Turn human, and there's a summon sign for a sorcerer NPC hidden in the bush before you go up the stairs. It's not a difficult boss fight anyway, but you don't even have to attack it once with her along, just block/dodge the attacks, she'll continue casting spells even when the butterfly is in the air.

It's a good idea to summon her for this fight even if you're going to attack the butterfly yourself. Doing so makes her show up again before one of the hardest bosses in the game.

That's the game with the infamous bug in the uninstaller that would remove your Windows folder as well as the game itself.

I used to post there regularly, but I gave up a couple of years ago. Even back then the forums were becoming overwhelmed with crazy people, I'm not surprised that less developers are posting given the frequent personal attacks they were subjected to, or having their words twisted to things they didn't mean.

The La-Mulana remake was made by the original team, Nicalis were only supposed to publish the English Wii version.

Weird to see so many negative sentiments towards the game, I thought it was great (the remake, I haven't played the original). It's true that some of the solutions to progress are needlessly obscure, but otherwise it was really fun to explore and I loved the music and art style, it looks like an early Saturn/Playstation game to me.

They put Lucy's background story in the Lost Archive DLC for Revelations. Unfortunately, you have to play through more of the same nauseating first-person platforming minigame, only much more frustrating than the sequences in the main campaign. I gave up and watched the cutscenes on youtube instead.

I'd advise against doing that until you've been through the new areas added in the PC version/DLC. There's an extra scene you'll miss if you kill him before doing that.

I'm a few hours into Bioshock, and I'm enjoying it more than I expected, since I'm not usually into FPSes unless they're hybrids with RPGs and/or stealth games. So far I haven't had to do a great deal of shooting, I've mostly been using plasmids. I do find it very annoying that they restrict you to only two slots at the start, I keep finding new plasmids before I've had much of a chance to try out the previous ones.

I also replayed Grim Fandango for the first time since 1998, and it was just as great as I remember it being, still the best adventure game. That said, the controls and inventory are pretty awful. It works better with a controller, but moving around is really awkward, and it's cumbersome having to scroll through your inventory one item at a time.

Yes, definitely. Get Oath in Felghana too if you haven't got it already. Despite sharing the same engine and playing very similarly to VI, I thought both of them were a big improvement.

Why is hard to understand that other players have different levels of skill? You're obviously better than average.

I needed all the help I could get for O&S, but that was at least partly due to losing my focus after being invaded repeatedly. Almost every time I turned human in Anor Londo I was invaded and killed outside the fog wall, which was really aggravating.

IW has tiny levels, the loading times were still very long when I played it a few years ago, despite it being several years old. It's not much fun to play when it almost seems like half your time is spent sitting in front of a loading screen. It's probably better now on modern computers but it was barely acceptable at the time. The original had much better level design, and its areas weren't broken up into miniscule pieces.

What's wrong with the PC controls? It uses WASD by default and you can rebind everything anyway.

That's missing the point somewhat, when the plan is to make a game that plays like old PC RPGs.

I'm up to the PtD Edition areas now, these are some great boss fights. The two that I've fought have been very fast and aggressive (little time for Estus chugging here), but by no means cheap and certainly not easy, I died to the second many times. These are hard but fair fights, unlike Four Kings (where it's nearly impossible to judge distance) and Centipede Demon (where the camera is completely broken).

If anyone's playing the PC version with stereo speakers (not 5.1 or 7.1) you'll want to read this for a fix. Stereo is broken, by default you miss out on most of the ambient sound effects, before finding about this workaround I'd been playing the game in near silence thinking that was how it was supposed to be.

Up to Anor Londo now, gradually going through my stock of humanity summoning Solaire every time in a vain attempt to defeat the bosses here. I'm starting to wish I'd put more points into vitality, I only have 18 and my character feels very fragile.

What's up with the lightning weapons in this game? They seem really unbalanced, they came up with this fantastic system where every weapon is a viable option and even has different animations, but then invalidated it all by making lightning vastly more powerful than everything else. Nothing I have even comes close to the Lightning Spear, and it feels like I wasted a ton of souls putting points into dexterity when it doesn't affect damage anymore.