I am a goddamn liar. I am a liar who cannot be trusted.
Due to some stress in life, between work issues and an ongoing chronic illness making work harder for the past 2 months, I had reached a level of self-loathing where I decided I should go back to Dark Souls and hit up the DLC that I missed. I had skipped the DLC in my first playthrough, as I was just getting frustrated with the zones and wanted to get to the end.
Instead of running a New Game Plus with my Sorcerer, I went for a new game with a new character. I'm rolling a Cleric this time, and took the Master Key as my starting item. I had heard this would allow me to skip Blighttown, and that, my friends, is the best news I could ever hear.
Part of this is to track how different the game is the second time through, and what I remember. Obviously, some fold of my brain is remembering some general map information, and general tactics, but each fight still makes me nervous. I'm not remembering precise enemy placement, but I remember vague things so far, like "oh hey, there's a Black Knight ahead guarding a chest. Wonder how hard this will be"
I've got about an hour and twenty minutes into the new playthrough. Currently, I'm around level 5 or 6, and made a torpedo beeline from the Asylum, to Firelink, and then to the Undead Burg. I had a push almost take me to the Taurus Demon fog door, but, well... See for yourself.
I'm not actively remembering these things, but the repeated runs and deaths of the last playthrough may have lodged these things into my brain, to a point where I can subconsciously call on it. We'll see how it goes, once I get away from the Burg though. I wouldn't be surprised if I started to mix things up from different areas. It'll also be interesting to see what the DLC areas are going to be, and what my strategies will be at that time.
It'd kind of a bummer not playing my Sorcerer, but I had decided a long time ago that if I wanted to play it again, I'd run a Cleric. Here we are, and we shall see how this goes.
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