That's the bitch of it. If it wasn't finely tuned, I'd have stopped by now. But it is. It's designed to make you suffer, but it is beatable.

It's just really goddamn hard.

You end up learning about angles, trajectories, what velocity and what jump power, at what angle, will send you through safely versus getting you splattered.

And if you go bandage and warp zone hunting, you get to add extreme observation skills testing on top of that. -laughs-

Also, if you're like me, you'll end up getting some really annoying episodes of pain in the base of your right thumb. =)

In that case, maybe I got things confused, was your complaining about "out of nowhere, floor spikes" and "almost at the end, then suddenly HIDDEN TRAP" directed at Escape Goat?

In an unrelated note. I fukken HATE with the rage of a thousand suns, the new behaviour of the search bar in firefox.

Oh yeah... I was gone for like 6 hours.
Yes, I'm feeling *much* better now. Thank you :-)

Yes, that's Escape Goat. They frigging LOVE doing shit like that.

Meat Boy shows you everything, kinda like a torturer displaying their shiny mutilation kit before they go to work on you. -laughs-
The hidden things in Meat Boy are the bandages and the warp zones. All the blades, the lasers, the missile launchers, the fireballs, the shrapnel demons, the general enemies, everything's right out in the open.

Right, anyways, a couple of recommendation on your Dark Souls run.

The knight and warrior are good starting classes, the knight is particularly tanky, which in dark souls that means you can take one hit without flinching.

Do not attempt to parry or backstab while you're still at noob level, rely on your shield ALWAYS. On that note, the knight's starter shield is probably the best basic shield, with the highest base stability and 100% damage reduction.

For a first run and at low levels, a weapon with reach is recommended, which allows you to hit enemies at a distance, as opposed to close enough for them to bite your face off, the spear and later on, the halberd are good options.

Thank you, I appreciate the info. =)

Course, that means I need to go with a different class that has short-ranged weapons. -laughs-

Only the hunter and the sorcerer have any kind of range at first, with the hunter having a patetically weak short bow.

Some people claim the pyromancer to be both ranged and even a good class, but I've always thought the short range of the fireballs and the long windup animation make it useless.

I'll have to give it a try. Might end up with a deprived. They look interesting...

I had my best luck with the sorcerer and doing another run now with him. I rage-quit at some point and deleted my saves and sold my game. But XBOX Gold gave me another copy, so I was trying it again. I got to almost the same spot I quit at in 3 days -- the first time it took me months. So much of the game is learning the game.

With some of the powerful magic missiles, you can take out bosses pretty quick. And the weaker magic missiles handle most baddies without a problem. You just can't get hit. Pretty much ever. :)

My shining moment when I played the game the first time around was when I was summoned as a ghost to another's playing field. He got maybe 3 or 4 people helping him take out 3 bosses at the same time (gargoyles). They were all melee guys. And they all died or fled in the first minute of the fight. Then with my heavy-duty magic missile, I took out all 3 by myself.

But I didn't make it much past that spot. Everything kept being too OP for me. But this time around, I plan to do a little more exploration and find a place that matches my power. I think I was just simply not supposed to be where I went.

You just want to suffer and cry blood, don't you?

Őszíntén megvallva elegem van mindenből .

Me too, maybe have to go find some more nurses. :-)

Azt csinálsz amit akarsz engem nem érdekel .

Thank you! :-)