Dark Souls Remastered - 7/10
Something is off about it. I've played all the souls games, thousands of hours on them. The remaster i hope gets some future patches.
Theres a weird purple/blue lighting effect on characters and objects and scenery at certain times that feels odd. I dont like the new over-flashy special effects when you kill, or are killed, or get items. My biggest gripe with the visual effects is the fog doors are so much overdone now that you need to stand holding your shield for about 3 seconds when you enter one until it clears so you can see. Another gripe is i like to use the dragon greatsword, no shield just two handed power. Problem is, i kept encountering an issue if i was holding L1 to use it as a shield and i either started moving forward, or turned around to go in the other direction and it would act like i had just blocked a hit and would start doing the slow animation then id pick up pace again.
Some areas are really, really dark. And i have it turned to highest brightness . Darkroot basin is a combination between being super dark, and having Turok fog and you can barely see 20 ft ahead. Yet fighting gaping dragon if you look down the chasm at the end of the stage you just see where the cheap water fall falls into a void with a 240p jpg of tiles is at the bottom with no effort to make it blend. Oh, and good luck trying to fight the hydra, i mean, i beat him first try but you cannot see the water line. Its there, but incredibly difficulty to tell. The lighting in general goes nuts and is inconsistent. Back in the first release when you enter blight town in the tunnel, or at the bottom of the depths there was always a dramatic lighting change but now it appears to do it twice. Goes dark, lightens then goes dark again.
The game is just really inconsistent. If you have never played it, its a 100% must buy. If you already own it on ps3 buy it, you can play blight town in over 7fps. If you have a beast of a PC dont buy it.
