We’ve progressed at a clip, taking down a number of bosses in Boletaria, Latria, and Stonefang. None of them stood a chance against us. And even if they did, we only need to emerge victorious a single time.
And yet, we find ourselves taking in upgrade materials for our quality weapons, so let us proceed deeper into Stonefang Tunnel in order to procure the items we need.
Thumbnail by Sam Callahan.
We are unfortunately tackling some of the more annoying stages of Demon’s Souls, particularly the second area of the Valley of Defilement. The stage isn’t frustrating by any means. In fact, it’s fairly easy when compared to its most famous future iteration in Dark Soul’s Blighttown. However, falling off the platform spells a ton of wasted time in trying to find our way back to the main path.
And then there’s the second stage of Stonefang. Again, it’s not a hard stage, but one that is needlessly difficult to navigate due to the lack of recognizable landmarks to orient yourself with. The challenge is less to fight our way through and more not getting lost, since the enemies don’t really fight back.
Thankfully, we managed to bolster that by starting one of the most fascinating areas of the game: The Shrine of Storms. The boss fights here all tell us a lot about the local legends in Boletaria and its surrounding lands. One of the choices I appreciate most is the one to allow us to find the Adjudicator’s Shield before we encounter the Adjudicator as a boss. The item’s description, which depicts the legend of the Adjudicator, allows us to get an idea of the fight before we ever enter the boss room. And if we’re playing for the first time, we can have that experience of being blindsided by the boss’s identity.
And the bosses of the Shrine of Storms only get cooler from here.
PS: I’m growing more and more concerned with Twitch’s response (or lack thereof) to the ongoing hate raid/bot spam phenomenon. I had to block over 25 bots from the start of this stream to the end of it. The bot follows also occurred up to 15 minutes after I had finished streaming.
Fix your platform, Twitch. Or else people will start leaving over experiences like this.
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