Controversial opinion, but I’d probably pick Dark Souls 1. It’s the one I’m most disinterested to play. DS2 is the outsider and has earned its accolades via that alone, plus it’s the most experimental DS game, which is cool. DS3 has fun world building and good combat, or rather my preferred speed, so it beats DS1 in that regard too. DS1 wasn’t particularly fun to play for me in comparison.
The others are one-ofs and have all brought something truly unique to their catalogue, culminating in ER which is arguably, next to DS1 maybe, the most influential Soulslike in existence.
What’s your take?
I like the open world addition because I never use guides/wiki, gets a lot more out of slow replays. PvP is still very active. Plenty of variety in invasions. Seeing my spouse play thru is interesting, even early on there is a lot of shit I completely missed. It seems there are a lot of spells in the game
From is pissing everyone off they should listen to me and make a Bloodborne sequel that has an open world looking like Half Life Xen with sad aliens in it. Then add Bloodtinge to Elden Ring 2. Then completely stop making Soulslikes & focus on Armored Core. I digress but give it another go because the online is very much alive 🤺🔫🧙♂️
This is kind of a spoiler but they brought the Catalyst of the Beast back in a new form