Finished up Stormveil Castle tonight. For the most part, it wasn't too tough. There are a couple of knight enemies that hit pretty damn hard and are fast as hell, but the bulk of the enemies are weaker types and only dangerous when they get the drop on you or you let yourself get outnumbered.
The toughest part was near the end when you have to fight your way through over a dozen enemies to get to the second-to-last grace site before the Godrick fight. By the time I'd gotten to the last enemy, a big fucker who was surprisingly quick on his feet, I was out of mana and didn't have any charges left in my health flask, so trying to face off against him in a melee battle was almost sure to end in my death.
I hid for a bit until his aggro went away and crafted some fire pots, and then proceeded to bait him in, hit him with a couple of pots, crafted more, and repeated the process until he was dead. I ran into one more regular enemy who got the drop on me and got me down to a small chunk of health, but I survived. Right around the corner was that second-to-last grace site. That was a harrowing fight, especially with that last guy when one more hit would have had me doing the whole segment over, and probably rage-quitting for an hour or two.
Instead, I made it to Godrick. I accidentally forgot to summon the chick to help fight him because I just was on autopilot, but it didn't end up mattering. After Margit, Godrick seemed like a bit of a pushover. It might be because I've invested a few more points into my health, but I can survive a lot of shots that would have been one hit kills before, and that's made big fights a lot easier. Tank one hit, run away, heal up, and keep chipping away at the health bar.
The part where he grafts the dragon head onto his hand was awesome, and made for a fun second half of the fight where I was constantly dodging fire attacks. I'd just killed the dragon in the lake near where the game starts earlier today, so that made it a little easier.
After the fight, I eventually tracked down the place to activate the rune that Godrick dropped, but goddamn it was a fight to get there. I nope'd the fuck out of fighting that lion enemy, but the fight just to get to him was crazy. I just ran past the lion and found another site of grace to heal up at.
I figured by then I might be out of the woods, but nope. Three giant sentinel robot things popped up to fuck up my day. I figured out that the giant archer was hitting the other two, so then it was just a matter of keeping my distance (those jerks have some insane range on their attacks) and lining up the guy's shot so he hit his friends and getting in attacks when I got a window. Once the melee guys were both down, the archer was easy mode. That fight was tough, though, and a lot of fun.
Onward to the lakes. Tomorrow.
Loving this game. The sheer amount of enemy designs is incredible, and I've only seen a fraction of what the game has to offer so far.
