Introduction

Gian Karlo
Usability Testing
Published in
3 min readOct 12, 2014

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Dark souls II is an RPG video game and next to Dark souls I. Taking place in the world of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) play, in addition to having some co-op components. As in the earlier games in the series, it once again features challenging gameplay, but with a more powerful graphics engine and more advanced AI system. This is the hardest game i’ve ever played.

Objective

My objective is to enumerate what are the bad and good parts of this game.

Test tasks

  • The story of the game — at first you be ask to create your preferred looks of your character.
Character creation

I like games where you can create your character and design the structure of its whole body. What i mean is that you can change the height and width of the nose, eyes, cheeks, mouth, and many other else.

  • Killing enemies- whenever i kill a certain undead or monster i thought that, that monster or undead is gone forever but when i died and came back to the place where i killed the monster, the monster came to life again. So everytime you died in the game all the monsters that you killed will be spawned and you have to kill it over again.
  • Unfair damage — your character is weak that you’ll even think on giving up on playing this game. I died so many times because the monster will only cost 3 hits for you to die. And you will notice that all of them are very intelligent because they can evade most of your attacks.
  • Too many controls
  • Adding stats—For you to level up and add stats you need to collect souls more or less 10,000 souls.Too difficult to understand.
  • Nature problems- you die when you fall in the water.
  • Scarcity in potion-i don’t know where to get it.
  • No story line-there’s no quest or goal in the game so basically all you need to do is to kill and level up.
  • You cannot save unless there’s a camp fire.
  • Limited attacks- you can only attack 3 or more depending on that stamina your character have.
  • Weak damage-your character is so weak that he cannot kill an ant.

Analysis

This game is made to make gamers suffer. Its so bad that i even think of burning my pc while playing this game. There some good points in the game like good animation and effects. I think it is hopeless to beat this game because there is no choices of difficulties. all of the modes are difficult. I even cry because i always die and die and die. I think the goal of this game is for you to die every minute. Please don’t play this game.

Findings

I recommend to lessen the controls and difficulties because it is one of the reason why i hate this game. Maybe put some story for the players to enjoy playing even though they always die. The concept is good. There is nothing i can recommend about the graphics since it is already good.

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