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amazon Dark Souls Remastered reviews
The phenomenon called Dark Souls has unintentionally become a norm, which until now, it has gradually been seen as a genre where its legacies are passed down through countless action role-playing games.
Unfortunately, gamers of the “PC empire” do not have the opportunity to fully enjoy Dark Souls, when having to experience a lousy Dark Souls: Prepare to Die transformation in all aspects, from graphics to the control system.
But is everything easy for gamers, the fire of creation will be lit by Bandai Namco again or the aura of Anor Londo is only an illusion?
Biareview will “check the goods” together to see what innovations Dark Souls Remastered has to “bite” the fans up to 40 USD for a refurbished version.
The movement of “revamping” or “remaster” of old versions of famous game series is a favorite business segment of many major publishers, bringing back old gamers to old experiences. Help new gamers have access to products that make history.
Remaster is completely different from the term “remake”, it simply brings small improvements in the image and a bit of modification, optimization of features.
This means that when you spend $ 40 on Dark Souls Remastered, what you get back now is essentially no different from the original Dark Souls back in 2011.
The original Dark Souls: Prepare to Die version is completely locked at 30FPS as well as a maximum resolution of only 720, a very modest number when Ultra HD, 4K screens are becoming popular in the world of gamers.
Especially for PC gamers, the extremely poor optimization of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die makes them seek the help of mods to make the game work better and better.
Coming to Dark Souls Remastered, the resolution has now been increased to a maximum of 4K and is completely stable at 60FPS – the must-have standard of games that set foot on the current PC platform.
Not only that, to make a game that is nearly 7 years old become “trendy”, the material effects, light effects, particle, and surface are all significantly upgraded.
Especially the light effects and other magic effects are almost completely refreshed, more beautiful, more impressive.
Dark Souls Remastered looks softer than its predecessor when the contrast is not too harsh, does not abuse dark tones, less pale, details are much clearer and brighter.
The overall illumination of Dark Souls Remastered is a bright plus when it is well balanced between the shadows, plus the dynamic shadow is nicer, cleaner, and also shows buoyancy. Pop that frescoes on the walls and floor vividly.
Compared to Dark Souls: Prepare to Die, the graphic distance of Dark Souls Remastered compared to current games is not too much.
And according to the writer’s subjective reviews, the balance in the graphics of Dark Souls Remastered is better than Dark Souls: Prepare to Die + graphics mod when experiencing for a long time of playing.
This is most evident when the player sets foot in Anor Londo, where fake golden rays of sunshine fall on the protagonist’s shoulders, but is faced with a dark, dark blue, and deadly corner.
It is not too harsh but is shown harmoniously, making the character as well as the surrounding things make the frame quite shimmering.
The texture of the surface texture is improved in resolution and the block forming effect is also relatively well-tuned, though not uniform throughout from start to finish.
Unlike other “remastered” games, Dark Souls Remastered not only upgraded the graphics but also upgraded a lot in the network arena, which brings a lot of fun for Dark Souls followers.
The multiplayer playground has now been expanded to allow up to 6 players at the same time in the same world, 2 more people than its predecessor.
The player can also be summoned more easily without requiring the same level as Dark Souls III, instead, the power stats of higher level players will be “squeezed”.
Most notably, the manufacturer has added a new server cluster, dedicated to the Dark Souls Remastered network, more stable, and in particular, the number of players participating will also be higher.
The phenomena “lag”, data delay rarely appear and the response speed is also much faster.
Remaster is a concept that does not mean much because it is simply a “refurbished” version as mentioned above, and the main job of the developer is to focus on upgrading the graphics, repairing shortcomings in the old version, and the introducing of minor enhancements.
But perhaps with Bandai Namco and QLOC, unlike console players, PC gamers don’t seem worth the effort for the company to “have to work hard.”
Dark Souls Remastered was much more complete, but accidentally made it more inadequate.
Specifically, on the graphics side, although it has been upgraded quite a lot in terms of effects, and in terms of face and light, many times the writer fell into a dark space, the whole terrain almost … disappeared.
Some of the improved materials were a bit too overpowered to make it look too fake, while others were barely overlooked, looking strangely rough and ugly.
The overall graphics of Dark Souls Remastered have an evenly low level of upgrade, leaving many miscellaneous errors, including the error of acting when the character has bent both limbs.
The HDR output standard seems quite “trendy” at the moment, but unfortunately, if you enable this mode, Dark Souls Remastered can only run with frames locked at 30FPS.
While in some areas, as long as the player moves the camera, the background music can be changed in two different areas… Quite funny!
The multiplayer segment is the most upgraded and expanded, but, in addition to the promises of upgrading, Dark Souls Remastered also promotes many most inhibiting factors in the game village.
It is the same mechanism to penalize and suspend the innocent players similar to the previous Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III when using software that supports video / live stream … harmless.
While on forums, the phenomenon of players cheating is outlawed thanks to Steam’s Family Share feature.
“Frightening” further, the writer also found the reported case that not only the cheating players were suspended, but also those who were “assaulted” by these cheating gamers would be “gray color”.
The networking arena has had some changes to the data parameters and weapon balance has also been adjusted.
How do you feel when holding the ultimate weapon that used to be in life and death with you is now like a… stick of wood?
The inhibition also reached a point when the battle mechanics and information synchronization in multiplayer mode also had a big problem.
The player can attack the Phantoms while-being-summoned, ie the character is not ready to be … battle.
The old blow, lock, and dodge errors have been tweaked almost all, this year acrobatic is no longer immortal, or the sneak stab can be easily destroyed, Unwanted weapons cause damage or even crap bugs like teleporting… mistaking the campfire to an area you might not have even set foot in!
Especially not to mention the “hack camera” in front of the area Sen’s Fortress is “pleading hands” specializing in “speedrun” (completing the game as fast as possible – NV) to take advantage of also not paid attention by the manufacturer.
As for collapsing UI function (UI), it simply collapses in size, not improves usability and visibility.
If you thought that minimizing the UI could add more space to display item listings, then you have made a big mistake.
Graphics and gameplay errors of Dark Souls Remastered also appear a lot during the experience, the number listed can be up to … hundreds.
Although most of them are small bugs, they show negligence in the game’s revamping process that more or less makes Dark Souls Remastered become patchy and lose points in the eyes of the player.