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So after a couple trial runs of Dark Souls a few years ago, first stopping somewhere in the Undead Burg, and later stopping again on the road to Blighttown, I'm finally going through the game properly and am determined to beat it.

There have been a few epic moments in my run so far. Getting murdered by Quelaag even with the NPC helping, then beating her solo as a hollow. Killing the Iron Golem right before he was about to murder me as I had barely any health when I started to swing. Getting lost in Darkroot Garden and ending up finding and fighting Sif by accident (watching him loom over me initially was fucking awesome). But nothing beats what happened earlier this evening.

I was painfully making my way through Anor Londo. Clearing out rooms, finding a few shortcuts, getting in fights with 100 silver knights. I knew there was a boss here eventually, as there normally is in an area such as this. Finally opened up everything, ran up into the cathedral, avoided the big sentinel knight guy, and went through the fog gate. Cinematic was pretty cool, as most of them are, showing the ginormous guy with a hammer, and then what looked like a dragoon jumping down to join him. 2 on 1, wonderful. But just before the battle started, I saw the names.

Ornstein and Smough.

I'm no crazy Souls veteran, at least not yet, but I had heard the names of these two, and knew that the fight against them was basically the epitome of Dark Souls itself.

......I died in 12 seconds lol.

Later, I killed Ornstein, and was about to turn my attention to Smough when I got a cinematic of him crushing Ornstein's skull to somehow get crazy lightning power. I was shortly obliterated by his AOE lightning butt stomp. Couple tries later, I had him down to two hits left, hit him once, but he had jumped into his butt swing before I could land the second swing. I died, and was sooooo enraged.

On try number 7 or 8, I played ring around the rosie with Thor.........I mean Smough, so his shovel attack would get stopped, as I always had a stupidly hard time dodging it. Got my hits in where I could, and stalked around him as he stalked around me. Then I finally killed him. I don't remember the last time I felt THAT good after killing a video game boss, but man was it satisfying. Oh, and now I can warp between bonfires!

That got more lengthy than I thought it would. tldr: Ornstein and Smough was an absolutely awesome fight, with epic music. Never really felt unfair, just had to know their tactics, and adapt throughout the fight. Heart is still beating relatively quickly, and now I'm listening to their theme while I browse, just for the sheer epicness of it!

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