This is genuinely really cool. I love Dark Souls 2 and I draw fantasy maps, but they're always larger in scale than something like a Dark Souls setting where the locales are the interesting thing instead of geography and landforms, so I could never conceive of how to do my own map for DS2 properly. So watching this was eye-opening as well as really cool. Thank you! I'm going to check out the rest of your channel now. You do some amazing work.
This channel deserves so many more eyeballs. I know it has been many years since these games have been in the gamer zeitgeist, but as someone who is finally taking on DS2, this video is so much more helpful than any other DS2 content I’ve seen. So many guides are seemingly specific for original DS2 or SOTFS and almost never specify which. And additionally, so many guides assume you know the various paths by heart. Thank you for all of the care you put into these videos and excited to see what’s next
They had so many different ways they could have tweaked it in Scholar after they'd heard the feedback, even options that wouldnt require any extra development. If it just faded to black or they added a single line of lore to an item somewhere that this was somehow a magic elevator or something ("Mytha forged it from iron gifted by her true love", yadda yadda, or "the iron remembers where it came from"... deepest lore), it would be far from the strangest area transition in the franchise.
Or used huge raven to transfer you from Earthen Peak to the peak of a huge mountain, where the Iron Keep apparently located. It was so easy and would explain everything.
Heading over from the subreddit! Man, that's awesome stuff. Already loved the previous maps (and others as well). This video is hilarious. Keep it up, dude! Thanks for the efforts!
Jesus I miss this game. My best friend and I were so excited to see anything Dark Souls on TV. They ran advertisements on regular cable and we were like "oh my god its real!"
This is such a great video, it's the best way to figure out which content you've missed during a playthrough, and where to find it, and it is very visually appealing as opposed to just bland gameplay clips.
Really glad you point out how DS2 has even more variety in paths open to you from the start of the game than DS1. The world may be less interconnected but SoulsBourne games since DS2 have all trended towards being more linear, at least until Elden Ring. As for the Earthen Peak elevator, it frustrates me that if the devs had just gone for a dumb "fade to black" transition instead of a physical elevator the fans would all just assume some weird magic had happened and be okay with it. They'd even probably invent lore to make it fit. But by having a physical elevator this somehow totally breaks suspension of disbelief, like "if i can see the gears turning, that means there's no magic happening behind the scenes". This from the franchise where paintings can contain a world, falling asleep looking at a Dragon Eiree can teleport you there, random DLC shrines can teleport you to far-off lands, and really wanting a pendant can allow you to reach through time and space. None of these were established lore when they each happened for the first time, they were just last-ditch ways for the developers to transition between areas that didnt fit and players were happy to go "deepest lore" and move on.
These illustrations actually help so much. I was running around like a headless chicken in the forest fortress and this is exactly what I needed. Subbed please make more of these.
i dont even need to see it to know its the best guide, and I just finished the game... man I really needed this guide earlier XD. thank you very much for doing these, can't imagine how time consuming it can be.
Classic Tomb Raider and Dark Souls are some of my all-time favorite series, and I truly believe most of that is due to how much I love navigating intelligent map design. I really hope you keep this project going, these videos are some of the coolest shit I've seen on RU-vid.
Well, im here 1 year after. I finished ds2, ds3, sekiro and elden ring right after i saw the first video (dark souls 1), this type of video is incredible, please, make ds3 too, in my next playthrough of these games i for sure will see these videos again, love from brazil ❤
Does anyone else think that Lucatiel is one of the best overall NPCs in the whole series? She is so appropriately helpful and tragic at the same time. I really feel for her.
And I found it more enjoyable, since I am a fan of the King’s Field series and DS2 really feels like it was inspired by Shadow Tower and KF4:The Ancient City, even more than DS1 ever did tbh.
I had to search this because i just beaten the spiden And the roten boss And Now iam Fighting that DLC Dragon that breaks your weapons , looks like i skiped a little bit 😂
9:35 That waist high ruble we cannot possibly pass, is to me a joke that most people did not get. Perhaps they should have made it ankle high. Or 50cm wide...because you cannot walk sideways. You are too broad shouldered, mate.
