15.: Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition
One of the most influential games of the recent years, Dark Souls took the good old hack’n’slay formula, locked it in a darkened room in the basement, prodded it with a sharp stick for decades, letting it feed on hatred and misery alone, so that it could eventually emerge as the cold, tough as nails beast that eats the tears of players for breakfast. Dark Souls is a hard game. But more so, it is a very different game that makes a point of not holding the player’s hand.
Not only was Dark Souls (and of course its non-PC predecessor Demon’s Souls) very successful but also inspired a whole bunch of new games that mimic its relentless approach to the hack’n’slay RPG genre. Just that very, very few other games since have managed recreating the magic of this twisted, wild beast of a game.
