Dark Souls II

[Pete for President]

Double post because I dove into it and played for about 4 hours straight.

So far this game reminds me more of Demon's than it does Dark Souls. Man oh man praise the sun there is some epic scenery around, I do dig. Chose the swordsman to start out with, but switched to a decent shield as soon as I found it. As Trollhunter mentioned dodging definitely has a lot less immunity frames, but I guess that's a good thing as dodging literally straight through a giant enemy weapon always seemed a little... magical.

Beat (SPOILER)Dragonrider before even finding the way into the Forest of the Giants. Beat the Last Giant too, pretty cool that he rips his own arm off. Both of them were fairly easy and I assume these are to lead in any newcomers. I wonder if/what 2 v 1 boss fights we shall be facing...

So far I have one gripe and that is the return of the (SPOILER)Crystal Lizards. By the lords I find that one annoying game mechanic in all Souls games. At least the could've made them easier to hit but I tried slaying the same lizard twice and failed even with a vertical swinging weapon. But hey, I'm nitpicking now!

I'm hyped : ) can't wait to invade/be invaded!

Edit: also props for talking cats!

Edit #2: i love how tense the slow healing effect of the drops are.