Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-98.163.123.248-20140319053041/@comment-88.129.198.90-20160415182654

I've had the same problem as a lot of people described, the stone golems would not absorb the souls, no matter how close I would kill an enemy. Emerald Herald never spawned (like she's suppposed to) at the beginning of the staircase,

After almost 10 hours of trying to get the castle doors open, I tried the last thing that came to my mind, which was to erase the game data + patches on my ps3.

After I did this, I started the game in offlinemode, so I was able to check if there was anything faulty with the latest patch (1.15). I think the patchversion was 1.00, but I'm not entirely sure. Just in case, I created a new character and saved as soon as I got through the editing process. (Don't really know why that would help, but I was kind of desperate for a solution.).

Then I connected my ps3 to internet to download the latest patch (1.15) and loaded my original character. I spawned at the beginning of the staircase by the castle, right in front of Emerald Herald. This really worked for me.