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Dark Souls

Developer: FromSoftware Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
04 October 2011
Xbox 360
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#8 All-time
#1 for 2011
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Soulslike#2 High fantasy#2 Undead#1 Medieval fantasy#1 Dark fantasy#2
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Gothic Tragedy Myth and folklore Metroidvania Medieval period Occult
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Dark Souls
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JP 4 949776 341053 BLJM-60993
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2011 • From Namco Bandai Games  
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XNA 7 22674 21050 8
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2011 • From Namco Bandai Games  
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US 7 22674 11047 1 BLUS-30782
Dark Souls Limited Edition
2011 • From Bandai Namco  
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XNA 7 22674 11057 0
Dark Souls Limited Edition
2011 • From Bandai Namco  
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AU 3 391891 956437 BLES-01396
Dark Souls
2011 • From Bandai Namco  
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AU 3 391891 956512 BLES-01396
Dark Souls Limited Edition
2011 • From Bandai Namco  
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XEU 3 391891 956239
다크 소울
2011 • From Bandai Namco  
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KR 8 809072 361192
Dark Souls
2011 • From Bandai Namco  
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XEU 3 391891 957809
Dark Souls Limited edition
2012 • From Bandai Namco  
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GB 3 391891 957823 BLES-01402
Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition
2012 • From Bandai Namco  
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Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition
2012 • From Bandai Namco  
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XEU 3 391891 963756
Dark Souls With Artorias of the Abyss Edition
2012 • From  
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JP 4 949776 341060 BLJM-60517
Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From QLOC  
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Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Bandai Namco  
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GB CUSA-08495
Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Bandai Namco  
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Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Bandai Namco  
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Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Bandai Namco  
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XNA 7 22674 12139 2 CUSA-08692
Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Virtuos  
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ES PT 0 45496 42191 5 LA-H-AK63B-EUR
Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Bandai Namco  
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Dark Souls Remastered
2018 • From Virtuos  
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2018 • From Bandai Namco  
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XNA XSA 0 45496 59272 1 LA-H-AK63B-USA
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Let me just get this out of the way first: This "lol hardest game ever!!1!" stuff needs to stop. This is absolutely a challenging game, no question about it, but I feel that the difficulty is certainly fair and doesn't feel cheap in the slightest.

Fantasy is a hit-or-miss genre for me in any medium. More often than not, some works in it come off as kind of cringeworthy to me. And shit like orcs just come off as so unappealing to me.

Enter Dark Souls, which is certainly high fantasy, but feels absolutely apocalyptic in terms of atmosphere.
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Samdaman55 Dark Souls 2024-04-03T22:57:27Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2024-04-03T22:57:27Z
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ebaltherr91 Dark Souls 2024-01-24T12:17:32Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2024-01-24T12:17:32Z
4.0
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marutoshin Dark Souls 2024-01-13T06:51:58Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2024-01-13T06:51:58Z
4.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
scuffed Dark Souls 2023-11-04T22:40:23Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2023-11-04T22:40:23Z
5.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
QuicksilverSky Dark Souls 2023-10-02T15:31:33Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2023-10-02T15:31:33Z
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Xionus Dark Souls 2022-08-21T02:32:31Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-08-21T02:32:31Z
4.0
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skellygore Dark Souls 2022-05-31T13:21:35Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-05-31T13:21:35Z
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KILLITHJCC999 Dark Souls 2022-04-19T23:44:10Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-04-19T23:44:10Z
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DJSuleiman Dark Souls 2022-03-29T16:39:47Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-03-29T16:39:47Z
5.0
1
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hiddenjem Dark Souls 2022-02-13T02:56:38Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-02-13T02:56:38Z
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xaver2 Dark Souls 2022-02-08T04:58:30Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-02-08T04:58:30Z
5.0
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Bitterballen Dark Souls 2022-01-08T17:53:13Z
Xbox 360 • XNA
2022-01-08T17:53:13Z
5.0
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Player modes
1-4 players
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1x DVD
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Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss
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Dark Souls Trilogy
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ESRB: M
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7 22674 21050 8/xna

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  • bandito616 2024-04-07 18:54:12.344588+00
    realistically this has too many flaws to be considered the best game ever, but so does bloodborne. honestly the one fromsoft game i'd submit to "best game ever" is elden ring no cap
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    • INoLuv 2024-04-07 23:12:23.196292+00
      The best game it isnt, but one of the best? Certainly is, but that applies most soulslike fromsoft games. It is insane how greatly fromsoft can make very high quality games. But i wouldnt object if anyone find DS the greatest, i love it.
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  • wargrl 2024-04-15 13:04:31.992072+00
    awfully tedious with quite a few lazily designed bosses, levels, and enemies

    but its still so much fun. its great. all that tedium adds a lot to the experience, and its an amazing journey
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    • ThrashingFairy 2024-04-19 23:37:19.33223+00
      None of this was lazy. The issue is some of it was rushed to meet a deadline.
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  • Banana_PD 2024-04-22 15:54:06.950036+00
    Man, I'm just never going to get used to the Switch version using B to accept/interact even though it's the same placement as the X button on PS3.
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  • DoradoMusic 2024-04-23 16:27:53.273182+00
    Probably would be a 10 for me only if bed of chaos and capra demon weren’t among the worst bosses in the history of the medium
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  • ABG_GAMING 2024-04-26 01:04:01.596105+00
    yesterday i posted here about how the map design is unintuitive and wonky and i just wanted to make a second post saying that the design is actually really smart but it gives you no indication of where to go or what to do. i just have a really really bad sense of direction in this game.
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  • TheSheepMountain 2024-04-26 07:15:12.992563+00
    I'm enjoying this (playing DS(R) for the first time, Elden Ring being my first and only 'Souls' game I have played), but really, some deliberate choices from the devs are terrible for many players' experience.

    For instance, the use of the Fire Keeper Soul to upgrade your flasks, NOTHING in the item description tells you that you need to bring it to the lady in the cell and NOT consume it near a bonfire. I wasted the first one you get by doing the latter, thinking it was the right method. By the time I got that first FKS, I had forgotten about that line of dialogue vaguely telling you how to use one. At least, make it so that you can't consume it (without telling you how to properly do it).
    Another thing: the bonfires are often way too far from the bosses. Getting to the couple of Gargoyles is annoying with all the nonsense you have to go through EVERY time, When you die as often to said bosses, having to do all that beforehand just feels like a waste of your time. I know it's by design, to force you to play mindfully and patiently when facing the bosses, but the whole process of getting to the bosses itself is tedious.

    Could have been a GOAT contender, but it cannot be for me because of things like these.
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    • thm_yrk12 2024-04-26 22:00:07.579613+00
      even worse when you get a fire keeper soul identical to any other that's actually essential for a questline, and you end up upgrading your flask with it and not being able to use the firelink bonfire for the rest of the game.
    • INoLuv 2024-04-26 22:00:51.038256+00
      In my first playthrough i didnt consume it because in previous soulslike fromsoft games i learned that by consuming key items (on bloodborne), so when i started ds1 i knew that it is better to just consume flasks, then items to heal curse after
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