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Furry Weeaboo Nazi Nihilist
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No idea. But you don't need a lot even for heavy hits. 50 shrugs off two handers. A wolf ring would easily do the trick.
I fail at Capra Demon. Yeah, I know the basic strategy but it doesn't stop me from getting stunlocked right at the door 75% of the time.
Unless you have enough poise to shrug off the dogs I don't think anyone has a 100% foolproof way to get through Capra the first time you are supposed to meet him.
Anyone know exactly how much poise that is by the way?
To be fair the first dark knight you meet gave me way more problems and made me terrfied from meeting any boss like creatures.
The Onion Knight and Solaire can keep their shit together if you play your cards right.
You have the perfect mind for this game. You must play these games as well:
Nier, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Demon's Souls, Thief, System Shock 2, Scratches - whichever you haven't played.
The Onion Knight and Solaire can keep their shit together if you play your cards right.
The Onion Knight and Solaire can keep their shit together if you play your cards right.
Yeah, but that requires quite a bit of metagaming. I think doing so successfully would be rare on an unspoiled first playthrough. Incidentally, IMHO both Solaire and Onion bro are really terrific examples of quests where "failure" is as rewarding narratively (and, in the case of Solaire, gameplay wise) as success.
You have the perfect mind for this game. You must play these games as well:
Nier, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Demon's Souls, Thief, System Shock 2, Scratches - whichever you haven't played.
All of those games are very solid (I haven't heard of Scratches, but if that's the company it keeps, its definitely going on my list). I do want to single out Nier, though; in spite of the somewhat unremarkable combat, I thought Nier was an underrated masterpiece (as opposed to the other games which were appropriately-rated masterpieces.). If you play it, definitely try and get all four endings. Totally worth it!
The Onion Knight and Solaire can keep their shit together if you play your cards right.Actually, neither of those guys get what you would call a happy ending, they actually have the worst fates in the game.
Solaire downward spirals into depression and either hollows and gets possessed by the demon bug, forcing you to kill him after he's been made to believe he's finally found his sun. Or helps you kill Gwyn, and after returning to his own world rekindles the flame and burns alive for a few thousand years as its sacrifice, again thinking he found his own sun (confirmed by devs).
As for Onion, he actually gets more depressed the more you help him. It causes him to lose his self-worth as a warrior, leading him to try and sacrifice himself for you by fighting the chaos monsters in the Demon Ruins, for no other reason than to regain his worth as a warrior. Only you can save him there too, making him feel even more weak and useless. He journeys to Ash Lake to fight the hydra in one last attempt to prove himself, only to go hollow and force his own daughter to kill him. His only "good" ending is to die a warrior's death against the chaos monsters.
If only there was a pc version.Nier is nothing short of a masterpiece, despite its combat.
Accidentally killed an NPC? He/She'll be gone for GOOD. Saved an NPC? Someone else may die. Didn't do anything? Someone may got killed.
I beat capra the first time by accident, I discovered after around 15 minutes of dodge rolling that if you stood on a particular spot on the balcony and got him to lunge you could get him to fall. I ran with an estoc no armor and a black knight shield for my first play through because I hated moving at anything slower than the fastest speed.Yeah, Capra is basically a black knight that trades blocking for the big lunging attack, which is easily avoidable and therefore makes defeating him alone almost effortless. It's the combination of confined area + wide ranging attacks + 2 dogs that are fast, quick to strike and hard to hit.
One could say that he's there to teach a specific lesson to the player. While the earlier bosses could be dodged around as a shieldless naked character and easily humiliated by falling attacks, sometimes bosses demand a more tanky approach with a good armor and shield.
To be fair the first dark knight you meet gave me way more problems and made me terrfied from meeting any boss like creatures.
Funny story. The first black knight I encountered after taking the "shortcut" jump down to the blue tearstone ring (which I thought was a cleverly hidden secret area, lol). I wonder if that's an intentional trap for "clever" players, because you land right in front of him and there is no where to run.