Fair and challenging game-play, level design and item placement which make sense both from game-play and story perspectives, thought-provoking story inspired by ancient myths and legends and the fantastic sense of an epic adventure make Dark Souls into a masterpiece and one of the best, if not the best, games ever made. After this game I won’t be able to take monsters dropping gold seriously ever again.
| Positive: | Negative: |
| Beautiful scenery | Some NPCs are easy to miss making an already cryptic story incomprehensible |
| Awesome monster design | Apart from looks, armor sets have very little variation game-play wise |
| Awesome armor design | Does a very poor job at explaining weapon crafting and other game-play mechanics |
| Good music | |
| Fantastic atmosphere | |
| Interesting surreal story | |
| Fantastic lore | |
| Great thought-provoking storytelling | |
| Item placement and drops make sense lore-wise | |
| Fantastic sense of adventure | |
| Fantastic dungeon design | |
| Fantastic boss fights | |
| Fantastic battle mechanics | |
| Extremely hard |
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