May 30, 2023
Knight Artorias continues to be one of my absolute favorite boss fights
"victim of the Abyss" is the sexiest description one can read on a soul in this entire game by far
decided midway through fighting him that I wanted to go for a no-healing kill, mostly to prolong the experience and see if I could, and: success!! I can and did!
#dork souls tag#James liveblogs video games#yes this is what I've been doing lately instead of socmed#like listen. normal Artorias? sure; he's fine I guess. not really that interesting personally#but on the other hand: corrupted/screaming/broken arm/dripping Abyss sludge and trying to impale me!Artorias? yes. yes please.#I am but a simple human; I merely like to see a knight of the gods struggle and suffer and be metaphysically consumed by darkness :)#......ANyways.#I remember also liking the Kalameet fight mechanically quite a bit too#but the problem with him is. he reminds me of a cat. and also he's really done nothing wrong in-game; he's just chilling#and he's like the last real dragon#it simply seems sad/rude/unprovoked to go injuring his wing and then murdering him like that :(#there's something that's... really striking and stuck in my brain about the fact that one of if not the best way to learn about the world#about the PEOPLE in the world#is mechanically via murdering them#the inherent fact of curiosity and violence being linked together in playing#you want to understand this person better? the way to do it is to extinguish their life and take their signifiers into you#.... why do I feel like this game is going to join Star Wars and Tolkien as one of my cyclical dormant Obsessions#that I lose my shit over anew every several years even if it's been a while in between#I mean. people will simply have to deal.
