Five-Year-Old & Father Play Dark Souls 2 — Part 3 (Skeleton Lords, The Rotten x3)
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 2021-01-13

In this, we make the first and only (to my recollection) exception to the rule that we'll beat the game 2p1c (two-player, one-controller.) In this run, The Rotten has to be defeated a total of four times in order to progress past the Shrine of Winter and access the second half of the game. After beating the boss the first time, I take over for Evangeline, as she was struggling too much on later attempts, where a single hit would take us out.

Even so, since this was from before my grind for deathless on the vanilla version of the game (the successful run can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCZwySkxnnk), I was still running into two attacks in particular: the AoE explosion and the forward-facing sword blast. Since it had been years since I successfully beat Scholar of the First Sin without dying, I had forgotten how to dodge the latter, and the former isn't bad if you remember to not start running from a locked-on state, which causes the bearer of the curse to do what I call a "tilt turn," the slow turnaround animation that can leave you with too little time to escape the attack's radius.

Otherwise, firebombs are awesome against Skeleton Lords, so it's no surprise that they didn't give us much trouble. The bonewheels are much less of a problem in DS2, wherein they are slower and not coming at you from behind. 

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