It’s impossible to go over it, at least by conventional means. Speedrunning Dark Souls 2 is very tempting because defeating that dumb pile of rubble feels ultra-satisfying – and is naturally ultra-easy for those with the necessary know-how. Players just need to exploit the game a bit to get to some terrain high enough to allow players to jump over the rubble – just as the Dark God intended.
Whereas the toughest foes in the original game were Ornstein and Smough,
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The biggest opponents in Dark Souls 2 are waist-high wall
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And..ankle-high wall.
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The best showcase of Dark Souls 2‘s unnecessarily atrocious design is Earthen Peak, a huge poison-filled windmill whose name seems to state it is located on top of the world.
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Inside, the game expects the players to just know that they have to burn down a mechanism that seems like it’s made of either metal or rock.