One is treated as an opportunity, a second chance to get it right.

Maybe my deprived character can find some trousers. Sights like this are what makes the Souls games so special, because you know that at some point you'll be exploring it. Some areas have been built-upon, layers of stone swaddling the original architecture nearly beyond recognition, while others have been looted or transplanted over the years, and relics of the world past are in new homes.

Firelink Shrine is the first of what will be many environmental callbacks, each bearing the weight of centuries and many changed beyond recognition. In Dark Souls 3 this long-term wear and tear is applied to the Lordran we knew. This is surprisingly direct and aggressive with what has gone before, to the extent it feels like From Software wants to definitively cap the series.ĭark Souls was a world where history had already happened over hundreds of years, and you as the Chosen Undead were learning about it by picking through the debris. It's not a bad concept, as these things go, but Dark Souls 3 has no such compunctions. At the core of Dark Souls 2 was a message about repetition, about how cycles can become ever-diminishing and ever-further from their source, and in so doing it shifted focus from the world created by Dark Souls towards its own distorted reflection of same. One of the player's first significant accomplishments in Dark Souls 3 is finding a much-changed Firelink Shrine, indicating the more direct relationship with Dark Souls that will be borne out over this epic journey. Availability: Out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One on April 12th.

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