Six-Year-Old & Father Play Dark Souls 2 — Part 9 (Royal Rat Vanguard, Ancient Dragon, R R Authority)
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 2021-07-07

Before this video, she and I had recorded our beating Royal Rat Vanguard on the first try and Royal Rat Authority on the second or third try, as well as some attempts on the Ancient Dragon. Unfortunately, the footage was corrupted, so we lost that. In the other Souls games, we would have just been out of luck, but Dark Souls 2 has my favorite item in the entire Souls series: the Bonfire Ascetic, which allows the boss to respawn at the next New Game level of difficulty, i.e. NG+ for us.

This changed Royal Rat Vanguard by making Soul Appease no longer able to one-shot the rat mobs. It also made Royal Rat Authority capable of one-shots on us, sometimes even with the shield up! Ancient Dragon, thankfully, still had its cheese strats, as this boss is downright obnoxious without some manner of cheesing it.

As a reminder, she and I have not leveled our Vigor (HP) a single time throughout the entire playthrough.

After this, she and I have only two more bosses to beat:
King Vendrick
Darklurker

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