Dark Souls: Best Tips For Beginners
From Software kicked off a genre of brutally difficult RPGs with Demon Souls, Bloodbourne, and Dark Souls, all of which are infamous for refusing to provide tutorials for players to dash their confusion against. These savage challenges are broadly considered a rite of passage for talented gamers.
But they don’t have to be these unassailable journeys that start off in a deadly haze of unknowns. Here’s a list of solid tips that’ll save a beginner’s life in the realms of Lordran. It’s important to note that this is not the same as a walkthrough, which would cover step-by-step processes. These are things that’ll ease your first steps into a genre that can often offer too few handholds.
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Updated April 26, 2022 by Cameron Roy Hall: From Software is currently resting on its laurels after the recent release of its biggest game yet, Elden Ring. It’s only been available to the public for a brief period of time, but in that span, the social media sphere has shared millions of horror stories about the difficulty. For anyone wanting to dip their toes in at the beginning, we’ve brought back this tips article for the first Dark Souls, which was fully remastered for the Nintendo Switch in 2018.
13/13 Try It First, Then Use Tips
Although it might seem counterintuitive for an article compiling Dark Souls tips to start out with this, we really do recommend that your first foray into Dark Souls be without assistance. There’s an inherent satisfaction to experimentation and exploration in the world of Dark Souls which is, granted, sometimes easy to forget because of the ridiculously difficult opponents.
Try this. Explore an area. Fight one opponent, maybe two, maybe an entire room, if it comes naturally. When, and only when, the challenge overshadows your personal enjoyment, then come back for help. We’ll wait.
12/13 Prepare To Die
It’s really important to go into any Dark Souls playthrough with the expectation that you are going to die.
.. a lot. It’s not necessarily representative of your playstyle or skill level, but it is going to happen frequently and has the potential to spoil the experience if you’re not prepared for it.
And even embracing that morbid concept won’t fully temper the frustration that will inevitably follow. It’s possible, however, to take most in-game deaths as individual learning experiences and thereby improve your overall gameplay.
11/13 Don’t Worry About Your Class
When first starting the game, you’ll be allowed to create a character. One of the primary variables to consider is your character’s class. Each class works best with different stats, different armors, different items, and different magics. But whatever you do, don’t pick the Pendant as your starting item.
If you already are familiar with the process, as it’s similar to that of other games, dive right in, but otherwise, don’t stress about it. No matter what you choose, it’s possible to build a functional fighter on any base.
10/13 Plan Your Build
While your initial class choice may not be hypercritical early in the game, it’s still helpful to know which stat attributes you want to focus on for your build. In Dark Souls, every point you spend on your stats is permanently allocated toward that attribute, so there is a weight of responsibility to consider.
For example, there are many different advantages between DEX or STR builds for melee fighters, however, you’ll never be sorry dumping points into VIT or END. As long as you’re not dumping your souls into RES, then you’ll be fine.
9/13 Watch Your Equipment Load
A lot of games reward you for collecting everything you come across, so it would be understandable if your first instinct in the scary, unfamiliar world of Dark Souls was to hoard as if your life depended on it. Hey, don’t do that. You have a set weight you can carry around, and exceeding it will literally be the death of you.
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Your equipment load directly affects how quickly you can move, and if you can’t move fast enough, you can’t dodge, and if you can’t dodge… RIP.
It’s recommended that you keep your weight under 25 percent maximum capacity so as to stay light on your feet.
8/13 Dodge First, Shield Second
Effective evasion trumps high defense in almost every situation, so it naturally follows that, while it’s important to know how to use your shield, it’s more important to know how to dodge. Shielding drains your stamina in the same way that dodging does, and only one of those two protective methods gets you out of harm’s reach.
Conversely, dodging can get you to safety and closer to killing your opponents. Often, an opponent’s attack will allow for you to dodge under or around it and into a space that they can’t functionally defend.
7/13 Bait Your Enemies
It’s important to be mindful when facing multiple enemies, as they can quickly gang up on you to drastically lower your HP. The best strategy that can be used throughout most of the game is to bait your enemies into one-on-one combat.
This can be done easily with a bow and arrow, but it can also be done by slowly inching into an enemy’s reaction zone and then backing away so that they follow you into their certain doom instead of the other way around.
6/13 Use Your Souls
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Souls are the currency in Dark Souls. You need them to upgrade your character’s stats and to purchase items from the precious few merchants hidden around Lordran. You get them for defeating opponents, and sometimes you find clusters of souls in the wild in the form of an item.
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While it might seem smart to save up your souls at first, you have to remember that upon each death you drop your current wallet of souls. You can re-acquire them, but only if you get back to where you died before you’re killed again, so it’s a solid strategy to use your souls when you can.
4/13 Take Time To Explore
Lordran is a dark city with numerous different paths and shortcuts and enemies and secrets, but it also it’s important to fight your natural instinct stick to the “main” path, and explore the world of Dark Souls.
Yes, doing this will absolutely get you killed by a hidden enemy, but if you stay where you feel safer (a fragile concept in Dark Souls at the best of times), then you’ll never discover the full depths that From Software’s creation can provide. If you look hard enough, there’s a lot of complex and interesting lore hiding in the crevices.
3/13 Plunging Attacks And Backstabs Deal Massive Damage
The combat system in Dark Souls can be difficult to master. You can’t just learn how to operate your character’s attacks, you have to also learn which attacks suit which opponents. There are two fighting techniques that will expedite your battles, but only if you get them just right.
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Plunging attacks are exactly what they sound like. If you can find a ledge above your enemy, use it to your advantage and leap from its edge to plunge your weapon into your opponent with greater force. Backstabs are also exactly what they sound like.
Any attack that directly hits your opponent’s unprotected back with deal heavy damage.
2/13 Humanities Save Your HP Bar
When you die in Dark Souls, you lose your humanity. That’s not a metaphor, you literally become a zombie version of yourself. Although the game makes a fuss about how horrible it is to be Hollowed (zombified), it never explains at length what the benefit behind remaining “human” is. When your character is Hollowed, your maximum health pool decreases.
You can reverse a hollowing by using a Humanity at a lit bonfire and doing so reverses the decrease in your health. Humanities can also be used to kind bonfires to enhance Estus Flasks.
1/13 Avoid PVP Until You’re More Confident
Dark Souls’ primary campaign is singleplayer, but it’s also – technically – always a multiplayer, online experience. At practically any point in the game, another player can invade your campaign and trigger a PVP (Player Vs Player) battle. Here’s the deal, though… turn that feature off.
The second they invade, something you have no say in, you’re locked into the battle without any other recourse than to win or die. Real players, especially the variety who are interested in PVP, are incredibly difficult to defeat, and the items and souls you lose to them are unretrievable. Until you feel like PVP is a risk you’re ready to gamble on, play offline. Dark Souls is hard enough already.
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11 Tips to Get Started in Dark Souls: Remastered
Prepare to live
In the seven years since it’s come out, Dark Souls has become of the strangest fixtures in gaming. It’s a great game, sure. But it’s also an endless font of memes. It’s the second entry in a sprawling series that’s gotten more bizarre over the years. And it’s a focal point of the «difficulty in games» discussion. In Oct. 2018, Dark Souls: Remastered finally debuted on Nintendo Switch, making it the perfect companion for a long flight, as long as you’re not prone to chucking portable consoles in anger.
If Dark Souls: Remastered is your first foray into the series, there’s a good chance that you’re going to need all the help you can get. We’ve compiled a list of handy tips for beginners in order to get you through the game’s first level and a little beyond. May the flames guide thee.
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Choose the right class
The first thing you’ll do in Dark Souls is choose a class.
You can be a stalwart knight, a dexterous thief, a magical sorcerer or even a weakened warrior, deprived of all equipment and extra stats. Unlike many other RPGs, your starting class doesn’t lock you into a certain progression. Instead, it’s just a starting assortment of attributes and equipment. Just pick whichever one sounds the most fun and go from there. If your playstyle changes later, that’s fine; you can level up your character any way you like. Almost any class is good for a first-timer, except for Deprived — although that can be a useful trial by fire.
Play for a few hours at a time
There are plenty of fantastic modern games that allow you to dip your toe in for an hour or so, complete a quest, then head to work, or dinner, or bed. Dark Souls is not one of those games. Even for seasoned players, the game requires a fairly intense level of concentration. Just getting into the rhythm of Dark Souls — slow, steady and thoughtful, but ready to react at a second’s notice — can take a good 15 or 30 minutes.
I’d recommend having at least two hours to sink into any given session, at least until you get a feel for the game.
Be careful with your starting gift
The starting gift can be a fantastic way to start Dark Souls off on the right foot. The Black Firebomb can set unsuspecting enemies ablaze; the Binoculars can alert you to faraway threats; the Tiny Being’s Ring can keep you alive for just a little while longer. But not every gift will help you. The Master Key may sound useful — it can open a number of locked doors in the game — but it can also cause you to inadvertently skip areas, or move into others that might be too powerful for you. (Also, the Pendant is admittedly cool, but it has no in-game effect.)
Lock onto enemies
Combat in Dark Souls is either fast and frantic, or slow and measured, depending on the situation. However you choose to approach it, though, you’ll have the best results if you lock onto your enemies. (By default, you can use the R3 button.
) Once locked onto an enemy, you’ll move around them by default, and every one of your attacks will (theoretically) connect with them. You can even lock onto faraway enemies if you want to use spells, attack with a ranged weapon or simply block projectiles with a shield. Even with large groups of enemies, it’s best to focus on one at a time.
Don’t rely on your shield too much
Having a shield is a tremendous asset for new and veteran players alike. A quality weapon-and-shield build will take you right from the beginning of the game to the very end. But as useful as shields can be, they’re only one part of the defensive game in Dark Souls. Bosses strike quickly and unpredictably. Rely on your shield, and you’ll often find yourself out of stamina with no way to counterattack. Keep your shield up, but also watch enemies’ patterns and learn how to dodge away from them. Dodging backwards won’t always work, so try dodging to the sides, and even forward.
Look around
When you enter a new area, be it a long corridor, a darkened room or a big battlefield, take a few seconds to aim the camera side-to-side, above you and below you.
Enemies and traps hide everywhere in Dark Souls, and if you venture forward like the hero in an action movie, you’re almost guaranteed to run afoul of one. Taking a second to look around is not going to save you from every trick the game can throw your way, but it can save you from at least half of them, and that means a lot fewer respawns at the nearest bonfire.
Hit enemies from above
If you can beat the Asylum Demon, the game’s first boss, you are probably already familiar with this tip. By plunging off of a high surface and hitting the attack button, you can do a devastating downward strike, which deals a ton of damage and staggers enemies. The first two bosses practically require you to employ this strategy, but it’s useful throughout the whole game. Anytime you can get the drop on a foe, hop down and stick something pointy in its general direction. Just be aware that if a foe moves away, you’ll probably take damage from the fall.
Explore thoroughly
Although Dark Souls has a huge, interconnected world, it’s usually pretty good about keeping you within areas appropriate to your level and equipment.
As such, it’s beneficial to explore as much as you can. If you see an enemy that looks way too difficult (a giant skeleton, or a towering knight, or a fire-breathing dragon), that’s probably your cue to turn back. But in every other nook and cranny, you’ll find valuable treasure, helpful shortcuts and pathways into whole new areas. Dark Souls doesn’t give up its secrets easily, but you can find most of them with a sharp eye and a little dedication.
Spend your souls
In Dark Souls, the souls you collect from enemies act as both your experience points and your currency. You may be tempted to hoard these early on for a powerful weapon or a huge level boost, but you should resist this urge. Death comes fast and furiously in this game, and when you die, you lose all the souls you’ve accumulated. You have one chance to retrieve them, but if you die again, they’re gone for good. You’re much better off spending your souls on a single level-up, or a useful piece of equipment, whenever you get the chance.
You’ll be much happier with a modest gain than with losing everything.
Read messages
Other players have made the same mistake that you’re about to make, and they’re here to help you. By using an Orange Guidance Soapstone (buy it from the vendor in Undead Burg; it’s cheap), you can scrawl messages from predetermined lists of words. («Treasure ahead,» «Beware of monster,» and so forth.) Reading these messages will often reveal a deadly trap or cunning ambush before it can harm you. Just be sure to upvote the message if you found it useful; if you do, the player who left it will get his or her health restored instantly. You’d better believe that comes in handy.
Use your Estus flasks
Once you finish the tutorial, you’ll have access to 10 Estus flasks. These healing potions restore a large chunk of your health, and as the game progresses, you can increase their potency, as well as the number of flasks you can carry. New players often feel like they should hoard their Estus for tough encounters, but this is a rookie mistake.
Having your health near its maximum will bail you let you survive bad situations; having a ton of Estus in reserve won’t do you any good if you die. Estus flasks replenish at every bonfire, and there are a few bonfires in almost every area.
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Tips for Beginners in Dark Souls Remastered
A few tips for playing Dark Souls Remastered ( Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition) that will help you quickly grasp the basics of the game and start enjoying defeating opponents.
Character Creation
There are no rigid class limits in the game.
Therefore, by choosing one class, you can transfer to another. At the very beginning of the game, when choosing a class, we first of all choose the initial characteristics and equipment. You should choose a class based on personal preferences or if you already know a further build. The most hardcore players can choose a beggar — he has neither armor nor weapons. If you have little experience in such games, then I recommend taking a knight — this is a melee warrior with good protection to start the game. If you want to play a mage, then take a wizard or a pyromancer because of the presence of spells with several charges. The best initial gift will be a master key. With it, you can get a very good sword and shield, but skip some bosses. nine0005
Weapon
After selecting the war, then select a weapon for it. It requires the character to develop certain skills. You can take a large two-handed weapon. For him, we need strength and endurance. Lighter weapons are faster, require less stamina per hit, but deal less damage.
There are a lot of weapons in the game, in addition to different types of swords, there are halberds, spears, and clubs. Some have additional characteristics, such as bleeding.
Weapons in the game can be upgraded. This is done by blacksmiths and increases damage dealt. nine0005
Weapons in the game have scaling. This means that the weapon has a bonus to damage depending on the pumping of skills: strength, agility, intelligence and faith. The bonus is denoted by the letters: S, A, B, C, D, E. S is the strongest and E is the weakest. Thus, a good weapon should give damage not only from its improvement, but also from the skill you have pumped. If a weapon gives a bonus from dexterity, and you pump strength, then it is not suitable for you. Mages are a little different. Staffs and talismans do not level, while the Pyromancy Gauntlet does. nine0005
Leveling
It follows from the previous paragraph that we need to level up the characteristics, focusing on the choice of weapons.
At the same time, everyone will have to pump endurance.
Endurance. It is essential for all characters. Depends on it: the maximum indicator of the load from the equipment and the maximum indicator of the endurance scale. Stamina is spent on all attacks, blocks and rolls. She is not recovering as quickly as we would like. Therefore, the game has special items that increase the speed of stamina regeneration. Accordingly, the heavier the character’s weapons and armor, the more stamina is needed. nine0005
Health. Thanks to the mechanics of the game, calling the enemy is almost impossible. Therefore, the main tactics will be somersaults, blocks, rebounds, counterattacks and parries. Based on this, there is no need to strongly pump health.
Resistance. Here the situation is like with health, active pumping is not required.
Humanity. Needed to take on human form. Gives increased Physical Defense, Curse Resistance, Fire, Lightning, Magic, and Hidden Object Value. It also allows you to invade other people’s worlds and opens your world to other players.
You can increase the level of the fire. nine0005
Scholarship. This parameter controls the number of slots for spells. Warriors will only need a couple of slots for healing spells, invisibility or silence. But magicians need at least six.
Armor
Armor can be heavy, medium or light. Heavy has better physical damage resistance, but it needs more stamina. Also, heavy armor has an increased balance indicator, which makes it harder to stun the hero.
Locations
The developers have made a big and unique world in the game. There are many hiding places, chests, shortcuts and illusory walls. For novice players, I would recommend to be especially careful near the cliffs. Enemies can easily push you. nine0005
Farm
The most important thing in the game is farm. This way you can get: souls, humanity, titanite and various items. In the early game, the Darkroot Garden is a good place to farm souls. You can also farm in the Depths location.
We leave from the fire and find 6 slugs on the ceiling. We run through the corridor and deal with them. Here you can get a large titanite shard and a green titanite shard. This will allow you to swing up to +10 a pair of swords. On the lower floors, you can farm humanity from rats and the eye of death from basilisks. For 10 of these items, Nito can get a very powerful spell with area damage. For races, you can spend 10 humanity at the campfire here to get an increased chance of dropping things. nine0005
Covenants
These are groupings that give players certain benefits by joining. To join the covenant, you need to find a certain character. They can be changed, and all items received from them will remain in the inventory. For killing a member of your covenant, we get sin. In order to receive forgiveness and remove your name from the book of the guilty (they get there for killing their own), you need to ask for forgiveness in a dialogue with Oswald and pay a certain number of souls.
Many covenants are needed for PvP. Killing Nito and Sif does not worsen relations with the Gravelord’s Servants and Forest Hunters covenants. But the servants of the Gravelord need to get a rank in the covenant before defeating Nito, since after this it is impossible to do so. nine0005
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How to learn how to play Dark Souls (guide) — Mishootka Gamer on DTF
Answers to questions that prevent newcomers from deleting the game in half an hour
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Trust me, Dark Souls is a great game. And yes, at first, everyone is also «roaring» like you
It just so happened that the games from the Japanese studio From Software at first make a repulsive impression on many. Not in the sense that they somehow look bad — no, they look cool.
But they are as unfriendly to the newcomer as it is probably even possible. And no, «froms», hints scattered at the beginning of the game about which buttons to press, do not really help. Because your games have such original mechanics that only those who have already been inspired by Dark Souls or Bloodborne can understand their logic. nine0005
So we decided to write a guide with answers to the most basic questions. We will give exactly the information that is needed at the start so that you do not instantly drop the game. And then, if you get involved, you yourself will begin your journey into the depths of the souls game mechanics — and, believe me, this is a separate pleasure!
So…
Which build to choose
At the beginning of any Dark Souls you will be offered several options for characters. At this stage, don’t overthink it. Just remember that mages in souls are easymode. Therefore, if you do not want to «sweat» on the first playthrough, you can choose a wizard and cast spells on enemies from a more or less safe distance.
By the way, many bosses in DS are extremely vulnerable to ranged builds. However, the magician can also swing a sword, this should not be forgotten. nine0005
Cleric is a good starting class, because in addition to estus (flasks for healing, the number of which is limited on the way from one fire to another), they will also have miracles in stock, which can also be healed. In addition, clerics throw lightning at enemies, and most importantly, they impose powerful buffs on their weapons, which is useful even in the later stages of the game and in battles against other players.
Game content (all) can be completed for any class. So play with the one you like best
Knights are good because they have fairly balanced stats that allow you to survive, and most importantly, good armor already at the start. It will be more difficult to die for such a character. Knights are the easiest to upgrade in strength, and by the end of the game, run around with a giant sword and shield and destroy enemies with high one-time damage, as well as your own «fat».
And yes, Dark Souls is a lot of fun. 🥳
Dodgers. The most difficult build to master, it can be difficult for beginners. Not very survivability, heavy armor in such builds is not used, but rely on the mobility of the character, which allows you to avoid hitting enemies. That is, it will be easier for you to jump away from the boss’s blows, but if you don’t jump away, you will probably die. One of the advantages of the class is the fast recovery of stamina, thanks to which you can land a lot of hits in a short time — with fast weapons, of course. nine0005
How to download character
With pumping, everything is easier than it seems at first glance. You don’t have enough health and you die too quickly — pump up your health. Constantly lacking stamina — swing stamina. If you want to wear more serious and heavy armor — download … here in different parts of the DS everything is a little different. For example, in the third part, you will have to pump physical strength, and in the first part, endurance is responsible for carrying capacity, which also affects the amount of stamina there.
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Strength and dexterity affect the character’s attack power. At first, everything is simple — you like some kind of weapon, see what its requirements for these parameters are, and pump them up to the desired level. Then you will have to decide which build you will go for — strength or dexterity, because different types of weapons are scaled (that is, they increase in damage from pumping some characteristic) from a specific parameter. Although there are those who are equally dependent on both strength and dexterity. So here you can choose which «gun» you need, and increase the parameter that it needs. nine0005
If you can’t go solo, call a friendly phantom that will help you kill the boss. Feel free to do it — next time you will go on your own!
Scholarship is how many times you can use your spells or miracles. Therefore, it is important for magicians and clerics.
Intellect and faith. It is easy to guess that intelligence is important for magicians (increases the power of spells), and for clerics — faith (increases the power of miracles).
Moreover, DS has a large number of weapons that, in addition to strength and agility, can scale heavily from magic or faith. So you can not only hit with strong spells, but also not weakly punish enemies with a blade — of course, if you choose the right one. nine0005
Luck — is responsible for the chance of items falling out of enemies, as well as the likelihood of triggering effects on enemies such as bleeding. You need to download it already when you understand why exactly you need it.
In Dark Souls 2 there is also an Adaptability parameter, which is responsible for resistance and how successfully you will dodge enemy attacks. Needless to say, you need to download this parameter in any situation.
How to upgrade weapons
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Titanite and other stones that fall from some enemies and just lie around in locations are responsible for pumping «guns» in Dark Souls. Everything is simple here — choose a weapon that suits you and pump it exactly as much as there are enough stones.
If you have searched the entire location and there are no more stones, then it’s time to go to the boss and move to another level, where there will be other stones with which you can strengthen your sword further. As a rule, you can only max out a few “guns” in one playthrough, so you shouldn’t spray too much, you need to give preference to something. nine0005
Initially, the choice of «guns» is small. So choose the one with which you can kill ordinary mobs
But there is another type of improvement — hardening (or sharpening). Everything is more complicated here. First, you need to collect special coals as you progress through the game. Then give them to blacksmiths and get the opportunity to give your weapons special properties and change their characteristics. We will not delve into this in detail here — in each part of Dark Souls it works differently. nine0005
But the bottom line is that one hardening reduces the dependence of weapon damage on strength and increases it on dexterity, the other — on the contrary, the third endows it with magical properties, the fourth — bleeding, and so on.
On the first playthrough, the weapon is often upgraded to rough, which increases its base damage but removes skill dependency. However, when the character’s parameters are high, the highest damage can be achieved precisely by increasing the scale level of the «gun» from a specific characteristic.
S, A, B, C, D, E — in this order, from highest to lowest, determines the level of weapon damage depending on any parameter. You can see these letters in the inventory, in the window of the weapon itself. And, if you see that next to the agility icon it says S or A — feel free to spend all the souls acquired by overwork on pumping this very dexterity. nine0005
In the first and second parts of Dark Souls, armor can also be strengthened. And here the same principle applies — do not be greedy, pump at least one set to the maximum, and then start experimenting. In order not to experience difficulties in the later stages of the game. Speaking of armor.
What armor to wear
There are three types of armor in DS — light, medium and heavy.
And, although even within these archetypes there are “heavier” and “less heavy”, in general, everything is quite simple. In heavy armor, stamina is restored more slowly, and the character’s mobility is reduced. In the lungs, on the contrary, you «flutter like a butterfly», but the protection is rather weak. Average, as you might guess — the golden mean. nine0005
It is extremely important to keep your character’s workload below 70%. Otherwise, he will move like a turtle, and no amount of armor will save you from the huge amount of damage that you will «catch» when trying to tank the boss. DO NOT try to tank the bosses. Yes, a good medium or heavy shield will allow you to block some of their attacks (but not all!), but each block costs you a lot of stamina, so you won’t be able to block everything.
If the load is less than 30%, then the character becomes especially nimble. But not so much that a beginner should engage in such adventures. For the first playthrough, loading up to 70% is quite normal.
And then, if you want, you can at least run naked (many do that, yes!). nine0005
Is it obligatory to learn to parry
At first, no, not necessarily. The game runs great without it. For those who are not in the know, let’s explain — parry in Dark Souls, this is when you use a special button to reflect the enemy’s blow with a shield, and it opens up for an attack that will inflict a large amount of damage on it. This must be done at a certain moment, otherwise the parry will not work. In Dark Souls 1 and 2, parry is useful against certain («humanoid») enemies and against other players. In Dark Souls 3, many bosses are parried. But yes, they are great on the riffles. nine0005
Why do we need these red phantoms
Another reason to uninstall Dark Souls in the early hours of the game is red phantoms that invade your world when you least need it.
Passed a difficult section of the map and are happy? Nothing, now another player will burst into you and send you back to the fire.
