It's Dark Souls. I don't have any fresh takes on this game.
I'm rating it as 5/5 because of my experience with the game. I was lucky, and I got to play the game on release with no prior knowledge or preconceptions (someone below described it as "THE hipster game" lol). It was the perfect natural continuation of Demon's Souls.
mechanics aside, the game made me feel a mix of wonder, anxiety, hopelessness, and accomplishment that is extremely rare in gaming. The sense of exploration I got from Dark Souls is something I've continued to seek out in new games to this day.
I'm rating it as 5/5 because of my experience with the game. I was lucky, and I got to play the game on release with no prior knowledge or preconceptions (someone below described it as "THE hipster game" lol). It was the perfect natural continuation of Demon's Souls.
mechanics aside, the game made me feel a mix of wonder, anxiety, hopelessness, and accomplishment that is extremely rare in gaming. The sense of exploration I got from Dark Souls is something I've continued to seek out in new games to this day.