Dark Souls II

Actually, I can refer directly to my Dark Souls I review, because Basically Dark Souls II is in no way inferior to the grandiose Predecessor. As I said, basically ... What it can do when the Head behind the Game, Hidetaka Miyazaki, is no longer above everything, you notice very well about this Game. It's still incredibly addictive and definitely one of the best Games I've played as well. But it's Little Things that definitely leave the first Part above the second part for me. First of all, it is noticeable that one can only level up in Majula (the Hub of Demon's Souls). That alone is disturbing, I think. Because every Time you want to invest your Souls in Levels, you have to take loading times Unnecessarily. To do this, the Person you can level up with has to say the same four Sayings again and again before you can get started. Sure, you can skip these Sentences on, but that's also the unnecessary Time that passes until you can do what you want-Just level them up quickly. Later you will notice that although the World from this Game is still a very strong Game world, you definitely have Buck on, the ingenious Level Design of the first Part is unfortunately gone. This becomes quite clear at a Point where you fight your Way up a Mill to get into an Elevator that drives you way up into a large world Of flames. Outside this Mill, absolutely nothing suggests it could still go beyond the Roof. This, I think, is poorly resolved and would have been unthinkable in the first Part. There were far more skillful Solutions, as the Painted World of Ariamis proved, and overall a significantly smarter Design of World Design. Everything was plausibly connected. You rarely have that Feeling in the second Part. What I didn't like quite so much, moreover, were some recyclable Boss opponents from the first Part, who, for example, are simply let go five on one this Time. In the first Part, Hidetaka Miyazaki showed an extreme Eye for Detail. Any Connection in the World of Dark Souls I is logical, even with the Items found in the World, and their Placements have broken Mr. Miyazaki's Head to make everything feel right. And this extraordinary Care is unfortunately missing from the second Part. Now it all sounds very negative and yet I clearly recommend the second Part, because, as mentioned above, basically this Part is in no way inferior to the first one. There's even some Stuff that the second Part does better than the first. The first thing that stands out is the technical Implementation. If you still Needed Mods for the first Part to trim the Optics more on "PC," this is fortunately no longer necessary for the second Part. Of Course, a Graphic Fireworks Display alá Far Cry 3 or the like is not to be expected even with the second Part. A bad Console Port, like the first Part, is definitely not this time, though. From Software has definitely learned to do this Here. Besides, and for me much more important than the Graphics, the Connections with other Players now work the way you might expect from a Game in 2014. Of Course, in the first Part you can also connect with each other, but there have been many problems, took longer, etc., so that Mods have offered themselves there again. Again, From Software correctly started. For all the other positives, as I wrote in the first Sentence, I refer to my Dark Souls I review. But I can also make it short. ;-) Whoever loved the first Part will definitely have their Fun with the second Part as well. So in the End, there is a clear Buy recommendation from me here as well.