In any case, both games could have handled it better. I never got lost once in Dark Souls 2 because I saw all these paths early on and kept them in mind, while I spent at least an hour trying to find out where to go in Dark Souls 1 after getting the basement key from the Undead Parish. It just expects the player to meet them halfway. Personally, I think the way they handled progression in Dark Souls 2 is alright. He also just got the Branch of Yore, which is the key to another roadblock he might have seen early on while exploring, and the Well is a huge roadblock with a merchant that sells you a ring to jump down it a few steps away. The first time you head to the Tower of Flame, you go through that room that clearly has a second path, so that's something you should know to go back to when you hit a brick wall. The only issue in 2 is that you have to exhaust some NPC's dialog to continue.

I'm not asking for the game to linear, but a LITTLE bit of direction certainly would have been nice.ĭark Souls 1 would give you keys with cryptic descriptions, and they led to doors you saw hours beforehand. I think that happened to me like once in Dark Souls.

This is a huge issue with this game, I was constantly getting lost and having to look up where to go.

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