It took a while to properly get into this one but man, Dark Souls really is something else.

Really hard to say anything original when talking about this game since everyone seems to have said it all already but I’ll just say this:

It’s an amazing ARPG that commits to some absolutely crazy ideas that make sense once you get into it. So many elements from story to mechanics seem to have been tailor made to create this soul crushing atmosphere which allowed me to truly immerse myself into the “dark” themes of the game.

An impressive blend of narrative and gameplay that few games have achieved, Dark Souls is a one-of-a-kind experience that has earned its position as one of the greatest games of all time.

It’s certainly up there for me.

A primeira vez que joguei isso não entendi NADA, e digo isso porque joguei lá em 2013, não existia algo parecido, não existia um mar de informação que nem existe hoje sobre um SoulsLike, cada esquina é um terror que eu ia morrer pelo menos umas 40 vezes, e mesmo assim o jogo me guiava pela história de uma forma natural. A dificuldade é um show a parte que você tem que estar disposto a enfrentar, esse é daqueles jogos que sua perserverança que vai valer, não desista a próxima bonfire está logo ali...ou seu túmulo. Vale CADA centavo

Looooooove this game. The exploration makes me cream. Such a charming experience filled with character in each corner. It's not perfect by any means, but that's kinda what makes it so iconic. It's rough design choices and wonky balancing adds to the unwelcome feeling you get from the world and makes the whole thing more memorable. Has one of the most uneven boss roster in the series, but its peaks are some of the highest in the series. I find it hilarious how it gives you the master key as a starting item option, allowing for some insane sequence breaks that you have to wonder if they even thought about that or if they just added it in because it 'seemed right' for a game like this.

Solid af.

Loved the world and how everything would lead back to the main area, Firelink shrine. Everything is interconnected beautifully. The Firelink shrine theme is also a banger and got me feeling stuff I don't even know how to explain. It was just so cathartic beating a chore of a boss then limping back to firelink and hearing that relaxing music while spending my hard earned souls.

I didn't find the game difficult but the hardest part was without a doubt the Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough boss fight. I must have spent an hour dying but I was slowly improving. By the time I was getting the hand of it, the boss glitched out of the screen and died instantly I still have no idea what happened. This was the only glitch I ever experienced in the whole game which I found funny.

The DLC, also solid, it had great boss fights that were fair and basically skill checks, none of them felt as impossible as Ornstein and Smough. Artorias is probably one of the best bosses I've fought in a video game, I knew where to improve every time I died and had his move set down to a study. Incredibly satisfying when I took him down.

One complain is that the game doesn't hold your hand whatsoever in terms of where you need to go, I had to pull up a guide a few times to show me where to go next according to my level. You can do that or either go to an area under leveled to die 20 times and figure out this isn't actually the place you're supposed to go to yet. Plus the paths you are supposed to go to are so well blended in the not so good graphics that I doubt I would have even been able to find them on my own.

This game was just a bit harder than Demon Souls (the only other Soulsborne I've played) but nothing rage worthy. Would love to play this again

I'd been sitting outside the final boss for a good year so it was time to put this to bed; I was never going to go back to any DLC or secret portrait worlds any time soon.

I finished my first Dark Souls, my first proper Soulslike. That's a crazy feeling. I didn't always do it the hard way; I fought with NPCs, I fought with friends, I got guided to shortcuts and found bonfires I would have refused to have played the game without. But it still feels very special. Maybe for the next run, I'll try and play blind.

I doubt it. There's a shared experience that makes this invaluable to me, and my run feels like a shared achievement, and I'm genuinely like privileged to not have done it alone.

It's janky. The boss runs suck. i-frames are franky a ridiculous mechanic. It's too dense in its secrets; too much undiscovered, too much too complicated. Levelling feels pointless, upgrading equipment isn't obvious. I never saw a legendary weapon, I never wore a single piece of cool armor because slow-rolling was ass. Level design ranged from outstanding to incredibly, incredibly poor.

But it's an unforgettable experience in an unforgettable world. And I did it.