Illusorywall

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My most recent Demon’s Souls Dissected from earlier this month. I take a closer look at the awkward sixaxis motion inputs and why some of them were more difficult to perform than others.

And now that there’s finally a couple episodes in this series, here’s a link to the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH-cMCF0_NrZ7nVu0fYcJ5R-xzbnd8yjY

I’ve gotten a bit slow at posting here on tumblr, so if you aren’t already following me on twitter or youtube, be sure to head on over since most of my Souls content gets posted there first.

Here is last month’s Dark Souls Dissected, a deep dive into the layout of Dark Souls and the spatial relationship between different areas:

I’m launching a brand new video series about the obtuse and arcane mechanics of Dark Souls 1. Hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNysXeQrNzo

One of the cool passive online features in Dark Souls 1 was that the bell atop the Undead Parish Church would ring for other players online, when someone else rings it in their own game.

For whatever reason, this was never included for the 2nd bell in Quelaag’s Domain until now. 

(a screenshot from PtDE, where this does not work)

I was excited to see this in a live stream by Miltrivd, which can be seen here. I was confident this was new because I’ve done testing specifically on this 2nd bell before in debug, to confirm it didn’t have the effect. But we have additional confirmation from HotPocketRemix, who had this to say:

I will also confirm this based on what I'm seeing in the event scripts. There's a new event which is essentially an exact copy of the Undead Parish Bell multiplayer event. They even copied the name of the event (it's still in Japanese, while new events have English names, generally).

It’s that time of year again!

Return to Yharnam is a massive, annual community event that begins this year on March 10th, with a suggested end date of March 24th. It’s meant to be a coordinated time for fans to return to the game at the same time, to surge it with simultaneous online activity. This year, Bloodborne also happens to be March’s free download on PS+, meaning there will be lots of newcomers to interact with!

Suggestions for what to do and how to play in Return to Yharnam:

Create a new character and play through the game

Engage in as much co-op along the way as possible

Optional: Try to defeat at least two players in each area in PvP before defeating the boss and moving on. This will help spawn Bell Maidens in areas they're not usually in, bringing PvP to less-common locations.

Leave a message that says "you're in the know, right?" by as many lamps as possible (but especially by the Central Yharnam lamp). Keep an eye out for any that you find and give them all a fine rating!

This event is not specific to any online community and is meant to reach as many Bloodborne fans as possible. Help spread the word anywhere you can think of!

I tweeted about it here:

https://twitter.com/illusorywall/status/970001164807876608

Reddit topic here: