Egg enjoyer

Yes, even though there were genuine missteps in design that made the experience worse

Yes, even though Soul of Cinder and Slave Knight Gael are narrative pinnacles of the series that (almost) redeem ds3's backpedaling

(I also really really like the way ds2 handled dual wielding)

There's just something so much more compelling about ds2's atmosphere & framing. It's like a swimmy, heady, hyperreal dream that you can't wake up from.

Instead of a roll-call of all the epic guys you're gonna fight, ds2 opens with "you've become nothing. you're cursed, lost, alone and addled. you're about to go through hell and you better figure out what's going to keep you from going Hollow right quick."

From the ones I've played, the white-hot core to Fromsoftware's stories seems to be a consistent question. "What goals and ideals will you hold on to tightly enough to be able to firmly plant your feet in an impossibly bleak and hellish world and walk forward?"

Ds2 aims the question inward. It's introspective, but tauntingly so. It shows you the fate of would-be monarchs and conquerors, of kingdoms that rise and fall like tides. For all your effort and accumulation of power, you too will be just another footnote in the unending cycle. So why are you REALLY here?

It's that challenge paired with an oddly warm, almost fairtyale type setting in Drangleic that keeps pulling me back, like a moth to a flame.

This shit, yes it looks pretty good visually but its completely tonally dissonant.

for context heres what it looks like originally

now, theres a reason that the colours are faded and washed out and the lighting is kind of drab. its because it takes place in a world at the end of its life. a world with a light thats burned so long its turned everything to ash and is fading into nothing but embers. thats why DS3 had cold tones.

it was quite literally a world where the light was dying.

thats why the warm tones that these dumbasses give it when ploping it into unreal

doesnt work. it loses the atmosphere and sense of gloom that DS3 had. it loses the artistic intent that DS3 had.

you cant just plop a level into unreal and call it a day, you have to actually commit to what the intended feel and theme the level is supposed to have. and the thing that pisses me off the most is that this warm lighting COULD WORK on a different area in the dark souls trilogy

It would have been perfect for majula, a place that already had warm lighting.