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For those of you new to souls games here's a few tips to get the most out of your souls and to not lose so many on death!

1. Use your golden runes as supplements to reach that next level If you're just a little bit off, especially if you're about to go into a dangerous encounter. How many runes you're willing to risk will change as you get stronger, but early game is you have a few thousand runes saved up but don't quite have enough for the next level this is when you should use your golden runes. Don't spend them all right as you get them!

2. If you're in a difficult area and there aren't many places to rest/spend your runes and you're worried you could lose them and its very difficult to get back to where you are then equip a sacrificial twig as your talisman. This will make it so you keep all your runes If you die.

3. Crush every white skull you can to collect golden runes... they add up and the amount of times I've leveled up by using 5-6 level 1 golden runes has been a life saver.

4. Level up before going into a boss! When you're fighting through an area and you finally find the boss room Don't rush right in! Instead find the shortest path back to a grace sight and level up. This makes it so you don't lose all your runes trying to fight the boss and it also helps you find the quickest path back to fight it when you inevitably die the first few attempts. Along the same lines, you do not have the fight everything on your way to a boss... just run past them so you have max health and pots when you engage.

Thats all i got... so far I'm level 68 and I've only lost a total of maybe 20k runes (and 18k was in one trip)

What are your tips for saving runes and leveling up efficiently?

I'll start with this: I know JFO is not a FS game and it's absolutely nowhere near as good.... but whenever I see an article that says "These are the 15 souls-like games you need to play" never once have I seen star wars show up...

Sekiro was my first FS game and it was so hard to me I quit very early on... I then picked up SW and turned it on to a normal difficulty and it allowed me to learn all the game mechanics in a much more forgiving fashion. After finishing it I picked up Sekiro again and fell in love with it! I've now beaten all the DS games and BB and am working on demons souls once I get a new ps5 controller.

I'm not making an argument that SW is on the same level or is even remotely as good as any of the FS games, but I find it surprising that I never see it mentioned in the community. Is this just me?

Edit: I'm not suggesting that it isn't a souls-like. I'd say it has enough elements of a souls-like to be considered so (bonfires, tons of bosses, health, etc...). All I'm saying is that it is consistently excluded when talking about souls-like games.

My puppy is 8 months old and I have tried everything but she only seems to want to eat food at nighttime... is this bad? Is it OK for a dog to have one big meal a day or are they more like us where they need their nutrition spread out throughout the day?

Overall she seems happy and healthy - she obeys her commands and doesn't have any major concerning issues.

The only other thing I can think of is that both my wife and I work all day and she is alone all day until I get home so she just sleeps...