Butler clearly extended his arms to create space before jumping for the ball . It was pretty obvious handfighting by both . Could have been offensive PI or defensive . <| sep |> About how the weird level transitions are intentional because our character ' s memories are fucked ? That seems incredibly handwavy to me . Our character is suffering from the same condition as in DkS 1 , and the world was mostly coherent then . Look , I love Dark Souls 2 . It has my favourite character Vendrick and probably my favourite lore in the trilogy . So I ' m not saying this because I enjoy ridiculing the game . But the explanation for those weird transitions is rushed development and developer oversight . There doesn ' t need to be a lore explanation , and any explanation anyone will every come up with will feel forced .