Just a few messages scrawled on the floor and singular opportunities to try out a hint at a tactic. There really isn't much by way of a tutorial. This won't be so bad.Īnd as the game opens and my undead warrior takes to the Cemetery of Ash, things start nicely. I'm ready to live, die, repeat, I tell myself. If I plunge too deep beyond my abilities I'll lose everything, but if I work my way forward balancing my increasing skillset against the challenges I'll be fine. It's a simple mechanic, and on the surface seems fair. You can snatch up that lost bounty of hard earned souls over and again, until that one time you don't quite make it as far as before and are stopped short, putting you back to square one. You can take as many swings at the levels as you like. But die again en route, and that lost cache of souls are gone forever. Run back to the scene of your demise to reclaim these lost souls. Die, and you drop all your unspent souls on the spot.
Use those souls to level up your character, your gear, etc. There is one currency in Dark Souls, souls. It presents you with a brutally honest fighting mechanic, lets you take as many swings as you want, but tries to take everything you've earned when you falter and die. The hallmark of the Dark Souls series is its difficulty. I entered the world of Lothric eager to tackle the challenges ahead, excited about the journey before me, and undaunted by haunting tales of an unforgiving gaming experience. Let's face it, everyone's journey through death and dying is a personal one, and just because I'm not the first, doesn't make my experience any less authentic. But the longer I spend with Dark Souls III, the more I am convinced that there really is no other way to frame the discussion for a first time player to the series, except through these stages. Initially I walked away from writing this review from that perspective, it's been done before. A quick google search will yield that I'm not the only reviewer to feel this way.
Even in my earliest playing hours with FromSoftware's Dark Souls III, I couldn't escape the feeling that the experience of playing this game is like moving through Kübler-Ross' 5 stages of grief.
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