Swagalf

First of all please do yourself a favor and : - Play with a controller (whine whine controls are bad for mouse and keyboard... please.. some games are designed for k&m, other for controller.) - Play Dark Souls 1 and 2. Yes, that's a trilogy. You won't read or watch the last LotR part without the others, that's a nonsense too for the Souls series. Oh and make search about lore if you are interested by it. Now, let's take a look at some bad reviews : -There's no lore ! -> Seriously .. ? Wow. Please go on youtube or just google Dark Soul lore. There's plenty of video, thread and wiki just about the lore, debating, thinking about every clue and every detail. But yeah, Dark Souls is one of the series that use the fact that it's a video game to have a different story telling.. ennemie placement, level design, loot placement, design detail and item description, that's where the lore is. No you won't have a wall of text or a cinematic that tell you everything you need to know because it tell you the same thing with a way that only video game can use. Experimentation, research and care of detail. -Other series would have bad note if they do the same thing over and over again ! That's the same as Dark Souls X -> Mario, Street Fighter, GTA, Elder's scroll, Zelda, Fallout ... do I need to go on ? Every series do the same things. So please.. don't use that argument. It just make no sens. -lol Dark easy Souls ! It's way more easier than [insert a soulsborne game here] ! git gud ! -> It may be easier in some way yes. But do you understand that you maybe play 40+ hours in a precedent game of the series ? And a player who have some hours of play in Street Fighter / CS / [insert franchise here] will learn the mechanics and won't struggle as much as the first experience in the franchise ? Please... please... - Poise is absent -> Yes, that can be a bad point. I understand. Always played light and agile build but yup, I understand - It just crash and crash and crash -> Yeah.. never have the problem without a average pc but yes, some card, spec or idk just don't like this game.. but there's some way to avoid it, just search for them.. and I don't know if crash are still present. But yeah, I feel sorry for you. Now, my review : The first half of the game is good, but not as good as I excepted, there's some good surprise and **** but.. the hype was too present I guess. But god, that second half though ! I won't spoil but it's really, really, really good. **** feeling, epic boss fight.... wow. Wow. WOW. This game really have the "it's the end" feeling, that's incredible. Feelings are here, happiness, sadness, doubt... In term of level design, I rate it between Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 2 (Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls 2) but lorewise, it make sense, you will understand it. So... yup. Why not ? (please don't tell me the lore is here because they don't know how to make a good level design....). On top of that, I think that the level design of Dark Souls 1 seems so good because fire teleportation come late and you have experience the world just so many time for getting back to Firelink shrime that you learned it and saw the connection. I really feel that Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 fire teleport at start isn't good. Bossfights : OH YEAH ! Welcome back monsters, it feel good to see you again after Dark Souls 2. Chara-design : Yup. Yup. and yup again. They are interesting and well design. Maybe they are too kind but we aren't a random hollow like the others game we are an Unkindled and we have their respect for that. Lore : Aaaaahhh... so much answers.. so much question. Once again, it's just fascinating. This game is good. Really, really good. It's just fascinating to see the world and experience it. Fight feeling is once again great. Like the others Souls game, you need to like this kind of game to enjoy it but... who play Civ and say it's trash if they don't like turn-based strategy game ? Yeah, Dark Souls 3 isn't perfect and I wanted to rate it 9.3 but .. 9 is fair. This is the souls I've been waiting for a conclusion. And once again, thanks From Software. The Souls games are one of the purest video game ever made. Everything is around game design and every way of telling you this or making you use that is design like that because game can use these mechanics. Film or book can't. Play Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 3 be curious about lore and enjoy them. Those game are incredible experience and if you really are interested about what a video game can be, play them and think about them, think about every mechanic, every story telling details and every way they use to tell you the lore.

-What is this game ?! -"Keep on as long as you have questions." -What the f*** do I need to do ?! -"Keep on as long as you have questions." -What is this thing ?! -"Keep on as long as you have questions." This game let you discover everything about it. Its mechanics, its story.. everything. You will be lost. You will search. Maybe you will succeed.. and you will understand what's the beauty of this game.

Dark Souls.. First of all : Use a controller. And if you want to, use some mods. After that.. just enjoy. Enjoy, die, enjoy, die and enjoy again. You can go through the game without reading anything, without searching anything. And you'll play the ending cinematic , thinking : "What the **** happened there? This is the worst story ever blblblbl" and you know what? You'll still enjoy the game. But.. you can explore everything and learn about one of the best story ever created in the history of video game. This game is simply beautiful, touching and incredibly deep. You'll have question, you won't understand everything and you'll make theory and search in the internet.. some people will have a different theory and you'll read.. read again, searching for more. And you'll discover the wonderful truth. You will never understand everything and be 100% sure. But you'll search again. This game is challenging, yeah. But it's fair. You can avoid 90% of it's difficulty by looking for clue or way to kill a boss. I don't recommend this game if you don't like a start without any clue about what's going on. I don't recommend this game if you need a game that hold your hand all way long. This game look at you and challenge you. You want to enjoy it ? You will have to deserve it before! You can think that this game hate you. And you will love it for that. But at some points, you'll understand that this game love you and all of the game community. And you will love it even more for that. This, is for me one of the best game ever.. if not the best game ever. This is an experience. This is an adventure. This is a tale. This is Dark Souls.

The hype train took me.. and oooh god, that was awful. In fact, I really don't understand why this game have a good review. But.. some games that I don't like I'm just like : "ok.. not my style but it can be cool for some people I guess!". Here .. hmm.. can be cool for somebody who has never play a good game with a good story. The deep story ? Please... there's just nothing. Nothing. Really. Please, there's game with real story, real depth... plenty of them. Do them, do them and never go back in brothers : A tale of nope. Scene graphism are cool... but you don't know why this is at this place or that thing at another place. With this huge problem, this world seem empty and you just don't feel it at all. This way, graphism are useless. There is no artistic direction, artistic idea. This world wasn't here before you, and will vanish without you. It has no meaning, no story, nothing. Like the game itself in fact. Our heroes are just horrible.. it's not the case if you don't talk to any PNJ. But if you interact with only one of them, you will hate your character fors the entire playthrough. Facial expression is absent... and for a game that wanted to be deep, with empathy ... it's really disturbing. Gameplaywise there's just nothing. Oh wait... yes there's something... one act, one idea. Over, and over, and over again.. and again... and another act.. and that's a loop. A loop of nothing. Please.. please don't play this game. Never, ever play this game. Never.