definately be in my shelf. Weird is good!

Penzig Actually Dark souls 3 is for Pisspoor (PS 4) or The Xbone (Xbox one) or hell even PC it's controls are actually tollerable i hear

EH??

Link pls!

it could be worse, you could be playing on a qwerty keyboard. Seriously, who the fck thought it was a good idea to control the camera with the buttons instead of the mouse?!

Denmark You can use the mouse, but it just really sucks in DS1

***** yes, you can use it, but the button layout is hillariously bad, and some button layouts that should be obvious AND neccesary, aren't possible.

+CarGUY2014 The secret hard ultra hard mode

Pk41 Pretty much.

+CarGUY2014 wow, i thought i'm the only one :) I had 512mb graphic card when played first time :D

+CarGUY2014 nice joke, from what've seen, this game doesn't have mouse support lel, so only keyboard.

MrHakuro Yeah, you have to end up using the IJKL keys to move the camera.

+Program.exe SACRILEGE!!!!

It is not hard on keyboard and mouse but it made me feel like ds was skyrim. DS needs controllers.

+Jose Constantin Laruscain meh..I play on mous and its just fine... beside, its easier to aim that way. fps mode

Play it again with soley a mouse as the controller you scrub

+Program.exe thats unintentionally brutal man someone really needs to figure out how to port games better

Brant Rainwater Vendrick is easyest boss ever scrub

Lukax Maniac I know he is, easier than Giant Lord, which is easier than the Last Giant, which is easier than beating Bloodborne with fists only, and no deaths.

Brant Rainwater Gotta go kung-fu mode on Bloodborne! Micolash uses his fists for a reason!

micolash just spent a lot of time sitting in the corner for me, i just started throwing poison knives at him then had a little sleep

Brant Rainwater You know that bosses don't get stronger after NG+8 huh? At +48 you're probably 99 in everything with bosses stopping to grow stronger for 40 playthroughs now. Woulnd't call that too hardcore, even if it was true.

It has nothing to do with the witcher

Castlevania 3? You mean, the original series, or in the PS3 series "lords of Shadow"? But thinking about it, it's right either one you choose, especially about the 2D ones (my god how i loved the ones for NDS...)

Bloodborne is literally a much more horror, gore and bloody Castlevania. Who knows maybe Bloodborne 2 will have Vampire next.

@@tyrozinehappykitchen Sure it doesn't - as Witcher is a meaningful game.

@@rmrm3602 Both the Witcher and Souls series have amazing titles. Both feature a very gray world: there's no good, no bad, just survival. I think they do have a lot in common. Dark Souls is a little more philosophical in its approach, Witcher is pragmatic. Both get a very similar message across. I love 'em both. :)

RiceDuke You should really try Darks Souls 1. Much harder and a better game imo.

So I've heard, but it doesn't take away from your max HP every time you die.

RiceDuke Approval ! ancient dragon = one shot. Vendrick = two shots. ghosts = 3 shots with the sword and one shot with magic. beautiful !

I'm not a magic user

ADP made DS2 too easy

I tried to play skyrim again yesterday after completing both of the souls games, it was fucking boring

Ouya mayo race

if a game needs mods to be fun its not good

How is dark souls unplayable without mods?

No problem if you have good internet

What other game would fuck ya till you love it......personally, super ghouls & ghost and hagane were just brutal

Isaac Clarke I remember super ghouls & ghosts being on arcades where I live. Fastest way to spend your coins ever.

j9794 The "Good bye to your part time pay" Arcade game

TallMist since the Rockband controller hasn't enough buttons he couldn't block ^^

MrPaksh Those are some skills!

MrPaksh To be fair, you dont need to block at all.

It wasn't the final boss. It was an optional boss in II. Unless there's actually footage of him beating it, then I apologize.

***** You're right, although I do think he beat the game with it too.

+GravelsNotAFood I laughed so much rofl

+GravelsNotAFood He looks like the Emperor (Darth Sidious) lol

+Paweł Szatan That's an old lady by the way.

Oh... then she has a big problem T_T

GravelsNotAFood not now DADDYS WORKING

Dat famousness tho

It all tekky and booze now

Famous for being a filthy casual. Get gud noob.

Nice Congrats!

Ur a wizard durgon

Praise the sun!

Just parry xD

Parrying is for the weak...

Skilled*

Chrom クロム Nope, preeeeeeety sure I said weak...

Some of O&S's many compiled nicknames: -Pinky and the Brain -Drake and Josh -Fatboy and Slim -Biggie and Smalls -Bonnie and Clyde -Little Boy and Fat Man (nuke references) -Mario and Luigi/Wario and Waluigi -Dirty Dan and Pinhead Larry -Fat Bastard and Mini-Me -Taft and Lincoln

I go with Laurel and Hardy, myself.

Snorlax and Pickachu Snorsmough and pickastein or just "those two A*& holes in Anor Londo lol they are a fun fight to me. I have more trouble getting past the archers without using arrows than i do killing O&S

Hugo and Poison Asterix and Obelix

Or beat it with a rockband controller

It's not hard. And it's not easy either. It has a balanced dificulty. If you suck then yes, you'll die 300000000 times with the first boss. If you're awesome then yes, it'll be a piece of cake.

The difficulty of Dark Souls (1) is a strange phenomenom... Sure, once you KNOW the game it becomes a playground. You can plan ahead, set your routes, engineer everything in advance, make challenges for yourself or attempt a lvl.1 playthrough. But... If you played it 1st time with NOBODY telling you how the game works or where to go or look for things. If you knew NOTHING except from your experience (no FAQs, advice, friends, playthrough vids.)... then this game would be INSANE when it comes to difficulty. I knew people who started with DS2 (offline, no help) and did NG+++++ Same people failed to finish DS(1) once without any outside tips or help. Yep.

Jeremiah Smith Dude, I had no help and it wasn't "insane hard". Don't be silly. Yes, it is hard in the beginning, but if you're not a complete idiot you should get the idea of the game when you get to the bridge with the Hellkite Dragon. It is hard, but not that much. And I didn't even use magic. All block, dodge and attack.

THEPELADOMASTER Screw magic. I don't use magic in any fantasy game if I have a choice... Also, Everyone can act like a badass. I remember when playing DS, everyone knew something the other person didn't... If it wasn't for the tips from others, how many people would: become Darkwraiths, climb to the crow's nest, unlock the Darkmoon cov., drop down to get avelyn, summoned Leroy, got gold serpet ring...etc....?

Just look up on weapon upgrading and covenants. Also do NOT use the dragon tail sword.

Dark Souls was literally the first game I ever bought. Can't recommend it enough. DS1 is pretty cheap on steam and it's still really active for online play. Go for it.

If you want to play on PC then you need to get 3 essential mods: 1. DSFix (30fps unlock, 720p unlock and many more graphical tweaks) 2. PVP Watchdog (detects hacks and allows you to kick hackers) 3. Wolf's DS Connectivity mod (keeps a constant number of players connected to your game). Also play with a controller, because the mouse controls are broken and the keyboard layout ain't great.

guys, i appreciate the advice and all, but i'm not new to dark souls. i've beaten and own all of them and played them quite a bit. hahaha just curious, but why are you assuming i don't know these things/haven't played it before?

markponicki Ah, sorry, the way you phrased your comment was a bit misleading.

*claps*

Thank you!

so RPGs are meant to be hard and confusing i see now *sarcasm*

You cant roll in skyrim?

Also there's more lore in Dark Souls. And you can kill dragons in Dark souls as well? Where tf are you getting your info?

Team Rocket (James and Jessie)

Evan William Laurel and Hardy

Evan William Toejam and Earl

Farley & Spade!

pikachu and snorlax

+Aatrox Sagitarius Rockband Controller has like 6 buttons on it while a Keyboard has over 120... At least a keyboard is designed for multiple games, unlike a rockband controller.

+southparkkenny2 The rockband controller simulates an xbox 360 controller while mouse and keyboard are total bullshit

Serrydartman Maybe somebody should do a playthrough using only the Power Glove.

+Dipayan Pyramid Head Dey fuck man that's hardcore I couldn't fix ds it didn't work

+Aatrox Sagitarius Pff, you casuals. I've beaten Capra Demon with mouse and keyboard.

+Dr Famine I'm not too familiar with Cat Mario, but I will say Dark Souls is very much like the Impossible Mario hack that some people have done let's plays of. Both are exceedingly difficult when you start off, and are actively designed to fuck the player over. Both also can be speed ran without any trouble if you know *exactly* how the game operates... which only comes from playing and dying over and over again (or watching someone else do it right) Personally, even though I do enjoy the Dark Soul games, I don't see them as being too fair; in the same way I don't see the Impossible Mario hack as being "fair". Yes, both games can be won; however, not without prior knowledge of what's to come. If the Abyssal Demon dropping on top of you, without warning, doesn't kill you - then a mimic will; or one of the countless other traps specifically designed to catch the player even if they think they're prepared for anything. All of those traps are easily avoidable, yes. But only after you've been killed by them, or have had someone tell you they were there. I think of "classic" difficult games that people always compare DS to, like the original Mario; I can not for the life of me think of an instance where the difficulty came from not knowing something was a threat until after the fact. The idea of someone picking up Mario for the very first time, playing cautiously, and beating the game without dying and without anyone telling them what to do, seems possible to me. It'd be insanely difficult, sure. But I can imagine it being done. Someone doing the same thing in either Impossible Mario, or Dark Souls? Not without watching someone do it "correct" first. They are designed to fuck over the player; not to be "fair" to the player. And that's not necessarily a *bad* thing. You feel much more rewarded after defeating a cheap boss, than you do after defeating a fair one... even though defeating them normally means you have to run around behind them, 'butt-poking' them the whole fight; or otherwise exploiting the game. :P

***** I explained this to someone before, but those dangers in Dark Souls are avoidable in the first blind playthrough. First mimic is in a deadly trap fortress and has a different chain from normal chests which should ring alarm bells, Hellkite bridge is full of burnt corpses, etc. You don't have to see a playthrough of Dark Souls to survive. Dark Souls is not designed to fuck you up, it's designed to punish you if you don't pay close attention. Cat Mario is trial and error. Dark Souls is trial and error only if you don't pay any attention to your surroundings. I don't speak for Dark Souls 2, though.

Yes, the mimics first appear in Sen's fortress. However, there are an equal amount of chests that give you actual loot in there as well. First couple I encountered gave fairly decent loot - lulling the player into a false sense of security whenever they see a chest in there; especially because all of the chests IIRC are by some sort of trap, whether it be pressure plate or giant boulder, or trapped elevator. The argument that the chain folds in a different direction is not really a clue for first time players - as unless you are actively looking to see what direction the chain is pointed, you are likely to not even notice there is a chain there. And even if you do, a first time player is more likely to think nothing of it; because they're not expecting chain orientation to signify that a chest that is already behind a pressure plate is going to turn into a giant mouth and try to eat them. So no, I'd still argue that unless you knew there were mimics in the game (and went around hitting every chest to make sure) you'd get attacked first time out... unless you just happened to run past those chests by mistake. As for the Hellkite Drake - most of the corpses you don't get a good look at until you are already close enough to spawn it. Even so, I never thought they looked particularly "burnt". They look just as rotted as any of the other corpses you find throughout the beginning portion of the game. Even if you could anticipate the creature spawning it's irrelevant - as the only way to escape it is to immediately sprint towards it, and make a sharp right; which on a new player's first run without knowing what to expect would be unlikely. Not impossible. But average response would be to run the opposite direction, and hide while it takes out the enemies on the bridge; and then wait to see if it has a pattern. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Again, it feels a lot more rewarding winning a game when the deck is stacked against you, than when the game is fair. And that's what Dark Souls seems to me. From the Abyssal Demon, to the Mimics, to the invisible bridges in the Crystal caves (one of which has an invisible object just chilling in the center of it, that I once ran into, and forced me to sidestep off the edge to my death), to just about everything else in the game; it is a game that has no qualms about being unfair to new players. It has its own rules. It's not going to tell you what they are... but you're going to have to learn to play by them if you want to survive. And at times you will think you have the game figured out, only for it to slap you back down with a Mimic, or an enemy standing right behind the door you just opened, waiting to backstab you to death. Seeing that the chain is pointed in a different direction when the chest is a mimic means nothing when you have no idea wtf a mimic is, or even that they exist in the game. And to me, that's the exact same on a conceptual scale, as the impossible Mario hack. In short: In order to win, you have to know what's coming ahead of time.

Dr Famine We're going to have to just agree to disagree, because while I agree that you should "be on your toes" in Sen's fortress; I still don't think it's fair to assume that the direction a chain folds is adequate reasoning to assume that a chest is trapped on your first go. Not when the player has already seen that there are multiple models for the chests in the game; not when they have already gotten past several traps to get to the chest; and not when the earlier chests in Sen's fortress all have items in them. If the "punishment" for not paying that much attention to such an obscure detail was that the trap activated and gave you a split second to dodge out of the way, that'd be another thing... but as has been my experience, once you start the animation to open the chest, you are immediately put into a grab attack that only ends when your character is dead. I have heard the player can survive the attack, though I have never tested it; I haven't made the mistake again since I was told about the chain link direction.

***** It's harsh and brutal, but I can't call it bluntly unfair. If you think that's unfair, fine. But I'd see it as unfair if there were no means of getting alarmed, and there are. They're shady and very easy to miss, sure, but they're there. Maybe the ability to roll away when you see the teeth and arms would be a bit more... suitable approach. But I kinda liked the "no escape" grab that reminded not to get so careless. Maybe if you could escape just the first mimic things would be a bit more balanced. But then it would be unfair if you learn that you can escape the grab, and then you can't anymore for no reason... And I do hazily remember surviving some of the mimic attacks, but only when opening the chest. When he's already up and grabs you, that I believe to be death with no escape from (I could be wrong on that, though). So... I don't know how the first encounter could be made better. Maybe if there were bunch of opened normal chests around the mimic (instead of the statues), so it'd feel more ominous and you could compare the differences and notice the different chain, and then act based on that? Or just have a shitload of blood under the mimic. I don't know. I guess it doesn't matter at this point.

poor guy

I have flashbacks from that place in ng+4

I pretty much play mage in any RPG (at least the first go around), and I was a bit frustrated to hear that I'd taken the easy way out. I took the way I always take. I cast magic missile at the darkness. I had no idea people thought it was "easy mode". Also, I would say that there were several places where I'm certain not being a caster would have been easier.

It was only through trial and error that I finally discovered that the three attributes you're actually supposed to focus on the most are Strength, Endurance and Faith. Once I got all those up to 50, the game became a relative cakewalk.