This is a good game.

Those familiar with the series will be right at home as the gameplay is smooth, combat is fluid, enemies grotesque and often vastly larger than you but that's where the arsenal of weapons, small and large (and everything in between!) comes into to play, offering so many options that it's hard to get bored as there's always something new to try, be it a ginormous hammer, spear you can throw at enemies or a gloriously flaming halberd that just so happens to also be able to cast spells.

There are also enough sorceries, miracles and pyromancies to satiate even the most rabid caster, from soul arrows to lightning spears, flaming orbs that hover in the air or explode on contact, various mists that poison and much, much more including various utility spells that create light, repair gear or even give you a chance to survive lethal damage.

Despite being relatively old game by now, there's enough online presence that coop is pretty plentiful, at least during earlier levels/areas, same goes for PvP although most encounters there are not entirely fair as large majority of PvPers, even after taking a year off from the game, consists of so called twinks, people with the best gear for their level range, maxed out healing flasks, various rings that give significant advantage vs anyone who lacks these boons making practically every single invasion encounter an uphill fight.

That is of course if the invader isn't a hacker, which is also pretty common due to Steam's family sharing which, at least in the past, allowed easy circumventing of whatever cheat detectors From Software/Bamco uses to flag accounts in game since once detected the cheaters would just swap accounts and be back to ruining games and there's not a damn thing you could do to stop them.

All in all, if you like coop games that can't be sleepwalked through by spamming the attack button or just like moderately challenging fantasy rpgs then Dark Souls III might just be the game for you!

This is a good game. Those familiar with the series will be right at home as the gameplay is smooth, combat is fluid, enemies grotesque and often vastly larger than you but that's where the arsenal of weapons, small and large (and everything in between!) comes into to play, offering so many options that it's hard to get bored as there's always something new to try, be it a ginormous hammer, spear you can throw at enemies or a gloriously flaming halberd that just so happens to also be able to cast spells. There are also enough sorceries, miracles and pyromancies to satiate even the most rabid caster, from soul arrows to lightning spears, flaming orbs that hover in the air or explode on contact, various mists that poison and much, much more including various utility spells that create light, repair gear or even give you a chance to survive lethal damage. Despite being relatively old game by now, there's enough online presence that coop is pretty plentiful, at least during earlier levels/areas, same goes for PvP although most encounters there are not entirely fair as large majority of PvPers, even after taking a year off from the game, consists of so called twinks, people with the best gear for their level range, maxed out healing flasks, various rings that give significant advantage vs anyone who lacks these boons making practically every single invasion encounter an uphill fight. That is of course if the invader isn't a hacker, which is also pretty common due to Steam's family sharing which, at least in the past, allowed easy circumventing of whatever cheat detectors From Software/Bamco uses to flag accounts in game since once detected the cheaters would just swap accounts and be back to ruining games and there's not a damn thing you could do to stop them. All in all, if you like coop games that can't be sleepwalked through by spamming the attack button or just like moderately challenging fantasy rpgs then Dark Souls III might just be the game for you!