Dark Souls
Dark Souls is a Xbox 360 role-playing game released in 2011 developed by FromSoftware. It centers on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and character or equipment growth, with controls and information arranged around the Xbox 360 wired or wireless controller's twin sticks, analog triggers, directional pad, and face buttons.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.0 / 10
About this game
Dark Souls is a Xbox 360 role-playing game centered on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and character or equipment growth. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Dark Souls is a dark-fantasy action RPG series about exploring fading kingdoms and finding a way past their dangers. Weapons, armor and magic shape your character, while learning an enemy's habits or discovering a connecting path can matter as much as gaining another level.
Dark Souls: Remastered
2018
- Windows PC2018 · 8.9 / 10
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Exceptional Xbox 360 role-playing experience
Dark Souls centers on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and character or equipment growth. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, giving the release understandable goals and a recognizable play rhythm. It arranges controls and information around the Xbox 360 wired or wireless controller's twin sticks, analog triggers, directional pad, and face buttons. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while the main genre limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. The assessment also covers disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, performance, Kinect requirements, and retired services for this release. GameNavo judges four dimensions independently before applying fixed weights and excludes press aggregates, user ratings, sales, popularity, source length, media count, and title recognition. Platform merit is recorded only when a concrete hardware use or version implementation supports a small adjustment.
Strengths
- combat encounters, and area and route exploration provide a readable mechanical foundation.
- Progress is divided into understandable stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones.
- Visual, audio, and interface feedback support the principal rules and state changes.
Weaknesses
- Dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress.
- disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy role-playing games, accept Xbox 360 control and information conventions, and want to judge this release on its own terms.
Play notes: This review covers the Xbox 360 release without conveniences from emulators, remasters, or other platforms and does not represent a complete playthrough.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign. This dimension weighs new-goal frequency, the difficulty or progression curve, repetition, and recovery after failure. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Dark Souls builds its main loop around combat encounters, area and route exploration, and character or equipment growth. The score considers whether input feedback, decision space, and system depth continue to support its goals, while accounting for dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, and this platform specifically asks whether HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. Readability and stylistic consistency matter rather than resolution or hardware scale by itself. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Technical usability covers response, camera behavior, loading, saving, controllers, language, video standard, accessories, and service status for this release. disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release; conveniences from emulators or later platforms receive no credit. | Reviewed | 7.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- FromSoftware
- Publisher
- Bandai NamcoQLOCVirtuosBandai
- Release date
- 2011
- Platforms
- Xbox 360
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- FantasyThird Person3D GraphicsReal-time CombatStory-drivenResource ManagementMain Story 20–50 HoursExplorationLevel ProgressionSolo-friendlyPlayer versus PlayerLong-term Progression
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Co-opSingle playerMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Xbox 360Worldwide2011
- PlayStation 3Worldwide2011
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