Great single player with some rough patches combined with the best integration of online in a Souls game makes this one of my favorites of all time.

5 stars for the actual game as imbalanced as it might be, 1 star for the F2P model. Aquiring cosmetics is just too damn expensive and the battle pass kind of sucks.

UPDATE:
They fixed a lot of the above, new cosmetics still expensive but the f2p experience is honestly ok and I think the current BP is a good deal.

THIS GAME FUCKS.

This game introduces some fan favorites like Akiyama and signaled the start of the series becoming what it would be today. It also drastically improves the awful combat from the previous game.

A fun, quaint game that also shows you some of the history of the gaming industry.

It's not my personal favorite in the whole series but its probably the best one overall. The shift to JRPG combat was kind of genius and like a lot of games in the series, there's just a lot to do here. Ichiban is also a very loveable protag.

Everything about this game is good except the dreaded combat. It's just so so rough and holds it back so much. Notice that even with those words its still 4 stars in my eyes at the minimum, in part to the endearing stuff with Kiryu and the orphanage. This is probably the best written Kiryu in the series for me, as far as being the main protagonist.

Mostly really good, transphobic subplot and the inconveniences of actually getting the true ending hold it back for me.

Worse than the second one in just about every way, but a necessary game for that second one to even exist. It also has its own charm to it. Don't get it though cause no servers lol.

This entry leaves a lot to be desired as an adaptation and pretty much requires mods to fix the changes to the music. Even then there's still stuff just not adapted well. In spite of all that I don't think its an actively bad way to play the second entry and there's still a lot to love here.

The first game but good, basically. Probably my favorite entry in the series.

This game is hilarious. That's the review.

This game serves as an example as to why you shouldn't make your game with shoddy tank controls and fixed cameras an action game. Just frustrating all around along with having difficulty options that range from too easy to too difficult.

999 is really, really good, save for the pretty lackluster last third, and VLR is just okay at best and a trainwreck at the worst of times. If you play this play it for 999 really, not VLR, though if you like 999 you'll probably be ok with VLR.

Absolutely misery inducing and I love it. If you play solo it might be kinda uh, bad.