DARK SOULS III

So first I need to say I have not played a lot. And yes I’m mostly doing this to enter the coupon competition. I have only played about 5 hours or so of the game. What I can say from that though, is a fair bit. The game is great, very interesting with fun combat, beautiful visual design and landmarks, great atmosphere and a very interesting story. It is fun to learn how to beat enemies and the game surprised me with mechanics and enemies I very much did not expect to be so afraid of. Some game mechanics like how weapons and character building works, and what all the different attributes/strengths do, are a little overwhelming at first, but you do start to understand them fairly well after just a little while. It might also be that I’ve never really played any more raw character creation based rpg games before. Now the only real issue I have with the game is that you have to repeat going through a lot of enemies to get to the one who previously killed you. It does put me off especially if I don’t know where the next bonfire (checkpoint) is, but I do understand that it does force me to truly master enemies, so I can easily get back to where I was with less frustration. If I put more effort into it I would probably find myself liking it. I’m just not used to infrequent checkpoints and a lot of backtracking. But honestly that is really the only problem I have with the game, and I fully expect myself to start playing it again when I feel up to it.