{"id":617875,"date":"2023-03-06T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/617875\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:15:01","slug":"critically-analyzing-dark-souls-ii-9-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/617875\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically Analyzing Dark Souls II, 9 Years Later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Critically Analyzing Dark Souls II, 9 Years Later...\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5o6guGLbKQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this video, SoulReborn goes back to Dark Souls II, and looks at whether it is as good as people say it is, and he analyzes it in great detail, in this Dark Souls 2 critique and video essay.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls II is a 2014 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Games. An entry in the Dark Souls series, it was released for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Taking place in the kingdom of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) gameplay. Dark Souls II was released in March 2014 after some initial delays, with the Windows version being released the following month.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls II was a critical and commercial success. A remastered version of the game, titled Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Windows in April 2015. It contains the original game and its downloadable content with upgraded graphics, expanded online multiplayer capacity, and various other changes. A sequel, Dark Souls III, was released in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction 00:00:00<br \/>\nPrelude 00:01:11<br \/>\nBackground 00:03:29<br \/>\nThings Betwixt 00:06:10<br \/>\nMajula 00:12:22<br \/>\nLevelling 00:16:43<br \/>\nForest of Fallen Giants 00:25:40<br \/>\nHeide&#8217;s Tower of Flame 00:34:24<br \/>\nCombat and Movement 00:41:55<br \/>\nNo Man&#8217;s Wharf 00:51:40<br \/>\nThe Lost Bastille 00:58:40<br \/>\nBelfry Luna 01:06:16<br \/>\nSinner&#8217;s Rise 01:10:46<br \/>\nDifficulty 01:14:45<br \/>\nHuntsman&#8217;s Copse 01:18:37<br \/>\nUndead Purgatory 01:23:39<br \/>\nHarvest Valley 01:28:07<br \/>\nEarthern Peak 01:29:55<br \/>\nLevel and World Design 01:34:17<br \/>\nIron Keep 01:41:06<br \/>\nBelfry Sol 01:48:46<br \/>\nThe Pit 01:50:14<br \/>\nGrave of Saints 01:51:16<br \/>\nThe Gutter 01:52:44<br \/>\nBlack Gulch 01:55:18<br \/>\nHealing Mechanics 01:58:18<br \/>\nShaded Woods 02:01:53<br \/>\nDoors of Pharros 02:05:41<br \/>\nBrightstone Cove Tseldora 02:08:19<br \/>\nWeapon Upgrades 02:12:51<br \/>\nDrangleic Castle 02:16:52<br \/>\nShrine of Amana 02:24:31<br \/>\nUndead Crypt 02:26:06<br \/>\nCovenants 02:31:59<br \/>\nAldia&#8217;s Keep 02:35:05<br \/>\nDragon Aerie 02:38:28<br \/>\nDragon Shrine 02:40:03<br \/>\nMemories of Giants 02:44:52<br \/>\nCharacter Quests 02:48:15<br \/>\nDark Chasms of Old 02:52:05<br \/>\nShulva, the Sanctum City 02:57:00<br \/>\nDragon Sanctum 02:58:31<br \/>\nGame Length 03:03:59<br \/>\nBrume Tower 03:06:28<br \/>\nIron Passage 03:11:26<br \/>\nMemory of the Old Iron King 03:14:15<br \/>\nFrozen Eleum Loyce 03:16:44<br \/>\nFrigid Outskirts 03:21:34<br \/>\nThrone of Want 03:25:08<br \/>\nConclusion 03:29:22<\/p>\n<p>#darksouls #eldenring #fromsoftware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, SoulReborn goes back to Dark Souls II, and looks at whether it is as good as people say it is, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":617876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32559,6452,39832,212,7188,10199,10982,53491,14313,9030,32569,1382,32568,14312,203,7202,8599,6443,7209,4026,32566,16075,7199,6444,16076,32567,15,32560,32565],"class_list":{"0":"post-617875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-actman","9":"tag-blighttown","10":"tag-critique","11":"tag-dark-souls","12":"tag-dark-souls-2","13":"tag-dark-souls-2-bosses","14":"tag-dark-souls-2-gameplay","15":"tag-dark-souls-2-pvp","16":"tag-dark-souls-2-story","17":"tag-dark-souls-challenge","18":"tag-dark-souls-endings","19":"tag-dark-souls-ii","20":"tag-dark-souls-is-hard","21":"tag-dark-souls-lore","22":"tag-dark-souls-remastered","23":"tag-dark-souls-review","24":"tag-dsr","25":"tag-frampt","26":"tag-from-software","27":"tag-gwyn","28":"tag-gwyn-lord-of-cinder","29":"tag-hbomberguy","30":"tag-in-defense-of-dark-souls-2","31":"tag-kaathe","32":"tag-matthewmatosis","33":"tag-ornstein-and-smough","34":"tag-rpg","35":"tag-the-act-man","36":"tag-the-chosen-undead"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}