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 …
The Black Phantom above is modeled after my son’s character in Dark Souls. He is very proud of this fact, but wants it to be clear that his gamertag is not KoopaKutie83. That was a bit of artistic license on our part. He hasn’t yet invaded someone’s game to grief them, but I know the temptation is strong. The Book …
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 …
