Way overrated and it is not the difficulty that is holding me back from giving this game a higher rating.
User Rating: 6.5 | Dark Souls X360
Gamespot 9.5 wait what? I am gonna keep this one short. Graphics, pretty good. Environment is quite detailed. Combat, ehh, not the best, but can still be fun. The game can actually be addicting. Having a high difficulty makes the game a challenge which is a good thing... And a bad thing. I will just get to the cons. In terms of RPG, this game sucks. The open world, there is nothing else to do but fight monsters and other enemies all the time. Secondly it is almost impossible to kill most enemies without doing the counter attack. It gets boring doing the same crap over and over. Pausing is terrible only because you can't, I can't drink a potion or try to change weapons without getting attacked. Now, the controls. They are decent and the dodge button is a blast. I noticed though, half of my deaths are diving off cliffs. There really isn't much wrong, it is just the difficulty that makes them pathetic. Finally, the last thing, this really ticks me off, you cant save. I will be going through 3 damn levels having not died in a while, then I die, and I restart back to the beginning of the level! it is so frustrating especially that you know you will die a lot and then have to travel all the way back to that spot. It is a waste of time. Oh, one more thing, there is no objective listed or map, so most of the time playing the game, you are thinking, what is the point of this game. If you are incredibly patient and don't care so much about the saving factor then give it a shot, you might like it. But it isn't for me, I am the one who will just be waiting for skyrim. 
