LogFAQs > #963470355

Dark Souls 2 has atrocious hit boxes where you'll be taking damage *well* outside of any attacks, and the PVP only makes it worse with invaders somehow getting the advantage and porting around you. Gonna finally hit their back for the critical? Actually, they're on *your* back now, smacking *you* with a critical hit. Couple that with all of the artificial difficulty (too many enemies for the sake of enemies, narrow spaces during encounters, etc) and pointless mechanics that fortunately didn't last beyond that game and it's clear why it's the black sheep. I owned that game for nearly a decade before finally beating it, and I don't know that I'm glad to have done it. It's reason number 1 while I won't play another FromSoft game that isn't directed by Miyazaki.