Picked explorer and a stone thing. Pissed through the much easier than the previous installment opening, unlocked the blacksmiths house, spoke to a cat, killed one of them one eyed mothers off on the beach. Need to go back for the other one as I ran out of projectile stuff and he ate me around 3 times. Bought some equipment that was worse than the stuff I started with. Got through the giants forest, found a weird tree shaped like a thing with a hood, tried to get some treasure through a portcullis but failed, finally discovered the estus shard in the village, upgraded my scimitar, got fucking whupped by some floaty knight that parachuted in via eagle. Got an obsession with going back through previous areas and lighting all the torches, no idea what this does yet, nearly got burnt by some cunt in a cave, blasted an iron golem thing with some artillery got to The Last Giant and died 6 times. I got his health painfully low but couldn't finish the job, even with Pate. And now I'm not human anymore and have ran out of fire arrows.

Target a leg. Roll away/in when he does hand swipe etc, two hits on leg, roll out when he starts to stomp. Rinse and repeat, and be a bit safer when he grabs his own arm.

Lock on to a leg, get a hit in, (don't be greedy as this will bugger the loop up) immediately lock onto the other leg, circle around, one hit, this will dodge his stomp from the leg you just hit, lock on to other leg again, rinse and repeat. There's not even any need to roll. Childs play.

summoning 2 people for the lost sinner and it being a first time cake walk, sort of ruined that fight as I think it's be a different story solo.