The biggest gripe I've seen many people had with it (besides some cases of FROM's all-time worst level design) is that the game is just full of absolute clusterfuck ambushes where you're being attacked by swarms of enemies often accompanied by red phantom NPC invaders.

When I played the Edition first years back, I just thought it is what it is. They all made the general experience of exploring the game world WORSE. Not a single change made in SOTFS Edition regarding the enemy and item placement was IMO made for the better.

So now 2.5 playthroughs of the PS3 version later, the TLDR is this: So the game I played now is the original - with the SOTFS patch, which is NOT the same thing as the SOTFS Edition of the game, which I have played much earlier. I wanted the online version to team up with a guy I met on Reddit to farm sunlight medals together. You can't play an online 'vanilla' DS2 anymore as it gets auto patched on the SOTFS patch on install. And Forlorn, OP enemy red phantom that randomly invades you throughout the game. We're talking changes to enemy numbers and item placement, AI, enemy mobility - how far they chase you. It a PS4/Xbone/PC 'next-gen' version of the PS3/360 game containing all 3 DLCs, with texture and light quality tweaks in 60 fps but more importantly - features multiple gameplay changes. What followed was a Scholar of The First Sin Edition of Dark Souls 2, which is the game you can play on last-gen systems right now that many players seem to dislike. Just to clear out the confusion, Scholar of The First Sin was initially a patch to DS2 released on 15th Feb 2015 and introduced many welcome and requested changes to the game. Recently I saw a used copy of 'vanilla' DS2 for PS3 on a stand and thought it's a good idea to see for myself. I don't have a favorite DS game 'cause everyone is special in its own unique way to me.Īmong many voices of criticism, I have seen many speak about SOTFS Edition is even worse about everything that is bad about the original. I've read countless threads, saw all those hours-long video essays and I've fully experienced all the glaring flaws and annoyances of this game, from bad hitboxes and broken tracking to semi-broken lock-on to cheap deaths to ambushes. Found all the secrets, picked all the shinies, got all the trophies. Around 300 hrs total till the end of NG++. A little over 2 years ago I played a lot of SOTFS.

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