

Leveling is done here, as opposed to at each individual bonfire merchants and trainers will gather in Majula as you find them, much as they did in Demon's Souls' Nexus. Whereas Dark Souls' first location, Firelink Shrine, was a destination but not a home base, Majula serves as the major hub for your progress and development. After completing the initial tutorial area, you arrive in the small coastal village of Majula. One example of this is evident right from the start. Instead, it almost seems as if the team moved forward by also looking to the past, bringing back aspects from Demon's Souls that had previously been lost.


I had assumed I'd find more of its predecessor, adorned with an extra round of polish and a bigger overall world.

Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, FromSoftware, Inc That item should lead you to the new content area, grafted onto the Black Gulch, behind where players fight The Rotten. Sunken King adds a new item to your inventory: a dragon claw with a cryptic clue in its description. For Dark Souls diehards, that's a good thing, though you'll have to slog through some drab environments. My old tricks failed time and time again, forcing me to relearn enemy patterns and try new tactics. I thought about this as I diedagainwhile playing Crown of the Sunken King, the first part of From Software's three-piece downloadable content set. Maybe you had to dodge left instead of right to get past the Pursuer's sweeping arc, but generally speaking, the old tricks still worked. Players who had spent hundreds of hours in the first game found that many of the same tactics worked in the sequel. The biggest criticism leveled at Dark Souls 2 was that it was too easy.
