the design of Nito and the Rotten, or the Lion Mages that never made it into Demon's Souls being resurrected as enemies in the shaded woods. Dark Souls II is about cycles, as has been widely ...

Dark Souls II encourages a kind of amazed storytelling ... What have I learned by knowing that The Rotten's overhand smash attack can be dodged by rolling directly into it, or that his offhand ...

That item should lead you to the new content area, grafted onto the Black Gulch, behind where players fight The Rotten. That means you can't get into Sunken King until Dark Souls 2's halfway point ...

Dark Souls 2's world is an extremely dangerous place ... the Great Grey Wolf (soon we'll be mentioning The Last Giant and The Rotten in the same breath), but a handful are just tall-ish dudes ...