Talk:Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin/@comment-25950924-20150403052712/@comment-73.42.168.150-20150409043658

I haven't played Dark Souls II sans-SotFS, but I've seen a few videos. A lot of the game consists of puzzle-style ganks (there's 10 Royal Soldiers leading up to the Ruin Sentinel's fight! And they come in waves of 2-5 depending on how good you are at properly baiting them). They added more Yore Branches and more places to use them (you need one to fight Ruin Sentinels in order to get to Lost Sinner via Pursuer, and you can't finish the tutorial without one!). The main feature: Lots. Of. Pursuers. I counted at least 4 in the Lost Bastille alone, and 2 of them are almost mandatory to connect both sides of the map (one guarding the Yore Branch to unlock ruin sentinel fight via the real Pursuer, another guarding the switch to reach McDuff via the pirate ship). One is guarding the lockstone contraption to reach the belltower. Another is behind a set of illusory walls, guarding the Bracing Knuckle Ring. They all drop Twinkling Titanite.