Dark Souls - Playstation 3

this game is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. although i am probably less than 5% through the game. i've played it for about 10-12 hours and i can't get pass the bosses or the tough normal enemies. they kill you within a hit or two and it takes a lot to kill bosses. also. i was killing weak enemies for 6 hours. to upgrade my stats and i am far away from killing the second boss or kill the stupid guard that kills me in a hit. i should be lvl 6 but i am level 25 in my current stage and its still almost impossible to do anything. there is a boss every level and at least 2 tough enemies(even stronger than a boss) in each map. this game is just too hard and i am a pro gamer.UPDATE\\ 5/26/13Finally. took me 2 days to kill a mini boss(mini bosses are often stronger than real bosses). and i just encountered 3 more mini bosses. now. i see that this game is a joke. it should be called Kill The Boss game. there is no objectives. no missions. nothing to do but to kill bosses. thats it. i am wasting my time with thisUPDATE\\ 5\27\2013Started the game all over because i defeated The Mini Boss in the wrong way and i didn't get the bonus from that so i restarted and got to the mini boss and defeated him pretty easily this time(got the Ring from Havel). Also i noticed that this game has a really big ErrorError #1) this error is pretty common but probably noone notices it. maybe its just me. Sometimes. when you pressed X or any other button and then quickly Pressed Triangle or any other button. the second button performs the same action as the first button. happens a lot in this game. also. if you target an enemy with R3 and you move sideways. sometimes. it willautomatically roll and it will cause trouble.Lets get back to the Mini Boss. AKA Havel The Rock(hes in the basement of the tower)if you started the game. you need to know how to defeat him. i used this one and i thing its the best way.First. i started the game with the Pyrotechnic character. he has special fire attack.(Use the Battle Axe)first of all. when you get to Havel. make him follow you and then get all the way where u came from. when you get to the door you came from. stand still there until he comes. when Havel comes. let him try to hit u near the door. when he is about to hit you. roll back. and then before he gets up. hit him with the R2 with the Battle Axe. and then retreat back to the stairway. but not too far away. Havel will go back down but before he does. get into the room and make him follow you again. keep doing the same thing. tho it gets harder after. he will know what your doing and he will start walking by the wall so he doesn't get hit. so you might want to make him follow you to the stairway. also. if you have firebombs, throw knives. use them at him while hes retreating. also use your Fire Bolt(special attack for pyro character). This is the best way to defeat him. don't listen to what the tutorial tells you. don't try to back stab him. you need to do that like 30 times. and i wasn't able to do it 3 times. because he kills me. also. make sure your Health is always full. use Aid even if you have 90%. You might wanna use the Golden Pine Risen(will last for about a minute). makes it faster to kill the basta*d.UPDATE 6/3/2013i've been playing this game for a while. i have about 20 hours in it and this game is packed. through it was hard at the begining. it gets fairly easy after a while. make sure you search every corner for weapons and special early items. if you don't . its gonna be hard for you. though make sure to repair your weapons. you will encounter the blacksmith and then many blacksmiths. the first blacksmith is the best. but you will have to kill him. don't kill him right away. make sure your done with all the bosses around and play with the game for a cpl of days and sweep the maps. then kill the Blacksmith to get a key which opens the Closed door in Darkroot Garden(I killed him accidentally. but am happy i did). also make sure to use spells. upgrade your weapons and reinforce them. i don't recommend to upgrade a weapon more than 5 times. because then you will get new better weapons and it would be hard to find the upgrading items. also. i got a sword in the begining of the game. its called. Dark Knight sword. its a very good weapon. it has the highest damage for a while. upgrade it. it will have crazy damage rates. you will be able to kill NPCs and Mini Bosses in a hit or two. i killed two Major Bosses without getting a hit "The Gargoyles". don't quit this game. stay playing it. its fun once you get the right equipment.UPDATE 6/10/2013I've noticed in the past couple of days that in this game you actually miss about 50% of the content and missions. don't kill the characters in the game that are not enemeies. i killed most of them. the game never tells you not to but they give you quests and missions. but even with that. you will not go through the whole game. so be careful playing this gameUPDATE. 3/21/14This game is awesome. first. i was pissed because the beginning was hard. but it is awesome once you get the hang of it. i've played it for about a year. 250 hours and 3 playthroughs. i never spent that much time in an RPG game. thanks for the great game. BTW. i just bought DSII. awesome as well.

Well, these are exaggerations on both counts but... you get the idea.I do not consider myself a hard core gamer but there were a few grand games that I played hard and long on the PS3: Oblivion, Fallout, Grand Turismo, Demon's Souls. Of these, Demon's Souls was the only Platinum I've ever earned and it clocks at over 500 hours of pure fear, strong anxiety and intense frustration punctuated by brief moments of pride and joy brought by the hard earned sweet victories.I started talking about Demon's Souls because to us, PS3 gamers, Dark Souls is NOT the first coming of unspeakable terror onto our consoles. Dark Souls is the SECOND coming. And what a visitation this promises to be :)Okay, here it is, after the first few hours. I am going to post updates (not spoilers) as I progress through the game.THE COMMONSDeomon's Souls has many, never-seen-before, amazing innovations. We hoped and we expected to see most of them again on 'chapter two' and Dark Souls does not disappoint even though Dark's seems to be a Universe unrelated to Demon's. It's not even a parallel Universe (I like to think of parallel Universes as those in which the other fellow Dark Souls players exist - if running around as a hollowed-out soul you can call 'existence'. It's a different world but a lot works in seemingly familiar ways.Here's what I would call the Demon's heritage:- One-save only. And this is a BIG thing because the game saves itself every couple of seconds. Once you get hurt or you hurt someone you didn't mean to you can't go back to the previous save because there's no such thing. Unless you have one hand on the power cord ready to pull it, everything you do has consequences and you can't go back and try again. Be VERY careful when you talk to them merchants or blacksmiths because one unintended slap and they will never deal with you again.- Human vs. Soul form. Can't be invaded by other players while in Soul (Hollow) form. As a Human you can invade other words, help others, seek help.- Classes. You pick yours from 10. Not exactly the same as in Demon's though.- Stats. Again, 10 different categories, some differently named, some totally new like 'humanity' and 'attunement'.- The ability to seek help and to help others. I believe that you can have up to 3 others helping.- The Stones. They are of different colors but they have uses not unlike the Demon's stones, possibly more: to seek help, to leave messages, to invade.- Souls as currency of the land and the price price you must pay to level up. And you lose them all every time you die so... use them (buy, uplevel) before you lose them.- Every time you rest all non-boss enemies respawn.- The ability to play nasty and invade other players' worlds.- Blood stains. You can see how others died.- Second (and ONLY second) chance. You can recover lost souls if you can touch your own blood stain before you die again.- Messages. Can leave messages but don't expect to be able to type away detailed clues. You pick your message from a pre-approved list.- Incredibly precise combat. Each class of weapons acts differently and you can see/feel the difference between hitting flesh, bone or armor.- Uchigatanas!!! Need I say more? These are by far the coolest katanas you'll ever swing in any game and probably the best you can get through this one at least through mid-game. Demon Souls most terrifying black phantoms (invading players) where the 2-Uchigatana dudes. Most, possibly all of the Demon's weapons can be found in Dark: Claymores, Halberds, Clubs, Axes, Estocs and so forth.- Practice makes perfect. Like Demon's Souls, this is a struggle for perfection because in most instances only perfect or near-perfect attacks and defenses will save you from yet another horrific death.- Continues the Deomon's tradition of no difficulty levels. Like its predecessor, there's only one difficulty level on Dark and that's 'very easy', as in 'very easy to get yourself killed'. Seriously, for anyone who played Demon's, Dark feels like the second or third playthrough only you start at a low level, have no weapons or armor and find yourself in completely unfamiliar territory now so it takes a little bit of dying, observing and experimenting before your learn the ropes.THE DELTAS (new and never seen before)This, I'm sure, is going to be a growing list and I'm going to update it as I progress into the game. If what's going on in this game can be called 'progress'.- One-world design. This appear to be a huge world but gates, bridges and passes are all well guarded so be prepared to shed a lot of blood and die a lot to earn your right of passage. Unlike Demon's which had a hub that was the only connection between the several separate 'worlds', Dark's world regrions are very much interconnected and much of the fun and mystery is your gradually discovering and unlocking sometimes secret doors and passages.- The healing system. The role of 'grasses' is drastically reduced (there are some mosses that you can still use to cure ailments) but Dark doesn't make it as easy when it comes to your ability to recover health. It's no longer near-unlimited.- The Covenants. Each of the 9 will open new play modes and, as always, every action brings about consequences. Joining may appear an easy decision but separation can be painful and costly.- Pyromancy as a THIRD class of magic, joining sorcery and miracles. For anyone who likes fire and explosions... it's awesome.- The Gifts. Interestingly some seem to have no effect while others such as the Magic Key you get if you pick the class of Thief is quite useful.- Danger times 2. It may be just because I'm a little rusty playing Souls or because I know Demon's so well now it's like a walk in the park but Dark appears to be a lot harder. But... we play, we learn. We shall see :)- More color. Can't imagine Demon's with colors but in this world the occasional bright splashes blend well and don't subtract from the feeling of danger.- No Luck. You COULD get lucky in Deomon's Souls but that's no longer the case. That particular stat has disappeared, replaced by your ability to hold 'humanities' which you lose every time you die.- Sweet revenge. One of the covenants mission is to hunt down and kill those nasty dark phantom bullies.- And, of course, Dark Souls does away with all the gentleness and hand-holding occasionally found in Demon's. It really does. Remember that nice Russian lady in the Nexus that you must kill if you want your Platinum? Gone! My first impressions: don't trust anyone because everybody seems to be either evil or insane.THE STORYNot quite sure what's expected of me yet and I don't think I should spoil anyone's fun anyway. There is a prologue, of course and, clearly, terrible things happened that caused this not to be a happy world. Need to investigate some more but I'm not sure who's to be trusted, who should be used, who can be a friend.MY RATINGIf Amazon's 5 stars stands for 'I love it', what would be the star count for "I love it, I fear it and, 80 hours into the game I'm obsessed by it"? Well... 5's the limit :). I expect to spend hundreds of hours playing this game and, hopefully, with a little or maybe a lot of help from my friends and a lot of priceless advice from some of the game-focused sites - I will name my favorites on a comment to this review.__________________________________________July 2012 Update:Several months and several hundreds hours of gameplay later, I'm still playing Dark Souls.Sure, I 'beat' the game so many times already but finishing the game the first time is only the beginning. Then you play 'new game plus' (NG+), then NG++, NG+++ and so on where everything gets harder and harder. Can't get the platinum trophy unless you go through the game at least twice.And there's the PvP (player vs. player) which is where, with your most deadly or your most fun character built to much your skills you can face other players in everything ranging from helping out a fellow player beat a boss or a fair 1v1 fight where players bow to each other in the beginning and pay their respects to the defeated one once the fight is over to no-rules melees where magic and poison knives fly, buffed greatswords or halberds hit hard and you may face up to 3 players plus whatever the game may be throwing at you at the same time. The fun never ends, the variety is almost endless and it's addictive.-->> Brush your teeth, it's the law! <<

I'll tell you what: when I first played this game, I thought it was a joke; I played for approximately sixty minutes and then gave up after I kept getting killed by the Asylum Demon at the very start of the game. I just didn't think it was at all fun, and thought it to be too hard. Plus, I'm not a huge RPG fan, so that was another turn off.Several months went by, and I played through myriad other PS3 titles, and had run out of games to play. As I was sifting through my collection of games to find something fresh to play, I came across Dark Souls. I thought to myself, "Ah, what the hell... I'll give it another try." And, that I did.Now, over 150 hours into the game, I AM HOOKED. I can't stop playing this game. Normally, prior to Dark Souls, I'd sit down and play videogames for three or four hours per day; now, I sit down and play ten to twelve hours per day, without so much as getting up to use the restroom (even if I have to do so).I can only say that Dark Souls is THE most fascinatingly captivating game I've EVER played (and I've played a lot of games). Not only is it fun, it's extremely challenging (beyond challenging, actually), thought provoking, awe inspiring, frustrating (in a good way), and, in many instances, extremely frightening.I recommend this game to ANYONE, but especially those who like to become fully immersed in their gaming experience. This isn't just a game where you go from start to finish in a linear fashion; this is a universe of its own, with vast landscapes and beautifully crafted worlds and characters and weapons and spells and dialogue and narrative. You could play through this game a thousand times and never have the same experience. Things are constantly evolving, and with such multi-faceted quest-lines, the number of different character builds and tools available to each player, the replay value is HUGE.I really recommend that you visit the Wiki and follow a walkthrough so that you can get the most out of each level; it'll make things a lot less frustrating also. I mean, you'll still die regardless, walkthrough or no walkthrough, and you'll die a lot, but at least you'll know what to expect (kinda).If I could, I'd rate this game 10 out of 5 stars.Absolutely love it. But it's not really something for the "passive," or "average" gamer. You've really got to devote yourself, your time and your energy to this game.Enjoy!********UPDATE********I wanted to check back in now that I've logged nearly 300 hours of time in this game, and am halfway through NG++ (third playthrough).Not only have I NOT become bored with the game, but, rather, the opposite has occurred; I've become more intrigued and even more immersed in the game than I was prior. Not many games can do that (except, of course, for the one-and-only "Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots").If someone like myself, who lacked a penchant for role-playing games, could become this involved in, and fall in love with, a role-playing game such as Dark Souls, then think of the possibilities for those of you who eat, sleep and breathe RPG.I simply CANNOT wait for the follow-up to Dark Souls. I also have Dark Souls to thank for reintroducing me to a genre of gaming that I thought I'd lost any and all interest in; this game has rekindled my interest and love for RPG/Fantasy titles, and I'm glad to be able to expand my horizons instead of having nothing to look forward to except another FPS.But, I digress... My main point is that this game is epic and beyond standard definition; terms such as "fun" and "amazing" don't come close to grasping this game's potential, its playability and its addictiveness. This is the first game I've achieved Platinum trophy status; no other game gave me a reason to try and achieve Platinum status (except, again, "MGS: GotP," however, trophies weren't present in said game; had they been, I'd have done everything possible to obtain each and every one).So please... BUY IT, PLAY IT, BEAT IT... Then, start all over.

This game is great. I've been losing the urge to play games lately, maybe because I am getting older and I have other things to do. But this game, I continuously think about and want to get home from work so I can get on my PS3 and start playing.If you recall the predecessor game, Demon Souls, when it came out it was said that it was the hardest game ever made on PS3, and I believe its pretty much true. It was pretty damn hard. First time i played demon souls, i selected knight as my character, and god i had such a difficult time getting past the first stage... i had a speared knight which i can deal like 10 damage each hit that can kill me in one hit that was chasing after me in first level... later i found out about magics, and started a new game (after having not much success of beting it with knight) as a wizzard and wow, the game was so much easier, but still, if you fail to proceed with caution you were dead in 2 seconds. It held your attention because if you dont keep the attention, you would die, no matter how much you level up.Dark Souls, much like demon souls, carry lots of common factors. Some of the difference is now you can chose when to become human form (as long as you have the item humanity, which you will come across a lot), instead of only after killing demons in demon souls. the world does not shift between dark and white world. I think the game is much harder than its predesessor, however.I started out as a wizzard, learning from my mistake in demon souls (but now that I am pretty far into game, i wish i had pick something else so i didn't waste so much status points on magic), the game is a bit confusing as to where you should go, because after the tutorial state, you come to a place where a lot of different map is connected. You can start walking into a dungeon that has demons that you can't even attack. I have no idea how many times i died before i realized there are other paths you can take... So in a sense, the map is kind of complicated and more difficult compared to Demon Souls (demon Souls had pretty set order you have to beat the stages).One thing I feel they could have done better is the camera work. Sometimes the screen turns dark (especially in dark dungeons like blight town) because of the angling of your camera, and you just can't see through whatever is blocking the view (e.g. wooden wall). and of course that few split seconds you struggle to get the camera angle right, you are dead... but that adds to challeng of the game.Also the another thing is you need to reinforce your weapon/armor a lot before you can add special attributes to the weapon, unlike in demon souls, where you already had weapons with special abilities. It requires lots of time to collect the upgrade materials and souls.All this review, I've been comparing this game to Demon Souls. They are both great games. If you have not played neither, you wouldn't really get how good the other is either, because i dont think this game compares to any similar action rpg games. Overall, this game is an amazing game for people who likes intense gaming, and has lots of patience and concentration on games. if you are more casual player, this game is too hard and will take too much time to master it. To me, this game is awesome. I hope this review helps someone make your decision in buying the game. I would most definately buy Demon Souls 2.

I just finished the game and here are my thoughts. First, the standard warning that if you don't like challenge or only play video games casually, you probably won't like this game. Go with Batman, Uncharted or Skyrim if that's the case, they're also highly-rated games that I look forward to playing.I am an experienced Demon's Souls player, and finished that game several times. I feel that experience helped me with Dark Souls, especially with combat. Just like when I bought Demon's Souls, I really wasn't sure if this game was for me. When I heard that this one was even harder than Demon's Souls, I hesitated. But in the end I bought it a few weeks after release and had a good time with it. It's not as frustrating as you might think. I knew going in that I was going to die a lot, so it didn't frustrate me all that much when I did. Use your deaths to learn what doesn't work, then try to figure out what will work.There was a point about 25 hours in when I was about to give up on this game. I had already beaten several areas and was looking for what to do next. I went to every area available to me and wasn't able to make much progress, just got my butt handed to me over and over. I was ready to quit, when I decided to go online to one of the helpful wiki sites to see which area I should be attempting and which ones should be saved for later when my character was stronger. I learned that there was an entire section of the world that I didn't even know about, and that was where I should be. After that, I was able to make progress again. Use the wiki websites if you need advice!The Good:1. Really addictive. I went full-out at this game. When I couldn't play, I wanted nothing more than to get back at it. It's not good to end the day with a defeat, as you'll be thinking about it until the next time you can play. Try to end each day with a victory or progress of some kind.2. Very large world. The level design in this game makes the world in Demon's Souls look like a high school project in comparison. It's huge, and has an enormous variety of environments.3. A very helpful community of players you can summon into your game to help you get through tough parts. It isn't cheating or cheap, it's the way the designers meant for the game to be played. Don't be afraid to recruit help! I used help for a lot of the bosses and it was awesome to work as a team! I also watched and learned from them if I didn't know what to do, then joined in the fight. There are also several wiki websites dedicated to this game that you can use for help such as to find out what certain items do or advice on which area you should be attempting next.4. Full character customisation. I used a "tank" character with the heaviest armour and a hard-hitting weapon who just rushed the enemies. I only had one spell, to heal myself. Other players who I summoned into my game were playing as magicians or ninjas, or whatever. You can choose exactly how you want to play!The Bad:1. Some major frame-rate and camera problems in one part of the world. It can get REALLY slow, similar to what it was like back in the NES days when too many objects were on the screen at once. They must have known about this before release. I'm told it's because the level is so complex and the enemy AI needed to navigate it, so it takes a lot of processing power. Either way, the slowdown is not acceptable and I feel the developer should have made the level design compromises necessary to keep it running smoothly. This is the main reason why I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5, but actually I think it deserves 4.5 stars.2. While a lot of people are complaining that the game gives no instruction at all, I think this is an exaggeration. A lot can be learned from actually reading the item descriptions and talking to the characters you meet. However, they do have a point with some of the concepts, such as covenants, which don't seem to be explained at all in the game.3. The developers bragged that this game had several times the amount of weapons and gear as Demon's Souls did, but a lot of it is pretty useless. Some of the weaker equipment should definitely have been removed.4. Not much story. If you want a story-driven game experience, this is probably not for you.5. The lock-on system is broken. It worked really well in Demon's Souls, but in this game you can't easily switch targets while locked-on. You have to break it and try to lock-on to the correct target manually. This is supposed to be getting fixed in a patch due shortly. Update: This has been fixed in the latest patch and now works as it should.6. There is indeed input lag sometimes, as others have pointed out. The problem is real, and it will get you killed a couple of times at least, as you hit the button to refill your HP in a boss fight but nothing happens. This is also supposed to be getting fixed in the patch. Update: This also seems to be working properly with the new patch.If you liked Demon's Souls, this game will likely give you another 60+ hours of entertainment, and I recommend it! If you've never played Demon's Souls, I do recommend playing that game first, it's at a Greatest Hits price now. If you want to skip Demon's Souls and just want to jump straight to this one, PREPARE TO DIE!

wow. this game is so unique. it really is unlike any other game out there. i highly recommend it to anybody who wants to get into a game. i'm gonna bullet-ize some of my favorite things about the game-there are literally HUNDREDS of different enemies in the game. they are all 100% unique.-ditto with weapons, and all weapons can be upgraded, and then you can add in fire/lightning/etc damage (or resist for shields)-all armor sets in the game have different defense values vs. slash/stab/blunt attacks, and all the different kinds of magics, allowing you to strategize different combos of stuff before a fight. oh, and they're upgradeable too.-each item has a weight value, and the more you carry the slower you are, so when you get a 'better' piece of gear, it might not actually be better for you because it will slow you down.-there are many starting classes, but any character you make can wear or wield or cast any spell in the game if you choose to spec them that way, so you can hybrid-ize your character and such. the level of customization is limitless-multiplayer: you can see others playing the game as like 'ghosts' on your screen. you can leave a mark on the ground to volunteer to help out others, and touch others' marks to recruit them to help you, otherwise it's mostly single playernow, there are some things about this game that i won't necessarily say are bad, but if you didn't know better, they could frustrate you:-the leveling system in the game does not matter as much as gear upgrading. 'souls' are the currency of the game, and if a fully upgraded level 1 goes against a poorly equipped level 200... the level 1 guy will win.-things cost different amounts at different vendors, which isn't horrible, but when you're in a certain dungeon there are these little frog things that will 'curse' you. when cursed you stay cursed through death, and can only have half your HP. the things that cures curses costs a ridiculous amount of money at the only vendor who is close to you...yeah, google it if you buy the game, and devise a plan to avoid that scenario, otherwise you will just wanna quit the game altogether if you get cursed. frustrating-depending on what you wanna do in the game, you should dump the majority of your leveling points (every level you increase, which is something you have to purchase, you drop one point into an attribute of your choice, this is the only thing that leveling does to benefit you) into like 2 out of like a dozen stats. you won't know this, though, and you'll likely waste many points before you figure out that a 'warrior', for instance, basically should ONLY plus up strength and dexterity until they get to the magic point where they can effectively wield the weapons that they would prefer to use for the majority of gameplay.-when you die(this will happen OFTEN) you lose all of your 'currencies', and have to return to your corpse to reclaim them. you can always get more by killing things, but losing the currency that you gained over hours of gameplay, then realizing it will take you like 15 minutes to get back to your corpse to get it back is frustrating, especially if you want to stop playing at that point. it basically does away with the ever so common idea of "next time i die, i'll stop playing". that sucks. oh, and if you die again before you get back to your corpse, those souls and things... gone forever. there's a ring that prevents that, but they are expensive early on and there aren't an unlimited supply (they 'break' when you die).overall, though, this game is a very unique experience. it's one you will remember playing for a very very long time. the first playthrough will take a LONG time, and that isn't a bad thing. the subsequent playthroughs get very difficult, apparently, but i haven't done them.

I had heard good things about Dark Souls and wanted to try it before Dark Souls II came out. The game is very unique and I have never played anything like it. The gameplay really stands out, withthe melee combat probably being the best I have ever played in a game. Each weapon has its own moveset, which helps to constantly keep things fresh until you find the one thats right for you.The online play is also unique, taking place without traditional lobbies. Using certain items, you can join up with other players to tackle a tough boss or invade players to hunt and dual them. While the later sounds intimidating, especially for new playera, the game does a great job of easing you into it with computer controlled invaders before any real people go after you.Naturally, the defining aspect of this game is its difficulty. While the game is tough, its always beatable. Every time I have died it was because I made the mistake of forgetting the games unwritten rules. Dark Souls forces you to play patiently, reading enemy attacks before charging in for a quick hit or two before dodging and blocking. While this may take a little getting used to, its worth the effort once you get into the flow of the game. Ocassionally, you may find a boss or group of enemies that just seem cheap or unfair, but odds are you just did not see the trick to beating them. And that's OK, since the penalty for death is pretty minor. You respawn at the last checkpoint and only loose your souls (the game's currancy and experience). The nice thing is, you have the opportunity to regain it all once you return to the spot you died. The game does a nice job of not punishing you too hard, but also forcing you to learn its rules.The largest complaint I have with the game is that it does not explain itself. The description of some stats is and attributes of weapons are never really explained and where you need to go can be vague at times. This does encourage exploration of both the games world and its systems, but I felt the developer could have put in a little bit more explination. I recommend looking at a wiki online to explain anything that is unclear.The other complaint is more minor. The story is fairly abstract and not fleshed out, at least where I am. If story is really important to you in your RPGs, this may not be the game for you. The excellent and tight gameplay more than make up for it however.If your curious about the game, I reccommed trying it first by buying it cheap, renting it or borrowing it. The challenges of the game are really rewarding to fight through, even if the game can be a bit cruel. But its a good lesson you will learn early on: things will generally not go your way. And thats OK! So long as your determined to overcome the challenges the game throws at you.I hope you take the time to look into it and enjoy this game. It's a breath of fresh air among many games today that hold you hand to the point where your are barely even playing.Have fun! Oh, and Praise the Sun!

Here are some of the positive upgrades1. Bonfire not only restores your health but revives enemies that you kill. restoring the enemies greatly speeds up soul and item farming--no more loading going from world to world.2. The number of items you can carry is unlimited. There is a bottomless box you buy from a NPC and use at bonfires, but it is not really needed. Thus, no more sacrificing arrorows to pick up heavy weapons3. If you accidently hurt a NPC--placing the controler down to answer the phone only to accidently hit the r2 on the floor--you can go to a guy who will allow you to be forgiven 40,000 souls.4. So much more exploring--woods are neat.5. Magic-- this took me a while to figure out. Upgrade attonment to increase item drop and number of magic slots. You don't have magic meter bar. When you buy magic, you have a certain number of times you can use it, but it is refilled at bonfires. So soul arrow has 30 uses, and you use 15 of them, it goes back up to 30 when you go to a bonfire.6. The purple meter also took me time to figure out. When you are fighting certain enemies or in the swamp, a purple meter will appear in the middle of the screen. When it is full, it means that you are poisoned or cursed. So when that meter is almost full, you need to either get on dry land or get away/kill the enemey before the meter is full.Some negative things, but still love the game1. For goodness sakes why don't they allow us to pause it?!?2. Regular enemies that offer a lot of souls--black knight, blue knight, ect.--do not respon, but this is a good thing with the dart shooters3. No more secret places when fighting bossesStrong pieces of advice1. Early in the game, you will see a red dragon on a bridge. Run and hug the wall on the right, and you will be able to run down stairs before he spews fire. When your under the bridge, shoot the tail with bow and arrow, and you will get one of the most powerful swords of the game that needs low stats to use.2. Find walk throughs online for advice. In Demon Souls, it was obvious the order that you should go in, but this game is "realistic" in a way--there aren't many restrictictions on were you go. In Demon Souls, you were transported to almost completly different worlds, but Dark Souls is one giant castle/land that is all conected. There is no warping to another land. I was having a really hard time at first, but I found out on IGN wlkthrough that the area I was trying to go into was for much latter in the game.According to the walkthrough that I go to from time to time, I am almost at the halfway point. It is in a way harder than Demon Souls, but websights will help you with hard bosses. The game requires you to learn from your mistakes.

Continua sendo um jogo muito bom.

Este juego es uno de los grandes que uno debe de tener si le gustan los juegos de rpg de acción, tiene un gran dificultad al inicio pero si no desistes, después solo es un buen reto, es un juego largo, por lo que vale cada peso que gastes, y dura más de 50 horas así que tienes diversión para un buen tiempo.

Wow!! what a great game. This game just goes on and on..it tough at times, very challenging. I have played it for over 50 hours and Ive still hardly made a dent in the overall progress...This game is as entertaining or more then both Borderlands..it definitely makes you think...Its not a button mashing game. It takes skill, thought and patienceI have used an online game guide which helps a lot....If you like open world games like skyrim etc then buy this game...Awesome fun

An awesome action RPG. There are tons of gameplay styles thanks to the many, many weapons, there are several enemies that you'll have to analyze their pattern to counterattack, and there are many locales that you'll be roaming for hidden loot. It's a ton of fun.

Chegou antes da data final, o disco esta em otimo estado e o jogo em perfeito funcionamento, Recomendo!!