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Got this game to see what all the fuss was about. I don't know where to begin, but luckily I wrote a rough review way back when so I wouldn't forget what it was like.

Good stuff:

Character design
•being able to create a personalized character
•creative enemy designs and some NPCS

fashion souls
•so many wearable outfits to choose from

Atmosphere
•dark atmosphere which fits the name of the game very well

Exploration (somewhat)
•being able to either slightly branch off paths or at the very least do things in different orders

Bad stuff:

Difficulty
•getting through the gauntlet of enemies is more annoying and infuriating than the bosses themselves
•some mid bosses are harder than the final boss
•carnal demon is in such a small boss area
•ornstein and smough

Level design
•blighttown
•skeleton catacombs
•tomb of the giants
•warping isn't available until after anor londo so backtracking was the only way to move around until then

NPC 'lore'
•NPCs barely talk
•most lore is given through item descriptions so anything can be missed very easily for the more casual player

Music (lack thereof)
•no music except for bosses

Multiplayer
•multiplayer can add to frustration in the idea of being invaded at inoppurtune times

Armor
•armor barely protects against attacks
•armor hinders roll-dodging

In conclusion, when I beat this game I didn't feel satisfied and haven't done another full run since.

Thank god there's a Dark Souls II to improve upon this raw as fuck game...

shit game, one of the worst. don't even think about playing it (BAD)


beautiful and awesome but rpgs may not be for me after all

Changed my outlook on games forever and changed the industry too. Masterpiece of a game.

I didn't like it for the same reason as Bloodborne.

Kudos to the people who do, just not my thing.

Um dos melhores jogos de todos os tempos. Gameplay imersiva e diferenciada para a época, Trilha sonora impecável, level design incrível, bosses fantásticos e uma experiência única.

i love the map and i love zweihander and i love most of the bosses shoutout to artorias

Good game if you like old rpg's, it has a nice tone and vibe to it. The flaws in its controls only adds to the weight of how hopeless you feel. Makes overcoming everything really worth it.

the improvements over demon's souls here are massive; they fixed the soul/human form mechanic to something that doesn't suck, estus flask>>>>>>grass heals, the interconnected world, cutting world tendency entirely... shit's great. still has some major tedious bs though like capra demon, bed of chaos, etc., the boss runbacks aren't genuinely miserable like in DeS but they're still boring and too long imo.

puede que sea mi juego favorito... pero también me parece en términos objetivos un juego bastante mediocre, la primer mitad es increíble y la segunda mitad es el peor juego jamás hecho

voy a dejar esta review y el rating a la mitad como decidió hacer fromsoft con el juego. SALUDOS

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fuck it hard

This review contains spoilers

Esse jogo é basicamente perfeito em tudo. Worldbuilding, level desing, gameplay, etc. Mas eu não consigo mais dar nota máxima, porque Lost Izalith e a Bed of Chaos é a experiência mais frustrante que eu já tive em jogo.

Kinda hard to adapt after DS2 and 3.

I resisted playing this game for a very long time because I didn't care that much for Demon's Souls when I played it. Turns out what I wanted from that game was an interconnected world to explore.

One of the few modern era games that really stuck to my bones and became a game I still revisit when I long to return to a familiar world.

Um dos maiores da história. :,)

All the way back in 2013 I dropped this game after 20 hours playtime, around lvl 26. I remember getting irritated at constantly googling questions I had about the game every five minutes. I remember believing this to be a complete failure of a game. I remember feeling Demons Souls was 'better'. (quotation marks because that game was also quite obscure and required the help of google)

Since then I've platinum'ed games like Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne, so it's safe to say I'm much more accustomed to this particular genre now, but still, I figure it's worth keeping my original memories of this game for this log entry. I really should try the remastered version some day.


Despite the second entry, this is still when FromSoft weren't afraid to experiment and get their hands on things. The experience is very different from Elden Ring