There's a lot that could probably be said about Dark Souls 2 feeling like it is made by a B team and not being directed by Miyazaki but it still is a great game. The combat is as fun and tense as ever and there's some decent build variety even though I'll always do a dexterity build. Give me a fast sword and allow me to dodge around and I'm happy. And there sure are a lot of bosses to fight. They're not all amazing but the sheer amount of them means there's going to be some you'll love. It also means there will be plenty you hate too.

Dark Souls 2 does lose the wonderfully crafted interconnected world from the first game but there is still some solid level design to explore. The DLC areas which are included in this Scholar of the First Sin edition are of a pretty high quality with the strong exception of the Frigid Outskirts. Good lord, does that are suck. It's probably the worst area that's ever been put in any of these games I've played. There is some interesting lore to mine through in this game even though I will mostly use lore videos of which there are plenty on Youtube.