Mar. 16th, 2019

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So my friends have coerced me into trying Dark Souls... mostly because it's Not My Kind Of Game At All and they think it would be funny. (I prefer more character-driven stories and Turn! Based! Combat!)

I spent a few hours working through the first couple of areas last night... and I learned a bunch of things. It's been repeated to me over and over that Dark Souls is 'A Game About Learning,' and that's true, but for me... Dark Souls is also about manipulation.

Namely, cajoling my friend who is MUCH better at these sorts of games than I am to do the hard parts for me, after I try and fail a few times.

I really like the feature where other players can leave notes for you! I like the unified tone that they're written in, and I like the game of trying to figure out whether the person writing them is trolling you or not.

I've been having some trouble with the controls, too... especially since I'm using an XBOX controller for the first time. The A and B buttons are switched!!??? Plus, I keep finding myself trying to use the controls for BOTW or Smash by accident.

Even though Dark Souls really isn't my thing, I had fun with it last night. I think I might try to keep going with it for a while! I spent a while on my character, and I love her and want her to be happy! Her name is Agnes, and she's a gentle country washerwoman who just happened to be tangled up in all of this. She wants to gut through all this scary nonsense as quickly as she can, so that she can get home to her beloved baby niece! Her favorite thing to do on her adventure is to look for flowers.

I knocked up a picture of her really quick.

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