The titanite Demon in the shortcut respawns more than once, contrary to what the notes and trivia section suggest. Confirmed on PS4

I let ziggy jump down and he killed all the chaos monsters np. He's got gumption.

This guide says the bounding demons don’t respawn, well the giant two legged stone monsters definitely respawned and *****ed me up

I really like this area

Developer 1: We don't have time to place the enemies and we got this big lava place what do we do?
Developer 2: Just put like 70 Demons there so they just avoid trying to explore the place
Developer 1: What about the boss?
Miyazaki: This game is a platformer.

Lost Izalith would have been a great place. The architecture reminiscent of Angkor Wat, the molten lava and the infernal atmosphere fit perfectly into the game. Unfortunately, this place seems so unfinished. As if the developers ran out of time and the finished project was dropped

I love entering demon ruins and seeing the giant dome that houses Izalith below, the sheer scale of it blows my mind!

Great place to fail 2 quest lines within 10min of each other LOL. Map design and unit placements seemed kind unusual.

This is probably the most thematically immersive place in the game. You start out in the undead burg. There's sun, connections to beautiful places, plenty of living characters just hanging around. Then you come across a demon (Taurus) that seems sorta out of place.

Then you enter the lower burg. And as you venture down further, the setting becomes darker and more dismal. Thieves and hounds trying to bleed you. Then another, seemingly, out of place demon (Capra). You come across a couple of humans here, but they're barely alive, and need to be actively saved by the player.

In the beginning of the game, your aim is Blighttown. That's all you know about. So you get there, and it is, indeed, a pretty dark and treacherous place, filled with odd demonic monsters. And then you realize.

That whole path to Blighttown?

Yup, just the halfway point on the descent into the darkness. Soon all of the humans are straight up demons and you're wandering through this eerie and fickle hellscape, where the dangers are all-or-nothing threats.

Could the final area boss have been better? Yeah, sure. But this whole, long path from the burg to the Bed of Chaos is basically the most "Dark Souls" feeling section of the game, and maybe even in the series. That whole concept of a gradually deeper and darker path, with thematically similar enemies, as you progress was almost entirely lost in the second game--where most of the areas felt like disconnected/thematically discrete regions.

Does anyone else have worse Frames here than in Blight Town? Blight Town ran without a single problem FPS wise, but this place... God. Feels like 15 FPS at times, while every other area in the game runs at 50 unless there's a lot of particles displayed at once.