


This is called hollowing and only drops to a set lower limit until the player expends a rare item to reverse it.The game uses a form of joint currency called "souls", which are used as both experience points for leveling up and also as currency for purchasing items from shops. Bad play is punished severely by most enemies, opportunities for recovering health are limited, with each death the player's maximum health is reduced. A sequel, Dark Souls III, was released in 2016.ĭark Souls II is an entry in the Dark Souls series, known for its difficulty, as both bosses and standard enemies have the potential to defeat the player in only a few hits. It contains the original game and its downloadable content with upgraded graphics, expanded online multiplayer capacity, and various other changes. A remastered version of the game, titled Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Windows in April 2015. Dark Souls II was released in March 2014 after some initial delays, with the Windows version being released the following month.ĭark Souls II was a critical and commercial success. Taking place in the kingdom of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) gameplay. An entry in the Dark Souls series, it was released for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Dark Souls 2 is one of the highest scored dark souls games (although they are all scored almost equally high), and sold in more copies than other games (except elden ring)Īnd let's be honest, you will play all of them anyway when you want more dark souls.Dark Souls II is a 2014 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Games. Objectively worse? (says literally who?).

every dark souls game does both something better and something worse than other games. Dark souls 3 probably has the best level design out of all series so far.ĭark souls 2 haters are vocal minority. Dark Souls 2 for its replayability, variety of viable playstyles, fun weapons and items. I like dark souls 1 for its poise and armor. There is even a large group of people in Russia who have long considered the second part to be the best in the series :) I played all dark souls games as soon as they were out on PC. Initially, I listened to the opinion that the game is bad and should not be played, but after passing the game, the game showed a lot of interesting things, even ds 3 now seems to be a very simple game, where there is nothing but battles. Originally posted by 777:A year ago I went through ds 2 Scholar and I liked it more than not, and there were interesting features like Reloading a campfire to get ng + or for example imposing a buff on almost many different types of weapons.
