Dark Souls 2 Review | IGN

IGN - Dark Souls II feels like playing baseball with a familiar, worn-in, comfortable mitt, only the rules of the sport have been slightly tweaked. Anyone worried that the sequel might rein back on the difficulty in favor of targeting a wider audience can sleep easy tonight – Dark Souls II is every bit as punishing, demanding, and ultimately rewarding as its 2011 predecessor. Its new ideas for both single-player exploration and helping and tormenting others in multiplayer don’t always quite click, but enough do to make this an exceptional game and an irresistible challenge.

[YoungPlex]

Amazing as expected but nice to hear... Good job Fromsoftware!

[hulk_bash1987]

Yup Demons Souls, Dark Souls and now Dark Souls 2 are some of the best games to come out of this past generation.

[starchild]

I agree. They are great. I'm looking forward to spending some time with Dark Souls 2.

[SilentNegotiator]

I haven't paid full price for a game in years, but I think I will pick up Dark Souls 2 today.

[miyamoto]

I believe in From Software so much!

King's Field
Tenchu
Armored Core
Frame Gride
Another Century Episode
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls

Great Games

They are now on top

[Psygnosis333]

The whole list :)

http://www.ign.com/companie...

Did anyone played Otogi: Myth of Demons on original Xbox? Is it a good game ?

[Irishguy95]

Didn't even know about Tenchu and Armored core. Great dev

[starchild]

I was going to say, you missed Otogi and Otogi 2. They are two of my favorite games of all time. Super punishing like the Souls games too.

I just wish there was a working Xbox emulator because I still have the games, but no longer have an original Xbox. These games need to be re-released.

[Captain Qwark 9]

you missed 3D dot heroes on ps3, one of the best adventure games this gen.. more or less a clone of a link to the past on snes but a damn good clone.

from is my fav dev..

[Sly-Lupin]

Why? Those games you listed cross the whole bloody spectrum. Sure, Dark Souls may be one of the very best games of the decade... but ACE:R is one of the very worst. ~__~

[SaturdayNightBeaver]

WOW IGN 9/10 on DS2 , can't wait for that April 25th!

[elhebbo16]

these are going to be the longest 44 days ever -__-

[SilentSolid]

It will be hard to resist watching reviews, gameplay and other ds2 related stuff till then.

[Timesplitter14]

Praise the sun!

[ziggurcat]

I can't wait to pick up my copy tomorrow.

[DivineAssault]

sweetness! Ill be picking the ultimate edition up tomorrow but cant play til later.. I have a backlog im working on

[Ezio2048]

Finally, 1st proper universally acclaimed game of the year. Can't wait to play.

[Kivespussi]

South park was pretty amazing too. But nothing as great as DS2 hasn't been released this year. And titanfal... Oh, boy another multiplayer shooter.

[WeAreLegion]

Agreed. Next up is inFamous.

[torchic]

inFamous previews have been fairly mixed, it'll probably get an 85 metascore or there about.

inFamous has never excelled well with critics but is still a super fun game.

[WeAreLegion]

You're probably right, sadly. I feel like critics are playing different games. Both inFamous games have been 10's, as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely brilliant!

[lonelyplayer]

Death penalties. That's amazing.

[No_Limit]

Did digital foundry made a comparison on the game on PS3/X360? Might also pick this one up at the midnight launch but want the best version possible.

[torchic]

PS3 has the best community, and due to that version obviously selling a lot more, more people on online, better experience. and I always heared that the 360 version of DS1 had a problem with hackers

[No_Limit]

Was wondering where the disagrees are coming from and I just headed over to Eurogamers and indeed the X360 is more superior, to my surprise. Well that settle it, X360 version it is.

[Silly gameAr]

lol You were going to get the 360 version anyway. :)

[Orange Juice]

2 more hours until its up on the store.....the wait is killing me.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Don't worry.. soon enough the game will be killing you :}

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

2 hours left :)