Dark Souls<\/a> for popularising and catapulting it into the mainstream zeitgeist. <\/p>\n\n\n\nYes, Dark Souls was an absolute game-changer that transformed the gaming landscape forever. In fact, pound-for-pound, I’d wager that it’s probably the most influential modern game of all time. No small feat, indeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Released back in 2009, at a time when AAA games often felt as easy as shooting zombies in a barrel, Dark Souls stormed onto the scene to flip the script and remind us what we were all missing: tight, challenging, punishing gameplay like the old-school games of yore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While it may be harder than a bag of diamond gobstoppers, you can thankfully grind a neverending supply of souls to help level the blood-splattered playing field, much like Miyazaki’s latest epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With its wonderfully grotesque enemy roster, its intricately constructed and interlocking world design, its weighty combat, and its moreish feeling of elation when you trounce a pesky adversary by learning, experimenting, and persevering; Dark Souls\u2019 heart-in-mouth, risk-and-reward gameplay is equally refined as it is fiendishly addictive. And it’s an easy recommendation for anyone who is on the hunt for an experience as exemplary as Elden Ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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