"Throughout my entire time playing Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, my stance on it constantly shifted. At one moment, I might think it a better version of Dark Souls 2, making all sorts of smart, small changes to streamline and improve the overall experience. And the next moment, I might think it a step back, a game that equates challenge with pure brutality, revising previously balanced encounters into nightmares of artificial difficulty and unfairness, overwhelming at every turn just for the sake of making things harder because From Software could rather than because they should.
Even now, having finished the game and messed around with new game plus, I still don’t quite know where I stand. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it better or is it worse? I don’t know. My answer to those questions changes depending on the day. And even then, I’m always second-guessing myself, uncertain on how to pass judgment on this confounding game. It makes tons of smart tweaks, but bogs them down by its insistence on making the game harder – and not necessarily for the better."
VGChartz's Issa Maki: "I want to appreciate Dark Souls II on the same level as its predecessor, Demon's Souls, or Bloodborne. Yet every time I open myself up to the possibility, my hopes are dashed by small design quirks that eventually add up to a sum of infuriating disappointment. How can a game that improves on the past in so many intriguing ways be held back by issues that never previously existed? Why does Dark Souls II seem to sabotage any sense of enjoyment it creates, just out of sheer spite against the player? Was this conduct on behalf of the developers justifiable in some way – and possibly even necessary? Prepare to quaff some Estus and burn an effigy or two in our likenesses, for we journey once again to the land of Drangleic."
Dark Souls tweets: "PvP servers for Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls: Remastered have been temporarily deactivated to allow the team to investigate recent reports of an issue with online services.
Servers for Dark Souls: PtDE will join them shortly.
We apologize for this inconvenience."
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