The Epic Store’s security problem is that it snoops on local disk for all your Steam information, even if you have it set to private (this, for reference, is localconfig.vdf), then copies it over to another file in the Epic Store folder. TES official response is that this other local file is only accessed when you…

Man, shut up. 

The vast majority of people I’ve discussed the Epic Store with won’t use it because of how it roots around in your registries for shit it absolutely doesn’t have permission to access, then copies it over to a private file. Sweeney says it’s related to copying over friendslists from Steam, but it does it on initial…

Spyware and deeply suspicious programming, essentially. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/epic-says-its-game-store-is-not-spying-on-you/

There are people who beat Souls with rhythm guitars and drum sets and keyboards and DDR pads. There are ways around the controller, if you’re truly interested. Dayton “Wheels” Jones was one of the top Killer Instinct players in the world, and he had SMA type 2 (spinal muscular atrophy); he needed a special pad mount…

If you beat the respective final boss for an ending (they’re all different and very distinct), you immediately get the cinematic and get tossed into NG+. This mainly matters because the bad ending comes much earlier than the others, and you can screw yourself out of a solid amount of the game and get kicked back to…

Immensely. I’m on NG+, and I’ve beaten the Estate and up to Ashina Elite without dying so far. My first time through I had 60+ deaths by this point.

Multiple reply posts to describe different areas, sorry. If you go deeper in the Outskirts instead, you hit Gyobu. His horse can be scared with firecrackers, which you can buy from a Memorial Mob just past the Gate Path Idol; it’s in the plateau in the center, and you have to jump from the ruined building with a…

Madam Butterfly is after him in the Estate. You have to pressure her hard: her only unblockable in close range is her sweep, so if you see the red symbol in melee, that’s what’s coming. If she tries to jump onto wires, hit her with shuriken to make her drop and get free hits. As a rule, hit twice, then deflect her…

Yeah, the early game is by far the roughest part in my experience, because you’re not accustomed to the brutality yet. What boss in particular?

You can do it with certain minibosses, but not full bosses, which have permanent aggro on you while in the boss room.

Blocking in neutral restores your Posture, and the Ichimonji Double technique restores about 40% of your Posture for both of its two hits (blocked or not), which means so long as you have a moment to breathe, Posture wars are usually how endgame bosses go down. 

No, you cannot tank. Your health total is directly tied to bead drops, and even if you max out what it really means is that you don’t instantly die when the next boss hits you. You are always lucky to survive two hits. 

You can hold block to restore Posture at a quicker rate, which is something you should be doing between boss attack sequences if you’re not healing. Also, the Ichimonji attack skill restores your own Posture whenever you land a hit (blocked or not), can hit twice, and really lets you win these Posture wars a lot…

It’s more like, efficient whittling often tears down their posture anyways, and when you get it down to half is when it really starts to boil over. Staying in and deflecting everything is definitely the fastest route but I wouldn’t recommend it for your first playthrough.

Otogi’s much more floaty and dreamlike. This game’s all about ramming your sword through everyone’s throat; the combat’s much more grounded and vicious.

One Breath of Life you get on your basic skill tree, and the other drops from the boss you fight that officially transitions the game into its middle phase.

Regular enemies are largely dealt with by stealth. Minibosses you can often cheat half their health off with a good assassination, but full bosses are just straight up fights in which you are tremendously outgunned and have to peck them to death. There are no stats aside from “turn in boss drops for more health /…

It’s harder than just about any comparable Souls game at the opening, and the Dragonrot mechanic really feels unfair at the moment because of the finite number of times you can reverse it. I’d give it a week and see what everyone gets out of it first before you buy; once strategies and optimum routes start popping up…

There are legitimately few things that Wayne doesn’t have a talent for.