Dear Diary,

I did the usual character creation stuff. Good thing I didn't painstakingly make it look exactly like me, because after all that was said and done, I covered it all up with my cool Samurai armor. I didn’t go too deep into the creator this time around, just picked a preset closest to my actual self and made some general tweaks.

I sat down and watched the cool intro cutscene. Being a From game, it sure was a lot of cool and creepy looking stuff, but this time, we got an enthusiastic narrator. They showed off cool snippets of some of the big-named people. With also being a From game, the lore went in one ear and out the other. Something about lords with a piece of a shattered ring. Maybe some of them are bad? Maybe all of them? Guess we’ll see.

My cool Samurai woke up in a cave. Acclimated myself to the controls for a bit. I questioned myself if dodge and run was always on the circle-button. With the addition of jump, it put confirm out of place and my world was all upside down. Took a while to figure out how to two-hand my cool sword, because you can’t do the cool unsheath thing one-handed. After a quick google search of other basics, I was off to the races. Apparently, I am part of a majority of players that skipped the tutorial stage. Coming from previous From games, I did not trust the signs in front of the gloomy pit, even if one was from the developers themselves. I also didn’t trust the distance of the fall. So I instead followed the glowing tree to the big set of doors. This led to the game, and apparently, to one of the biggest memes in it. Oh ya, yes, I did lose to the spider guy with little to no resistance.

Although the first guy that I could talk to is a hater, I reluctantly avoided attacking him. I managed to avoid the first boss, mostly because I saw the whole internet talking about Mr Tree Sentinel. Saw some birds, found out that the sheep roll, and attacked those big sack things. I thought I made it to the first big enemy encampment, but it was just some nobodies, making other non-combatants dig something. After a bit of walking around, I found it. Oh, and I totally missed the first merchant, so no crafting for me for a while.

I got to the first big camp to clear out. You know, the one with the map, the doggos, the big non-boss guy, and all of the conveniently placed guys are some sneaky stabbies. I stumbled into the underground place with a chest to avoid the big bad. After a few tries, I snuck past the big guy to find the campfire, to then get my trusty companion from homegirl. I proceeded to attempt to clear the camp, with no luck on the biggie. It did let me farm a little to level up. Before I knew it, I rode my horse to the first big barrier of the game, Margit.