Game Review: Dark Souls

I'd heard a lot about Dark Souls. I'm pretty sure it's been years at this point since it first came to my attention, but I had been scared off for a while. Not because of the gameplay or its reputation, but just because of Games for Windows Live. By the time I finally got Dark Souls, I knew that it was going to switch from GFW to Steam matchmaking at some point, so I loaded it up, played it for a bit, and then I-



DAMMIT.
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Fifty Weeks, Fifty Curries: Week Thirty-Two: Jheenga Methi

This week's review is going to be pretty short. And while some of that is because I just got finished writing two-and-a-half thousand words about Dark Souls, it's most just the much more mundane reason that there really isn't that much to write about. This is more like curried fish than fish curry, and no, don't ask me to explain the difference between those two because I suspect it's a line that moves a lot. Here, the main reason I'm making the distinction is that there isn't even the minimal extras that most of the curries in the book have. There's no gravy, no other ingredients, and really nothing other than the fish and some spices. schoolpsychnerd didn't even take an ingredients picture this week because it would have just been the spice rack and a big slab of cod, which isn't super exciting.
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