10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Dark Souls 3
1. Lack Of Interconnectivity
When it comes to Dark Souls one of the massively impressive things it managed to do in its first title was present an incredibly rich and detailed interconnected world that fit together as if it were a puzzle. The way you could traverse the world and get from one place to another through a series of well placed and executed short-cuts was ingenious and one of many joys of the original.
But when DS2 came along it threw that design philosophy out of the window and adopted its own. So fans were expecting a return to tradition in Dark Souls 3. But instead we got a slight improvement. By removing the hub world of Firelink shrine, the game lost that sense of traversal and the scope of grandeur. Exploration was broken up by jumping back to Firelink to level up and upgrade, ruining the flow of the game.
The biggest disappointment for a lot of people was realising that the game world was as segmented as Dark Souls 2 and we wouldn't be getting a joyous world like the first game to explore. The way the bonfires worked didn't lend themselves to the detetched hub world in the same was Bloodborne did and in the end felt more like a tedious return to a necessary area rather than a joyful one to a safe-haven. The game lacked that brilliant sensation of adventuring and suddenly stumbling back on Firelink shrine through a new shortcut like the first did.
Not to mention that some of the levels were linear and lacked the creative ingenuity and woven level design of past games. Levels like Archdragon Peak were far too straight forward, which was frustrating as the game had shown us interconnected levels already with the Cathedral of the Deep.
At least the cut down the load times between the hub world and the game space and didn't make us wait for hours like Bloodborne did. Silver lining to every cloud...
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