Reviewers Liked
- Drastic technical improvement for console players
- Incredibly shrewd remixed enemy/NPC/item placement
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Upgrading veterans essentially starting from scratch
Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin
86
7.9
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Gaming Nexus
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I don't think I'm being hyperbolic by calling the original Dark Souls a masterpiece. In an era when games have steadily become easier, the 2011 adventure bucked the trend by making everything as difficult as possible. Instead of lengthy cinemas full of...
By Expert Reviews
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An even tougher challenge than the vanilla release, and not exactly a must-buy for PC gamers, but Xbox One and PS4 owners should snap it...
By GameSpot
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And it's a hard-won love that Dark Souls II has you earn, a love that took a second, enhanced port to truly find. It is a demanding and seemingly interminable game that puts up its most beautiful and its most evil machinations right at the outset. Its greatest spectacles are the ones that will kill you the fastest. It will taunt. It will demoralize.
By TrustedReviews
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Dark Souls 2 isn’t a game for everyone: it really requires you to work hard in order to prosper, a process which may well include false-starts and finding yourself in sequences where you get stuck (particularly before you’ve managed to arrest the Hollowing process, which leaches away your life-bar, no matter how much you level it up).
By GameZone
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Paradoxically, it's a version seemingly made for people that have already played through the original Dark Souls 2, rather than new players, who might actually have a harder time with the new, tougher enemy...
By Gamers
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Scholar of the First Sin hätte man auch „Ultimate Edition“ nennen können. Wer Dark Souls 2 noch nicht gespielt hat und von Bloodborne angestachelt wurde, sich mal mit der Serie auseinander zu setzen, bekommt viele Stunden sehr hochwertigen und knackigen...
By xboxuser.de
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Die Dark Souls-Reihe spaltet wohl die Lager wie kaum eine Serie zuvor. Die einen vergöttern förmlich die Spiele, die anderen können mit den Titeln nichts anfangen. Mit Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin kann nun auch auf der Xbox One ans Werk...
By in.ign.com
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Over a year after its initial release, Dark Souls II still manages to impress. The visual enhancements make Scholar of the First Sin feel right at home on a new-gen system, while the additional enemies and reshuffled placement deliver a powerful dose of...
By gamestar.de
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Dimitry Halley: Scholar of the First Sin ist das ultimative Dark Souls 2, keine Frage. Das heißt in der Summe zwar nicht, dass es jeden Knick ausbügelt, den der Nachfolger im Vergleich zum ersten Dark Souls hat. Aber es ist ein Versöhnungsangebot...
By redusers.com
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Esta nueva versión de Dark Souls II es mucho más que una simple remasterización: se trata de un juego nuevo que suma una gran cantidad de desafíos, tanto para el jugador experimentado como para el principiante que nunca disfrutó una entrega de la...
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