berserkerlbs
Neo Member
This game is dogshit and I believe it's only highly regarded by critics because it's got Dark Souls in its name. Dark Souls has made quite a name for itself due to the difficulty, and somehow difficulty became indicative of good quality, so the harder it is, the "better" it is, but I think Dark Souls 2 is hard for the wrong reasons.
Not only are your i-frames locked behind and determined by a stupid stat that the game doesn't even bother explaining to you, but the overall stamina consumption for rolls and attacks is higher in this game, so if you don't increase your ADP stat, rolling is utter garbage. The level design is awful and nonsensical at times, the bosses are shoddy and generic, the hitboxes are godawful and this is where the "difficult for the wrong reasons" I mentioned comes in.
So, your healing is slower, your recovery frames after attacking are slower, your stamina recovery is slower and the consumption is larger. Hitboxes are garbage. All these issues make for a rather clunky game and let's not forget the fact that one of the means through which the developers attempted to artificially amp up the difficulty was by riddling the game with ganks everywhere and that stinks.
Not only are your i-frames locked behind and determined by a stupid stat that the game doesn't even bother explaining to you, but the overall stamina consumption for rolls and attacks is higher in this game, so if you don't increase your ADP stat, rolling is utter garbage. The level design is awful and nonsensical at times, the bosses are shoddy and generic, the hitboxes are godawful and this is where the "difficult for the wrong reasons" I mentioned comes in.
So, your healing is slower, your recovery frames after attacking are slower, your stamina recovery is slower and the consumption is larger. Hitboxes are garbage. All these issues make for a rather clunky game and let's not forget the fact that one of the means through which the developers attempted to artificially amp up the difficulty was by riddling the game with ganks everywhere and that stinks.