Dark Souls is five years old today, and even in this short time its legacy and influence has been great enough to leave a lasting impression on gaming that will live on for decades. Building on a formula first presented in From Software’s Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls is a game known for challenging players in ways few other games do.
From this notorious difficulty, it’s given life to entire communities dedicated to helping one another or making it harder for one another. It’s fueled debates about difficulty vs. accessibility, dared the internet to complete it together via chat commands, spawned countless “Souls-like” indie games that aim to capture some of that legendary challenge for themselves, and is one of my personal favorite games of all time.
Source: IGN Video Games
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