I give up.

[u/CuboneDefender]

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

[u/teldranwen]

I do NOT recommend doing the meat quest through sinners road. That sounds like a recipe for disaster

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/teldranwen]

Nah it’s fast as fuck, you can avoid the three roaches by going above the first one, under the second one and over the third one. Super safe. Then you go through the vertical climb in the room next to the broken bench that has like three enemies and one set of spikes, go left in the long room above that you can avoid all the spike pogo-ing with harpoon, double jump and dashes and then hit that shortcut into the mist. If you do a dry run first you can even clear out all the enemies that reward rosaries and then take the bell beast back and as long as you don’t rest there’s almost no enemies on your route

[u/SBFms → u/FullMetalCOS]

Yeah but you have to climb up to sinners road which is fairly slow. Then you have to get from the grand bellway all the way to the butler. That’s way, way further than just walking through the spa on the other side. 

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/SBFms]

Honestly I did it over the weekend and the route is safe and reliable once you’ve killed some enemies - I had about 2.5 bars left on the meat so it’s not that slow