I think i read buepoint removed the global tendency feature in the remake. I tried doing the trick where you log in and out a few times, as in the original game each time you log in you'd move more towards neutral but it doesn't work anymore.
I managed to finally kill the old hero last night, I was about ready to smash the controller prior to that after dying about 20 times - I even spent hours farming souls from reapers to get up to SL100 and still that boss was one hitting me and I have a ****** shield thats easy to guard break.
But eventually I killed him and I had 10hp left lol - took 15 direct hit fireballs and a ton of dodging. This area was ridiculously tough, the whole pure black things is so unfair tbh, it basically puts the whole archstone into new game+ regardless of how low your SL is.
Even just getting to the boss was a massive pain in the ass, the ghost things with the green laser beam would one shot me, the soul blast from the reapers would one shot me, the green daggers from the flying manta rays would one shot me, the red phantoms would one shot me.
What a massive relief to be done, but now I have to finish the last area of this archstone, hopefully its easier - my game is still in pure black
I've played and finished all the dark souls games and bloodborne, but this area - shrine of storms in pure black is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in a videogame