Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition

One of the finest action RPG games ever made. The quality of this title is of the highest kind, quality, and order. Supreme. Play this game, and weep at the failings of modern design.

After a very very long time of occasionally going and trying to play and not having any fun at all, I finally managed to dig my teeth into a FromSoftware game, it only took a long time playing lots of JRPGs and Castlevania before I figured I would get over the annoyance eventually. And yeah, I did. This is an interesting point in their games, a midpoint if anything from kings field through Demon's souls and then the other Dark Souls and Souls games that came after it, and it has plenty of atmosphere and excellent visual and audio design that make it feel really fun to walk through and play, and the way the characters act and the lore of the world is presented is very bleak and left to you, which I understand is basically FromSoft's signature for their fantasy games. I still hate how bad I am at it, but with almost certainly a sub-optimal build and regular breathers I am pushing through, and the downside of this being the old version with no working online now takes away from a lot, especially being able to summon a living person to help or hinder me. Absolutely recommended if you like Dark Gothic fantasy and can forestall crash outs over being killed by a skeleton you have easily killed a dozen times before because it got lucky or you got stupid long enough for you to see the good in the game, and there is a lot of it.