New Game Plus

New Game+, or NG+ is entered once the player fills the Lordvessel, defeats Gwyn, Lord of Cinder and chooses to either Link the Fire or usher in the Age of Dark.

Starting out
The beginning of New Game+ is identical to New game. The Player wakes in the Undead Asylum and is given a key on a corpse thrown down by Oscar. The primary difference being all enemies are much harder but reward more souls accordingly however, the player keeps all non story based acquired weapons, armor, items and rings. Notable items left behind are the Orange Charred Ring, Covenant of Artorias and Crest of Artorias etc.

New Game+ and beyond
Once the player reaches the end again they will start with an even harder Difficulty and an increase and souls but only marginally so. The biggest spike is NG to NG+ in which many enemies gain 2, 3, or 4 times the damage and souls while health usually only doubles. After this, the increase is minute.