Welcome to the complete guide and walkthrough for one of the hardest games you’re ever likely to encounter – Dark Souls.
You’re in a cell. Walk over to the body that just fell in front of you, and loot it for the key to your cell. Unlock the door and continue down the hallway, following the instructions the hints on the floor give to you.
Climb up the ladder and head through the doorway over to the bonfire (the weird lump with a sword sticking out of it) and rest. The bonfire serves as a respawn point if you die, with the most recent one you have rested at being the one you spawn at.
There’s a large door right past the bonfire. Open it, and then prepare to run, as fast as humanly possible, to the left side of the room a little farther on. There rests a doorway there, which you have to get through ASAP. So, go into the room some distance and your first real foe will drop in on you, the Asylum Demon. Run past him and into the doorway along the left wall to escape.
It’s worth noting that you CAN kill him now, without estus flasks, and without a real weapon. If you do, you’ll receive his giant hammer, which you otherwise can’t get until a NG+, but I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
Whichever you do, you need to go through the door anyway. Once through, continue a small distance and rest at this second bonfire. Then, continue through the doorway ahead and avoid the slew (well, not a slew, really only one) of arrows that will come your way. Move up and grab the shield (little glowy thing on the corpse) in the doorway on the left. Equip this, and move on, this time blocking or dodging the arrows the hollow will be shooting at you. Once you get close enough, he will run away in fear, allowing you to press on just a tad farther and get your weapon. Once you have it, continue around the corner and slay the hollow with your newly-found tools.
Now you’ll notice a strange white mist/fog in the doorway. Generally it will indicate one of two things. Either it’s another part of the area, or it leads to the boss of the area. In this case, you don’t have to worry too much, as there isn’t anything nasty waiting for you. Head on through.
So, you’re on the ledge above the first bonfire. Two directions to choose from – left goes absolutely nowhere. Head right, and more specifically, once you go right, head down the stairs and open the gate to the first bonfire, and rest there once more. When ready, head back through the gate and up the stairs, and then up the second set of stairs, while being very wary of the giant iron ball that will man-handle you if you don’t get out of its way (when it rolls down at you, get back and stay left, it will curve right and miss you.)
Now either kill the hollow that sent the ball at you or don’t, but either way, head into the hole the ball made in the wall behind you, and talk to the dying knight laying on the floor. He will give you two things: your first inkling of a plot, and estus flasks. Use the estus flasks to heal if need be, and remember that if you run low, you can rest at the bonfire to refill them (though all enemies respawn also). He gives you a key also.
When ready, head up the stairs the ball came down and slay the hollow there if you didn’t already, and open the iron gate with the key you just aquired. Head through, and know that around the corner ahead are two hollows with swords, and one with a bow. You can do it. I believe in you. Once they are all dead, you can continue straight forward and fight a hollow who has a shield (a bit tough for a beginner but if you want the experience and/or the challenge), or turn left toward the newest fog wall.
Once you go through this wall, you’ll be back with your old friend the Asylum Demon, and he’s still mad about you running off on him…
Boss Fight: Asylum Demon
Strategy 1 – Difficulty: Easy
If you die in this fight do not worry. As a beginner to the game, it’s to be expected. In fact, if you die rather often throughout the game, you’re running about average.
To begin with, you’re on a balcony over the demon. DO NOT wait up here, or he will knock the whole thing down with you on it. Instead, walk off and once in the air roughly over the demon, press the light attack button to do a plunge attack (these are really easy once you get the hang of it, but it may be hard this first time. Just press the button when you’re in the air, and you’ll nail anything that you land on. It has some fairly respectable range too, so don’t worry about being directly overhead.) This should take out a nice chunk of his health to begin with.
Now the real fight begins. He has a number of attacks, and while these can for the most part be blocked with a shield, dodging is recommended. Anyway, most of his attacks consist of swinging his massive hammer at you, sometimes an overhead swing, and sometimes a swipe. Both are easy to avoid. In the case of an overhead swing roll to either side, and for a swipe roll to the left. His swipe has a really long curve to the right, so rolling right will not take you far enough to avoid it.
He will also occasionally fly up into the air and drop again. When he starts to move up, just back away and then move in once he’s back on the ground.
For the most part, this is simple. Try to stay behind him, preferably near his right shoulder, and hack away (when prudent). He should fall fairly quickly, getting you the key to the large door in this room.
Once he falls, open the door and make your escape. Note that there is a small path to the left a bit farther up on the main trail that will switchback down to some treasure. But once you’re ready, go to the end of the trail, and you will be taken by mysterious means to the new area, thus ending this easy (when compared to the rest of the game), first section.
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