Burning effigies of his or her former self can temporarily dispel the curse, but nothing can break it - or so it seems. He or she is cursed to die again and again, coming back as an undead abomination. Your character in "Dark Souls II" is a traveler in the dilapidated realm of Drangleic.
When taken together, these changes make the game both harder and easier than its predecessors, leaving it with a similar difficulty curve on balance. Series fans will notice two big changes from "Dark Souls." When you die, your health now caps at 50 percent of its maximum value, as in "Demon's Souls." Many enemies will also stop re-spawning if you defeat them enough times. Few games rival "Dark Souls II" in terms of delayed gratification and satisfaction. If you die 15 times in a row, but still manage to eke out enough souls for a few upgrades, you'll feel like the greatest adventurer who ever lived. The controls are as precise as they come, and reward careful strokes instead of indiscriminate button-mashing.Ĭonquering the game's enormous bosses feels like a real triumph rather than just a tick box on the way to the ending. In spite of its unforgiving challenge, "Dark Souls II" is an absolute delight to play. Few things feel more devastating than earning a few thousand souls, then dying twice in rapid succession and seeing all of those stat upgrades you dreamed about vanish into a bloody mist. If you can reach the spot where you perished, you can reclaim them if not, they disappear forever. Hoarding souls can land you in trouble, though, as you drop your souls upon dying.
Raising your strength or health by even a few points and upgrading your favorite weapon can turn an impossible challenge into one that's merely very difficult. Whatever items you found will still be in your inventory, and whatever shortcuts you found will still be active.Įnemies drop souls upon defeat, which can be exchanged for upgrades or new equipment. When - not if - you die, you'll be returned to the last bonfire you visited. You can rest and refill your potions at bonfires, which double as checkpoints. The game does throw you a number of bones (since it has murderous, spear-wielding skeletons to spare). Fighting more than one enemy at a time is suicide advancing even a few steps without your shield up and your finger on the dodge button is just asking for a trap to impale you. The enemies you encounter are both ferocious and tenacious, and even the first enemies you encounter can carve you up like an armored turkey if you give them half a chance.
What sets "Dark Souls II" apart from similar titles is its exceptional difficulty.
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