Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is a mod of the 2008 action game Dark Souls, created by the community group known as the Scholar of the First Sin Development Team (SFSDT; previously known as the First Sin Back Room). It is designed to retool Dark Souls to play more like its two predecessors, King's Field (2001) and Demon's Souls (2009), in response to fan objections to Dark Soul's physics, slower-paced gameplay, larger use of chance elements, and mechanics of certain attacks. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin reintroduces the mechanics like health penalties for being undead, which were present in Demon's Souls but were cut from Dark Souls. In addition, it features a new art style for in-game menus and allows players to choose certain weapons individually when they are only accessible as extensions of other ones in Dark Souls.