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Dark Souls by From Software is the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. The game is a dungeon crawler with an emphasis on its high difficulty levels and punishing the careless player. It is well known for its taunting trailers, telling the player to "Prepare to Die". Published by Namco Bandai for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and a year later in 2012 for windows PC.

Dark Souls by From Software is the spiritual successor to Demon Souls. The game is a dungeon crawler with emphasis on the difficulty; the player will die a lot. Published by Namco Bandai for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and a year later in 2012 for windows PC.

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Where does the term "Praise the Sun" come from?

The other week, I started to play through the Dark Souls series after hearing the abundance of positive reviews of the games. In my off time, while browsing through different sites, I have seen multiple memes or videos that reference the term Praise…
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What are the equivalent PC keyboard keys and mouse buttons of the Xbox 360 game controller buttons shown on the screen?

The PC port of Dark Souls shows Xbox 360 game controller buttons on its in-game messages and the UI. However, I'm playing with a mouse and a keyboard. This makes learning the controls a bit awkward. What are the equivalent (default) PC keyboard keys…
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What is the relationship between Dark Souls and Demon's Souls?

I just got a hold of Dark Souls but I have never played Demon's Souls before. I know the games are related and was just wondering to what degree in terms of storyline, characters, etc.
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How is Smough's name pronounced?

Executioner Smough is a boss in Dark Souls. It's unclear how to pronounce this name, because both "ou" and "gh" have multiple pronunciations in English. For example, the "-ough" is pronounced differently between "tough", "trough", "though", and,…
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Why do I randomly get more Estus Flasks?

I have noticed while playing that sometimes there is a loud cracking noise and my character glows white, after which I get an additional Estus Flask. Why is this happening? Is it related to being near areas where there are bosses? Example: I idled…
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What is the best class to use for a beginner in Dark Souls?

I've been playing this game for a while now, and it's pretty hard. I'm constantly dying and as a Thief I feel I'm not doing enough damage while I have too little health. I have around 2 hours play time and put all my leveling into Dexterity to do…
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How can I gain humanity in Dark Souls?

Every so often I'll look up at my counter and notice I gained some humanity. If I was fighting bosses I wouldn't think much of it, but sometimes it will happen when I'm just farming enemies. I've recently noticed that every so often I will spawn at…
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How should I spend souls to improve my pyromancer?

I'm playing as a pyromancer in Dark Souls and am still near the beginning of the game (In the Depths). However, I'm not really sure how to improve my character whenever I get a lot of souls (10k+ or so) from defeating a boss. Should I level up and…
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What does the rating in a message mean?

In Dark Souls, there are messages all over the floor that can be read. Every message has a Rating in number form along with it. Many are 0, the highest I've seen so far is 5. What do these ratings mean? Some of them appear to maybe be related to…
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Which gift should I choose for my first play-through of Dark Souls?

When creating a new character in Dark Souls, I am allowed to select a gift amongst: Goddess's Blessing Black Firebomb Twin Humanities Binoculars Pendant Master key Tiny Being's Ring Old Witch's Ring Which item would you recommend me to choose for…
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of being in human form?

In Dark Souls, what are the advantages and disadvantages of being in human form? In Demon's Souls, being in human form gives you a clear HP advantage, but attacks have lower power and you can be invaded (if playing online). In Dark Souls, however,…
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What are these white rings in the Undead parish?

So I've just started my second playthrough on Dark Souls Remastered for the Xbox 360. Rang both bells and beaten Sif. I was returning from firelink and killed the Balder knights as usual when I noticed these two rings. They reappear and disappear at…
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Selling items in dark souls

I've been grinding my character a fair bit, and as a result I have ended up with a fair few number of longswords, battleaxes, hollow armours, etc. I was wondering if there is any way of selling these items? In terms of progress I'm at the dragon…
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Do bosses scale to your level in Dark Souls?

Do bosses in Dark Souls scale to your level? For example, fighting a certain boss at level 20 would be the same difficulty as fighting that same boss at level 50.
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Is it possible to re-spec my character?

I'm playing Dark Souls 1 and since I know that in Dark Souls 2 you can re-spec your character using a Soul Vessel, I was wondering whether there is a similar item in Dark Souls 1. Is it possible to reset the points I spent in my character's…
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