Look, I get it. The trailers for The Duskbloods are cool. The music slaps. The swords are big. But we’ve been here before, haven’t we? FromSoftware drops a few cryptic screenshots, cryptic trailers, a haunting monologue about loss or rot, and suddenly everyone’s acting like it’s the next masterpiece. But can we pump the brakes for one second? The game’s not even out yet, and people are already theorycrafting like it’s gospel.

It’s not anticipation anymore. It’s marketing-induced déjà vu.

No Solo, No Soul

Let’s talk about the real red flag: The Duskbloods is multiplayer-only. No single player. No offline single player mode. No quiet exploration. Just a constant feed of other players swinging wildly into the void while spamming emotes. People being ravenous murders. I don’t want other players in my game. That creeping isolation? Gone. That intimate, personal struggle through a hostile world?

The best Souls moments don’t happen in a Discord call or multiplayer—they happen alone, under a dying sky, one flask away from a miracle. When you take that away, you’re not evolving the genre. You’re gutting it.

Dark Souls 2: The Real Odd King

Dark Souls 2 didn’t care what you thought a Souls game should be. It let you respec. It had fashion variety for days. It gave you a town with actual peace and quiet (shoutout Majula, you real one). It had jank, sure—but beautiful, honest jank. The kind you remember. The kind that makes a game feel alive, not just “polished.”

The lore was fragmented and weird in a way that didn’t try to impress you. And the bosses? Sometimes trash, sometimes transcendent. But always painful.

Stop Waiting. Start Playing.

While everyone else is watching countdown timers and pretending to find meaning in cryptic tweets, you could be playing the best Souls game right now. Not the safest. Not the cleanest. But the bravest. The one that zigged when everything else zagged.

Forget the hype. Dark Souls 2 is the real dark fantasy you desire. And it’s been here the whole time.

See you in Drangleic—where the weird never died.