If you’re not ready to commit, then maybe something more casual might be for you, maybe you need to take it down a step and play some Devil May Cry or something. But you’ll pick up skills along the way, you’ll learn what makes enemies tick, and you’ll figure out how bosses are meant to be fought, and given enough time, either from slamming into that brick wall, or by leveling up way more than necessary, you’ll move on to the next area, and the dance begins anew.
You make incremental progress from bonfire to bonfire, and in doing so, you will die, a lot.
Dark Souls can kind of be thought of in the same vein, minus the friends being in the room because you’re streaming your game sessions. But as you played on, you got better, you grew more patient waiting for platforms, you figured out what previously acquired weapons could work against which boss, and then you triumphed! But your friends didn’t really believe you did it, so you had to do it again with them watching for it to count. For the uninitiated, remember how NES games were ‘extremely hard’ back in the day when you were young? Let’s take Mega Man as an example, you jumped, you shot, you scrapped your way to the boss of the stage, only to die, your controller tossed across the room, possibly broken, your parents swearing they weren’t going to buy another one, and you were back to the start of the stage.
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If you’ve played previous titles in the Souls series then you no doubt have an idea of how the game functions. You'll encounter various NPCs who will let on what they know of this world, and some will serve you in your journey in exchange for saving them, but you've got to keep a sharp eye out for them, as they are quite easily missed. There’s debate as to where this game falls in the Souls timeline, but you’ll find epitaphs littered throughout the game that will help spell out the story, but otherwise this game also follows the minimalist approach that worked well in Bloodborne. As the ‘Ashen One,’ you must find and defeat the Lords of Cinder. Like Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3 is a bit light on exposition, the opening montage tells of the broken land of Lothric, where the Lords of Cinder dwell. This is the essence of Dark Souls, at its best.
Likewise the exhilaration you feel when you scrape by an encounter, and you realize you need to find a bonfire, and you’re out of homeward bones. With each moment of frustration though, the joy you feel after taking down one of the many bosses in this game makes all the suffering worth it. You’ll have to forgive me for coming off a bit terse, I’ve just had my ass handed to me by this game for the past week. Dark Souls 3 starts off in as brutal fashion as you can imagine, and it only gets worse (or better depending on how much you enjoy these games) from there. You’re not really worthy of its time, unless after the cursory introduction to the controls, you manage to slay the first boss waiting for you shortly after the first bonfire. Right off the bat, Dark Souls 3 doesn’t want you here.
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