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It's an Elden Ring Kitbash for 40$. But it's a really good kitbash for 40$. Bit confusing at first, but netcode is far far better than their previous titles, and the games are just long enough to keep you invested but not drag on too long.
Addendum:
I do really wish the "hard mode" versions of bosses were a bit more well thought through, as a lot of them are just much more frustrating.

When are you gonna give us the springtime DLC? =)

The game is basically a light collectathon. The main gameplay loop consists of talking to every NPC you can find, playing their minigames, collecting family portraits, and clicking on Humongous Games style background objects for puzzle pieces. The minigames aren't very difficult, you can beat most on your first try, or your second or third if you mess up.
There's lots of easter eggs, secrets, and references packed into the game. It's short, sweet, doesn't overstay its welcome, and gives you a sense of wanting that special ending it keeps telling you about.
The humor is self aware, witty, and sometimes just out of left field. I can't think of any jokes in the game that didn't land. Not to mention the handful of heart-tugging moments, and totally unbelievable and funny outcomes to failure.
It's extremely satisfying to see all the people and progress you've made show up for the endings, and I think that makes this game a true work of art.
Niel Cicierga does an amazing job with the soundtrack, and Smallbu does an equally amazing job with the animation and art style, both being very simplistic but extremely expressive and satisfying.
Play the game it's good.

This says this is the remastered version, but it doesn't have a sexual content tag. I can't find any information on this game's sex scenes and I NEED TO KNOW. There are threads saying that this is the american release, the game description says it's the international and uncensored version, there's one thread saying this is the remastered release but also still censored????? I just want to know if the guy bangs someone because I don't need a hotdog jumpscare to ToS me on twitch. I just hope my alarm system of 4 people screaming ToS at me helps prevent any potential VIOLATIONS.
Uh this game is a nightmare to play, and more of a nightmare to actually think about. It's dated, it's rife with racial stereotypes, the story has an extremely poor sense of logic, there's recurring ♥♥♥♥ jokes, and the most entertaining thing is watching the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mocap played in reverse over and over because you decided you weren't actually going to open the door. Not to mention the absolute pain in the ass it is to actually stream and capture (It crashes semi-randomly, It doesn't handle high resolutions super well, and fullscreen guarantees a crash.
This is how my story ends.

It shouldn't cost someone 100-200$ at a shady or unsafe key selling website to play Prepare to Die edition; which is the only version of this game you can freely modify or patch out gamebreaking issues without being permanently removed from the "good players" servers.
Still uses weird, low resolution, slightly artifacted png's for moss and chains and leaves a handful of textures untouched. The only real additions to the game, are the addition of the password matching system that hasn't changed significantly since its implementation in Bloodborne, the ability to drop or use multiple items in a stack of items, and the removal of Prepare to Die edition from easily accessible markets.
One could argue that this iteration is a significantly better experience when compared to the original Prepare to Die Edition PC port, which was infamous for being impossible to play without modification due to issues with controller support, and framerate issues. The problem is that this isn't a remaster of the PC port, it's a remaster of the game at large. Not only that, but the Prepare to Die Edition cost 5 USD, could easily and freely be altered and patched, and does not have multiplayer modified content moderation. Remastered has server based detecting that can permanently move you to the bad kid servers for having modified content, but commonly fails to catch actual cheaters and hackers.
I should not have to go to a website like G2A to get a key that may or may not be stolen, for 20-40 times the original 5 dollar price; just so I can play a silly modded version of Dark Souls with my friend, without being permanently moved to the cheater server. And now they're removing the 50% discount for having owned the original pc port.
I really wish I could just come to steam, pay 40$ to buy my friend a copy of Prepare to Die edition, and another 40$ for the Remastered so we can play the normal experience.

Play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

This is not a game.

You have two versions of this game that you have to choose from to play, and they are both valid choices. The vanilla version with the dlc, and this version. In the vanilla version, you get fantastical adventure with a scope of view that grew too far for the studio of 37 wide eyed children and several monkeys. Complete with strange balancing decisions, weird design choices, a ton of throw away bosses, and a lot of cool and fun concepts the game uses in wildly varying amounts. In Dark Souls 2 Directors Cut, you get the exact same game, but an adult came by and desperately tried to rebalance the entire game in an equally strange manner. Oh and there's some extra content too.
But regardless of which version you get, you'll still have weird stiff movement in a weird 8-point psuedo-analog joystick. But you notice it less and less the more you play.
There's a reason this is a lot of the community's favorite game in the series, and there's a reason why it's a lot of the community's least favorite.
It's fun.

Poise works exactly as intended.

I've gone back to this game countless times. It's always a good fallback when I feel like playing through something. Especially when all the fun modules around.
I just like removing Swadia. It's fun.