Six-Year-Old & Father Play Dark Souls 3 — Part 6 (Old Demon King, Pontiff Sulyvhan)
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 28/08/2021

Having fought our way into Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, Evangeline, aka T1StoneforgeMystic, continue our two-player, one-controller journey through the Dark Souls series.

Of all of the bosses in this run, I was sure that one of these two would do us in and break our streak of not dying to a boss. After all, while Old Demon King is a joke to ranged characters, he can have some jank that can cheese melee characters, most of it having to do with his lava or twice-hitting hitboxes. Of course, the poison was supposed to give us reprieve so that we could move to range eventually, but we never were able to proc it.

More serious by far was Pontiff Sulyvahn, keeper of Aldrich, conqueror of Anor Londo, usurper of the gods, and master of the six-hit combo. Oh, and he also has a JoJo stand, but it's the kind that doesn't transfer damage to its user, like Iggy's "The Fool". Given that he was initially supposed to be the final boss of the game, his moveset and aggression make good sense. Fortunately for us, he is parryable. Unfortunately for us, parries in Dark Souls 3 do not come out instantly, as opposed to their counterparts in Dark Souls 1. As such, one mistimed parry on my part could spell our end.

Otherwise, we spend our time setting up and resolving the questlines of two NPCs and their acquantences: Greirat the Thief with Unbreakable Patches and Sirris of the Sunless Realms, and Creighton the Wanderer. 

On that note, regarding my bragging that Evangeline and I have not died to a boss yet, I will clarify that I am not counting minibosses, but only enemies with a boss's healthbar at the bottom of the screen. This means that Chaos Demon would have broken our streak… back in the Undead Settlement. However, counting minibosses creates the issues of what counts as a miniboss. Non-respawning enemies? Other NPCs? Invaders? Using an objective measure like having a healthbar and boss name on the screen gives us something on which we can all agree, at least.

As with our previous playthroughs of DS1 and DS2, she and I will not be leveling up our HP throughout our time in Lothric. Sorry, CJ.

(Of note, this is the video during which my Scuf Vantage 2 ceased being able to consistently register my pressing up on the left thumbstick, even after replacing the thumbstick and cleaning out underneath it. Sadly, this join the D-pad's ease of falling off to make the controller unplayable, so I switched to using a Dualshock 4. Given that I'd always played on inverse-axis controllers prior to this video, please pardon my inability to walk in a straight line initially; I promise that our character is not drunk. Haha!)

Chapters / Boss Fights
0:00 – Sending off Greirat the Thief
5:48 – Irithyll of the Boreal Valley
11:21 – Controller problems / thumbstick swap
17:33 – Creighton the Wanderer feat. Siri
21:12 – Creighton the Wanderer Requiem
25:06 – Old Wolf of Farron / Farron Keep
30:41 – Stray Demon (miniboss)
42:25 – Chaos Demon (miniboss)
58:05 – Smouldering Lake
1:03:09 – Old Demon King
1:10:22 – "Time to take out the Pope!"
1:34:20 – Pontiff Sulyvahn
1:38:12 – Wrap-up

As a bonus, Evangeline uses "YEET" correctly after 21:24.
"We yeeted him off the cliff!"

Also, at 35:56:
(Taps my arm)
"Yes?"
"Nothing. I love you." (hug)

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