Also please look up before playing any title who not to kill and just know what they look like so you don't accidentally hit them and then get in an endless loop of spawn deaths making you have to restart
You seem to know stuff, as someone who has never played a dark souls game, and someone who plans on getting this one, what class and stuff should I pick?
For new people Warrior or Cleric are the best classes. They are both versatile with decent shields. Warrior has more armor and a better shield but Cleric starts with a healing miracle that can help a lot too. Don't listen to people recommending Knight as first class for newcomers, Knight has way too much armor to the point of making you so slow to make it a problem (for a person who doesn't know how to play yet at least) and a meh weapon with less reach. Don't pick the master key as a starting gift. It let's you open shortcuts to areas you shouldn't be able to go, making it easier to fuck up and go to a place you are yet too weak to go to, and through the other end of the area even.
Devastator 4403 Pick any class you like. You get a “starting gift”, choose the master key (unless u start as a thief, he already has it). The key allows you access to many areas, so u don’t get bored. Take off as much armor, until u notice you can roll quickly. Practice rolling (or evasion), until you get good at it. Don’t worry about parrying, that will come with time. As soon as you get to the central hub go to the left and fight the armored hollows. They lead UP to a sewer & then dragon. Keep going (past the armored hog/pig area) and eventually to the chapel. From there find the elevators that go back down to central hub. Ride these & look around. You’ll find that on one side you can walk off the elevators. Take this walk off area & go toward the right. It’s tricky, but at the final edge you can roll off the ledge & onto part of the temple/central hub. Go up and you will see a corpse on top of the building housing the cleric. Get this item/key. You’ll fall to do this. Go back up & off the elevator. You can reach the crow. Enter it’s best & squat down. You’ll be taken back to the start of game. Explore the area & you will find the “iron key.” This will equip you to explore all of the game.
@@rayminishi689 what's absurd is that they are people out there that think you can only play dark souls if you have been genetically modified to never make a single mistake at a video game where dying doesn't matter as much as dying in anyother game. (Buy he cazul, he ruin game for uz ultra hardcore nerdz who have never died at ull, he need to sell the game to reel gamerrz who are gud - Lifeless losers that make a religious connection about a video game) Also a sense of accomplishment is in every single game that is slightly difficult, unless most people who go on about it are social conservatives who complain that no one pulls themselves by ther bootstraps in blind patriotic fervor.
@@mathewsoltan8487 Ive been playing Souls since Demon Souls. But every other switch game has literal opposite confirmation controls. You get accustomed to pressing A and not X when holding your switch after a while. It cannot be changed. If i play any game on switch they all use the right face button to confirm. It's a huge inconsistency especially for one of the most demanding games on the console.
Got it, and it's literally just dark souls for switch. Same controls and everything and no changes besides sprites and online being better. It is a must play for those who haven't played the game yet and the pvp is finally existing whereas dark souls 2 and dark souls 3 were the only big ones, not even bloodborne because there was no way to directly invade a specific person, and most of the time you have to go against 2 people because you can only invade people who rang the bell. All in all, get it.
I play from yesterday, and it is same good DS! Not much changed, but this game was almost perfect. I love this knights, and castle atmosphere, and just pushing further. If You never played, You have to give a try.
@@typical8903 it's an awesome game. If u put it down bc u get stuck look up a guide. If u can't beat a boss just keep leveling up ur character. Grinding the same area over and over and over. This goes for elden ring too.
@@tabernaclejones6115 i’ve beaten dark souls one blind, no way in hell am i quitting! I also prefer guideless so im mad at my self for watching the bosses
@@typical8903 damn me too, but I feel like I miss out on so much if I don't look up a guide. Bc there's so many doors and stuff that u have to enter at the right time. And in sekiro you have branching paths and are suppose to go down a certain path at a certain time in the game or u might miss cutscenes/quest opportunities. But ya I agree,going in blind to these games is the best way. The atmosphere is impeccable. Really the only good AAA games that are still coming out lol I'm so jaded by gaming now though.
Dark souls gives you the mission you must do, shoos you away and proceeds to kick your ass over and over again. Dark Souls is highly uncompromising, but has a satisfaction to it that I feel is similar to Monster Hunter.
@@LonumStraws "Let these souls, withdrawn from their vessels, manifestations of disparity, elucidated by fire, burrow deep within me. Retreating to a darkness beyond the reach of flame, let them assume a new master, inhabiting ash. Casting themselves upon new forms."
Okay, it's cool and all. Didnt expect less. Agree with basically all of it. One thing I wish got a little mention, is the video quality. LOOK at how gosh darn dark this video is! Dark Souls suffered from this on the PS4 too (and probably on the xbone but I dont have confirmation). The game seems to handle brightness super weirdly. If anyone in docked mode specifically has problems with this, go to system settings, TV output, and set RGB range to limited. Skyrim also suffers from a similar problem, but less severe. BUT dark souls at least have an in game gamma slider so IDK pick your poison.
I really liked everything you said about the game,i am a big dark souls fan and i find it hard to believe people qq so much for the audio.It is not even terrible and still the qq in reddit is out of this world.I was looking forward for this game to come and im happy it is handheld,people should more enjoy the gameplay and the feelings the game has and also enjoy that journey
Is it just me or is this easier than it was on the PS3? The item drop rates are off the charts so far! (I've gotten more humanity [as black mist] in the 20 or so hours I have played in the remaster, than I have on any of my 100+ hour save files on my PS3. EVERY fire I have came accross is kindled....I have yet to use a single humanity item...and the rats seem to drop those far more often as well.) And parrying is much easier. It's like they increased the window to succeed in order to counterbalance the more precise imputs you have to do at 60 fps vs 30, and overcompensated, just a tad too much. They even gave more npc's ways to cure you of curse, and added in items originally cut from the original. (Auto counter attack miricle, gave dried fingers a use, etc.) And even made the enemies less likely to rodge\parry your attacks. Miricles and spells even seem to cast slightly faster.
@@edward7048 I can only compare it to thw ps3 original and not any remastered edition as I only own the original and the switch remaster. And it actually looks better and sounds the same, possibly better in the audio area aswell.
For the love of Gwyn, don't take the Thief AND the master key! The Thief already starts with the master key per default so you are just wasting a starting gift!
Okay this is the best review!!!! Thank you! I’m still not getting the full picture, but a little bit better than other reviews. I just want somebody to tell me what makes this game so great and if there’s exploration and what the loop is mostly like, like I’m talking to a friend about the game. At least your review has that effect more than the other ones. Especially the IGN one from a decade ago I guess it shows its age
Damn it! The A B button issue was the reason I didn't really enjoy the remaster on the XBox. ...Once you're accustomed to the Switch layout it was hard to jump over to it. ....Really disappointing to hear the A and B can't be swapped.
I like how you include the scripted review as well as the rambling part at the end. I think sometimes a rambling review can get annoying because it isn't structured (and a scripted review can get annoying because it's manufactured), so this finds an excellent balance and I appreciate it!
I'm really excited to play this game. I never got the chance to play the first Dark Souls and based off of this video it looks like Dark Souls runs well on the Switch. I'll have to pick this up and play it on my channel tomorrow. That way everyone can laugh at how bad I am. :P
I feel like the Souls-Borne games difficulty gets a bit inflated. Does it have it's tough spots? Sure. But it's mostly just very punishing of mistakes rather than being outright ball bustingly hard. You just need to take it slow, pay attention to the environment and enemies, and have a good understanding of your weapons and items. Also, you can boost your character and weapon stats, get health back from messages you leave, get tips and warnings from messages, and have coop friends help you through some of the trickier sections of the game.
@@agt_pendergast8899 for most people looking into the game, sure, but that's because you already have enough practice with controls, timings, rythms, and puzzles from other games. You have to have a certain flow of mind to play this game right.
Oh no oh no oh no. I'm getting the game tomorrow, but WHY can't the reversed A and B button be customised? I played a bit of the demo and it was so bad I had to stop, but I thought "no problem, I can fix that when I get the full version". Now I hear that it's not possible. Wished you'd ranted about that for longer, Alex, so that someone takes notice. It's a serious boo-boo.
I think they intended that to somehow throw the player's off a little bit. I think the accept and back buttons are also reversed in the ps4 versions of DS(X=O and O=X)
@@satansibles8765 Good point, I was thinking about that, but I'm not really willing to buy another controller, particularly one that takes AA batteries. It so happens that my copy of DS got lost in the post, so I've got to chase that up first before I can worry about the controls.
I've been rather impressed with how well the switch dark souls has gone. It looks and plays pretty good :) I've got dark souls remastered on the xbox one but I decided to get it on the switch as well since I can play the game portable :).
can you tell me about the controls ? are you able to move the player character with the left joystick, or do you have to use both simultaneously in order to walk and turn ? i cannot do the duel control thing , i never have been able to do that, i can adjust camera as needed, but this mess of not being able to do full directional movement with the one joystick, or be able to switch the controls to allow for full movement on one joystick is stupid, some people cannot coordinate that especially us older folks who did not grow up learning and developing that motor skill , so please let me know if i can in fact play this game and move my character with the left joystick.... or do i have to use both to coordinate turning
@@benk4000 I own Skyrim on switch, and love it, but the lighting still sucks with full brightness. In a dungeon, or some places at night, you can't see bat shit unless you avoid natural light. Quite annoying, they could have at least added an ingame gamma option.
“Doesn’t hold your hand. Or stroke your ego” hahah true a lotta ARPGs are like “Great work oh thank you no one else could have done this like you you are the chosen hero OF THE GODS”. You don’t really notice until you play a game that doesn’t do that
@@Christofly nope, there are some basic items that you can use to interact with other players but even those are obtainable towards the end game dlc. There is no actual voice chat function in the game.
Your comment that this is the only way to experience Dark Souls in true handheld form is incorrect. I’ve been playing Dark Souls on my handheld GPD Win for over a year now.
Never played dark souls until now (tried demon souls on ps3 but never really got into it). I'll be honest I was ready for packing it in after killing the Taurus demon (eventually) only to run upstairs and be fried to death by a dragon and thinking I had to kill that thing again. But thankfully wasn't the case and I'm absolutely loving it now
A reminder for returning players or new players that love invading. make sure to give the Lord Vessel to Kaathe right after defeating four kings to join Darkwraith covenant
Why does people think that the A/B switch is such a problem? I constantly jump between my Switch and my PS4 and yes, it´s annoying, but it only takes a couple of minutes and you adjust. The only problem for me is when I´ve spent 4 hours straight in Hyrule and my friends want me to join them in Fortnite on PS4. You never feel as much as a noob in Fortnite as when you constantly try to jump with "Triangle" and switch weapons on the D-pad....
I’m seeing people complain. We have friggen dark souls ON THE GO. It’s mind blowing. Anything I could have wished for was a souls series game to go portable. Never would have thought NINTENDO WOULD HAVE MADE IT HAPPEN. I’m about 20 hours in on this systems port. It’s a great port. The haters are ridiculous
The fact that I’ve seen more than one of these and it goes to a dsr on switch review to just a dark souls review must mean it doesn’t feel that different thx
Thanks for the Video..I'm a Dark Souls Fan Even Though I Only Played The Second One On Ps3...but I was Wanted to play the first one and After this Video I'm Soo Excited to buy It now 💯💯
Why does every reviewer complain about the A and B buttons!? Christ, if it was playstation you wouldn't be complaining the okay button circle. it's Nintendo, they've done A and B like that since SNES, and Dark Souls has always had the roll button be the right face button and the okay button the bottom face button, so is it really any surprise to anyone?
Personally, I wish every game had custom control options. Not really sure why all games don't have it. You can't really complain about the control layout if you can just change it to whatever you want.
I think it’s more about how it makes the menus really hard to use because you’re expecting to use the Nintendo layout (A to accept B to return) and it’s the PS / XBOX layout.
This may surprise you but dark souls was the first action adventure game I completed entirely on my own (minus gwynn cause ds1 parry sucked and also minus hidden weapons). It wasn't just a weird thing either though. In fact dark souls, while tougher, just felt a lot more fair, mainly because it wasn't the Jak 2 "get here in time without blowing up your vehicle".
I enjoyed your presentation here, even if you were adapting one of your colleague's work. Hope there are more good videos like this on this channel, subbed so I can check it out. :) **EDIT** I do plan on getting this game, and it will be my first foray into the Dark Souls series.
Fuck no. They added more glitches. I can't answer "Yes" to Oscar and Solaire. Didn't check out other NPCs. I rage quitted. They had 8-9 month to make a proper port, but what???? MORE GAMEBREAKING GLITCHES EYYYYYYYYYYY
@@satansibles8765 I bought it like 20 minutes after I posted that went straight to blight town and it was like MAJOR lag spikes, like it would straight up freeze for a second and skip around on me. A few times its crashed my switch. Not sure if it's my switch or just the game. My consoles about 2 years old now
Mr. K yeah fair enough trade it in. I just watched a review from ign but I don't really trust ign but gamexplain are credible somewhat they also say blight town runs fine compared too the originals. Was gonna be buying this next payday but now you got me concerned 😨
Too bad the sound of the entire game is downsampled to 22kHz meaning the entire soundtrack sounds dull because higher frequencies are simply cut off. They probably did this to get the game size down to
Basic rule of thumb in Dark Souls for newbies: If you think it might kill you, then it will kill you.
I’ve hit so many npc’s following this rule
So everything
and if you think it wont kill you , think again 😂
Also please look up before playing any title who not to kill and just know what they look like so you don't accidentally hit them and then get in an endless loop of spawn deaths making you have to restart
I almost yelled "NOOOO" when he chose the master key while being a thief.
You seem to know stuff, as someone who has never played a dark souls game, and someone who plans on getting this one, what class and stuff should I pick?
For new people Warrior or Cleric are the best classes. They are both versatile with decent shields. Warrior has more armor and a better shield but Cleric starts with a healing miracle that can help a lot too. Don't listen to people recommending Knight as first class for newcomers, Knight has way too much armor to the point of making you so slow to make it a problem (for a person who doesn't know how to play yet at least) and a meh weapon with less reach.
Don't pick the master key as a starting gift. It let's you open shortcuts to areas you shouldn't be able to go, making it easier to fuck up and go to a place you are yet too weak to go to, and through the other end of the area even.
Devastator 4403 Pick any class you like. You get a “starting gift”, choose the master key (unless u start as a thief, he already has it). The key allows you access to many areas, so u don’t get bored.
Take off as much armor, until u notice you can roll quickly. Practice rolling (or evasion), until you get good at it. Don’t worry about parrying, that will come with time.
As soon as you get to the central hub go to the left and fight the armored hollows. They lead UP to a sewer & then dragon. Keep going (past the armored hog/pig area) and eventually to the chapel. From there find the elevators that go back down to central hub. Ride these & look around. You’ll find that on one side you can walk off the elevators. Take this walk off area & go toward the right. It’s tricky, but at the final edge you can roll off the ledge & onto part of the temple/central hub. Go up and you will see a corpse on top of the building housing the cleric. Get this item/key. You’ll fall to do this. Go back up & off the elevator. You can reach the crow. Enter it’s best & squat down. You’ll be taken back to the start of game. Explore the area & you will find the “iron key.” This will equip you to explore all of the game.
Master key is a must have and by far the best start item
@@thefebo8987 sure, but the Thief already has it without the gift!
Are you the only person at NintendoLife who owns a microphone or something?
I'm here to remind you that you are bad at Dark Souls.
Cheers.
@@nintendolife Anytime.
Like everyone else starting this game. What else is new
@@rayminishi689 what's absurd is that they are people out there that think you can only play dark souls if you have been genetically modified to never make a single mistake at a video game where dying doesn't matter as much as dying in anyother game.
(Buy he cazul, he ruin game for uz ultra hardcore nerdz who have never died at ull, he need to sell the game to reel gamerrz who are gud - Lifeless losers that make a religious connection about a video game)
Also a sense of accomplishment is in every single game that is slightly difficult, unless most people who go on about it are social conservatives who complain that no one pulls themselves by ther bootstraps in blind patriotic fervor.
The commenters below are bad at life so don’t feel so terrible if you’re not good at DS...
"Don't worry about character customization."
Lets be honest, if you don't spend hours making the most disgusting thing its not real playthrough.
Let me worry about blank.
Play naked or not at all lol
Youre the first one who ive heard talk about the compress audio , thanks for that
I hate the swapped A and B controls personally
That's how the game works on every other system, bottom face button is the interact button.
You can change it
@@mathewsoltan8487 Ive been playing Souls since Demon Souls. But every other switch game has literal opposite confirmation controls. You get accustomed to pressing A and not X when holding your switch after a while. It cannot be changed. If i play any game on switch they all use the right face button to confirm. It's a huge inconsistency especially for one of the most demanding games on the console.
@@chemax79 You cannot change the confirm and cancel buttons.
Yeah but you can change them for not menus
2:56 You picked the thief with the Master Key as your starting gift?... 😂
i cry when i saw that
I'm sure going to play this after I beat Octopath Traveler
Same here.
Same here!
It will be take some time then XD
@@CISMarinho are you sure
TheMrAardbei facts
Got it, and it's literally just dark souls for switch. Same controls and everything and no changes besides sprites and online being better. It is a must play for those who haven't played the game yet and the pvp is finally existing whereas dark souls 2 and dark souls 3 were the only big ones, not even bloodborne because there was no way to directly invade a specific person, and most of the time you have to go against 2 people because you can only invade people who rang the bell. All in all, get it.
I play from yesterday, and it is same good DS! Not much changed, but this game was almost perfect. I love this knights, and castle atmosphere, and just pushing further. If You never played, You have to give a try.
ty you just made me get it
@@typical8903 it's an awesome game. If u put it down bc u get stuck look up a guide. If u can't beat a boss just keep leveling up ur character. Grinding the same area over and over and over. This goes for elden ring too.
@@tabernaclejones6115 i’ve beaten dark souls one blind, no way in hell am i quitting! I also prefer guideless so im mad at my self for watching the bosses
@@typical8903 damn me too, but I feel like I miss out on so much if I don't look up a guide. Bc there's so many doors and stuff that u have to enter at the right time. And in sekiro you have branching paths and are suppose to go down a certain path at a certain time in the game or u might miss cutscenes/quest opportunities.
But ya I agree,going in blind to these games is the best way. The atmosphere is impeccable. Really the only good AAA games that are still coming out lol I'm so jaded by gaming now though.
Still loving the ramble section, also I would expect it to be the normal switch way of selecting as Japanese developer and such where that’s standard
Dark souls gives you the mission you must do, shoos you away and proceeds to kick your ass over and over again. Dark Souls is highly uncompromising, but has a satisfaction to it that I feel is similar to Monster Hunter.
I played the switch version. Honestly it's not bad. Kept the OG graphics compare to the xbone and ps4 version
OMG I read "X bone"😂
Lazy port. Love it or hate it, they at least tried to change some things.
I like this port but i really hate the compressed audio,it is horrible. It's like Fallout 4 on ps4 but even worse. It needs a patch immediatly.
Actually....no they didn't, the remaster actually looks better than the ps3 version, it's not only brighter, but sharper aswell.
Die_Salat_Gurke that’s what it says
The A and B swapped thing is also on the Shovel Knight map I think
He doesn't know he can roll does he...
I'm sad, I can't play until tomorrow, it hurts my soul waiting.
NoOneCares your, dark, soul? I’m sorry that was bad.
@@LonumStraws "Let these souls, withdrawn from their vessels, manifestations of disparity, elucidated by fire, burrow deep within me. Retreating to a darkness beyond the reach of flame, let them assume a new master, inhabiting ash. Casting themselves upon new forms."
@@noonecares3627 This gave me DS3 nostalgia something terrible.
Okay, it's cool and all. Didnt expect less. Agree with basically all of it.
One thing I wish got a little mention, is the video quality. LOOK at how gosh darn dark this video is! Dark Souls suffered from this on the PS4 too (and probably on the xbone but I dont have confirmation). The game seems to handle brightness super weirdly. If anyone in docked mode specifically has problems with this, go to system settings, TV output, and set RGB range to limited. Skyrim also suffers from a similar problem, but less severe. BUT dark souls at least have an in game gamma slider so IDK pick your poison.
As a streamer this is good to know thank you. I reluctant to even stream Minecraft because when you go into the mines it’s a dark video
I really liked everything you said about the game,i am a big dark souls fan and i find it hard to believe people qq so much for the audio.It is not even terrible and still the qq in reddit is out of this world.I was looking forward for this game to come and im happy it is handheld,people should more enjoy the gameplay and the feelings the game has and also enjoy that journey
Is it just me or is this easier than it was on the PS3? The item drop rates are off the charts so far! (I've gotten more humanity [as black mist] in the 20 or so hours I have played in the remaster, than I have on any of my 100+ hour save files on my PS3. EVERY fire I have came accross is kindled....I have yet to use a single humanity item...and the rats seem to drop those far more often as well.) And parrying is much easier. It's like they increased the window to succeed in order to counterbalance the more precise imputs you have to do at 60 fps vs 30, and overcompensated, just a tad too much. They even gave more npc's ways to cure you of curse, and added in items originally cut from the original. (Auto counter attack miricle, gave dried fingers a use, etc.) And even made the enemies less likely to rodge\parry your attacks. Miricles and spells even seem to cast slightly faster.
Did they fix the bad audio compression?
No
No unfortunately not :( really hoping for some sort of patch or something..
I just got it a few days ago....no clue what you mean? It looks and sounds great.
stapuft try and compare it to the other versions, unless they patched it
@@edward7048 I can only compare it to thw ps3 original and not any remastered edition as I only own the original and the switch remaster. And it actually looks better and sounds the same, possibly better in the audio area aswell.
For the love of Gwyn, don't take the Thief AND the master key! The Thief already starts with the master key per default so you are just wasting a starting gift!
I just got a switch and I'm loving it! Now I know my favorite game is on it!
Okay this is the best review!!!! Thank you! I’m still not getting the full picture, but a little bit better than other reviews. I just want somebody to tell me what makes this game so great and if there’s exploration and what the loop is mostly like, like I’m talking to a friend about the game. At least your review has that effect more than the other ones. Especially the IGN one from a decade ago I guess it shows its age
The music in this game is great shame it doesn’t sound as good on switch.
Lighting on this port appears to be a bit to dark :(
Does it include the dlcs?
Yes
That is the darkest Dark Souls yet
@@FROSTB4NE graphics looked fine on the network test, wasn't that dark though!
Damn it! The A B button issue was the reason I didn't really enjoy the remaster on the XBox. ...Once you're accustomed to the Switch layout it was hard to jump over to it. ....Really disappointing to hear the A and B can't be swapped.
I think they wanted to make it uniform with the PS4 and Xbox version
cant you just swap the buttons in system settings?
9:33 man... You be better then this XD
(But it is too dark... Maybe increase a little bit the brightness during the video capture would be nice)
Solaire of Astora confirmed for smash ultimate! Praise the sun!!
Almost lol
could you have had the brightness set any lower?
Ikr I couldn't see shit
I like how you include the scripted review as well as the rambling part at the end. I think sometimes a rambling review can get annoying because it isn't structured (and a scripted review can get annoying because it's manufactured), so this finds an excellent balance and I appreciate it!
I'm really excited to play this game. I never got the chance to play the first Dark Souls and based off of this video it looks like Dark Souls runs well on the Switch. I'll have to pick this up and play it on my channel tomorrow. That way everyone can laugh at how bad I am. :P
the moment you will start getting better will be 100% the best feeling
I feel like the Souls-Borne games difficulty gets a bit inflated. Does it have it's tough spots? Sure. But it's mostly just very punishing of mistakes rather than being outright ball bustingly hard. You just need to take it slow, pay attention to the environment and enemies, and have a good understanding of your weapons and items. Also, you can boost your character and weapon stats, get health back from messages you leave, get tips and warnings from messages, and have coop friends help you through some of the trickier sections of the game.
@@agt_pendergast8899 for most people looking into the game, sure, but that's because you already have enough practice with controls, timings, rythms, and puzzles from other games. You have to have a certain flow of mind to play this game right.
You'll love it. Have fun!
I love that you can display your characters name in Multiplayer, now I can make a maneater Mildred cosplay character for summons
You can just click the power button and it’ll pause the game while the console is on standby
Now if only we could get the other dark souls games for switch yeah Ik it will never happen but I can still hope.
Oh no oh no oh no. I'm getting the game tomorrow, but WHY can't the reversed A and B button be customised? I played a bit of the demo and it was so bad I had to stop, but I thought "no problem, I can fix that when I get the full version". Now I hear that it's not possible. Wished you'd ranted about that for longer, Alex, so that someone takes notice. It's a serious boo-boo.
Yeah same here mate, really annoyed don't think I am arsed to pick it up now, hoping a patch might happen
I think they intended that to somehow throw the player's off a little bit. I think the accept and back buttons are also reversed in the ps4 versions of DS(X=O and O=X)
@@Haseo251 On playstation the O and X buttons are not reversed.
If you have power a pro controller you can remap buttons but obviously that's not ideal for portable but still good for tabletop mode and docked.
@@satansibles8765 Good point, I was thinking about that, but I'm not really willing to buy another controller, particularly one that takes AA batteries. It so happens that my copy of DS got lost in the post, so I've got to chase that up first before I can worry about the controls.
That music makes me so fucking hyped for this game.
Also one more thing, he is making it seem a lot harder than it really is.
But this is just a port of the 360 version. Not an actual remaster. Digital Foundry goes over it all on their channel.
Does the audio compression greatly hinder the experience or is it barely noticeable?
After everything I've seen, personally it's a big thing for me and I'm not going to buy the game until it's fixed.
C4 Professional I wonder if headphones will help with the sound situation
Shockingly Switch Lite goodness👍
5:03 this guy is in dark souls 3 in sacrifice road
I will never forget my first playthrough of Darksouls on the 360, goddamn what a game!
I've been rather impressed with how well the switch dark souls has gone. It looks and plays pretty good :) I've got dark souls remastered on the xbox one but I decided to get it on the switch as well since I can play the game portable :).
How does it play handheld?
@@sirbak3d316 great !
the main point of this version is handheld mode, yet no handheld footage in this review
can you tell me about the controls ? are you able to move the player character with the left joystick, or do you have to use both simultaneously in order to walk and turn ? i cannot do the duel control thing , i never have been able to do that, i can adjust camera as needed, but this mess of not being able to do full directional movement with the one joystick, or be able to switch the controls to allow for full movement on one joystick is stupid, some people cannot coordinate that especially us older folks who did not grow up learning and developing that motor skill , so please let me know if i can in fact play this game and move my character with the left joystick.... or do i have to use both to coordinate turning
If you struggle with something like this, this game might not be for you to begin with.
@@Weeegeee212 i was told recently that it was not one of those games, so i should be fine
How can you tell it is a faithful remaster if you've clearly never played the first one?
The port graphics look really dark, no? Looks like the Skyrim port in the way it was a faithful port except the low lighting.
Tom Snooze you can adjust brightness
@@benk4000 I own Skyrim on switch, and love it, but the lighting still sucks with full brightness. In a dungeon, or some places at night, you can't see bat shit unless you avoid natural light. Quite annoying, they could have at least added an ingame gamma option.
it's worth it because you can play it on the go!! tired of playing on the couch take the game to the bed! I loved my experience and it is worth it!
Until you get joycon drift.
“Doesn’t hold your hand. Or stroke your ego” hahah true a lotta ARPGs are like “Great work oh thank you no one else could have done this like you you are the chosen hero OF THE GODS”. You don’t really notice until you play a game that doesn’t do that
How does online chat work? Through the app? Plug headphones into the switch like fortnite? Not available?
This is what I want to know
There is no online chat function in the souls games, you can only leave messages on the ground that can either be used to help or trick other people.
Captain Titforce even when summoned? It doesn’t work for the app?
@@Christofly nope, there are some basic items that you can use to interact with other players but even those are obtainable towards the end game dlc. There is no actual voice chat function in the game.
Gestures ;)
Dont forget to bow
00:41 Oh no....
Your comment that this is the only way to experience Dark Souls in true handheld form is incorrect. I’ve been playing Dark Souls on my handheld GPD Win for over a year now.
Never played dark souls until now (tried demon souls on ps3 but never really got into it). I'll be honest I was ready for packing it in after killing the Taurus demon (eventually) only to run upstairs and be fried to death by a dragon and thinking I had to kill that thing again. But thankfully wasn't the case and I'm absolutely loving it now
I think that Baulder knight died of old age long before you hit it lol.
Contact NamcoBandai games at www.fromsoftware.jp/ww/inquiry_darksoulsgames.html to ask them to patch to audio.
Besides Ornstein & Smough the game isn't that bad. Just gotta have some patience and a tear bucket nearby.
A reminder for returning players or new players that love invading. make sure to give the Lord Vessel to Kaathe right after defeating four kings to join Darkwraith covenant
oh great another review comparing something to dark souls
It hurts to know he likely didn’t spec to get the most out of that Balder Side Sword
Why does people think that the A/B switch is such a problem? I constantly jump between my Switch and my PS4 and yes, it´s annoying, but it only takes a couple of minutes and you adjust. The only problem for me is when I´ve spent 4 hours straight in Hyrule and my friends want me to join them in Fortnite on PS4. You never feel as much as a noob in Fortnite as when you constantly try to jump with "Triangle" and switch weapons on the D-pad....
Hey man just a tip, the game really shouldnt be that dark might want to turn that shit up. ~ a dark souls veteran 2k hours in ds1
Already downloaded, just waiting until tomorrow. Can’t believe I’m excited for this since I have put 250 hours into the PC version.
Wow thats a lot of hours!!!
how is itt so faaar
How do you change the confirm button to A? Does it work in the menus too?
It's okay, I share your aggravation about A and B being swapped.
I’m seeing people complain. We have friggen dark souls ON THE GO. It’s mind blowing. Anything I could have wished for was a souls series game to go portable. Never would have thought NINTENDO WOULD HAVE MADE IT HAPPEN. I’m about 20 hours in on this systems port. It’s a great port. The haters are ridiculous
You're gameplay gave me horrible git gud anxiety.
So did your spelling
The fact that I’ve seen more than one of these and it goes to a dsr on switch review to just a dark souls review must mean it doesn’t feel that different thx
Thanks for the Video..I'm a Dark Souls Fan Even Though I Only Played The Second One On Ps3...but I was Wanted to play the first one and After this Video I'm Soo Excited to buy It now 💯💯
12:13 that's what my friends who have beat the game are for!
I like this better on switch than on xbox one. This is a game that definately benefits from a smaller screen.
I don’t know what all the complaints were about I played it today and it ran and sounded fine to me
Giving the thief a master key lmao
Dark souls is so Dark. Damn
Why does every reviewer complain about the A and B buttons!? Christ, if it was playstation you wouldn't be complaining the okay button circle. it's Nintendo, they've done A and B like that since SNES, and Dark Souls has always had the roll button be the right face button and the okay button the bottom face button, so is it really any surprise to anyone?
Personally, I wish every game had custom control options. Not really sure why all games don't have it. You can't really complain about the control layout if you can just change it to whatever you want.
I think it’s more about how it makes the menus really hard to use because you’re expecting to use the Nintendo layout (A to accept B to return) and it’s the PS / XBOX layout.
I am so hyped. Can't wait to see all the core Nintendo only gamers bitching about how unfair the game is.
This may surprise you but dark souls was the first action adventure game I completed entirely on my own (minus gwynn cause ds1 parry sucked and also minus hidden weapons). It wasn't just a weird thing either though. In fact dark souls, while tougher, just felt a lot more fair, mainly because it wasn't the Jak 2 "get here in time without blowing up your vehicle".
hard to run and rotate screen at a same time? or its just me?
Ok you’ve sold it to me. Just ordered and I’ll be picking up tomorrow but I’ll probably finish spider-man and rdr2 before I get to it ...
Contains fairly graphic scenes of violence ? When ? Is Elsie being all delicate and sensitive again ?
I enjoyed your presentation here, even if you were adapting one of your colleague's work. Hope there are more good videos like this on this channel, subbed so I can check it out. :) **EDIT** I do plan on getting this game, and it will be my first foray into the Dark Souls series.
Dark souls truly is the skyrim of action rpgs
This is truly the Elden Ring of youtube comments
Fuck no. They added more glitches. I can't answer "Yes" to Oscar and Solaire. Didn't check out other NPCs. I rage quitted. They had 8-9 month to make a proper port, but what???? MORE GAMEBREAKING GLITCHES EYYYYYYYYYYY
Third time buying this game. wow
Setting reminds me of Vagrant Story a little.
I will remind you:
You suck at Dark Souls, Mr. Olney
(But so do I)
Stand down, commander.
Nintendo Life Ha!
Ay, Captain!
My guy knows thief is broken early cause of master key and bleed damage dex build
Demon souls
Is the frame rate still at 30fps in blight town? The "laggyist" part of the game
Mr. K gamexplain did a blight town video and it runs pretty good better than other versions.
@@satansibles8765 I bought it like 20 minutes after I posted that went straight to blight town and it was like MAJOR lag spikes, like it would straight up freeze for a second and skip around on me. A few times its crashed my switch. Not sure if it's my switch or just the game. My consoles about 2 years old now
Mr. K damn wtf yeah I dunno I was just going off gamexplains video it didn't look too bad when they showed it are you playing docked or hand held?
@@satansibles8765 handheld, I'm not gonna bother doing any testing in docked I have 6 copys of ds1 so yeah...
Mr. K yeah fair enough trade it in. I just watched a review from ign but I don't really trust ign but gamexplain are credible somewhat they also say blight town runs fine compared too the originals. Was gonna be buying this next payday but now you got me concerned 😨
Is it all on the cartridge or do you have to download part of the game like other good games?
How do you come to use thief then choose the master key
Apparently he said here the game doesnt explain much. He probably didn't know.
He also said he's bad at the game.
You actually suck at Dark souls
I L I K E I T
Too bad the sound of the entire game is downsampled to 22kHz meaning the entire soundtrack sounds dull because higher frequencies are simply cut off. They probably did this to get the game size down to
This looks like a copy and paste comment from the IGN review
@@Oceanandskylinevidss That's because I posted the same comment on several videos to inform as many people as I can about this.
I don’t really get the online.
I don’t know how to matchmake, or how to play with friends. It confuses me.
1st step. Get friends
You are good at dark souls!
Tobias Johansson 2:57
Wow, spoilers on how it all starts there Alex 🙈😂 I genuinely haven’t ever played this so have no idea about the story or anything 😱
I know right! I wanted a review not a synopsis of the first 10 minutes lol
A bit late, but: dont worry, after the first playthrough ur still gonna be almost clueless about the story and lore
Is the graphical quality of dark souls on the switch good?
Yes.
Very fitting I'd get an ad for Dark Souls Remastered before the video.
Hh(slight gargle noise)hhello there lovely peeeople it's Alex from Nintendo Life here!