3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 383.3 hrs on record (283.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 12 Aug, 2016 @ 3:08am
Updated: 23 Nov, 2017 @ 3:14am

Dark Souls 3 is like a easier version of Dark Souls 1 with the only real issues being 3 puzzle bosses and so much fan service that you can't tell if the game has anything new to add to the series character wise.

This being my first real Dark Souls game as I didn't really get into Dark Souls 2 as the P.V.E was totally crazy with horrible hitboxes and insane amounts of enemies being placed in single locations while lacking else where.

I have already pumped about 30 hours into the game as I am writing this review and I am yet to try out the P.V.P as I am slightly intimidated by how bad the netcode is and how good people are.

Edit: Alright I have put about a solid 20 hours into P.V.P and invasions and I can safely say that it isn't as good as Dark Souls 2 but better than Dark Souls 1.

Invasions are annyoing because of multiple opponents going up against you most of the time and it's likely that you die quickly upon entering the world.

P.V.P is very basic with many weapons performing better than others and magic and that meaning that those weapons are very common to find. But diversity is possible and you can get away with doing pretty much anything as long as you just make sure that you know how to use your weapon.

I have heard that this game is the easiest out of all of the games in the Souls series and it shows for the first couple of bosses but other than this slight difficulty issue that games is great.

On to the issues with the first bosses is how easy they are with all of them having small health bars and the only difficult you might have is with trying to use magic on them. They also hit weakly meaning that if you don't just stand there and tank and just get hit once or twice then you will be fine for the most part.

Currently this review is still in development but as I experience more and more of the game I will keep on updating this review.

SUMMARY:
Dark Souls 3 is a great game I recommend for new players of the series with the only faults being easy early game bosses and pretty much all bosses in general having a low health bar with all this being topped of with a pretty linear P.V.P. system.
Apart from that I have to say that Dark Souls 3 is a great game with plenty of challenge for newer players but not as much for veterans of the series.

Overall this game is very solid and is deserving of 8/10.

EDIT: The game is great and that's what I already have said. But this game suffers from some very big and quite glaring issues.

The start of this game from the 3rd Area (2nd non-tutorial area) to the 6th area (5th non-tutorial area) are just annoying and slow. The enemies are slow and annoying and are full of horrible concepts that weren't executed right. The places themselves are plain and just ugly. The bosses (not including the 6/5th area boss) are easy.

That entire part of the game is just... Not very fun on consecutive runs.

After that the game is just infinitely better.

Apart from the Dungeon.

I hate that place.

I wish they could have just done something exciting and fun for those 3 areas and not just some bland and not fun areas.

Otherwise this game is great and feels a lot less clunky then Dark Souls 1 and a lot less annoying than Dark Souls 2.

The bonfire placement in this game is needless to say kind of silly. Some bonfires being only 10 metres away.

Apart from these issues and bosses having really small health pools in the start of the game this game is great.

The DLC has come out quite recently and after playing it I can confim that PVP has been fixed to a certain extent. The DLC has added a whole new area and an arena, as well as two bosses, pne being average and the other being amazing.
Once again I cannot recommend this game enough as it is an amazing game to enter the souls series with if you haven't already.
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