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Prepare to die! Dark Souls is a genre defining game that's really challenging and really fun at the same time.
The remastered version will bring you enhanced lighting, textures and graphics; along with greatly improved PvP and Co-Op modes that allow up to 6 players to help… or harm each other.
Explore a dark, mysterious, interconnected world on-the-go for the first time ever with Nintendo Switch.
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Dark Souls Remastered base game for Nintendo Switch
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Where it all began. Don't be put off by the difficulty, you'll learn like we all did.
100
Reviewed by Onion
GOAT
The OG, the classic, too good.
The Pros
The game
The Cons
The game ends
100
Reviewed by Ben
OG
Dark Souls - OK maybe Demon Souls as well - are the OGs of toughness in the modern era of gaming. Its difficulty, lore rich environments and mysterious NPCs are the stuff of legends: memes have spawned from it and a catalogue of incredible titles have sought to emulate its success. Persistence is the key with Dark Souls and once you figure out the formula, it becomes a satisfying romp through some of the greatest landscapes you'll experience in a game.
The Pros
World, lore, combat
The Cons
Can become repetitive
100
Reviewed by calvin
dark souls
epic game, feels nothing different to the 360 version
The Pros
good
The Cons
not bad
100
Reviewed by Karma
Code worked
Great game the buying process worked great
100
Reviewed by steven
Dark Souls Remastered
I love this game I've seen so much of it. It involves one of the best fighting mechanics out there (that i prefer) and i love how the bosses give a challenge and that there are secret areas for you to explore, meaning that you have to explore everywhere to find them, which I love.
The Pros
everything in the game
i loved and still love everything
The Cons
nothing
100
Reviewed by <GRIO>
The G.O.A.T
If you're reading this thinking "Should I buy it", then slap your damn wallet down on your desk and buy this now. Enough said.
The Pros
Literally Everything
The Cons
Literally Nothing
100
Reviewed by jutas
good game
i enjoyed this game
The Pros
just about everything
The Cons
just about nothing
100
Reviewed by Xeratone
One of the best games ever created
To people who may somehow see this review please read it even if you aren't interested in this game
Dark Souls is one of the best games ever created. I originally had no interest in the series but a couple of friends started playing it and Elden Ring came out and became one of the most universally acclaimed games of all time, so then I decided to try out Dark Souls to prepare for Elden Ring and the experience I got was like very few games I've ever played.
-Soundtrack-
The soundtrack for this game is fantastic and yet there is no ambient music for the majority of the game. Music only plays at bossfight's and in 4 ingame areas and yet the soundtrack still manages to hit it out of the park, boss themes and ambient themes are incredible and its no wonder why lots of popular online creators use the songs in their videos.
[h1]Morals and theme[/h1]
The morals and story of Dark Souls are interesting, I'm Christian so I don't like playing games that glorify darkness and Dark Souls seems to at first but once you actually play it you realize that its quite the opposite, Dark Souls is a very depressing game and yet it has helped a surprisingly large volume of people overcome suicidal depression, the whole game can be viewed as an allegory for depression, you face seemingly impossible odds and keep facing setbacks until you finally overcome, and also like depression you can choose to face it alone or with the help of other people, the latter obviously being the easier option. Dark Souls has a lot morally going on with it, some of its messages include: Not prolonging things longer then they should be and letting new things set in, Overcoming impossible seeming obstacles, questioning if what you're doing is truly right. Etc
-Story-
In Dark Souls you are a human, well sort of. You are apart of a type of cursed humans called "The Undead" these humans are cursed with immortality , whenever they die they respawn at the last bonfire (which are the games checkpoints) they rested at because these humans never die they instead go "hollow" which means they have succumbed and gone insane and will attack whoever they see on sight. A person goes hollow in this game usually (But not always) when they've lost their purpose thus meaning they lose their will to go on and will go hollow. In fact the hollows of Lordran are actually the people who quit Dark Souls and never succeeded in their journey, so you have to prevent yourself from meeting the same fate. Im not going to spoil the rest of the story but be warned, you likely will not understand it even once you beat the game, Dark Souls's story is very mysterious and makes very little sense, thus a lore video is almost required unless if you somehow are able to comprehend its story by yourself, upon beating the game most people have a bittersweet feeling, they feel like they accomplished something in that world but don't know what, a feeling I never had in any other game I've beaten.
-Multiplayer-
So this surprised me when I first was told about it before I played the game and as of the time of writing this review the servers are actually down for PC, but Dark Souls actually has multiplayer, its not just some nice feature that's sprinkled in, its heavily integrated in the game AND story (Playing online is not required and doesn't harm the experience but I still heavily recommend playing online) players will leave messages on the ground to either help and deceive eachother, you can summon other players (or your friends) to either help you or to spar with you. Since I played the game while the servers were down as of writing this review I haven't tried multiplayer, but I have played multiplayer on Elden Ring which is very similar and it is extremely fun.
-Combat-
After playing the souls series it now has my favourite melee combat system, its very in depth but also very simple to grasp, you have equip load which determines how fast your stamina regenerates and how fast you dodge, dodging which makes you roll and gives you invulnerability for 1/3 of a second making it extremely good to avoid damage if your good at it, and attacking. You can do Heavy or Light attacks, Heavy attacks use more stamina and are slower but do more damage while light attacks are faster but don't hit as hard. My favourite part about the combat system is the critical hits, you can go behind and enemy to perform a backstab which does a critical hit doing massive damage to them and it is SO satisfying or you can also perform basically the same thing by parrying an attack with a shield and attacking.
-World Design-
For some context my favourite game series of all time (and best game series ever made in my opinion) is Metroid. I was shocked when I played this game because it has so many similarities between it and the Metroid Prime games, the interconnected world was something my Metroid brain enjoyed beyond belief and even the general sound effects and vibe was very similar in a lot of ways. When you complete an area in Dark Souls it will always have an unexpected shortcut that somehow takes you back to the "main hub" area known as "Firelink Shrine" which is one of the only places you encounter non-hostile NPCs. And to add the similarities between Metroid, this game is even MORE non-linear then Metroid, so that's right you can start the game and instantly go the hardest area, if you wanted.
-Difficulty-
So the difficulty for Dark Souls was very overhyped, while it is a hard game the difficulty is fairer then most easy games, most of the difficulty comes from how non-handholding it is compared to other modern games and the rest is you just being bad. For the people who think "this game should have an easy mode" it does, just not as a menu option: Overleveling, Using a magic build, Using summons for bossfights and Getting the best stuff as soon as possible are the games easy mode purposefully put in place by the developers, My advice for new players:
-Don't get cornered or attacked by multiple enemies that is pretty much instant death
-Practice dodge rolling and parrying as much as possible getting good with both is what separates a good player from a noob
-If your armour starts slowing you down take it off, fast stamina regeneration and dodge rolling quickly is far more important then defense, any armour aside from late game armour barely makes a difference in the damage you take anyway
-All enemies attack differently, learn their attack patterns
-If an enemy attack is about to hit you don't just mindlessly dodge, unlike most games enemy attack charge-ups are showing you where you should be dodging, not when. Sometimes you can dodge into the enemy is attacking you, sometimes you dodge in the opposite direction the enemies attack is heading and sometimes you might even need to dodge in the direction the attack is going, its all about lining up your dodges temporary invulnerability with the amount of time the attack can damage you, sounds complicated but its not and it just comes down to muscle memory and getting better.
-If you're about to make a long jump take all your armour off and dequip your weapons, if there are no enemies where you are jumping and if your weapons are heavy, fall damage is lessened when your equip load is lighter.
-Don't be afraid to use walkthroughs
Overall: I give Dark Souls a 9.4/10. its one of the only games on Steam that i've liked enough to give a serious review. The Music, Combat, Depressing yet valuable moral tones, Multiplayer, Concepts, Story, World Design, Difficulty and Metroid-esque design all contribute this fantastic game, I would recommend this game to anyone, so if you're looking at the reviews to make a decision on purchasing it, YES do it and if you weren't even interested in the game and somehow stumbled on this review, I encourage you heavily to get and beat this game.
The Pros
-World design
-OST/Sound design
-Story/morals
-Multiplayer
-Fair and rewarding difficulty
The Cons
-Servers are down and FromSoft has not been communicating clearly.
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