hobbez fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Mar 6, 2022

• Horseback combat feels pretty forgiving at this point, where you can get a hits in easily, and enemies whiff their attacks as you dash away. I fought a big giant statue thing you find off the path to the castle that had half its health gone, and I took it down just by waiting for it to attack, then running in with Torrent and whacking its legs with the Halberd. Even the viking looking guys on horseback are relatively easy to take down, as you can dash or double-jump away from an attack, and then retaliate. I imagine there are enemies later on that are more difficult when fighting on horseback, though.
  
• The one droning music track that seems to play when exploring gets kind of obnoxious, and I'm wondering if it changes when you reach new areas.
  
• I realized thanks to some tweets that I completely bypassed the combat tutorial (the Cave of Knowledge). For whatever dumb reason, I took it to be some kind of area you visit later where there's a more difficult boss (the dungeon you start out in seems to have stuff you can't access at the start). Been doing fine for the most part, but I feel like I should go back and do it.
  
• I haven't visited any of the gaols littered about, which I take are the dungeons people have mentioned. You're directed towards the castle, so I figured that was what you should do first, but maybe I should visit the gaols before going back to fight Margit
  
• One of the things that irks me about the game map is that while you can leave markers, you can't write notes. I know that's kind of petty, but since some of the various merchants have different stock, it'd be nice to write down something like 'has battle axe' or something to distinguish it from other markers.
  
• I haven't really messed with Weapon Art Ashes of War. I completed that fort area off to the southeast, and got one that gives you a bloodswipe that does bleeding damage, but I don't know how useful it is (also got that medallion half from the fort). I also found the guy in the shack who sells Ashes of War, and I think I bought the Kick, but I haven't used it.
  
• I'm really curious as to how much of George R. R. Martin's input on the story/setting is represented in the game, and how much is crafted by FromSoft. For example, I saved Iron Fist Alexander, who is a giant sentient jar with arms and legs who got stuck in a pothole, and that feels very much like something FromSoft came up with. Things like the Round Table feel more like something GRRM came up with, but not being familiar with GRRM's work, I wonder if he came up with some of the more unconventional stuff.
  
• Speaking of, I like the Roundtable as hub. Having attacks disabled is really nice, because it feels like FromSoft realized that potentially ruining a playthrough because you set the controller down and accidentally hit R1 and hit the blacksmith wasn't fair. One thing that puzzles me is that there were player messages talking about doing gestures in front of the door, which I though was necessary to open them (you can see gaps through the doors, where there seem to be more messages. However, doing a few gestures didn't seem to result in anything. Is it something you have to wait until later in order to unlock?
  
• I'm trying to avoid spoilers, but from I've gathered, this game has the same sort of issue as DS3 where you can easily mess up quest lines if you don't do things in a certain order.
  

Inzombiac fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Mar 6, 2022