DO NOT BUY Dark Souls 3

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing Dark Souls 3,

and as an avid fan of Elden Ring and Souls

games in general, I knew I just had to

play this game. It's currently on sale on

Steam at 50%, so I knew I just had to pick

it up. Unfortunately, compared to Elden

Ring, it's kind of bland, boring, and

uninspired. I don't even know if I can

recommend buying it even when it's on 50%

discount on Steam sale. Compared to Elden

Ring, the gameplay and the visuals of the

game is just kind of lacking in luster.

So after finishing Elden Ring 3 times and

doing NG+ and NG++, last year, I was kind

of craving something that's kind of like

Elden Ring but slightly different. So I

thought, okay, I would buy one of the Dark

Souls games because I've never really

played Dark Souls before playing Elden

Ring. And oh my God, this game is

basically like a carbon copy of Elden Ring

but less good in almost every single way.

So if I had to describe this game, it is

kind of exactly like Elden Ring except it

doesn't have that massive open world to

explore, doesn't have a mount, it doesn't

have a jump button, doesn't have all the

cool aspects and magical attacks and

weapon combinations that were found in

Elden Ring. So it's basically exactly the

same as Elden Ring, but it doesn't have

that feeling of exploration and that

feeling of freedom and openness. When you

begin the game, you're kind of thrown into

this very narrow ravine or this valley

that only has one direction that you can

go towards, and then the game very quickly

throws this big boss at you, which is kind

of difficult if you're just new to the

game. You wouldn't really be expecting

this kind of difficulty in the very first

boss, and it did take me several attempts

to take down this boss. It is very strange

coming from Elden Ring and then playing

this and then realizing, wait, this game

is almost exactly the same as Elden Ring

and almost exactly the same as Dark Souls

Remastered and Sekiro. It's the same

control layouts, it's the same kind of

mechanics where you kill enemies, you get

these points or souls, and when you die

you lose the souls. And when you respawn,

you can go and recollect the spawns— I

mean the souls. And then you just

basically level up your character, and

you've got different weapons you can

choose from, different kind of casters.

You got bonfires, or Sites of Grace as

they're called in Elden Ring, where you

can rest, restore your potions. And then

you got the boss battles. The boss battles

are basically exactly the same as in every

single other Souls game. They just kind of

charge up attacks, they do special

attacks. You've got to either roll,

evade, or block or parry their attacks.

If you played any game like Elden Ring or

Souls games before, then you'll know

exactly what to expect in this game.

Unfortunately, the game just kind of looks

very dull. The color schemes in this game

is extremely gray, black, and brown,

whereas in Elden Ring there's more of a

colorful color palette and the world

looked more magical with blues and reds

and purples and yellows. But this game

just looks like they took the color

saturation and they turned it right down,

or almost right down. This game might as

well just be black and white at this

point. The movement and the controls in

this game are very frustrating. So your

character is not very responsive when you

dodge or attack. It feels like there's a

1-second delay from when you press the

button to when the action is actually

carried out, and this feels very jarring,

and it makes very unresponsive and weird,

sluggish, and slow gameplay. Your

character doesn't really feel very nimble

or mobile. Instead of feeling like this

powerful, nimble warrior, you just feel

like a very slow sluggish old grandma who

has arthritis. Something I found very

frustrating is when I kept losing to this

boss, every time I wanted to retry it, it

would respawn me at this respawn point,

which was not very close to where the boss

battle is. It took me like a minute or 30

seconds to a minute to be able to get back

to the boss because not only do I have to

run all the way back to the boss, I also

have to fight all of the mobs that I

already killed earlier because the mobs

respawn. It's so frustrating having to do

the same little 30 to— 30 seconds to 60

seconds little walk or run back to the

boss and fight the enemies again when I

really want to just get back into the boss

fight again. Why can't they put the

respawn point right at the beginning of

the boss instead of making you have to run

all this way again? It's very annoying

kind of game mechanics. It is quite

amazing how FromSoftware are able to get

away with just basically copy and pasting

every single game but just adding slightly

new things such as, or a mount, or an open

world, and then just rebrand it as a

completely new game. When the games that

they make, they all feel the same. I

played Sekiro, I played Dark Souls 1 and

2, and Dark Souls Remastered on the

Switch, and Elden Ring obviously, and they

literally just all feel and play like the

exact same game, exact same mechanics with

like slightly different variations. And

it's just kind of baffling that no one

really minds and no one really cares. It

just seems to me like extremely lazy game

development ideology. I mean, even the

boss battles aren't really very creative.

They all basically do the same thing.

They kind of roll around, swing at you

either quickly or slowly, or they do some

kind of AoE magic or melee attack. That's

basically every single boss encounter in

Dark Souls or Elden Ring. So even though

this game is now on 50% sale, I don't know

if I can recommend it over Elden Ring. I

would have to give it a 6.2 out of 10. I

would say don't buy this game. I would say

just buy Elden Ring. Even the background

and landscapes of the castles and the

mountains don't look anywhere near as

refined or as beautiful as the ones in

Elden Ring, so I don't know why I'd

recommend buying this game instead of over

Elden Ring.

Welcome to the bonfire, unkindled one. I

am a fire I tend that the lords have

lefteth to this end. Very well, then touch

ignar.