It's clear there's a different pace going on in Dark Souls 2.' 'My Knight class is currently level 75 and I'm over the 16-hour mark. I wrote an article about the final boss battle against Gywn and my character's stats here, so it's clear there's a different pace going on in Dark Souls 2.
That doesn't sound right does it? Put it this way I was level 100 on the nose when I finished the first Dark Souls and that game took me 65 hours to finish. So my Knight class is currently level 75 and I'm over the 16-hour mark. I swear on the crumbs between the keys I'm typing this on that the same won't happen to me goddamn it! They always fail of course, and end up turning Hollow.
In part one of my Dark Souls 2 journal I introduced players to the world of Drangleic, a depressing place where cursed humans go to try and save themselves from a terrible fate. At the time of writing he was at level 75 and over 16 hours into the game. Note: this is part two of Dave's impressions piece-in-progress. Part two of his impressions-in-progress series takes him to The Lost Bastille and into the jaws of Sinner's Rise. Dark Souls 2 continues to beat Dave Cook's mind into a fine powder of despair, but he's soldiering on.
