When From Software released Dark Souls in September 2011, it was met with high praise (the sun). Naturally, a lot has happened in the intervening seven or so years, and we have a remaster on our hands. Dark Souls Remastered has been released on the PlayStation 4, but has enough been upgraded to warrant another purchase of this infamously challenging game" Time to find out in our Dark Souls Remastered review.
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If you?re a fan of the original, then all you need to know is that Dark Souls Remastered is probably the best experience of Dark Souls to date. Everything is presented at a buttery smooth 60 frames per second, and this even includes the infamously taxing area known as Blighttown. Dark Souls Remastered runs at 1080p on the stock PS4, and at up to upscaled 4K on the PS4 Pro. HDR is supported in either case. The result is a crisper looking world, though textures up close definitely have some blur to them. This is perhaps simply the original Dark Souls showing its age, as later games such as Dark Souls III and Bloodborne have graphics that are far superior by comparison. What, exactly, has changed in Dark Souls Remastered" There?s not a whole lot to report for single-player/offline play. A new bonfire next to Vamos the Blacksmith, the ability to switch covenants at those bonfires, some item auto-equip changes, and button reconfiguration round out the new tweaks for solo players. Otherwise, it?s the same challenging Dark Souls from almost seven years ...