Comments on: Demon’s Souls: Phalanx, Give Me My Soul Back!

By: Agnoth

Agnoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:03:30 +0000

Sorry, Hands of God!

By: Agnoth

Agnoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:58:15 +0000

There are Knuckles called Fists of God, a lot of Black Phantoms will try to use them against you since they're pretty darn fast hitting you constantly and not giving you a chance to do anything but maybe try to block.

By: Agnoth

Agnoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:54:53 +0000

The game is NOT difficult at all, it's all about timing and figuring out Enemy and Boss Patterns. You will be punished if you go out swinging like Rambo. lol Also, there's nothing wrong with summoning a couple of Blue Phantoms — that's what they are there for, Help!

By: Agnoth

Agnoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:03:30 +0000

Sorry, Hands of God!

By: Agnoth

Agnoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:58:15 +0000

By: Agnoth

Agnoth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:54:53 +0000

By: malek86

malek86 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:30:25 +0000

I think I saw some knuckles, but I can't say for sure. However, there are Cat Claws.

Personally, I was a Templar Knight. Long and heavy weapon (which is good to keep some distance from your enemies and throw them off balance), and early access to miracles – you'll find that Evacuate will make your soul grinding easier.

By: Mr_Qoo

Mr_Qoo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:02:20 +0000

Thanks for the reply. It was a big help. Honestly, I loved that about Mass Effect how you are sort of stuck in your path. It makes me, in my sick twisted way, create a handful of characters and go through with each one. I'll definitely pick classes I want and go with them. I'm even interested that there are weapons for Melee hand-to-hand combat (e.g. knuckles/fists?). A brawler class would seem interesting to try out in this game. My excitement increases daily for this game.

Haha, I just made a comment towards you in the last Bayonetta post to boot.

By: malek86

malek86 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:37:02 +0000

With how much stats will cost after you hit level 80 or so, there is just no way you're going to have 99 on everything (though you can probably see a few users like that on the leaderboards…). Mind you, there is no way you can even get your stats very high at all without some serious grinding. My level 120 character, which was enough to finish NG+ and then some, had its highest stat at 50, on Vitality. Strength and Endurance at 40 or so. Everything else was on the low 10s or even less. There was no point in wasting my levels on magic.

You can make an hybrid chara if you want, but in this game you are probably better off choosing a path and then sticking to it. Mages might have an easier time against some bosses, while PVPers will usually be fighters. And besides, I think it's more fun to go around meleeing bosses rather than pewing them from a distance. They'll just… die, if you do that, and you'll wonder why everyone says the game is difficult. On the other hand, if you attack them with a melee weapon, you can expect a fun (if hard) fight.

By: Mr_Qoo

Mr_Qoo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:04:12 +0000

Nice. At least I know there's a difference. I may have a save file for one of each. I often like to go all out on Magic stats with one character and Physical stats with another. I know the stat's end up that you can make any “class” do whatever in a sense but is it common? I don't dig hybrid's too much. I hope the classes have a SLIGHT difference even at end game :( Oh well, I'll enjoy either way.

Also, how often is it that someone has all stats at 99?

By: mooncalf

mooncalf — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:24:56 +0000

It's true, though limited. From memory the female only items are a few magic orientated items, and the male only ones are a few fighter type items. If you want to play a female sword swinger or a male pew-pewer do it.

By: Code

Code — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:55:50 +0000

rar, when I noticed the word Phalanx on the front page (and ignoring everything else), I had brief hope that this would lead to news of a new Phalanx game T_T' Oh well.

By: dork

dork — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:49:10 +0000

I don't know..I never bothered using them when I was in Human form…

By: Mr_Qoo

Mr_Qoo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:07:04 +0000

I heard about female-only equippable items. Is this true or rumor-mill at work? Also, to add to the question, can you even choose your gender? Just curious of any of these have effects on the game or are even included. I just haven't seen any mention of it so I'm assuming it was just hearsay.

By: Mr_Qoo

Mr_Qoo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:44:28 +0000

I'm sad I saw The Dark Spire preowned for $7.99 in a store the other day. That's just wrong. I hope Atlus pushes their super elite “Don't Import This Game” bundle. Haha, it actually worked on me.