can't pass the first scene

[Lhetre]

Title.
It seems you can kick the monster behind the doors, but I can't. Space does nothing, mouse 1 does nothing.
What should I do?

[Herp McDerperson]

Originally posted by Lhetre:

Title.
It seems you can kick the monster behind the doors, but I can't. Space does nothing, mouse 1 does nothing.
What should I do?

I don't know what is wrong with either your game or yourself but the game tells you what to do ... on the screen. It tells you to press [E] (default). It specifically is trying to tell you to spam the ♥♥♥♥ out of the [E] key as a form of QTE (quick time event). I can understand not immediately understanding that it wants you to hit it as fast as you can (that's my understanding anyways) but you didn't even mention the key I expected.

Anyways, I lied... there's one scenario where it wouldn't be your fault... if your computer runs the game at a particularly high frame-rate, the QTEs may be impossible or nearly-so. If you suspect this might be happening, have the steam overlay FPS counter visible to see how high it is. Hopefully it's not a ton more than 60 and if it is, then there should be actions that you can take.
I have a relatively old monitor with a low refresh rate so turning on vertical sync would set me to 60 FPS. If that won't work for you, both Nvidia and AMD GPU settings menus have options for an FPS limiter. You can look into that.
I am not overly impressed that this kind of issue happened with a game from the 2010's ... seems like a rookie mistake to use raw frames as a way for timing ANYTHING but it is what it is. You tended to see this kind of crap in older games where timing was based on counting the number of frames that have elapsed when timing wasn't super critical ... and a lack of forward thinking led to the developers not considering (or caring) that a game might be played on hardware from 10 years in the future at a high frame rate, ...

I've not looked too deeply into the mechanics of DS2 QTEs and I simply press [E] as fast as I reasonably can until it disappears from the screen.

[Lhetre]

E worked. Thanks.
Nothing was trying to tell me to press any key. The game did show the message press shift to run, then nothing more.

[Herp McDerperson]

https://youtu.be/CvyAcfnaE-Q?t=241
this playthrough involves a controller so it says (A) but you can see what I mean

EDIT: COOL IT IGNORED MY TIMESTAMP
skip to 4:00 ...

[Lhetre]

I watched this video before posting the request for help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARuZH1KSjrk
and completely missed the "E" !
A very silly way of giving prompts in a video game, but hey, I'm no programmer.
Thanks again.