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Uncharted 2 is great the first time you play it, although it is a little short. It's joined together very well; it doesn't in any way feel like you are watching a movie, rather playing a great game that has been put together as well as a movie. That said, the shortness of the game is a drawback and on repeat playthroughs the enjoyment factor went down for me several fold. It's not a game that does anything necessarily new, but what it does it does amazingly well. Anyone buying this game would be extremely satisfied; particularly with the gameplay and visuals. I can't say I enjoyed the multiplayer side to the game, but I think it's clear that it wasn't developed almost solely for online like many multiplayer games these days. If you like adventure games, this will be the best one you have ever played. I wouldn't say it's my favourite game of this generation (that would go to the game that offer something very different to anything I've ever played before; Oblivion or Demon's Souls), but it's easily one of the best games this generation.

Wow, this is single handedly the most fucking retarded thing I have ever read on the forums. I bet you don't have a girlfriend, and if you do, I can't see you lasting long. Thought as much.

Oh, right, the story can't be good because it's not clear cut enough for thickos to digest. Just because it's not black and white, doesn't mean it isn't good. The fact people are still thinking about what the story means over a decade on clearly shows that the story was 10 times better than in any game being produced these days.

You should be able to. There's a glitch that's abusable online, which basically sets your tendency to pure white in a world from killing 3 of the same primeval demon: * Get any world to pure black tendency so that a Primeval Demon will show up. It's best to do this in 2-1, because the Primeval Demon at 2-1 isn't far from the Archstone at all. * Attack it until it has barely any health left. Enough health that you just hit it once and it dies. * Lay down a Black Eye Stone. * When you're being summoned, you'll see the usual words flash on the screen. When "Invading as a black phantom" pops up for the second time, kill the primeval demon, then mash X so you can take the item it drops. (You will obtain a colorless soul) * Get killed by the people you invade, or just kill yourself. Either way works. (Keep in mind that if you kill yourself while invading, you loose a soul level). * You can also use the White Eye Stone to return the moment you are summoned. But where is the fun in that right? * When you return to your world, the primeval demon will have respawned with full health! Repeat this as much as you like. * When you farm the colourless demon souls, make sure to die with your body on the map you wish to farm. So in case you kill the person you invade or if they die before you do and regain your body, you will respawn on the map you died so you can suicide your body and continue as before. Don't kill it for good, basically. But each semi-kill still counts in upping your world tendency by a notch. Coincidentally, this gets you lots of colorless demon's souls (needed to upgrade a lot of uber weapons). Yes you will...world tendency still goes up if you're in soul form. Then go kill yourself in the Nexus after getting your body back, before you play another stage. Killing yourself in the Nexus is wise because the Nexus doesn't have a world tendency, thus you can kill yourself in body form without reducing the world tendency. If you instead carried on playing in a level in body form then died, it would reduce the world tendency.

It means kill all 3 bosses of the world without dying in body form. Basically play in soul form. When you get your body back by defeating a boss, go straight to the Nexus and suicide by jumping off somewhere high. If you die in body form your world tendency gets blacker, but it doesn't count in the Nexus. You can't kill any 1 boss more than once in a playthrough. They're gone for good. Fighting another person's boss as a blue phantom won't do anything to your tendency. Nope. And it's recommended that if you're going for pure white world tendency, you play offline as there can be fluctuations online. The most notable... White character tendency: if you answered 'yes' to the monumental's question at the beginning and get pure white character tendency, he'll give you a ring that boosts your damage as a blue phantom. Get white character tendency by walking around in body form and defeating black phantoms that invade. Quite simple. Black character tendency: Get this by slaughtering NPCs. Good to do shortly before you finish the game. NOTE: Kill pointless merchant NPCs or those that offer nothing. The reason is that when your tendency reaches pure black, an NPC called Mephistopheles appears in the Nexus. She contracts you to kill certain NPCs and gives rewards. The best of which being for Yuria (her last request); you get another unique ring (boosts damage as a black phantom). You can also get another Talisman of Beasts, and some other good stuff doing that. But remember, your character and world tendencies carry over to the next playthrough.

Hmm, you can buy Shard of Archstones (5k each) that return you to the Nexus from Patches. Kinda useful when you're rich, instead of wasting a spell slot. But yeah...2 miracle slots is a must.

You need the talisman of beasts, but it requires some faith to use it (good if you plan on getting some good miracles/spells anyway; and if you get 20 faith before rescuing Saint Urbain and talk to the woman sitting on the ledge who praises Umbasa all the time, she'll give you a pure Faintstone). You get this by killing black phantom scirvir in pure black 2-1 (if he falls off and dies during the fight, load the game you're in and the item should be waiting there in the cave by where he would have spawned). Try not to quit to Nexus until you picked it up after he dies, else it may be gone for that playthrough. Did you rescue Urbain and Freke to learn better miracles/spells yet with your souls? I learned Evacuate (freaking awesome; good if you hunt Reapers or for any situation where you want to get out) and Total Protection (significantly cuts damage), as well as (arguably) the best miracle Second Chance. Cursed Weapon is awesome for PvP from Yuria.

Create a thief and transfer the shit to your character. :p At least I'm pretty sure you can do that... The defence of armour in this game is pretty much a joke. Anything that doesn't impede stamina or weigh you down is pretty much the best. And given that in world 5 you get poisoned every 5 seconds, poison resistance is a great bonus to have.

In world 3 you can pick up the Black Leather equipment set which you get in a cell in 3-1 (or if you chose thief, you start with it). It's what I stick with. No penalty to stamina regeration, and great poison resistance. Probably the best. Which is extremely useful for world 5.

lol, didn't you have just a generic HP healing herb to keep you going while you found it?

Bwahaha. Yeah, if you put the blue stone down (possible only in soul form) you are the one who goes to them as a blue phantom (you can only be a phantom if you are a ghost, after all). If you want help, you need to play in body form and look for the blue bloodstains on the floor. The Old Monk (world 3 final boss) summoned you. It can often happen if you put a soul sign down in world 3, and you basically fight the opponent in his stead. The funny thing is that there's a few of the evil wizard things along the way, and noobs are prone to dying before they reach the place. Still, it's great for a nice battle and you can buff yourself like crazy as they enter the room. Some of the most fun PvP fights to be had, there. Yeah...what I do is have the clever rat's ring setup, cursed weapon (+50% damage, drains HP - Yuria spell) and a meat cleaver. Oh, and second chance. No one has killed me yet with this setup...it's insane.

lol, what is Roger Moore doing there? :p

Maybe your currency just sucked. :p

Just googled SeedFucker, and it does seem to have been totally debunked.

What the fuck are you on. It's got your high-end graphics; you should be 100% satisfied.

Yeah, I left world 1 later levels until very late on. Particularly the final boss of world 1...it can be pretty darn hard. I got a Clever Rat's Ring in World 3 (switch off the Ballista machine in 3-1, then it's upstairs in one of the forts). It's great. Basically if you get hold of the Magic Sword Makoto (World 4-2, fall down the hole in pure white world tendency) it depletes your HP gradually. Have the Clever Rat's Ring equipped and once you reach around 30% of your max HP, the Clever Rat's Ring will automatically activate (rat symbol under status effects). Then craft the Morion Blade using the Storm Demon's Soul (4-3 boss) and a Shortsword tnot. I'd like that Master Ring and the Clever Rat ring (or whatever it is). I don't know why but I remember you and another source saying it's good for killing those lizards among other uses+ 8 at Ed, as this basically multiplies the damage up effect alongside the Clever Rat's Ring. Put the Morion Blade in your left hand (e.g. in place of a shield) and put your weapon of choice that you'll end up using in the right (such as a good bow, or meat cleaver). Your damage will be insane. Of course, you'll be in low HP, but casting Second Chance means if you do get hit and killed, you'll survive. It's great for bowing down lizards or for PvP. Important: Just to let you know, if you do go pure black, use this guide to get pretty much unlimited Colorless Demon's Souls (requires playing online - primeval demons appear in pure black, only 1 per world, and drop this soul that is required to upgrade ubers such as dragon bone smasher). Also, although the primeval demon stays alive this way (instead of normally being gone for good), the kill of them still counts in upping your world tendency. If you're at pure black, kill the same primeval demon 3 times this way and you're at pure white when quitting to the Nexus. This is one of only two ways to get Pure White in a world where all the bosses are dead without starting New Game +. If you accidentally kill the Primeval Demon for good, you have to wait until the next cycle OR then continue to go and kill the black phantom NPC of that world without dying (since quitting to Nexus after killing just one of them would set the WT to neutral, thus the other would not appear - a tricker method). Enjoy. Although you can't upgrade the lava bow... It's great though. It will make so many things much, much easier. :p The PFS is better. Quoted from a wiki: Steel Shield: This shield's stats are identical to the Purple Flame Shield except for the inferior FireDamageCut% Steel Shield blocks 70% of fire damage, while PFS blocks 90%. And given the amount of fire in this game, that's very welcome. Woah, store any demon's souls such as the lead demon's soulls. They can be used to make great weapons, or buy unique miracles and spells. As for the other kind (storied soldier's soul, etc.) just use them. That's what they're there for.

Well you can reach the DBS not just by having pure white world tendancy (far rubble gone), but also by having pure white character tendancy (closest rubble gone). Plus if you've died in the level since in body form then you're immediately not pure white. Or if you killed an NPC. Scirvir is 100% in the cave at PWWT. Check this confirming it, as well as the image of archstone colours corresponding to what your world tendency is: link. If you kill the reaper you can buy a load of fresh spice from the nearby Graverobber Blige...they're 300 each, so if you're getting around 5k a time (it should be more than 4k) in white world tendency then you can buy 16 per reaper kill. MUCH better than waiting god damn ages for a piddly amount of MP to come back. Ditch the fragrant ring...Thief's Ring makes everything so much easier, plus you'll have a chance to kill lizards when you first come across them. Plus you don't go towards black world tendency if you die in soul form, making it EXTREMELY wise to play in body form. It's best to actually kill yourself in the Nexus after killing a boss and getting your body back; if you don't there's a chance you won't be able to get pure white world tendency on that playthrough (bosses are all dead) if you die and lower the world tendency, unless you do the colourless souls glitch which can be tedious and isn't really guaranteed. Getting Pure Black after you did all the Pure White events is as simple as killing yourself in body form over and over. It takes 7 deaths in body form when you're pure white to go to pure black. You have to exit the world for changes to take place, though. I just ran past them...then they all get killed by the dragon. Fun. :p Also, you can buy the water veil spell/miracle (I forget) which makes fire do considerably less, meaning you could probably take a hit if you're lucky.

PURE White, again, not white (every event that requires white or black tendency actually requires pure). Pure White is when you're as white as possible. And he will be there at pure white (google Scirvir), I should know. Pure white is basically neutral +3 (you get +1 for every boss killed; 0 is neutral, and -1 for ever death while in body form in that world). Google some images of how archstones look at each level of tendency, since it's not really that clear. Pure white is bright, shining white. Seeing as you have killed all bosses in world 2, it might be necessary to abuse the online colourless demon's souls trick (which coincidentally can make world tendency pure white in a few kills). Ok, well the two of them combined. And I bought loads and they never ran out, but I guess you bought far too many to get it to +10. And as well as that, to get a short bow (no other kind of bow) to +7 you only need 1 chunk of hardstone. Read this to see what you need to get +7. The rest can be bought from the merchants when possible. Fragrant ring is shit after a bit. Seriously. It's not worth the hassle when you can easily get the lava bow and pump strength to use either the meat cleaver or dragon bone smasher. That was your quote I included accidentally. Yes 3-1 does lead somewhere...the instant you start the level and exit the first cell and turn right, there should be a door that will probably still be closed if you haven't opened it yet. But that's the way to go, so you need to open that door first (prob have to go left to open it). The level basically involves getting rings of keys to open doors, so look around for keys chains on walls. Then the rest is obvious.

Hopefully it'll spread in popularity by word of mouth. I think that's what happened in the US; friends recommended it to friends, and what have you. As well as that, it has rave reviews and some pretty awesome awards (like best RPG of the system), so I can see it selling pretty well. I'll probably pick up the collector's edition this time, just because I would like the guide and I have a feeling it'll be one of those games that will become hard to find. Well I did tell you how to get the lava bow...earning souls to afford the hardstone shards/large hardstone shards shouldn't be too hard given that you can just take down the grim reapers at the start of 4-2 for mass amounts of souls. :p There's probably still quite a bit. likely loaaads of crystal lizards (loads in that place). Also, this is essential. Make sure you look up where to get the pure hardstone, and I think shardstone, in 2-1. In fact, look up any pure stone fixed locations. Because they're basically free gifts; one per playthrough, and you don't have to go through the randomness of killing difficult lizards. Also in 2-1, if you take the right path at the beginning and drop down many creaky platforms (careful you don't die), there's a cave area where if it's pure white world tendency, and you show the guy there your dragon bone smasher, you get a free pure greystone (very good, needed to upgrade weapons to max). Nay nay nay, lad. First off, are you wearing the thief's ring? If you are, you should be able to easily run past the section with the flying rays at the start of the level. Secondly, just kill the reaper. When you save Graverobber Blige (google him) in 4-1 he appears right in the corridor before the first grim reaper, and you can buy all sorts from him, and for cheaper. Just kill the reaper and head back the archstone. It's like 7-8k (depending on world tendency; the blacker the more difficult, but more souls earned) per 1.5 minutes. Then after a few of them you'll easily have enough to buy a short bow, 11 large hardstone shards and 30 hardstone shards from the filthy man in 2-1. Then take the short bow + 7 along with the spider demon's soul to Baldwin in 2-1. And...you have the lava bow. :p Finally, the prison section leads to a dead end (as far as I know). I would recommend doing it now. Doing stuff in your first playthrough is much easier since New Game + is much harder. It is...just buy them from the merchant at the beginning of 2-1, lol. See above. Ok, my bad, I must have got them confused. But it's not the one in the Nexus...the one in 2-1.

Once he takes the Flamelurker's soul, if you bring all the right things to make a special weapon and look at what he can make it should be one of his options to craft in upgrade.

Every boss you kill in a world, each lizard respawns once more. So if you kill all 4 bosses in a world, any given lizard will respawn 5 times (and in 2-1 there's one hell of a lot of lizards in one place - wait until you have the clever rat's ring and morion blade, and a good bow before taking them out - google the clever rat ring and morion blade trick). If it runs away that still counts as one respawn. As for Boldwin, in 2-1 you have to explore the whole level and there's basically a lever you end up pulling that makes an elevator go down behind where the filthy man is (very start of level). Then you can quickly get to Baldwin (he's a better blacksmith than Ed). You need the Flamelurker's Soul to give to Baldwin and talk to him a lot to get him to take it. At least, I think that's how he takes it. Then he'll offer to upgrade weapons with demon's souls.

Yeah but that probably just sends it way back to +0. Seems a waste. Plus meltstone is pretty rare I think; I only remember getting one. Just buy another bow...play 4-2 and kill the reapers at the beginning for mass souls, then leave (also I found world 4 bosses to be by far the easiest, although the level of 4-2 can be a bit tough. Plus world 4-1 boss gives you the penetrator soul to make a meat cleaver if you take a club and its soul to Baldwin) Oh and get this; the last boss in world 3 summons another online player to fight in his stead; buffs the person and you have to kill them to get the demon's soul. Awesome or what?

You needed a +7 bow, not a +10. It's gone too far. Make another by getting a short bow and 30 hardstone shards, and 11 large hardstone shards, and upgrade to +7. Make sure to take the spider demon's (hard demon soul) and talk to Baldwin (not Ed). The Flamelurker's soul was just to enable the use of forging with demon's souls. The lava bow also needs the spider boss's soul.

Umm, you don't upgrade anything to +10. You need to upgrade to a certain level for it then to be able to upgrade to a base lava bow. Often specific. In this case, a short bow to +7 and then no more, at which point you take it along with the hard demon's soul. Before I said the correct amount of hardstone to get to +7, although I should have perhaps mentioned go no further than +7. Still, it's cheap to buy hardstone shards and large shards (trust me, you won't notice the amount of souls it takes). Plus you might have got a trophy for getting it to +10? When you get the lava bow your damage will be much, much higher. You take the demon's souls along and see what he can make. But you really should just check this stuff online...there's so much you will miss. I don't check guides for how to complete levels, purely for equipment guides as often in RPGs that's the stuff that no amount of exploration that could give you most of the answers.

lol, there was something like a 7,000+ rating for the same message next to Yuria in the Nexus once. Sad but true. :p