I said this years ago, and have always defended this game since day one. It's MY #1 souls game ever. I played them all, platinum most of them, and all are great, but this is MY Elden Ring of 2014. No other souls games comes close in scope. I just wish it would get a ground up remake and Hidetaka Miyazaki taking over to shut purists mouth up. I don't CARE what others say, its the BEST souls game. Im sure if the game had Hidetaka Miyazaki name on the box, it would not be receiving this much hate.


“Dark Souls 2” can very reasonably be called “Elden Ring version 0.5.” All of the biggest ideas from the latest game are rooted in “Dark Souls 2,” including the scale and span of its world, the mythology, and the expanded utility of weapons and player builds. It’s also perhaps the saddest game of the Dark Souls trilogy, if not the entire genre. It tells the tale of the lost King Vendrick of Drangleic; when you finally meet the monarch, players are greeted with the loneliest image the series has yet to conjure.

Tanimura would go on to direct the best downloadable content for “Dark Souls 3” and co-direct “Elden Ring,” his vision finally fulfilled. “Dark Souls 2” is the game that helped define the journey of “Elden Ring,” both in development and the final product’s experience of traversing across a wide expanse of dungeons and castles.

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