Lothric is also a mix of past Souls titles when it comes to its layout and presentation. It's also teeming with dangerous enemies, some more terrifying than anything I've encountered in previous games.

It's a world filled with secrets and shortcuts waiting to be uncovered. Looking past its more sensible design, the Kingdom of Lothric is both a beauty to behold and a pleasure to explore. The environment, which Dark Souls 2 got a lot of flak for, is not only a lot more gorgeous this time around, but is also laid out in a way that makes a lot more sense, at least as much sense as a Dark Souls game can make. You won't be seeing me there though, sorry. And hey, once you best the bosses and feel like you need an additional challenge, take the fight to the vastly improved online. With a ton of weapon and armor variety, pyromancies, miracles, sorceries and weapon arts to delve into, Dark Souls 3 is a virtual playground of player experimentation, of finding what build works best. I'm getting the same feelings I got from the original Dark Souls, which I recently replayed prior to the release of Dark Souls 3 and still found extremely enjoyable, something that truly withstands the test of time. And given how lore-heavy these games are, I'm sure there's also plenty I missed my first time around.Įven as I'm writing this, I'm itching to boot the game up again, and that's a great sign. After three games of recurring themes, Dark Souls 3 manages to wrap it all up extremely well in a way that's ultimately satisfying. However, Dark Souls 3 might just be the final entry in this particular series, and I think I'm pretty OK with that. I highly doubt that FROMSOFT is finished with these types of games. That was always the case with these games: tough but fair. Where Dark Souls 2 aimed to punish the player for, well, literally everything, as if that was the core idea for the series from the start, Dark Souls 3 dials it back a bit, still retaining the tough-as-nails difficulty but with a degree of fairness. I swear, I'm not 'Phantom Menacing' Dark Souls 3 here, guys.

While it may seem like this could yet again be another case of 'holy shit, another Dark Souls game' syndrome, where the game seems fantastic from the outset only to slowly degrade over time like its predecessor, the fact that I already couldn't wait to restart the game was a clear sign that FROM knew what they were doing here.

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