Ornstein and Smough: A Tribute.

I spent ten hours of my life playing Dark Souls with a huge shadow hanging over me.

I'd subdued the gaping dragon. I'd thrown the Iron Golem to his death from the top of Sen's Fortress. I'd even got past those fucking archers.

But Ornstein and Smough were a hard, cold wall - a wall I kept fruitlessly banging my head against.

I'd tried it on my own - and barely left a scratch on either of them.

I'd tried it with Solaire as a backup (using my last humanity) and got slaughtered by Smough's flying electric bum attack.

Fuck.

Anor Londo Revisited.

So, those archers.

Turns out, you can just kite them into walking off the ledges they're on, the stupid fucking idiots.

So I've moved on, met Solaire, got eaten by a Mimic, and tried to work out how the fuck that Prowler Demon got into that room.

Then I tried to fight Lautrec - I don't know why he's in Anor Londo or who his dickhead friends are (or why Anastasia left that Black Eye Orb thing), but I do know that running headlong into the three of them is a very bad idea - especially as it turns out you can't use Estus (which I didn't know until it was too late).

That's as far as I've got - meanwhile, I'm also trying to decide whether or not to enchant my longsword; I have a feeling that turning it into a lightning longsowrd is probably a good idea, but if I do that I'm going to have to spec another weapon for the inevitable future enemies who are immune to it - I'm thinking a Falchion, which I believe I can combine with Quelaag's soul to make something rather tasty.