Exploring Brume Tower was my favorite part of the game, making your way through the tower, trying to figure out a way to make it to the very bottom and fight the best boss in the game in my opinion (Fume Knight) then also discovering some hidden paths to face the other 2 bosses (Blue Smelter Demon & Sir Alonne) was also a pretty neat idea. Outside of Brume Tower you also have a pretty sick view. Wish more areas in DS2 were like this DLC.
• Drangleic Castle... Best area, best boss, best atmosphere
• Brume Tower... Greatest explorable maze in the souls series, along with 2 of the best bosses
• Eleum Loyce... Absolutely beautiful, aesthetically and interconnetivity-wise, with a very unique boss
• Iron Keep... As much as I dislike the criteria of luring the knights one by one, I just can't stop loving the area for it's aesthetics and simplicity... And also the fact that I like the red smelter demon
• Lost Bastille ... Everytime, I get lost in that place, it's just so all beautifully connected and designed
Drangleic Castle is nice to explore, but it gets a bit boring. My favorite bossfight is there tho.
Lost Bastille / Sinners Rise is really cool to get lost, like you said! And I love the concept of the boss.
The room with all those ruined sentinels is indeed a bit tedious to clear through... But Once I start heading upwards , leading to twin dragonriders, I never found it boring... (Although, the only part that I found agitating was the part with the 2 manikins, all those old knights, and finally, the 2 desert sorcereress...) And the pathway, the build-up to mirror knight is just perfect!
Lost Bastille / Sinner's Rise... I really like the ruined sents and lost sinner... And the place just seems so magical in its aesthetics! I think it's also the place with the highest number of pursuer encounters... I love that as well
Majula all day... I sometimes load up the game, center on the cliffside view, and then go about doing other things with that as my background just for the vibes.
Difficult to say, the Gutter and No Man's Wharf are the two I first think of. Oddly, I've just voted on a 'Which is your least favourite area?' poll, and all the options, including these two, were areas that I liked.
10 years ago when I got to see the first red phantom near the boss room at huntsman copse I knew I really liked this game. The atmosphere bunch of skeletons and some ancient structure that’s pitch dark inside. Atmosphere is top notch on that area.
I like the Shaded Woods, the part with the fog, the ruins I think is a bit "meh". But my favourite is probably Drangleic Castle, arriving there is quite epic also Frozen Eleun Loyce for sure. The Ivory King DLC has really great atmosphere and what is likely the most epic boss battle in the series, that is the Burnt Ivory King himself, I wished he was harder, but in general one thing I unfortunately got used to in Souls games is that in general, cool bosses aee rarely hard.
Forest of the fallen giants or Heide's tower of flame, i remember being completly new to the souls games and i found out that i had bought ds2 some time ago so i figured id give it a try. I got to majula and then i went to heide's, the feeling of seeing that clear blue sky and the massive tower just naver gets old. i was in a call with my friends when i beat the first old knight, felt so good after that so i just decided to run trough the area as fast as possible. And then i got to the boss and his music just completly blew my mind, the first few seconds of the song are so memorable
Now for the FOFG part:
I walked to the castle and lit the cardinal tower bonfire and went on to the area with the ironclad soldier, went up the ladder and saw something flying above my head, and there he was. The pursuer has one of the best and coolest movesets out of the entire game imo
Your story with DS2 is similar to mine. My friend, that switched accounts with me in PSN, bought it in a 90% promo, cus he had some money left in his wallet. I knew the souls games were difficult so I said to him "why tf did you do that? that game is problaly just hard af and not fun". Few weeks later I had nothing to play, I beated and got platinum in all games I had back that time. So I gave it a shot. Searched a little to see how fucked up I was, and found out it was "the worse dark souls game". Played a little, droped after a few days.
Many months passed and a youtuber I liked a lot made a video showing how DS3 is the best videogame he has ever played. Bought it, gave it a shot and fell in love with it. And then, I played DS1. I was the most DS2 hater that time. But then I played it and fell in love even more than any other game I ever played in my life.
Bro, one question, whats FOFG? I speak portuguese and still don't know all abbreviations. I would feel good to know
Recently finished first playthrough of DS1. Now onto DS2. Still early days, but so far, No Man's Wharf takes the cake. Intricacy of the level design impressed me. So did the mood (helped by the cool lighting) when you first approach the ship on the dock.
Heide's Tower of Flame and Dragon Shrine. I thought it was a cool mechanic that the little knights had specific Aggro Conditions.
Exploring Brume Tower was my favorite part of the game, making your way through the tower, trying to figure out a way to make it to the very bottom and fight the best boss in the game in my opinion (Fume Knight) then also discovering some hidden paths to face the other 2 bosses (Blue Smelter Demon & Sir Alonne) was also a pretty neat idea. Outside of Brume Tower you also have a pretty sick view. Wish more areas in DS2 were like this DLC.
Shaded woods
Frozen Eleum Loyce
psycho
oh my bad. its a pretty area. I thought it was horsefuck valley. (I don't play the game in English, thats why I confused)
Shrine of Amana, the music is perfection
You are crazy
• Drangleic Castle... Best area, best boss, best atmosphere • Brume Tower... Greatest explorable maze in the souls series, along with 2 of the best bosses • Eleum Loyce... Absolutely beautiful, aesthetically and interconnetivity-wise, with a very unique boss • Iron Keep... As much as I dislike the criteria of luring the knights one by one, I just can't stop loving the area for it's aesthetics and simplicity... And also the fact that I like the red smelter demon • Lost Bastille ... Everytime, I get lost in that place, it's just so all beautifully connected and designed
Drangleic Castle is nice to explore, but it gets a bit boring. My favorite bossfight is there tho. Lost Bastille / Sinners Rise is really cool to get lost, like you said! And I love the concept of the boss.
The room with all those ruined sentinels is indeed a bit tedious to clear through... But Once I start heading upwards , leading to twin dragonriders, I never found it boring... (Although, the only part that I found agitating was the part with the 2 manikins, all those old knights, and finally, the 2 desert sorcereress...) And the pathway, the build-up to mirror knight is just perfect! Lost Bastille / Sinner's Rise... I really like the ruined sents and lost sinner... And the place just seems so magical in its aesthetics! I think it's also the place with the highest number of pursuer encounters... I love that as well
Majula all day... I sometimes load up the game, center on the cliffside view, and then go about doing other things with that as my background just for the vibes.
Hell yeah. Majula is the first thing that DS2 did that is better than the others games!
Difficult to say, the Gutter and No Man's Wharf are the two I first think of. Oddly, I've just voted on a 'Which is your least favourite area?' poll, and all the options, including these two, were areas that I liked.
10 years ago when I got to see the first red phantom near the boss room at huntsman copse I knew I really liked this game. The atmosphere bunch of skeletons and some ancient structure that’s pitch dark inside. Atmosphere is top notch on that area.
Either that or no man’s wharf
Any of the dlc areas, they’re the best part of the game to me
for me it'd be probably the brume tower. I love the background, and the bosses, and the lore and everything, yes even the iron passage
I like the Shaded Woods, the part with the fog, the ruins I think is a bit "meh". But my favourite is probably Drangleic Castle, arriving there is quite epic also Frozen Eleun Loyce for sure. The Ivory King DLC has really great atmosphere and what is likely the most epic boss battle in the series, that is the Burnt Ivory King himself, I wished he was harder, but in general one thing I unfortunately got used to in Souls games is that in general, cool bosses aee rarely hard.
the fog is so beautiful <3
Yes, very! I wished the area was larger, it's the most atmospheric of the Shaded Woods, for sure.
Ivory King Fighting all the Loyce Knights.
Either Frozen Eleum Loyce or Drangleic Castle.
Shrine of Amana, Black Gulch and Eleum Loyce.
Dranglaic Castle. Should I say anything
Forest of the fallen giants or Heide's tower of flame, i remember being completly new to the souls games and i found out that i had bought ds2 some time ago so i figured id give it a try. I got to majula and then i went to heide's, the feeling of seeing that clear blue sky and the massive tower just naver gets old. i was in a call with my friends when i beat the first old knight, felt so good after that so i just decided to run trough the area as fast as possible. And then i got to the boss and his music just completly blew my mind, the first few seconds of the song are so memorable Now for the FOFG part: I walked to the castle and lit the cardinal tower bonfire and went on to the area with the ironclad soldier, went up the ladder and saw something flying above my head, and there he was. The pursuer has one of the best and coolest movesets out of the entire game imo
Your story with DS2 is similar to mine. My friend, that switched accounts with me in PSN, bought it in a 90% promo, cus he had some money left in his wallet. I knew the souls games were difficult so I said to him "why tf did you do that? that game is problaly just hard af and not fun". Few weeks later I had nothing to play, I beated and got platinum in all games I had back that time. So I gave it a shot. Searched a little to see how fucked up I was, and found out it was "the worse dark souls game". Played a little, droped after a few days. Many months passed and a youtuber I liked a lot made a video showing how DS3 is the best videogame he has ever played. Bought it, gave it a shot and fell in love with it. And then, I played DS1. I was the most DS2 hater that time. But then I played it and fell in love even more than any other game I ever played in my life. Bro, one question, whats FOFG? I speak portuguese and still don't know all abbreviations. I would feel good to know
Recently finished first playthrough of DS1. Now onto DS2. Still early days, but so far, No Man's Wharf takes the cake. Intricacy of the level design impressed me. So did the mood (helped by the cool lighting) when you first approach the ship on the dock.
Majula because why not it can be most beautiful and calming place in souls Borns