i've been playing a whole lot of dark souls 1 recently! it's my first time playing a game like it, and it's really amazing. i can definitely see why it was so influential to the genre.
unfortunately the second half does NOT hold up to the same quality of the first half, which is a shame. nothing completely ruinous of course, but it's a bit of a sucker-punch going from anor londo to lost izalith.