@royalclown_1: How so, exactly? Because I will admit that a few areas of the game feel unpolished but the combat is so fun that I can forgive it.

@yngsten: Thanks man!

@Ish_basic: Exactly the kinda feel I was going for. :P I figured I'd write a review that matches the excitement of the game.

@Lhomity: I think you've won this thread.

I like Tidus the most out of the main series. His narration over the course of the events really put things into his perspective.

Also, this. ^

@Lulu_Lulu: Forgive me for not noticing, for every time I began to read one of your posts I couldn't finish because of how asinine they were.

But at any rate, at least attempt to the play the game before you try to make any criticisms.

Hahahahaha.

So after the multiple long-ass, cancerous posts you've made in this thread, you come out to say that?

Get out.

I'm having serious doubts that you've even played Dark Souls.

...You do realize that souls literally buy everything in the game, not just boost your stats, right?

Also, the leveling system will only prove useless if you don't implement it properly. You're meant to build certain stats, not boost all of them, and the devs cleverly made a way to avoid any character being too overpowered by having level caps. If you try to go beyond let's say, level 140 or 150, improving your stats any more will have very little effect.

And I don't know what you mean by that skeleton comment either. What, did you not have anything equipped at all? What kind of loadout were you using? What was your character build?

I've beaten Dark Souls more times than I can count and reached to New Game Plus 7 with multiple builds that never went over level 130, I had no problems with any enemies like you claim.

I can agree and disagree here. Once I went into the options and changed the controller settings to something more akin to CoD (since honestly I do believe that ADS works best with the left trigger), I started to enjoy the game so much more. The skyrails and arena-like battlegrounds, those were awesome as well. It actually tested my wits and proved quite difficult sometimes until I fiddled around with the right vigor combinations.

...But I'm gonna have to say, the story is absolute balls. Lots of interesting concepts in the beginning but none of them are expanded or well-rounded, rather they're abandoned completely and the plot just goes bananas. Also nearing the end I was caught between thinking that the developers were intentionally fucking with me as a joke, or if they really did just have each individual with their head up their own ass.

I vote yes, because honestly I don't see the big deal. Look at Sega. Sure, they lost a few franchises but they still publish some titles like Bayonetta and push Sonic games. I imagine if Nintendo went 3rd party they'd do the same thing, only much more successful since their repertoire is much greater.

No, that is exactly why the game should be highly regarded. In the industry's current state where so many games require so little thought to complete, for Dark Souls to leave such a menacing mark on people is great. It's a reminder that shit isn't always easy, and rising to a challenge despite the odds and coming out on top is much more gratifying than being able to create death showers at the press of a button.

Besides, at the end of the day, Dark Souls isn't even that hard. Play long enough and you'll figure out simple and effective strategies to defeat every enemy.

Dark Souls probably isn't for you, and that's fine - I'm not the kinda guy to praise a game just because it's hard. I praise DS because it's one of the best - if not the best - designed games of last generation.

To each his own in that department.

I bought CoD: Ghosts and couldn't bear the single player for more than 2 missions, and I have more than 30 hours in the multiplayer so far.