See what I did there?
Anyway, I was determined to beat the dragon on the bridge last night . . . and I didn't. My trick of shooting him with arrows under the bridge shot off his tail (netting me a Drake Sword that I don't think I can use), but after 173 arrows I hadn't killed him so I went for a different tactic. The underpass did allow me to cross with a few battles (and some rats) and make it inside the castle. There I found a charging armor clad boar that routed me my first time through. The second time I went there I thought about avoiding him by going up some stairs only to find another one of those stupid knights. I tried to run away from the knight, but it led to the boar and I wasn't able to solve that problem.
Eventually I did by cheating the boar. Basically I would get him to charge, then shoot him in the ass with arrows as he walked away. At some point he would turn around to come get me and I would just duck into the hallway (where he couldn't reach). With him out of the way I cleared some hollow ones and moved forward. I met a new type of enemy with a cape and small shield and kept pushing forward. At this point I was out of health and was just hoping to find a bonfire I could use to "save." Unfortunately that didn't work and I died somewhere in a hallway.
My big question right now is whether or not the boar comes back. The dragon will get his tail back (although I can't keep looting it for Drake swords), and I have a tactic for the boar. But it would be really nice if he didn't return. His death animation was pretty special so I think he might no come back. Either way I need more arrows and I am going to try to trigger the knight and get him to lose track of me on the bridge (so I can rain firebombs on him). Hopefully there is a bonfire near there so I don't have to go all the way back to the Undead Burg. The game is getting more fun but I still don't feel like I am getting "good" at it.
This might be a dumb question, but have you found the shortcut from the Undead Burg bonfire to the area under the bridge?
ReplyDeleteYep. That is how I made it back to the bridge so quickly. I know it isn't that far, but I think I wanted to find another bonfire because I was lazy. In my mind they are kind of like checkpoints so I assumed that they would scattered throughout the world . . . that isn't the case?
ReplyDeleteThe bonfires definitely feel like checkpoints when one first arrives at them, but the more I flail blindly through this game, the more the bonfires seem more like the center of an area from which I range out in my explorations. So, like, you get as far as possible from that bonfire in the Undead Berg, and then find a shortcut that takes you back to it, which allows you to recenter your explorations on the bridge and Undead Parish. The Firelink Shrine and the couple of bonfires I've found past where you are have a similar feeling of being a central departure point to different areas, rather than checkpoints along a linear path.
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