My suggestion if you are playing one handed swords: dual wielding optimizes attacking so much. Plus, it will level you up so fast. Also find the steed stone. Trust me.
about two weeks after it came out-- but now i have a lot of other games to play so I'm gonna postpone it until there are no good games out there. But alas I often have bugs and glitches that NO ONE else has (for example, my copy of Bastion only displayed 1/4 of the actual game on my screen)
Odd, when I asked about it people only responded with general graphics glitching. Anyway, it's fixed now :D I still need to finish Dark Souls... but it's not a "winter" game, at least if you're not planning suicide :D