11 Reasons Dark Souls Is Your Ultimate Test As A Gamer

11. I Never Asked For This

One of the great things about Dark Souls is that it caters for a lot of playstyles. If you want to slog it alone in the single player, that's perfectly alright. If you want to go online and invite people into your world to help you out, that's fine too. Turning human in the game (using an item called 'Humanity', you can turn your undead self into a human form. This increases your rare item drop rate amongst other benefits) will allow you to summon NPCs and fellow human players into your game, usually for help with an upcoming boss fight. Did you think this would be a risk-free solution to your problems though? Clearly you know nothing about Dark Souls then. Being online and in human form makes you vulnerable to 'invasion' €“ basically, another human player can invade your world with the sole goal of killing you and ruining your day. Yep, Dark Souls has an inbuilt griefing feature. You won't be under constant attack from intruders but you'll still dread " Has Invaded" popping up at the bottom of your screen. There are many advantages to online play but opening yourself up for invasion is a definite disadvantage. Of course, you could always put your tail between your legs and flee to the comfort of offline €“ we won't be angry, we'll just be disappointed.