The only real topic of debate was whether or not the Old One was the God of the Church. It’s no mystery that the concept of Souls Lorehunting didn’t really exist with Demon’s Souls other than a few notable exceptions like GuardianOwl. In Demon’s Souls, the answers hadn’t been there. It was the kind of story that could be re-arranged and presented as fact, with all of the mysteries solved like a novel where, at the end of the book, the brilliant detective goes over the evidence to the rest of the characters and makes all the connections for them.ĭemon’s Souls had been different. Even so, the story of Dark Souls was all too grounded for me.

One could pull back the curtain of Anor Londo and discover the machinations of Gwyndolin and Frampt, or bring the Lordvessel to Kaathe and learn of another layer to the story. The story of Dark Souls is certainly mysterious the game avoided conventional storytelling and instead gave the player the burden of uncovering the truth on their own. But I always found that there was something missing in Dark Souls: the unknown. Maybe it’s because, Demon’s Souls fanatic that I was, I had hyped the game up in my mind to such impossibly high standards that there was no way it could compete with my expectations. The gameplay is solid the world is compelling the characters are interesting. The rest of the top order had a day to forget though, and Blackwood acknowledged things would need to change in Wellington.The Paleblood Hunt - A Bloodborne Analysisĭedicated to all those with a story to tell We mixed aggression and then tried to get as good a shot selection as possible.' I was pretty proud of myself as well, the way I went about things. It was good to see him come out and bat the way he did. 'I hit two balls in the air and then I thought, 'No, I'm going to stay here with him,' because he takes pride in his batting as well. He was like: 'I'm going to stay here with you.' 'When Alzarri came to the crease I just told him to play his natural game and I would try to bat as long as possible.

It was rollicking good fun and, as Blackwood said, the result of neither wanting to let the other one down. While nobody would argue that it was anything but New Zealand's day, Blackwood and Alzarri Joseph lit up the evening with an unbroken 107-run partnership. They took an attacking approach, had a little bit of luck but played positive cricket.' We weren't quite at our best in the last hour but you've got to give credit to. 'Any time you have a side follow on you know you've played pretty well at some stage. 'We know when we're able to swing it we're a lot more dangerous,' he said.įor a long time it appeared this would be a three-day test but Southee said there was no disappointment in not finishing the job quickly. The right-armer who now has 289 test wickets credited an older ball that kept swinging for his first innings success. 'He was pretty much the slowest of the bowlers but he was swinging the ball a lot earlier.' 'Tim Southee,' was Jermaine Blackwood's blunt assessment of who was the pick of the New Zealand bowlers. Why would he and he's only getting better. Southee is fit, can bowl for long spells and has no intention of giving any form of cricket away as he approaches 32. It's not you don't start to hunt down 300 wickets unless you're doing something pretty special. Southee was better than good but in many ways it felt bog standard. It doesn't tell you that he took the first two wickets to fall and set in train the capitulation that was to follow. It doesn't tell you that when the West Indies took guard this morning they were 49-0 and the prospect of a long grind was in store. His 4-35 in the first innings reads well, but it hides a lot too. There are times when Tim Southee's excellence is almost taken for granted. The Black Caps bowlers produced a superb effort to dominate day three of the first test against the West Indies at Seddon Park – but one member of the pace quartet doesn't get enough credit, writes Dylan Cleaver. Andrew Alderson and Dylan Cleaver discuss Kane Williamson’s 251 run innings on the second day of the New Zealand-West Indies opening test in Hamilton.

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