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Dark Souls is a third-person action RPG where souls are the world's currency. Kill enemies, get souls, invest those souls into levels or stronger equipment, rinse and repeat.
Some of the notable features that make Dark Souls the way it is include:

• Search every nook and cranny for hidden secrets!
  
• Test your combat skill in tense mob encounters and intense boss fights alike!
  
• What you can and cannot wield is limited only by what stats you choose to level up and what gear you can find!
  
• Leave messages behind for other players to read! Be helpful, unhelpful, silly, or even vulgar if you so choose!
  
• Discover what all this "dodge roll" malarkey is about!
  
• Suffer the consequences of your actions when you murder important NPCs!
  
• Summon other players to your world to help you conquer difficult obstacles with the power of jolly cooperation!
  
• Join different covenants to open up new ways to interact with the world and with other players!
  
• If you open your world to others, don't be surprised when dark spirits with less-than-scrupulous intentions come knocking...
  
• Bonewheels :)

This is a game best enjoyed by those who are able to laugh and learn at their own mistakes, over and over again. If you aren't very good at taking repeated failure in stride and instead get frustrated, you should probably pass this title on by.

Dark Souls is not inherently a hard game, but what makes it special is that it absolutely won't hold your hand either. You will be failing a lot, and what determines whether you triumph or not is solely your own perseverance.

If you've never played any of FromSoftware's games before, this will probably be a breath of fresh air for you from other studios' content. If you are up for challenging content but still want an open world experience, Elden Ring is for you.

For the rest of us coming from earlier titles: This game's combat is exactly carried over from Dark Souls 3 — that is to say, running around and basic combat is basically exactly the same — but the enemies and bosses are a lot faster, stronger, more complex, and more random, in both behaviour patterns and hard stats.
To combat this, there are also a zillion different ways to make yourself incredibly overpowered and able to largely negate any of the challenge.
One of the things this game pushes on you from nearly the very beginning is the ability to summon enemy mobs to come to your aid during boss fights (or certain field encounters) for the low low price of a pittance of HP or FP. This is of course not needed to overcome any challenge, but it does swing the difficulty all the way from Hard to Easy.

However, this game's fault really just lies in technical problems. To name a couple:
- Pulling a steady 60 FPS is very rare. I have outdated hardware myself, so for me the game averages at around 40 FPS; but I have seen many reports that people with cutting-edge, top-of-the-line hardware are struggling to do it too.
- Every button input has a delay that screws with your ability to play the game. This delay was present in previous FromSoftware titles as well, but it's significantly more of an issue now because Elden Ring's enemies and bosses act much faster and demand faster inputs from you.
- The game will frequently munch inputs so they don't go through.
- The game also has an input buffer system that is excessively sensitive, making it so you often throw out extra moves you don't want.
For example: Instead of turning on the buffer at the end of a sword swing, it's instead turned on at the beginning of the swipe for who knows what reason.

If you can get over these technical problems, and the greatly ramped up (base) difficulty, Elden Ring might be a good entry for you veterans of the Soulsborne series.

Sekiro is a samurai action movie, where you are the protagonist.
Your first playthrough is just your rehearsal of the game's choreography. You are going to struggle a lot until you master the fundamentals that Sekiro wants you to know.
But your second playthrough, after everything has fully clicked? Then you feel like a god.

The basilisks know karate

Played for a little bit
The level editor is kinda nifty
hmmm

Up front, this game has a few things that you need to be okay with to enjoy it.
- Firstly, you should set the game's resolution to be the same as your monitor's. If you don't, then you're going to get graphical issues such as green dots everywhere whenever you tab in and out.
- Be sure to save the game before tabbing out of the game. In the Empire mode, the menus tend to break when subjected to tabbing and out, which may make the game softlock.
- For English users, the game's text is fully translated but there are no English voices; the voiceovers are still Japanese. Personally, I don't mind this.
- This game uses the Musou button (B on an Xbox controller) for confirmation and the Jump button (A on an Xbox controller) for cancel, which is backwards to what most Western audiences are probably comfortable with.

All that said, this Empires game is still really good. Even without any DLCs installed, there's enough character editing capability to easily fill out an entire custom scenario. The core gameplay is solid, just like all the Dynasty Warriors games that came before, and make each battle fun to play again and again.

I'm not one to write many words, so TL;DR: This game has some issues but is still great.