

The Switch, for whatever reason, swaps the layout so confirming and canceling actions in its menus are reversed. PS4 and Xbox One’s menus default the southern ‘X’ or ‘A’ button to confirmation and the eastern ‘O’ or ‘B’ to cancel. The Bad The Button Layout For Menus Is Weird It’s perfect for capturing every single one of your victories, deaths, or just to take a look back and see exactly how many Souls you were carrying when you died to decide if they’re worth going back for. For whatever reason, though, not every Switch game is capable of recording video, so including this with the list of good things about the game is here really just as means of information delivery: by holding down the screenshot button, you can record 30 seconds of Dark Souls footage on Switch. Obviously, Dark Souls Remastered on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One allowed you to record footage of the game. For better or worse, Dark Souls: Remastered is essentially the Dark Souls you already know on a new platform.This isn’t some revelatory inclusion. But a refreshed pool of players means more opportunities for jolly cooperation, and the Switch makes it more convenient than ever to play the sometimes unapproachable classic. Its graphical updates are subtle and sometimes dubious, and the tweaks it makes to the game will only be noticeable to the already converted. If you’re someone who finds reward in developing deep mechanical understanding in games and is willing to die, a lot, in a bleak and uncaring world in pursuit of this understanding, Dark Souls Remastered could be a new favorite.ĭark Souls: Remastered doesn’t add a lot to the Dark Souls formula, but then again it doesn’t need to.

Dark Souls Remastered is a souls-like dark fantasy dungeon crawling game developed by QLOC, the spiritual successor to Demon Souls the game that started a new genre of games with minimalist storytelling, exploring an open world environment in a third-person perspective, battle enemies using various weapons and strategies.
