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If you're talking Lord of Blood, I, uh...fast traveled back to the overworld after scouring the back of the arena for items I'm pretty sure...looked at IGN's Palace guide just now and it doesn't seem to imply there was anything to do after the fight either.
If you mean BEFORE the other Mohg, Omen, down in the sewers then THAT parkour really sucked. A lot a lot LOL. And in scanning that Palace guide I noticed Nohg had a shackle - just like Father G way back in the day, I missed every single item that would've made a boss infinitely easier, lol.
Likewise, in my mind I HAD finished the Ranni quest, and that kinda goes back to my point that this game is just way too big for anybody to take any kind of prolonged break from it and then come back and feel welcome.
When I was thinking of things to try and wrap up after beating Mohg then getting to Radagon for the first time and realizing Elden Beast was literally in the same fight, all I could remember off hand was - Nephali Loux vividly because I'd given Gideon the potion and then suddenly Seluvis was dead when most guides said he wouldn't be and I had absolutely no idea where she'd run off to (turns out, you'd have to be an absolute crazy person to solve the rest of that quest without a guide) and that I had to see Dung Eater through because I could never figure out where those sewers were in the first place, but when I thought about Ranni I remembered fighting that shadow of Blaidd and her seeming really relieved afterward and thinking that must've been the end of that. Woulda been nice to have some kind of quest log to make me realize I had just a couple steps left! Oh well!
Scanning a guide, I stopped at the Lake of Rot and remember it was because I assumed I'd get some kind of item that made me immune to rot eventually (and thought it was weird that all of a sudden Torrent wouldn't be useful, which I also thought during the Elden Beast fight) and since I never did I just wasn't interested in trying to cross.
This second playthrough is going to be a lot faster paced but also heavily influenced by a guide so I can skip all the side quests and dungeons that quite frankly are a complete waste of time and focus on doing all the stuff I didn't do the first time around. I recall during that Joseph Anderson review that he'd played the game through three or four times and while his first save was 100+ hours his others were all done in about 20 hours, that's how much you can cleave off the game once you know what's actually worth pursuing for your build and the mystery is gone and that's a big reason I'm willing to go track down the stuff I missed, honestly. If I were looking at another 100 hours, ugh...
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