Dark Souls Diary Entry 8 Daily Deaths: 1 Total Deaths: 40 Bosses Beaten: Moonlight Butterfly, Capera Demon, 2 Butcher Mini-Bosses, Giant Rat Current Level: 29 Sweet Loot: Evil Eye Ring, Spider Shield, Soul of the Moonlight Butterlfy, Magic Weapon Spell Awful Moment: Falling down a trap in The Depths getting cursed, then dying, and losing 6,ooo souls and a humanity. …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 7 Daily Deaths: 2 Total Deaths: 39 Bosses Beaten: 1 Gargoyles, 1 Mini-Boss Black Knight Current Level: 25 Sweet Loot: Black Knight Shield (Awesome!), Gargoyle Axe, Heal Miracle I can kick the hell out of a Gargoyle. This isn’t vanity or ego. Like Muhammed Ali said, “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” Oh …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 6 Daily Deaths: 12 Total Deaths: 37 Bosses Beaten: 1 (Titanite Demon) Current Level: 24 Sweet Loot: Dragon Scale, Grass Crest Shield, Elite Knight Armor Set, Partisan, Black Leather Armor Set, Long Bow The Titanite Demon has shuffled off his immortal coil–and I helped him shuffle. Muwhahaha. And how did I kill the Titanite Demon? Well, …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 5 Daily Deaths: 3 Total Deaths: 25 Bosses Beaten: 2 Mini-bosses (Steel Boar and Black Knight) Current Level: 19 Sweet Loot: Drake Sword Okay, so last night I crushed it. Two plus hours of gaming a meager three deaths, two mini-bosses downed, and the Drake Sword acquired. I even managed to level up my strength to …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 4 Daily Deaths: 4 Total Deaths: 22 Bosses Beaten: 1 Current Level: 18 Sweet Loot: None… but I did kill my first Silver Salamander! Yep, I killed me a boss! Woo Wee! The Taurus Demon to be precise, beware of impending bull puns… *Ahem* Killing the Taurus Demon set the right moo-d for the rest of …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 3 Daily Deaths: 12 Total Deaths: 18 Bosses Beaten: 0 Current Level: 16 Sweet Loot: Soul Arrow Spell After my second diary entry I was feeling pretty cocky. The stats from Diary Entry 2 say it all–2 Deaths. Secretly, I thought I was going to roll over Dark Souls. Hubris my friends hubris. Dark Souls does …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 2 Daily Deaths: 2 Total Deaths: 6 Bosses Beaten: 0 Current Level: 12 Sweet Loot: Holy Sword and Dragon Shield For most of the night I was hanging in there at one death. One totally worth while death. The Holy Sword (the specific name escapes me) is guarded by a bile spewing dragon. The dragon is …
Dark Souls Diary Entry 1 Number of Deaths: 4 Bosses Beaten: 1 Well I made it through the first area. Beat the first boss and did some exploring and I only died 4 times. I played Demon’s Souls so I think that helps explain my low death count, the combat is really precise and excellent. When I died I really …
Welcome to my public humiliation. Over the next several weeks I’ll be putting my inept gaming on display in the form of a Dark Souls game-log. Each time I play, I’ll track the number of times I die, any particularly humiliating ends I may suffer, any interesting loot I may come across, and of course my rare triumphs over this devilishly …
