If you haven’t already guessed, we love our games here at avant-garde. I suppose that’s rather obvious from the flurry of posts that appeared in the aftermath of E3 but one of our principle aims was to create a blog (and future site) that could act as a signpost for all things awesome. Problem is there are so many awesome things to write about that it’s hard to fit it all in!!!
OXM recently had an article covering this exact same problem; with all the announcements at E3 it simply meant that while some stormed into the limelight others were overshadowed.
Check out their article for more games you may have missed at http://www.oxm.co.uk/42673/features/e3-2012-nine-promising-games-the-world-ignored/?page=1
One announcement incredulously overlooked by the world (myself included) was Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. If you haven’t seen or played Dark Souls then you really should take a look at, if for no other reason than it’s probably one of the best 360 games ever made.
Bold but not unjustified this is a game with a tagline that states you will die and make no mistake, it is ball breakingly hard. You will enter into an area, hack at an enemy and realise that you’ve made a huge mistake when your attack is little more than a mosquito bite and his lays waste to your puny body (all this whilst you attempt an ungraceful dash in pitiful retreat). Imaginative and challenging it harks back to an era when reaching the end of a game was difficult and where the fun lies in actually exploring this massive and unyielding world from its highest towers to lowest dungeons.
Moreover it’s gorgeous. Environments are as varied and intricate as they come; you will cautiously wander through Darkroot gardens, peer through the mist to far-off ruins and see the gigantic moonlight butterfly shimmering in the distance, beautiful but dangerous, reaching its domain and defeating it will be another challenge altogether. It’s an experience that no other game can hope to emulate and really one of a kind – if you want a signpost to something awesome then Dark Souls is where I’m sending you.
But the best is yet to come with news that the Prepare to Die edition available on PC this summer will also be coming to the XB360. Pitched as downloadable content for 1200 points it should be arriving on Xbox live in winter this year. Good news indeed as it boasts around 10 epic hours of extra game play and a whole new chapter in the Dark Souls series. Named Artorias of the Abyss we get a collection of new weapons, enemies and 4 hard-as-nail bosses, all in a recognised but new forest area as you apparently travel 200 years in the past to stop the spread of darkness at all costs. For those of us still midway through the game you apparently don’t even need to have completed the campaign in full but, as with the rest of the game, entry to the new area will depend on your level and how much you fancy getting chewed out before you decide to maybe level up and get a bit stronger before returning.
You will also need to have reached a certain point in the game to get there so expect it to be hard – but hey that’s what you signed up for right? After all, if nothing else this game separates the men from the boys.
Angelic Rogue
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