Amazingly lazy vacation week PLUS...I BEAT DARK SOULS!!!

My vacation week is about to come to an end, sadly. But I really couldn't have asked for a more lazy, bum worthy vacation. It was definitely a "crusty week", as blogger buddy Random J like to call it. I haven't done a damn thing but lounge and play video games. Since I'm always behind on my games and books, I figured this week would be a good time to try and beat Dark Souls. I didn't actually expect to spend the entire week trying to finish it but that's just how this game rolls.

After 86 hours and some change, I finally conquered Dark Souls! Par the course, the game made me rage at the very end. I made it all the way through only to continuously get owned by the final boss, over and over again. There's one big trick that should have made this boss a piece of cake. You can actually parry him! If you can pull if off right, the boss is kind of a joke. But me? I like to make things difficult. I had no trouble parrying all of the knights on the way there but couldn't cut it against the boss. So, I leveled my shield all the way up, changed weapons, changed armor, and got a completely different strategy. I beat him first try doing it the new way. Who knew?! As always, big sense of satisfaction. There wasn't much of an ending but I really wasn't expecting one. This isn't one of those games that gets a huge send off with a 30 minute cutscene.

So, now that I have Dark Souls out of the way, I can catch up on some reading. I'm currently making my way through The Hobbit because the movie trailer got me so excited. I still have several more to read after that, so it seems that gaming is going to take a back seat for a bit. Until, of course, games like Kingdom of Amular: Reckoning and Mass Effect 3 come out.