I beat Dark Souls 2 with the power of friendship

One of my closest friends from home has a place down in the countryside. It’s perched on a cliff edge, so in the mornings you can sit on the balcony, grab a coffee, and stare out to sea. A few of us try our utmost to visit every year in a bid to catch up and let our worries melt away. It’s become tradition.

Each time we head down, we’ll try and tackle a game. Once I brought Dark Souls 2 with me because it’s horrendously difficult, and I’d wanted to plough through it for a while (they had no choice). But fairly early on I just hit this wall. There was this one boss I simply couldn’t beat. No matter how hard I tried, how many hours I spent, how many videos I watched. I just didn’t get ‘it’.