DARK SOULS: REMASTERED (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.3 Update

DARK SOULS: REMASTERED is an updated version of Dark Souls released on May 25th, 2018 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. It was released for the Nintendo Switch on October 19th, 2018. The updated version of the game features graphical enhancements as well as an expanded online mode.

Prepare to revisit Lordran and relive the groundbreaking game that started it all with this game. With stunning remastered graphics, this edition includes the main game and the Artorias of the Abyss DLC, and is now available for the first time on a Nintendo platform, allowing for on-the-go gameplay with the Nintendo Switch.

Experience the intricate and dark fantasy universe that is plagued by the Curse, filled with hidden passages, dungeons, and secrets to explore. Every playthrough offers new challenges and discoveries, making each ending the start of a new journey.

With countless combinations of weapons, armor, magic, and crafting options, you can create your unique playstyle and customize your gaming experience. With multiplayer options that support up to six players, you can join one of the nine covenants and choose to collaborate or confront, support, or betray your fellow players. Get ready to immerse yourself in the Way of the Multiplayer.

GAMEPLAY

The Dark Souls games are played in a third-person perspective and focus on exploring interconnected environments while fighting enemies with weapons and magic. Players battle bosses to progress through the story while interacting with non-playable characters. The protagonist of each Dark Souls game can have a varying gender, appearance, name, and starting class via character creation. Players can choose between classes, including knights, barbarians, thieves, and mages. Each class has its own starting equipment and abilities that can be tailored to the player’s experience and choices as they progress. The player gains souls from gameplay battles which act as both experience points to level up and as currency to buy items.

Souls gained are usually proportional to the difficulty of fighting certain enemies; the more difficult an enemy, the more souls the player will gain from defeating it. One of the core mechanics of the series is the use of how it handles progress, death, and player improvement. Bonfires serve as a checkpoint within the series, restoring all health and other critical resources when used, but also respawning most enemies and obstacles, making repeated trips back to safety untenable for forward progress. Upon losing all of their health points and dying, players lose their souls and appear back at the bonfire where they last rested. If the player can return to their point of death, their bloodstain, without dying again, they can regain all lost souls.

If the player dies again before reaching their bloodstain, the souls are permanently gone. Notably, using a bonfire manually and respawning at one after death have identical effects, save for the player losing their currency at their place of death, which can be retrieved with no penalty. In this way, the player is encouraged to not fear death, as no progress is lost so long as they can learn from their mistakes. As the player retraces their steps after death, they will naturally defeat more enemies, gaining more souls and allowing their character to gain experience alongside the player themselves. Online interaction in the Dark Souls games is integrated into the single-player experience.

Throughout areas of the game, players can briefly see the actions of other players as ghosts in the same area that may show hidden passages or switches. When a player dies, a bloodstain can be left in other players’ game world and when activated can show a ghost playing out their final moments, indicating how that person died and potentially helping other players online to avoid the same fate in advance. Players can leave messages on the ground that can help other players with tips and warnings. Multiplayer can be engaged in both player-versus-player combat and cooperative gameplay using invasion or summoning mechanics. Players can also rely on covenants, which serve as “factions” that can allow players to delve further into the multiplayer experience.

SETTING

The games take place within a dark, medieval fantasy setting, where the player’s character fights against knights, dragons, phantoms, demons, and other monstrous or supernatural entities. The accretion, loss, and recovery of souls are central to the narrative and gameplay of Dark Souls games.

These games are linked through their setting and an overarching cyclic narrative centering around the fire and are linked through common themes and elements, including interactions with phantoms and battles with demons. At the end of each game, characters may reignite the “first flame” or allow it to fade, recurring a choice others have made before.

FEATURES

• Deep and Dark Universe— Delve into an epic dark fantasy universe stricken by the Curse. Explore its intricate world design, full of hidden passages, dungeons, and secrets.
• Each End is a New Beginning— Each playthrough surprises you with new challenges and discoveries.
• Gameplay Richness and Possibilities— Use hundreds of unique weapons, armor, magic, and crafting combinations to create your own playstyle and gaming experience.
• The Way of the Multiplayer (up to 6 players)— Whatever your motivations are to play online – collaboration or confrontation, support or betrayal – you’ll find your true home among the nine covenants.