A few weeks ago I got the urge to play a Soulsborne . You know the ones, the merciless rock-hard hit videogames popularised by From Software . Your Demon's Souls , your Dark Souls , your singular Bloodborne and Sekiro and Elden Ring and so on. I blame the last one myself, the Elden Ring DLC came out recently and footage of it has been all over my Instagram Reels (I'm not nearly with it enough to use Tiktok ) and gosh darn it, it returned me to 2015 when I last tried my luck at one of these games. It is also entirely coincidental that 2015 was the year that saw the release of the game I'll be talking about today. All of which is a very long winded way of saying that I've finally gotten around to playing Dark Souls II this month . Prepare for incoming thoughts on the matter...
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