What am I in for? I bought this on sale and already beat DeS and 1.
>>722619231a garbage experience that will mind control you into claiming it's good on /v/eddit
Majula, home.
>>722619231lots of the game is lost izaleth tier jank and ugliness
>>722619231The most unique game in the series. Very flawed, but also tons of innovative mechanics that will never return. Truly one of a kind and divisive as fuck. You either love it or hate it, very rarely you land somewhere between.
>fist build>speedrun butterfly armor>aggro the npcs by accident and ruin my saveyep, its gaming time
>>722619231Kind of confusing at first, lots of cheap level design suckerpunches.Tons of options and customisation, bit jank at times but that's kind of the magic of it. Never be afraid to exploit the game in any way because it won't hesitate to do the same to you.spoilers that may actually help you because it's kind of weird coming from dark souls:the areas aren't cleverly interlinked like dark souls, they are effectively hallways consisting of zones. There's about 3 or 4 paths to go down that are sequences of zones. Bosses are kind of easy compared to the run ups to them, but the fields between bonfire and bosses are brutal sometimes. If you're getting your teeth kicked in before getting to a boss, you can farm enemies until they stop respawning (I think it's roughtly 10 respawns for most enemies?)Yes, souls are a finite resource here. Don't die and lose your souls too much, you can easily just brick your character if you really fail to git gud in time. You have to actually be super trash for it to get that bad, but it might be worth noting.You can respawn enemies with an item that is also limited unless you know how to do a specific thing, but every time you respawn them they get stronger. Respawning enemies also resets the zone, which lets you do some cool things like get multiple copies of a drop.Also you might feel at some point as though you used your yew branches in the wrong place and have bricked your game. The early spacing of the yew branches is such bullshit. Look up a guide for these if you're ever stumped and all your paths are blocked by retarded statues. Only part of DS2softsin that fucking sucks and isn't fun in any way.tldr it's cool.
>>722619231Get a lightning rapier +10 and the game pretty much plays itself
Use a bonfire ascetic at the fire on the tower before last sinner, have fun fighting an absolutely cancer fight with red summons, but win and get the qualaag soul and then use that to get the chaos blade.
>>722619231just play and ignore the tasteless retards on this boards
>>722619231The greatest adventure of all time.
This game attracts contrarians like shit attracts flies.
>>722619231hitboxes
>>722619231What are you in for? An ass beating cus I just started playing too. Watch your fucking back.
>>722619231As crappy as DS2 is, at least it's kinda fun. DS3 had zero replayability and much more boring areas
>>722619231It’s a Great game but it’s not as good as the others and so is hated
terrible bosses, terrible level design, alright enemies. great build variety, best spells in the franchisebut overall a miserable experience unless you do a lot of PvP
>>722626052>DS3Oh shit here we go again
>>722619507That would be the original ds2, sotfs has the lighting back in it akin to the ps3 network test version.
The base game is just okay, the DLC is very good. It doesn't have anything as bad as Lost Izalith in it, and some of the zones are pretty decent. It's worse than the first half of DS1, it's better than the second half of DS1. It's worse than DS3.It's just a very fine game. The DLC is very good as I already mentioned. There's some really great bosses. There's also some bosses with some horrific run backs.Power stancing is great, and something that felt sorely missing from Dark Souls 3. Music is probably the weakest in the series as well. Majula is great though, Emerald Herald is a good waifu.
>>722623891I know DS2 has problems, but I really liked the NG+ changes in DS2. Having a few extra challenges thrown at you was refreshing.
>>722619231It's good but a let down compared to the previous games, while they had a clear vision for each encounter, DS2 doesn't, it's not bad as some claim but you can tell they had a lot of ideas but couldn't have them be as seamless as in previous games, so the progression is not as linear as DS1, it feels unfocused and sometimes you hit a wall that you need to go back and play the other paths until you find a certain item or defeat a certain boss.Overall, I enjoy it and replay every few years, the DLCs are good, my favorite pieces of content in the game. Just level ADP, attaching iframes to a skill is retarded.
>>722626731>It's worse than DS3to this day i dont comprehend how people dont get bored to death with DS3specially in a post-elden-ring world. DS3 combat/bosses is literally just an incredibly boring version of ER, you take away the actually creative boss movesets, jumping over attacks, your own jump attacks, ducking under attacks, crazy ashes and interactive mechanics, crazy poise/tanking, much better stance system.... And literally just keep the boring side of the rollslop without all the things making it fun (ignoring most of the first half bosses that are just the most forgettable anemic trash instead of rollslop)
I'm playing through it again for the first time since Scholar's release and I just entered the poison windmill place. I think it's good if you like the series, it has bullshit in it but the whole series does that. For me personally I feel like DS2 is more interesting because it's differentish but it suffers from that as much as it's a strength. DS3 feels way more polished and fun to play, but it's less interesting because it's "Remember DS1!?" I mean shit wasn't the plan not to do a third one but Bandai Namco was all "Dude it prints money" so From just did it? I could've swore I read that at some point in an interview.
>>722619231Flip a coin. On heads it is the best souls game you have ever played and you will spill blood to defend that. On tails it is an abomination of software and you will make it your personal mission to scrub it from the internet at all costs.I look forward to seeing you in any future DS2 threads
>>722619231It's not a true Souls game.
