The Iron Keep Incident - Dark Souls 2 SOTFS First Playthrough [2]

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[@ToniAlmeida123]

Vod Frogs unite! Been waiting for these videos

[@ApotheNZ]

I just finished the first part like 30 minutes before this dropped heh

[@kain6996]

I not only want mimics in the dlc I hope they do a patch before the dlc and just slap like 30 into the base game to catch people prepping for the dlc. That won’t happen but god would it be hilarious.

[@FFVIIOWA]

I know social media heavily dislikes DS2 (which i still not fully understand why) but i realy like this playthrough. And Aggy beeing open minded about it, is a breath of fresh air compared to the weird negativity this game usually receives.
Part 2 of the playthrough specifically is - of course - more ciritcial towards the game, but this is mainly due to the equip-deleat-shtick in my opinion, which, on the other hand, provided a lot of enterenaiment value!
All in all a great video in my opinion. This is content that is fairly rare and extemely well presented!

[@anything_idc_]

When did this stream occur I missed all of it an I hat that I missed this playthrough

[@Punkandcannonballer]

I think it's important to note that most of the criticism makes the distinction Dark Souls 2 isn't a very good game when compared to all the other SoulsBourne games. Most still recognize that it's a decent game with a good DLC.
That said, it has some genuinely awful flaws that the first game doesn't have, that none of the other games have, and doesn't have some of the amazing things those games do have.
For example, the level design. Dark Souls 1 obviously had incredible level design and world design and DS2 was a step down. It isn't a coherent world in any way, which every other SoulsBourne game was to a better degree (or in Bloodbourne's case had narrative reasons for not making logical sense)
Then you have enemy placement and constant mob spam. Go to the Lost Bastille and you'll find yourself fighting pursuers with archers and some other enemies. Go a bit further and there's an enemy invasion that only triggers after you've dropped off a bit off a ledge. He's down a big ladder with 9 dogs. You're gonna have one HELL of a time bitting any of those dogs from the top, as the bow angle can't aim down that far. The game just shoves you into this BS encounter and you have no way out. Enemies are also constantly reused. The Pursuer and Dragonrider are copy-pasted dozens of times throughout the game at random. In DS1 for example, the two Demon Bosses in the beginning of the gsme that are repurposed as regular enemies are only put in Izalith. Where Demons were made. It makes sense with the world building.
Then you have stuff that the game should have improved but didn't, like hit boxes, and movement. In the last video there are tons of examples of Aggy being hit by attacks that were nowhere near him. And movement, for whatever reason, is made to fall into set directions (8 I believe) instead of just giving you the freedom to move on your own. To clarify, if you're running in a direction, your character will automatically fall into the nearest direction, even if it changes where the player wants to go, even if that's off the map. This happens when you're not locked on to anything.
Then you have things that are just ridiculous like infinite life gems the or the atrocious bonfire placements. A few of them (like one by the Lost Sinner) literally spawn you near enemies that agro onto you. The "Boss" that's about half a dozen crawling peasants and two barely moving casters drops a titanite slab. The game does constantly stupid things like this.
It isn't a bad game, but comparing it to other SoulsBourne games definitely makes it seem really awful.

[@SUKABAZUKAAA]

@@Punkandcannonballer
Too bad I can't give a like to comments more than once.

[@bugra-yildirim]

@@Punkandcannonballer Literally this. They think when I say "ı hate ds2" like ı ama saying its a 3/10 game that ı dont like playing. No . I did like playing it. But while playing it made me think " ı could play ds1 or ds3 instead" . Which I did. I finished every soulsborne game so many times. But I only finished ds2 once. IT doesnt hit the same as others

[@ApotheNZ]

Upload the next one please! This is great

[@fluffernutter6633]

Amazing that people question the elevator to Old Iron keep but don't question the literal magic and time travel all the games have.

[@giofugazz]

He got more annoyed on iron keep than he did on that climbing rage game lol

[@platypuspracticus2]

With vanilla DS2, you can bumrush the door.

[@DontPanicAM]

Iron Keep was hilarious

[@Hamish_Whitehaven]

estoc is the worst weapon ever