Dark Souls III [official site] is almost here so if you haven’t done so already, prepare to die. In this spoiler-free review, I’ll explain how From Software’s latest borrows almost as much from trilogy predecessor Demon’s Souls as from the previous two games, and why I might be ready to say goodbye to the series, even though I’ve loved almost every minute of my time in Lothric.
In the moments when I m feeling generous toward Dark Souls III, I m tempted to say it takes the best of series-opener (and only non-PC entry) Demon s Souls and mixes it with the best of Dark Souls I. That s an argument I reckon I could stitch together.
There have been plenty of those moments, scattered across the tens of hours I ve already spent with From Software s latest, but there have been plenty of drawn out moments when I ve felt as if both I and the series are going through the motions to an extent. To explain why that is, I need to talk about the aspects of the Souls games that I love.