re: Dark Souls (Remastered) Thread for replay discussion and first timers

during this replay that I started the thread for, I decided to make a run at Platinum. Of course, I made this decision after finishing the Gwyn fight in NG and certainly missed some things that I normally would have tried to get in a NG run. That's ok. Took copious notes of what I had left to get and what items/materials I needed in order to get them.

Just finished NG+ last night. In NG, Gwyn was ridiculously easy and I didn't do the parry method. Just dodged and whacked him with my Black Knight Axe +5. In NG+ I couldn't get it done so finally started practing my parries in each run up through the 5 black knights. Took me a couple of hours to be able to string together 5 good parries in a Gwyn fight, but I managed to do it.

I never bothered collecting sun medals or souvenirs of reprisal so NG++ will be focused on those. I think 3 of my last 4 trophies needed can be accomplished by farming those items, plus I need to get the Sif Soul again for the third weapon.

Everything about NG+ was much easier than NG except for Gwyn. NG++ is going even better and feels like one of those Joshjrn runs where I can finish the game in just a few hours if I didn't have to worry about getting these damned items.