AISubs v3.7
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to SideQuest.
And here we stand in quite a pickle.
So I expect we'll be dealing with that situation today, probably. Odds are good.
Probably charge into that mess right now if I wanted. I don't, though.
I don't trust that footing.
Somebody walking? I saw somebody.
Oh, it's another bird. Okay.
Birds...
Let's try up first.
It's a rather large-seeming area.
Oh, hey bird.
All right, y'all aren't so bad.
Ooh.
Fog door.
And this doesn't go anywhere, so...unfortunate for me.
Oh, well, at least I have company.
And can't seem to get through there...nope.
So I guess we're, uh...oh, maybe I can...maybe I can get around this edge without dying! Yay, I can!
But I may still not have anywhere I can go once I do--nope, no.
Nowhere I can actually go once I do that, and this is...yeah, it's really gonna kill me.
I don't know why I jumped down here. I thought for some reason that it was gonna take me someplace potentially good, but, um...
That is looking to not be the case.
Well, I guess we'll see...what happens.
Hope we live...eh...okay. So it's...bad...but not so bad.
Manageable.
Not gonna go through that quite yet. Let me explore up a little bit more. Then we'll see about that.
Where are we...oh, okay, we're back in that bridge area, and that is just...so guaranteed to be bad.
Nothing is that big without being threatening in this world.
Hmm, narrow pathway.
And cue the birds, of course.
Because of course!
Ah, crap. Okay, okay, okay! Ah, well...
Did I end up landing on the same ledge?
Bird, come on, you have wings and no excuse.
You are a shame to your own kind.
This is such a cool, pretty area, though. I really like it.
Big, dangerous things aside...
This is a cool place.
Red-signed soapstone? That's new.
Wow, what a view.
That's very dragon-y looking.
Cool zone, this place. I like it.
Let's drop off and get this item down here.
Nice. Let's check out that soapstone thing real fast, just since we got a moment.
"Leave Invasion" sign.
"Be summoned to another world as a dark spirit and defeat the summoner to acquire humanity.
Certain dark wraiths resist their descent into dark and persevere along the honorable path.
The red sign soapstone is for them."
So this is my means of invading other people.
I guess now that I think of it, I didn't really know how people were invading me up until this point.
So that's kind of cool, I guess.
Probably won't do it.
But, uh...
Still... cool.
So now, a quandary, do we go...
through this fog door... or check out the big thing?
Let's check the fog door first.
Uh... I guess we just have to drop, huh?
There's probably some more elegant solution to this, but...
Yeah.
Okay.
Drop. Hurt.
Heal.
And through the door...
What you got?
Ah, the phalanx, phalanx, phalanx, pha...ah, I don't know. Ah, the...this!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey! Don't throw things!
You know, this whole world has been feeling kind of demon souls...now that I, uh...now that I think about it.
And this feels very demon souls.
Leave me alone, cool-looking thing.
Leave me alone. Go away.
Go away.
Well, this is tricky.
I have fire, though!
Fire!
Didn't work.
Fire again!
A little better.
More fire!
Mm...not doing quite as much damage as I'd like.
And there's a lot of 'em. And I'm out of fire anyway, so...guess we're back to the drawing board.
Do I have any firebombs on...yes, good! Okay, well, let's try that.
Whoa-ho!
Whoa!
I could probably use some of those black firebombs. Those would probably be a little more effective. Why am I wasting all of these? I shouldn't do that.
Not efficient.
I should figure out the better way to take all of them out.
Which is not that way, but you know.
Meh.
Also not the way.
It's alright.
We're slowly working our way through the crowd here.
This is probably not a great... like, this positioning is actually probably best for them.
They have the advantage in this sort of scenario.
Like, yeah, they can't get through the door, but...
they can make quite the wall.
Come on in.
Get in here, you know you want to.
There's two more down.
Think we're down to two.
Nope, there's more.
Oof.
Maybe I should just go out there.
Agh!
These stairs are definitely not doing me favors. We're going outside.
I may regret it, but we're doing it.
Okay.
How to go about this?
Catching them around corners like this seems like a good tactic.
Yeah, they do not seem to handle corners very well.
What were they defending?
All right, I think that's everybody.
Hooray!
What are you?
Hmm.
I cannot tell who it is.
I don't see an item, though.
Having this whole realm be inside a painting is interesting.
Is it an actual place or no?
Yeesh, pretty big open area.
All right, let's look into it.
Something about this big open space makes me nervous.
Can't put my finger on what, but...
Okay.
Item... nice.
Still nervous.
Lots of souls, though, so that's at least good.
All right, so...
If I've got...
my sense of direction working sort of properly...
we are...
kind of down below where we...
the first...
tower...
castle part of the area we were in before, which is I think up there.
So I'm headed back toward...
like, if I could go up and around this wall here...
we'd be back...
where I initially...
there's like, the...
the bridge should be around here somewhere.
Nice!
Wonder if I should be trying other pyromancies.
Haven't really invested much in...
my little...
flamehand... object...
I forget what it's called.
But...
maybe that'd be worth doing.
Oh, is this the door?
It... was... wonderful!
Hmm, do I rest, though?
You know what, I've got a lot of souls, let's do it.
You know what, we've got a good deck-scaling weapon, let's...
bump this up a little further.
It's time to start taking advantage of that.
Huh, where do you get that?
Hmm.
But yes, if there are no more little branching paths down here that I ignored,
I am surprised these guys are back!
Probably a good grinding area...
for that reason.
But yeah, very surprised this group respawned.
Huh. What's up here?
Ooh, interesting
Very interesting
This looks important
Or at the very least, super dangerous
Get out of here. I don't like you
You're kind or annoying
Oh, there's another one. Crumbs.
That is the worst possible time to heal.
[laughs]
Oh, boy.
Alright, don't use heal in there. Lesson learned.
[laughs]
Oh...
That's more funny than frustrating, really.
Okay.
Not doing that again.
Let me check over here real fast. It might just be an item.
Oh, some guys.
And an archer, I guess?
And some more guys.
But also a place to cut this down, which is nice.
And it is... humanity.
I'll take it.
So I've kind of been thinking about my general, uh...
...tactics.
Ah.
When playing Dark Souls.
And like, my...
...habits and my reflexes and my just kind of ways of playing and approaching problems.
And I think that my...
...fairly decent ability to role evade...
...I think most of that skill is thanks largely to years of Monster Hunter.
Which is all about role evading for the most part.
Which is great...
...then thank you, Monster Hunter... for that.
But, I think... [laughs]
...Monster Hunter is also responsible for my habit of...
...trying to heal in-between enemy attacks... [laughs]
...while still at fairly close range.
'Cause that's usually a thing you kind of have to do in Monster Hunter.
And it's probably not the best tactic to be using here.
But... it's something that I always keep trying to do...
...so that's not good.
I guess it's a wash... overall. Ah!
Don't care for you guys much.
You're a nuisance.
Eh, for some reason I thought there was a much bigger enemy standing in this light.
Hey, what are you?
Turn handle.
What's this now?
What is this now?
That's cool
That's very cool
I like this area. This is a really neat place
Challenging, to be sure
And maybe not quite as fun as Anor Londo. And it might just be that Anor Londo is pretty
And... and that's just why I like it, but...
Still
Gonna just run by you guys. I don't really wanna...
I don't really want a deal
'Scuse me, pardon me, 'scuse me, pardon me. Ow!
Yeah
See? This is why I'm running past you
This is why no one wants to be your friend
You know what? Before that...
Let's just go see what the big thing is
I'm really curious
And... apparently don't wanna hang on to these 20,000 souls
Let's see what's up with it
It moved
It's still moving
Whoa...
That's big
Big and coming this way
Whoa! Whoa!
Big and still coming this way
Are you serious?
Whoa-ho-ho-ho!
Ah! Still coming! Yeah!
Wow!
That is an awesome dragon design!
You know what? I'm not even mad about not getting those items underneath and behind it.
I saw a cool thing and that is reward enough!
Think I'm gonna go underneath you if that's alright, big guy.
Please don't breathe down here.
Yeah, I get big Demon Souls vibes off of this whole place.
Maybe it's just the architecture.
But, uh, yeah.
And I see someone big!
Heh heh heh, and some sneakies!
Come here, fellas.
Aww, yes, all four!
Let that be a lesson.
And who are you?
Are you just a black knight, or are you someone else?
You look intimidating.
And kind of awesome.
Heh heh heh.
I have longer reach than you just slightly.
Come on, hurry up.
Swing and miss already!
Oops. Heh heh heh.
No, don't do that. It's really, really annoying.
What you got?
Nice!
This has been a productive time.
Just making sure. Heh.
Can't believe all of this is just hidden in a painting...
...that you unlock with a doll.
Hello.
I have a scythe, too! Let's be friends.
I'm sorry, I feel like I've missed something. What's going on?
Can we be friends? Please don't attack me.
Who art thou? One of us thou art not.
If thou hast misstepped into this world, plunge down from the plank and hurry home.
If thou seekest I, thine desires shall be requited not.
Yeah, I'm missing something, clearly.
Does she have a tail?
Thou must returneth whence thou came.
This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind...
That's not entirely true.
I beg of thee...
...plunge down from the plank and hurry home.
You and I have very different opinions about your townsfolk.
Thou must returneth whence this land is peaceful.
I beg of thee...
Okay, well...
I mean, I'll walk around you, I don't...
I'm not here to pick fights.
Your scythe is larger than mine.
And you did ask really nicely.
Definitely got a tail, though.
You... definitely have a tail.
And, uh...
Yeah, I am missing a lot.
I'm sure this is interesting, I'll find out about what it all means someday.
But she did ask super nicely!
So I'll jump off a cliff.
Hooray!
This was a mistake!
And here we are!
Ah, and there you are!
Welp...
That. Was. Awesome.
Dark Souls just keeps on giving cool surprises.
Thank you guys again for pointing out that that was there.
I'm glad I got to see that place before finishing this playthrough.
I think that I will fight my way out of here and then be off...
...to new frontiers!
I think I got an idea of where I'm gonna head next, but, uh...
I will let you guys find out about that next time!
Thank you very much for watching!
And I will see you then!