| KLXVER said: Just weird to me how people can love Dark Souls 1 and 3 and yet hate everything about Dark Souls 2. |
Thanks to Runa for reminding me of what I didn't like.
In summary, Dark Souls 2 just feels substantially less polished than the others. People can show examples of the other games having hit box problems, but DS2 is the only time where it felt noticeable.
The invincibility frames being tied to a stat is different, and frustrating if you don't know about it.
Most of the Souls games have this level design where you are able to just ran past enemies most of the time. Not always, but most of the time, the games don't put up arbitrary barriers. Some exceptions like the New Londo Ruins are kind of rough to just run through.
But Dark Souls 2 for example has a number of spots where you have those large Ironclad Soldiers blocking small alleys. Which feels like it violates some big Souls-like level design principles that the other games do so well at.
I do think DS2 gets too much hate. I think it's a great game, but I also think it's on the bottom of recent From Software games.
