Firstly, if you're playing SOTFS, you fucked up. The extra scenes with Aldia are novel, but it doesn't equal the detracting TEN ENEMIES EVERYWHERE, or TWO PURSUERS. Granted base game wasn't exactly good about that either. Did you know that Dark Souls 2 is the only Dark Souls game to have a cheevo for dying? And it's predictably "Welcome to Dark Souls" hurp durp. These games weren't meant to be meme difficult. They were meant as games that were challenges that you overcome. To that end I'm also pissed off that Dark Souls 2 is the only Soulsgame that offers a reward for completing it without dying, without using a bonfire too might I add. Also, fuck Soul Memory and the adaptability meaning i-frames meme. I will give it props for some ideas, it did good with power-stancing and the ascetics are a great way of moving a particular area to NG+ without moving the entire game to NG+. But, and it's a big but, having enemies slowly die and not respawn leaving you with a finite amount of souls was a shitty thing to do. I get that they wanted to prevent players from simply grinding to a high SL and steamrolling everything, but that was not the way. While I'm complaining, FUCK SHRINE OF AMANA, though they've patched it down to make it more bearable, it's still crappy. My only cope is hahaha Semon of Dong hahaha. And, and, I could go on but basically Dark Souls 2 is a 8/10 game in a 9 or 10/10 series. I will shit on it in respect to the other games Fromsoft made, but if anyone shits on my hideously malformed baby out of nowhere, I will tell you to go fuck yourself.
