This game is really challenging, fun and thought provoking.

In all honesty Dark souls shows the fundamental flaws of the game’s industry that being the need to make things easy and more generalised for an audience, Dark souls is not for everyone, however that is a good thing, considering the amount of games we are currently getting that are either live service infested games, “Hollywood” games, which are games that are more films than they are interactive software like Forespoken or Last of us 2 and anything that Sweet baby games publishes.

Dark souls, with other exceptional games like Shovel knight, Cuphead, Hades and others are almost telling players that they need to grow up, they need to understand that when you play a game you need to demand challenges, you need to understand that not everything in life and gaming is going to be easy, they will always be trouble and that it is going to unfair, but what counts is the fact that despite the pain and the gauntlet of issues, it is all the sweeter when you achieve that peak, that sense of relief, that sense of “you did it, you climb the mountain.” Imagine that the mountain you climbed had an escalator that got you to the top faster than taking the long difficult route, sure in some ways that is what everyone wants, but would you want it?

Do you want to be treated like a child or a warrior?

That is the problem with most modern games, they would rather take the escalator than push the players to their limit, they want to make gamers more docile and blander than inspired or feel achieved, while there are games that are easy and well liked like Kirby, that is a different beast all together, that is a casual game for people who want to relax, if you are complaining about a game that is intentionally meant to be difficult, then you need to go back to free maths games on your browser. I am mostly extending these complaints to Game’s journalists since they are one half of the issues, whether that is complaining about the fun aspect of the game, butchering the point of the story, or praising a bad game just because they filled out a checklist, both the mediocre games thrive through the basic and robot journalists that could not even get past the tutorial.

In the end, I believe Dark souls is important as that game reinforces to many that despite the constant stream of terrible, bland, or underwhelming games, there will always be a game that will explode everyone’s mind or teaches them something interesting, I am glad that I can play and beat a hard game that is rewarding. (Also, Kotaku is a parasite.)

It feels like there is a weird trend with most NetherRealm games, they would have some of the best combat and mechanics in fighting games, yet crumbles at the mere site of either a good story or additional content. For injustice 2 I am insulted by this one compared to others, like they take this very interesting concept that could go different directions, but instead makes the story either pointless or just ugly, that is including the character model, this game should be a barrel of fun when it comes to having these comic book characters especially for DC, yet when the characters are used in story mode, it feels like the writers spits on any ideas that they could do for the story and ends up killing the best characters. Not to mentions the terrible stuff added to it to make it redundant like the gears and the multiverse events, those are the most tedious things ever added to a game, just awful. To round up my feelings, this game is just... Mid, can be fun, but a lot of struggle.