The first Dark souls

Dark Souls 3 was my first Souls game. I knew nothing about the series and bought it from a gut feeling after watching a trailer on TV with nice background music.

Little did I know I was about to enter a world of despair and adrenaline.

The first boss of Dark Souls 3 absolutely crushed me. To this day, I remember beating it as a transcendent experience. It was hard, brutally punishing, yet extremely satisfying to see improvement in my own understanding of the game mechanics and skills.

It started healing my relationship with video games as an adult, which had been broken for a long time.

Today, I started Dark Souls 1. I had only ever watched videos about it.

I expect to be destroyed by the first boss too, a mix of excitement and fear.

Well, I killed it on the first try without effort.

I’m far from being a great Souls player. I’m too greedy in hitting, I panic roll all the time, but it seems like I got some of the basics right at this point.

This made me realize, hmm, this seems less punishing than I expected. There’s a good amount of flasks at the start, and it’s easy to parry enemies. That’s actually a great starting point for the genre!

I might actually start suggesting to begin with this rather than Elden Ring.

Now, back to Lordran!