Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin

The DLC areas are super obnoxious in their difficulty spike , do not enter unless you want to feel rage on levels previously unfathomable. I'm one trophy away from pointlessly plating this , I buffed the opening firepit to NG++++++++ and you need to kill this NPC there and in the 2nd hour of the fight I gave up in a HUFF

Underrated as hell!!!!!!!

Took everything good about Dark Souls and replaced it with enemy clusters that you have to kill 10 times before they go away.

My favourite Souls game so far, distinctly better than Demons and DS1. I liked the level design and the difficulty felt just right, with some pretty hard optional bosses (the two snow pets took me several hours). I liked the ambush-oriented enemy placement. My main problems were the two final bosses (two of the easiest fights in the game) coupled with a fairly limp main story. The whole Aldis thing felt perfunctory and was obviously tacked on. Oh, and Frigid Outskirts really needed a bonfire.

Dark Souls 2 always had some issues, but it was still a more positive than negative overall experience for me. Scholar takes that and runs it into the ground. The new enemy placements seem designed to be as annoying as possible, and I've never really minded things like that in anything else in the Souls series.