Not enough feet. 0/10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☑ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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I just finished my first playthrough on Dark Souls 3 in around 40 hours of playtime. And I have to say, that in all of these 40 hours, I had the most enjoyable, satisfying time in gaming and it instantly became one of my top 5 favourite video games.

The game was so good, I am willing to keep playing it, going further, unlocking everything, even if I know it will be a pain. But pain was already there, considering this is a souls-like game.

Seriously, if you want to play souls-games, and you don't know where to start, this is the best one to start with.

At the time of its release, Dark Souls 3 was a groundbreaking game. But in the year of our lord 2024, with both Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree having released, is there any reason to play this game? Yes. Yes there is.

If you played through Elden Ring and found the legacy dungeons to be the most compelling part of the game, then you'll probably like this, given that these previous Fromsoft titles are what the "legacy" is referring to. Paths that wind around until you unlock a shortcut back to a bonfire you were sitting at 10 minutes ago; amazing level-design; and challenging PvE in-between the bosses. The runs back to the bosses in this game are a little dire compared to Elden Ring, but there's nothing that's TOO bad, and the hardest bosses tend to have pretty forgiving run-backs.

The Ash of War system in Elden Ring is in its infancy here, with a total lack of interchangability of skills between weapons. While this is disappointing in retrospect, one positive consequence of this is that every weapon has to be balanced to be at least somewhat viable on its own merits. Elden Ring and particularly its DLC has a glaring problem in that they are explicitly designed around encouraging you to change builds and use features like the spirit ash system if your build sucks at dealing with bosses. Why struggle to overcome Malenia for 200 attempts with your crystalian-themed build if you can just slap on Bloodhound's Step and use three statuses at once while your spirit summon flattens her with greatarrows? There's no reason NOT to use the most effective strategy because you have all the tools to make it at your disposal. In Dark Souls 3, however, the boss design is such that most every boss can be beaten by most every (reasonable) build and by a competent player, and being allowed to be creative is, I think, the strongest indication of good boss design in a game.

Ashes of Ariandel and the Ringed City DLCs add some of the best content in the game. The former is accessible quite early, but is scaled to a much higher level; I would only enter when you're exploring Lothric Castle proper. The latter can be accessed either at the end of AoA or just before the final boss of base Dark Souls 3. The bosses are a comfortable middle between the anime 82-move combo lightshows of Elden Ring bosses and the slow, plodding knight duels of the previous games. They're epic and fair and I loved throwing attempt after attempt at them, feeling myself improve. Peak Dark Souls, in my opinion.

Elden ring specialises in grandness. Massive world, big cinematic bosses with multiple phases and cutscenes and voice acting. Truly expansive areas with lots to explore. Dark Souls 3 specialises in tight metroidvania-esque level design, mechanically fun and engaging bosses, less exploits and just a neater experiances that shoehorns you into where to go. Overall this is why after only 17 hours, I have to say Dark Souls 3 is just more fun to play. The game is far more challenging and enemies and bosses dont feel like cluster♥♥♥♥s. Thats not to say Elden Ring is bad, far from it. But the experiance Elden Ring provides is completely different focusing on blowing you away with the sheer amount of content. If you just want fun mechanically interesting combat system to engage in, Dark Souls 3 is far superior!

it's alright, i guess

This is a great game especially if you get claymore strength build cuz you can just cheese the first few areas.

this is sigma

Farming Souls III

GOAT