The usual criticisms apply to the bigger bosses, though. It’s one of my favorite fights in the series, moreso given the setting and narrative context. One boss feels designed for co-op play, another utilizes PvP covenants in a refreshing way (invite a co-op buddy, too-the more the merrier), one actively punishes co-op play with its sheer size, and another is a near perfect one-on-one encounter, a boss who communicates their moveset and escalates at a perfect pace. Boss prattlesįromSoftware doesn’t get too creative or fix old problems with the new bosses, but the four included are a highlight reel of archetypes from the entire series. Thematically and visually, the new enemies are fascinating, but they’re often set up in a way that makes avoiding them more rewarding than direct confrontation.
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Where’s the intrinsic reward in that? The Ringed City is full of similar instances where crowds of enemies are meant to equate difficulty, even if they’re not fun to fight. I didn’t have to get good, I just had to press a button in the right place at the right time. Later on, I found out I could drop down from a bridge onto their heads for an instant kill. The encounter wasn’t set up to teach me anything new and the enemies weren’t designed to fight in crowds. They’re fun to fight one on one, but crowded together I either died instantly in a flurry of quick attacks or had to kite them to another room one at a time. I didn’t expect to fight six of the fat treemen in a row on a stairwell, which amounted to six of the same, prolonged encounters. I met one of the hardest combatants right at the beginning of the DLC, expecting to see them again, paired with other enemies creative ways. I didn’t have to get good, I just had to press a button in the right place at the right time.Įven the more traditional enemies are too much sometimes. While previous environments in Dark Souls contained short narratives, The Dreg Heap is a drag: the slowest, saddest apocalypse event I’ve seen in a game and not much else. The twisted landscapes are as captivating as ever and kept my eyes busy looking for familiar sights, but none of it is used to tell a new story or wrap up old threads.
The sudden realization that the ground beneath your character is actually a familiar facade, tipped over, is surprising the first few times. The early environments are a literal descent through Dark Souls history, starting with imagery from Dark Souls 3, onto Dark Souls 2, and finally the original Dark Souls, before moving on to some completely new spaces. That’s where you’re headed, to unclog a spacetime drain, where the series’ mysteries pile up like tangled hair. All of time and space is converging towards a single point, a city created long before the events of the original Dark Souls. Mankind has prolonged their age too long through lighting a sacred fire time and time again, and in doing so the universe’s life energy is running low. If Dark Souls 3 tried to close the loop on the series, The Ringed City attempts to erase it.
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