Does Dark Souls have gore?

Battles are accompanied by slashing sounds, cries of pain, and large splashes of blood. Blood pools may also appear on the ground, and some environments depict flaming bodies impaled on spikes.
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Is Dark Souls gory?

Very challenging and dark game for older kids

Not very offensive or violent, some slightly questionable visuals and actions take place but nothing too bad, if anything it's more scary and atmospheric.
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Can you turn off gore in Dark Souls?

If you don't like your kid seeing too much blood or gore, there is an option in game to turn it off entirely or milden it. An amazing game, just that Kids play too many easy games these days and it may be hard for them to play this at first. 2 people found this helpful.
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Why is Dark Souls 1 Rated M?

For the most part it feels liek the majority of its rating comes from the games tone which is extremely dark and grim with some disturbing enemy designs. Because this game is at the apex of morbidity. It's grim, dark, violent, serious, and just down right nasty.
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Is Dark Souls considered a horror game?

Dark Souls is no stranger to horror. Whether it's the horror of NPCs whose motivations are so alien to us, the horror of enemies who love nothing more than to ambush you around every corner, or the horror of realising the controller you've just bashed against the table in frustration doesn't work properly anymore.
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The DARK SOULS Effect: Why Souls Games are GOOD for You (Elden Ring too)

How scary is bloodborne?

The enemies that inhabit it are frequently terrifying and constantly testing, and the many secrets waiting to be unravelled are deeply, deeply disturbing. It might take a couple of YouTube explainers to help make sense of it all, but Bloodborne's lore and general backstory is seriously f***d up, y'all.
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Is it okay to play Dark Souls out of order?

Dark Souls has a rich world and a deep story that you'll uncover over time, and while each game largely stands on its own, some aspects of the lore are best experienced chronologically.
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How violent is Dark Souls?

Battles are accompanied by slashing sounds, cries of pain, and large splashes of blood. Blood pools may also appear on the ground, and some environments depict flaming bodies impaled on spikes.
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Is Dark Souls 3 or 1 harder?

If anything, DSIII is much harder, at least in the back half. The first game front-loads its difficulty, peaking with Ornstein & Smough at approximately the halfway point, and from there it's all downhill- none of the bosses in its latter half are anywhere near as challenging, at least once you figure out their tricks.
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Does gender matter in Dark Souls 1?

Despite the possibility of playing a female character, the game's fundamental attitude to the player does not shift based upon this choice.
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How gory is bloodborne?

Bloodborne is a grim, but incredible game with loads of blood, drenching clothes and splattering the environment. However there are no wounds, you cannot see any cuts or holes in/on the character's body, just blood.
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Is Bloodborne more violent than Dark Souls?

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Much more violent and gruesome than the Dark Souls trilogy. The player can use weapons such as guns, cannons, swords, hack saws and handheld pile drivers to kill zombies, humans and monsters.
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Is Bloodborne violent?

I played up until cleric beast with him and he wasnt really that scared of them or anything but it is a pretty violent game and dont know if it will damage him long term. Difficulty isnt a problem and wouldnt matter much anyways because we still had a blast playing until then even if we died a hundred times.
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Is Elden Ring gory?

There's little to no blood but almost no gore. You can turn blood off. Leading into the second phase of one of the boss fights a cutscene plays of a severely mutilated, lunatic man cutting off his forearm. After his forearm is dismembered his arm is turned into a dragon and is used to attack.
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Is Dark Soul the hardest game?

For that matter, the entire Dark Souls series is bandied as some of the hardest games ever, but Bloodborne is often seen as particularly challenging thanks to its fast-paced combat. That said, it's not as if Bloodborne is the be-all and end-all of difficult video games.
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Is Demon Souls gory?

When you hit enemies splashes of blood spray out. The game shows very gory and bloody content, and some of the fighting animations are pretty gruesome. There are multiple instances where you find decaying creatures on the ground with there intestines and ribcage showing.
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Which Dark Souls is the longest?

  • Dark Souls Prepared to Die Edition: 47–105 hours.
  • Dark Souls remastered: 26–63 hours.
  • Dark Souls II: 46–119 hours.
  • Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin: 36–105 hours.
  • Dark Souls III: 32–93 hours.
  • Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition: 35–93 hours.
  • Bloodborne: 34–76 hours.
  • Bloodborne: Game of the Year Edition: 28–77 hours.
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Which Souls game is hardest?

Sekiro forces players to learn and master its combat systems or die, easily making it FromSoftware's hardest Souls game. Throughout the main story, the game enforces this core principle in various ways to keep players on their toes.
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Which is longer Dark Souls 1 or 3?

So on average, for a first timer, I'd say Dark Souls 1 runs roughly 15-20 hours. Dark Souls 2 is easily double this, while 3 is somewhere in the middle IMO. There's fewer areas to see, but they're bigger and take more time to explore.
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Can you be evil in Dark Souls?

Being RPGs, the Dark Souls games usually don't paint a fine line between good and evil. In fact, it can even be argued that the games' biggest villain is the protagonist, depending on the point of view.
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Has anyone ever beaten Dark Souls?

I've beaten all 3 souls games without a guide. Don't remember how long it took to beat each. I would say DS1 took the longest because being cursed and losing the Firelink bonfire. As well as going to the bone zone first until I gave up and eventually made it to undead burg.
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Is Dying bad in Dark Souls?

Souls are the only thing you lose on death, but even then you have a chance of getting them back. Being human is pretty much meaningless outside of NPC encounters too. If you happen to have a lot of souls on you, lucky that homeward bones are abundant and you can even buy rings of sacrifice late game.
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Can you turn off blood in Dark Souls remastered?

There's an option to turn blood on/off in the game. I haven't turned it off myself, though, but if you have kids running around, your main character's undead form might scare them a little.
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Is it okay to skip Dark Souls 1 and 2?

Dark Souls has never been story heavy. You can skip it. I don't advise it, however. You may acclimate more slowly because of the change in interfaces and controls.
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Do I need to play Dark Souls 1 before 2?

Also, DS2 is more of a self-contained story. It was made by a different dev team and plays quite different from both DS1 and DS3. It has some rather weird gameplay mechanics that do not return in DS3. For this reason I'd suggest playing it only after DS1 and DS3.
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