5/7/2023 0 Comments Dark souls 3 great rottenwood![]() ![]() It is a dark and brilliant world, with some appealing settings and incredible creatures, it has a pretty solid combat system, and it instills a profound sense of relief and/or accomplishment when you finally clear a hurdle (typically killing one of the bosses). There are a lot of good things about Dark Souls, though. This won't much bother Elder Scrolls fans, I imagine, but to some it can come off as needless micro-managing of resources and equipment. You also have to make sure your "souls" (currency) are stocked to at least a modest degree, in case you need to repair your weapons and armor. ![]() I don't expect a lot of handholding, but being too cryptic can be a real pain. The exact wording of characters and items can be less than impressive, making you wonder what From Software was thinking when they finalized things. Much of the audio is softly spoken, so you'd better have subtitles enabled. The voicework is, frankly, tepid at best. It is not possible to pause the game whatsoever you have to save at a bonfire (which respawns all non-unique enemies) in order to protect yourself from losing your place. Perhaps most painful of all is that when you use either the inventory menu or the main menu in-game, you are still playing and can still be killed. The game severely punishes you for mistakes, could benefit from improved hit detection, and has brutally intrusive multiplayer (even if you don't have PlayStation Plus, if your character is alive/human, then other players can invade your game and kill you, and the only way to stop them is to not be connected to th e PlayStation Network). ![]() A majority of the game's fans will insist it is "tough but fair," but that only goes so far. I went into this game knowing that the series has a reputation of being almost too-hard, and with no real relief (there's a new game plus option, but the enemies scale and change tactics to become as difficult as ever to defeat).Įven so, Dark Souls is hard. I bought this game because I don't mind a challenge and I love exploring interesting worlds, especially fantasy realms. Merciless, challenging, infuriating, but enthralling and worth it ![]()
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