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Have You Played… Dark Souls 2?A wild ride
A wild ride
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Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.It’s easy to placeDark Souls 2in your crosshairs and take aim at its differences. Its map doesn’t intertwine likeDark Souls1 or 3. Lots of bosses do that thing where they summon in some mates and it’s quite annoying. The atmosphere lacked that magic glaze. And yet, its quirks and frustrations make it one of my favourites.Dark Souls II - PS3/X360/PC - The Curse of the Dark (EU Launch trailer)Watch on YouTubeLike I mentioned in our2014 Time Capsule, the game takes a scattershot approach to Dark Souls' traditional world order. You shoot between dark forests and ancient peaks and there’s even a point where you ride a spooky ghost ship. But it’s this lack of cohesion that makes it so memorable, as you’re just some undead warrior going on this odyssey through a ravaged land, encountering all its weird and wonderful beasties.The DLCs elevate the game’s status as a concept album, whisking you off to three forgotten kingdoms to reclaim crowns from ice-blasted cities and sunken Aztec-inspired temples. And while a lot of its levels are fairly linear, you wonder whether they set the stage forElden Ring’s open world. I mean,Elden Ringcertainly resembles the DS2 experience out of all FromSoftware’s offerings but ups the intricacy levels and ties things together better.Cheers to Dark Souls 2, a wild ride.
Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.It’s easy to placeDark Souls 2in your crosshairs and take aim at its differences. Its map doesn’t intertwine likeDark Souls1 or 3. Lots of bosses do that thing where they summon in some mates and it’s quite annoying. The atmosphere lacked that magic glaze. And yet, its quirks and frustrations make it one of my favourites.Dark Souls II - PS3/X360/PC - The Curse of the Dark (EU Launch trailer)Watch on YouTubeLike I mentioned in our2014 Time Capsule, the game takes a scattershot approach to Dark Souls' traditional world order. You shoot between dark forests and ancient peaks and there’s even a point where you ride a spooky ghost ship. But it’s this lack of cohesion that makes it so memorable, as you’re just some undead warrior going on this odyssey through a ravaged land, encountering all its weird and wonderful beasties.The DLCs elevate the game’s status as a concept album, whisking you off to three forgotten kingdoms to reclaim crowns from ice-blasted cities and sunken Aztec-inspired temples. And while a lot of its levels are fairly linear, you wonder whether they set the stage forElden Ring’s open world. I mean,Elden Ringcertainly resembles the DS2 experience out of all FromSoftware’s offerings but ups the intricacy levels and ties things together better.Cheers to Dark Souls 2, a wild ride.
It’s easy to placeDark Souls 2in your crosshairs and take aim at its differences. Its map doesn’t intertwine likeDark Souls1 or 3. Lots of bosses do that thing where they summon in some mates and it’s quite annoying. The atmosphere lacked that magic glaze. And yet, its quirks and frustrations make it one of my favourites.
Dark Souls II - PS3/X360/PC - The Curse of the Dark (EU Launch trailer)Watch on YouTube
Dark Souls II - PS3/X360/PC - The Curse of the Dark (EU Launch trailer)
Like I mentioned in our2014 Time Capsule, the game takes a scattershot approach to Dark Souls' traditional world order. You shoot between dark forests and ancient peaks and there’s even a point where you ride a spooky ghost ship. But it’s this lack of cohesion that makes it so memorable, as you’re just some undead warrior going on this odyssey through a ravaged land, encountering all its weird and wonderful beasties.
The DLCs elevate the game’s status as a concept album, whisking you off to three forgotten kingdoms to reclaim crowns from ice-blasted cities and sunken Aztec-inspired temples. And while a lot of its levels are fairly linear, you wonder whether they set the stage forElden Ring’s open world. I mean,Elden Ringcertainly resembles the DS2 experience out of all FromSoftware’s offerings but ups the intricacy levels and ties things together better.
Cheers to Dark Souls 2, a wild ride.
