Well I don’t know about that, although there is bondfire teleporting the bonfires after Anor Londo are spread pretty far apart and you still have to walk grand distances to explore within the areas themselves, which are huge by the way
Why is the first half of the game so magical
The light source is cool though
Respawning skeletons and invisible crystal pillars are annoying I’ll give you that, but they’re not the entirety of the area and chances are you won’t be going back and forth between the crystal place. The light rocks help in that area too
The thing is the levels themselves can be interconnected within themselves but the point is how those levels connect with each other. Yes you still walk a lot in the second half but theres less places that branch off into other places and at the end of each area imagine not being able to teleport back out and having to walk the same way back instead of continuing on and finding that the whole thing loops back to an earlier area.
>What did Dark Souls 3 do better/worse than its predecessors?
It's the only one in the trilogy that gets better in the second half
Miyazaki couldn't top the first half and so decided to design his next three games around the philosophy of the second half, hence the inferiority of Bloodborne and Dark Souls III.
the game probably sold like shit at first when souls was still a niche genre ie before the youtubers and the epic "le hard souls" meme appeared
Or how about the fucking zweihander just sitting in the shrine, or the short catacomb skip to get the grave lord greatsword, or using a bow to get the drake sword or just getting lucky and getting either the black knight sword or great sword in the burg, or even then just using black firebombs on the asylum demon for the great club, or just boosting faith to join sun covenant for the spear
My God there are a lot of ways to get op early on, even more than I'm mentioning right now
No idea since Izalith is the only bad area in the second half. Archives live up to everything you've heard about it, Tomb of the Giants has a unique gimmick fitting its area boss, Catacombs does Tomb Raider better than Tomb Raider, and the New Londo Ruins have based Four Kings. Also the Great Lords are the only bosses in the base game outside of O&S that provide any challenge.
Warping and it's clear that everything past the second bell was rushed.
Also Anor Londo itself isn't as good as what came before it
Dark souls 3 is in sale right now in ps4 . Do you think its worth it? How does it stands to dark souls one or bloodborne, those are the ones ive played