Dark Souls 2 has one good idea for every two bad ideas. I wish bonfire ascetics would actually reset every area to ng+ and not force you to replay the entire game again, but unfortunately like a lot of things in this game, ascetics were a half-baked good idea. They don't reset iron chests and some items are just arbitrarily locked behind ng+ and ng++. Soul memory is the worst matchmaking system imaginable. It doesn't even prevent twinking due to the existence of the agape ring and just doubly f**ks over pvpers for dying. Also, scholar of the first sin adds so many annoying mobs and bad enemy placement to the base game, which was already ganky and frustrating.

That all being said, even though Scholar is a B-team version of a B-team game, at least it tries new things and the pvp is the best since it has good build variety and doesn't revolve around rolling, chugging estus, or backstabbing. None of these things can be said about dark souls 3.

Dark Souls 2 has one good idea for every two bad ideas. I wish bonfire ascetics would actually reset every area to ng+ and not force you to replay the entire game again, but unfortunately like a lot of things in this game, ascetics were a half-baked good idea. They don't reset iron chests and some items are just arbitrarily locked behind ng+ and ng++. Soul memory is the worst matchmaking system imaginable. It doesn't even prevent twinking due to the existence of the agape ring and just doubly f**ks over pvpers for dying. Also, scholar of the first sin adds so many annoying mobs and bad enemy placement to the base game, which was already ganky and frustrating. That all being said, even though Scholar is a B-team version of a B-team game, at least it tries new things and the pvp is the best since it has good build variety and doesn't revolve around rolling, chugging estus, or backstabbing. None of these things can be said about dark souls 3.