Hi.
Just read your Dark Souls 3 Review. Your comments were disabled so I could not respond there.

Regarding the loss of the save, I encountered the same problem when I got a new computer and realised my save was not synchronisable with Steam.
If by some small chance you encounter the same problem in future, there is a strange solution.

DS3 saves game data in C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII.
There is a ".sl2" file in there which is basically your save data.
This is the file you must save.
When you install the game anew, and start a fresh new character and game, begin the game, and immediately quit.
This should generate the appropriate new .sl2 file in the location i mentioned.
Just copy and paste your old .sl2 file on the newly generated one.
When you jump back into the game, all your old characters and games are back.
It saved me 50+ hours of work - i didn't have to start from scratch.

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