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I told myself once that when I get all three Dark Souls games I’ll start playing them and will do so in the appropriate order. I got this one long time ago from a trade, the third from a humble monthly and about two months ago I won the second game on Steamgifts. Immediately after winning the second game I downloaded this one and started playing. I went through it quickly until about half-way through the game, but then I got a job and had some things happen in real life which made me have almost no time to play, but I finally managed to beat it today, two months after I started playing it.

I fell for the games aesthetic and combat pretty quickly, albeit there were a some things that I found annoying throughout the game. The things that annoyed me for example were the lack of map and their save system, which I later “fixed” by save scumming, which was basically my implementation of “save whenever you want” which I felt was a better way to go about this punishing game to make it more enjoyable. About halfway through the game I also started watching a walkthrough series for the game so I don’t miss out on those hidden walls and items and so I don’t miss out on certain events and “quests”.

All things considered it’s a pretty good game and I’m looking forward to playing the other two. Albeit I’m sure I’ll be really annoyed with second game’s HP reduction penalty for dying. I’ll play something else first though, before I venture into another cruel and punishing adventure in the universe of Dark Souls.