Recent reviews by BURNIE

Trust me, I do not only have 17 hours on this game. Arr.

Alone, with friends, vanilla, modded. It's simply a blasting good video game.

Don't let the errant internet user convince you that this game is bad. It's different and infuriatingly unfair at times, but it's the one I keep coming back to after all these years still.

Dark Souls 2 is 100% the weird child of the franchise, the movement is different, the world is vast and open, and theres a ludicrous amount of missable equipment and cryptic puzzles that no sane mind would figure out alone, it's, in my opinion, the most replayable of all 3. You can do any route, any weapon, any covenant, and it'll work. I got a few RAT KING INVASIONS IN 2023 WHAT???

Dark Souls 1 and 3 suffer from "Boss Weapon Syndrome" where it seems the devs are afraid to make Boss weapons too good and instead make them straight up hot unusable garbaggio mile whereas in Dark Souls 2, not only is every weapon usable and can be made into a fun build, most boss weapons are viable and balanced either pve or pvp so beating bosses (which theres the most of in the franchise) feels rewarding in the sense of build making, but not so much as to progressing the game (i'll give that to 1 and 3)

All in all DS2 is the most "gamey" of all of them. 1 and 3 really have Miyazaki going nuts on the cinematography, lore, and the general epicosity of the story and level design. Dark Souls 2 is where ARPG players go to powerstance weapons that require 50 Strenght each into New Game+7, and even then, Drangleic still has its very very much Dark Souls-y charm still.

Completely nailed the Hogwarts ambiance and the love for the original work is there but the amount of hoops you need to go through to get this game running on a good computer is insane.

yes

HACKERS NEED TO BE DEALT WITH NOW.


Otherwise great game much fun

CoolStoryBob

The first time in 15 years that Konami did anything right.

Great game, classic cards, ranked ladder, tryhardism and a good time.

The twitch section is also very active with many big time tournaments.

This game is very much worth it's price!

Seriously, rarely do I find an underpriced gem like so.

Comical and enticing, it tells great stories about a completely dysfunctional little realm as time goes by.

Game is free?

NO IT ISN'T!

SYKE

I remember LoTR games being very poor in combat, but telling great stories.

This one tells an ok, if flawed story and insanely well executed combat, the love child of Assasin's Creed, Batman and Tolkien.

Beautiful

I guess there are a few things I'll say that could be considered spoilers, and spoilers are a nono for this game, so i'll be as vague as possible... I hope.


Dark Souls is a game that will change you as a player, and it might as well change you as a person too.
Impressive for a game of so much action and so little words.

My praises won't do the game justice, because all I can really convey in words is what most of the people already know.

But one thing I can say is: Forget about the "difficulty". People make it sound like everything this game is about is being excessively hard, It isn't true. The gameplay and mechanics aren't as hard to learn as actually understand what the game WANTS from you as a player.

It wants you to go forward, die a thousand times, and keep going forward and find your path, by yourself. You will get rekt, beaten up, destroyed, thrown off cliffs, burned, stabbed, crushed, get boulder'd indiana jones style, be flung, shot by arrows, magic arrows, exploded and many other violent deaths you can imagine. But that's the point after all, every single time you respawn at the bonfire, you'll have another piece of knowledge about your enemy, getting closer and closer to slaying them.


DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED!


Can you imagine? Could there be a more powerful and dreadful enemy than a warrior that would keep coming back with all his previous knowledge every single time you kill him... forever?

YOU ARE that guy, once you understand the real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ monster is you, and that it's your destiny to put and end to the most vile creatures that have ever been, and to actually do it, it's a pretty fulfilling experience. I'd say Monster Hunter players would understand a lot of what i'm trying to say here.

Or you could die and give in to madness to turn hollow forever, which is really only a metaphor for rage quittng Dark Souls and never come back.

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This game has so much more to offer than just raw combat... The story is truly amazing, and is told in such a way that only those who really want will get their answers. 'The world' will never tell you anything, you'll have to find the puzzle pieces by yourself, to uncover all sorts of stories, sad, frightening, desperate, of love, and even, rarely, a sliver of happiness.

A truly timeless - if flawed - experience. If someone blows off the original Dark Souls as unworthy on the premise that It's an older title and that there is Dark Souls 2 and 3, plainly ignore them, and go play Dark Souls, you will not regret it.