Finally started this game..!!!

[Nagrenol]

My only Souls exp is Elden Ring which i've 100%/all the way up to NG+9. dlc etc etc
I saw all the other chat about the originals but the old graphics are a bit of a turn off for me so I never bothered delving back (I like my misery and suffering to be in HD )

I bought this in early 2024, played for like 15mins and didn't come back to it till I started my xmas holidays last week. I've 20hrs down and I've just reached entered the Estella Opera House, got the snot beat out of me by some spider wench and called it for the day

Enjoying this a bit, its not been crazy hard for the most part. I will say I spent a long time trying to get past the rabbit gang.. although given the cutscene at the end.. I feel im going to see those bellends again!!!

The atmosphere and music is great, like those records you pick up. Ive only gotten 3 so far and the music is really good. Not like some games, these feel like actual songs.
Incidentally.. but does anyone else hear the theme to the movie Platoon in the music inside hotel krat? I cannot unhear it as soon as I got that starting music queue in my head!

Weapons wise, I got the Azure Dragon Crescent Glaive when I logged in and I've just stuck with that. Can be a bit clunky at times but overall fun to use. I've really not even tried any of the other weapons i've picked up in game, all went straight to storage for now.

I've never been good at parrying, I think I went through until +7 in elden ring before I parried a hit and that was by accident.. I just ignored the mechanic until those gits in the Forrest in the DLC where you had to parry to kill them!!! I need to watch a video as im not full grasping the concept of it in this game, maybe im getting old (i am) but it seems to work and then the enemies bar lights up sometimes... I think that means its maybe open to stagger or something!

My only real peeve with the game so far is getting caught against a wall with 2 or 3 enemies on me and I can't escape by blocking/hitting etc unless I maybe have the ageis legion arm and even then. Probably a L2P issue!

But enjoyable so far

[DarkOutX]

Just started Elden Ring after 100% in Lies of P
Honestly, played only 6h in ER, and Lies of P for me seems MUCH better.
But mainly because of awesome setting and faster gameplay.
Also learning curve in Elden Ring is terrible, first few hours I was like a puppy thrown into pool with alligators, but I see much more stats, armor, spells, seems like as an RPG it can be very enjoying

[generalwyvern]

Awesomeness. I've played the crap out of this game. And yes, you don't want to get caught up against the wall, that's almost always a death sentence. Best bit of advice for that: know you're surroundings and don't rush into combat if you can help it.

[Nagrenol]

Originally posted by DarkOutX:

Just started Elden Ring after 100% in Lies of P
Honestly, played only 6h in ER, and Lies of P for me seems MUCH better.
But mainly because of awesome setting and faster gameplay.
Also learning curve in Elden Ring is terrible, first few hours I was like a puppy thrown into pool with alligators, but I see much more stats, armor, spells, seems like as an RPG it can be very enjoying

I did the same with Elden Ring, I played it for about an hour and just couldn't grasp it. I came back AGAIN nearly a year later and watched a few videos to understand the open world concept and that nothing was tracked etc It really threw me but once the bug hit.. jesus I sank TIME into this game. I uninstalled it recently and have almost 1k hours in it.
If you can dedicate a bit more time and check out a few helpful tips/hints type video you will almost certainly love it also.

LOP is def more linear and going back to that style of play after something like Elden Ring has me almost feeling a little put off.
..Also I may have hit a few walls to check if there were hidden passages in LOP also

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Originally posted by generalwyvern:

Awesomeness. I've played the crap out of this game. And yes, you don't want to get caught up against the wall, that's almost always a death sentence. Best bit of advice for that: know you're surroundings and don't rush into combat if you can help it.

Yup, when Im running through an area for the first time im being very mindful (and demure) of whats around me and above. I do notice you can simple run past a lot of things without the need to fight in many cases. Intended I guess but I read you can miss out on certain drops and ergo of course , so I do tend to kill everything.

Planning to get 30/30/30 for Vig/Stam/Cap and then start leveling up Motivity

[DarkOutX]

Originally posted by Nagrenol:

If you can dedicate a bit more time and check out a few helpful tips/hints type video you will almost certainly love it also.

Yeah, got horse, level up possibility, and reached first boss, and currently whole game became really fun

Originally posted by Nagrenol:

Planning to get 30/30/30 for Vig/Stam/Cap and then start leveling up Motivity

You can check soft-caps for more optimal build
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036823656&searchtext=stats

Only capacity has linear progression and you better up it only when you need it. "Slighly Heavy" doesn't really affect game. I've done my first run staying below 60%, but I'd better spent this Ergo to some more useful stats

Stamina has soo little steps per level so I almost skipped it even for Dexterity build (where you need to do more than 1 hit per attack iteration), coz it's always enough anyway, and you need to waste few levels to get some valuable amount of additional stamina

Oh and few tips not to miss content (no spoilers):
1) When you will run at roofs, you can easily miss tiny side-quest: get down by the ladder and talk with glowing window. Quest will be softlocked after defeating location boss. There is also one more quest on that location with another glowing window with crying woman, it's other quest
2) Better buy all starting weapons from first merchant, later he won't sell it, but that weapons are required for collector achievement
3) Frozen Sword is required for side-quest. You will have to choose between cool amulet or this sword. Quest reward is quartz and achievement (which can be received in NG+ anyway). So just decide if you want to get one more quartz for NG+, or amulet
4) Don't press the lever for submarine before ended all side-storylines
5) Always decrypt vessels BEFORE talk with Eugenie
6) In last chapters you will find a guy who speaks that he knows the way out of his location, but he won't get out if you don't open big doors at the end of corridor with him
7) Backup save before final boss

[Senki]

It's one of my favorite games, definitely a must play for souls fans imo.

Elden Ring's gameplay feels smoother but this is still great. Can't wait for the sequel, if they did this well with their first attempt then I have high hopes for their next one.

[Heiinz]

It was my personal GOTY last year. one of my saves is NG+31 with 122 million ergo :D

[Nagrenol]

1) Yes I figured those out quickly enough.
2) I think I have them but im not too fussed about the achievement
3) Yes I read this when I was looking at which to get between it and the amulet and I got the outfit from the vendor earlier today.
4) Well past that, not sure if there's things ive missed but, no worries
5) Hmmm not sure if i've done that for them all, is it achievement related ?
6) Hmm not sure what that refers too. I'm currently fighting Laxasia so if its after that i'll keep an eye
7) Will do

Thanks all for the input

I've made a blast of changes since and getting through it all faster.
Currently fighting Laxasia the Complete, awesome intro and have managed to get her to stage 2 around 15%. Just some butter fingers messed me up.
Great game

[Nagrenol]

6) got it

[DarkOutX]

Originally posted by Nagrenol:

5) Hmmm not sure if i've done that for them all, is it achievement related ?

Not just achievement, but it related to ending of Eugenie story-line. Before decrypt of Alidoro Vessel, you will have a non-informative answer which leads to incomplete dialogue, but after decrypt you can get a full ending dialogue by talking who Alidoro actually is for Eugenie

[Nagrenol]

Originally posted by DarkOutX:

Originally posted by Nagrenol:

5) Hmmm not sure if i've done that for them all, is it achievement related ?

Not just achievement, but it related to ending of Eugenie story-line. Before decrypt of Alidoro Vessel, you will have a non-informative answer which leads to incomplete dialogue, but after decrypt you can get a full ending dialogue by talking who Alidoro actually is for Eugenie

Hmmm maybe I did it automatically as I got her achievement recently, told her who her brother is etc Got the record.. was there something else to it I might have missed?

[PV]

You don't need to fully commit to parrying/blocking. Many attacks can be dodged or evaded. The game rewards the player for finding the best responses to enemy attacks, it just has an unhealthy habit of promoting parrying more.

[Nagrenol]

Spent the last 2 days working on the nameless puppet.
That was proper challenging.. I just got him down and ended with the Rise of P achievement.

I have to say in terms of the bosses/minibosses.. there were def a few let downs in terms of how easy/1 shot a number of them were.
Outside of the first rabbit gang fight/ king of the puppets p2 and nameless puppets I think the majority of the others took anywhere from 1-3 attempts.
Very let down by the simon fight.. he was 'technically' the big bad end villan and I easily 1 shot him. But I guess maybe some RNG etc involved!

Still a very very enjoyable game and given the little ending clip it sounds like another game is on the horizon

[Senki]

Originally posted by Nagrenol:

Still a very very enjoyable game and given the little ending clip it sounds like another game is on the horizon

They will release a dlc this year and there will also be a sequel

[Nagrenol]

Noiiiiice

[Dubbs09]

Originally posted by Senki:

Originally posted by Nagrenol:

Still a very very enjoyable game and given the little ending clip it sounds like another game is on the horizon

They will release a dlc this year and there will also be a sequel

Waiting impatiently for that DLC. Been waiting to get the complete edition or whatever they're going to call it for the base game and dlc packaged together.