abysmal, with the most misguided quest and level design in the series. DS1 and Demon's Souls are hard because the enemies are difficult and it relies on the player learning the level in order to breakthrough to the boss or a shortcut. DS2 keeps that tradition but adds the fact that the game is nonsense and it refuses to give you a clear direction to go because it thinks that that is what makes DS a "fun hard." Obviously there are those who enjoy this and I'm glad this is another good entry to y'all but what makes this game hard is not what I find fun about Soulslikes