Dark Souls - review

Xbox 360/PS3

, £ 39.99, 16 + Certified Software / Namco Bandai

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even a player of chest hair, more hardcore, with extensive knowledge of arcane conventions of RPGs? If not, look away now, like trying to play Dark Souls could become the most frustrating experiences of your life.

His predecessor, Soul of the devil, was proud to be one of the best games ever. In any case, Dark Souls is even more difficult to negotiate. It's the equivalent of games to play rugby. Strictly for masochists

At least that's what I thought of him when I started to play. Start (choosing one of a variety of classes, like a knight, thief or vagabond) in a wet cell in the undead-seekers. Despite the undead yourself (you can get humanity as it moves), he learns that you are a kind of choice, you need to clean the land of the dead infestation of impressive length.

before leaving the undead asylum, which is actually a tutorial (tips are written in orange on the ground), you must kill a giant demon, in fact, the first time I t meeting, shelter "even acquired a sword and shield spells or the media. But what the hell is it teaches you all the Dark Souls - the development of the chisel through the strategy and perseverance, a way to kill enemies seemingly impregnable

a number of things that help in this regard. Lights to provide the basis of your home where you can restore your health and fill the pot ESTUS restore the health of drafts. However, to increase the capacity of the bottle ESTUS, you must acquire some humanity, investing its cancellation call (all human beings temporarily), then put your Kindle.

Dark Souls reveals her secret: she goes out of its way to those who would not say who were veterans of RPG feel like they missed a fundamental class in school. To thrive in it needs to function almost like a detective in search of hidden areas and items, and mining of endless menus (gloriously old-school, you can walk using the D-pad) to the edges small bit may be added.

If ever there was one game to buy the accompanying strategy guide was a no-brainer, Dark Souls. Although it helps if you connect your console to the network: players can leave comments for each line

• Initially, the combat feels clunky, but that's when you realize it is a matter of timing your strike so that the enemies are about to attack, or the stop their attacks and respond while staying are out of balance. Each face of the undead has a different way in which it acts, and things get really fun when you are attacked by several guys at once.

leaders are, of course, ridiculous and very rewarding to beat. Several aspects of the game are very difficult: you can only have one character and savings, as the souls in hell, every time he dies (and it is very common), all the souls of the dead were collected, with the invaluable experience, upgrade in the points is left as a green blade collected at the spot where he died. So if you fall, the next time a short, you lose. Furthermore, if the issue of back up or restore the health level, all undead respawn around.

Dark Souls
not without elements of niggly sloppy. It looks good, but not spectacular stretch of the imagination. The killing of undead cast as a final cloth dolls and can get caught under the feet. There are a lot of camera work and sometimes - usually when against a gigantic boss in particular - is impossible to see what happens