Dark Souls: Remastered Reviews
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Dark Souls Remastered is a glow up for one of the most acclaimed games in recent history that spanned its own genre and deserves the praise it gets. And with 2 tweaks, you can maximize battery life and keep 60 FPS on the Steam Deck!
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Dark Souls Remastered on the Nintendo Switch is a tribute to the Souls series and everything it stands for. Playing the game on the go allows you to really revel in the moment to moment successes amid seemingly hundreds of failures. While I love everything this port stands for, I'd be hard pressed to recommend it as an entry point for players getting into the series, or even as a remastered version of the game that people don't plan on playing on a commute or outside of their home in general. It is, despite all of this, capable of creating...
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Dark Souls: Remastered doesn’t add a lot to the Dark Souls formula, but then again it doesn’t need to. Its graphical updates are subtle, and sometimes dubious, and the tweaks it makes to the game will only be noticeable to the already converted. But a refreshed pool of players means more opportunities for jolly cooperation, and the Switch makes it more convenient than ever to play the sometimes unapproachable classic. For better or worse, Dark Souls: Remastered is essentially the Dark Souls you already know on a new platform.
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From Software finds a classic sitting next to a forgotten bonfire. This review now includes impressions of the Nintendo Switch version of Dark Souls Remastered.
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Dark Souls: Remastered is everything you remember from the original game, with a slicker coat of paint. The same great gameplay, annoying enemies, and challenging bosses, now with a higher framerate. If you’ve never played the first or want to dive back into the world of Lordran, then Dark Souls: Remastered is calling your name.
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Dark Souls Remastered is a nice, shiny new edition of a game that I have never enjoyed. While I respect the game's genre-creating precision gameplay and acknowledge it's place in gaming history, I just don't like this game, and can't recommend it to new players. That said, it plays fine, and looks better than it ever has. Dark Souls fans already know who they are, and will enjoy this new edition immensely.
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The embers of Dark Souls might not burn as bright seven years later, but Dark Souls: Remastered proves this is still one of the best RPGs of the modern era.
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Dark Souls Remastered has aged well, despite the progress of its successors. Newcomers might fight it abrasive, but it is still worth a pickup for old fans and new alike. Here's to a release of Demon's Souls Remastered.
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Dark Souls is a franchise with a lot of influence over the way games have developed this past decade. The Souls games have inspired a whole swath of imitators, both good and bad, thanks to their revolutionary design. I’ve also never really played them before now. I was under the impression that Bloodborne fell under that same umbrella, at least until I picked up Dark Souls Remastered for the first time. This quickly dashed any hopes I had about coming in with an edge. Instead, my time with Dark Souls was characterized by flailing, failing, swearing and more failing. I...
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It's hard to believe that it's been almost 7 years since this phenomenal game first debuted. Now, long-time fans and newcomers alike can enjoy it with cool new graphics so relight the flame and prepare to die.
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Ultimately, players will split into two camps: those who expected more from the remaster and those who just wanted 4K resolution running at a higher frame rate and will otherwise be happy with what’s on offer. Anyone who was anticipating a Scholar of the First Sin situation has not been paying attention, as this is simply the Dark Souls from the beginning of the decade. The experience is still as you remember, the characters you meet on the undead pilgrimage still tell a harrowing tale, and the trials and tribulations of Dark Souls will still ignite a fire in the...
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Remakes and remasters are the perfect opportunity to play on our nostalgia. To make us yearn for games from our past that fill us with the same kind of childlike wonder and glee that we felt when we originally experienced these titles. Although this is not a good description for Dark Souls: Remastered. Dark Souls: Remastered is more interested in filling us with rage, suffering, and anguish than wonder and glee. And in its pursuits it succeeds in recapturing that same pain for a second time a...
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Here’s a fun little tidbit about Dark Souls. As you approach the walkway to the keep where Andre the blacksmith is located, you can bait an enemy Hollow into following you. Tilt the camera downwards so it looks like you’re playing the game from a top-down angle, parry and riposte the Hollow on the walkway, and your character will clip out of bounds, allowing you to enter Sen’s Fortress without having to ring the two bells. It’s a legendary speedrun skip that was first discovered about two years ago, and it still works in Dark Souls Remastered.
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A mediocre remaster of an all-time classic, but by the mere act of fixing (most of) the frame rate problems this becomes the definitive version of one of the decade’s most influential video games.
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Seven years later, the influence of From Software’s Dark Souls on the games industry is impossible to ignore. A challenging atmospheric experience through classic fantasy tropes with a grim tint, Dark Souls spurred an entire genre of souls-like titles, and provided a haven for those who love exploration, larger-than-life boss battles, and a world drenched with mystery. Dark Souls Remastered is the way to play the game today if you’re on console, though PC players may have experienced many of the same improvements via Durante’s famous DSFix mod.
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It's the Dark Souls of Dark Souls games, and the issues that plagued the console versions that released in 2011 have been remedied... what else needs to be said here.
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Dark Souls Remastered speaks for itself just in terms of the raw mysteries it offers beyond its new coat of paint. The feeling of zoning into Firelink Shrine is just as special the 100th time as it is the first, and the open-ended nature of the world is just as fresh. Sometimes needlessly so, From Software has packed so much into Dark Souls that I’m finding new items or experimenting with strategies I’ve never seen before — a testament to the longevity of this particular entry, and a more than justified remaster.
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It's strange to take myself back to where my Souls journey initially began. I've been back multiple times over the years of course, but my travels through Lordran have never been quite as intense or memorable as the first time. When I didn't know where to go, didn't know who was friend or foe, Lordran seemed insurmountable and terrifying. Of course, it's been a long time since we came here for the first time, and these days there's friendly familiarity to the place, like going back to your childhood home for the holidays.
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