DARK SOULS II Crown of the Sunken King
Shulva's vertical, elevator-puzzle sprawl is the best level FromSoft built for DS2. The gank corridors around it are the tax you pay to see it.
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Worth it for Shulva's vertical puzzle-city and the Sinh fight, if you can stomach a few cheap ambush corridors.
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About DARK SOULS II Crown of the Sunken King
Shulva, Sanctum City is the single best piece of level design in Dark Souls II, and this DLC exists to justify it. It's a sunken vertical city you rebuild as you explore, hitting switches that raise and drop entire structures until shortcuts fold back on themselves in a way DS2 proper never managed. Poison chokes the lower reaches, hidden paths reward anyone who actually looks up, and Elana and Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon give you two very different late-game fights. Sinh in particular is the dragon DS2 needed: fast, poison-drenched, and readable once you stop panicking. What it isn't is consistently fair. Certain corridors stack invisible archers, poison statues, and three-deep enemy packs in a way that reads as difficulty by attrition rather than design, and one of the optional bosses is gated behind co-op summoning that's awkward to arrange years later. Come in overleveled and it deflates; come in around the intended late-game curve and it's the sharpest Dark Souls II ever gets. Bring poison resistance and patience.
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Minimum
- Processor
- AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870…
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- Processor
- Intel® CoreTM i3 2100 3.10GHz or AMD® A8 3870K 3.0GHz
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or ATI Radeon™ HD 6870 or higher
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
- Storage
- 15 GB av…
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Game Info
- Developer
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- Publisher
- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, FromSoftware, Inc.
- Release Date
- Jul 22, 2014
