Summary: Parents need to know that Dark Souls is a violent and bloody action role-playing game that is designed to be extremely difficult, even for veteran gamers.
Conclusion: It's insanely difficult, incredibly unfair and frustrating at times, but we still love it. It takes you on a journey of death, valor and persistence, but it rewards you...
Pros: Challenges and surprises around every corner, creepy and captivating locations to explore through, a lot of hidden secrets to discover, rewarding to say the least, thi...
Cons: Technical issues kill the thrill of the ride and make the game look really bad at times.
Excerpt: I know I'm supposed to love Dark Souls for its modernization of old-school video game challenge. I agree that the rest of the game industry could learn something from...
Summary: This is a hard game to like and an even harder game to play. Like they say, it is a game of pain and hardship. That is probably a gross understatement on their part.
Conclusion: Dark Souls is unforgivably brutal and will punish the slightest error with instant death, but when the player drops that boss that has plagued them for hours on end and
Conclusion: Dark Souls perhaps takes the whole 'dying' thing a bit too far. It was interesting and an added challenge in Demon Souls , the same can't really be said here.
Excerpt: It's been twenty minutes since I last died; a lifetime in the world of Dark Souls. In that time, I've defeated a horde of ghoul-like warriors, survived several traps, and...
Pros: Devilishly hard, and with that, satisfying, Fantastic environment design
Cons: Will probably make you hate yourself, Can feel unfair
Excerpt: One of the more intriguing games to arrive on my home office doorstep this fall is unquestionably Namco Bandai's "Dark Souls" for the Xbox 360.
Excerpt: One of the more intriguing games to arrive on my home office doorstep this fall is unquestionably Namco Bandai's "Dark Souls" for the Xbox 360.