XBOX GAMES LIKE DARK SOULS SERIES
Dark Souls IIIĭark Souls III is the final entry into the Dark Souls series (for now) and manages to blend elements from every game in the trilogy into it.
This results in some strange geographical occurrences, as previously mentioned, in addition to the game feeling less like an explorable world, and more like several branching paths.ĭark Souls II might not be perfect, but it is far from being a bad game, it just so happens to be a weaker entry into a series with outstanding quality. Where Dark Souls offered the Lordvessel and Bonfire warping as a reward, Dark Souls II choose to let you warp at any unlocked bonfire right away. This is further exacerbated by the fact that you are freely able to warp between bonfires from the start. It doesn’t have the same sort of open cohesion that the Original Dark Souls had. The locations and geography do not quite align together either, meaning that at one point you might be in a barren valley, but you head into a building and up a lift, and then you are suddenly surrounded by lava. Outside of that, Scholar of the First Sin also helped to dispel and streamline some of this even further for players, while also giving them a new, rebalanced experience in comparison to the vanilla Dark Souls II experience. Why? It dared to stray away from Demon’s and Dark Souls’ notoriously obtuse systems and allow players to craft their own experience of the game through Covenants, such as the Covenant of Champions. With some wonky hitboxes here and there, this is a title that gets criminally overlooked in the history of Dark Souls and Souls-like games. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sinĭark Souls II catches a lot more flak than it deserves. There’s no doubt Deck 13 will have another pop at making a Souls-like title again, but hopefully, it manages to iron out some of the kinks with the combat to make it a more satisfying experience. One of the biggest let downs with The Surge is how it manages to squander the promise that it had in its opening. With Deck13’s second pop at a “Souls”-like game, the developer managed to bring forward an appealing setting, but manages to falter with floaty combat and that shaky camera, making for a nauseating experience. The Surge has a really, really strong opening, where your disabled character navigates a room in a wheelchair before becoming augmented by a futuristic exoskeleton. For one, we’re doing away with the standard Fantasy fare, and instead approach the world of science fiction. The Surge is a little bit different from many of the games on this list. Here, you’ll find nothing aside from a pretty generic dark fantasy romp with mechanics that resemble Dark Souls.
If you’re a fan of Dark Souls, you’ll learn its intricate lore over multiple playthroughs. The art direction doesn’t exactly inspire either, and the way the world’s mysteries unfold is unimaginative.
Unfortunately, the game also handles like an angry budget Space Marine, with the shaky camera seriously hampering the deliberate, and close-but-not-quite-right melee combat. In Lords of the Fallen, you take control of the uncustomisable main character Harkyn, who looks like a budget Space Marine with a face like a slapped arse. Here is every Souls and Souls-Like game, ranked from worst to best. Sekiro looks to be a departure from the traditional “Souls-Like” structure, and with that in mind, it seems like high time to take a look at all the big 3D games that adopt the same structure as FromSoftware’s Gothic action hits. Hidetaka Miyazaki, the Director of Dark Souls and the upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice once said in the Dark Souls Design Works interview that he “didn’t want to make a game that fits into the games industry’s mould”.īut what happens when you make a game that becomes a genre? Do other developers surpass that original creation and beat you at your own game? Well, sometimes.
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