Pyros
<Silver Donator>
Yeah NG+ is just very poorly balanced I think, even the late areas looked about as hard as normal more or less, maybe a bit harder but since you get so many runes just fucking around you're like lvl 200 so it's easy to not even care. But pretty much all the early game isn't boosted enough so everything dies way too fast.Yeah, my PS5 NG+ run is also boring AF and I keep wanting to get back to the PS4 Samurai run instead just to have things be a challenge again / feel like there's a reason to explore.
All I have left are like two trophies and I'll get those pretty soon and finish off NG+. Then it's onward to platinuming the PS4 version with bleed and frost Uchis.
All of this ER has made me want to replay Demon's Souls Remastered so I think I'll do that after all this. Already platinumed it (on both PS3 and PS5) but whatever, I think I'll be able to appreciate it even more now.
The dagger/no summon/no zone skip run is fun though, have to actually learn boss patterns and stuff, especially with daggers being stuff you can't really bruteforce with. Bosses that can't be statused are a big pita though, at this point I'm mostly planning on working around gargoyle duo cause I don't really see a good way to beat these with this build, daggers do shit dmg, it's really annoying to even hit the gargoyles in the first place(short reach and they keep moving back and forth with their attacks) and once you have 2 at the same time it's going to be stupid shit. 1vs1 it's not that bad I killed a couple but yeah I'm probably just gonna jump down the depths from the leyndell sewers instead, although this has Mhog with status immune at the end so first I'm preparing some stuff(probably will finish millicent quest to get more dmg so it's somewhat far off).