What’s New in Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

[CybrSlydr]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...to-die-edition

I’ve done a lot of things in life that weren’t exactly easy. In 2008 I moved to Japan with what turned out to be an embarrassingly rudimentary knowledge of Japanese, and had to either learn to read fast or subsist entirely on convenience-store cup ramen. I spent six weeks as a door-to-door sales girl in suburban California, where on one occasion I was literally hosed down by an angry fat shirtless man yelling at me to get off his property. I sat through all of Transformers 2 without screaming, once.

Reviewing Dark Souls last year, though, was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Playing that game with no online functionality and no help from wikis or fellow players for 80-odd hours, relying on an email thread with other hapless Dark Souls reviewers that soon became known as the Chain of Pain for help, turned an invigoratingly difficult game into a near-impossible one. For various boring review-related technical reasons I had to start that game over from the beginning four times without ever being able to finish it.

I have the 360 version, though I've only played like... an hour of it.

[Transnone13]

I try every now and then to keep playing. I beat Demons Souls, but this one is kicking my *** AS IS.

[Maniac]

I'm interested in it, so I'll probably pick it up when it drops to 20 or below.