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Hmm I'll have a think on Demon's Souls, honestly there's already so many games I want to play I might just leave it off the list.

I get the Crest Key from a Mimic (I had already tried rolling into that room much earlier but I fell and I guess forgot to go back and try it again >_>) and meet Hawkeye Gough, who seems really cool. The NPCs in this DLC are all great. He allows me to fight the next boss, Black Dragon Kalameet.

Much like the past two bosses, Kalameet takes some time to learn. He hits hard. The breath attacks are very annoying, if you get caught up in one it's pretty much game over. And I guess none of this is dark based magic as the Pendant seems to do nothing. For the first... dozen attempts I have a hard time seeing how I can possibly beat this one given his high health and how quickly you can get killed from some of his moves, but as always I then start learning the patterns.

Rolling is much more useful than blocking here, and unlike Manus or Artorias I have a better time staying right up on this guy. Keeping up close means he stomps his feet around quite a bit, and if I'm on the front right leg when he starts this I'm fine to get in a few hits. By rolling to my left it's easy to avoid some of his attacks at this distance- the breath attack when he's on his hind legs, his double head swing, and the weird one where he pierces you in the air with his glowing red head stone. Honestly that one doesn't do much damage, and whatever the mark means that he puts on you doesn't seem to affect things either.

Still there's a few troublesome attacks, particularly when he quickly leaps towards you with a headbutt or leaps away from you and swings his tail. Those two have difficult dodging windows and don't seem telegraphed much in advance. And if he takes me down to the narrower part of the arena everything gets fucked up as he's not traveling as far with each move and my spacing is all off, so I try to keep him in the open. He likes to create distance between us which makes it easier for me to chug potions, but it still takes me a long time to properly nail this fight. I actually take a break to get something to eat, and when I come back I beat him first try without thinking too hard about it. Props to this DLC for making all the bosses very imposing but learnable, I feel a sense of achievement at beating them rather than just relief.

After all that I get a fancy new ring which I'm excited about, until I check it and see it's just a hard mode ring. What nonsense! But Gough gives me a greatbow, so that'll do. He really is a cool guy. Now I think I'm probably done with the DLC. I may spend a bit of time trying to gather materials so I can get some achievements for maxing weapons before moving on with the main plot, but idk we'll see. If there's anything else I should do before entering the Kiln, this is the day to say! Well, tomorrow would be fine too probs. I hope I can manage to beat the final area after all the kind words you folks have offered about this topic!