{"id":73871,"date":"2015-04-02T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73871"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:17:22","slug":"dark-souls-2-scholar-of-the-first-sin-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/73871-dark-souls-2-scholar-of-the-first-sin-has-arrived","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/70684-dark-souls-2-coming-to-ps4-xbox-one.html\">first <\/a>heard about Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, essentially an enhanced re-release of <em>Dark Souls 2<\/em> for the newest consoles, we were really excited. Keep in mind that this is way before everyone discovered how fantastic <em>Bloodborne <\/em>for the PS4 is. It also meant, potentially at least, a more stable version for PC gamers. Yay.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <em>Scholar of the First Sin<\/em> has released, and is even <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/335300\/\">available on Steam right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bWZ61JWLq30\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What this new <em>Dark Souls 2<\/em> offers is graphically superior, somewhat overhauled version of the original, as well as all of the content released for the title post-launch. That includes the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65571-dark-souls-2-gets-three-part-dlc.html\">three expansions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73875\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73875\" class=\"size-large wp-image-73875\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-2-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-2-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-2-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And you thought Dark Souls 2 was hard before.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As far as overhauling is concerned, <em>Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin<\/em> has new enemy placements, tweaked or relocated safe zones, and there\u2019s even an NPC invader, Forlorn, who will make sure to keep you on your toes. It\u2019s even got an improved online suite. That said, it\u2019s a $49.99 (approximately R600) purchase, or will set you back $29.99 (around R300) to upgrade from the original <em>Dark Souls 2<\/em> release. That\u2019s a hefty price tag.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73877\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73877\" class=\"size-large wp-image-73877\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-1-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dark-Souls-2-Scholar-of-the-First-Sin-Screens-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He looks prettier, but he&#8217;s deadlier too.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If it\u2019s worth it for you will likely be down to how much of a fan you are, whether or not you\u2019re willing to double-dip and what your experiences were like prior to this release. If you\u2019re really itching to give it another go, it should be a blast. The <em>Souls<\/em> series always is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin is here, and it&#8217;s harder than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":73873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8068,13429,1935,15397,1239,1853,10065],"class_list":["post-73871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dark-souls-2","tag-dark-souls-2-scholar-of-the-first-sin","tag-from-software","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}