Tomorrow, the annual Return to Drangleic community-run Dark Souls 2 event begins. To take part, all you need to do is download and play the game between February 27 and March 13 on your preferred platform.
As a staunch defender of Dark Souls 2, this is the perfect time to dip your toes back into the game and give it another shot, or for newcomers, to get a taste of what this underrated FromSoftware gem has to offer.
It was an experimental title, helmed by directors Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura, rather than Hidetaka Miyazaki, but many of its ideas (and the brilliant twinblade weapon archetype) would later be embraced in Elden Ring, influencing the future of Soulslikes (even Miyazaki says that it "carried the rest of the series"). But if it's your first time playing, level adaptability. Otherwise, you're gonna have a rough time.
Organizers encourage those partaking in the event to:
The whole point of these annual events is to bring each Soulsborne game back to life, and that doesn't just mean helping each other out on tougher bosses, but invading. Of course, Dark Souls 2 also has a brilliant arena (found after crossing that god-awful bridge...
