Hello fellow Peak Souls enjoyers, this is my first post here. I’m interessted in knowing what you people with great taste especially like about PS2 and it’s slightly different gameplay from the other souls games.
I especially liked the consumable healing items (Lifestones) that you had to use in the early parts of the game and are still intecivised to use later in the game. It just made you interact with your consumable slots while in other souls games you could comfortably play casually by just staying on your flask the whole time.
Power Stance.
Matchmaking had no restrictions (but Soul Memory can fuck off).
Bonfire Ascetics for sure. Missed them is every other game and I have no idea why they haven’t made a return.
Beyond the obvious I’d also like to add the ability to powerstance different types of weapons (like rapier+dagger). The wakisashi in ER tries to be that, but it falls short since it loses the ability to powerstance with daggers.
This coupled well with the mechanic where enemies would disappear permanently after defeating them so many times. If you decided to grind an area for levels after awhile you would run out and need to move on or burn an ascetic to get them back… But harder.
I kind of liked the disappearing enemies thing too. If you were struggling it sort of gave an adaptive difficulty. There were one or two areas where it was a fucking relief not having to do a fight on my way back through.
Im sorry to shatter Your world but in ds2 You can just join a Company of Champions covenant to get unlimited enemies respawn
Since bonfire ascetic was already mentioned, I’ll pick upgradable armour. It just makes sense.
DS1 also has that.
You’re right. I forgot!
