Progress report.
Having found the key I went to Upper Cathedral Ward. This place.
Slug things. Had a proper
jump scare even though I knew something was going to happen.
The bit with the chandelier was cool.
But also a bit dicky. Having 3 wolves to fight at once in such a small place meant I had little choice but death. Even less choice when the camera couldnt deal with anything.
It also meant that when I got back here the trap had been sprung so now I could just take them out one at a time. Such troll design.
I then conducted a
structural survey. The atmosphere here is so thick. The constant sound of creatures slowly fapping. Anyway. I opened everything and found the real mushroom kingdom.
I killed the Celestial Emissions first time.
It wasn't that hard a fight. Nice that it was different. TBH I didn't really get the first part. I guess he was hiding as one of them and you just had to keep doing damage until he biggified himself. Bit of crowd control. Then he turned his back on me, oddly, so I killed him. Then I smashed a window, landed on a slug.
I then found the Alter of Despair......
Amazing room. Amazing creature design. I was quite happy to let it just sit there.
But obviously I had to hit it. I would have just hugged it if I could.
So I hit it in the arse. Turned out the arse was the face! And it was a girl! My first attempt lasted about as long as I suspect I will should I ever get to thrust my sword a female. I tried to parry an attack and was stun locked and combo killed one hit kill style.
I tried to do this again the next time and it killed me again. So I decided against this tactic. I've still no idea how you know when you cant parry something. The fight lasted longer though. I learned that the charge attack she does is cheap bollocks with hardly any warning and does massive damage and is almost impossible to dodge.
So wide. Many damage. Much cheap. The head was clearly the weakness but most of the time was out of reach. I also worked out that using the lock on revealed the true boss of the game. The camera.
Predictably shite. Oh and to top it off it does frenzy stuff to. One tap of a projectile and it built all the way up and bam. Its not like maybe the projectile itself couldn't have been enough?
So I decided to not lock and go manual.
Whilst this improved things it was still often a mess of nearly Bob/Amygaga proportions. Just so hard to actually see anything. Wide attacks coming from off screen. The whole creature filling the screen blocking everything.
Then getting caught on a limb as it turns around. I was trying to roll around the sides and back. Chip away and get the head when it was low. Just hoping to not get charged at. She got "stuck" on a wall which made one go much harder. I had no way of working around her. I died.
Trying to dodge attacks that had "2 limbs" was rather annoying. If I knew an attack was coming and rolled I might dodge one but sometimes the second right behind it would clobber me. Eventually I got the health down and she began to shimmer. I dont know what this meant. But she did get more aggressive. Is this what an alien god period is like? After not being able to see anything besides her fabulous screen filling figure I was knocked aside. Unable to do anything I was then grabbed and eaten. I'm sure even if all the bites didn't kill me the frenzy would have.
Still. Finally I've been eaten by a lady. AND WHAT A LADY.
Next attempt.
I rolled inside her. Can I now say I've been inside a woman? I had just 18 vials left. So time for one more glorious attempt!
She spammed the charge attack. Then went hyper aggressive with the swinging. As my corpse lay on the ground she fired blue things at me. As if to say....... I love you. No, wait. That not it. As if to say strawberry float you noob. So off I went to farm for the strawberry float knows now how many times.
Then killed the bitch of the cosmos on my first go back. I didn't really do anything different except this time I seemed to get an extra stunned moment and did a visceral attack and this let me get lots of good attacks in. I'd say it was luck. Anyway. The alter said I could nothing. I did nothing. Nothing happened.
I went to Mensis. But its too late to write about that now.