The second half had enough serious problems that I can understand the sentiment. If you consider DLC though, it’s really the second third of the game that’s bad. Tomb of the Giants, Lost Izalith, and New Londo Ruins, and Demon Ruins kinda suck imo. Lost Izalith is the worst by far, New Londo is the best of the worst due to the creepy vibe and 4 kings ( the ghosts suck though). They just can’t compare with Undead Burg, or Anor Londo. They are of substantially lower quality. Similarly, they are worse than every DLC area.
It felt like going back. To the NES days. Where everything was tough. Most don't understand that era of games. Mega Man, Castlevanias, Double Dragons, etc. Dark Souls is a return to what games were. That's why I love it. Tough but fair.
@@sparkls4492 it was quite a challenge to compile all the information required to pull that off though, right? Oh wait, you didn’t do that you probably just looked it up.
I feel Gwyn being underwhelming is intentional. He's a god who turned hollow desperately clinging to the age of fire only to be taken out by a normal undead. A bit ironic since he created the darksign to keep undead weak
One thing that's important to note about the second half was that just..... there was budget and time constraint issue. It's not much the devs stopped trying but rather they didn't had much of a choice and had to rush, so some area's like the demon ruins and especially bed of chaos ended up pretty terribly.
It does heavily feel rushed, though the DLC and the painted world do help with the second half being manageable like i said people call it boring but I'd say just luke warm 💪🏻👔
And props to you for entertaining me with your old play-through of the game! This game will always have a special place in my heart, one of the first games I've ever played on the 360. It just clicked for me and I've been a fan of the souls series ever since. Good video man, love the editing. 💜
You can get to Sif if you're incredibly lucky, or if you kill the Darkroot Basin Hydra first. There's a ladder on the other side of the waterfall to the left of where you fight it, and that leads up to the area beyond the locked door.
I just started my own play through yesterday. The older slower combat while “easy” now is so refreshing. Something about the art direction in this game also is just timeless. Dark souls will always hold a special place in my heart…. Except the bed of chaos, F… off and die 😊
3:32 You chose to heal directly in the attack range of a boss that you know would knock you into a death plain. Bed of Chaos obviously has design faults, but that is quite literally a skill issue, not a dev issue.
This game is very weird, I played this game at the start of 2023 and absolutely hated it for the first 60 hrs where majority of it was spent on not know where to go and wandering around aimlessly to find the second bell of awakening and getting into anor londo castle but as soon as I defeated O&S for the first time after god knows how many tries, the game finally clicked for me and I finished the second half(dlc included) in 20 hrs. Now I've done many playthough of this game that are less than a quarter of the total time that took me to finish it at first and now it is one of my favorite games of all time. So do I recommend this game as your first souls game, if you have the patience and can deal with the bs it throws on you then yes, but if not then play the other games since the start is quite hard to get pass through without guidance
It's really hard to recommend to gamers who haven't played titles like this nowadays but it is a classic so if you can look past it worts and all it's definitely worth the time to learn 💪🏻👔
16:51 you’re saying this from someone with years of experience on the game potentially skewing your views, a new player it’d take awhile to realize the meta for bosses and would just try to learn their attacks or ways to counter them, giving them the hard time, especially when the series was new and nobody knew about it or players coming from Bloodborne after where that doesn’t fly, you’ve got to think about it or hear about it before exploiting it
Won't deny it seems more arbitrary for me having played the game a few times but I do feel the game sets you up in the first fight with the asylum demon to focus the back weak spot and it's a trend with most the bosses after 💪🏻👔
@@GuyinthetieI played dark souls after having beat dark souls 3 and played part of dark souls 2. The first dark souls has some of the biggest level road blocks in the form of blightown, sens fortress and the silver kniight archers in anor londo. Everything else in the game isn't too much of an ordeal for first time playthroughs but these three areas definitely lived up to their reputations (though only anor londo keeps it's challenge on repeat playthroughs dye to the master key blightown skip and the fact that you will have the sens fortress timing seared into your brain after the first time). Though the npc questlines are awkward but what souls game has intuitive questlines?
The series didn't go mainstream until * Names the least selling game of them all * P.s. Yes sales don't have to do anything with quality but IMO what happened between DS1 and III (and even until Elden Ring)was that a lot knew the games existed but didn't play it themselves.
@@Guyinthetie a few hours of making this comment I tried again and managed to kill manus (I was looking at the time of when I started and ended so in half an hour I managed to kill manus
Thanks again for my favorite D list RU-vidr and a great video. If I didn’t get one soon I was gonna buy a tie and end things quicker than my dad left us
Question: Do I really need to play DS1 and 2 to play DS3? the graphics are not doing it for me on the 1st 2. Coming from Bloodborne, my very first Soulsborne, I fell in love with the eeriness and the mystery of the world and the lore of it. I love it, trying to plat it now. But going back to DS, I already have a DS3 copy..So do I need to play the first 2? what's your honest opinion?
You don't NEED to play them first but there are nods to the previous titles in DS3, so it just down to of you want that stuff to go over your head or not But I wouldn't say you need to play them at all 💪🏻👔
Great video. I love DS1. As someone that started on Elden Ring, then after played DS1 I have to disagree about the clunkyness, its not that bad. I found DS2 way more clunkier and after a few hours of DS2 I quit playing cause it didnt play like DS1 (backstabs and parries felt weird, hit boxes are weird, movement is weird). Playing DS1 after Elden Ring was a smooth transition for me personally. I also found the world as magical and engaging as Elden Ring (just not as epic).
Im sorry but I cant enjoy DS1 and DS2 . I started with bloodborne than ds3 than sekiro than elden ring and ds1 and 2 feel to old to me to enjoy. Needed to be there at that time to enjoy them
