A fun guide
Step 1: Buy DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Step 2: Go to steam library and install
Step 3: Hit play
Step 4: Torture yourself

Just play this game and be patient. It'll click...

Don't you dare go hollow

2024 Review from a person who has not played any of the actual Dark Souls games, but has completed all of Elden Ring and Sekiro. I finished this one after 37 hours, taking my time.

The graphics are a bit dated and the mechanics are a little clunky, but the game holds up. The way the map is structured is amazing. All of the levels loop around and into each other, so even though you don't get fast travel until fairly deep in the game it does not drag. I did have to look up a map though from time to time as there is not one in the game and I didn't memorize all of that. From a pure "tracing back to the roots of what this type of game is" perspective this one is worth playing. I did play it on the steam deck for a decent portion of the time.

As for difficulty, I was surprised to discover that it was sort of easy. I have completed Elden Ring + DLC and Sekrio so it may just be that I have "got gud". The combat is slower paced than those games but more deliberate. If you press to swing your sword twice you better have meant it, because it is swinging twice. The difficulty in this game was not really in the bosses in my opinion, but in the runbacks and the level parkour. More of that later.

One of the things that does not get talked about much is the game's sense of humor. Its the baked in little things, like only Rats have humanity. For example, One of the first bosses in the game is fought on top of a rather narrow wall. While fighting him, I turned him so that his back was to the edge. When he jumped away from me, he jumped off the wall to his death; Victory Achieved. Hilarious. Other times the game pranks you, saying "You thought one gargoyle was the boss? How about 2?" And every character in the game is a terrible person with gallows humor (except for Solaire, he's the best), while some of the monsters are kind of chill. There were literal times that I laughed out loud at the game and that does not get talked about much.

What I did not enjoy was some of the more dated level traversal aspects. Like Instant death or just a big waste of time associated with falling from a higher place. Getting knocked off that higher place happens. Also, there is no jump button; you have to be running and the press the run button again to do a jump. In some places this is required. Heck in the Bed of Chaos boss fight it is required over instant death pits. Also, rolling and running while locked on is limited. And some of the achievements are literally RNG based. Overall I felt like this game was worth playing and finishing, but not something I'm going to be chasing everything in.

good but its soooooo obvious that they ripped off elden ring like get a new idea...

An all time classic action-adventure RPG. The atmosphere is amazing, the story and lore are surprisingly rich and the gameplay is great, even in 2024. There's a ton of things to unlock and many bosses and areas to master.

If I could say something negative about this game is that there are clearly some parts of this game that didn't receive the same level of love and care as others, this becomes rather clear midway through the game.

Lastly, even though this is a remaster of an excellent game, I wish Fromsoftware could re-remaster this game again to take advantage of the latest tech in videogames such as ray traced global illumination, reflections and shadows or even better, do a remake but take care of the not-so-loved areas of this game and expand on what we have. Hey, dreaming is free!

This version of the game really needs something like Re-Remastered mod to bring the visuals closer to the original, but otherwise you get arbitrary resolution and 60 fps out of the box, and it runs great!

The gameplay is a bit janky by modern standards, but it's still a great game with fantastic level and boss design .

genuinely one of the most overhyped games of all time. the game feels like youre playing on a map made of quicksand and you're flailing around a cinder block to kill enemies. bosses spam the same move over and over again which either makes the fight extremely hard or laughably easy. 90% of the bosses in this game took one try and the other 10% were just gank fests that had you stunlocked throughtout the fight. this game has maybe a few goodbosses and even thats debatable. this game aged like oat milk and the only ppl who like it are oldheads or ppl who think they stand out because they have a different opinion than the majority dont listen to ppl who say this is a good game because its not just be a freethinker and play dark souls 2

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☑ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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bed of chaos best boss in gaming