Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin

Dark Souls II is an action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Games. The third game in the Souls series, it was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Although both are set in the same universe, there is no direct story connection between the first Dark Souls and the sequel. The game uses dedicated multiplayer servers. Taking place in the kingdom of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) gameplay, in addition to having some co-op components. As in the earlier games in the series, it again features challenging gameplay, but with a more powerful graphics engine and more advanced artificial intelligence system.

The story of Dark Souls II begins with a human who has become Undead, cursed to never die and doomed to eventually become a Hollow, a zombie-like being with no memories or purpose. To break the curse, the undead travels to the fallen kingdom of Drangleic and is tasked by the Emerald Herald with obtaining four Great Souls from powerful Old Ones whose names are long forgotten and forbidden. Once obtained, the Emerald Herald directs the undead to "Seek the King" in the capital. After fighting through the remains of the royal guards, the player encounters the Queen Nashandra, who reveals that the king failed in his duty and fled his kingdom long ago. She asks the protagonist to slay the king.

A pure dex playthrough to replace the one that got lost. Parts 1-5 cover the base game, with parts 6-8 covering the three DLCs each, along with the base game's ending. Missed a few items (some very much deliberately, like in the Iron Passage because fork that ballsheet, the items don't anywhere near warrant the trouble one has to go through to actually collect them), but for the most part it's a nearly 100% base NG run, exploring all areas and defeating all bosses, as well as completing NPC side quests.

I edited most of my deaths out, but left a couple in for entertainment value, along with ALL deaths in The Gutter, just to drive home how horrendously that whole area sucks.