Ranking All Soulsborne Games From Worst To Best

6. Dark Souls 2

Even the ever-diverging opinions of the Soulsborne community can (mostly) agree that this game belongs on the bottom. Unless the player is a diehard PVP fan - where it is arguably the best of the series - the accolades since this game's applauded initial release, has in time, been reversed.

Series guru Hidetaka Miyazaki was missing as game director, with his absence felt in almost every aspect. It's truly the only instalment that feels like a committee created a game via a checklist rather than a ground-shaking passion for its subject.

To be frank, the design is just plain lazy; the levels are cobbled together with no world logic, the lore is pretty generic, several bosses are just re-skins from part 1, and the combat (asides from the improved jumping) hold the same clunky flaws.

Despite that laundry list of negatives, it still manages to be a decent playthrough. Yet the things that worked had already been established in former entries and the things it attempted to add (e.g. HP loss, no farming, etc) were misguided - resulting in the clear runt of the litter.