Why Darksouls Is The Best Darksouls Game.
Darksouls
Darksouls is the first game in the Darksouls series with consists of Darksouls, Darksouls II, and Darksouls 3. Although technically there is Demonsouls, which came before Darksouls, and Bloodborne which came before Darksouls 3 we're only going to be talking about the Darksouls games, and not all the Soulsborne titles.
Level Design
While darksouls might not have the best combat, compared to newer games like Darksouls 3, which definitely has the better and more fine tuned combat. The way the world in Darksouls is built is worlds better than Darksouls 3 or even Darksouls 2. In Darksouls3 and for the most part Darksouls 2, you have a general direction to go and you go there. For example in Darksouls 3 you have no choice about where you want to go. You go to the High Wall of Lothric, from here you kill the boss Vordt and go to the Undead Settlement. You can kill an npc though and trigger an end game boss The Dancer of the Boreal Valley and go to Lothric Castle, from here you can kill the castle's boss but have to wait to progress till you kill more bosses later game, so again it's forcing you to go it's suggested path. There's nothing wrong with this! In many ways having a set path to go is a good thing, it's definately less confusing. But I believe that having choice about where you want to go is what makes games like this great. In Darksouls when you get to Firelink shrine, you have a choice. You can go to Blight town right out of the gate, and go fight Quelaag. Or you can go to the Undead Burg and fight the Bell Gargoyles and those bosses. Or you could even go into the catacombs and fight Pinwheel early, and if you really wanted to you could go into New Londo early. The choice is up to you about where you want to go.
Covenants and Npcs
Darksouls has a large amount of Covenants and very memorable NPCS compared to the other games. A lot of the NPCS are hidden or you only see them if you join certain covenants, and then certain covenants will allow you to save different NPCS. It's all very intertwined and makes for a large amount of replayability.
Conclusion
Well those are the things that I think make Darksouls the best Darksouls game, if you have any other reasons why it might be or even think that another of them are the best, let me know below.
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