having played almost the entire fromsoft souls games (except elden which i dropped and sekiro which i'll player later) DeS is a very weird experience. it has a lot of good stuff that's clearly made better in later entries (OST, bosses, bonfires, combat movement, certain QoL stuff like using multiple of the same item, menu icons) but when you consider this is a 2009 game it's fucking insanes. areas are very good, normal mobs can be more challenging than most bosses, and cutscenes went fucking INSANE (the best out of any souls game by far)

this game is very close with DS1, but i'd say i enjoyed this a bit more than that game. while i do think DS1 is slightly better since it's literally DeS but they touched on things that they didn't get quite right here and made them better, i still liked DeS more, and at the end of the day, enjoyment is what matters. i think.

anyway

SOUL OF THE LOST WITHDRAWN FROM ITS VESSEL

LET STRENGTH BE GRANT SO THE WORLD MIGHT BE MENDED