One can’t help shake the feeling that From has bought into their own hype and focused too much on providing extreme difficulty for difficulties sake, without the sense of a coherent flow and dynamic flow of challenge present in their other efforts, such as Bloodborne’s sublime The Old Hunters.
So, did they succeed? Well, personally I think The Ringed City serves as a fitting swansong for the series, with some hair-raising boss fights, a welcome expansion of the lore and a handful of new areas, but I also have to admit that From has somewhat lost their vision of what makes Dark Souls such a fantastic series (Hint, it’s not the difficulty). In what is apparently the final foray into the Dark Souls universe, at least with Miyazaki at the helm, The Ringed City has the unenviable task of closing out the highly revered series with content that is both fresh and exciting whilst also paying tribute to what has come before.Īfter the lukewarm reception to Ashes of Ariandel (I haven’t actually played it yet, so I can’t comment), From Software really had to pull out all the stops and give gamers something more akin to the Artorias of the Abyss DLC for the first game, which is often hailed as the greatest part of an already classic game.
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