But unlike the worlds offered up by its wicked spawn—Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—it never felt like a place you wanted to get lost in or held wonder. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's It’s the weirdest sort of plot armor to be found in a horror game, in that your characters are completely safe in Little Hope so long as you control them, and at risk only when a cut scene takes over. Dark Souls Remastered is an excellent remaster of a standout entry in the Souls franchise. , While lacking as a "remaster" this still facilitated my first time playing DS1 due to the original game's poor performance. Those who played the original will feel right at home, and … But Warriors games have always been there to scratch a very particular itch, and Age of Calamity still manages to deliver on that front, while also letting Legend of Zelda fans spend some quality time with some familiar faces. I often like to tell people that Dark Souls has a poor story, but a fantastic world and great lore, and I'll stick by that for this review. The most anyone can really say is, yep, that’s Devil May Cry 5 all right, and the visual uptick is certainly nothing to sneeze at, especially given the manner in which light plays off the world in ways that pop off the screen. When it was first announced for the platform, the idea of confronting Ornstein and Smough on public transport sounded farcical, but in practice, Dark Souls feels oddly suited to a portable device. In fact, Little Hope only shows them running during quick-time-event-filled cutscenes. And after last year’s disappointing Kingdom Hearts III, Melody of Memory serves as a wholly undeserved victory lap, a recap of the series’s major narrative beats baked into a mediocre rhythm game. And modern-day John finds himself pursued by a shambling, half-flattened grotesquerie, just as his students are chased through the town’s abandoned factory, sewers, woods, and church by the mangled corpses of their past selves. What follows is a rather simple game where you seek out mementos of the dead that tend to be hidden in unexpected containers like a fox hole in a sculpture park or an armchair at the lighthouse turned yoga retreat. At the same time, you can’t help but wonder why Eivor is meant to feel so uneasy about the way their people operate now. That realism has, however, led to probably the most notable change to the game: A new face model for Peter Parker who, for unquestionable reasons of synergy, looks a hell of a lot like the MCU’s Tom Holland. Unlike the typical action-oriented RPG that gives players a clearer idea of progression and flatters them with material currencies, Dark Souls functions not unlike a cosmic horror story, demanding that you figure out the meaning of it all for yourself while engaging in questionable rituals centered on exploiting the spiritual essences of ostensibly living things. If you enjoy open-world action games and aren't afraid of a challenge, you owe it to yourself to play this game! It does, though, take a few hours—after an introductory sandbox in Norway provides a bleak and uninspiring bit of setup—for the game to get to that point. Dark Souls is regarded so highly for a reason: it’s full of moments that you simply have to experience, and that fabled difficulty is part of it. Dark Souls is a dark-fantasy action role-playing game by From Software, and is considered a spiritual successor to the studio's 2009 hit Demon's Souls. All in all, Dark Souls is not only a game with a ton of re-playability, but there's dozens of secrets (and even whole areas!) More importantly, it keeps one of the medium’s best games easily accessible and readily available. Both run at a fairly steady 30fps. © Sony Interactive Entertainment. On its face, a raid will find you blowing a horn and charging alongside 30 of your best CPU allies into battle against the Saxon dogs who choke the life from the land, burning their villages to the ground.