While some hail it as the best Souls game, there are many who found the nonsensical world layout, changes to animations and stat systems a step back in quality. It was received mixed by gamers to put it lightly. Naturally, expectations for Dark Souls 2 were sky-high when it came out three years later. While the actual first game of that type by FromSoftware, Demon’s Souls, remained a hidden gem, the small Japanese studio hit it big time with 2011’s Dark Souls. I had wanted my first few posts here to be nice eye-grabbing before/afters of the mod, but inexplicably I can't load the original files to do that, so we're stuck with current-progress shots for now. Think it's about time I used this page to show progress on my DS2 lighting mod. Not only did it spawn an entirely new genre with the soulslike moniker, but the unforgiving game design also made it one of the most influential games in recent memory. The Dark Souls franchise has cemented itself as one of the hallmark titles of the past decade. A modder has taken it upon himself to overhaul the PC version in a massive way by reworking the lighting, textures and models of Dark Souls 2. FromSoftware’s highly-divisive second jab at the Souls franchise is finally getting the love it deserves in form of a quasi-remaster.
