Great base game! But as far as the "remaster" changes go, they added foliage and animations to Firelink Shrine (nice!) and did some modern FromSoft tweaks like multiplayer passwords. Past that it's all the original game's assets run through an engine with botched material lighting. Metals are all dull, stone and living things look more wet than intended, and strangely enough they decided the bonfire looked too ethereal and abstract so they put normal fire there instead. The original Dark Souls didn't look like this! If you can manage, please try to get a hold of PtDE or use a fanmade texture overhaul mod.

Reviewed on Feb 19, 2023


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do you know if PtDE on ps3 fixes the framerate issues from the original

1 year ago

Unfortunately the patches/later versions never fixed Blighttown framerate issues and similar problem spots afaik. PC PtDE has performance issues depending on your config with dsfix/mods. Though I think the modding community has largely moved to this release and it's easier to get this game modded to look better than to get a hold of the original. The Switch version is more based on the PC PtDE and has the original look with no framerate issues (other than the cap at 30) but has horrendously compressed sound.