DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

this game is an instrument with which you make art.

you have a million colors and outfits with which to paint and adorn your character.

every area is a song to learn. the beats are the monsters, and every time you mess up, you learn the rhythm.

every boss is a dance, every misstep learning experience, until suddenly you're doing the tango and you have no fucking clue how you did it but you won and holy shit that was so fucking fun why didn't i do this twelve years ago?

I got the platinum trophy on PSN years ago but bought the game again to see if I could do it twice, but on the Steam Deck. It took me 31 hours, but I did it! Pretty cool.

Runs seamlessly on Deck and I'm not sure if it's because me and a bunch of other people bought it on sale at the same time or what; but I seriously saw like, 5 or 6 vagrants across my NG & NG+1 playthroughs which means the playerbase must be VERY much alive as vagrants are usually super uncommon. So despite the age of the game, you can still absolutely jump in and get the multiplayer experience, if you want that.

You might die a lot, but the playerbase never will lmao

I first attempted Dark Souls with the Prepare to Die edition. I never completed the game after getting stuck roughly in the middle of the game. That was nearly a decade ago.

Recently I got the urge to tick this title off my gamer bucket list. The remastered version brought back fond memories and allowed me to comfortably play on modern hardware. (No modding needed to run on ultrawide)

I can now proudly say that I have completed one of the most difficult games I had to face in my gaming history. I never experienced any glitches, frame drops and slowdowns. Even Blighttown was an area that I could now enjoy. (Mostly)

I would highly recommend this remaster for newcomers and experienced players alike.

Dark Souls admittedly intimidated me going into it. The landmark "hard" game. In reality it is not that bad, and when you realize the game is quite literally rooting for you to continue it makes the "difficulty" a little bit fun (despite the tediousness of losing all your souls when you die). This game is also rich with lore, much of which has to be pieced together by the player, which I can appreciate. The combat is fairly satisfactory, and once you get used to the stamina bar, it really isn't annoying at all. I ultimately found it pretty engaging, and I do want to revisit it one day for the 100% trophy.

However, there are a number of aspects which also make anxious to revisit it. First of all, this game is subpar as a remaster, the graphics are slightly updated and it controls a little better than the original but it is still janky at times, many areas and models still look rough for a game made in 2018, and you still have to deal with a lot of iffy geography at times. Also, as everyone says, the second half of the game is just ugly, and as soon as you beat Quelaag the lack of effort put into late game areas (or even enemies) becomes apparent (namely Ash Lake and Lost Izalith). My final complaint (though this applies to pretty much all Souls games) is the quest system, especially with regard to achievements. With no way to track quest progress and often minimal help in regard to knowing what to do for achievement hunting (which already takes multiple playthroughs at a minimum for 100%), you have little choice but to use a wiki, which becomes a pain in the ass to track.

I have a soft spot in my heart for this game but it isn't without its flaws. I do think the message of the game, however, warrants trying it at least at some point. Don't you dare go Hollow.

Time to become another unga bunga bonker in older soul game. World building is great, everything feels connected. Boss theme and lore is cool as hell. Missing some QoL features are annoying if you played other modern FS's game. Plus Actoys has very cool blind box stuff.

Simply a masterpiece. It's a one of a kind game that brought many games to life even several years after it's release. Must play.

For a remaster its pretty shit, first bell of awakening constantly rings through burg and parish for some reason, there are new bugs to contend with too, only upside is that it is very slightly more responsive than DS1, other than the funny messages this doesnt have much going for it Id just 'acquire' DSFix instead for a better experience (since they removed PTDE from the steam store lol)

Maybe i am a masochist?!
Becaise this is an Evil game is evil. Pure evil. Evil evil evil... EVIL game!
It will hurt you. Absolutely horrible and evil game.
Why would someone ever make something this cruel and evil...? But i love it.

This game is the equivalent of a persistent teacher/professor in school, originally you hate them for being so challenging, you are annoyed that they seem unfair. But then, one day it clicks and you stop losing. Areas that used to take hours now take minutes, you learn from your mistakes and absolutely crush it. You look back on your teacher and appreciate their persistence and challenge because it made you a better player. Dark Souls doesn't hold your hand when you pick it up for the first time, you are faced trial by fire, but then you are offered aid by way of in game help from characters you meet along the way or knowledge imparted to you by friends such as "Did you know about this shortcut?" or "That boss can actually be cheesed in ____ way". It's a game about learning and it executes it flawlessly.

The game that has started the trend... This is my second souls-like game after Elden Ring and I feel like this game made me a veteran in this genre. I understand all the hype. Jump into the game after accepting that it is a rather hard and unusual game that will take your time to learn about it. Well anyways, your gods are dead and you are stuck with the curse of being unable to die due to your king going senile and keeping how the things work despite it is all rotting. Good luck trying to fix all of it.

First of all, I think this game is pretty artistic. Like I felt really excited to be around in this world, it was mostly pleasurable. It was fun to wander around and explore, or just to look at despite this game having older graphics. Plus I understand why people liked the Dark Souls map. It is brilliantly designed and everything is connected. Even if it has been a while since I played this game, when I remember playing it, I feel no gaps between anywhere I went. I guess I can describe it as "complete". Despite not being an open world game, this game gives you the opportunity to explore a lot. Okay I guess I can tell that some stuff is absurdly hidden I still loved it mostly.

Let's talk about combat, the main part that probably most care about. When I was progressing through the game, I though "Hey, this feels just like Elden Ring :D!". Then game smacked me with more combat options that I needed to do. Game kinda forces you to use them all throughout the game. Sometimes you realize you need to parry, sometimes you just use bows, sometimes you have to backstab them. Learning these are hard, but after that you kinda enjoy it while looking for the enemies attack pattern. You can get creative whatever you use. I must say though, it feels so much slower comparing to Elden Ring. But I kinda find a beauty in that. I like breathing rooms to analyze what to do and change my plans. Since movements are slower too it is also more pleasurable to dodge an attack that you see. It just balances itself.

The thing I probably loved about this game is items! Items actually have meanings in this game. You see, there are shit ton of different enviromental dangers you need to get through and it is way too hard without some items. You kinda realize that you are doing something wrong in these areas. Walking in the water is too slow? There is an item for that. Too much poison around? Get poison res equipment, they make a lot difference. Bro deals too much lightning damage? Just get light res. equipment and it will become a decent damage. You get your poise up and hey, now you are actually hard to stagger, unlike other games where no matter what your poise is %90 of the enemies just stagger the shit out of you. You can shape your game experience however you want with the items you make an effort for. This also boosts your desire to explore.

If we get to the part where I need to write, there isn't much the write to be honest. They are using the same blueprint for all of their games and its okay. I liked Elden Ring lore, I liked this too. It was interesting. Though I can say I mostly played for exploring and combat. If there is a strong point about it's lore, maybe I could say there are really lovely NPC's. Everyone know Solaire but the others are not less amazing than him.

I'll be fair now, there are really some places of the game where it is total bullshit and just unnecessarily troubling. But you can just get through them you know, and I was kinda okay with it since I was just excited and just trying to survive.

Overall as a souls game, I loved it totally. It was more on the chill side but was still hard. I loved the whole world and exploring items, and use items lol. I also think that it would be a great game to be "first souls experience" with guides of course. Some people might not like it after games like DS3 or Elden Ring, since it paces a lot slower. But in my opinion game gives it's taste fully since you kinda digest it to get through it lol.

O chosen undead, you are left with the burden of a collapsing world on your shoulders. Fret not, keep trying and do not go hollow!

That was my first soulslike playtrough, and except first 20 hours of gameplay it was not that hard what i expecting before playing. Overall a good game, exploring locations and most of the fights are very satisfying. I'll be back soon to finish the game 100%, because the first playthrough doesn't allow me to do so, it will take some more time.
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Well, I managed to finish the game 100% and I enjoy everything i did, statistics show that the time to complete everything is 105 hours, it took me 104, it could have been faster like 80/90 if I hadn't eaten the souls of the bosses during the first game, which were needed to craft unique weapons, so I had to play an additional new games. (I finished at ng++) but I dont regret it, because I had a great time with each one, and with each one I discovered something new, like hidden blacksmith in catacombs, when cutscene starts i though its a mini boss or something, it was cool.
The biggest nightmare was passing blighttown from the depths side because at the beginning of the game I didn't take the master key as a starting item, only the hp bottle, which I later wasted on gargoyles and I died anyway haha.
In any case, it was fun to play and I was satisfied with completing the game to 100%.
10/10

===[ ❤ Audience: ]===
☑ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Casual players
☐ Pro players

===[ ۞ Game time/length ]===
☐ Really short ( 0 - 8 hours)
☐ Short ( 8 - 20 hours)
☑ Few hours ( 20 - 50 hours)
☐ Long ( 50+ hours)
☐ Endles

===[ ☼ Graphics: ]===
☑ Cancer
☐ Really bad
☐ Bad
☐ OK
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Masterpiece

===[ ☼ Difficulty: ]===
☐ You just need 2 arms
☐ Ez
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Hard (first few hours)
☑ Cancer

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Cancer
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

===[ ♬ Story] ===
☐ It doesn't have
☐ Still better than Twilight
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Ca... Plin plin plon

This is the game of my life, the best game ever made in my opinion.
I first played it back when the game was released. I had no information at all, I didn't even know that it was considered a very hard game, I just liked the cover and downloaded it to play on my laptop at 15 fps (I was unemployed, forgive me).

I was completely absorbed into this decaying world, I felt the adventure to my bones, I absolutely loved the slow paced combat, the story, the level design, everything.
Now that I have a job and money, I made sure to buy it to compensate Fromsoftware for providing me with such a wonderful experience, and took the chance to make 100% of the achievements =)

The entire layout of this game is stored in the quick access part of my brain. This game takes up space my brain that I could be using for something infinitely more useful and constructive. I wouldn't have it any other way because its funny.

10/10

Even after all these years, still a masterpiece. Up there with Ocarina of Time. Absolutely still enjoyable, timeless classic.

Dark Souls: Remastered is a classic video game with some minor changes to bring it more in line with more recent entries. Pretty much everyone knows this game, it practically spawned its own genre of video game. It's for that reason alone you should try this for yourself. Good luck skeleton!

I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed, i quit, i suddenly want to try again after some time, I play the game, i get annoyed,

One of the best games period. This game is a great game to learn how to challenge yourself and gradually improve your gameplay through patience and knowledge. There's plenty of ways to play, yet it's simple enough not to be overwhelming. It's a great game to learn video game mechanics, on par with Super Mario Bros.

this game is recommended, but only on discount
is it a good game? ehh, solid 6 or 7 out of 10
is it worth the almost 60 AUD? hell no
other than that, it's a clunky, difficult and painful yet somewhat fun game
I wish they did patch some bugs out, one thing I tend to expect from a 'remaster'
on the bright side though, there is gwynevere

would smash (the intercourse) a very particular boss.. hehe and well.. lets just say they don't call it the "gaping" dragon for nothing ;))))

If you know how to make a good build and understand that locking on to some enemies might make them harder to fight since it feels clunky compared to the newer souls titles, This may be one of the easier Souls games to play, overall great game, really shows you the roots of Fromsoft.

This Game is what really made me like the soulsborne series ,every nook and cranny filled with something fun
completed it 100% 10/10 will do it again
This game taught me the depths of despair and the heights of Hope
Thank you fromsoft and i urge anyone who does read it and hasn't played the game
YOU SHOULD

This game will challenge and demand the best of you. You either adapt and overcome the obstacles that will stand in your path, or you succumb and go hollow. For those that persist they shall find a game that though it's not perfect it is indeed special and worth experiencing.

Ah yes always

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I've managed to collect the achievements for this game 4 times across different versions and consoles. I'm excited to do it for the 5th time here. That's how much I love this game.

Ah yes. Get Good the original. I did indeed get good at the cost of fueling the inner masochist, which may be a good thing if youre into that. this game is where it all started. It has everything that a Dark Souls player experienced at one point in their life. Its got Get Good, a cute dog, a strange boss called Ceaseless Discharge, twink railing, and getting dominated by an old man waaay past his prime. Highly recommend.

Only started this game recently after the other soulsgames - it is certainly a bit hard on the eyes, and the camera is really killing me, but boy do I have fun! In the last months I had tried a few new games, with 100GB+ download volume, and put them away after a few hours, and here is this little gem, only requiring 6GB, and keeping me happy ...

Really amazing experience, the game has so much story, hidden paths, story, alternatives. It makes you really think about your options, as there are many paths to go. The game is easy going, nothing of a challenge until you get to a certain boss, after that milestone it turns easy again.

Completed all the achievements in NG2+. It's one of the shortest Dark Souls game, but so very well done. The updated graphic is barely noticeable, but it's not about the graphic. The community is still alive, you can get help on certain bosses if you struggle, but also get detroyed by invaders if you are not prepared.

Would play again.

Came from DS3 after getting all achievements there and you can tell the game feels old. But its still a nice and good game, once you get used to the old mechanics. You can feel really lost sometimes, but it is absolutly fine to look up stuff or ask people if you need help!

I personally enjoyed this game more than Elden Ring, DS3 and Sekiro but I love all those games too. I started with Elden Ring and DS3 then I played DS1R. I was captivated by this game's darker and sometimes beautiful atmosphere. And the level design/layout of this game is amazing minus a few buggy spots, the soundtrack is also amazing. Idk why but this game just felt more nostalgic, maybe its the graphics but it reminded of how Zelda Twilight Princess felt playing as a kid.

Very fun Souls game, it was very enjoyable the story is nice and the bosses were (mostly) fun and entertaining.(Cough cough bed of chaos) But its still a very fun and enjoyable game.

---{ 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 }---
☐ 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

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ 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!
☐ It's a steal
☐ 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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8.5/10

Notes:
- Missing wayyy too many qol features present in every other fromsoft soulsborne games. These missing features impede on gameplay and make it extremely unenjoyable and frustrating at times.

The game that created a new genre.

Level design in the first half of the game remains unmatched to this day.

Might be strange to say, but now that I have beaten the game I return regularly and it's kind of my 'cozy game'. It's so satisfying to explore.

Excellent Steamdeck experience too, passed many plane ride hours with this.

Evil. Evil game. Evil game is evil. Pure evil. Evil evil evil evil game. It will hurt you. Absolutely horrible and evil game. I hate it. Why would someone ever make something this cruel and evil?? Highly recommended. 11/10,

I have never been angrier playing a videogame. Dark Souls Remastered brings out a primal rage out of me that the only way i know how to express is through a guttural scream as i die for the tenth time on the boss run to pinwheel from the stupid fucking stunlocking wheel skeleton pit.

The level design is phenomenal, the exploration reminds me of kingsfield. When i first approached this game, i expected it to be a less fleshed out and unpolished version of the last entry in the DS trilogy. Instead, i was pleasantly surprised. DS1 is its own completely different thing and i love it.

Difficult game, feels a bit janky but fun. Definitely recommend to play.

DSR is far more intricate in its map layout and design. It is also nice to see where it all came from.

I would play DSR to get better context and then play DS3 again. Look for all the details that lead up to DS3. You've got seath the scaleless, bed of chaos and Izalith references, gravelord nito (one of the first lords, chest ahead (gwynevere above where Aldrich is in DS3... Great sight to behold), siegmeyer (another jovial knight of caterina), patches, Solair, almost too many to name.

Anyways. I played them in reverse and its been a fun journey seeing everything unfold and seeing all the roots.

Absolutely fantastic game! Great mechanics and great way to play when it comes to playing the game, forcing you to learn the game the hard way and dying a lot. I love this game with a passion. Absolutely amazing game! 9/10 game!

i satrted play this game, not in the best part of my life. This game show me that i need to be strong, don't give up even it's the most dark time - i need to be the sun, or a little flame what keep flaming, i need to keep going how hard it wasn't be. praise the SUN \[T]/ ( even it's life give you Ornstein and Smough in the Capra demon arena ;D)

I have played this game too much. Though I now prefer Dark Souls 2, I cannot deny the ability of this first game's metroidvanian level design to draw the player into a frenzied desire to replay it dozens of times, trying a seemingly infinite number of builds and strategies. I also have to admit that this games somewhat low level of difficulty compared to it's sequels (and Demon Souls) makes this process more fun.

TLDR: I wanted to like this game. It's story is very interesting, the world design and 3D metroidvania looping map style is cool. Being able to look in the distance and go to a place you see later on is also cool. I also love the music. However, the most important part of a game is not any of those things (though they all are still very valuable to an experience). The most important part of a game is gameplay, and the gameplay here is awful. Not enemy difficulty, but the crummy camera and the awful and frankly, in my opinion, lazily designed controls keep me from enjoying this game. Skip it, start with Sekiro or Elden ring. They have their flaws and laziness too, but no where near as frustrating as this game.

Long Review: The lethargic, unresponsive, and poorly implemented controls and camera interactions keep this game from being great. The dodge and run controls are bound to a single key. Here are some examples.

So, you want to dodge? Well press dodge and wait for the game to understand that you want to dodge the guy swinging a sword at your face. Dodge delay occurs, you get smacked anyway and now have wasted valuable stamina (yes, even when on low armor encumbrance).

You want to run away? Hold on to the dodge/run key for dear life and hope your character get's the hint to run away from a demon dual wielding greatswords.

You want to fight a guy in a tight corridor? Well tough luck buddy. Your character has not heard of thrusting and will only ever swing in a closed space, getting stunned because they hit a wall. While the enemy you're fighting doesn't suffer any penalty and can go loco on your character.

You want to get closer to the enemy to hit them? Well tough luck chum you just triggered the kick action (bound to a movement key and your attack button...yunno, the main keys you use in a fight) and will now get ganked.

Wanna Kick a guy and break his parry stance? Too bad, so sad. You didn't time it perfectly so now you hit him and get parried, then ganked as your drunken character tries to mosey off of the ground.

Wanna parry someone and get the upper hand? Sorry, even though your shield obviously made contact with the sword coming at your gut, you didn't do it when the game wanted you to. So now The sword will phase through your shield and you die.

How about this. Do you want to backstab someone for an easy kill? Or maybe you parried them and they're stunned. Once again, sucks for you. You didn't stand in the exact right spot and the game has no toggle option for "backstabbing" so you don't get the easy hit.

That's enough of my angry ranty examples. These control flaws, as I've said, ruin this game for me. I have no idea what happened to fromsoft's control scheme designers, but the controls from armored core 1 (a ps1 game with no joysticks) had better camera movement and controls than this game. If you haven't played armored core 1 (it's great if you can look past some of the jank, highly recommend) that is a very bad thing. To give a better example, it feels like I'm playing this game with "that one annoying cousin/brother" who won't stop trying to grab the controls out of my hand. Every time I try and do something, he comes over and starts pushing buttons and yanking on the joysticks. Whereas AC1 (and frankly all of the ps1 AC games) just felt like you're playing fetch with a smart dog who's just a bit old and dopey and sometimes needs a hand.

The camera in this is very frustrating. In elden ring the lock on was awful, but the base third person camera was mostly great. In this game, you can thankfully turn off some of the annoying camera reset features. But, not the ones for strafing. If you dare strafe, whatsoever, the game will yank your camera away from you, and no, you can't keep looking at the enemy you want to, as the game physically won't budge while strafing. This is an annoying hindrance and I don't know why it was coded into the game. When you run backwards, sometime's the camera also gets screwed up. The game just won'te let the camera be, and allow the player to worry about it.

The combat controls, and I mean it, feel like an old geezer who's half awake while standing on a banana peel. The delay caused by having dodge and run bound to one key, and being unable to be separated, make a significant impact on combat. There is no excuse for why they aren't separated, or able to be. Let alone in a remaster. The parrying is very unrealistic to me and feels less like a skill check and more of a "guess the parry window" check. I find it's better just to take the shield hit and let the enemy get stunned from that. The lock on system is also very flawed overall, and is a necessary evil in combat. Unfortunately, even in their latest title, it seems fromsoftware haven't quite figured out how to not make an annoying lock on system, even after 8 games with similar mechanics and 14 years of time. The lock on is the only thing that let's you move away from an enemy while still facing them, and is damn near key to consistently landing your hits (as there isn't a cursor on the screen that lets you tell your character where to hit). This lock on will also prevent any and all camera movement, so if you're in an awkward spot in a corridor or happen to be in a bad spot, it'll be tough to see.

Combine the jank of the camera with the jank of the combat systems, and you have one nasty experience. I cannot in good faith recommend this to anyone who likes and/or expects semi-responsive control schemes. What I will say is that you'd be better off skipping this game, the original demon souls, and DS2 and going to the more recent titles like Elden Ring or Sekiro (maybe DS3 but I have yet to try it. Hoping it's good). Elden ring especially has some glaring issues (especially in the end game areas, which were lazily put together in terms of enemies) but they are still vastly superior experiences.

I am saddened to give this review, as I've always wanted to try DS1. I quit the game on my first play through because the camera was so frustrating. I decided to try and give it another chance but it is still just as frustrating. Enough to where I cannot say how hard the enemies are, or who was my favorite to fight. I had no issues with the enemies, since I spent more time fighting the controls than the actual enemies in the game. Don't buy into the hype like I did.

As the first Dark Souls it sure has its flaws but despite that it is still an incredible experience.

By far one of the best games ive ever played, took the non-linear and interconnected world design of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and combined it with the combat and level design philosophy of Demon Souls. To this day the game holds up well gameplay wise and visually thanks to the slowpaced, weighty combat and amazing art direction that gives the environments a dream like quality.

While the second half is definitely weaker than its front half, I feel like the only truly awful area is Lost Izalith.

Playtime is low here because ive already played this game several times on PS3 and PS5 and only recieved it as a gift on steam a few years back. You can catch this game on sale quite often so I recommend waiting for one if you're tight on cash.

Came from Elden Ring, required a bit of adjusting but after learning the way the game works it was great.

Game works wonderfully on Steam Deck. Highly recommend it, playing handheld is fantastic, and docking works well too

Much easier than i expected. I was kind of hoping i'd get my ass beat for atleast a good chunk of the game.

1000% still worth playing, very interesting to see the origin of what was to come and still is a great experience even with the second half clearly rushed.

Beautiful map design, I wish they finished lost Izalith
Best souls game
No soulslike has ever come close to being as cool as dark souls 1

Other than the horrible run-backs to boss fights and certain bosses being pretty underwhelming, I'd say this game is great. Completely understandable that this game is good enough to create a whole genre of games.

8/10

Still a fantastic Souls game and a great game in general. I still think it doesn't show its age for the most part, though some parts feel pretty awful (looking at you Izalith and Catacombs), but as an overall experiences I still can't help but recommend it wholeheartedly. If you are looking to go back after playing one of the later games such as DS3 or Elden Ring I'd say its worth at least checking it out when it goes on sale, as I think this is where they proved the Souls formula was great (Demon's Souls is great but more of a proof of concept imo). Praise the sun!

Play with friends as it makes it 10x better. Main bad things about this game is Bed of Chaos and the invading mechanic. I just want to progress with friends, I don't want to fight off an invader!