Ah yes, the strong state of the moneyless classless stateless society

If there’s nothing missable or I already know I’m going to replay it, I tend to go in blind and look up info as I need it.

Souls games don’t fall into that category, though, so I like to use those progress checklists, which I prefer to the full walkthroughs. There’s just enough info that I don’t miss quests or go to harder areas than I’m ready for, but not so much that I feel like I’m being told how to play. Elden ring has a really good spreadsheet for that, and the other souls games have decent pages on their wikis.

The one thing I use guides heavily for, though, is builds. I’ll usually look up weapon locations and stat reqs in order to plan out a build that leaves me room to experiment with different types of combat through the early/midgame and then specialize when I decide what I want to use long-term

Tarnished gets immediately sidetracked trying to fight the tree sentinel on foot. They spend the rest of the movie respawning and trying again. They never beat it.

Idk that the rules are the right place for it, but i think it might be worth emphasizing somewhere. This comm can occasionally drift a little lib-y and start criticizing tankies for their communist opinions instead of just their authoritarian opinions. As an an-com it can feel a little unwelcoming sometimes

Calling apathetic people shitty is a right, too.

(Also, apathy is a privilege. I wish my personal safety wasn’t on the ballot and I could afford my own high horse)

Yessss. Auriza was the one i was thinking of, but leyndell was also great. I dont think i made it all the way to the mountaintops one, though (I should open the game back up at some point)

Also the ER dungeons are hand-crafted and build on each other, in some cases relying on your familiarity with the tileset. One of my favorite experiences in ER was the dungeon that warped you between two copies of the same map in order to disoriented you.

It’s so strange to me when people complain about the idea of difficulty modes when the game already has tools to adjust the difficulty indirectly. I definitely prefer to fight bosses without summons, but it’s awesome that people who need them get to play the game too.