Dark Souls Is Best When You're Breaking It

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I’m not getting into difficulty discourse because I don’t want to get caught up in a hellstorm of online bullshit, but Dark Souls is fun when you’re absurdly broken and powerful, steamrolling the bosses, and one-shotting the Gargoyles. Get fucked you axe-wielding stone pieces of shit. I’m gonna ring that bell and I’m gonna do it in style and when I’m done ringing that bell in style, I’m gonna go slap Nito around like he’s a wet fish on dry land.

My first playthrough of Dark Souls was blood, sweat, and tears. I got myself a Drake Sword like the sweaty scrub I am, went right to the Depths, and learned real quick what being cursed is. As if the Gaping Dragon wasn’t annoying as is, now I have half my health bar? And then Blighttown?! Miyazaki you bloody sadist. But I persevered, beat the game, beat the game again, beat it again, and each time I learned something - I learned how to break Dark Souls more and more. Now I can get through it in only four bosses. Take that, Miyazaki.

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Learning how to break a game is the best way to get intimate with it. I feel so close to Dark Souls because I know it better than I know myself. You can go to Andre the Blacksmith, glitch the camera, and walk right through Sen’s pearly gates without so much as touching a boss. And away we go to the big Iron Golem, pumpkin and all. Then we’re at Anor Londo, fighting Ornstein and Smough with a toothpick and a gritty can-do attitude. I’m screwed, but I got here early. With Dick and Dom down, I can place the Lordvessel and load glitch through the door to Gwyn and voila, I’ve beaten the game in four bosses. Who needs the lord souls and all that other crap? Not this guy.

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