Oliver Schultes says: I have to say up front that I first learnt to love From Software's learning-by-doing niche with Bloodborne - my opinion of Dark Souls III is based on my 300 hours of experience with the gothic horror masterpiece. The most surprising realisation after playing through Dark Souls III: With an appropriately shaped character (Assassin; high dexterity, stamina and life energy), it doesn't...

Seven years ago, Hidetaka Miyazaki turned the world of action role-playing games as we knew it on its head with Demon's Souls. Two years later, he followed up with Dark Souls and made it unmistakably clear that the surprise success of its predecessor was no coincidence. A new niche in the video game craze was born and after his last stroke of genius Bloodborne could only bring joy and virtual torment...

Despite everything you've read up to this point, and despite all the disappointment that sounds from these lines, it's important to remember that Dark Souls 3 may be the weakest game in the series at the end of the day, but it's still a truly, honestly and genuinely great game. It still plays very well most of the time, From Software has really gone all out with the bosses and even if a lot of it feels...

Six years after Demon's Souls, the circle closes with another excellent gaming experience that surpasses Dark Souls 2. There are of course many deja-vus in terms of the reduced storytelling as well as within the equally cursed and enchanted world, which you explore with respect after the first deaths...