Fixed:

DS3 added the ability to summon while “hollow” by using the formerly useless Seek Guidance miracle. Brilliant idea, eliminates that choke point for players needing help

You definitely can get through it.

According to interviews with Miyazaki, the game was designed to be obtuse. He wanted to replicate how people my age read Nintendo Power and talked around the lunch table to figure out games. The note system was the in-game method of doing that.

Atlus didn’t have much hope that Americans would do that, though, and sold…