PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[centrinoduo91]

whats so hard about it? do you have little health? no checkpoints? what?

[WhiteAlexander]

It's unforgiving with mistakes.

If you try and attack something and miss or get parried, you'll likely die from their counterattack.

[Zastai]

I suppose the main point in this regards is that the game continually autosaves - so there's no reloading of a save if you mess up. When you die, the enemies in the level you were in respawn, and your souls (= currency & XP) are where you died. It's more unforgiving than hard really; it forces you to learn from your mistakes. After a while you go back to a level and wonder how you ever had problems getting through it.

[Nostromo74]

Few months ago I had imported the Asian version.... After playing for like 40 minutes in the first level, and die only to send it me back to the beggning infuriated me.

And within 2 hours it was back on ebay.

[AkaXan]

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centrinoduo91 wrote:
whats so hard about it? do you have little health? no checkpoints? what?

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Its hard but fair, you have to be very careful plan your attacks never rush in or your enemies will have you. As for health its not like you don't have a lot, its the fact that enemies if you miss a hit will cause a large amount of damage. On the upside the game dose seem to keep giving me a lot load of healing items so its not to bad. There are no real check points the game auto saves at times.

When I want save my progress I go into the menu click on something like armor then completely click out it, the game then auto saves where you are, so then you can quite if you like and restart at the same place. If you leave the level all enemies respawn, but any gate you have opened remain open.

Like any RPG you can upgrade and make you weapons and character better throughout the game, but it still requires skill and patience to master the games style of play. Its all about learning the enemies attack pattern.

I have also noticed a way to avoid loosing all your souls if you die quickly press the home button on the dualshock pad and quit the game completely, then when you reload you will be alive and back to where the last auto save happened. I know this is slightly cheaty, but if you have amassed a lot of souls it can be a great way to avoid breaking you controller in half.

Basically the game is hard if you never bother to learn it or take it on its terms, but every battle you win through skill is an excellent feeling. I have the Deluxe Edition with the box cover, guide, artbook and soundtrack CD and to me its well worth the import as its probably never going to make it to the UK.

Message Edited by AkaXan on 11-10-2009 06:38 PM

[WhiteAlexander]

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AkaXan wrote:

I have also noticed a way to avoid loosing all your souls if you die quickly press the home button on the dualshock pad and quit the game completely, then when you reload you will be alive and back to where the last auto save happened. I know this is slightly cheaty, but if you have amassed a lot of souls it can be a great way to avoid breaking you controller in half.

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Do this at your own risk. You may corrupt your save file if it ends up quitting while saving and you can't make backup copies as the saves are copy-protected.

[AkaXan]

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WhiteAlexander wrote:

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AkaXan wrote:

I have also noticed a way to avoid loosing all your souls if you die quickly press the home button on the dualshock pad and quit the game completely, then when you reload you will be alive and back to where the last auto save happened. I know this is slightly cheaty, but if you have amassed a lot of souls it can be a great way to avoid breaking you controller in half.

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Do this at your own risk. You may corrupt your save file if it ends up quitting while saving and you can't make backup copies as the saves are copy-protected.

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I know, I know. Thankfully I have only had to do this twice. Once when I got flamed by the dragon and the other when I was fighting a red eyes, but when I came back I kicked his ass.

[WhiteAlexander]

Admittedly I did do it once, but to be fair I was about to lose a bloodstain with over 2 million souls on it.

[AkaXan]

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WhiteAlexander wrote:
Admittedly I did do it once, but to be fair I was about to lose a bloodstain with over 2 million souls on it.

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Its defiantly a risk in doing it, but when your about to lose a lot of souls, it can really help you out of a tight spot. Same thing with the auto save, I do when I need to save on my terms, just go into the menu click on armor the completely click out of the menu and the game auto saves. Its the only way you can save the game yourself.

Feel free to add me if you want, I will be playing the game online at somepoint, but for the moment I'm playing offline as I want to play some it on my own first. My PSN name is the same one I use on the forum.

[WhiteAlexander]

I'm playing on the Asian servers, unfortunately. Can't play online between the two versions.

Very tempted to pick up the US version at some point though, but I wouldn't be able to afford it until after Christmas.

Message Edited by WhiteAlexander on 11-10-2009 07:05 PM