Just take the lower route beneath the bridge. You really only need to sprint on the first and last part of the top of the bridge. I've never needed to kill that dragon, or you could just get started on 2-1.
Hint: Don't worry about recovering your souls, or blood stain. You get plent of souls after defeating a boss, and there are places you can farm for souls later on. You just need to figure out enemy patterns, and find the quickest way to the boss. 
Thanks! I hadn't gotten the news yet, and honestly it seemed unbeleivable when I read your post. I expressed outrage on many sites already. Haha!
Is there a source to this rumor or is it confirmed? I have yet to play Tomb Raider and I find it hard to believe since Tomb Raider sort of bombed when it launched, you would think that the game needs to launch on all platforms at once including PC to make a profit? This is dumb if true. Isn't Tomb Raider a Square Enix game? Don't they want our money? Next they'll say Kingdom Hearts and FF 15 is exclusive to Xbox? Weird.
I've never actually been able to kill the Vanguard, but I was sure close when I used the Magic build for the first time. As I started a couple of new characters simultaneously, one a bow-build and one a magic build, I had forgotten how lose the targeting can get in this game. This game definitly controls a lot "looser" than the other games. Especially if you have light or no armor, you seem to almost float off the ground. I could have written this same article myself, as I had the same issues starting out with arrows, but managed to just chop everything down with the axe.
And the same thing occured with both characters, I didn't die at all my first play through and got all the way to the boss in one go. Actually, I started playing last week, and found it odd that I didn't die at all in any level and made it all the way to the bosses without ever dying. That is the nerfiness of Magic. Hunter/Arrows is another story. With magic, the only issue I've had so far is with Latria, but that is because of the layout of the level--darkness and pitfalls, but not necessarily enemies or bosses. The only boss that's giving me trouble at the moment is Manhunters, those two gargoyles, but I got to them pretty late at night and I wasn't really concentrating.
Over all the revisit to this game has been really rewarding. I haven't even touched on the lore and NPCs, which I also enjoyed revisiting.
Actually there wasn't any mention of zombies. It's more about investigating murders around the area way before the zombie outbreak. It's far from any sort of launch though. More like a pitch at this point, but still exciting though.
There is a demo reel of what the show is intended to look like on the source page.Since 4 took place in Spain, 5 in Africa and 6 all over, this show looks to stay in Racoon City and surrounding areas.
I don't hate any of the RE games really. But I like that this supposed TV show aims for a more gritty, dark exploration theme as opposed to the latest games and movie iterations of the splosiony type.
It's in the too early stages of dev, like planning stages. No sure thing it will see distribution. The ideas is cool though.
I honestly feel like LttP and OoT were the best in the series and the follow ups haven't quite out done the predecessors. Zelda Windwaker HD looks gorgeous though, so it might be easier on the eyes and I think Twilight Princess was pretty modern.
