The Worst Souls Game is Still Pretty Good | Dark Souls 2 Review

In the second video of my series of Fromsoft game reviews I take a look at Dark Souls 2, the divisive sequel to Dark Souls. I do my best to try to highlight what the game does well, but at the end of the day I share the commonly held belief that it's the worst of the Soulsborne games by a decent margin. I still enjoyed the experience and think that Fromsoft learned a lot of valuable lessons from this game.

00:00 Intro
02:09 A bit of context for understanding how and why the game was made
05:53 Categorizing my four biggest complaints with the game
20:48 Category 1: Strength of Illusion
25:00 Category 2: Depth of Engagement
29:54 Category 3: Immersive Synergy
36:53 Category 4: Seamlessness
40:52 Final score, and concluding remarks

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All of my game reviews from this review forward will include a link in the description to an unlisted video showing what the adobe illustrator file for the video itself looked like. I might be being paranoid here, but I see this as a safeguard against AI impersonation. AI is going to get very good at impersonating the voices and styles of creators, but I think it will be much much harder for AI to also fake a video showing an illustrator file in which the timestamps for the clips and effects match what is shown in the actual video. Maybe this is unnecessary extra step, but all of my videos released in the future (it is 10/20/25 as I write this) will have this in the description

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