Hmmmm:D It's actually a great game, I've invested quite a few hours in it. Most of the bosses are so incredibly boring, just strafe around them and hit them from time to time and you'll get through the whole game. The game is far too big, quantity over quality, unfortunately that's how it often feels. Some areas are interesting (Armana looks cool but plays like ass^^, Drangleic Castle though <3), the DLC was great except for a few bosses (the three NPCs in the first DLC or Smelter 2 in the second DLC...uninspired) ...and all the references to Dark Souls 1 also seem totally artificial (Iron Tarkus is now called Tark and is a scorpion? What?^^)

Judging by the recent wave of sweaty Arena PvP Nerds and irony-poisoned Youtube Video Essayists all seemingly collectively drooling over this game all of a sudden, one would think we were all wrong back in the days when preemptively judging DS2 for its poor design and, well, no. No we weren't, as this game, while possibly over-hated, sure, it's really not something I would call good, especially when compared to the other entires in the Souls trilogy, heck, even when comparing it to more modern Souls-likes it genuinely doesn't stand a chance and you're better off looking somewhere else. Unless of course, you like struggling with clunky controls when navigating rooms full of copy-pasted enemies just to reach underwhelming and mechanically simplistic bosses. For everyone else (Normal People) you'll have more fun with the 3rd game in the series.

I've gone through a lot of the emotions one could have regarding this game. I once thought it was Fine, I once hated it and I once loved it. It is awful, it spits in the face of any form of Good Game Design put forward by Demon's Souls and Dark Souls in service of pushing the idea of "dark souls is hard, right? let's just make it really hard they'll love that shit" without putting any thought into making the game Good in service to That. If Dark Souls is a Game For Freaks, Dark Souls 2 is a game for the Freaks that the Freaks can't handle. People love to hate this game and people love to be contrarians about Not Hating this game, and people love to hate this game to be contrarian towards the people who are being contrarians about liking this game (It often comes off as pointlessly cyclical discourse in which people are either liking or hating the game for cred through discrediting the people who feel the opposite way and I don't care to engage in it. These are my Raw Feelings. Like or Dislike Dark Souls 2 at Your Own Discretion). Dark Souls 2 is a Deep Pit of Depression from which I cannot escape. It is a shadowy enigma of undelivered-upon-vaguepromises and experimentally-safe-yet-horrid game design within an already experimental series of Video Games. Dark Souls 2 is a zero-sum game. Without Dark Souls 2 we don't have the massive over-correction of a Greatest Stinkers Album that Dark Souls 3 is. Dark Souls 2 is Two.

Mentalidade Yui Tanimura

- Faz uma área merda
- Te incentiva a rushar já que explorar não presta
- Bota inimigo pra dificultar rushar a área
- Bota um boss merda no final pra você ter tentado rushar por nada
- Se recuse a desenvolver
- Saia

Wow this game is a hot mess, but I kinda like it....I can fix her....

Dark Souls 2 was my first Fromsoftware game, and to be honest for a while it was at the top of my list. However, after playing some of the other games the developers have made, I can't really in good faith write a great review of the game when Smelter Demon exists. Jokes aside, this game has fantastic world building, and I really digged most of the lore associated with this game. However I cannot deny the facts. The ADP stat is just plain stupid, and while there are some really good bosses in here, most of them are real stinkers. I've heard great things about the PvP in this game, but I have never been into PvP in these games. Overall, I enjoy it and think that it is a better game than the first, but not nearly as much as I did before, and it certainly has many faults. The DLC's are all fire though.

A heavily derivative experience that overlooks and misunderstands most of what made its predecessor great.
Generic bosses, terrible movement, ridiculous enemy placement, and some of the worst level designs in a game are some of the numerous burdens Dark Souls II carries. Still, it has interesting combat and multiplayer innovations and is not absolutely unberable like its counterpart, Scholar of the First Sin, which is an experience only masochists can enjoy.

This is a deeply flawed game, but it can still be enjoyed by patient players.

How many times can you have a profound videogame experience? Which ones can be repeated? Before it all goes hollow.

Here’s Anor Londo, drowned. Here’s the Palace of Boletaria, overgrown. The sequel as remix. Except shallower, to be toured rather than inhabited, built by level designers instead of architects.

Here are more bosses, here is more death. The sequel as more. More environments, segmented by more bonfires, cluttered with more enemies at once. And less memorable. With less character. Less soul.

Dark Souls 2 is a decent enough sequel. And I do not accept the premise of the videogame sequel.

A flawed gem that gets harder to return to with every passing year. Content rich, and yet none of the content is that great. Mechanically stodgy, yet rich. Strangely incomplete, and yet with the DLC's it's huge and satisfying.

A truly bizarre game, whose fundamental black sheep status will only make it weirder as time goes on. Mystical atmosphere. Daring in ways that 3 didn't dare be. Iconic fragments of lore and character buried under snide writing and fan service in its sequel.

A sunrise or a sunset? Accidental genius or dogshit rescued to be something half decent? Likely both. A special game despite itself. Unforgettable, both for the ways in which it is average and the ways in which it excels.

A crucial playthrough for a new and voracious From Soft fan.