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My playtime took a solid hit when the blueray reader of my PS3 stopped working properly. I have borrowed a friend's PS3 while I look to fix the issue. Apparently, you can not download save files when your online storage before 24 hours have passed since you uploaded them. At least this is true for my Dark Souls file. I suppose this would prevent me from escaping eventual punishment by just downloading a file again if I died without recovering, but it's annoying in this particular case.

What I have achieved is more or less finishing Brighttown, which sucked to say the least. I managed to recover every time I died thankfully, but I also died a lot and a good portion of those deaths were because of how terribly the game runs the place. I mean, I would have died anyway probably. Getting past all the guys shooting toxic at me basically cost a death and then being thankful they don't respawn and that they're incredibly easy to kill. No place so far has been harder to cross in itself, regardless of whether you come from the Depths or Valley of Drakes. I've explored both routes to find everything, though skipping the long route probably wouldn't have been a big loss. The moving bridges and the wheels and basically everything that is pseudo platforming is already intended to screw you over, in particular when enemies are present, but the framerate screwed me over so badly in these parts that I basically had to adjust the camera in the best way possible so that I would not have to adjust it it all before standing on a larger platform again. This is a glaring flaw and I really hope the remastered version runs it as intended.

Brighttown doesn't really have many very cool parts to begin with. It was kinda cool to be invaded by an NPC (that I could then summon later), though she was easy to deal with. I don't care to turn human very often, but I really wanted to kindle the bonfire here and the message that I was being invaded came basically right after that. Realizing that a poisonous swamp counts as a place with bad footing was a bless since it allowed me to equip a ring so I could run through it properly.

I made my way to Quelaag's Domain, which was basically a one way route to a boss. I summoned Mildred to help me, which is cool and then the boss destroyed me in seconds. So much for that. This was one of the tougher ones imo, if not the toughest. The one in Undead Asylum was perhaps harder, but it was also just bad and I went there early, I also never got to kill the dragon on the bridge early on so maybe that. This one was fun, just took a while to learn its patterns. I didn't care to become human so I could summon help just to be killed before I learned to deal with it so I didn't before I just managed to win. This allowed me to progress and finally ring the second bell.

I joined a new covenant here, I'm not sure why, it just pops a trophy every time. Then I went down the Demon Ruins, which seems dangerous, but I managed to cheese a boss by accident. It didn't really seem to care I was there, I figured that was because I was so much stronger than it. Then I picked something up, turned out to be a cool set of armor, but this pissed the big thing off a lot. I just tried to run away from it until the white light before realizing I couldn't escape. Then the boss killed by falling to its own death.

This was the last thing I did before the PS3 incident.

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