Not an awful lot of forest, you kill about 5 enemies and you're into a ruined castle/battlements environment. All Hollowed Soldiers so far and seemingly tougher than the DS1 variants. I was 5 hitting them with the Warrior's starting weapon which was doing the job until I got the "Weapon at Risk" message! And then this is the glory of Dark Souls, I stumbled though an previously unseen archway during a fight (realising I had not many hits left in the weapon) then found a stairway up and joy of joys! - a Short Sword! I've never been so happy to find a Short Sword, it took the hollows down in 3 hits!
The multi-layered, diverging paths of Dark Souls were again in evidence as I made it further through the level. The bonfire placement seemed fairly generous and then there I was able to warp back to the Blacksmith in Majula to buy an even better weapon (Broadsword), warp back and on with the level. Kind of felt like cheating!
That feeling subsided when 10 mins later I was ambushed by a giant super-aggro knight. I ultimately died but having come across the first mini-boss I'm feeling like the game has started proper.
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