Recent reviews by Beastill

Up until season 2, or patch 2.00.01 the game was good.

Nice game

Legion or bust.

fck this, save yourself and don't make the same mistake I did

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Dark souls 3 is a action JRPG made by FromSoftware just for you to play, have fun, suffer, and cry.
The "have fun" part is not guaranteed to be present for everybody.
Anyway, the game's great. A solid 8/10 honestly, very good closing game for the souls series. Is it the end of souls? I dunno, companies these days would beat any dead horse
just to keep their capita's heart pumping.


STORY?:
So, the story, first thing I want to address, I have no idea what the hell is going on.
You have to kill some Abyss Watchers, a giant called Yhorm, Aldrich the snail guy and two cripples so you can start a new age of fire or bring upon the age of dark, as per
usual, nothing much has changed with the story as in the previous games.
For anybody that really gives a heck about lore I'd suggest you go watch VaatiVidya or whoever the heck is hogging the youtube views from making up theories that
Miyazaki later just <can't show this word on a christian gameing site!> on.

COMBAT:
So combat, pretty fun, pretty challenging, don't get hit, but hit back.
Two attack buttons, this time dual wielding is available, no power stance, boohoo what can you do.
Two attack buttons, a block, parry button, backstep and dodge. I know it sounds like "oh wow that's not that complex" yeah, it's not that complex until you get into PvP I
suppose, then you really need to think what to do.
From charged R2's, regular attack into a special with a finishing charged R2, you got plenty of ways to kill your enemies, just make sure you don't get killed of course.
The game is this time around way faster than DS1 and DS2, feels like Miyazaki liked Bloodborne so much he wanted to make another one but then remembered he was making a souls
game halfway through the development.
Shoutout to the parry kings out there though, you guys are killing it.


BOSSES IN THE BASE GAME:
Bosses are all cool and dandy, none of them do really feel unfair, at least in the base game. I got one complaint on the difficulty curve with Pontif of Sulyvahn, because
he is probably one of the hardest bosses in the game, and throwing him out there like that felt like a "casual filter" as some would say. Like I imagine that's a point where
a bunch of people just rage quitted, or is it just me? Might be me, I am still a casual.


THE DLC'S:
Anyway as I said, none of them feel unfair in the base game, but in the Ringed City DLC a lot of players have been complaining about Midir's massive health pool, so I guess
you could write that one down as an "unfair" boss, even though he's just more tedious than anything.
The two DLC's though? Ashes of Ariandel was a dang letdown and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Two bosses? Yeah I regret getting a season pass just because of that
DLC. And no the arena was not worth it, the usual invasions are much more fun than that. But it's too late to cry about that now I suppose.
Ringed City though, boy oh boy, that one surprised me. Don't get me wrong I expected From to make a DLC to make up for their mistake with Ashes of Ariandel but the sheer size
and content of this DLC was amazing, it might even be better than the DLC from Dark Souls 1, simply glorious, honestly get Ringed City you will not be disappointed.
Amazing 4 boss fights and a lot of cool weapons and spells are just waiting for you to pick them up.


THE WEAPON AND ARMOR:
Armor in this game has no upgrades and poise is useless outside of hyper armor. If you're not using a slow weapon that hits hard, wearing havels really won't matter.
But if you're using a havels while you're wielding the Fume UGS then you can bet that you will out-trade anybody in PvP no matter who it is. Well unless you get outsmarted.
In which case if you're wearing Havels and are using the Fume and do get outsmarted I suggest you delete the game and never come back on steam you filthy casual.
Weapons are amazing as far as I'm concerned, sure From doesn't know how to balance them, but a lot of weapons are just amazing and I love the different weapon arts that each
of them have. Just today I found out the Man Serpent Hatchet had charge with the charged R2 after you use the warcry, 10/10 surprised me really.
The weapon upgrades might be some of the most detailed in the game, you have heavy, sharp, raw, chaos, fire, simple, refined, hollow, dark, deep, I'm sure I missed some,
but yeah a lot of upgrades to choose, so that was a very nice thing.


THE PVP:
Not sure what to think about it. On another hand I love killing people, but on the other hand the netcode makes it unbearable at times. Well, might have something to do with
my internet. Can't wait till I upgrade to a 4G internet from my 3 million BC slavic router. Do not go into PvP expecting everything to be peaches and cream honestly.

It's okay.