Dark Souls

[Pete for President]

i'm in anor londo now. pretty gorgeous. i'm sl 48, with 40 in endurance, and it's taking me a rather long time to finish off the bloody handed things and the sentinels, so i think i should fly myself back to the fortress and backtrack through a few places i haven't been in order to upgrade my crap

You really want to go through Sen's again? Thou brave soul! Did you unlock the shortcut using the cage key?

If anything I'd say push on if the Lightning Spear gotten from Sen's mimic is in your inventory. The high HP Sentinels are obviously meant to be hard to kill so don't worry. And finally let's just say there are several things/places found in Anor Londo that will make your backtrack obsolete.

anyway demon's souls was great
but dark souls is built way better. the connectivity and the entire engine, wherein you dont have to deal with load screens, is just the best thing. i can't wrap my head around how they program this sort of thing. i guess the unreal engine does it too, but they used havok: didn't know havok could do this.

Agreed. I liked the Nexus as a home-location but the connected world of Dark Souls is so much more immersive. It really feels like an uninterrupted journey to the far corners of Lordran.