Dark Souls Doom Diary - Day 4

Remarkably uneventful day in terms of Dark Souls, since I have been too busy with pesky real-life business to get much done. I've still had a few hours of play, and want to get one or two more before bed so this'll have to be a quick post. Basically, I'm grinding. Kaiden just doesn't seem quite tough enough to handle any of the areas that are available to me right now, so I'm tediously killing a few enemies over and over to level up. There are probably much better grinding spots elsewhere in the game than the one I've chosen, but at this rate I'm going up a level every five minutes or so. I'm also focusing on levelling some weapons, which leads me onto another point I wanted to briefly touch on.

The upgrade system in this game is deep. There is a lot going on, and, in typical Dark Souls fashion, the game won't really tell you much about it, leaving me to figure out what I can by myself, but basically, you collect different shards, which can upgrade your weapons in different ways. Rarer shards will add elemental damage and the like, while the more common ones will simply improve strength. At certain points when levelling your weapon, you can choose which path you want to take with it, for example, I levelled a sword to '+5', at which point I was given the option to continue levelling it all up to '+10', or create a 'Raw' or 'Divine' sword with my rarer shards, giving the weapon different characteristics. I've also collected some souls from a couple of bosses, which are also apparently used to create unique weapons, although how I would go about this remains to be seen. It turns out, playing this game without a guide is pretty darn tricky, but I'll stick to it.

So, apologies for this brief post, to make up for it I'm about to write another little article about Dark Souls that you'll hopefully enjoy or find useful. And then more grinding for as long as I can stay awake.

Kaiden out