Human Effigy = Humanity.

You are hollow =/= you aren't human. You use a Human Effigy, you revive back to Human.

Like others have said, it is definitely a Souls game. The difficulty is probably a bit more Demon's than Dark (so harder for newcomers) but if you have played them before it will feel like you never left.

Good mix of mechanics from Demon's and Dark like leveling up with one person but still having bonfires dotted around. Fast travel from the get go was a pleasant surprise. It also feels like it punishes you more for dying as Effigies are scarce and losing health every death makes it harder to progress, which will put new players off (maybe) but feel great for veterans of the series.

Probably going to buy the PC version when that is released and if it ever comes to PS4 I will pick it up again as the Dualshock 3 actually feels like a massive downgrade from the Dualshock 4 now and I did try and use the DS4 with the PS3 but there was some input lag that made the game ever harder and I wasn't quite feeling that challenge.

How does it feel great? I played through Dark souls 3 times, maybe that doesn't make me a veteran but I hate diminishing health. I rather have the enemies stay, instead on my healthbar disappearing. I'm already down to 75% just from the turotial area from falling off stuff.

I guess "veterans" here means people who started with Demon's Souls.

Fair enough. I was meaning as it was from Demon's Souls where you only had half health when you weren't human and the challenge that developed was exciting.

I would prefer the enemies didn't dissapear after so many deaths too.

@Wright

Yeah, I should have specified instead of saying veterans.


@Both

Veterans was poor wording.

Damn straight.

fantastic so far, the addition of armor scaling will allow for more diverse builds. won't be seeing a bunch of giants/havels armor guys this time around.

not confirmed but I think being a part of the way of the blue covenant has a hidden perk of free humanity - if summoned as hollow, upon return I noticed being restored to human.

What class are you playing?...any new class that wasn´t on Dark Souls 1?

True, getting cursed in Dark souls definitely added a big challenge. Especially as I didn't find out what had done it after I got hit a second time. Fighting my way back up to the bell tower was painfull. Ofcourse with fast travel that challenge is gone, it's just a nuisance now. I imagine I'll just be fighting with half a health bar and use effigies only before boss fights.

The game lets you start with a single Estus flask. That's off-putting, no doubt about it, but it also provides with life gems every now and then (a nice touch from Demon's). Life is cut in half, gradually, but a restoration ring is found very early in the game. Add some AI problems, early powerful weapons and a quite lower difficulty and you have the whole "difficulty picture".

What's really making the game hard is the enemy vanishing after a ten or so kills. That means there is a finite amount of souls to collect from each area. Which in turn means that if you die often (and lose souls) you will not regain them easily. Grinding and farming is very limited. In the long run that will prove really sore for the gamer.