Player Interaction

 Game Info

Title-Dark Souls

Type-Video Game

Genre-Action RPG

Age-Mature 17+

A Little About The Game

Dark Souls, a game well known to the more hard core population of gamers. It is known for being as rewarding as it is punishing. Dark souls is a game where you play as a chosen undead. An undead being marked with a curse that makes you unkillable. You live on the verge of death slowly losing your humanity. The only way to sustain yourself is to take the humanity of other living humans and beasts. So you roam the world in search of both maintaining your state and exploring the land around you (you have no prior memory of the world you are in.). The combat is also very calculated and difficult. You have to pick your every attack and block. You also must beware of other enemies who can be circling around you. You have to keep track of you limited stamina, and very easily lost health points. There are also bosses who are very difficult and each have their own unique attacks and tactics and if that's not enough challenge for you, other players can invade your world. They fight you and try to kill you to take your humanity. These battles are often hard due to the fact that they don't follow patterns like the AI and can use any item you can use. The world is full of wonder and battles to be had. Dark souls , while difficult honestly has a lot of things going for it. 

How Is It Special?

Dark souls has possible the most player interaction types in one game to date. Normally the game is PVE (Player versus enemy) where you fight the AI. There is also as I mentioned before PVP (Player versus Player) with the invasions. There is also cooperative play because you may summon other players to your world to help you defeat bosses and other minor enemies. They do this to gain humanity and money in game. Also since you can be invaded by three invaders while you have allies summoned so you can also fight on teams against a team of invaders. This game is very original in getting players involved with each other and the game in a multitude of ways. All of these are cool ways to get people involved without taking away from the game or making it seem like too much. Many people feel as if some of these features are unfair or stupid, but in a lot of ways it adds to the game and makes an already interesting experience better.  Dark souls makes player interaction, and many other aspects of a game work. This is why I did my post of Dark Souls this week.