Bleak Sword DX Guide - Help and Tips

Bleak Sword is a lo-fi souls like adventure, which means that it can be frustratingly difficult at times, so here are a few tips that will help you start on your adventure or possibly give you a different perspective later in the game if you are stuck.

Rock and Roll

Swinging your sword uses a lot of your energy, but roll doesn't use any. If you find yourself backed into a corner by a lot of enemies, spam roll until you find yourself in a position where you are able to assess the situation and turn the tables back on your enemies.

Aggro

Typically, the game will throw one enemy at you at a time and usually give you enough time to defeat it before they send the next one out. If you wait too long and try to wait for the perfect opportunity, before you know it you’ll be overwhelmed. As soon as they send out a new enemy, get aggressive and attack. This will try to ensure that you are only fighting one enemy at a time.

Upgrade Stamina

I think the key is balance when upgrading your skills when you have the opportunity, but if there is one category that should get more attention than the rest it would be the stamina. With proper timing you can block almost everything in the game, which means you could have little health and it wouldn’t matter and when you parry perfectly you get a damage boost, but you need to capitalize on those windows of opportunity to deal damage and if you are getting tired from swinging your sword, you are missing crucial chances.

Parry

This goes without saying, but the only way you are going to succeed in Bleak Sword is if you master the parry. Not only does it fully charge your stamina, but it bumps up your attack power by about 25%, which is a difference maker.

Grind for XP

You can go back to the very start of the game to collect more experience, but by the time you are near the end of the game, the early levels don’t reward you with much XP. If you’re stuck in the middle of level 7, consider going back to the beginning of chapter 7 to try and farm some XP. Even just levelling up one notch on your health, stamina, or attack could be the difference.

Friendly Fire

This tip is a little riskier and slightly goes against some of the other tips but should you find yourself outnumbered, which you don’t want to be, assess each enemy because some have projectiles like fireballs or lasers that can damage other enemies. If you are able to dodge roll long enough, some of these weaker projectile enemies can actually help you defeat some of the tank enemies.