Recent reviews by BOT Erik

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Good stuff

Very fun, defo does not feel like early access

neato

Nice with support for ultrawide, didn't expect that. Did expect more graphics settings however, But lets be real, no one plays DS for the graphics

Not the hardest puzzle game out there but stil a lot of fun. For 4 bucks, (price as of writing this) I'd say it's worth it. It's quite short though, which is my biggest complaint.

Initially I enjoyed this game, the conclusion ruined it though. Feels like regardless of which choice you make everything ends in disaster. In short your choices don't really matter as the outcome is the same regardless. If you enjoy GoT you might enjoy this for the story, assuming of course you don't go into this expecting to have an impact on the outcome.

Has a hard learning curve and can be daunting for a new player (certainly was for me). The game does not take your hand and walk you through it, it expects you to find the solutions quickly or the hard way. With that said this is perhaps the most fun game I've played in the last year or two. When I intially started playing I thought the game was crap, I hated on it because I sucked at it and I simply couldn't understand why people thought that it was remotely good. I ended up quiting. For some reason, the day after I felt like playing it again and while I still sucked I got better and better to the point where I finally found and defeated the "First" boss (the game allows you to go to 3 different places right after the "tutorial" area, the boss I'm refering to is the first boss in the sense that the area he is in, is the area you should start in, difficulty-wise). After beating the first boss the game became really, really fun and addictive. Needless to say, I've completed the game on normal mode and I really enjoyed it. Here are my tips for any new players. Firstly, play with a controller. Having a controller makes this game sooooooo much easier than playing with M&K. If you absoultly MUST play with M&K, download the mod from nexusmods which changes the prompts from xbox controller prompts to keyboard prompts. Secondly, exhaust dialogue with every NPC you can. NPCs give items, "quests" and valubale info if you talk enough with them. Thirdly, learn how stats work and BLOCK, BLOCK, BLOCK! I can't tell you how underrated blocking was for my intital first bit of playing. Blocking is a god-send and makes the game easier by far.
If the difficulty seems off-putting don't worry, I suck at games like this but I still enjoyed it and beat the game. With the ability to summon other players to help on bosses, beating the game can become a good deal easier. Also this site is your best friend for any help: http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Souls+2+Wiki
The mod I was refering to is:
http://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls2/mods/30/?
Also, if graphics are a concern, consider downloading GeDoSaTo to downsample, this really makes the game look sooo much prettier.
http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?tag=gedosato

Takes some time to get used to the menu... but after that its awesome