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I had my first encounter with an invading Black Phantom player last night. We battled back and forth all over the early part of 1-1 for like 15 minutes, then I trapped him in a corner and kicked his ass. I usually don't taunt the screen and cheer loudly when I win in a game, but I do with this one.
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I beat Demon's Souls. Oh god, what a ride.
Ended the game at Soul Level 79 on my Thief on what could possibly be the most retarded character builds which resulted in the game probably being much harder than it should have been. I actually somehow beat the game with 10 Vitality/Faith/Magic, 42 Dexterity, 22 Strength, and 30-some odd Endurance. My character was basically some retard who was wearing the Gloom helmet/gloves, and the chest/legs of Black Cloth in order to still be nimble, holding a Huge Purple Shield and a Moon-Wing Spear, and basically getting one shotted by almost everything imaginable.
The problem arised when somewhere around the half-way point, I came to the sudden realization that the game just now decided to render my Thief's Daggers really useless. Most enemies in the latter half of the game just cannot be Back-stabbed or Riposted, which results in a lot of really crazy tense fights where I cannot get hit even once. That's when I decided to change my career, and decided to become an Archer. Oh god, that didn't work out so well either. The lack of a powerful bow, had no idea where to get better arrows, and couldn't even afford better arrows left me feeling really lost. But I still somehow managed to push on with my puny Daggers and my Bow & Arrow. Then I decided again to have another career change, and started leveling my strength and endurance and become a Spear-user. So I was out of Sharpstones and wanted upgrade one of my spears to an awesome Moon-Winged Spear, but then remembered I killed the Filthy Man in order to get Mephistoles and to get my Parrying Dagger......
On top of that I was trying so hard to go for some Black Phantom kills with my Dagger/Parry Dagger combo, but in the end when your opponent has auto-lock on it becomes pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to backstab them... and when it comes to Parrying, it also is nearly impossible just due to the Latency issues.
I was about ready to quit and reroll by this point, but I continued onwards. I still somehow managed to beat the game though! Hard-work and perseverance I guess, (That and abusing Bow & Arrow with Faulty AI pathing) but man did I feel satisfied at the end of that run. I don't think I've felt that satisfied in a game in a looooong time... and I think only a game like Demon's Souls could accomplish that.
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