Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
106.5 hours, 27 of 38 achievements
Another Dark Souls game down! This one was a SG win, and I’m really glad I’ve won.
Compared to the first, this game has a lot more interesting areas and better level design (well aside from this one having lots of secrets which you’re highly unlikely to find out unless you use a guide). You could also travel between EVERY bonfire right from the start of the game, which was a great change. I liked the story in this one more as well.
There were things I didn’t like though. The change to durability system probably being the worst thing they’ve done. Weapons break relatively quickly now and you get discouraged from using some cool weapons because they’ve given them ridiculously small about of durability. You can repair them with repair powder but those aren’t very common find and you only get access to merchant that sells an unlimited amount of them very late in the game.
I also don’t appreciate how DEX weapons scale worse than STR weapons, especially since I went DEX build this time around, given that I’ve beaten the first game with STR build. This game had a TON of cool STR weapons, while DEX weapons were minority and good deal of them weren’t worth using because they were either too weak or had way too low durability to bother. I think this second game was way too biased towards STR, heck they even had weapons available in almost every weapon category (including bows, daggers and twinblades which you would expect to be DEX exclusive categories) while DEX users were a lot more limited when it comes to weapon selection.
Overall a pretty good game though, albeit it could have been better. I still probably enjoyed it more than the first game.
For some reason, Dark Souls is a series I really want to like but have trouble to. It always bores me pretty fast which is a shame because it looks cool, I really wanted to try all the weapons and stuffs. And because of your post I decided to boot DS III once more (I only have this one) but nop. I lost motivation once again xD despite being quite excited once again.
Sadly, it’s definitively not a game for me.
They’re definitely not a type of game for everyone. And I’m sure that most of us that did enjoy them had moments where we were annoyed or frustrated with them. Albeit I don’t remember being bored with either of the two that I played.
What is it that bores you in this game? Is it the combat that requires patience and learning enemy movesets rather than just mashing buttons to kill?
A combination of things but basically the slow combat coupled with the punishing experience is what always kills my fun. Plus the fighting requires way too much patience as well yeah.
As said, there’s a lot of interesting idea in the series, but its gameplay is indeed not for me. Pretty much the same as the Monster Hunter series I guess.