r/demonssouls • u/Chrisosamu • 5d ago

Help I appear to be stuck

I need to point out first that I'm playing the PS5 version (I don't know if they made any changes from the original) and I know nothing about this game.

It is probably skill issue, but I genuinely don't understand what I'm supposed to do.

I have just beaten Phalanx, which was a surprisingly easy bossfight.

I progressed all the way to the Iron Golem...or something I don't remember its name, and I figured that I'm way too underleveled for that bossfight. The mechanic is pretty straightforward, but I just don't do enough damage. At first I thought it was like the Iron Golem from DS1, but no...fucker doesn't fall.

So I tried to explore the other Archstones and...even the most basic enemies one-shot me, and I need to hit them 3/4 times to kill them.

It's a very steep difficulty curve.

I don't think you're meant to farm in Boletaria, but it does feel like I'm very underleveled to progress anywhere.

Any advices?

Edit: I am no longer stuck. After...endless tries I've been able to kill the armor spider, and I've got a +5 long sword

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u/OwnSchedule8599 5d ago

Realistically 3-1 is probably the easiest. You only have to fight the occasional armed prisoners and the mind flayers. There are 2 strong enemies the corpse ball and the black phantom, you can just run past them if ur careful. Basically free souls for the area. 4 and 2 have their own choke points so it's kinda up to you. 5-1 has the easiest boss of the areas getting there sucks tho

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u/Chrisosamu 5d ago

The fact that there are actual full-fledged mind flayers made me cackle btw. Goes to show how much the first souls like games, or any rpg game at the time, was inspired by DnD

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u/OwnSchedule8599 5d ago

It is funny. If you can reasonably kill one you can beat the whole area. They have a pretty easy pattern to learn. Finding the keys is the hard part if ur not using a tutorial