“Dark Souls isn’t about difficulty, y’know?” they say, backing you into a corner. “It’s about mysteries and secrets, about observation and deduction.” You consider smashing your bottle over the bar and driving it into their guts but ach, you’ve still a few sips left. “Do you know about… poise?” Ah what the hell, you need another anyway.
The poise statistic in Dark Souls III [official site] has been a mystery. Is it meant to, like in the first two, stop enemy hits making your soul man flinch? Why doesn’t it? And how come folks can re-enable the old way by hacking settings? Is it bugged? Bandai Namco now say nah, it’s meant to be this way.