Dark Souls Remastered is the best version ever released of the best game ever made. Oh, sure, you can quibble about minor changes (the lighting is different!) and complain that nothing has changed since the Prepare to Die Edition, but at the end of the day this game makes the original obsolete in every way. Yes, I would’ve loved to see Dark Souls 2’s superior menus implemented and yes, I do think there are certain levels that seem downright lazy when compared to the stellar bulk of the game, but at the end of the day this is not a remake, and to change things drastically from the way they were when it came out would do a disservice to the game itself. Worse would be to arbitrarily shift characters and items around and fill the game with goons by the bucketload, as the already disappointing Dark Souls 2 was subject to with its 2015 ‘remaster’ Scholar of the First Sin. That was a bad remaster, because not only was the technical improvement negligible, but the actual design of the world and its lore was compromised by some fabricated need to change things around to make people purchase the same game twice.

This game, on the other hand, is the same game it was when it came out in 2011. There is a new bonfire in the Catacombs to make it easier to access an NPC in that area, but that’s it. As far as I can tell that is literally the only change to level design from beginning to end, and yet it is a vastly superior experience than Prepare to Die because the multiplayer is alive and well. I’ve played Dark Souls a lot, but it wasn’t until the first time I played this edition that I encountered members of covenants outside of a handful of the most popular ones. In the very first area where multiplayer is possible I fought a Gravelord Servant, then an acolyte of the Path of the Dragon, all within ten minutes. I got my ♥♥♥♥ ruined because I was wielding a weapon I barely had the stats to even hold, but it was a fantastic experience regardless because I felt like I was experiencing the game for the first time in the way it was intended - as a fusion of single- and multiplayer experiences into one.

It’s awesome, is what I’m getting at. If you have money that you are going to spend on a computer game I literally do not think there is a better way to spend it than on a copy of Dark Souls Remastered. It’s the best game I’ve ever played, and failing a return from the heavens by Jesus Christ himself and the subsequent release of a game he’s been developing for the last two millennia, I don’t see how that will change. I really do think everybody owes it to themselves to give this game a try, and I think that this version is the best way to do it.

My review for the original PC release - the Prepare to Die Edition.

[i]Dark Souls Remastered[/i] is the best version ever released of the best game ever made. Oh, sure, you can quibble about minor changes (the lighting is different!) and complain that nothing has changed since the [i]Prepare to Die Edition[/i], but at the end of the day this game makes the original obsolete in every way. Yes, I would’ve loved to see [i]Dark Souls 2[/i]’s superior menus implemented and yes, I do think there are certain levels that seem downright lazy when compared to the stellar bulk of the game, but at the end of the day this is not a remake, and to change things drastically from the way they were when it came out would do a disservice to the game itself. Worse would be to arbitrarily shift characters and items around and fill the game with goons by the bucketload, as the already disappointing [i]Dark Souls 2[/i] was subject to with its 2015 ‘remaster’ [i]Scholar of the First Sin[/i]. [i]That[/i] was a bad remaster, because not only was the technical improvement negligible, but the actual design of the world and its lore was compromised by some fabricated need to change things around to make people purchase the same game twice. This game, on the other hand, is the same game it was when it came out in 2011. There is a new bonfire in the Catacombs to make it easier to access an NPC in that area, but that’s it. As far as I can tell that is literally the only change to level design from beginning to end, and yet it is a vastly superior experience than [i]Prepare to Die[/i] because the multiplayer is alive and well. I’ve played [i]Dark Souls[/i] a lot, but it wasn’t until the first time I played this edition that I encountered members of covenants outside of a handful of the most popular ones. In the very first area where multiplayer is possible I fought a Gravelord Servant, then an acolyte of the Path of the Dragon, all within ten minutes. I got my shit ruined because I was wielding a weapon I barely had the stats to even [i]hold[/i], but it was a [i]fantastic[/i] experience regardless because I felt like I was experiencing the game for the first time in the way it was intended - as a fusion of single- and multiplayer experiences into one. It’s awesome, is what I’m getting at. If you have money that you are going to spend on a computer game I literally do not think there is a better way to spend it than on a copy of [i]Dark Souls Remastered[/i]. It’s the best game I’ve ever played, and failing a return from the heavens by Jesus Christ himself and the subsequent release of a game he’s been developing for the last two millennia, I don’t see how that will change. I really do think everybody owes it to themselves to give this game a try, and I think that this version is the best way to do it. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/oked/recommended/211420?snr=1_5_9__402]My review for the original PC release - the [i]Prepare to Die Edition[/i].[/url]