Dark Souls
Dark Souls is the new action role-playing game from the developers who brought you Demon’s Souls, FromSoftware. Dark Souls will have many familiar features: A dark fantasy universe, tense dungeon crawling, fearsome enemy encounters and unique online interactions. Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demon’s, not a sequel. Prepare for a new, despair-inducing world, with a vast, fully-explorable horizon and vertically-oriented landforms. Prepare for a new, mysterious story, centered around the the world of Lodran, but most of all, prepare to die. You will face countless murderous traps, countless darkly grotesque mobs and several gargantuan, supremely powerful demons and dragons bosses. You must learn from death to persist through this unforgiving world. And you aren’t alone.
Game Discussion
Steam User 28
The remaster runs far better, in many ways (but not all) looks better, controls better, and is generally an improvement across the board. However - there's a certain, bizarre charm to this original version, and I admit it's completely irrational, but this was a game meant to be seen at a chunky and anamorphic 1024x720, with grainy textures and crunchy lighting. For all of its flaws, revisiting PTDE in its ugly, slow, obtuse technical state invokes this ethereal, dream-like quality, as if its world is so faded that its physical laws can't quite resolve, invoking childhood memories of early 3D games with framerates often barely breaking double digits. Details obscured by blockiness make them more mysterious; harsher lighting feels more prickly and imposing. Rather than pristine 4K 60 FPS visuals that cleanly present every millimetre of brick and moss with perfect precision, this sub-HD, sub-30 FPS dream suggests its world behind a layer of abstraction and imagination, inadvertently building this surreal, vague atmosphere. And while I can't seriously recommend that anyone does a full playthrough in this version over the remaster, it's fascinating how a jumble of ill-conceived programming can have such an emotional impact.
Steam User 34
After playing this for a while, I can say I prefer this over the Remastered version with the DSFix since it looks much prettier in with the graphics and can run the game at 60 FPS with no issues. However if you prefer online play, then I would recommend the Remastered version instead. Either way, I am having fun with this version after beating the Remastered version multiple times and was extremely lucky to grab a key at the time.
Also there are cats, which is always good :3
Steam User 30
it truly unfortunate that one of the best games ever made got pulled off steam. nowadays you are LUCKY if you find a key for this game for 400$. damn shame. takes a lot of fun away from fans old and new.
Steam User 23
Despite all its problems, it's a great game, and... I've just now realized I'm writing a review for a delisted game.
Steam User 20
Thank you random Japanese man from Mercari who sold me the physical Artorias of The Abyss edition of the game for 70 bucks. The key worked. I will 100% the game in honor of him.
Steam User 23
BRING BACK PREPARE TO DIE EDITION had to play it on family library since it was removed from the store. I would love to have it in the library.
Steam User 19
Worthless review given that it is hidden but I still want to say that I like this game, it is slower than 3 but level and world design are incredible.