Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Action, Fantasy
IGDB91Metacritic89
Dark Souls is an action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Released in September 2011 as a spiritual sequel to Demon's Souls, it is set in a dark, medieval fantasy world.
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Demanding, richly built, cryptic and epic.
14 profiled raters. Loved most by The Cartographers.
Difficulty as architecture. Every death teaches you the shape of the room.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
Xbox 360/PS3; £39.99; cert 16+; Software/Namco Bandai
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IGDB rating 8.9/10 from 1729 ratings.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is Dark Souls better than Elden Ring?”
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“Is the difficulty the point?”
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“Is the world more interesting than the story?”
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If you loved this game, the film, the television, the book, the music.
