The Cathedral Chapel is the single worst area I have ever seen in any Soulslike...

[CJones]

What in the hell were they smoking when they thought this was a good idea?? Lets walk across a bunch of wooden beams while enemies throw stuff at you. Get hit once by absolutely anything and you fall to your death. And good luck dodging anything without falling off. Hell, I fall to my death just trying to walk across the damn things.

Oh, and should we put any kind of checkpoints in here? No? Get hit once, die and start the whole thing over. What a great idea...

I am about ready to throw in the towel. I liked the game up to this point, but this is beyond absurd. There is no universe where any sane person would find this "fun".

[Krypto]

Go slow and use consumables like thermite since they're weak to fire.

[Lynfinity]

I'll take walking across the beams over vast poisonous swamps any day of the week.

And I swear it's not as bad as you make it sound. Pretty sure it's not. Hell, I'd say out of all "platforming" sections I've seen in Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Lies of P, this one is really tame and short.

[HoldTheLube]

Originally posted by CJones:

What in the hell were they smoking when they thought this was a good idea?? Lets walk across a bunch of wooden beams while enemies throw stuff at you. Get hit once by absolutely anything and you fall to your death. And good luck dodging anything without falling off. Hell, I fall to my death just trying to walk across the damn things.

Oh, and should we put any kind of checkpoints in here? No? Get hit once, die and start the whole thing over. What a great idea...

I am about ready to throw in the towel. I liked the game up to this point, but this is beyond absurd. There is no universe where any sane person would find this "fun".

If you think the Cathedral is worst, try walking across Miquella's Haligtree and Lake of Rot in Elden Ring

[CJones]

Originally posted by HoldTheLube:

Originally posted by CJones:

What in the hell were they smoking when they thought this was a good idea?? Lets walk across a bunch of wooden beams while enemies throw stuff at you. Get hit once by absolutely anything and you fall to your death. And good luck dodging anything without falling off. Hell, I fall to my death just trying to walk across the damn things.

Oh, and should we put any kind of checkpoints in here? No? Get hit once, die and start the whole thing over. What a great idea...

I am about ready to throw in the towel. I liked the game up to this point, but this is beyond absurd. There is no universe where any sane person would find this "fun".

If you think the Cathedral is worst, try walking across Miquella's Haligtree and Lake of Rot in Elden Ring

I've done both of those. Poison and Rot I can deal with. Navigating tiny planks of wood while trying to dodge stuff I cannot. I've already died more times to this BS than I have to any of the bosses.

I really wish this game had ranged weapons other than throwing items. Bows or magic would make this way less obnoxious.

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by CJones:

Navigating tiny planks of wood while trying to dodge stuff I cannot.

You can block and even perfect guard those projectiles, hint-hint nudge-nudge.

[CJones]

Originally posted by Krypto (Jaded Grumpus):

Go slow and use consumables like thermite since they're weak to fire.

Okay, the Thermite was a good idea. I was not expecting that to 1 shot these guys. Thanks.

[Flint]

1. Use throwing items, 2. Upgrade Puppet String arm to max, that allows you to jump over any gap and stun, sometimes 1 shot your target.

[Krazy Wallet]

Someone clearly skipped DS2's Frigid Outskirts

[Washing Machine]

Only plank walk I found bogus really was in final chapter when there was a random invisible wall halfway into the path that pushed me down to a pile of basilisk wannabes.

[mayhem523]

Make sure you grab the shortcut at the top... when I pulled the lever I was just like wtf did that do... and promptly forgot about it. So I actually ran that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ multiple times to fight the shield boss at the top. I ended up cheesing him just so I wouldn't have to run it again. You can lead him to the door way and then running hit every time he starts walking away.

The good news is that is by far the most obnoxious platforming you will have to do in this game. The only other somewhat annoying place is at the end with those poles that shoot out of the wall and knock you off. They are easy enough to avoid, though.

[CJones]

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

Someone clearly skipped DS2's Frigid Outskirts

Okay, I admit I forgot about that (or blocked it from my memory). Yes, that is more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ than this.

Thanks for all the advice. It really helped, and I did finally get past it. Now I just have to beat the Archbishop.

[Krazy Wallet]

Originally posted by CJones:

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

Someone clearly skipped DS2's Frigid Outskirts

Okay, I admit I forgot about that (or blocked it from my memory). Yes, that is more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ than this.

Thanks for all the advice. It really helped, and I did finally get past it. Now I just have to beat the Archbishop.

I'm jealous, I still go to therapy twice a week. Because they're there... they're always there.... watching me... the reindeer................

[CJones]

Originally posted by mayhem523:

Make sure you grab the shortcut at the top... when I pulled the lever I was just like wtf did that do... and promptly forgot about it. So I actually ran that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ multiple times to fight the shield boss at the top. I ended up cheesing him just so I wouldn't have to run it again. You can lead him to the door way and then running hit every time he starts walking away.

Yes, I found the shortcut. The shield guy thrashed me the first couple attempts. So my third attempt I just climbed up on the platform and threw stuff at him til he died. I'm not proud of that, but it worked.

[W.SNAKE]

Guard and heal.

[Limp Squirrel]

Never played Amor Londo, aye?

The chapel is quite alright. Another way of dealing with this is with the Puppet String arm. Either pull to you, or pull yourself to them.