I am really not making progress in this game. I have made it to the Undead Burg (as Dan suggested) and while I have figured out how to kill most of the basic enemies in the area, I cannot manage to kill the Knight that is waiting for me at the end of the hall. I have tried a number of things, including sitting on top of a building and throwing fire bombs at him. While that should work (in theory) I don't have enough firebombs to make that happen. Meanwhile as I have tried to explore this region I have found a vendor (yay!) who has sold me better armor, ammo, and most importantly a box that I can use to store things and a different box that I can use to repair my weapons. At one point (before I found the vendor) my scimitar had been used so much that it was about to break. Not wanting my main weapon to break, I switched over to a spear that I had found. It was quite a different experience using the spear. It required both of my hands, but that wasn't too bad because it gave me an increased range. I honestly thought about going after the knight with the spear just because my blocking wasn't getting me too far with the knight and the extra range might be good.
One thing that has been nice about this section is the grinding. I have been able to add about 7 levels to my character as I have repeatedly made it to the knight, only to die and have to go get my souls back. Maybe I just need to level more in order to beat the knight? There is another path that I could take to avoid the knight, but a message said that it was towards a boss and I don't think I want that. So I'll try again to beat the knight tonight, but I doubt I will make any progress. At this point I might be good enough to beat up on those skeletons, so maybe I should just go back there. Past the knight (or maybe the other direction) seems to be the dragon I was worried about and I don't think I have what it takes to beat that dragon. This game is still fun, but it certainly is work as well.
The boss is easier than the knight. This will not be the first time you encounter a enemy who's not essential for you to defeat, but is much more difficult than the path you can take to progress.
ReplyDeleteHow much was the Bottomless Box? I looked for it the other day, but the undead merchant didn't seem to be selling it. How's it work? I need someplace to store my waistcloths.
I think the box was 3,000 or it might have been 1,000. I'm not entirely sure how it works yet, because I haven't progressed far enough. My thought is that I can put something in it and it will show up at every bonfire. So it will allow me to store more than I can carry, but with limited access.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see about that knight again. Maybe I'll get bored and try to advance the story, but right now I think I'm going to dump another hour into killing him tonight.